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To: LindyBill who wrote (192645)	1/11/2007 9:46:27 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793899

debka's latest. Note the mysterious explosions inside Iran: DEBKAfile: Kurdish sources report five helicopters carried US forces to pre-dawn raid of Iranian consulate in N. Iraqi town of Irbil January 11, 2007, 5:21 PM (GMT+02:00) They were dropped on the roof while armored vehicles encircled the building. The troops used loudspeakers to call out in Farsi and Arabic to the consulate staff not to resist “or else they would be killed.” Five Iranian diplomatic staff members were detained and documents and computers impounded. Tehran has strongly protested this breach of its sovereign territory and summoned the Swiss ambassador who represents US interests in Iran and the Iraqi ambassador to demand the immediate release of the Iranian diplomats. Later Thursday, Jan. 11, Tehran reported three large explosions shaking the southern town of Khorramshahr north of the oil port of Abadan on the Shatt al-Arb waterway. DEBKAfile: Khorramshahr, which faces the Iraqi town of Basra, is one of the key towns from which Iran delivers smuggled fighters, weapons and explosives to its Shiite supporters in Iraq. Our sources also report that some hours before President George W. Bush’s policy speech, a series of explosions were heard in Iranian Balochistan. Tehran imposed a blackout on the incident. These statements and events tie in closely with the new Iraq strategy announced by the US president of confronting Iran and Syria for “allowing networks to use their territory to attack US forces.”

To: LindyBill who wrote (192645)	1/11/2007 10:11:55 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793899

LB, what's so important about Barnett? Does he have a big following? What's so special about this man? Thx.

To: LindyBill who wrote (192645)	1/11/2007 11:21:13 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793899

His approach is that you deal with them simply to try to pry them apart internally. They are not a Tyranny like North Korea, but an authoritarian Government that can potentially be "soft killed." Pry them apart with what? another three years of empty talk, while they perfect their ICBMs? How do you "soft kill" a regime that prefers poverty on religious principle (Communism at least promised material achievement), and is expecting Armaggedon? Barnett doesn't offer one SINGLE point of leverage. Meanwhile, Iran has declared war on us and is fighting it! Barnett is not even offering a containment plan. He doesn't even mention Hizbullah. He has no plan except talk with nothing to back it up.