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Iran Attack: Neocons Find New Curveball

Kurt Nimmo | 11.03.2007 01:18 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

Once again, the corporate media is feeding us a main course of half-truth and fabrication as the neocons and Israelis prepare to invade Iran, the next target on their total destruction roster. “Ali Reza Asghari was spilling valuable secrets to an American intelligence team as a prelude to defecting to the United States,” the CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post, reports.

Ali Reza Asghari
Ali Reza Asghari


If anything can be said about the neocons and the Israelis, it is that they are tenacious, they are completely dedicated to the “creative destruction” plan in the Middle East, and short of arrest, conviction, and imprisonment they will not rest. It can be said that the deception game launched in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq by these dedicated traitors was at best sloppy, as it was easy to pick apart the “facts” spoon-fed to the corporate media by the neocon lie factory known as the Office of Special Plans. Of course, at the end of the day, the fact this effort was at best slipshod was of little concern because the neocons understand well the intellectual lassitude, the habitual indifference of the average American, unable or unwilling to give a whit about the future of the country or, for that matter, the future that will be suffered by his own family.

Once again, the corporate media is feeding us a main course of half-truth and fabrication as the neocons and Israelis prepare to invade Iran, the next target on their total destruction roster. “A high-ranking Iranian general who may have defected is in Northern Europe, where he is being questioned about Iran’s role in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut and other terrorist acts,” the neocon New York Sun tells us. “Ali Reza Asghari, 63, whose grim face was displayed on Israeli TV last night, was spilling valuable secrets to an American intelligence team as a prelude to defecting to the United States,” the CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post, reports. “Asghari was Iran’s deputy minister of defense and former top official of the notorious Revolutionary Guards. Experts said his secrets, should they fall into American or Israeli hands, could have devastating consequences for the Iranian regime.”

Indeed, Iran will suffer “devastating consequences,” not simply the “Iranian regime,” but the people of Iran as a whole, as the plan is to shock and awe the country with the standard arsenal of cruise missiles, depleted uranium-packed laser-guided bombs, and nuclear-tipped bunker-busters, in essence a fine-tuned repeat of the Iraqi invasion.

“In a scene straight out of a John le Carré spy novel, Asghari disappeared Feb. 7 from an Istanbul hotel where he was staying on a private trip —possibly with his family—and has vanished without a trace.” According to the Australian, taking its reportage leads in Jerusalem, Asghari “defected and sought asylum in the US,” taking along his family, although this is not confirmed.

Naturally, for suspicious types as your humble blogger, well-steeped in history and possessing a honed skill of reading between corporate media lines, the obvious conclusion here is that Asghari was abducted while on vacation with his family in Turkey—likely by the Mossad, CIA, a combination of both, or by way of freelance contracted by the aforementioned. “It is likely Asghari has been abducted by Western intelligence services,” said Iran’s top police officer, General Esmaeil Ahmadi Moghaddam.

In order to counter this suspicion, the New York Post tells us a “well-organized Iranian dissident group helped arrange the defection,” although this supposed group “was not named for security reasons…. The group is currently negotiating with Western intelligence agencies from a hideout somewhere in Europe for a permanent place of exile.”

However, this does not explain the initial report, carried in the Washington Post and Israel’s Yedioth Ahranot (as announced in the Hebrew headline at the left), more or less bragging about the abduction of Asghari.

Of course, as it is a neocon-infested propaganda organ, the Post can’t help itself, and falls back on the “expert” Walid Phares, who declares Asghari’s abduction-defection “is just the tip of the iceberg…. Opposition to Ahmadinejad is growing inside Iran,” never mind this “opposition” is orchestrated out of the Pentagon, a well-established fact documented even by the usually complaisant and script-reading corporate media. Last month, in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan Province, this “opposition” revealed its deadly tactics when car loaded with explosives blew up near a bus carrying members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards. As for Mr. Phares, he can be easily dismissed as a neocon propaganda operative, as he works for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a front organization for the American Enterprise Institute, where Bush gets his criminal “minds.”

Selling the Iranian nuclear program scare tactic is a long term project, as even the most hysterical Israeli shill—usually billed as an “expert,” as Walid Phares above, same as I am expert on quantum physics—tells us the Iranians are a few years away from patching together a nuke, thus admitting Israel can breath a sigh of relief as it will not be nuked anytime soon, that is if you buy the poorly spun Brothers Grimm fairy tale of Iran’s feverish scramble to build nukes (in addition, we are expected to believe the leadership of Iran consists of Jim Jones knock-offs, happily courting suicide).

