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To: sea_urchin who wrote (246)9/20/2005 6:17:12 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 418
 
Iran crisis: the Israeli Svengali quickens the pace....

Tue., September 20, 2005 Elul 16, 5765

Shalom: In 6 months, Iran may have know-how to build bomb
By News Agencies

NEW YORK
- Iran may be as little as six months away from completing the know-how to build a nuclear bomb, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said on Monday.

His comment contrasted with a recent assessment by the authoritative, independent International Institute for Strategic Studies that Tehran is at least five years away from producing enough fissile material for a single bomb, and 15 years was a more likely timeframe.

Shalom told a meeting of U.S. Jewish leaders in New York: "The question is not if they are going to hold that bomb in 2009 or 2010 or 2011, the question is when they will have the full knowledge.

"According to our people, security and intelligence, they are very, very close. It may be only six months before they will have that full knowledge."

He was speaking as the board of the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, was meeting in Vienna to consider whether to refer Iran to the Security Council for possible sanctions over its secretive nuclear program.

Iran insists its nuclear program is purely civilian to make electricity. The United States and Europe suspect Tehran of seeking a weapons capability but think it is less far advanced.

Israel is widely assumed to have a sizable arsenal of nuclear weapons, although it does not publicly acknowledge that and maintains a policy of ambiguity.

Shalom warned that if the IAEA hesitated in reporting Iran to the Security Council, it would be very difficult to do so in future, and it might be too late as the Iranians were pushing ahead with their nuclear research.

"They have some technical problems recently," Shalom said, but he added that they were continuing with experiments to complete their research. He declined to give further details or discuss the source of his information.

"That's all the information that I can give," he told reporters. "That's our assessment, that the Iranians are very close and it might be only six months before they will have the full knowledge to develop this nuclear bomb."

haaretz.com



To: sea_urchin who wrote (246)9/21/2005 3:55:39 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 418
 
Re: If Bush fails Israel, he'll be "removed".

And it won't be the first time that an American pres has been "removed" by Israel. And I'm thinking about Clinton, not JFK.


Clinton is a wrong parallel, I'm afraid. Clinton was not "removed" by the Lewinsky scandal --he stayed in office. Clinton was merely neutralized and compelled to devote his time and energy to defusing the crisis... But today's a whole another ball game: it's not just about dealing with Arafat and niggling over Israeli and Palestinian maps. It's about waging war against Iran.

As a re-elected President, G.W. Bush may be tempted to dodge it all --he won't have to court the Zionist constituency for the next presidential election in 2008... and, last but not least, even if Iran is developing nuclear weapons, she's still a long way from posing any threat to the US itself. As for a threat to US allies in the Mideast, well, then, what about North Korea? And that's where US and Israeli national interests don't add up. The US, Europe, indeed the world, can wait for another year or two --Israel can't. Hence my "wild guess" that the Judeofascist cabal will not blink at "removing" Bush --and getting Cheney in the driver's seat....

Gus