"National security expert" accused of faking credentials, interviews

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5h7SmVxqx_E6HfsQC501BR6y9EqTA

Former ABC consultant accused of faking credentials, interviews 

PARIS (AP) - The French Defence Ministry on Friday debunked the credentials
of a former ABC News consultant who claimed to have worked as an adviser to
the ministry, saying the man was just an intern for five months.

Alexis Debat, who was fired by the TV network last year, quit a Washington
think tank on Wednesday after being accused of faking an interview with
Barack Obama.

Previously, he had been identified in stories by a range of media, including
The Associated Press, as a former French Defence Ministry official or
analyst. The National Interest, an online publication he wrote for,
identified him as a "former adviser to the French minister of Defence on
Transatlantic affairs."

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Pentagon 'three-day blitz' plan for Iran
> From The Sunday Times
September 2, 2007
 
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2369001.ece
 
Sarah Baxter, Washington 
THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets
in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians' military capability in three
days, according to a national security expert.

Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon
Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for
"pinprick strikes" against Iran's nuclear facilities. "They're about taking
out the entire Iranian military," he said.

Debat was speaking at a meeting organised by The National Interest, a
conservative foreign policy journal. He told The Sunday Times that the US
military had concluded: "Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out
military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same." It was,
he added, a "very legitimate strategic calculus".

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