Insider: A Bush Pre-Election Stike on Iran Imminent

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A Bush pre-election strike on Iran 'imminent'

White House insider report " October Surprise " imminent

 

By Wayne Madsen

 

10/20/04 " Lebanon Wire " -- According to White House and Washington

Beltway insiders, the Bush administration, worried that it could lose

the presidential election to Senator John F. Kerry, has initiated

plans to launch a military strike on Iran's top Islamic leadership,

its nuclear reactor at Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, and key nuclear

targets throughout the country, including the main underground

research site at Natanz in central Iran and another in Isfahan.

Targets of the planned U.S. attack reportedly include mosques in

Tehran, Qom, and Isfahan known by the U.S. to headquarter Iran's top

mullahs.

 

The Iran attack plan was reportedly drawn up after internal polling

indicated that if the Bush administration launched a so-called

anti-terrorist attack on Iran some two weeks before the election, Bush

would be assured of a landslide win against Kerry. Reports of a

pre-emptive strike on Iran come amid concerns by a number of political

observers that the Bush administration would concoct an " October

Surprise " to influence the outcome of the presidential election.

 

According to White House sources, the USS John F. Kennedy was deployed

to the Arabian Sea to coordinate the attack on Iran. Defense Secretary

Donald Rumsfeld discussed the Kennedy's role in the planned attack on

Iran when he visited the ship in the Arabian Sea on October 9.

Rumsfeld and defense ministers of U.S. coalition partners, including

those of Albania, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Czech Republic,

Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Iraq, Latvia, Lithuania,

Macedonia, Mongolia, Poland, Qatar, Romania, and Ukraine briefly

discussed a very " top level " view of potential dual-track military

operations in Iran and Iraq in a special " war room " set up on board

the aircraft carrier. America's primary ally in Iraq, the United

Kingdom, did not attend the planning session because it reportedly

disagrees with a military strike on Iran. London also suspects the

U.S. wants to move British troops from Basra in southern Iraq to the

Baghdad area to help put down an expected surge in Sh'ia violence in

Sadr City and other Sh'ia areas in central Iraq when the U.S. attacks

Iran as well as clear the way for a U.S. military strike across the

Iraqi-Iranian border aimed at securing the huge Iranian oil

installations in Abadan. U.S. allies South Korea, Australia, Kuwait,

Jordan, Italy, Netherlands, and Japan were also left out of the USS

John F. Kennedy planning discussions because of their reported

opposition to any strike on Iran.

 

In addition, Israel has been supplied by the United States with 500

" bunker buster " bombs. According to White House sources, the Israeli

Air Force will attack Iran's nuclear facility at Bushehr with the U.S.

bunker busters.The joint U.S.-Israeli pre-emptive military move

against Iran reportedly was crafted by the same neo-conservative

grouping in the Pentagon and Vice President Dick Cheney's office that

engineered the invasion of Iraq.

 

Morale aboard the USS John F. Kennedy is at an all-time low, something

that must be attributable to the knowledge that the ship will be

involved in an extension of U.S. military actions in the Persian Gulf

region. The Commanding Officer of an F-14 Tomcat squadron was relieved

of command for a reported shore leave " indiscretion " in Dubai and two

months ago the Kennedy's commanding officer was relieved for cause.

 

The White House leak about the planned attack on Iran was hastened by

concerns that Russian technicians present at Bushehr could be killed

in an attack, thus resulting in a wider nuclear confrontation between

Washington and Moscow. International Atomic Energy Agency

representatives are also present at the Bushehr facility. In addition,

an immediate Iranian Shahab ballistic missile attack against Israel

would also further destabilize the Middle East. The White House leaks

about the pre-emptive strike may have been prompted by warnings from

the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency that an attack on Iran

will escalate out of control. Intelligence circles report that both

intelligence agencies are in open revolt against the Bush White House.

 

White House sources also claimed they are " terrified " that Bush wants

to start a dangerous war with Iran prior to the election and fear that

such a move will trigger dire consequences for the entire world.

 

Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and

columnist. He served in the National Security Council (NSA) during the

Reagan Administration and wrote the introduction to Forbidden Truth.

He is the co-author, with john Stanton of " America's Nightmare: The

Presidency of George Bush II. " His forthcoming book is titled: " jaded

Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops, and Brass Plates. " Madsen can be reached at

Wmadsen777

 

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