Israel 'will attack Iran' before new US president sworn in, John Bolton predicts
Daily Telegraph [UK], by Toby Harnden
John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the United Nations, has predicted that Israel could attack Iran after the November presidential election but before George W Bush's successor is sworn in. The Arab world would be "pleased" by Israeli strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, he said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. "It [the reaction] will be positive privately. I think there'll be public denunciations but no action," he said.
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[nowhere in the entire article is Bolton quoted as saying Israel "will" attack Iran - only that it could. Yet the headline (in single quotes so as not to be technically inaccurate). Daily Telegraph: a professional news organization]
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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