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Politics : Should The West Bomb Iran? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (30)	9/27/2007 9:19:10 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 109

Stooge. Iran Did This> Khobar Towers bombing Main article: Khobar Towers Shortly before 10 a.m. on June 25, 1996, members of Hezbollah detonated a truck bomb outside building 131 (also known as Khobar Towers) of the King Abdul Aziz Airbase. Inside the building were almost exclusively members of the U.S. Air Force who were there to patrol the southern Iraqi no-fly zone inacted after the Gulf War. In the attack, 19 U.S. military personnel were killed and 372 were wounded, making this the most deadly terrorist attack on Americans abroad since the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing. Louis Freeh said in his book My FBI that he felt the deepest about the Khobar Towers investigation, and it was not until Louis Freeh's last day in office, June 21, 2001, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia returned a 46 count indictment against 14 defendants charged with the Khobar Towers attack [15]. This was just before some of the counts would have expired due to a 5 year statue of limitations.

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (30)	9/27/2007 9:35:18 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 109

Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton Says Israel's Target in Syria Was 'High Value' Wednesday, September 26, 2007 WASHINGTON — The target of Israel's air strike in northeastern Syria earlier this month was either a joint nuclear or missile facility with North Korea, John R. Bolton, a former senior Bush administration official, said Wednesday. "I am definitely hearing it from U.S. and Israeli sources," Bolton said in an interview. "The information is very closely held." The strike raised tensions in the region, but has not stopped the Bush administration from including Syria in its plans for Mideast peacemaking or for six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program. Those discussions are due to commence Thursday in Beijing. "What the Israelis struck I cannot say; whether a nuclear or missile facility is not clear," Bolton said from his office at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. He offered the possibility that it was a joint research venture or simply a North Korea facility located in Syria. "Any of these options is enough to show proliferation by the North Koreans and that is very dangerous," Bolton said. He ruled out other theories, meanwhile, including that the target was Iranian missiles to be shipped to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon for attacks on Israel or that Israel was testing Syria's air defenses. Related "I don't think the Israelis would have taken the risk unless it was a very high-value target," Bolton said. Neither American nor Israeli officials are saying whether the target was a nuclear or missile facility and many don't know, Bolton said. The former State Department official and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said he did not object to the Beijing talks, which are designed to disable North Korea's nuclear program. At a session last February, North Korea agreed to shut down its main nuclear facility and eventually disable its programs in exchange for aid equivalent to 1 million tons of heavy fuel oil. Bolton said it would be wrong, however, to remove North Korea from the U.S. list of countries that support terror and therefore are ineligible for various benefits. "If they are cooperating with either Syria or Iran, such as on ballistic missile stuff, they should stay on (the list) with Syria and Iran," he said. "If you are supporting terrorist regimes, you are a state supporter of terror," he said. Bolton, as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security in the Bush administration, guided U.S. programs designed to try to halt the spread of dangerous weapons and technology. North Korea, Iran and Syria were among his primary targets. Democrats, with a smattering of Republican help, blocked President Bush's subsequent nomination of Bolton to be the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Bush installed him in a temporary appointment in August 2005 but surrendered to congressional foes last December and gave up his fight to make Bolton the permanent ambassador.