The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest
Vol: 56 Issue: 11 - Thursday, May 11, 2006
"Paranoia Will Destroy Ya!"
Mohamed el Baradei, director-general of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] made headlines yesterday, expressing satisfaction that the UN Security Council tabled action against Iran.
At a news conference in Amsterdam, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief urged compromise on both sides of the dispute.
"The only solution to the Iran situation is a comprehensive package through dialogue, through negotiation. The more we can go back to the negotiating table, the more we can address grievances from both sides," he said.
"It is very good that the Security Council holds its horses," he said, adding: "I am very optimistic, I hope both sides will move away from the war of words, I hope the pitch will go down ... we need compromises from both sides."
It's hard not to be a bit paranoid about having Mohamed el Baradei overseeing global nuclear security. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 -- a sure warning sign. The Nobel Committee gave Yasser Arafat the Peace Prize in 1995. It followed that up by giving Jimmy Carter the Peace Prize in 2002.
Gunnar Berge, the chairman of the Nobel committee explained that Carter had been selected. ". . . as a criticism of the line that the current administration has taken. It's a kick in the leg to all that follow the same line as the United States."
el Baradei's reappointment as the IAEA's Director General was bitterly opposed by Washington for his opposition to the Iraq war and for taking what Washington believed was too lenient a position over Iran's nuclear program.
On October 7, 2005, el Baradei and the IAEA itself were announced as joint recipients of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for their "efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way."
The Prize was another 'kick in the leg' award, implicitly disavowing criticism of them since the second Allied-Iraqi Gulf war, and especially Washington's failed attempt not to prolong his term in office.
Nobel Peace Prize winners, therefore, make me a bit paranoid. You really have to hate America to win one. A couple of years ago, el Baradei wrote a revealing essay called, "Saving Ourselves from Self-Destruction" -- by advocating the destruction of the nation-state.
"We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use."
"Similarly, we must abandon the traditional approach of defining security in terms of boundaries — city walls, border patrols, racial and religious groupings. The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources. . ."
Brrrr!
Assessment:
At best, el Baradei is no friend to the US; at worst, he is an enemy. He is an Egyptian who began his career in 1964 under the Arab Socialist Nasser in the Egyptian Diplomatic Service in New York and Geneva.
There,he served during both of Egypt’s wars against Israel, the Six Days' War of 1967 and the 1973 Yom Kippur waged by Anwar Sadat, aimed at Israel's destruction.
el Baradei has a penchant for siding with the Islamofascists, opposing the removal of Saddam and stalling any action on Iran for more than three years.
el Baradei continues to express doubts that the mullahs are even seeking the Bomb, even as Ahmadinejad promises to vaporize Israel in "one storm", and, more recently, "an evil regime that will one day vanish."
During the run-up to the Iraq war, el Baradei tried to discredit American and British intelligence on the Niger story by circulating a memo that claimed the Niger documents were crude forgeries.
As it turned out, the story about Niger and yellowcake were true, but the “crude forgeries” were produced by agents of France, seeking to undermine the US case for war.
el Baradei knew which documents were bogus and which were genuine.
He deliberately ignored the genuine intelligence, now proved to be true, in favor of highlighting the 'crude forgeries' he knew to be deliberate fakes. Why is that?
el Baradei’s conduct concerning Iran's nuclear ambitions should be an international scandal, but they have gone widely ignored in the liberal media.
In his latest confidential report to the IAEA board, on February 27, el Baradei detailed no fewer than eight major violations by Iran of its treaty obligations, including the discovery by IAEA inspectors of damning documents relating to nuclear weapons work. Some IAEA questions had been left “unanswered” by Iran for three years.
Despite this mountain of evidence, however, el Baradei was telling reporters as recently as this week that the nuclear crisis with Iran could be “solved” in a matter of days or a week.
It is difficult to imagine that anyone as well-educated and experienced as Mohamed el Baradei could be so obtuse as to not recognize Iran's nuclear intentions. It can only be deliberate.
Ahmadinejad intends to start the Islamic 'End Days' War', and has telegraphed, on several occasions, his intention to start it by vaporizing Israel with nuclear weapons.
el Baradei can read. He knows this. Plus, he actually as access to more information than we do. He knows whether Iran is six months or six years from having an operational weapon.
But in either case, he ALSO knows that, if not stopped, Iran WILL eventually have one, and when it does, it will use it against Israel.
He KNOWS that the only way for negotiations to bear fruit is if Ahmadinejad changes his religion. . . or George Bush changes his.
Otherwise, what is there to negotiate?
"Please abandon your most deeply-held religious principles in the interests of a world peace that your religious convictions demand you destroy as a condition of salvation? If you abandon your hope of salvation through martrydom, we won't martyr you?"
What IS there to negotiate? It isn't like el Baradei doesn't understand basic Islamic eschatology -- belief in the coming of the Mahdi is as central to Islam as belief in the 2nd Coming is to Christianity. And el Baradei is a Muslim.
NOW, I'm getting really paranoid!
Or am I?
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