Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: USA conducono azioni segrete di commando dentro l'Iran

La fazione civile al Pentagono (i consiglieri Neocon?) vorrebbe 
bombardare le infrastrutture Iraniane. Tutto il medioriente deve essere 
considerato una 'huge war zone'.
Am.
Politics - Reuters
 
Report: U.S. Conducting Secret Missions Inside Iran
Sun Jan 16,12:32 PM ET
 Politics - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -  The United States has been conducting secret 
reconnaissance missions inside Iran to help identify potential nuclear, 
chemical and missile targets, The New Yorker magazine reported Sunday. 
  The article, by award-winning reporter Seymour Hersh, said the secret 
missions have been going on at least since last summer with the goal of 
identifying target information for three dozen or more suspected sites.
 Hersh quotes one government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon 
(news - web sites) as saying, "The civilians in the Pentagon want to go 
into Iran and destroy as much of the military infrastructure as 
possible."
 One former high-level intelligence official told The New Yorker, "This 
is a war against terrorism, and Iraq (news - web sites) is just one 
campaign. The Bush administration is looking at this as a huge war zone. 
Next, we're going to have the Iranian campaign."
 The White House said Iran is a concern and a threat that needs to be 
taken seriously. But it disputed the report by Hersh, who last year 
exposed the extent of prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
 "We obviously have a concern about Iran. The whole world has a concern 
about Iran," Dan Bartlett, a top aide to President Bush (news - web 
sites), told CNN's "Late Edition."
 Of The New Yorker report, he said: "I think it's riddled with 
inaccuracies, and I don't believe that some of the conclusions he's 
drawing are based on fact."
 Bartlett said the administration "will continue to work through the 
diplomatic initiatives" to convince Iran -- which Bush once called part 
of an "axis of evil" -- not to pursue nuclear weapons.
 "No president, at any juncture in history, has ever taken military 
options off the table," Bartlett added. "But what President Bush has 
shown is that he believes we can emphasize the diplomatic initiatives 
that are underway right now."
 COMMANDO TASK FORCE
 Bush has warned Iran in recent weeks against meddling in Iraqi 
elections.
 The former intelligence official told Hersh that an American commando 
task force in South Asia is working closely with a group of Pakistani 
scientists who had dealt with their Iranian counterparts.
 The New Yorker reports that this task force, aided by information from 
Pakistan, has been penetrating into eastern Iran in a hunt for 
underground nuclear-weapons installations.
 In exchange for this cooperation, the official told Hersh, Pakistani 
President Pervez Musharraf has received assurances that his government 
will not have to turn over Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's 
atomic bomb, to face questioning about his role in selling nuclear 
secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea (news - web sites).
 Hersh reported that Bush has already "signed a series of top-secret 
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 10 nations in the Middle East 
and South Asia."
 Defining these as military rather than intelligence operations, Hersh 
reported, will enable the Bush administration to evade legal 
restrictions imposed on the CIA (news - web sites)'s covert activities 
overseas.

The article, by award-winning reporter Seymour Hersh, said
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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact
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. (In 2003, the I.A.E.A. disclosed that
Iran had been secretly receiving nuclear technology from Pakistan for
more than a decade, and had withheld that information from inspectors.)
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. 
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Ha detto una marea di chiacchere senza portare nulla a sostegno delle
stesse.  E c'e' pure chi lo definisce "giornalista investigativo".
*LOL*
-Stefano

 *LOL*
Vediamo se sai darmi una definizione di cosa sia questo giornalismo 
investigativo, e soprattutto, dove stia scritto che ogni volta che un 
giornalista scrive un articolo debba allegare una Treccani di copie di 
documenti, dichiarazioni originali di fonti confidenziali etc etc.


Il poveretto e' stato liquefatto dal famoso giornalista gia' piu'
volte vincitore del famoso premio "puzzer" "Stefano De Cesari"
che da anni oramai tiene la sua colonna fissa sul famoso
quindicinale "The it.* hierarchy", e tu non hai un minimo
di rispetto. Cio' non e' bello. 

 ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:351vi7F...@individual.net...
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Rispettare De Cesari è una contraddizione in termini.