REPORTS OF PLANNED WAR AGAINST IRAN MOUNT

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BENNY AVNI, NY SUN - In a sign that U.N. Security Council-based
diplomacy is losing steam, a number of sources are reporting that a
military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities may be imminent.
France and America also are pushing for tighter economic sanctions
against Tehran, without U.N. approval.

Yesterday's edition of Le Canard Enchaine, a French weekly known for its
investigative journalism, reported details of an alleged
Israeli-American plan to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. The front
page headline read: "A report sent to the Elysee — Putin tells Tehran:
They're going to bomb you!"

The Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, also expressed
concerns to reporters in New York that an attack on Iran might be
imminent.

Like most stories in the French paper, the article was based on unnamed
sources who said that in order to reduce casualties, the attack against
Iran is planned for October 15, the end of the Muslim holy month of
Ramadan. Israel would bomb the first targets while America would
orchestrate a second wave of strikes, the report said.

However, the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, who recently
spoke of preparing for war with Iran, berated reporters yesterday,
telling them that he had said war is the "worst option." Instead, he is
now calling for "diplomacy, diplomacy, diplomacy."

http://www.nysun.com/article/63561

WAYNE MADSEN REPORT - WMR has learned from U.S. and foreign intelligence
sources that the B-52 transporting six stealth AGM-129 Advanced Cruise
Missiles, each armed with a W-80-1 nuclear warhead, on August 30, were
destined for the Middle East via Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

However, elements of the Air Force, supported by U.S. intelligence
agency personnel, successfully revealed the ultimate destination of the
nuclear weapons and the mission was aborted due to internal opposition
within the Air Force and U.S. intelligence community.

The Washington Post attempted to explain away the fact that America's
nuclear command and control system broke down in an unprecedented manner
by reporting that it was the result of "security failures at multiple
levels." It is now apparent that the command and control breakdown,
reported as a BENT SPEAR incident to the Secretary of Defense and White
House, was not the result of a command and control chain-of-command
"failures" but the result of a revolt and push back by various echelons
within the Air Force and intelligence agencies against a planned U.S.
attack on Iran using nuclear and conventional weapons.

The Washington Post story on BENT SPEAR may have actually been an effort
in damage control by the Bush administration. WMR has been informed by a
knowledgeable source that one of the six nuclear-armed cruise missiles
was, and may still be, unaccounted for. . .

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

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