In order to spike the punch, we are now told a general—at first reported abducted by the Mossad, subsequently revised to be a harmless defection, complete with family and “vital documents” detailing Iranian mischief—will spill the beans “on Iran’s links to groups in Iraq. These include the Mehdi Army of the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and the Badr organization,” according to the Belfast Telegraph, a quite remarkable turn of events, as “US and Iranian officials are to sit down at the same negotiating table today at an international conference in Baghdad to attempt to curb sectarian violence in Iraq. The conference will also include delegates from Syria, Saudi Arabia and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.”

Finally, as if to satisfy the Israelis, who reportedly encouraged this “defection”—sort of like the defection of diplomats earlier this year at the Iranian Consulate in Iraq—the good general will apparently tell-all on Hezbollah, the perennial Israeli enemy, never mind Hezbollah did not exist prior to Israel invading Lebanon and killing, imprisoning, and torturing thousands of people. Danny Yatom, the former head of Mossad and a member of the Knesset, “described the missing general as very important and said that he would be able to shed light on one of the murkiest chapters in recent Middle East history. From the early 1980s Iran funded, trained and armed members of the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, which began as a small Shia Muslim militia but is today the most powerful paramilitary force in the Levant,” the Times Online reports, or rather reads from the official history. Again, no mention of the fact there would be no Hezbollah, or for that matter Hamas, if not for the predacious behavior of the small, albeit armed to the teeth—thanks to clueless Americans—Israeli state.

Chances are good in a year’s time, after Iran digs out from under the rubble, Ali Reza Asghari’s soon to emerge dirty laundry on Iran will hold all the water of the “intelligence” offered by a former and now discredited “informer,” Curveball, billed as an Iraqi chemical engineer. He was in fact a mentally ill Iraqi cab driver. Even a CIA white paper described Mr. Curveball as a poseur with absolutely zilch knowledge of chemical engineering.

But never mind. Asghari’s information, arriving in the nick of time, as the neocons face off against the Iranians at a conference in Baghdad, will provide a momentary boost for the all-murder, all-the-time agenda of the neocons. It is but another ingredient added to the toxic brew sold to the clueless out here in Bushzarro world, a distillation of hatred, lies, and murderousness that will ultimately end up in World War Four, as the neocons fondly call it.

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Unbelievable!

11.03.2007 15:02

Why aren't reposts from Nimmo routinely hidden? A quick look at his links reveals him to be a Jew hater.

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Evidence please...

11.03.2007 20:47

Where is the evidence that Kurt Nimmo has denied that the Holocaust took place?

There is one dubious link on his site, to serendipity.il -- see:  http://911review.com/denial/holocaust.html#serendipity but the things on Jim's site seem now to be out of date -- the dubious things he highlights seem to have been removed.

In Nimmo's defence he links to a lot of politically diverse sites -- a link clearly doesn't indicates that he agrees with all the content of a site.

If you can't evidence your accusation any better then I think your comment (and this one) should be hidden as an unsubstantiated slander.

John


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Typical PNAC BS

11.03.2007 21:33

Slander is all this Zionist Plant has.

He just wants to draw you off the topic.

Notice how we're not discussing this obvious bullsh*t, brought by the same Israelis and American Fascists who swore that Saddam's vast arsenal of WMD necessitated a war?

No War


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Apology?

11.03.2007 22:31

In his own words.

 http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=236

"David Irving, has pleaded guilty and faces three years in an Austrian prison for the crime of deviating from the official, Zionist-sanctioned and imposed history of the Second World War, we can expect triumphant ballyhoos from the Zionists, a screaming and obnoxious declaration of victory for the small outlaw nation of Israel and its endless blackmailing of millions of people who had nothing to do with Auschwitz and its discredited gas chambers."

Once more for the hard of thinking:

"Auschwitz and its *discredited* gas chambers"

And sorry, I don't buy that anyone who uncritically links to scum like Rense (an Ernst Zuendl supporter) can be anything but dubious.




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Left sites run his content

12.03.2007 00:02

Like Counterpunch:  http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi?Gw=site%3Acounterpunch.org+%22Kurt+Nimmo%22

Which makes the assertion that he is a racist "jew hater" rather dubious... I expect they know him better then you or I...

