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Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News: Documents linking Iran to nuclear weapons push may have been fabricated
Informed Comment: US Documents on Iran Nukes Forged?
Firedoglake: Surprise Surprise: “Laptop of Death” a Possible Forgery
Newshoggers.com: IAEA Head Would Welcome Direct US/Iran Dialogue
Crooks and Liars: IAEA Head Would Welcome Direct US/Iran Dialogue
Documents linking Iran to nuclear weapons push may have been fabricated
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... stolen from a laptop computer belonging to an Iranian researcher. The US has based much of its push for sanctions against Iran on these documents. The new evidence of possible fraud has increased pressure within the IAEA secretariat to distance the agency from the laptop documents, according to a Vienna-based diplomatic source close to the IAEA, who spoke to RAW STORY on condition of anonymity. Full story at the link. Another Raw Story Investigates exclusive. -Diane Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/IAEA_suspects_fraud_in_ev...
US Documents on Iran Nukes Forged?
Informed Comment —
I'm shocked, shocked that allegations are emerging at the International Atomic Energy Agency that US-supplied "documents" from a laptop acquired in 2004 indicating a secret Iranian weapons program were probably forgeries. ...
Surprise Surprise: “Laptop of Death” a Possible Forgery
Firedoglake —
... Almost four years ago today, Colin Powell presented some dodgy intelligence suggesting Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons. Powell's announcement had all the trappings of Bush propaganda: sketchy exiles, the pre-emption of IAEA counter-evidence, technical specs that make a known civilian application look like a nuclear weapon, and, of course, Powell himself.
Does it surprise you to learn, via Juan Cole, that that intelligence may well have been forged? ...
IAEA Head Would Welcome Direct US/Iran Dialogue
Newshoggers.com —
... Secondly - the "alleged" studies el-Baradei refers to are all from 2003 and earlier, from a time when US intelligence says Iran did have a nuke program, in a very early stage, which has since been shut down. Notice all those conditionals? That's because, as Gareth Porter notes in his latest investigative report, the IAEA has serious doubts about US-provided evidence for how extensive those studies were even then. All the information the US has provided the nuke watchdog has come from ...
IAEA Head Would Welcome Direct US/Iran Dialogue
Crooks and Liars —
... Secondly - the "alleged" studies el-Baradei refers to are all from 2003 and earlier, from a time when US intelligence says Iran did have a nuke program, in a very early stage, which has since been shut down. Notice all those conditionals? That's because, as Gareth Porter notes in his latest investigative report, the IAEA has serious doubts about US-provided evidence for how extensive those studies were even then. All the information the US has provided the nuke watchdog has come from ...
Hyperventilating About An Iranian Nuke
Newshoggers.com —
... doubts about the authenticity of all the documents on the laptop. That hasn't stopped Sanger and Broad continually recycling their fearmongering and misdirection though - ...
Stop Hillary!
Antiwar.com Original —
... (MEK), and were pushed by the War Party as evidence of Iran's perfidy, detailed a program that hadn't been functional for years. (At any rate, those documents turned out to be forgeries .) In any case, the West, acting through the UN, turned this into yet another pretext for confrontation with the Iranians. Their ...
That Iran NIE? Oh, We All Just Ignore It
Newshoggers.com —
... over crowing about how it proved Bush's invasion of Iraq was a good thing, at least - yet there's not a shred of real evidence for doing so.
Much of the narrative which allows the consensus view of the entire US intelligence community to be ignorable centers around the infamous "laptop of death" and around statements last year at a private briefing by the IAEA's Oli Heinonen. However, the documents contained upon the laptop are of questionable provenance, probably at least in part forged by their provider - the MeK terrorist group - and in any case ...
Petraeus States The Israeli Line, Media Spins It Rightward
Newshoggers.com —
... about the regime’s intention,” Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
There's so much wrong with this - both in what Petraeus said and the way Bloomberg's Tony Capaccio spins it.
Iran's failure to provide "assurances and transparency" are mostly in the minds of Iran hawks. Iran has so far failed only to provide details on some alleged experiments which- if they existed, and since all the evidence they did comes from the Dodgy Laptop of Death that's a BIG if - at the very worst halted in 2004 and never ...
Political Gamesmanship And Iran's Nuclear Program
Newshoggers.com —
... and which the Iranian government has stated categorically is a total fraud. Others have questioned the authenticity of the data the laptop contains too, wondering why all that usually-compartmentalized secret information ...
The Man-Judy's Of The N.Y. Times
Newshoggers.com —
... and which the Iranian government has stated categorically is a total fraud. Others have questioned the authenticity of the data the laptop contains too, wondering why all that usually-compartmentalized secret information ...
