Tag: iran

US ‘said no to Israel bombing Iran’

From correspondents in London: The Advertiser | September 26, 2008

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24405383-5005962,00.html

ISRAEL seriously considered bombing Iran’s nuclear sites earlier this year but US President George W Bush refused to support such a strike, a British newspaper reported today.

Quoting senior European diplomatic sources, The Guardian said Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert raised the issue with Mr Bush in a one-to-one meeting May 14.

Mr Bush said he would not support such a strike because of fears of retaliation, possibly on US targets in Iraq and Afghanistan, and concerns that the Israelis would fail to disable Iran’s nuclear facilities anyway, it …

Ahmadinejad kidnap ‘a possibility’ says Israel

The Advertiser | September 09, 2008

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24321013-5005962,00.html

AN Israeli Cabinet minister involved in the operation to kidnap Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann says the same tactic could be used to bring Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to trial.

Rafi Eitan said Mr Ahmadinejad, who is aggressively pursuring nuclear technology and has repeatedly called for Israel to be wiped off the map, had to be brought for trial in The Hague.

“A man like Ahmadinejad who threatens genocide has to be brought for trial in The Hague,” Mr Eitan said.

Asked if kidnapping was acceptable, Mr Eitan told the Associated Press: “Yes. Any …