[Mb-civic] Urgent: October Surprise? US to attack Iran?? Just a rumor?

[ean at sbcglobal.net]

The following is so outrageous and,  yet, not entirely surprising....that I think it 
constitutes an emergency that is best dealt with by foreknowledge.  so forward this to 
everyone you know.  Hopefully it won't happen, and perhaps widespread "leaking" of 
this terribly dangerous and vicious action can somehow immunize us against it 
happening.  I have left in the brief introductory comments by Ed Pearl who sent this 
to me......Mha Atma

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Hi.  It's better that we know these things and fit them into a passion to
eliminate these scum from power.  That is, the worst government of our
lives; possibly of U.S. history.  At the least, we're increasingly aware
of the danger and its vulnerability, in the short or long range.  There is
no triumph. -Ed

Forwarded by my friend Anne.  Let's hope it is not true.  John E. Douglas

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7113.htm


A Bush pre-election strike on Iran 'imminent'
White House insider report "October Surprise" imminent

By Wayne Madsen

10/20/04 "Lebanon Wire" -- According to White House and Washington Beltway
insiders, the Bush administration, worried that it could lose the
presidential election to Senator John F. Kerry, has initiated plans to
launch a military strike on Iran's top Islamic leadership, its nuclear
reactor at Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, and key nuclear targets throughout
the country, including the main underground research site at Natanz in
central Iran and another in Isfahan. Targets of the planned U.S. attack
reportedly include mosques in Tehran, Qom, and Isfahan known by the U.S.
to headquarter Iran's top mullahs.

The Iran attack plan was reportedly drawn up after internal polling
indicated that if the Bush
administration launched a so-called anti-terrorist attack on Iran some two
weeks before the election, Bush would be assured of a landslide win
against Kerry. Reports of a pre-emptive strike on Iran come amid concerns
by a number of political observers that the Bush administration would
concoct an "October Surprise" to influence the outcome of the presidential
election.

According to White House sources, the USS John F. Kennedy was deployed to
the Arabian Sea to coordinate the attack on Iran. Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld discussed the Kennedy's role in the planned attack on Iran when
he visited the ship in the Arabian Sea on October 9. Rumsfeld and defense
ministers of U.S. coalition partners, including those of Albania,
Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Georgia,
Hungary, Iraq, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mongolia, Poland, Qatar,
Romania, and Ukraine briefly discussed a very "top level" view of
potential dual-track military operations in Iran and Iraq in a special
"war room" set up on board the aircraft carrier. America's primary ally in
Iraq, the United Kingdom, did not attend the planning session because it
reportedly disagrees with a military strike on Iran. London also suspects
the U.S. wants to move British troops from Basra in southern Iraq to the
Baghdad area to help put down an expected surge in Sh'ia violence in Sadr
City and other Sh'ia areas in central Iraq when the U.S. attacks Iran as
well as clear the way for a U.S. military strike across the Iraqi-Iranian
border aimed at securing the huge Iranian oil installations in Abadan.
U.S. allies South Korea, Australia, Kuwait, Jordan, Italy, Netherlands,
and Japan were also left out of the USS John F. Kennedy planning
discussions because of their reported opposition to any strike on Iran.

In addition, Israel has been supplied by the United States with 500
"bunker buster" bombs. According to White House sources, the Israeli Air
Force will attack Iran's nuclear facility at Bushehr with the U.S. bunker
busters.The joint U.S.-Israeli pre-emptive military move against Iran
reportedly was crafted by the same neo-conservative grouping in the
Pentagon and Vice President Dick Cheney's office that engineered the
invasion of Iraq.

Morale aboard the USS John F. Kennedy is at an all-time low, something
that must be attributable to the knowledge that the ship will be involved
in an extension of U.S. military actions in the Persian Gulf region. The
Commanding Officer of an F-14 Tomcat squadron was relieved of command for
a reported shore leave "indiscretion" in Dubai and two months ago the
Kennedy's commanding officer was relieved for cause.

The White House leak about the planned attack on Iran was hastened by
concerns that Russian technicians present at Bushehr could be killed in an
attack, thus resulting in a wider nuclear confrontation between Washington
and Moscow. International Atomic Energy Agency representatives are also
present at the Bushehr facility. In addition, an immediate Iranian Shahab
ballistic missile attack against Israel would also further destabilize the
Middle East. The White House leaks about the pre-emptive strike may have
been prompted by warnings from the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency
that an attack on Iran will escalate out of control. Intelligence circles
report that both intelligence agencies are in open revolt against the Bush
White House.

White House sources also claimed they are "terrified" that Bush wants to
start a dangerous war with Iran prior to the election and fear that such a
move will trigger dire consequences for the entire world.

Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and
columnist. He served in the National Security Council (NSA) during the Reagan 
Administration and wrote the introduction to Forbidden Truth. He is the co-author, 
with john Stanton of "America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II." His
forthcoming book is titled: "jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops, and Brass
Plates." Madsen can be reached at Wmadsen777 at aol.com

Copyright©1999-2004 Lebanonwire®.com
http://www.lebanonwire.com/0410/04102002LW.asp


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