| Sections |
Home Page
Headlines
ME Diary
Business News
Strategic Profiles
ME Defense
One on One
Special Report
Currency Converter
Sample Report
Survey
Headlines
ME Diary
Business News
Strategic Profiles
ME Defense
One on One
Special Report
Currency Converter
Sample Report
Survey
| Contact MENL |
<advertisement>
 IRANIAN SOURCE REPORTS PLOT TO ATTACK U.S. NUKE |
|
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- Congress has been pressing the U.S. intelligence community to investigate claims by an Iranian defector that Teheran planned to crash an airliner into a nuclear reactor in the United States. Several members of Congress were said to have been alarmed by the information and one has met with CIA senior officials to press for an investigation. So far, the CIA has refused to question the Iranian defector, a former senior official in the 1970s. Rep. Curt Weldon, vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has met the unidentified defector several times in Paris over the last 22 months. Weldon said the defector has been accurate in predicting several important developments in the Iranian regime since February 2003. The developments were said to have included those in Iran's nuclear weapons programs and support for Al Qaida. The informant, dubbed Ali, was said to have been in contact with two dissidents in the inner circle of the Islamic republic. They were said to have reported a secret government directive by Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei who presided over the nation's strategic weapons programs and financed and controlled groups deemed terrorists.
editor@menewsline.com for further details. 
|
