Iran attack coming because of the Dutch?

From Debkafile (pro-Isreali website / usually has good reliable info):

A Dutch AIVD Secret Service ultra-secret operation underway in Iran in recent years has been halted and an agent recalled in view of “impending US plans to attack Iran,” within weeks, writes Joost de Haas, known for his good intelligence contacts, in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.

The AIVD operation aimed to infiltrate and sabotage the weapons [and nuclear] industry in the Islamic Republic.

According to intelligence sources in the Netherlands, the US [or Israel] was expected to make a decision within weeks to attack nuclear plants with unmanned aircraft, used to avoid risking the lives of air crews and warplanes.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report this would be the first time drones operated by remote control were used against major strategic targets, necessary in Israel’s case to hold its air fleet and flight crews ready to defend the country against reprisal from Iran’s allies. Syria and the Lebanese Hizballah have stockpiled thousands of rockets for this purpose.

The Iranian targets to be bombed would include also military installations brought to light partly by the Dutch espionage operation, described by De Telegraaf as extremely successful. “One of the agents was able to infiltrate the Iranian industry” and for years shared information with the American CIA. “Various supplies could also be sabotaged and stopped. These were parts for missiles and launching equipment.”

According to DEBKAfile’s sources, the expectation disclosed by the Dutch newspaper would explain the fresh spate of threats from Iran.

Thursday, Aug. 28, Iranian sources told the London-based Arabic al Quds that Tehran had recently transferred to Hizballah new long-range rockets capable of hitting every inch of Israeli soil with great accuracy.

They were to be fired if Israel or the United States attacked Iran.

Dep. Chief of General Staff Masus Jazairi said Saturday, Aug. 30, that any attack on Iran would mean the beginning of a new world war. He said the “greed of the US and Zionists” is gradually leading the world to collapse as demonstrated in Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Caucasus.

DEBKAfile’s Iran sources report a shakeup is in progress in the Islamic Republic’s top military command.

Amir (Maj. Gen.) Seyed Abdollrahim Mousavi was named acting chief of staff

of the armed forces – a new post created as backup in case the army chief comes to harm in combat.

Amir Mohamad Hosseyn Dadras becomes deputy chief of staff for coordination.

Amir Reza Pourdastan is the new commander of the army’s ground corps.

Freakin' Dutch hippies...

Sarah Palin & Ron Paul

I think McCain may have not hit a home run on this one. too much negative buzz on this from Republicans even. Keep an eye on Ron Paul. He may be the Nader of this election and decide it.

Hurricane

Say a prayer for all the people down in LA, MS, and TX. They will need it.

Richard, Richard, where are you?

Mace in Yo Face...

Dude with the mace looks like he is killing a wasp. The other dude looks like he is going destroy the guy with his bare hands.

Reality Vs. Drunkenness

He's back...

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/14/farting-preacher-bac.html

William O. Douglas - Smart Guy who said a lot of smart things...

The following is an article from Uncle John's Supremely Satisfying Bathroom Reader William O. "Wild Bill" Douglas (1898 - 1980) was the longest-serving justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. Here's what he has to say about free speech, freedom, and the government: "The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." "It was against a background poignant with memories of evil procedures that our Constitution was drawn." "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." "An arrest is not justified by what the subsequent search discloses." "The framers of the Constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They had lived in dangerous days; they knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty." "Those who won our independence believed ... liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." "Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." "Whatever the reason, words mean what they say." "What a man thinks is of no concern to government." "A requirement that literature or act conform to some norm prescribed by an official smacks of an ideology foreign to our system." "Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest." "Common sense often makes good law." "When a man knows how to live dangerously, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live."

Misc. Ramblings

Olympics always bring out the pride in my country. I am not the best citizen - not voting, etc. However, that is a freedom I have here.

Obama better get down to specifics about how he is going to run our country. Change is great, be more specific. People want to vote for you, but you need to put McCain down now, not later.

My dog is needy, just like me. He is like a mirror sometimes, very weird.

Go Royals and Chiefs.

Love the Nike commercial with the Killers song - with the lyric, "I got soul, but I am not a soldier.

We need to help the Georgians any way we can. They helped us in Iraq.

That is all for now, carry on...

Buddha - Good words

Let us live in joy, free of hatred, among the spiteful; among the spiteful let us live without hatred. - Buddha