The possibility of an Iran nuclear deal depressing weapons sales was raised by Myles Walton, an analyst from Germany’s Deutsche Bank, during a Lockheed earnings call this past January 27th. Walton asked Marillyn Hewson, the chief executive of Lockheed Martin, if an Iran agreement could “impede what you see as progress in foreign military sales.”

For at least 25 years most Israeli statesmen have been lying, misleading the world, the Israelis and themselves, until Netanyahu arose. Better late than never.

„If the Americans are finding it difficult to understand or accept our clarifications (on Palestinian statehood), this is certainly worrying and requires tending to,“ he told Israel Radio. „He (Netanyahu) didn‘t say this (statehood) is ‚unacceptable‘. He said reality has changed.“

(3.7.2004) The US journalist who broke the Abu Ghraib scandal told the programme his sources confirm the presence of Israeli intelligence agents in Iraq.

Seymour Hersh said that one of the Israeli aims was to gain access to detained members of the Iraqi secret intelligence unit, who reportedly specialise in Israeli affairs.

(28.6.2004) In July, 2003, two months after President Bush declared victory in Iraq, the war, far from winding down, reached a critical point. Israel, which had been among the war’s most enthusiastic supporters, began warning the Administration that the American-led occupation would face a heightened insurgency—a campaign of bombings and assassinations—later that summer. (…)

Israeli intelligence and military operatives are now quietly at work in Kurdistan, providing training for Kurdish commando units and, most important in Israel’s view, running covert operations inside Kurdish areas of Iran and Syria.

(2.12.2005) Israeli firms are carrying out military training and commercial activities in Kurdish areas of north Iraq, according to reports in an Israeli newspaper. Yedioth Ahronoth reported yesterday that dozens of former members of Israel‘s elite and covert forces were training Kurdish fighters in anti-terrorism techniques.

(28.8.2011) Der Iraker Rafed Aljanabi erzählte dem BND Lügen über Massenvernichtungswaffen. Die USA benutzten die ungeprüften Aussagen, um den Krieg zu rechtfertigen.

(4.2.2004) „It was known in Israel that the story that weapons of mass destruction could be activated in 45 minutes was an old wives‘ tale,“ Yossi Sarid, a member of the foreign affairs and defence committee which is investigating the quality of Israeli intelligence on Iraq, told the Associated Press yesterday.

„Israel didn‘t want to spoil President Bush‘s scenario, and it should have,“ he said.

(9.12.2003) Israeli advisers are helping train US special forces in aggressive counter-insurgency operations in Iraq, including the use of assassination squads against guerrilla leaders, US intelligence and military sources said yesterday.

The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has sent urban warfare specialists to Fort Bragg in North Carolina, the home of US special forces, and according to two sources, Israeli military „consultants“ have also visited Iraq.

(20.4.2003) Plans to build a pipeline to siphon oil from newly conquered Iraq to Israel are being discussed between Washington, Tel Aviv and potential future government figures in Baghdad.

The plan envisages the reconstruction of an old pipeline, inactive since the end of the British mandate in Palestine in 1948, when the flow from Iraq‘s northern oilfields to Palestine was re-directed to Syria.

(14.9.2006) Der Sozialdemokrat Kreissl-Dörfler empfahl der Bundesregierung große Offenheit: „Es kommt alles ans Tageslicht.“ Bundesaußenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier soll nach einem Auftritt im Berliner Untersuchungsausschuss auch in Brüssel aussagen.

Lifting the Hood: Full disclosure on the appalling Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
November 2005

(14.3.2006) 279 photographs and 19 videos from the Army‘s internal investigation record a harrowing three months of detainee abuse inside the notorious prison — and make clear that many of those responsible have yet to be held accountable.

(7.2.2013) Jetzt, fast zehn Jahre danach, bringen die Geschehnisse von Stare Kiejkuty die polnische Regierung und Justiz, aber auch Politiker der Opposition in eine peinliche Notlage. Sie müssen sich vorwerfen lassen, im Jahr 2002 aus blinder Bündnistreue gegenüber den USA die eigene Verfassung verletzt und auf ihrem Boden die illegale Internierung und Folterung von Gefangenen geduldet zu haben – und jetzt die Angelegenheit vertuschen zu wollen.

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