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Sunday, September 07, 2008
Betting Israel Won't Go Nuclear, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah Planning to End the Jewish State
Foreign Confidential....
Iran, Hezbollah, and Syria are preparing for all-out war with Israel and the United States.
The Islamist-Arab Axis of Evil expects war to break out before the end of the year as intelligence agencies have confirmed that Iran (a) is using its civilian nuclear power and space programs as covers to develop nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles, and (b) has every intention of continuing the controversial programs, even if that means being attacked by the US and Israel.
Efforts to lure Syria from its alliance with Iran have failed. Damascus intends to fight. It is cooperating with Iran's Revolutionary Guard, which has already assumed command and control of Hezbollah's huge missile arsenal.
Iran is making no secret of its plans to "burn Tel Aviv" by bombarding it with missiles, betting that the US and world opinion will restrain Israel from retaliating with nuclear weapons capable of obliterating the Islamist menace.
In a sense, the nuclear program is itself a cover and a trap: Iran's maniac-in-chief, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, believes that Iran and its allies--including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which are planning rocket attacks of their own as well as terrorist attacks in Jerusalem and a major insurrection in the Galilee--are poised to annihilate the Jewish state, and that the time for war has come.
Ahmadinejad also believes that the US is vulnerable. Terrorist attacks--including seagoing missile attacks from seemingly civilian, foreign-flagged cargo ships--are certainly being planned in Tehran.
On Thursday, Iran's official news agency, IRNA, quoted a senior Iranian official as saying Iran will strike US interests around the world and Israel if attacked over its nuclear program.
"Nowhere would be safe for America with (Iran's) long-range missiles ... we can fire tens of thousands of missiles every day," said Mohammad Baqer Zolghadr, the deputy interior minister in security affairs. "With long-range missiles Iran can also threaten Israel as America's ally."
Iran says its Shahab-3 missile with a range of 1,250 miles (2,000 km) is capable of hitting Israel and US bases in the Persian Gulf.
EDITOR'S COMMENT: Instead of wasting precious time talking about sanctions and diplomacy, Israel should let Iran know in no uncertain terms that the Jewish state will use nuclear weapons to defend itself should its cities come under missile attack. Israel was founded to solve the problem of Jewish political homelessness--to serve as a refuge and haven for the Jewish people and a center for national rebirth--not to needlessly risk and sacrifice Jewish lives in the interest of appealing to world opinion. Ben Gurion and Menahem Begin would both know what to do....
Japanese Expert Claims Kim Jong Il Died in 2003
Is Kim Jong Il for real? The question has baffled foreign intelligence agencies for years, but a veteran Japanese expert on North Korea says the “dear leader” is actually dead — and his role is played by a double.
The expert says Kim died of diabetes in 2003 and world leaders, including Vladimir Putin of Russia and Hu Jintao of China, have been negotiating with an imposter.
He believes that Kim, fearing assassination, had groomed up to four look-alikes to act as substitutes at public events. One underwent plastic surgery to make his appearance more convincing. Now, the expert claims, the actors are brought on stage whenever required to persuade the masses that Kim is alive.
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UPDATE: US and Japanese analysts generally doubt the impostor story; but China Confidential has learned that some Israeli intelligence experts believe it to be true.Forbidden Journalism: The Obama Question List
Dateline USA....
He came from nowhere, a junior Senator selling Hope and Change. Millions of voters overlooked his paper-thin resume and bought his pitch, enough to make him the Democratic candidate for President of the United States.
In fact, winning his party's protracted nomination war is now termed "executive experience" by supporters and adoring media. That Barack Obama beat Billary not only means he can beat John McCain but also qualifies him to be President, Obama backers argue, as if the Presidential contest was a TV reality show--Race to The White House.
We disagree. Substance matters. Character counts. News organizations have a responsibility to put tough questions to both candidates. For this reason, we plan to publish the following list of Obama questions at least once a week until a mainstream media outlet asks them or the Democratic candidate answers them on his own.
1. What is your legal name? Is it the same name that appears on your birth certificate?
2. An apparently authentic Indonesian school registration certificate, completed by your Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, lists your name as Barry Soetoro, your religion as Muslim, and your citizenship as Indonesian. Are you now or have you ever been a citizen of Indonesia or any country other than the United States? Do you believe dual citizenship should disqualify someone from being the nation's Commander-in-Chief?
3. Are you aware that Islamic religious law traces a person's religious identify through the father, and that according to Islamic religious law you were born a Muslim because your biological father was a Muslim?
4. Do you approve of Islamic religious law?
5. Kenya's opposition leader, Raila Odinga, whom you have campaigned for, says he is your cousin. Is he?
6. Do you support the efforts by Muslims to implement Islamic religious law in Kenya, the birthplace of your father, or in any other country?
7. Do you believe that radical islam, or Islamism, is a threat to the United States and to Western civilization?
8. Do you believe Islam is a peaceful and beautiful religion?
9. How does the religion-of-peace claim square with the fact that Muslim groups have carried out more than 11,000 terrorist attacks since 9/11?
10. Are you alarmed by the rise of radical Islam in Europe? Do you think Europe is on the way to becoming a predominantly Muslim continent?
11. How do you respond to those who say that organized Islam and Islamism are today virtually synonymous?
12. Why do you differentiate between America's Islamist enemies--as you made clear in your interview with Bill O'Reilly? Do you believe the ideological or theological differences between Islamist Iran and Islamist Al Qaeda are meaningful in terms of the threat they represent?
13. You have promised to pursue Islamist terrorist networks, but you have avoided mentioning Indonesia, where you were educated as a child, even though Al Qaeda-associated groups have carried out horrific terrorist bombings there. Would you use the American military and intelligence agencies to attack those groups if necessary? Do you think they should have been attacked and destroyed after 9/11?
14. How would you have responded to 9/11 if you were in the White House when the Islamist terrorists struck America in the worst-ever attacks on US soil? Would you have asked Congress for a declaration of war against Afghanistan? Would you have attacked Iran instead of Iraq?
15. Would you ever use tactical nuclear weapons to defend the United States?
16. If Iran, which has threatened to "burn Tel Aviv" and destroy Israel, were to bombard Israel with ballistic massiles, causing thousands of civilian casualties, would Israel, in your opinion, be justified in responding with nuclear weapons?
17. Do you think President Bush should have revoked the visas of all aliens--non-citizens--from predominantly Muslim countries after 9/11? Your supporter, President Carter, revoked Iranian student visas in response to the hostage crisis.
18. Do you believe there are moderates in the Iranian regime?
19. Do you believe there are moderates in Hamas?
20. Do you believe there are moderates in Hezbollah?
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OBAMA'S HALF-BROTHER SAYS CANDIDATE IS A MUSLIM:
Sunday, 7 September 2008
Kim is dead. But the evil lives on--in one or more doubles.
posted by Confidential Reporter @ 3:23 PM
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