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The story is infuriating and El Baradei should be fired. But what on earth makes anyone think the Iranians are going to let these inspectors find evidence of their nuclear weapons program?

Imagine the police negotiating with a burglary suspect to determine which rooms in his house may be searched for stolen goods — that’s what these inspections amount to.

Roger,

“how it is eventually reported by our mainstream media.”

What do you mean how? As in “totally missed reporting” how?

the hermeneutic with which those in the MSM seem to approach all world issues is always the same (or at least orbits around the same body of assumptions), that’s a given. What, other than pointing out this fact (which seems like a voice crying out in the wilderness) can be done? Its infuriating because there seems to be no solution, or is there?

This is a major blow for the IAEA’s credibility.

Remember how well they were able to keep tabs on Iraq’s pre-Gulf War nuclear program? Or on North Korea’s, or Libya’s? Or South Africa’s? Or the great work they did in tracking and shutting down A.Q. Khan’s nuclear proliferation network?

Um, on second thought this development isn’t really all that significant. The IAEA has been a joke for decades. Can anyone point to any significant work they have done in shutting down wilful proliferators?

Is Spain next?

http://web.israelinsider.com/views/8828.htm

“Andalusi: What’s in a Name?
By Shelomo Alfassa July 9, 2006

This week the United States Office of Homeland Security released a statement saying that, “Working closely with the Intelligence / Information Directorate within the Internal Security Forces of Lebanon and with other foreign law enforcement and intelligence partners, we have disrupted a terrorist network that was in the planning stages of an attack against the transportation system in the New York-New Jersey area.” The plot included a plan to attack a major underwater tunnel that would collapse and cause massive flooding throughout New York City. One FBI official described the plot as using “martyrdom and explosives.” “It was very serious,” said FBI Supervisory Special Agent Richard Kolko in Washington, “These guys were going to do this.”

The FBI reported that the name of the terrorist mastermind was Emir Andalusi, an unusual name, but one that immediately gives away his ideology to those who are students of history. ‘Emir Andalusi’ is a name which translates from the Arabic as ‘Prince of Andalus.’ It was not his real name, which was Assem Hammoud, but his pseudonym told something of his outlook on the world, it was a window into his political agenda. ‘Andalusi’ is reference to the once Islamic strong hold of Al Andalus, the Arabic language name given to the parts of Iberian Peninsula that were governed by Muslims from 711 to 1492. Utilization of a nom de guerre is quite common in the Arabic world, but those which are in reference to old Muslim Spain are being seen as increasing common among jihadists who have set themselves against the Western world.”

Roger:
This is how the U.N. often works. The goal is the idea of continued negotiations, not whether the negotiations produce anything. “Oh, no matter what, we must keep the lines of communications open. Oh no, you can’t state that you know that Iran is producing a bomb, even if all the facts point to it. If you do they will kick us out and the negotiations will break down. You were honest, you caught them, you pissed them off, your fired.” Iraq, North Korea, and now Iran has learned that you can jerk the inspection teams around, continue the work that you deny, and if you are bold enough you can have inspections and your nuclear program at the same time. And the west will not be angry at you, they will alter their inspections to keep the charade going.

The west is having serious discussions on whether the talks with North korea should be one on one or multilateral. What a joke. The dear leader would not change one thing if we had one on one talks with him. We did it already and he broke the agreements. Yet once again the west is tying itself in knots over the notion that “Oh, if only we give in to his blackmail and sit down with him he will change. Oh gosh, we were so rude to call North Korea a police state that has virtually no human rights. Of course this is no doubt true but you can’t say it.” Self delusion run wild.

Way to stay on the El Baradei case, Roger. This guy has done a great job of sheparding along various Saddam, Mullah, and DNC projects over the years. Nobody ever seems to much notice, or care.