WASHINGTON, Dec 28 (IPS) - U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a "neutron initiator" for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central Intelligence Agency official.

Philip Giraldi, who was a CIA counterterrorism official from 1976 to 1992, told IPS that intelligence sources say that the United States had nothing to do with forging the document, and that Israel is the primary suspect.

http://rawstory.com/2009...an-nuke-document-forged/

The sources do not rule out a British role in the fabrication, however.

The Times of London story published Dec. 14 did not identify the source of the document. But it quoted "an Asian intelligence source" - a term some news media have used for Israeli intelligence officials - as confirming that his government believes Iran was working on a neutron initiator as recently as 2007.

The story of the purported Iranian document prompted a new round of expressions of U.S. and European support for tougher sanctions against Iran and reminders of Israel's threats to attack Iranian nuclear programme targets if diplomacy fails.

U.S. news media reporting has left the impression that U.S. intelligence analysts have not made up their mind about the document's authenticity, although it has been widely reported that they have now had a full year to assess the issue.

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Oh god - captcha!

Oh look - there's a chat room!

Doh!

hi brad.
love your work.
you know what scrips MUST run in order for the chat room to work?
i ask this cause i running Noscrip in my firefox browser.

Only just saw this now, NewMexFan (sorry about that!) I believe it requires JAVA is all.

And my bad, BlueBear2! I meant to put a note here in comments directing folks to scroll up for the chat room! I keep forgetting.

hello again brad.
took alot of work to make work.
Judging from your response, I was not clear.
Noscript works on a white-list of website names and it annoying not knowing what i can forbid and what i must allow. I blame the software and the time budget u have to deal with. (only so many hours in a day after all, i wonder how much sleep u get!) I know your research skills are EXELENT thou. Maybe u can figger out what must be allowed so i can read your chatroom without compromising my security more then possible. I am a bit paranoid about security here why i useing firefox and got noscript going too. but if you too busy doing your exelent research, i understand that too! what would be even better if u do is to put in the next chatroom post what sites must be allowed to make work if u using Noscript cause i might not be only one affected.
THANKS FOR THE EXELENT WORK AND LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU AGAIN BRAD!!!!!!!
Newmexico fan

NMF, the chat room is a free embed and we don't know which cookies you can dump and which not. If you are this concerned about security, you should have a machine dedicated for this sort of thing and wipe all cookies from it and flash cookies and browser caches after each use. Or just learn where on your machine you can do that after you open it to use these things.