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German Intelligence And the NYT's Iran Nuke Hype

By Steve Hynd

The NY Time's Broad, Mazzetti and Sanger - the gruesome threesome of Bush-era officially unofficial leaks designed to hype up fear against Iran - are still in business and still failing to fact-check their pieces. In their article yesterday asking if Iran was designing warheads, they wrote:

....... The Israelis, who have delivered veiled threats of a military strike, say they believe that Iran has restarted these “weaponization” efforts, which would mark a final step in building a nuclear weapon. The Germans say they believe that the weapons work was never halted.

...German intelligence officials take an even harder line against Iran. They say the weapons work never stopped, a judgment made public last year in a German court case involving shipments of banned technology to Tehran. In recent interviews, German intelligence agencies declined to comment further. ............

The thrust is obvious - "it's not just Israeli paranoia". But Bernhard of the sadly-defunct Moon Of Alabama blog emails from Germany to tell me that Sanger et al's thrust is false.

............If you are interested ! .. Go read the whole thing .. It has embedded links to every report out there + even the links to the german governments piece of fluff which DEBUNKS their whole bowl of crapola ! ..bottom line - The BND says that Iran's (civil) nuclear program continues. It never claimed that a Iranian nuclear weapon program exists or continues. So the BND has multiple times denied what the NYT says it has claimed.

http://www.newshoggers.com/blog/2009/09/german-intelligence-and-the-nyts-iran-nuke-hype.html