<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3e594244-28e3-4b24-8596-f71e3134e3da/3A423E70-2AC8-4B1B-9EE1-9407A05A6C78/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.antiwar.com/2008/12/04/israel-preparing-to-attack-iran-without-us-assistance/" href="http://news.antiwar.com/2008/12/04/israel-preparing-to-attack-iran-without-us-assistance/" style="font-size: 11px;">news.antiwar.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.antiwar.com/2008/12/04/israel-preparing-to-attack-iran-without-us-assistance/"><H2 id="pagetitle"><A rel="bookmark" href="http://news.antiwar.com/2008/12/04/israel-preparing-to-attack-iran-without-us-assistance/">Israel Preparing to Attack Iran Without US Assistance</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.antiwar.com/2008/12/04/israel-preparing-to-attack-iran-without-us-assistance/"><P>Last week the United States <A href="http://news.antiwar.com/2008/12/04/israel-preparing-to-attack-iran-without-us-assistance/../2008/11/24/report-us-asked-israel-not-to-start-any-major-wars-until-obama-takes-office/">was reported to have warned Israel against launching any attacks against Iran until after President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January</A>. The report came hot on the heels of the Israeli military’s <A href="http://news.antiwar.com/2008/12/04/israel-preparing-to-attack-iran-without-us-assistance/../2008/11/23/israeli-military-urges-contingency-plan-for-iran-strike/">annual security assessment, which urged the nation to quietly work on plans to launch an attack</A> against Iran while trying to prevent the US from reaching any deals with the Iranian government that would undermine Israel’s agenda.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.antiwar.com/2008/12/04/israel-preparing-to-attack-iran-without-us-assistance/"><P>But <A href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1227702421218&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">Israeli military sources are now suggesting that the nation is drawing up plans for an attack on Iran’s civilian nuclear plant</A> that would not require coordination with the US. The officials described such an attack as difficult, but not impossible to execute without American assistance.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3A423E70-2AC8-4B1B-9EE1-9407A05A6C78/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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