Sunday, January 11, 2009

New York Times: Bush Turned Down Israeli Request for American Help in Strike on Iranian Nuclear Sites

New York Times: Bush Turned Down Israeli Request for American Help in Strike on Iranian Nuclear Sites
Sunday
, January 11, 2009
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File photo by the President.ir website

The New York Times is at it again with the following report...
President Bush deflected a secret request by Israel last year for specialized bunker-busting bombs it wanted for an attack on Iran’s main nuclear complex and told the Israelis that he had authorized new covert action intended to sabotage Iran’s suspected effort to develop nuclear weapons, according to senior American and foreign officials... White House officials never conclusively determined whether Israel had decided to go ahead with the strike before the United States protested, or whether Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel was trying to goad the White House into more decisive action before Mr. Bush left office. But the Bush administration was particularly alarmed by an Israeli request to fly over Iraq to reach Iran’s major nuclear complex at Natanz, where the country’s only known uranium enrichment plant is located...
Read the full report a link below...
U.S. Rejected Aid for Israeli Raid on Iranian Nuclear Site
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Be sure to click out the following informative Video from NYT titled...
‘The Covert Legacy’
HERE
About the above News Video: David E. Sanger, The New York Times's chief Washington correspondent, talks about problems and covert programs that President-elect Barack Obama will inherit from President Bush...

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