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Defend America on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:49:07 AM
Germany's Spies Refuted the 2007 NIE Report
'Work on nuclear weapons can be observed in Iran even after 2003'
President
Obama has committed to trying diplomacy to stop the Iranian bomb. Time,
though, is on the mullahs' side, not least because so much of it was
wasted after the 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate made the
improbable case that Iran had suspended its nuclear weapons program in
2003. This assessment not only contradicted previous U.S. intelligence
consensus but -- as recent court documents show -- also the conclusions
of a key U.S. ally with excellent sources in Iran -- Germany.
The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Germany's foreign intelligence
agency, has amassed evidence of a sophisticated Iranian nuclear weapons
program that continued beyond 2003. This usually classified information
comes courtesy of Germany's highest state-security court. In a 30-page
legal opinion on March 26 and a May 27 press release in a case about
possible illegal trading with Iran, a special national security panel
of the Federal Supreme Court in Karlsruhe cites from a May 2008 BND
report, saying the agency "showed comprehensively" that "development
work on nuclear weapons can be observed in Iran even after 2003."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124803669414063037.html