Tired of the leaks, spin and misinformation Bill Gertz is pushing? Bill Gertz of the Washington Times distorts a report into accusing the US intelligence community of having “failed to recognize several key military developments in China in the past decade”: A highly classified intelligence report produced for the new director of national intelligence concludes …
Bolton and the New York Channel
by | 2005-06-08 | No Comments
One of Laura Rozen’s readers at War and Piece asks a stunningly simple question about the effect of John Bolton on the “New York Channel” with North Korea: Recent days have seen the “New York channel” used to great success to provide some hopes of reviving the Six Party Talks and bring North Korea back …
Washington Wavers on ElBaradei
by | 2005-06-08 | 4 Comments
Two U.S. officials tell Dafna Linzer at the Washington Post the Bush Administration will drop efforts to deny Mohamed ElBaradei a third term as IAEA Director-General: “We’re willing to lift our objections under certain conditions,” one of the officials said. “Namely, get tougher on Iran.” Similary, a European official told Louis Charbonneau of Reuters: “The …
Osirak Revisited
by | 2005-06-07 | 5 Comments
Twenty four years ago today, Israel attacked Iraq’s Tammuz-1 (Osirak) nuclear reactor. Although popular myth holds the raid a success, the Duelfer Report hints at a more complicated reality: The Israeli destruction of the Tammuz 1 (Osirak) research reactor on 7 June 1981 and Iraq’s subsequent failure to replace or rebuild it compelled the Iraqis …
