Former CIA Official: Israel Will Attack Iran

Take it with a grain of salt for now, but make a mental note for future reference.

Of course it may all be smoke just to make Little Mahmoud jumpy.

"I came back from a trip to Israel in November convinced that Israel would attack Iran," Bruce Riedel, a former career CIA official and senior adviser to three US presidents - including George W. Bush - on Middle East and South Asian issues, told Newsweek Thursday, citing conversations he had with Mossad and Israeli defense officials.

"And that was before the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE). This makes it even more likely. Israel is not going to allow its nuclear monopoly to be threatened," the American magazine quoted Riedel as saying in an article titled, "What will Israel do?".

One could surmise Israel is more concerned with survival than having their "monopoly" threatened. I doubt they'd be fretting over, say, Saudi Arabia (as bad as they are) having the bomb as much as they would the psychopaths in Iran.