Daily Alert Archives

British Intelligence Is Smarter than Ours

[FrontPageMagazine] Alan M. Dershowitz - My concerns about Iran have been echoed by the British Parliaments' Foreign Affairs Committee, and the chief UN nuclear inspector. Here is how the British Committee's chairman put it, following a visit to Iran and based on the extensive evidence received by the group: "There is a strong possibility that Iran could establish a 'breakout' nuclear weapons capability by 2015. A 'breakout capability' is the ability to manufacture a nuclear device within a short period of time by virtue of its nonmilitary nuclear technical capabilities and assets." This is precisely what I and other critics of the National Intelligence Estimate have been saying. Iranian President Ahmadinejad seems to agree. Last Friday he boasted that Iran "will have the final victory in the nuclear arena." This doesn't sound like he's talking about a peaceful nuclear alternative energy source in his oil-soaked nation.
2008-03-06 01:00:00
Full Article