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Title: Israel May Attack Iran, Pentagon Official Tells ABC
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URL Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? ... 87&sid=axXSaQ0Wfxm8&refer=home
Published: Jul 1, 2008
Author: Ladane Nasseri and Thomas Penny
Post Date: 2008-07-01 10:04:51 by Jethro Tull
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Israel May Attack Iran, Pentagon Official Tells ABC (Update1) By Ladane Nasseri and Thomas Penny July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Israel is increasingly likely to attack Iranian nuclear facilities this year, a U.S. Defense Department official told ABC News. Iran's government dismissed as propaganda the ABC report on the unidentified Pentagon official's comments. Israeli government officials declined to comment on the report. In the U.S., Pentagon spokesmen Geoff Morrell and Bryan Whitman didn't immediately respond to requests for comment on the ABC report. An Israeli strike might be triggered by the production of enough enriched uranium at Iran's Natanz nuclear plant to make a bomb, ABC cited the official as saying. A second possible trigger would be the delivery of a Russian SA-20 air-defense system, the installation of which would make an Israeli attack more difficult, the U.S. official told ABC. Oil rose on concern any conflict would cut supplies from OPEC's second-largest producer. Crude oil for August delivery increased as much as $2.95, or 2.1 percent, to $142.95 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Former Israeli Air Force General Isaac Ben-Israel, now a lawmaker in Israel's ruling Kadima party, told Germany's Spiegel that his nation is ``prepared'' for an attack if diplomacy and United Nations sanctions fail to stop Iran from making a nuclear weapon. Ben-Israel helped plan Israel's 1981 strike on an Iraqi nuclear reactor, the magazine said. Before Bush Leaves A strike on Natanz would only temporarily damage Iran's nuclear program and could spark a wave of attacks on U.S. interests, ABC said in yesterday's report, citing unidentified Pentagon officials. The U.S. and many of its allies have accused Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons. Iran insists its production of enriched uranium is intended to produce electricity and is legal under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The Israeli government may want an attack to take place before President George W. Bush leaves office, Ephraim Kam, deputy director of the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, said today in a telephone interview. ``There is no doubt that such an operation is being considered, but it's not going to happen tomorrow,'' Kam said. ``We still have some time. The Bush administration may be more sympathetic to an Israeli operation against Iran than whoever the next president may be, so it could happen before the end of the year.'' Israeli Maneuvers More than 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighter planes took part in maneuvers over the eastern Mediterranean and Greece during the first week of June, the New York Times reported on June 20. Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, was in Israel last weekend for meetings with Israeli military leaders, ABC said. Israeli Defense Ministry spokesman Shlomo Dror, in a telephone interview from Tel Aviv, declined to comment today on the ABC report. International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors made more than 14 visits to Natanz over the last year, the Vienna-based UN organization said last month. The IAEA said Iran hadn't taken any steps toward making the highly enriched uranium necessary for a bomb and had stockpiled about 150 kilograms (330 pounds) of lower-grade enriched uranium suitable for power plants. ``Iran certainly wouldn't be able to produce enough uranium at Natanz for a bomb,'' British American Security Information Council Co-Director Paul Ingram said today in a telephone interview from London. ``It would be impossible under the current safeguards arrangements to reconfigure the facility to produce highly enriched uranium.'' It takes around 25 kilograms of 90 percent enriched uranium- 235 isotopes to build a bomb. Iran currently has enough uranium to produce less than 4 kilograms of the material, Ingram said.
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I hate the Israeli government of the United States.
The only way for peace to come to the ME is if Israel moves back to NYC.
I hate the Israeli government of the United States. 2012 You left out Fox and Rupert.
hehehehehe....... 2012....your pics are a bright spot among all this gloom :P
Israel will drag this country deeper into the Middle East quagmire, one way or another. It will not matter who is president, Bush, McKooK or Obummer, American lives and wealth are disappearing down a black hole. Obummer is going to Israel to pay homage and thanks for all the millions lavished upon him by Jews. He is bought and paid for, just another streetwalker politician.
You're right, but to type such thoughts is to be anti-Semitic. Also, you mentioned Obama in a less than kindly way, so you're also a racist. Sorry.
If Americans won't throw off this illegal shadow government, then we deserve where these puppets, like Olmert and Bush and McGabe take us. The same devils running Israel run AmeriKa. IMO ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
A few days ago wandering on the internet I read a very interesting comment by someone as to the lack of will in white Americans to stand up for themselves as a race. The white race is a small minority and losing ground every year.
Fox is the worst of the bunch. Murdoch ought to rename it Likud News Network.
Rupert owns 150 news rags world wide. Someone did a survey at onset of Iraq quagmire and ALL his papers editorialized FOR the war. So much for editorial integrity.
First time the other day I saw Bush and Cheney called.."Smirk and Snarl".. I thot that was great. Now you should have names Insanity and O'Really...
Well done, whomever.
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We live in strange and effed up times
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
2012... Two things come to mind. One... the House was empty, that is a stain on our way of debating the foreign policies of this country. Two...Ron Paul needs to present this to the American people on nationwide TV in prime time. The elected and appointed people of this government are not interested. Cost lots of money? I am well aware of that, do we let that stop us and Paul from speaking to Americans??? We will shrug our shoulders and walk away.
I hate the government of Israel.
#2. To: Cynicom (#1)
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
I hate the government of Israel.
#4. To: Cynicom (#1)
I hate the government of Israel.
#5. To: TwentyTwelve (#4)
#6. To: TwentyTwelve (#3)
#7. To: Jethro Tull (#6)
#8. To: Cynicom (#7)
#9. To: Cynicom, Jethro Tull (#7)
Israel will drag this country deeper into the Middle East quagmire, one way or another.
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#11. To: Cynicom (#5)
#12. To: Rupert_Pupkin, Cynicom (#11)
Fox is the worst of the bunch. Murdoch ought to rename it Likud News Network.
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#14. To: TwentyTwelve (#12)
#15. To: Cynicom. all (#14)
"Smirk and Snarl"
#16. To: Jethro Tull, Original_Intent, wudidiz (#0)
#17. To: Jethro Tull, Original_Intent, wudidiz (#0)
#18. To: TwentyTwelve (#17)
Ron Paul's Grave Warning On The Coming Iran War
#19. To: TwentyTwelve, jethro tull, christine (#17)
Ron Paul's Grave Warning On The Coming Iran War
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