Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Posted here Wednesday, September 01, 2004 at 9:29:33 AM     Juan Cole is doing a masterful job of exploring the Israel Iran Bush connections. Read his today posting at www.juancole.com  The Russian school hostage taking points out how the whole fringe world is under pressure from the techtonic pate shiftings of world power. A good site to watch for the whole unsettled state of eurasia is http://www.eurasianet.org/index.shtml   Excerpt from Cole Wednesday, September 01, 2004 Spy Scandal's Roots are Deep Jim Lobe argues that the FBI investigation that caught up Pentagon Iran expert Lawrence Franklin is much wider than initially thought, and focuses on the unauthorized transfer to Israel of highly sophisticated military software and designs. Since many Israeli arms merchants connected to the government in Tel Aviv sell to the black market, some of this military technology has ended up in the hands of countries that have poor relations with the US, and some may have ultimately been resold to al-Qaeda. ********