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Subject: The Bush/Cheney Legacy: History's First "Pre-Emptive"
Nuclear Strike?
28 July 2007
Ex-CIA officer Slams US Allegations against Iran as a Sham
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=76438
In an alarming exposure of the acceleration and urgency of the
American war party's push towards catastrophic war with Iran,
Philip Giraldi, former CIA counter terrorism officer, in an
interview [1] on 24th July with Anti War Radio debunked the
NeoCons' repeated myth of Iran's support for AlQaeda as a pretext
for war. Whilst acknowledging Iran's helpfulness in trying to
establish security in both Afghanistan and Iraq, Giraldi spoke of
the United States' hypocritical and illegal support for terrorist
separatists groups inside Iran, and various plans and scenarios
which have been drawn up to destroy Iran's military and economic
infrastructure by massive bombardment, with the use of nuclear
bombs a real and stated possibility.
Giraldi refuted the assumption that sharing hostilities towards the
US, placed Iran and AlQaeda in the same camp and sharing similar
agenda, arguing that Iran followed a very different agenda in its
dealings with the US. He emphasised both the fact of Iranians'
helpfulness in Iraq, in terms of pushing for greater stability, and
also their help and cooperation in Afghanistan, as well as the
reality of the deep hostilities between Shiia Iran and Sunni
extremism of AlQaeda. Giraldi recalled the major attack against the
Iranian consulate general in Afghanistan by the Taliban, a close
ally of AlQaeda, in which 11 Iranian diplomats were killed, and the
regular AlQaeda violent attacks against Shiia population in Iraq,
and concluded that a Shiia Iranian-AlQaeda alliance was not a
plausible possibility.
He described the recent New York Sun's allegation [2] that AlQaeda
prisoners in Iran led terrorist operations inside Iraq under the
advice of the Iranian government, as one of many propaganda pieces
making a case for war. He said how in 2003, the Iranian government,
through the Swiss embassy, had offered to hand over the six AlQaeda
prisoners kept in Iran, which includes Osama Bin Laden's son, in
exchange for the US ceasing its support for the MEK, and how this
offer was rejected by the US. He said of the MEK that it was
sheltered and armed by Saddam against Iran, and now supported and
armed by Pentagon against Iran.
Highlighting what he called American "ultimate hypocrisy", Giraldi
explained how the US government is supporting terrorist groups and
ethnic division in Iran and charging the Iranians in Iraq for what
the US was doing in Iran itself and with a lot more evidence.
Giraldi talked of US's support for Jundullah which he described as
a Sunni Baluchi separatist group in eastern Iran that has launched
deadly terrorist attacks inside Iran. He also spoke of US support
for separatists amongst the Arab minority which is closer to the
border with Iraq.
Giraldi repeated the alarm call he first made in his revelations in
the American Conservative Magazine in 2005 that Dick Cheney, who
has no authority under the constitution, had ordered the air force
to draw up plans for air strike against Iran that even included the
use of nuclear weapons. He said he thought there was a lot of
evidence since then to suggest that nuclear weapons are still very
much on the table and named Republican Senators such as McCain,
Giuliani and Romney who had not "flinched at all" in the debate
about the prospect of using nuclear weapons against Iran.
He spoke of various war scenarios cooked up by the war party. One
scenario was of the automatic use of the nuclear weapons in order
to reach and destroy the Iranian nuclear sites buried under ground.
Another scenario was to use the nuclear threat if the "Iranians
continue to fight back after we staged our attack", the idea being
"that's what the nukes are for, our nukes that everybody knows that
we in fact do have, is to tell them, listen, you are going to sit
there and take it while we bomb you for a week or two and you are
not going to fight back and if you do fight back then we will use
nuclear weapons on you", and he cited the example scenario of
Iranians resisting by staging attack in the Strait of Hormuz or
destabilising Afghanistan.
Setting out the horrifying context of the possibility of the US
using nuclear strikes against Iran, under the pretext of destroying
Iranian nuclear bombs which do not exist and Iran's cooperation
with AlQaeda, another propaganda fabrication, Giraldi drew
attention to the recent warning to Iran and the threat of war
issued by AlQaeda for Iran's support for the Shiia government in
Iraq, as well as AlQaeda's constant horrific attacks inside Iraq
targeting Shiia population and mosques.
Prof. Abbas Edalat of CASMII said today: "Giraldi's revelations is
consistent with and confirms the emergence of a shift in the
dynamics of the American foreign policy decision making away from
dialogue and in favour of the war. The reality of the shared
strategic interests between Iran and the US in stabilising Iraq and
the possibility and great benefits for both countries in reaching a
rapprochement in their bilateral relationship, based on mutual
respect and cooperation rather than threat and coercion, is
persistently obscured and sabotaged by the fanatical warmongers of
Cheney camp and the Israeli lobby, who are relentlessly pushing for
war".
It is incumbent upon the media and journalists to give active voice
to informed and conscientious individuals like Giraldi who have
well-established connections within the intelligence community and
are warning the international community about the impending
catastrophic war against Iran.
For more information please contact CASMII or visit http://
www.campaigniran.org
Notes
[1] http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/07/24/philip-giraldi-5/
[2] http://www.nysun.com/article/58599
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