US plot to nail Iran backfires
Asia Times
by Gareth Porter
05/15/08
The George W Bush administration and General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, plotted a sequence of events that would sensationally build domestic US political support for a possible strike against Iran. Key to this was to be the display of a major cache of Iranian weapons for use by Shi’ite militias in the Iraqi city of Karbala. The weapons turned out to have nothing to do with Iran, and worse, the Iraq government suddenly distanced itself from the US’s plan...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JE16Ak02.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shiite+militias
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter
by Gareth Porter
05/15/08
The George W Bush administration and General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, plotted a sequence of events that would sensationally build domestic US political support for a possible strike against Iran. Key to this was to be the display of a major cache of Iranian weapons for use by Shi’ite militias in the Iraqi city of Karbala. The weapons turned out to have nothing to do with Iran, and worse, the Iraq government suddenly distanced itself from the US’s plan...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JE16Ak02.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Petraeus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shiite+militias
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter
rudkla - 16. Mai, 10:23