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Focus Is Interesting

12.03.2007 01:06

Can this Plant respond to the subject of this thread?

He just wants to draw you off the topic.

Notice how we're not discussing this obvious bullsh*t, brought by the same Israeli and American Fascists who swore that Saddam's vast arsenal of WMD necessitated a war?

It's interesting that a Zionist Plant would pop up to run interference for the people trying so desperately to push past their lack of credibility, and start another illegal war.

Zionists Plotting War


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12.03.2007 06:16

I guess that Nimmo has in his own words endorsed the central theme of Irving's denial thesis isn't enough to convince you he is dubious: then absolutely nothing will.

I have always personally found that counterpunch has had a dubious fixation on Israel. Much like some of the regular trolls/posters here.

Here's what Wikipedia says about Alex Cockburn:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Cockburn#Allegations_of_anti-Semitism

You see much as I abhor what Israel is doing to its neighbours I don't believe that Jews rule the world. Which is a frequent subtext to Nimmo's and Counterpunch's output.

Anyone who thinks a country that wouldn't exist without US "aid" is running the planet is plainly deluded or just a bigot. Perhaps the latter requires the former anyway?

You'll be telling us that "the Protocols" aren't fake next!

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“Slandering” the Baathists?

12.03.2007 12:27


Is it “slander” to describe the main web site of Iraqi exiled pro-Saddam Ba’athists as a web site of pro-Saddam Iraqi exiled Ba’athists?

Well, Uruknet, the web site of exiled pro-Saddam Iraqi Ba’athists, sure thinks so. It has its current spokesman, Kurt Nimmo, claiming that David Horowitz and Frontpage Magazine “slandered” the Baathists by pointing out that they support Saddam and are Ba’athists. Really.

Now it does not take a high school diploma, which evidently Nimmo does not have, to figure out from one look at “Uruknet” that it is a web site of Iraqi pro-Saddam Ba’athists. While nominally based in Italy and even having a front man with an Italian name, the Uruknet site is filled with sycophantic essays about “our dear leader President Saddam Hussein”. It defines itself as the “web site from inside occupied Iraq”, in other words, the web site run by the same sorts of people who lop off heads of Westerners and who snipe at US soldiers in Fallujah. Don’t take our word for it - have a look for yourself!

Nimmo, besides being the spokesman for the Uruknet site and one of its regular writers, is also a columnist for Alexander Cockburn’s Counterpunch. We have also learned that Nimmo has ties with the people who run web sites on behalf of Frederick Toeben, the convicted German born Australian convicted Nazi, and Nimmo posts his “creations” with one of these. Toeben, a notorious Holocaust Denier, has been sentenced to five years in Germany as a nazi. (Here is a typical example of the “research” his followers turn out.)

So here we have the spectacle of Alexander Cockburn, the Iraqi B’athists, and followers of an Australian convicted nazi all tied to the same “columnist”. (Cockburn included Nimmo as one of his “expert writers” in Cockburn’s anthology proving that people who hate Jews just are not anti-Semites.)

This is the same “columnist” who complains this week that David Horowitz “libeled” the poor Iraqi Ba’athists at Uruknet. Nimmo’s evidence? He writes: “I can vouch for the fact Uruknet is not ‘hosted by pro-Saddam Iraqi Ba’athists’ and is indeed edited and posted by Italians.” (Nimmo also regularly complains in his web pages that he has long been unemployed because of the Jewish “neocons”.)

We are sure that Frederick Toeben will find all that convincing.

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Sigh!

12.03.2007 15:21

Just why does Indymedia not want people to know about Nimmo's antisemitic reputation?

Heinz


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Smears

12.03.2007 21:36

"Just why does Indymedia not want people to know about Nimmo's antisemitic reputation?"

Because its a load of circumstantial smears?

Nimmo's main attackers are Alan Dershowitz/ Steve Plaut of Frontpage Magazine and some 'expert' in 'new anti-semitism'.

You and your friends/alter egos or whatever the fuck they are, are not here for benign reasons. Your ideological agenda is disturbing and unwelcome.

Do you really think people put time into Indymedia so that the likes of you, ank, Frontpage Magazine and Alan Dershowitz can run it by diktat?

Till you come up with some credible evidence, your smears will fester along with all the other shit that gets hidden. So only those who fancy rolling in muck have to put up with it.


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