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Topic: 'Bush gave Israel amber light to attack'
Posted By: Lone Wolf
Subject: 'Bush gave Israel amber light to attack'
Date Posted: July 13 2008 at 2:57am
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215330945390&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull - http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215330945390&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
 
Jul 13, 2008 6:40 | Updated Jul 13, 2008 12:23

'Bush gave Israel amber light to attack'

By mailto:updates@jpost.com - JPOST.COM STAFF

US President George W. Bush has given Israel the "amber light" to carry out an attack on Iran if diplomatic efforts are unsuccessful in causing the Islamic Republic to back down and relinquish its nuclear program, according to a senior Pentagon official quoted by the British Sunday Times on Sunday morning.

According to the official, Bush has given Israel free rein to attack Iran's nuclear sites if sanctions fail in spite of opposition from US generals and regardless of the possible economic and political repercussions of such a strike.

"Amber means get on with your preparations, stand by for immediate attack and tell us when you're ready," the official said, adding however, that Israel had been told that it could not count on the US to lend it military support.

Contradicting recent reports to the contrary, he also said that the IAF would not be permitted to take off from American military bases in Iraq.

The Jerusalem Post could not confirm the report.

On Friday, sources in the Iraqi Defense Ministry told a local news network that IAF war planes were practicing in Iraqi airspace and landing on US airbases in the country as a preparation for a potential strike on Iran.

"It's really all down to the Israelis," the official added. "This administration will not attack Iran. This has already been decided. But the president is really preoccupied with the nuclear threat against Israel and I know he doesn't believe that anything but force will deter Iran."

The official said that Israel had yet to present Bush with a compelling military proposal. "If there is no solid plan, the amber will never turn to green," he said.

He also noted that there was resistance within the Pentagon coming from officers who feared an Iranian retaliation. "The uniform people are opposed to the attack plans, mainly because they think it will endanger our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan," the source said.

Only on Saturday, an aide to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened that his country would "destroy" Israel, as well as 32 US army bases in the region in retaliation for any attack on the Islamic Republic.

"If Israel and the US fire a bullet or a missile at Iran, its forces will attack the heart of Israel and 32 American bases in the region before the dust from such an attack has settled," Iran's Fars news agency quoted Mojtaba Zolnour as saying. He added that such targets would be "destroyed" by the Iranian counterattack.




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Posted By: Graywolf
Date Posted: July 13 2008 at 4:31am
Think gas cost alot now! Just wait  If these happens it well be 10 a gal!!Thumbs%20Down

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Something wicked these way comes!!


Posted By: H2HPrep
Date Posted: July 13 2008 at 8:10pm
I did a Google seach for Bush, amber, Israel.
 
There are stories going back to July 9th but none from mainstream
US news sources.
 
Is this one of those stories that originated as a result of a quote
from an assstant of an un-named person who knows the neighbor
of the uncle of a guy who once drove by the pentagon?


Posted By: Lone Wolf
Date Posted: July 14 2008 at 3:16am
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4322508.ece - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4322508.ece
 
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news">Times%20Online  
From The Sunday Times


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: July 14 2008 at 7:45am
http://www.godubai.com/gulftoday/article.asp?AID=49&Section=Main - http://www.godubai.com/gulftoday/article.asp?AID=49&Section=Main
 
Iran to 'cut off' attackers' hands
 
TEHRAN: Iran's president said that even before its enemies "get their hands on the trigger" the country's military would cut them off, media said on Sunday, in a growing war of words that has intensified Middle East tension.

"Before the enemies get their hands on the trigger the armed forces will cut off their hands," the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as telling reporters.

Ahmadinejad said the weaponry displayed in the Revolutionary Guards' missile exercise, which was condemned by Western powers, was only a small part of Iran's defence capability.

"In the event of necessity, additional parts of our defence capability will be put on display for the world to see."

"As I have already said, we have absolutely no need for an intermediary in negotiations with others ... I am ready to hold direct negotiations with Mr Bush," Ahmadinejad said.

However, he added, "if anyone should want to set conditions (for entering talks) it would be us."

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili is expected to meet European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Geneva on July 19 for talks on the long-running dispute.

"The negotiations ... must lead to the defining of the framework of the main negotiations," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said, according to the state broadcaster.

Ahmadinejad made the comment a day after a senior Iranian official said Iran would strike Israel and US bases in the region if the Islamic Republic was attacked over its disputed nuclear programmeme.

US leaders have not ruled out military options if diplomacy fails to assuage fears about Iran's nuclear activities, which the world's fourth-largest oil producer says are intended only to produce electricity.

On US mission

Ahmadinejad indicated he was not against the opening of a US mission in Tehran, saying Iran would consider favourably any request aimed at boosting relations between the two peoples.

"We will receive favourably any action which will help to reinforce relations between the peoples," said Ahmadinejad, in response to a question about the opening of a US mission in Tehran.

US media said in June that Washington was debating establishing a US presence in Iran without a formal resumption of diplomatic relations, which were severed in 1980 in the wake of the Islamic revolution.




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