U.S. commandos are hunting for secret nuclear and chemical weapons sites and other targets in Iran, and have a plan to turn the hard-line Islamic country into the next front in the war on terrorism.
“It’s not if we’re going to do anything against Iran. They’re doing it,” an ex-intelligence official tells this week’s issue of The New Yorker.
Since at least last summer, the U.S. teams have penetrated eastern Iran, reportedly with Pakistan’s help, the magazine said.
“Iraq is just one campaign,” the official told investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. “The Bush administration is looking at this as a huge war zone. Next, we’re going to have the Iranian campaign.”
The aim is to rid America and its allies of a major state sponsor of terrorism, Hersh writes.
Since it’s Hersh, I’m taking it with a huge block of salt, of course. But he does get things right once in a while. At any rate, I think this is another one that it would be nice to have them believing — as long as it’s not true.
[update] The Guardian has picked it up.
And naturally, since it is vital for the US to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons and continuing to support terrorism, some clown blabs about this effort to a lefty reporter, thereby blowing the cover of the whole project. Nice work Anonymous Security Source.
Comment by Michael Lonie — 17 Jan, 2005 @ 20:35
Isn’t Hersh merely Gary Sick reincarnated?
Comment by Bachbone — 17 Jan, 2005 @ 21:59
Actually, I think he’s more a Robert Fisk or John Pilger type. Doesn’t really care what about the truth of what he reports as long as it is anti-US.
Comment by Kathy K — 17 Jan, 2005 @ 22:16
Hersh takes little bits of truth and sprinkles them around and then writes fiction and mindless drivel inbetween. He has lost all of his credibility.
Here is a little publication that I think has all the makings of a first rate newpaper. Its called The Scimitar
It even has color pictures. It is published in Iraq, of all places.
Papa Ray
West Texas
USA
Comment by Papa Ray — 18 Jan, 2005 @ 00:44