Sunday, April 16, 2006

Tinfoil Hat Brigade – Me Too!!!

Re(1): 'Below the Fold', The Belmont Club, Wretchard T.C.
Re(2): 'Jonathan Pollard', Wikipedia
Re(3): 'Rafi Eitan', Wikipedia

Caveat Emptor…

There shall be NO flameout on pure speculation…

So here goes:

Check out Wretchard’s ‘Below the fold’ post in today’s Belmont Club. The most interesting parcel is the speculative trade of Jonathon Pollard for Marwan Barghouti.

Hhhhmmmmm
  • Pollard stating that he will leak stuff very embarrassing to Israel if Rafi Eitan is appointed a minister of the new Israeli government…
  • Israel thinking that Marwan Barghouti is a high enough poker hand to play against the leak – i.e. trade a Terror Turd for a Traitor…

Hhhhhhmmmmmmm….

A few very odd things happened in the 1980s.

  1. Israel flew right through enemy airspace to destroy the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq.
  2. And, the United States traded weapons for cold hard cash in the Iran/Contra affair.

Odd, very odd... Israel plans and executes a mission impossible.
Odd, very odd... President Reagan providing arms to Iran to finance part of the Cold War.

Did Pollard provide Israel with American intelligence on Iraqi/Soviet air defense technology, tactics, and logistics? Was that part acceptable to the United States? Eitan was his spymaster and recruiter. Eitan later had business connections in another Soviet client – Cuba. Eitan has a rather odd history…

Was Barghouti a conduit in the Iran/Contra weapons for cash fiasco? Barghouti routinely finds himself at the center of terror against Jews and Infidels, and then escapes to the periphery. Barghouti has a rather odd history…

Pollard will play whatever hand dealt to him – he is in the slammer for life… Barghouti is playing his hand as if he has a wild card in the hole. The real question is why the United States would even sniff at a chance for Barghouti. RealPolitic???

I think Bush will not even consider such a trade. He is playing RealPolitic with the periphery of the GWOT, but not at the schwerpunkte...

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