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Title: Leaked Documents Show Middle East Consensus on Threat Posed by Iran
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URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201 ... t-consensus-threat-posed-iran/
Published: Nov 29, 2010
Author: foxnews
Post Date: 2010-11-29 21:08:01 by WhiteSands
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Keywords: Iran, WikiLeaks
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The thousands of pages of newly leaked State Department documents are sprinkled with examples of name-calling and diplomatic horse-trading, causing consternation for Obama administration officials as they try to sustain vital alliances around the world. But the seismic document spill by WikiLeaks showed one area of profound agreement -- that Iran is viewed in the Middle East as the region's No. 1 troublemaker. Gulf nation leaders were known to dislike the Iranian regime and its nuclear program but rarely made those sentiments known publicly. The leaked cables and communications, though, show those officials talking about Iran with a degree of disdain and worry more commonly found among the Israelis. According to the documents, Saudi King Abdullah frequently urged the United States to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities, to "cut off the head of the snake." According to the Guardian, he warned that Iran's program could trigger a nuclear arms race in the region. King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa of Bahrain and Jordanian lawmaker Zeid Rifai separately expressed similar concerns. Rifai told a U.S. official to "bomb Iran, or live with an Iranian bomb," warning that sanctions would not matter, according to the Guardian. Abu Dhabi crown prince Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed fretted that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "is going to take us to war." Given the contents of these documents, Ahmadinejad on Monday accused the United States government of being behind the leak. Ahmadinejad also accused Israel and other Western government of being behind the killing of a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor called that charge "absurd." "We have pursued peaceful and diplomatic means to deal with Iran's nuclear program," Vietor said. Despite the apparent consensus aired on Iran, though, the State Department documents covered a range of foreign policy topics that the Obama administration no doubt wishes was kept secret. The administration, in damage control mode Monday, moved to soothe ruffled feathers abroad while ordering a top-down review on safeguarding classified data and announcing a criminal investigation into the website. Describing it as no laughing matter, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested any hurt feelings or embarrassment from the release may blow over. Saying "nothing laudable" came from WikiLeaks' action, she recalled that one counterpart told her, "Well don't worry about it. You should see what we say about you." Still, administration officials condemned WikiLeaks for the release of more than 250,000 State Department documents that they claim jeopardize national security and put American lives at risk. While previous releases by WikiLeaks of classified documents on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars forced the Pentagon to scramble to alert informants in the battlefields, the newly released documents aired in uncomfortable detail revealing conversations and dispatches among U.S. diplomats. "This disclosure is not just an attack on America's foreign policy interests. It is an attack on the international community -- the alliances and partnerships, the conversations and negotiations that safeguard global security and advance economic prosperity," Clinton said. She said the administration is "taking aggressive steps" against those who "stole" the data, while implementing safeguards at the Pentagon and State Department to make sure a breach of this magnitude "does not ever happen again." As many as 3 million U.S. government workers and soldiers may have had access to such classified material. Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said Monday that the ongoing criminal investigation into stolen government documents could hold accountable Defense Department officials who failed to set up the proper firewalls or who did not do enough to protect the documents. Clinton expressed hope that the release would not damage U.S. diplomacy. "I am confident that the partnerships that the Obama administration has worked so hard to build will withstand this challenge," Clinton said. "The United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential." Saying the president is "not pleased" by the release, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs labeled the theft of classified information a "crime." That was after Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department is conducting an "active, ongoing, criminal investigation" into the situation. "To the extent that we can find anybody who was involved in the breaking of American law and who has put at risk the assets and the people that I have described they will be held responsible, they will be held accountable," Holder said. Responding to concerns that the massive leak of thousands of documents constitutes a government failure to contain its own secret files, Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew issued a memo to department and agency heads saying such a failure is "unacceptable and will not be tolerated." Lew ordered all agencies dealing with classified information to put together a "security assessment team" to review how they protect it. "Such review should include (without limitation) evaluation of the agency's configuration of classified government systems to ensure that users do not have broader access than is necessary to do their jobs effectively, as well as implementation of restrictions on usage of, and removable media capabilities from, classified government computer networks," he wrote. The documents spanned a litany of foreign policy topics and figures. Publication of the secret memos and documents Sunday amplified widespread global alarm about Iran's nuclear ambitions. It also unveiled occasional U.S. pressure tactics aimed at hot spots in Afghanistan, Pakistan and North Korea. The leaks disclosed bluntly candid impressions from both diplomats and other world leaders about America's allies and foes. It was, said Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, the "Sept. 11 of world diplomacy." Clinton may have to confront the fallout firsthand after she leaves Washington on a four-nation tour of Central Asia and the Middle East -- a region that figures prominently in the leaked documents. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee, called the leak a "colossal failure" with respect to the intelligence community. "This database should never have been created. Hundreds of thousands of people should not have been provided access to it. This is a colossal failure by our intel community, by our Department of Defense to keep classified information secret," he said on ABC. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/29/leaked-documents-middle-east-consensus-threat-posed-iran/#ixzz16jALmjNS
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#1. To: WhiteSands (#0)
better title - leaked documents show sunni hate shia, wish we hadn't invaded Iraq, want U.S. to be the protector of Saudi Arabia.
