http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/kennethrtimmerman/ en-us Fri, 23 May 2008 16:03:43 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020263/posts As Barack Obama and John McCain thrash it out over how they would deal with Iran, voices from inside Iran are weighing in with an unusual message: If the United States strikes hard and fast, we will support you. Emissaries from inside Iran have been meeting with Iranian exiles in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere in recent weeks to deliver this provocative message, which they claim comes from pro-U.S. dissidents at the upper-most levels of the regime. “U.S. airstrikes must be powerful and sustained enough to break the myth of the regime’s absolute power and reveal the weakness of... newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020263/posts#comment Fri, 23 May 2008 16:03:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938499/posts FP: Kenneth Timmerman, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Timmerman: Thanks, Jamie. It’s always a pleasure to appear alongside other founding members of the Vast Right-wing Conspiracy. FP: My pleasure as well. What inspired you to write this book? Timmerman: In the beginning were the leaks. I was curious how highly-classified intelligence information was winding up on the front pages of the NY Times and in other leftist media. Two stories, in particular, caught my attention initially: the leak of the CIA “secret prisons,” and the smearing of Ahmad Chalabi, to which I will return below. I knew quite a bit about... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938499/posts#comment Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:54:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938383/posts   Shadow Warriors   By Jamie GlazovFrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Kenneth R. Timmerman, the New York Times bestselling author of Countdown to Crisis, The French Betrayal of America, Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America, and Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq. In 2006 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his groundbreaking reporting on Iran ’s nuclear weapons program. He is the author of the new book, Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender. FP: Kenneth Timmerman, welcome to Frontpage... Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938383/posts#comment Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:12:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901296/posts Hitler's Muslim Nephew Comes to New York September 24, 2007 FrontPageMagazine.com Kenneth R. Timmerman What was New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinking? Apparently the former Democrat believed that escorting Iran’s Hitler-wannabe president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to the site of the September 11 memorial at Ground Zero would generate a terrific photo op. “Here I am with world leaders,” that type of thing. After all, Bloomberg has already made his appearance at the “World Leaders Forum” at Columbia University, so he was in the zone. And last year, U.S. News & World Report crowned him as one of America’s “best leaders.” But... FrontpageMag http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901296/posts#comment Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:49:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886661/posts What could the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) possibly have in common? CAIR founders had close ties to Hamas, Palestinian Sunni Islamic extremists. NIAC and its main spokesman, Trita Parsi, have become apologists for the regime in Tehran, which exports a rival Shiite brand of Islamic extremism. Sunnis and Shias. We all know the story. They hate each other worse than Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants. Right? Well, no. As I pointed out in Countdown to Crisis: the Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran, Sunnis and Shias get along just fine when it... Persian Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886661/posts#comment Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:25:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885512/posts Over the past week, with Iranian shells raining down on Iraqi villages in Kurdish areas along the border zone in the north, Iran’s leaders have engaged the United States in a high stakes game that has gone virtually unreported in the elite media. Iran has massed thousands of troops along its northwestern border in preparation for a ground assault against Iranian Kurdish fighters who have sought refuge in the rugged Qanbil mountains in northwestern Iraq. FrontPageMag http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885512/posts#comment Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:56:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885331/posts Over the past week, with Iranian shells raining down on Iraqi villages in Kurdish areas along the border zone in the north, Iran’s leaders have engaged the United States in a high stakes game that has gone virtually unreported in the elite media. Iran has massed thousands of troops along its northwestern border in preparation for a ground assault against Iranian Kurdish fighters who have sought refuge in the rugged Qanbil mountains in northwestern Iraq. On Tuesday, villagers found leaflets bearing the official Islamic Republic of Iran logo, ordering them to leave the area or face the consequences. “Our enemies,... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885331/posts#comment Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:36:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870596/posts Human Rights Travesty By Kenneth R. Timmerman FrontPageMagazine.com | July 23, 2007 If human rights abuses were ranked like baseball careers, Iran’s ruling clerics and the mighty midget they’ve installed as president would deserve honored places in the 21st Century’s Hall of Shame. On July 10, Iran’s Interior ministry confirmed the sentence, handed down ten days earlier by a court in the north of the country, condemning a man to death by stoning. If you’ve never witnessed a stoning (and most of us haven’t, I trust), you can get a flavor for the barbarity of this Koranic punishment from a... Frontpage Mag. