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Jew's dirty trick: Iran already has the bomb
By: URI DAN, Jerusalem Post on: 31.01.2006 [15:30 ] (660 reads)
Rafi Eitan suspects that Iran already has enough enriched uranium
fissionable material to manufacture at least one or two atom bombs of the
Hiroshima type. "Otherwise Iranian President Ahmadinejad would not have
dared come out with his declaration that Israel should be wiped off the
map,"
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Jan. 31, 2006
Rafi Eitan suspects that Iran already has enough enriched uranium
fissionable material to manufacture at least one or two atom bombs of the
Hiroshima type. "Otherwise Iranian President Ahmadinejad would not have
dared come out with his declaration that Israel should be wiped off the
map," repeating it in various versions. His efforts at denying the Holocaust
in which six million Jews were slaughtered prove that there is method in
Ahmadinejad's madness. "Don't treat him like a madman," Chief of General
Staff Dan Halutz recently cautioned.
Eitan's assessment of the situation is especially important because of his
extensive intelligence experience in Israel's struggle for its existence,
even before its establishment in 1948. Eitan was among those that laid the
operational foundations for the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and the
Mossad.
He is credited with numerous successes above and beyond the fact that he
headed the team that apprehended Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires in May 1960
and brought him to justice in Jerusalem. He served as Menachem Begin's
special adviser on the war on terror. He was involved in the secret planning
and implementation of the attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor in June 1981.
Eitan failed in 1985 when the United States arrested Jonathan Pollard, an
American navy intelligence analyst, for spying for Israel. Eitan was forced
to resign after taking responsibility for running Pollard as an Israeli
agent in the United States. It emerged at that time that Eitan had stood at
the head of an Israeli intelligence agency known as the Office of Scientific
Relations, LAKAM by its Hebrew acronym.
EITAN, CURRENTLY a private businessman who is close to 80 years old, is not
only still sharp, quick and curious, but also takes a strong interest in the
dangers posed to Israel. And so he came this week to the Herzliya Conference
to hear the lectures and meet with colleagues from other countries.
Eitan told me: "I am convinced that the Iranians already have at least one
or two nuclear devices. They have been operating centrifuges for a number of
years now, they have natural uranium, and who on earth believes the Iranians
when they say that they have closed down one facility or another? You would
have to be an idiot or terribly na ve to believe them."
Eitan says that this view was bolstered by conversations he held with
various experts from abroad who came to the Herzliya Conference - that Iran
already has a an atom bomb. What should concern not only Israel but Europe
too, continues Eitan, is the fact that the Iranians have acquired cruise
missiles with a 3,000-kilometer range. They tried to purchase nine missiles
of this kind in Ukraine from the arsenal of the former Soviet Union, but
Russia thwarted part of the deal and Iran received three or four such
missiles.
"In an argument with colleagues from abroad," noted Rafi Eitan, "the
question was whether Iran's current president is a sort of new Hitler or
merely an international manipulator. Too many experts have judged him in
accordance with his actions and declarations as a kind of extremist Islamist
Hitler."
The American administration of George W. Bush is entirely aware of the
burgeoning Iranian nuclear danger. The question is whether the leading
countries in Europe will wake up in time to the danger too. "The diplomatic
struggle against the Iranian nuclear danger," warns Eitan, "must be an
international one and it must come in time. The danger of nuclear weapons in
the hands of Teheran is no less serious than when Saddam Hussein built the
French Osirak nuclear reactor in Baghdad."
What worries Rafi Eitan is that the news coming from Teheran shows that
President Ahmadinejad will not hesitate to take the most extreme measures,
not unlike the methods used in the Third Reich, to put down any opposition
against him. Iran has hundreds of thousands of young people who are opposed
to the conceptual and cultural darkness that the fundamental Islamists are
forcing on them. "Don't be surprised," Rafi Eitan told me, "if the Iranian
president tries to forcibly and brutally eliminate this opposition."
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