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   From: OPRBMDQMZNLV@spammotel.com   
      
   On Sat, 6 May 2006 20:22:58 +0100  'banana'   
   posted this onto uk.politics.misc:   
      
   >In article , hummingbird   
   > writes   
   >>On Sat, 6 May 2006 11:49:21 +0100  'banana'   
   >>posted this onto uk.politics.misc:   
   >>   
   >>>The script that Jack Straw read a month ago, calling the idea of a US   
   >>>nuclear attack on Iran "nuts" (presumably passed to him by Foreign   
   >>>Office/MI6 officials, for reasons including the manipulation of opinion   
   >>>in continental Europe, and possibly also in Arabia, as well as in the   
   >>>UK)...didn't go down well at the US White House...   
   >>   
   >>It makes me wonder what role Condo Rice played in Straw's sacking.   
   >>Maybe she was alarmed at his views during her recent visit!   
   >>   
   >>>...according to the following piece in a pro-regime British rag.   
   >>>   
   >>>Ewen MacAskill suggests that Straw was sacked because of US displeasure   
   >>>after he said that a nuclear attack on Iran wasn't thinkable.   
   >>>   
   >>>Meanwhile, CIA chief Porter Goss 'resigns' for 'unexplained' reasons.   
   >>   
   >>Are you thinking that Goss was not willing to provide Bush with the   
   >>necessary manufactured CIA intel to justify military attacks?   
   >   
   >Yes - that could well be the case. Parts of the CIA have been subject to   
   >'neocon'/pro-Zionist pressure that they have not taken kindly to.   
      
   And the Pentagon under Rumsfeld has grabbed some powers away from   
   the CIA recently - special intel ops etc.   
      
   >I wonder whether Jonathan Pollard will be released under the new   
   >director?   
      
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