Israeli PM Olmert To Be Questioned By Police

Israeli PM Olmert To Be Questioned By Police

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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office says the prime minister will face police questioning.

In the statement, Olmert's office says he intends to "cooperate fully" with the police in one hour of interrogation on Friday, as requested by police.

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No suprise here. This guy is a total slime-bag. The list of charges he's being questioned for is quite tame compared to what he SHOULD be charged for. He ranks right up there with our idiot Decider (well, almost) in terms of his brutality and lawlessness.

Olmert is a suspect in several corruption affairs, including questionable real estate deals and political appointments. He has never been charged.

If Olmert is indicted, he would have to resign, but a decision about formal charges is months away.

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He, Olmert, may be shady.. but what is the real drive behind the police going after Olmert? It can't just be for money alone?

Seeing as his money man or as "The Laundry Man" as Olmert's personal secretary calls him, Morris Talansky,

is a founding partner, and a major shareholder, of ImageSat, an Israeli company that rents out access to spy satellites and their high-resolution images -- often to governments, for purposes of military intelligence.

Talansky and his group of fellow shareholders are anxious for a quick return on their investment, and are less than happy with these pesky restrictions. They have attempted to skirt the ban on sales to Iran by negotiating a deal with notorious Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, a close ally of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.

But to the chagrin of Wilson, Talansky, and their fellow investors, ImageSat -- together with its parent companies, Israel Aircraft Industries and Elbit Systems -- balked at the deal for obvious security reasons. Enraged, Talansky and friends filed suit against ImageSat, in a bid to force them to provide Chavez with the spy data....

In the lawsuit, the investors also charge ImageSat with blocking similar lucrative deals they tried to make with Angola and Russia, also countries closely allied with Israel's enemies.

It will be interesting to see whether the ImageSat conflict plays any role in the current investigation and expected indictment.

source;
muqata.blogspot.com...

So although Olmert is corrupt.. I tend to wonder why the police decided now to investigate him and why opposition did not bring his past to light if he was so shady?

Could it also be that he's not listening to others in the scheme of things by not attacking Iran also? Perhaps behind closed doors certain individuals wanted him to take action and this is the result for not following through on others requests?

Lets see who will be the new puppet and will this new Prime Minister take action?

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So is this like a scummy corporation setting up its own watchdog group? Self-regulation?

The 'police' would not be doing anything if the man was not being outed for a reason, from within.

Did some digging and came up with this...

An article from Haaretz on Nov/06, where Bush informs the French Pres.. that he would back an attack by Isreal on Iran.

www.haaretz.com...

U.S. President George W. Bush and President Jacques Chirac of France met several weeks ago. Bush told his French counterpart that the possibility that Israel would carry out a strike against Iran's nuclear installations should not be ruled out.

Bush also said that if such an attack were to take place, he would understand it.

Before striking Iraq, Isreal wanted the US to go for Iran first...

www.atimes.com...

WASHINGTON - Israeli officials warned the George W Bush administration that an invasion of Iraq would be destabilizing to the region and urged the United States instead to target Iran as the primary enemy, according to former Bush administration official Lawrence Wilkerson.

Also on Oct/06, Olmert threatens Iran with force...

www.haaretz.com...

In his address to the General Assembly of the Jewish Communities of North America in Los Angeles earlier this week, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made it clear that Israel and Iran were headed down a road of confrontation. It is hard to interpret his message any differently: "We have reached the pivotal moment of truth regarding Iran... Our integrity will remain intact only if we prevent Iran's devious goals, not if we try our best but fail."

I'm guessing Olmert knew Iran had no nuclear weapons and most likely knew they stopped long ago in pursuing them. I'm sure Israel and US share their intel sources...

www.latimes.com...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that international pressure has compelled the Islamic Republic to back away from its pursuit of the bomb.

Guess Olmert was not as brave as G. W. Bush in starting an illegal war. And is now being dethroaned by bringing his closet to light to the public...

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Why do I think Iran will be attacked?

