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NBC News and other corporate media broadcast a Pentagon-inspired story on the
Aug. 4 evening news broadcasts suggesting that the recent bombings of U.S. armored
personnel carriers were accomplished with the use of deadly armored-piercing "shaped
charges" from Iran and possibly, Syria. NBC cited "military and intelligence
sources" as sources. But the fact that the network's Pentagon correspondent,
Jim Miklaszewski, reported Iran's "complicity" is an indication that
the report came from the neocon disinformation and espionage factory in the Pentagon's
Near East and South Asian Division and its Office of Northern Gulf Affairs --
the one-time office of indicted Israeli spy Larry Franklin. NBC reported the shaped
charges were shipped to Iraq by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard or Hezbollah of
Lebanon with the consent of the Iranian government. The reference to Hezbollah
is an obvious attempt to link Syria to the weapons shipments. One red flag in
the NBC News report was the appearance of American Enterprise Institute resident
scholar and Karl Rove foreign policy adviser Michael Ledeen. That, alone, calls
into question the veracity of the entire NBC report. After the ploy to identify
new Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a US embassy hostage taker in 1979
failed, the neocons continue to spread disinformation in a pathetic and conspiratorial
attempt to justify U.S. military action against Iran. They are also obviously
trying to steer media attention away from the still unfolding Israeli espionage
scandal, involving advocates of military action against Iran, that may result
in additional indictments and ultimately lead into the White House. The neocons
are also trying to suggest that Iran has made common cause with Sunni insurgents
in Iraq. With Iran and Iraq's Shia dominated government recently signing a defense
past, it is ludicrous to suggest that Iran would then turn around and support
the Shia's enemy, the Sunnis. Not coincidentally, the unconfirmed US ambassador
to the UN John Bolton, used his first appearance before the UN Security Council
to warn Iran and Syria about terrorists and arms coming across their borders into
Iraq. Nothing was mentioned about Saudi Arabia from where the vast majority of
terrorists in Iraq originate. The neocons and their friends in the news media
are banking on the American people understanding less about the politics of Iraq
and Iran than do they.
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