BREAKING: "ISRAEL WILL ATTACK IRAN BEFORE SEPT".; U.S. WAR PREPARATIONS VERY ADVANCED

Came across this in a link to Richard Silverstien’s blog from Sam Smith’s Progressive Review. Don’t know what to make of it myself but it sounds possible that Israel just might go after Iran.

A retired journalist who covered the intelligence beat, and with extensive senior intelligence sources, reports to me that Israel is planning to attack Iran before the September UN meeting at which Palestinian statehood will be discussed and possibly approved. He wrote to me some weeks ago:

…Some U.S. intelligence officials think that such a surprise [attack] on Iran could possibly take place in…September when [Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman] McMullen retires. It would [be] political war with its object to divert attention from Palestine.

…Senior US intelligence officials are saying that just recently a big US military force has been conducting large contingency planning drills in preparation for an intervention if Israel attacks Iran. Planning for a U.S. intervention is very far advanced.

…But perhaps the chief thing that counts here is that senior members of the US intelligence are resisting such notions with all the force that they can.

More recently, he sent this:

…The news is dismaying. Israel is planning a surgical strike against Iran.

[link to my.firedoglake.com]