In 2004 Giraldi, with his partner
Vincent Cannistraro, a retired CIA counterterrorism chief, wrote that Turkish sources had reported that Turkey was concerned by Israel's alleged encouragement of Kurdish ambitions to create an independent state and that Israeli intelligence operations in the area included anti-Syrian and anti-Iranian activity by Kurds. They predicted this might lead to a new alliance among Iran, Syria, and Turkey which have Kurdish minorities.
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In August 2005, Giraldi wrote that US Vice President
Dick Cheney had instructed
STRATCOM to prepare "a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States... [including] a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons ... not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States." The reason cited for the attack to use
mini-nukes is that the targets are
hardened or are deep underground and would not be destroyed by non-nuclear warheads.
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In 2005 Giraldi also wrote that the Italian Niger/yellowcake documents claiming an
Iraqi interest in purchasing uranium from Niger were forgeries created by former CIA officers and
Michael Ledeen. (See
Niger uranium forgeries.) Giraldi also wrote that officials in the
Office of Special Plans working for
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith had forged the "
Habbush letter" allegedly written by
Saddam Hussein's intelligence director regarding shipping the uranium.
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In 2009 Giraldi wrote that unnamed intelligence sources had told him that a document published by
The Times, which allegedly described an Iranian plan to experiment on a "neutron initiator" for an atomic weapon, was in fact a
fabrication, which Giraldi speculated was created by the State of
Israel. He claimed that
Rupert Murdoch publications regularly published false intelligence from the Israeli and sometimes the British government.
[12][14] Further disclosures by
The Times undermined the document's veracity.
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In August, 2010 Giraldi wrote that unnamed "sources in the counterintelligence community" had told him that agents of Israel's
Mossad intelligence agency were posing as American intelligence agents and visiting Arabs and Muslims in New York and New Jersey. This was allegedly done to help agents gain information about Iran, which they believed would not be forthcoming to known Israeli agents. The Israeli embassy, the
United States Department of Justice, and Giraldi all declined to comment for an article on the allegations in the biweekly New York Arab-community newspaper
Aramica.
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In September 2017,
Valerie Plame encountered massive criticism on
Twitter when she retweeted Giraldi's
Unz Review column "America's Jews are Driving America's Wars",and it was pointed out she had retweeted his previous column "Why I Dislike Israel" among other articles he has written critical of Israeli influence in American foreign policy
[17]. In the article, Giraldi ties certain media figures and lobbying organizations (of Jewish ancestry) to increased calls for military interventions in the Middle East, including Iraq and Iran, which he believes pose no direct threat to the U.S., but are viewed by Israel and its allies as enemies.
