Those mad mullahs are in for a huge surprise :)
Mossad agents and IDF Intelligence officers are working to infiltrate Iran through Kurdistan in northern Iraq to gather intelligence on the Shi’ite state’s developing nuclear program, New Yorker magazine investigative reporter Seymour Hersh told CNN on Sunday.
| Sy thinks he's blowing up another secret operation. |
Israeli special units were said to have hunted Scud missile launchers in the western Iraqi desert in the build-up to the Gulf War, and it has been rumored among intelligence circles that Israeli intelligence officers aided their American counterparts since the end of hostilities last May.
"Hundreds" of undercover IDF Intelligence officers and Mossad agents resurrected their cooperation with Kurdish militiamen in northern Iraq, with the aim of crossing the porous Iraq-Iran border in the North and establishing cells in Iran that might yield new intelligence on Iran’s nuclear program, Hersh told CNN. The Israelis are also providing an ancillary role to the Kurds and, according to Hersh, are aiding Kurdish elements in northern Syria. Kurdish riots and the seeds of a minor rebellion in northern Syria in recent weeks have rocked Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime.
| They're doing everything I'd do. |
Israel has become increasingly pessimistic about the chances of a stable government forming in Iraq, and has thus moved on to "stage B" of its post-war campaign, establishing what amount to mini-intelligence stations, Hersh said.
During the CNN interview he quoted an "Israeli intelligence official" as his source. When asked about the report, a spokesman in the Prime Minister’s Office did not deny the report. "I have no idea about the report," he said. "I also don’t know if it is true or not. We’ve read the report and no one [in the Prime Minister’s Office] is responding to it."
| "I'm sorry, what was my name again? Forget you heard it." |
An Israeli intelligence source, however, scoffed at Hersh’s report, saying that infiltrating "hundreds" of agents into Iraq is both ludicrous and pointless. He said Israel makes use of satellite imagery to monitor Iran’s nuclear development, and only a high-level plant could provide relevant information on Iranian nuclear plants. While human intelligence is necessary, such a large-scale operation would be bound to fail, if only for the ease with which it could be detected, he added.
| Notice how he buries the real thought in the reason of condemnation. Yes, it would take a high-level plant, wouldn't it? |
Until the 1970s, Israel sold the Kurds arms and trained members of the Kurdish militia, the Peshmerga, for their guerrilla war against Iraq’s Baath regime. |