PURE GARBAGE - AT 9:35 A.M. ET:  The outgoing head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has done his usual fronting for Iran in a story getting major attention this morning:

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday there is a ''shifting of gears'' in Iran's confrontation with the West to more cooperation and transparency and he announced that international inspectors would visit Tehran's newly revealed uranium enrichment site on Oct. 25.

This is complete garbage.  Iran got caught red-handed trying to conceal a new nuclear plant, and is offering "inspections" long before the plant actually opens.  It has also made plain that it has no intention of giving up its advanced nuclear program.  This outgoing UN official is a Muslim who has consistently fronted for Iran.  His statement comes a day after it was learned that his own organization has been suppressing an analysis that Iran now has the full knowledge to build a nuclear bomb.

The International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, speaking at a joint news conference in Tehran with Iran's top nuclear official, said his agency ''has no concrete proof of an ongoing weapons program in Iran.'' But the IAEA has ''concerns about Iran's future intentions,'' he said.

No proof.  I guess Iran acquired all that knowledge on bomb making just to produce energy to recharge iPods.

''I see that we are at a critical moment. I see that we are shifting gears from confrontation into transparency and cooperation,'' said ElBaradei.

What a fraud.  And this man won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Yet, his words will now be used by the appeasement crowd in Washington to support Obama's failed policies.

October 4,  2009