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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US: Iran not trying to build nuclear bomb
2012-02-24
The LA Times reported Friday that US intelligence agencies do not believe Iran is actively trying to build an atomic bomb.
I was wondering where those CIA analysts went after their retirements...
A highly classified US intelligence assessment circulated to policymakers early last year largely affirms that view, originally made in 2007. Both reports, known as national intelligence estimates, conclude that Tehran halted efforts to develop and build a nuclear warhead in 2003.
To put it in blunt Anglo-Saxon, bullshit. Either the US intelligence agencies are uniformly incompetent or they are for some reason lying... Or the LA Times is being sparing with the facts; this has been known to happen, though at the moment no example springs to mind.
Posted by:tipper

#8  OOOOPPPSIES, forgot DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > [Trilateral Summit] IRAN COMES TO SOUTH ASIA.

Tehran desires to end its isolationism by making econ openings wid PAKISTAN, INDIA, + even CHINA; + use the Energy Trade to TRANSFORM, MODERNIZE, + INFLUENCE ENERGY-STARVED SOUTH ASIA.

* SAME > "SOUTH ASIAN SPRING" IN RETREAT.

Many Govts-States in South Asia moving backward from [Western-style] liberal democracy toward hard-line authoritarianism.

IOW, RADICAL ISLAM = MILTERRS WILL HAVE THE ADVANTAGE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-02-25 00:02  

#7  But-t-t, FOX NEWS AM = claims to have recieved a copy of confidential UNIAEA Report which says Iran is making [selective] improvements to its NucProg "specific" towards the eventual development of NucWeapons.

NOT NEEDED FOR DEDICAT CIVILIAN ENERGY PURPOSES BUT IS REQUIRED IFF ONE WANTS DA BOMB.

"DUAL-USE", ala the WE-WANT-TO/CAN-BUT-WON'T-RIGHT-NOW "JAPAN/EGYPT" MODEL, ESPEC "JAPAN".
No "official" or "third-party[s]" confirmation of Iran NucWeaps means US-Allies + UNCOM will get the blame for starting any de facto war agz Iran AS WELL AS BLAME FOR ANY NEW MAJOR OR CATASTROPHIC PROXY TERROR ATTACKS LAUNCHED AGZ CONUS, I.E. ATTACKS AGZ WHITE HOUSE + CONGRESS, NCA, US CITIES, ETC.

versus

* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > WSJ: US BULKS UP ON IRAN DEFENSES, i.e. its "other" anti-Iran Air, Land mil capabilities in the Gulf in support of the US Fifth Fleet + Allies in case Iran does try to close the Straits of Hormuz.

* SAME > POSSIBLE IRAN ATTACK TESTS US-ISRAEL RELATIONS AS ELECTIONS APPROACH: ANALYSIS.

The Bammer vs. Benjie Netanyahu.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-02-24 23:52  

#6  "We're Screwed!",unless we unite to fight.

Got Milk?

Got Pb? Got brass? Got the balls?
Posted by: Elmising Poodle6592   2012-02-24 23:35  

#5  kind OT - but I prefer this for unarmed men:
Posted by: Frank G   2012-02-24 20:45  

#4  How about Iraq? US intelligence agencies are cowed enough to tell their bosses what their bosses want to hear, even if they take a PR hit for being very wrong.

What part Moose, something about this thingy that the MSM keeps buried.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-02-24 11:41  

#3  
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-02-24 10:49  

#2  Check the date on that document, LAT-dudes. You may be looking at an old copy of the NIE.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-02-24 10:47  

#1  How about Iraq? US intelligence agencies are cowed enough to tell their bosses what their bosses want to hear, even if they take a PR hit for being very wrong.

This is because if they don't tell their bosses what they want to hear, they will be fired, and somebody else hired who will.

Thus defeating the entire purpose of intelligence.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2012-02-24 07:58  

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