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U.S. government told Iran strikes wouldn't work: magazine

Last Updated Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:21:26 EDT

CBC News

Senior United States military commanders have told the Bush

administration that military strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities

would probably fail to destroy them, the New Yorker magazine reported

on Sunday.

 

Seymour Hersh writes for the New Yorker magazine. (Michael

Schmelling/Associated Press) The senior commanders also warned that any

attack could have " serious economic, political, and military

consequences for the United States, " the article says, citing

unidentified U.S. military officials.

 

" The target array in Iran is huge, but it's amorphous, " the magazine

quotes one unidentified general as saying.

 

The article is by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who was the

first U.S. journalist to report on the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu

Ghraib prison near Baghdad.

 

Hersh writes that senior military planners at the U.S. Defense

Department have also questioned whether military strikes could do

sufficient damage to Iranian nuclear facilities to justify the

political and diplomatic cost of such an action.

 

" If you're a military planner, you try to weigh options, " a senior

military official is quoted as saying. " What is the capability of the

Iranian response, the likelihood of a punitive response like cutting

off oil shipments? What would that cost us? "

 

The official also says U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his

aides " really think they can do this on the cheap, and they

underestimate the capability of the adversary. "

 

There has been no response from the U.S. government.

 

 

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