That was Adm. William “Fox” Fallon speaking, top U.S. commander in the Middle East, last of the Vietnam vets in the high command, and, yes, the very same

Adm. Fallon who has just submitted his resignation as head of Central Command.

What makes this particularly ominous is that, according to former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Patrick Lang, Fallon told him, upon taking over at Centcom,

that war with Iran “isn’t going to happen on my watch.”

Lang asked him how he thought he could stop it: “‘I have options, you know,’ Fallon responded, which Lang interpreted as implying Fallon would step down rather than follow orders he considers mistaken.”

Do I really need to draw you a picture to get you to imagine what’s coming next? This is as clear a signal as any that the Bush administration intends to go out with a bang – one that will shake not only the Middle East but this country to its very foundations.

source;
www.antiwar.com...


I guess Olmert is not moving fast enough for some individuals...

Better to be charged with bribes then a genocide...

The question is... who will be in charge of Israels military if there is no PM? Will Israel commit its military to help the US attack Iran?

Israeli officials warned the George W Bush

Hmmm what officials warned him?


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Why did the US attack Iraq first over Iran...

The report gives us a complete overview of these supplies for the first time. In particular it names the 24 US companies and when and to whom in Iraq the supplies were delivered. And it makes clear how strongly the

Reagan and the first Bush administrations supported the arming of Iraq, from 1980 up to the Gulf conflict of 1990/91. Substantial construction units for the Iraqi nuclear weapon and rocket programs were supplied with permission of the government in Washington.

The poison Anthrax for the arming of Iraq with biological weapons stemmed from US laboratories. Iraqi military and armament experts were trained in the US and there received know-how having to do with their domestic arms programs.

source;
www.rense.com...

The Israelis perhaps was not aware of the arsenal in Iraq.. Iran may have caught wind of Iraq's nuclear abilities and support and decided to discontinue their efforts in 2003 when they saw the US invade Iraq for having WMD.

During the tacit alliance between Iran and Israel from 1972 to 1979, Iran provided oil and lucrative contracts to Israel. In return, Israel—via the United States—

provided huge amounts of arms,

stoking the ambitions of Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi to play a larger role in the region. Nor did Washington object when the shah announced plans to build 10 nuclear power plants.

source;
www.washington-report.org...

Israel had an inventory of what Iran had and mayhap thought they were more of a concern/threat over Iraq, without knowledge that the US supplied Nuclear abilities to Iraq.


Now I'm wondering why Isreal was not up in arms if Iraq was getting nuclear technology.... unless it was a dud?

Olmert has been the target of criminal police investigations four times since becoming prime minister, and he is widely considered by Israelis to have lost the Second Lebanon War for Israel in the summer of 2006 because of his poor decision-making.

source;
www.cnsnews.com.../ForeignBureaus/archive/200805/FOR20080509c.html

So he's a failer as a prime minister because he did not continue his genocide in Lebanon and most likely not carried it onward into Iran...

If Olmert is forced to step down, he would likely be replaced at least temporarily by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who has been heading the negotiations with the Palestinians.

If Olmert's Kadima party is forced to call for early elections, many analysts say that rightwing Likud opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu is likely to become prime minister again.

Who is Binyamin and whats his position on Iran?

The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv on Wednesday reported that Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan university that the September 11, 2001 terror attacks had been beneficial for Israel.

Nice to have allies during conflicts...

"Under this pretext, they [the U.S.] attacked Afghanistan and Iraq and since then, a million people have been killed only in Iraq."

Seems inpartcial to genocide...

Speaking Wednesday at a news conference on the Iran threat, Netanyahu compared Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler and likened Tehran's nuclear program to the threat the Nazis posed to Europe in the late 1930s.

Netanyahu said Iran differed from the Nazis in one vital respect, explaining that

"where that [Nazi] regime embarked on a global conflict before it developed nuclear weapons," he said. "This regime [Iran] is developing nuclear weapons before it embarks on a global conflict."

source;
www.haaretz.com...

Guess.. its a matter of how soon they can get this guy as PM so the war can start.... sigh...




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