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Iran: More of the Story Line |
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Sam Gardiner, 7 May 2008
 The Small Strike. Over the past weekend, the Sunday Times of London carried an article quoting British officials and intelligence sources that the United States is drawing up plans for a"surgical strike" on a terrorist training camp inside Iran. According to the article such an attack would send a powerful message to the Iranians. Two days later, John Bolton, the former US Ambassador to the UN was quoted by the Telegraph as saying he supported such a strike to show "the Iranians we're not going to tolerate..." their training insurgents for fighting in Iraq.
The whole small strike argument is very dangerous. It is primarily dangerous because it is a narcotic idea. It would be easy. It seems like a good first step.
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Sam Gardiner*, 6 May 2008 Yesterday's New York Times contains an article by Michael Gordon in which he reveals information from "an American official" that Hezbollah has been training Iraqi militia fighters in a camp near Tehran. UGH! This is so deja vu that it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Remember Salman Pak? That was the terrorist training camp in Iraq that was used over and over again to justify the invasion. The parallels to this new story are striking. First of all, it feels like the story is part of a strategic communications plan. It is not something that happened last week. The individuals who revealed this information were captured between September and December of last year. A key piece of information came from a Hezbollah commander who was captured in March 2007. He is just now talking according to the article. |
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