Deep BackgroundIn Case of Emergeny, Nuke Iran; Give Tenet AnotherMedal; Iraq's Police Brutality

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Deep BackgroundIn Case of Emergeny, Nuke Iran; Give Tenet Another
Medal; Iraq's Police Brutality


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Philip Giraldi In Washington

it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the
administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for
Iran. The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick
Cheney's office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command
(STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in
response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States.
The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both
conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more
than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-
weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or
are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional
weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the
response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act
of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air
Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the
implications of what they are doing—that Iran is being set up for an
unprovoked nuclear attack—but no one is prepared to damage his career
by posing any objections.* * *A CIA internal review of the agency's
performance prior to 9/11 is harshly critical of former CIA Director
George Tenet, former Director of Operations James Pavitt, and the
former chief of the Counterterrorist Center, Cofer Black, for not
doing everything possible to confront terrorism. Pavitt, who was
reluctant to take on risky missions against bin Laden encouraged by
the National Security Council during the second term of President Bill
Clinton, is particularly criticized. The report, completed by CIA
Inspector General John Helgerson, is especially acerbic regarding the
failure of the agency to stop two of the 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf al-
Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, as they entered the United States. Black
did not share information on the two men with the FBI agents assigned
to the Counterterrorist Center at the CIA and also turned down a
request for a formal memorandum to be sent to FBI Headquarters. The
report will be finalized and given to Congress after those criticized
in it add their own comments. Pavitt, as head of the Operations
Directorate, has publicly accepted full responsibility for the
agency's failure, but Black has not acknowledged any deficiencies in
his performance. Tenet has not yet responded. * * *There is increasing
evidence that the Iraqi police forces, now under Shi'ite control, are
carrying out systematic revenge killings against Sunnis in Baghdad.
The bodies now showing up at the morgue have obvious signs of
handcuffing and blindfolding and evidence of being tortured before
death. U.S. sources indicate that the suspicious killings have reached
the rate of almost 700 per month. The police are supervised by the
Shi'ite-run Ministry of Interior, which claims that the killings are
being carried out by insurgents wearing stolen police uniforms. But
American intelligence sources disagree, noting that many of the
killers appear to be actual policemen carrying the expensive standard-
issue Glock automatics and driving official Toyota Land Cruisers.
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Philip Giraldi, a former CIA Officer, is a partner in Cannistraro
Associates.