Shades of Niger Uranium Forgeries
Here we go again. Like a kleptomaniac, the lying Bush administration just keeps at it.
From Gareth Porter in Asia Times, "The George W Bush administration has long pushed the "laptop documents" - 1,000 pages of technical documents supposedly from a stolen Iranian laptop - as hard evidence of Iranian intentions to build a nuclear weapon. Now charges based on those documents pose the only remaining obstacles to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declaring that Iran has resolved all unanswered questions about its nuclear program.
"But those documents have also been regarded with great suspicion by US and foreign analysts. German officials identified the source of the laptop documents in November 2004 as the Mujahideen e-Khalq (MEK), which along with its political arm, the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organization.
"There are some indications, moreover, that the MEK obtained the documents not from an Iranian source but from Israel's Mossad.
"Tehran has denounced the documents on which the charges are based as fabrications provided by the MEK, and has demanded copies of the documents to analyze, but the United States has refused to do so.
"The Iranian assertion is supported by statements by German officials.
"Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)analysts, and European and IAEA officials who were given access to the laptop documents in 2005, were very skeptical about their authenticity."
It seems that Israel has had a cozy, useful relationship with MEK since the 1990's.
The Bush administration is determined to strike at Iran, and like its pre-emptive invasion and occupation of Iraq based on lies, it will use whatever questionable, flawed, and probably false so called evidence to implement another disastrous foreign policy for the United States.
From Gareth Porter in Asia Times, "The George W Bush administration has long pushed the "laptop documents" - 1,000 pages of technical documents supposedly from a stolen Iranian laptop - as hard evidence of Iranian intentions to build a nuclear weapon. Now charges based on those documents pose the only remaining obstacles to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declaring that Iran has resolved all unanswered questions about its nuclear program.
"But those documents have also been regarded with great suspicion by US and foreign analysts. German officials identified the source of the laptop documents in November 2004 as the Mujahideen e-Khalq (MEK), which along with its political arm, the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organization.
"There are some indications, moreover, that the MEK obtained the documents not from an Iranian source but from Israel's Mossad.
"Tehran has denounced the documents on which the charges are based as fabrications provided by the MEK, and has demanded copies of the documents to analyze, but the United States has refused to do so.
"The Iranian assertion is supported by statements by German officials.
"Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)analysts, and European and IAEA officials who were given access to the laptop documents in 2005, were very skeptical about their authenticity."
It seems that Israel has had a cozy, useful relationship with MEK since the 1990's.
The Bush administration is determined to strike at Iran, and like its pre-emptive invasion and occupation of Iraq based on lies, it will use whatever questionable, flawed, and probably false so called evidence to implement another disastrous foreign policy for the United States.
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