She should be able to handle it....look at what she had to confront with Bill's lying, infidelity and alleged rapes.
...would be 'there never was a conspiracy by the United States to fight a war with Iran'.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
...would be 'there never was a conspiracy by the United States to fight a war with Iran'. Other Titles: Why does the FBI Orchestrate Fake Terror Plots? by Paul Craig Roberts FBI: Olsen received ZERO calls from wife on 9/11. Us bombs Yemen. When did we go to war there. Why did we invade Iraq. The obliteration of habeas corpus, the most necessary and important protection of liberty ever institutionalized in law and governing constitution, has become necessary for the US government, because a jury might acquit an alleged or mock "terrorist" or framed person whom the US government has declared prior to the trial will be held forever in indefinite detention even if acquitted in a US court of law. The attorney general of the United States has declared that any "terrorist" that he puts on trial who is acquitted by a jury will remain in detention regardless of the verdict. Such an event would reveal the total lawlessness of American "justice." The United States of America, "the city upon the hill," "the light unto the world," has become Nazi Germany. It was the practice of the Gestapo to ignore court verdicts and to execute or hold indefinitely the cleared defendant in the camps. The Obama regime is in the process of completing Dick Cheney's dream by legislating the legality of indefinite detention. American law has collapsed to the dungeons of the Dark Ages. This Nazi Gestapo policy is now the declared policy of the US Department of Justice (sic). Anyone who thinks the United States is a free society where people have liberty, "freedom and democracy" is uninformed.
100% false. I don't have time for 9/11 truther kook theory today.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
100% false. 100% true. And now you can tell me and source your info on EXACTLY how many calls Olsen received for wife on 9/11. Tick Tock. 8D
I don't have time for 9/11 truther kook theory today. And you've just falsified that comment by taking the time to put out 100% False info. LMFAO Crickets evolving. ;}
Other Titles: Why does the FBI Orchestrate Fake Terror Plots? by Paul Craig Roberts See 1993 WTC Bombing for one of the FBI's first efforts. 8D 'This ain't gonna work. Especially after OKC we're gonna need Tons of Thermate.' BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 8D
the whole leak issue is boring and unimportant. I want to destroy D.C. as much as anyone but, these leaks are inconsequential.
Long live the Taliban Freedom Fighters!
Ditto! Bitchin, ain't it.....?
"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Messina Jo Dee
Olsen. run along.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
I find it facinating they were 'important' when it was about the Bush administration five months ago...but today they are 'inconsequential' when the majority of it is related to the Owe-bama administrations dealing with other nations. Absolutely facinating.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
Ok, so Arab Sunnis are ganging up on Persian Shiites and trying to get us to do their dirty work by bombing Iran. At least the Hatfields and McCoys fought their own battles. Why are we involved in this nonsense?
