It was leaked a few days ago that the corrupt Special Tribunal for Lebanon would accuse not just Hezbollah, but also Iran, for the assassination of Rafik Hariri.
Now today the New York Times is reporting that the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's nuclear facilities last year was tested on Israel's Dimona nuclear facility over a two year period as part of a joint US-Israel operation to interfere with Iran's nuclear program.
Are the two related?
I think so.
PS have you noticed how Trickyleaks has slowly disappeared from making headlines now that cables related to Israel are being translated for release? Late last year it seemed that everyday a new blockbusting earth-shattering cable was wikileaked; Russia was corrupt (as if the UK and USA aren't), Iran has long range missiles from North Korea, Osama bin Laden is alive and well in Pakistan or Afghanistan or Iran or anywhere else the warmongers to invade, etc.
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From http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html?_r=1&hp
Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay
By WILLIAM J. BROAD, JOHN MARKOFF and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: January 15, 2011
The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal.
Over the past two years, according to intelligence and military experts familiar with its operations, Dimona has taken on a new, equally secret role — as a critical testing ground in a joint American and Israeli effort to undermine Iran’s efforts to make a bomb of its own.
Behind Dimona’s barbed wire, the experts say, Israel has spun nuclear centrifuges virtually identical to Iran’s at Natanz, where Iranian scientists are struggling to enrich uranium. They say Dimona tested the effectiveness of the Stuxnet computer worm, a destructive program that appears to have wiped out roughly a fifth of Iran’s nuclear centrifuges and helped delay, though not destroy, Tehran’s ability to make its first nuclear arms.
© 2011 The New York Times Company
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