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870596/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:42:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806467/posts What You Can Do about Iran March 23, 2007 FrontPageMagazine.com Kenneth R. Timmerman This week brought unusual news from Russia, which until now has been a major supplier of Iran’s nuclear programs. The Russians said they were pulling engineers and technicians out of Busheir, the Persian Gulf site where since 1995 they have been building a nuclear power plant for Iran. They cited as pretext Iran’s failure to make timely payments on the $800 million contract. Should this turn out to be more than just a tactical maneuver, Russia’s pullback from Iran signals a real success for U.S. diplomacy. But... Frontpage Mag. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806467/posts#comment Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:11:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750871/posts The unsurprising victory of Venezuelan song and dance artist Hugo Chavez in his re-election bid on Sunday was warmly welcomed around the world. Chavez friends in Cuba, Bolivia and Nicaragua were pleased. Castro and Daniel Ortega must think someone flipped a switch and they’re back in the early 1980s – only this time, there’s no President Reagan and no Contras. The Iranian Foreign ministry welcomed the Chavez victory, and didn’t even threaten to raise oil prices to $200 per barrel. That’s for next week. Al Jazeera knew the results even before the votes were cast, and showed Chavez with Mahmoud... FrontPage Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750871/posts#comment Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:25:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665222/posts Plamegate: Mystery SolvedBy Kenneth R. TimmermanFrontPageMagazine.com | July 13, 2006 Finally some straight talk on the Valerie Plame case, thanks to Robert Novak, the conservative columnist who first revealed the identity of the not-so-covert CIA officer three years ago. Novak’s July 14, 2003, column on the much-disputed trip to Niger by Plame’s husband, former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson, triggered an FBI investigation, a federal grand jury, and eventually the appointment of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who indicted top White House aid Scooter Libby for perjury along the way. At issue was whether Saddam Hussein ever sent a buying team to Niger... Front Page magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665222/posts#comment Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:04:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1634277/posts Should President Bush “respond” to the 18-page rant sent to him through the media by the jihadist president in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? The Party of Appeasers – which includes the Senator from France, Chuck Hagel – believes the answer is yes. They believe the United States should be offering concessions to a regime that murders its own young, that cheats on its international obligations, and that threatens to obliterate another member of the United Nations. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who has now acknowledged publicly that she and her political masters completely missed the rise of political Islam during... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1634277/posts#comment Thu, 18 May 2006 12:23:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631799/posts The U.S. government acknowledged yesterday that the CIA operated "a very high number" of secret flights that stopped in Europe en route to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba according to members of the European Parliament visiting Washington, DC. A special commission has been investigating allegations that the CIA kidnapped and flew al-Qaida terror suspects to secret detention centers. A report preparer for the commission, Claudio Fava, said in Washington yesterday that State Department legal advisor John Bellinger acknowledged that some of the secret flights could have involved renditions. "Bellinger didn't deny there were a large number of CIA flights," Fava said. "That... Newsmax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631799/posts#comment Sat, 13 May 2006 23:03:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618145/posts The State Department’s Dead Parrot -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Kenneth R. Timmerman FrontPageMagazine.com | April 20, 2006 In the Monty Python skit, a man brings a parrot back to the store where he purchased him half an hour earlier, complaining that the parrot is dead. The shop owner insists it must be resting, but the man says he discovered that the only reason that parrot was sitting up at all was because it had been nailed to the perch in its cage. Like the shop owner, the State Department is promoting a long-dead policy of supporting “moderates” in Tehran, under the guise... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618145/posts#comment Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:14:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1582580/posts A top Pentagon official who was responsible for tracking Saddam Hussein's weapons programs before and after the 2003 liberation of Iraq, has provided the first-ever account of how Saddam Hussein "cleaned up" his weapons of mass destruction stockpiles to prevent the United States from discovering them. "The short answer to the question of where the WMD Saddam bought from the Russians went was that they went to Syria and Lebanon," former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense John A. Shaw told an audience Saturday at a privately sponsored "Intelligence Summit" in Alexandria, Va. (www.intelligencesummit.org). Newsmax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1582580/posts#comment Tue, 21 Feb 2006 07:29:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581496/posts Ex-Official: Russia Moved Saddam's WMDs A top Pentagon official who was responsible for tracking Saddam Hussein's weapons programs before and after the 2003 liberation of Iraq, has provided the first-ever account of how Saddam Hussein "cleaned up" his weapons of mass destruction stockpiles to prevent the United States from discovering them. "The short answer to the question of where the WMDs Saddam bought from the Russians went was that they went to Syria and Lebanon," former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense John. A. Shaw told an audience Saturday at a privately sponsored "Intelligence Summit" in Alexandria, Va. (www.intelligencesummit.org) "They were moved... Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581496/posts#comment Sun, 19 Feb 2006 07:21:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1578988/posts Whatever Happened to Iraqgate? Candidate Clinton vowed to get to the bottom of the Iraqgate scandal. Was it swept under the rug because of the CIA - - or Hillary? Kenneth R. Timmerman The American Spectator November, 1996 Kenneth R. Timmerman is the author of The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq (Houghton Mifflin) and publisher of Iran Brief, a monthly newsletter. As the 1992 presidential race reached its final days, Bill Clinton promised that, if elected, he would appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate allegations by congressional Democrats that the U.S. government had secretly been aiding the... The American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1578988/posts#comment Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:25:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574983/posts The prospect that the Islamic Republic of Iran could acquire nuclear weapons ought to be too serious for it to succumb to political spin, espicially from within the U. S. intelligence community. But 'leakers' seeking to embarrass the Bush Administration have been furiously spinning the extraordinary information obtained over the past eighteen months from an Iranian 'walk-in' about Iran's nuclear intentions, seeking to downplay its importance and suggesting that the intelligence community is divided over how to interpret it. HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENTS PROVIDED BY THE WALK-IN ON A LAPTOP COMPUTER. THEY INCLUDE........... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574983/posts#comment Thu, 9 Feb 2006 12:41:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563648/posts In a country of religious zealots, the extremism of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has even his own countrymen sounding alarms. Dissidents within Iran say their country's president is such a crazed fanatic that he will try to usher in the end of the world as we know it. On Dec. 16, gunmen opened fire on the motorcade of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he toured the southeastern province of Sistan, along Iran's border with Pakistan. According to news reports, Ahmadinejad's personal bodyguard and driver were killed in the ambush, although the president was unhurt. The government-controlled media in Tehran attributed... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563648/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:19:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1563467/posts Kenneth Timmerman, author of "Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran" and president of the Middle East Data Project will be appearing on CNBC's "On The Money" tonight at 7pm EST. Timmerman will talk about Iran's biggest foreign suppliers and Divestterror.org tonight. E-mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1563467/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:42:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561373/posts Excerpt - Tehran is planning a nuclear weapons test before the Iranian New Year on March 20, 2006 says a group opposed to the regime in Tehran. The Foundation for Democracy citing sources in the U.S and Iran offered no further information. [snip] United Press International (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561373/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:33:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557282/posts With U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice noting that Iran has definitively "chosen confrontation with the international community," the United States and Europe called on the International Atomic Energy Agency today to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions. After many months of probing Western resolve, Iran’s leaders ended any possible ambiguity as to their nuclear intentions on January 10, when they forcibly removed IAEA seals that had been put in place to prevent them from producing nuclear weapons material. IAEA inspectors dispatched to Iran for the occasion pointedly refused to remove the seals themselves. In a... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557282/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:08:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1554727/posts Listen While You Freep! Five channels, five programs every day and each one playing for 24 hours and on weekends so tune in when it’s convenient for YOU! Call In Number - 866-884-TALK (8255) Heating the EDGE of a New Media! 1pm est- The Buzz Cut : "WAR ON TERROR: NEXT FRONT IRAN?" Israel's Ariel Sharon is dying, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is threatening to "wipe Israel off the map" and the U.S. is poised to respond militarily. In spite of liberal teeth-gnashing and handwringing, World War IV continues! And the next logical front is Iran. Buzz is joined by... Rightalk.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1554727/posts#comment Mon, 9 Jan 2006 18:29:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1553794/posts <p>The massive stroke that cut down Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon late Wednesday night not only throws Israeli politics into turmoil. It marks the likely starting point of the coming nuclear showdown that will pit the Jewish state and the Free World against the Islamic Republic of Iran.</p> The Washington Times): http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1553794/posts#comment Sat, 7 Jan 2006 22:47:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1553535/posts The massive stroke that cut down Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon late Wednesday night not only throws Israeli politics into turmoil. It marks the likely starting point of the coming nuclear showdown that will pit the Jewish state and the Free World against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Vice President Dick Cheney noted the inevitable nearly one year ago. He told talk radio host Don Imus just minutes before the inauguration on Jan. 20, 2005, that "the Israelis might well decide to act first" should they conclude Iran had acquired "significant nuclear capability." Much has happened since. In February 2005,... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1553535/posts#comment Sat, 7 Jan 2006 07:20:30 GMT