Olsen. run along. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 8D OMFG So chenet too is a certified non liar. The Perp told me, so it's true. I'll need the times. And number. Otherwise you've got ZERO. 8D "Another agenda is to get rich. Terror plots, whether real or orchestrated, have created a market for security. Dual Israeli citizen Michael Chertoff, former head of US Homeland Security, is the lobbyist who represents Rapiscan, the company that manufactures the full body porno-scanners that, following the "underwear bomber" event, are now filling up US airports. Homeland Security has announced that they are going to purchase the porno-scanners for trains, buses, subways, court houses, and sports events. How can shopping malls and roads escape? Recently on Interstate 20 west of Atlanta, trucks had to drive through a similar device. Everyone has forgotten that the underwear bomber lacked required documents and was escorted aboard the airliner by an official."
HEY CNN! My wife just DIED a horrible death on Flt 77! I feel horrible about it but I just had to call someone in the Media before I collapse from the pain of it all!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Like bush43 with his deer in the headlights look as he reads the Pet Goat Upside down. Only BIZARRO World where the above makes sense.
You claimed the FBI said the call didn't happen. Got a link to the FBI stating THAT? If you do, I'd love to see it. But you don't. At best you have a link to 'conspiracy planet' or one of the other 9/11 truther kook sites. Otherwise, you have ZERO, as you put it.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
I see your side of this too, and agree, it's selective memory recollection.
"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Messina Jo Dee
"And WORSE! She CALLED me from the plane. Don't ask how she did it. And she said they were MUSLIM Arabs. They had box cutters. And, and, well she's dead. Cause I know that Flt 77's the plane that crashed into the Pentagon. I have proof of that. Oh My God, I'm glad i took time out from my grieving process to call you guys at CNN. You're much better than any family I've got." BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA yeah, that's the ticket. 8D
Ditto! Bitchin, ain't it.....? In cultural terms, and with regard to the mythic conception of the United States that we refuse to surrender or even to question seriously, America is like the crazy uncle whom relatives unsuccessfully attempt to confine to the attic. Just for amusement's sake, let's call him Uncle Sam, shall we? Uncle Sam mumbles incessantly and often incoherently about how young and strong he is, while his body rots and decomposes. Sam endlessly insists that his way is the best way -- his way in everything, mind you. Sam yells that if only everyone would listen to him and do exactly as he says -- in everything, mind you -- the world would be a beautiful and peaceful place. To realize this beautiful and peaceful dream, Uncle Sam periodically goes on notably bloody and vicious killing sprees. He's been at this a very long time.
O. BTW. You don't have habeus Corpus... And your POTUS, or an authorized agent 8D can kill you at anytime for any reason.
You claimed the FBI said the call didn't happen. Fact per FBI: Olsen received ZERO calls from wife on 9/11.
Big time.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
Link please.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
Ted Olson's Report of Phone Calls from Barbara Olson on 9/11 ... Apr 1, 2008 ... Back on 9/11, the FBI itself had interviewed Olson. ... calls from Flight 77, presented in 2006, indicated that no such calls occurred. ... former solicitor general that he had received two calls from his wife on 9/11. ... www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8514 - Cached - Similar
Love fulfilled. 8D Ted Olson's Report of Phone Calls from Barbara Olson on 9/11 ... Apr 1, 2008 ... Back on 9/11, the FBI itself had interviewed Olson. ... calls from Flight 77, presented in 2006, indicated that no such calls occurred. ... former solicitor general that he had received two calls from his wife on 9/11. ... www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8514 - Cached - Similar Otherwise, you have ZERO, as you put it. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA Keep comin with your lame bullshit. 8D
So where were we. Oh Yeah. The USEmpire can take your VERY FREEDOM, but the Bottom 98% are NOT to know how their Masters work: "The United States seeks global hegemony. To justify its quest, the United States invents a series of terrifying threats, all of which, in one way or another, are alleged to be "existential" threats to our very survival. With almost no exceptions at all, the leaders of the American Empire concoct these threats out of nothing. Nothing. Consider the fact with great care. With this momentous and endlessly horrifying fact in the forefront of your consciousness, ask yourself: What does it signify that those who seek still further war and conquest will use the Wikileaks material to provide more supposed justification for their murderous actions? To ask the question, to ask it with the nature and history of American Empire in mind, is to see how completely irrelevant it is when evaluating Wikileaks and its work.
