On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:03:01 -0800, John Lemke wrote:

'Israel will attack Iran on its own'

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=3D1196847398265&pagename=3DJPo=

"I came back from a trip to Israel in November convinced that Israel
would attack Iran," Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official and senior
adviser to three US presidents, George W. Bush among them, told the
American Newsweek magazine in an article published Friday.

Riedel told the magazine his impression that Israel would venture a
strike on Iran on its own was formed before the publication of the
joint US intelligence agencies' report, the National Intelligence
Estimate (NIE). "This [the NIE] makes it [a strike on Iran] even more
likely," he said.

Uzi Arad, a former Mossad official and adviser to opposition leader
Binyamin Netanyahu, told Newsweek that on a recent trip to Moscow, a
Russian general poked fun at the naivet=E9 of the NIE, commenting that
if the Iranians had halted weapons development in 2003 it was partly
because they were satisfied with progress there and wanted to devote
investment to harder parts of the nuclear equation, like enrichment.

"The irony is that the effect of this report may be self-negating - by
itself it will accelerate Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons,"
Arad told the magazine.

If Israel does decide to conduct a strike against Iran, let's just hope
they have the sense to make it look like it was done by Sunnis. =A0;-)

Woods

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:03:01 -0800, John Lemke wrote:

'Israel will attack Iran on its own'

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847398265&pagename=JPos
t%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

"I came back from a trip to Israel in November convinced that Israel
would attack Iran," Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official and senior
adviser to three US presidents, George W. Bush among them, told the
American Newsweek magazine in an article published Friday.

Riedel told the magazine his impression that Israel would venture a
strike on Iran on its own was formed before the publication of the
joint US intelligence agencies' report, the National Intelligence
Estimate (NIE). "This [the NIE] makes it [a strike on Iran] even more
likely," he said.

Uzi Arad, a former Mossad official and adviser to opposition leader
Binyamin Netanyahu, told Newsweek that on a recent trip to Moscow, a
Russian general poked fun at the naiveté of the NIE, commenting that
if the Iranians had halted weapons development in 2003 it was partly
because they were satisfied with progress there and wanted to devote
investment to harder parts of the nuclear equation, like enrichment.

"The irony is that the effect of this report may be self-negating -
by itself it will accelerate Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons,"
Arad told the magazine.

If Israel does decide to conduct a strike against Iran, let's just
hope they have the sense to make it look like it was done by Sunnis.

;-)

Woods