Israel Matzav: Iran ordered attack on Israeli convoy, smuggled explosives with diplomats

Was Ali-Muhammadi actually assassinated by Israel? According to some sources Israel would have no reason because the scientist was not involved in creating weapons. If Iran wasn’t creating nuclear weapons then why would Israel need to kill him?Jordanian bombs squad members inspect the site where a bomb targeted a convoy of cars from the Israeli Embassy in Amman, Jordan, Thursday.

In the wee hours of last Friday morning, I posted about a roadside bomb attack on a convoy taking Israeli embassy employees home for the weekend from Amman, Jordan. Sources close to Jordan’s General Intelligence Department are now reporting that the attack was ordered by Iran.

The sources said the GID was investigating the possibility that the explosives used in the attack had been smuggled into the kingdom by Iranian diplomats.

The attack itself was apparently carried out by local al-Qaida supporters who received money and explosives from Iran, the sources said.

On Monday, Al-Arabiya reported that an Amman taxi driver was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the bombing.

According to the sources, the GID believes that the attack came in response to the killing of Iranian scientist Prof. Massoud Ali Muhammadi in Teheran last week. Ali Muhammadi was killed by a remote-controlled bomb on a motorcycle.

On Monday, Iran’s Interior Minister Mostafa Muhammad Najjar vowed to take revenge on Israel over Ali-Muhammadi’s assassination.

Israel’s ambassador in Jordan, Yaakov Rosen (standing), shakes hands with Omar Nadif, Jordan’s deputy ambassador in Israel.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Israel of being behind the assassination, which he said had been carried out in “Zionist style.”

The sources in Amman pointed out that the attack on the Israeli diplomatic convoy had been carried out in a way similar to the assault on the slain Iranian professor.

“We can see Iran’s fingerprints on the roadside bombing,” the sources said. “The investigation is continuing in various directions.”

via jpost.com

According to some sources Israel would have no reason because the scientist was not involved in creating weapons.

Alimuhamadi the theoretical physics professor who was not involved in Iran’s nuclear program was probably assasinated for supporting Moussavi…. or was he?

Iran seems very determined in believing it was Israel that killed him… and if they do believe that then there has to be a reason Israel did this… and that is:

IRAN WAS VERY CLOSE TO HAVING THE BOMB!

But then it gets even better.

The sources said the GID was investigating the possibility that the explosives used in the attack had been smuggled into the kingdom by Iranian diplomats.

The attack itself was apparently carried out by local al-Qaida supporters who received money and explosives from Iran, the sources said.

On Monday, Al-Arabiya reported that an Amman taxi driver was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the bombing.

According to the sources, the GID believes that the attack came in response to the killing of Iranian scientist Prof. Massoud Ali Muhammadi in Teheran last week. Ali Muhammadi was killed by a remote-controlled bomb on a motorcycle.

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The sources in Amman pointed out that the attack on the Israeli diplomatic convoy had been carried out in a way similar to the assault on the slain Iranian professor.

“We can see Iran’s fingerprints on the roadside bombing,” the sources said. “The investigation is continuing in various directions.”

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Last year three Hamas activists were sentenced in Jordan to five years in prison for conducting surveillance of the Israeli Embassy in Amman.

via israelmatzav.blogspot.com

compound this with the CIA double agent issue in Jordan. I would say the kingdom is becoming unstable. The people in Jordan think their government is in cahoots with Israel. and indeed they are. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Jordan become a Palestinian state soon.

If attacked, Iran wants Syria to hit back at Israel. Damascus hedges

The Iranian visitor indicated that Tehran expects an Israeli attack within a month. According to Iranian intelligence, Jerusalem will take its green light from President Barack Obama’s forced admission after Christmas that his policy of dialogue and stiffer sanctions have failed in the face of Tehran’s rejection of the international proposal to send its enriched uranium for overseas processing.

“The countdown for war is coming close to its end,” said Vahidi to the joint defense committee. “And we must get our strategic partnership in shape ahead of time.”

via docstalk.blogspot.com

Pakistan’s president hands over nuclear powers | The Australian

PRESIDENT Asif Ali Zardari has given up control of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal in a bid to fend off mounting pressures threatening to weaken his rule further and complicate the war on the Taliban.

Mr Zardari took the decision overnight as an amnesty protecting him and key aides from corruption cases expired and risked flinging the country, struggling to contain a Taliban insurgency in the northwest, into fresh political crisis.

The presidency announced that control of the National Command Authority, which analysts and lawyers confirmed is responsible for nuclear weapons, had shifted to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

“The president has handed over his power regarding the national command and control authority to me and has issued an ordinance,” Mr Gilani said.

Islamabad earlier this month rejected a report in The New Yorker magazine that raised fears of a militant seizure of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and suggested that the US had a hand in protecting the arsenal.

Analysts say Mr Zardari can only hope to survive increasing unpopularity withi his party and a reportedly strained relationship with the powerful military by making good on electoral promises to devolve greater power to parliament.

Mr Zardari’s predecessor, military ruler Pervez Musharraf, enforced a state of emergency in 2007, introducing a 17th amendment to the constitution that gives the president the power to dissolve parliament and sack the prime minister.

“We are going in the right direction. There is no threat to democracy and to the present government,” said Mr Gilani, a member of Zardari’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) but who is said to enjoy closer relations with the military.

“He believes in the balance of power between the presidency and the parliament and he is committed to undo the 17th amendment,” he said.

Mr Zardari’s approval ratings are rock bottom as Pakistan struggles with Taliban violence, a recession and stalled efforts on reform.

He spent several years in jail for corruption and is still referred to as “Mr Ten Per Cent” because of his reputation for taking kickbacks on deals.

Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar hailed the transfer of the National Command Authority as “a giant leap forward to empower the elected parliament and the prime minister”.

But senior lawyers said the nuclear move is window dressing.

“The president wants to give the impression that he is empowering his prime minister. This transfer is basically cosmetic,” said lawyer Akram Sheikh.

The president was quoted by state media as saying he will revoke the amendment in December.

The corruption amnesty passed by Musharraf in 2007 and known as the National Reconciliation Ordinance, or NRO, expired as Pakistan celebrated the first day of the Muslim festival of sacrifice, Eid al-Adha.

It had quashed charges against Mr Zardari, his wife and ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated two months later, and other politicians in an apparent gesture of political reconciliation.

The PPP went on to win elections in 2008, restoring civilian rule in a country governed for most of its existence by the army.

But today the government is seen as too weak to secure an extension of the NRO in parliament, and pending another decree the end of the amnesty allows cases against beneficiaries to be reopened and convictions could be restored.

Although there is no immediate likelihood of cases being reopened against Mr Zardari, who enjoys immunity as president, opponents say the supreme court could yet declare his election illegal.

More than 8000 people benefited from the amnesty that was connected to 3478 cases ranging from murder, embezzlement, abuse of power and writeoffs of bank loans worth millions of dollars.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar are among more than 30 politicians who had cases against them withdrawn.

Analyst Talat Masood said the distraction posed by possible litigation would divert attention from the battle against Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked fighters whose bomb attacks have killed more than 2550 people in the last 29 months.

“It will affect the campaign against insurgency and militancy. The opposition and other forces will continue pressure on the government to quit. Mr Zardari will have to shed his powers to be able to survive,” he said.

via theaustralian.com.au

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