Sunnis own most of the oil.
What part of 'to the FBI' in the above confuses you?
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
We didn't even know what a sunni was before we invaded. Divide and conquer. To drive the point home, let me express it another way. As demonstrated repeatedly by the historical record and by events today, the leaders of American Empire use everything and even nothing to justify their actions and policies. In this sense, the leaders of American Empire are profoundly irrational and endlessly, murderously destructive. Their arguments are self-contradictory, massively inconsistent, and frequently incoherent. Yet today's leaders of American Empire also possess the most frighteningly powerful weaponry and military in all of history. From this perspective, the Empire has all the power. In comparative terms (and even in absolute terms), Wikileaks has no capabilities or powers at all -- except for one. And that is the ability to make information available to everyone, information which the otherwise all-powerful leaders of Empire seek to keep secret from those they rule, and from those they seek to subjugate in the future. In this context, and especially when we keep in mind the gaping abyss between the powers of Empire and the single power of Wikileaks, to blame Wikileaks (or anyone similarly situated) for the improper use of the material they release is to blame Wikileaks for someone else's irrationality and immense destructiveness. It is to blame Wikileaks for actions over which Wikileaks has no control whatsoever. Does that make any sense at all? No, it doesn't.
Oil imports into America (thousands of barrels a day). 12 of the top 15 countries are not even in the middle east. We import about 1/2 of our oil. What would it take to eliminate imports from Saudi Arabia? We only get 13% of our imports from Saudi Arabia, which is about 6.5% of our total oil usage. It's not worth the trouble. Canada - 1,936 (23%); Nigeria - 1,107 (13%); Mexico - 1,098 (13%); Saudi Arabia - 1,082 (13%); Venezuela - 919 (11%); Iraq - 422 (5%); Angola - 404 (5%); Algeria - 366 (4%); Columbia - 308 (4%); Russia - 236 (3%); Ecuador - 229 (3%); Brazil - 177 (2%); Kuwait - 172 (2%); Gabon - 71 (1%); United Kingdom - 70 (1%);
What part of 'to the FBI' in the above confuses you? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA Semantics. That's what. Dodge and Weave, bozo.
IT's called fungibility. Which only lasts until one of the Export nations stops exporting.
You made the claim the 'FBI says the phone call never happened'. You claim Ted Olsen was lying. Back it up with the link to the FBI STATING THIS. You have my interest. Give the forum the link.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
I want to destroy D.C. as much as anyone but, these leaks are inconsequential. Long time no see. Nice to see you around again. Hope to see more of you.
hiya Stone, how the hell are you?
Long live the Taliban Freedom Fighters!
# David Ray Griffin on the 9/11 Cell Phone Calls: Exclusive CBC ... Anyway, the FBI says there was just one Olson cell attempt, not connected. ... And as you say, there are other witnesses who affirm Ted got a call from Barbara. ..... rather than as a final proof that Ted Olsen was lying or deceived. ... cell phone ID) that, according to the FBI's latest position, never happened, ... 911blogger.com/node/22192 - Cached # Ted Olson's Report of Phone Calls from Barbara Olson on 9/11 ... Apr 1, 2008 ... The technology to enable cell phone calls from high-altitude airline flights was not created until 2004. ... According to the FBI, therefore, Ted Olson did not receive a ... who said: “I don't know what happened in that cockpit, ... Also, if Ted Olson's claim was false, then there are only two ... www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8514 - Cached - Similar All Day Long. Paid not to understand, they won't be ringing the bell when it's time to get the hell out of dodge. ;}
AGAIN: You're informed your wife just died( and how Olsen new that is a news article in and of itself-because there is no evidence that Flt 77 existed ;} And the first thing you do is call CNN and lie. And you can source me Olsen's OFFICIAL version of his story. Yeah, that works for me. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Rotflmao. You don't even comprehend what you did by cutting and pasting the above, do you? And you have yet to provide a single link to the FBI demonstrating your bullshit claim 'the phone call never happened'. And so it goes with another 9/11 truther.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
ROTFLMAO even more. You have zero ability to comprehend facts because they are irrelevant to you and history was yesterday. Now you want to play gotcha, change the subject, squirm. 8D
Apr 1, 2008 ... The technology to enable cell phone calls from high-altitude airline flights was not created until 2004. ... Rotflmao. You don't even comprehend what you did by cutting and pasting the above, do you? And you have yet to provide a single link to the FBI demonstrating your bullshit claim 'the phone call never happened'. And so it goes with another 9/11 truther. Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
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On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.
