Countdown to crisis; The coming nuclear showdown with Iran

Those who remember the case for war with Iraq based on evidence (since discredited) about Iraqi nuclear weapons programs and cooperation with Al Qaeda might be forgiven for thinking that journalist Timmerman merely made a typo in his attempt to scare Americans about Iran. We have the same reliance on often anonymous "present and former U.S. government officials and trusted sources within the intelligence community" and Iranian defectors, at least one of whom has been tagged as "a fabricator of monumental proportions" by the Central Intelligence Agency. Timmerman attempts to tie the Iranian regime to numerous acts of terror, including the 9-11 attacks, and argues that its nuclear programs are designed to build weapons with which they can menace the United States and Israel. Given the nature of his sources, however, it is near impossible to decipher how much of his information has basis in the real world