The US's latest anti-Iran propaganda campaign

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The US's latest anti-Iran propaganda campaign

Comment: The following is strong evidence of a disinformation operation regarding a bomber attack on an alleged secret Syrian nuclear reactor destroyed by an Israeli air strike on Sept. 6, 2007, operation codenamed Orchard.

NY Times downplays US's latest anti-Iran propaganda campaign

April 26, 2008 The officials offered an assessment of Iranian involvement that
was more complicated and nuanced than public statements by Mr. Bush
and other officials, including Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates,
who said at a news conference this week that "what Iranians are doing
is killing American servicemen inside Iraq" by providing training and
weapons to Shiite fighters.

Adm. Mike Mullen's assertion on Friday that the U.S. was engaged in planning for "potential military courses of action" against Iran.

NOTE: Mullens was fired by Bush. Why? Was he against a U.S. policy to attack Iran?

Mr. Bush cited Iran as a primary justification in his announcement that he would halt further withdrawals of American troops in Iraq after the level reaches 140,000 this summer.

Iran seems to have focused instead on training Iraqi Shiite fighters inside Iran, though the exact number remains unclear. Some officials said only handfuls of fighters at a time had recently trained in Iran.

There is evidence, officials said, that Iran may not have control over the various Shiite groups it had armed. According to a senior American official, Iran has at times been angered when Iranian weapons were used for intra-Shiite fighting, rather than for killing
Americans.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/world/middleeast/26military.html

Pentagon Preparing for Iran
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042608Z.shtml
Ann Scott Tyson of The Washington Post reports: "The nation's top
military officer said today that the Pentagon is planning for 'potential
military courses of action' against Iran, criticizing what he called the
Tehran government's 'increasingly lethal and malign influence' in Iraq."


The notion of a "secret [Syrian] nuclear reactor destroyed by an Israeli air strike
last year," here purveyed as a fact by Reuters, is most likely false. --

10 Feb 2008: In a 6100-word article (http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7159/) in the Feb.
11 *New Yorker* that explored the mysterious Sept. 6, 2007, Israeli attack known as "Operation Orchard," (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Orchard) Seymour Hersh did not come to a definitive conclusion about its nature, but he all but ruled
out the widely bruited notion that this was a nuclear site. -- The hypothesis that Hersh preferred was dual: that the attack was designed, first, to reestablish Israel's "credibility as a deterrent" vis-à-vis Syria in the aftermath of the 2006 Lebanon war, and, second, to be "a warning about -- and a model for -- a preemptive attack on Iran."
-- Mark Jensen ]

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7382/

September 16 2007 Others (rumors were) reported that the jets had hit either a Hizbollah convoy, a missile facility or a terrorist camp.

In a series of piecemeal leaks from US officials that gave the impression of being coordinated, a narrative was laid out that combined nuclear skullduggery and the surviving members of the 'axis of evil': Iran, North Korea and Syria.

NOTE: Leaks again. Move evidence of a Cheney disinformation operation. Just like the DoD, Office of Statetic Plans or influence set up to get us into the war in Iraq by leaking lies about WMD.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/sep/16/iran.israel

Washington Post spreads a lie

"Unlike its destruction of an Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981, Israel made no announcement of the recent raid and imposed strict censorship on reporting by the Israeli media. Syria made only muted protests, and Arab leaders have remained silent. As a result, a daring and apparently successful attack to eliminate a potential nuclear threat has been shrouded in mystery."

NOTE: The statement about Syria making only muted protest is a lie. The Syrian Ambassador in the US spoke at a briefing on C-Span in the last couple days and I found him to be very sincere about wanting good relations with the US and him to be very believable.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/20/AR2007092002701.html

FBI agents reports on abusive interrogations?

According to recent media reports, the FBI Report, IG investigation has been completed for months. The Defense Department, however, has blocked the OIG from releasing it, claiming that the report still needs to be reviewed and redacted by the Pentagon.

The OIG investigation was initiated in 2005 after the ACLU obtained documents in which FBI agents described interrogations that they had witnessed at Guantánamo Bay. While the documents were most notable for their description of illegal interrogation methods used by military interrogators, they also raised serious questions about the FBI's participation in abusive interrogations, the actions of FBI personnel who witnessed abusive interrogations, and the response of FBI officials to reports of abuse.

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