#2. To: WhiteSands (#0)
Clinton may have to confront the fallout firsthand
#3. To: go65 (#1)
better title -
#4. To: Badeye (#3)
better title -
#5. To: mcgowanjm (#4)
FBI: Olsen received ZERO calls from wife on 9/11.
#6. To: Badeye (#5)
FBI: Olsen received ZERO calls from wife on 9/11.
#7. To: Badeye (#5)
100% false.
#8. To: All (#4)
...would be 'there never was a conspiracy by the United States to fight a war with Iran'.
#9. To: all (#0)
#10. To: continental op (#9)
"the whole leak issue is boring and unimportant. I want to destroy D.C. as much as anyone but, these leaks are inconsequential".
#11. To: mcgowanjm (#6)
And now you can tell me and source your info on EXACTLY how many calls Olsen received for wife on 9/11.
#12. To: Murron (#10)
#13. To: WhiteSands (#0)
Saudi King Abdullah frequently urged the United States to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities...Jordanian lawmaker Zeid Rifai separately expressed similar concerns. Rifai told a U.S. official to "bomb Iran".
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson
#14. To: Badeye, All (#11)
And now you can tell me and source your info on EXACTLY how many calls Olsen received for wife on 9/11.
#15. To: All (#14)
#16. To: mcgowanjm (#14)
I'll need the times. And number. Otherwise you've got ZERO.
#17. To: Badeye (#12)
I find it facinating they were 'important' when it was about the Bush administration five months ago...but today they are 'inconsequential' when the majority of it is related to the Owe-bama administrations dealing with other nations. Absolutely facinating.
#18. To: All (#15)
#19. To: Murron (#10)
"the whole leak issue is boring and unimportant. I want to destroy D.C. as much as anyone but, these leaks are inconsequential".
#20. To: All (#19)
#21. To: Badeye (#16)
I'll need the times. And number. Otherwise you've got ZERO.
#22. To: Murron (#17)
I see your side of this too, and agree, it's selective memory recollection.
#23. To: mcgowanjm (#21)
Fact per FBI: Olsen received ZERO calls from wife on 9/11.
#24. To: Badeye (#16)
Got a link to the FBI stating THAT?
#25. To: Badeye (#16)
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If you do, I'd love to see it.
#26. To: All (#25)
#27. To: jwpegler (#13)
At least the Hatfields and McCoys fought their own battles. Why are we involved in this nonsense?
On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.
#28. To: mcgowanjm (#24)
Got a link to the FBI stating THAT?
#29. To: go65 (#27)
Sunnis own most of the oil.
#30. To: go65 (#27)
(Edited)
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson
#31. To: Badeye (#28)
Got a link to the FBI stating THAT?
#32. To: jwpegler (#30)
#33. To: mcgowanjm (#31)
Got a link to the FBI stating THAT? What part of 'to the FBI' in the above confuses you?
#34. To: continental op (#9)
the whole leak issue is boring and unimportant.
#35. To: A K A Stone (#34)
#36. To: Badeye (#33)
(Edited)
FBI says the phone call never happened'. You claim Ted Olsen was lying
#37. To: All (#36)
#38. To: mcgowanjm (#36)
Apr 1, 2008 ... The technology to enable cell phone calls from high-altitude airline flights was not created until 2004. ...
#39. To: Badeye (#38)
#40. To: mcgowanjm (#39)
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