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20/01/05
– Iran -
Actions secrètes du Pentagone : Les nouvelles révélations
de Seymour Hersh
- Pentagone secret action : New Seymour Hersh revelations... (publié
le 18/01/05 dans le Club Strategic Road)
THE
COMING WARS
The New Yorker 17/01/05
"George W. Bush’s reëlection was not his only victory
last fall. The President and his national-security advisers
have consolidated control over the military and intelligence
communities’ strategic analyses and covert operations to a
degree unmatched since the rise of the post-Second World War
national-security state. Bush has an aggressive and ambitious
agenda for using that control—against the mullahs in Iran
and against targets in the ongoing war on terrorism—during
his second term. The C.I.A. will continue to be downgraded,
and the agency will increasingly serve, as one government
consultant with close ties to the Pentagon put it, as
“facilitators” of policy emanating from President Bush and
Vice-President Dick Cheney. This process is well under
way..."
"...Rumsfeld will become even more important during the
second term. In interviews with past and present intelligence
and military officials, I was told that the agenda had been
determined before the Presidential election, and much of it
would be Rumsfeld’s responsibility. The war on terrorism
would be expanded, and effectively placed under the
Pentagon’s control. The President has signed a series of
findings and executive orders authorizing secret commando
groups and other Special Forces units to conduct covert
operations against suspected terrorist targets in as many as
ten nations in the Middle East and South Asia.
The President’s decision enables Rumsfeld to run the
operations off the books—free from legal restrictions
imposed on the C.I.A..."
"...The Administration has been conducting secret
reconnaissance missions inside Iran at least since last
summer. Much of the focus is on the accumulation of
intelligence and targeting information on Iranian nuclear,
chemical, and missile sites, both declared and suspected. The
goal is to identify and isolate three dozen, and perhaps more,
such targets that could be destroyed by precision strikes and
short-term commando raids. “The civilians in the Pentagon
want to go into Iran and destroy as much of the military
infrastructure as possible,” the government consultant with
close ties to the Pentagon told me.
Some of the missions involve extraordinary coöperation. For
example, the former high-level intelligence official told me
that an American commando task force has been set up in South
Asia and is now working closely with a group of Pakistani
scientists and technicians who had dealt with Iranian
counterparts..."
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"...The American task force, aided by the information
from Pakistan, has been penetrating eastern Iran from
Afghanistan in a hunt for underground installations. The
task-force members, or their locally recruited agents,
secreted remote detection devices—known as
sniffers—capable of sampling the atmosphere for radioactive
emissions and other evidence of nuclear-enrichment
programs..."
"...The Pentagon’s contingency plans for a broader
invasion of Iran are also being updated. Strategists at the
headquarters of the U.S. Central Command, in Tampa, Florida,
have been asked to revise the military’s war plan, providing
for a maximum ground and air invasion of Iran. Updating the
plan makes sense, whether or not the Administration intends to
act, because the geopolitics of the region have changed
dramatically in the last three years. Previously, an American
invasion force would have had to enter Iran by sea, by way of
the Persian Gulf or the Gulf of Oman; now troops could move in
on the ground, from Afghanistan or Iraq. Commando units and
other assets could be introduced through new bases in the
Central Asian republics..."
"...There was other evidence of Pentagon encroachment.
Two former C.I.A. clandestine officers, Vince Cannistraro and
Philip Giraldi, who publish Intelligence
Brief, a newsletter for their business clients,
reported last month on the existence of a broad
counter-terrorism Presidential finding that permitted the
Pentagon “to operate unilaterally in a number of countries
where there is a perception of a clear and evident terrorist
threat. . . . A number of the countries are friendly to the
U.S. and are major trading partners. Most have been
cooperating in the war on terrorism.” The two former
officers listed some of the countries—Algeria, Sudan, Yemen,
Syria, and Malaysia. (I was subsequently told by the former
high-level intelligence official that Tunisia is also on the
list.)..."
Seymour
Hersh: U.S. Conducting Covert Operations in Iran For Possible
Military Strike
Democracy Now 18/01/05
"We speak with investigative journalist Seymour Hersh who
is reporting that the Pentagon has already secretly sent in
forces to Iran to identify possible future military targets.
According to Hersh, the president has authorized the Pentagon
to send secret commando forces into as many as ten nations in
the Middle East and South Asia. The secret forces could
potentially carry out combat operations or even terrorist
acts..."
Once
more, the heat's on Iran
Asia Times 18/01/05
"...The question now is what are the chances that Hersh's
story is right? The story may be right in the sense that the
US is badly in need for evidence of Iran's nuclear intentions.
There is little doubt that the Bush administration suffers
from a serious credibility gap about making future claims
regarding Iran's aspirations to develop nuclear weapons
without hard evidence. The necessity of hard evidence might be
driving any alleged penetration of special forces into Iran,
rather than the objective of another regime change. Once such
evidence is at hand, Bush may be able to go to the world
community and demand that sanctions be placed on Iran.
It is also possible that the US is of the view that Iran might
be closer to developing nuclear weapons than anyone -
including the nuclear watchdog entity, the International
Atomic Energy Agency, has anticipated or speculated..."
"...If the US really wanted to seek hard evidence about
Iran's nuclear intentions, one wonders how much damage Hersh's
story has done. Considering that its platter is currently full
with the problems related to Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush
administration might not want to create another unmanageable
mess by destabilizing Iran. There is also an outside chance
that Hersh might have been given this story as a larger
campaign of the US to forewarn Iran about the consequences of
developing nuclear weapons."
Statement
from Pentagon Spokesman Lawrence DiRita on Latest Seymour
Hersh Article
DoD News 17/01/05
"...Mr. Hersh’s article is so riddled with errors of
fundamental fact that the credibility of his entire piece is
destroyed..."
Lire également, Read also :
British
commanders fear reaction to American aggression - Scotsman
US
covert military operations in Iran? - CSMonitor
Pakistan
denies providing Iran N-sites data to US - The News
Iran
Says It Has Military Might to Deter Any Attack - Reuters
Iran
rejects US operations claims - BBC
Futile
espionage - Tehran Times
Bush
blocks Euro plan to woo Iran over nuclear freeze -
Telegraph
Now
US ponders attack on Iran - Guardian
Pre-Emption
Yet Again? - Arab News
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