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Bosonic

(3,746 posts)
Mon Feb 23, 2015, 02:40 PM Feb 2015

Leaked cables show Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad

Source: The Guardian

Binyamin Netanyahu’s dramatic declaration to world leaders in 2012 that Iran was about a year away from making a nuclear bomb was contradicted by his own secret service, according to a top-secret Mossad document.

It is part of a cache of hundreds of dossiers, files and cables from the world’s major intelligence services – one of the biggest spy leaks in recent times.

Brandishing a cartoon of a bomb with a red line to illustrate his point, the Israeli prime minister warned the UN in New York that Iran would be able to build nuclear weapons the following year and called for action to halt the process.

But in a secret report shared with South Africa a few weeks later, Israel’s intelligence agency concluded that Iran was “not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons”. The report highlights the gulf between the public claims and rhetoric of top Israeli politicians and the assessments of Israel’s military and intelligence establishment.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/23/leaked-spy-cables-netanyahu-iran-bomb-mossad

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Leaked cables show Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad (Original Post) Bosonic Feb 2015 OP
He's a boil Faux pas Feb 2015 #1
That lying, murdering warmonger needs to exit the world stage. Comrade Grumpy Feb 2015 #2
The politics of fear is also the politics of evil. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #3
BiBi and the GOPs are warmongers Iliyah Feb 2015 #4
Here you go: bemildred Feb 2015 #5
What a psychotic clown. BeanMusical Feb 2015 #6
Same bullshit with the Iraq WMD, which our media pushed the so-called bush talking points. Hey still_one Feb 2015 #7

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
4. BiBi and the GOPs are warmongers
Mon Feb 23, 2015, 03:16 PM
Feb 2015

Look at what they are doing. Pres O doesn't love America. Pres O is not a Christian. Pres O was raised as a communist, etc.

still_one

(92,303 posts)
7. Same bullshit with the Iraq WMD, which our media pushed the so-called bush talking points. Hey
Mon Feb 23, 2015, 05:59 PM
Feb 2015

Democrats in Congress, start standing up to crap like this, don't let the republicans or the media distort things

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