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#1 Chilidawgz

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 05:29 AM

It's late and I don't know if this is credible, we shall see Sunday:

Plans for an Israeli nuclear strike on Iranian uranium enrichment plants are reported on in Sunday's papers. The Sunday Times claims Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.

What the paper calls senior sources say such action would only be taken if a conventional attack was ruled out.

The Independent says plans are in hand to give Western companies access to Iraqi oil fields for up to 30 years.





http://news.bbc.co.u...ews/6238373.stm
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#2 libs

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 07:13 AM

Western firms look to Iraq oil bonanzaPublished: Sunday, 7 January, 2007, 11:38 AM Doha Time

By Danny Fortson, Andrew Murray-Watson and Tim Webb

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which is expected to come before the Iraqi parliament within days.

The US government has been involved in drawing up the law, a draft of which has been seen by The Independent on Sunday.

It would give big oil companies such as BP, Shell and Exxon 30-year contracts to extract Iraqi crude and allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil interests in the country since the industry was nationalised in 1972.

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#3 Sentient Being

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 09:32 AM

It's late and I don't know if this is credible, we shall see Sunday:

Plans for an Israeli nuclear strike on Iranian uranium enrichment plants are reported on in Sunday's papers. The Sunday Times claims Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.

What the paper calls senior sources say such action would only be taken if a conventional attack was ruled out.

The Independent says plans are in hand to give Western companies access to Iraqi oil fields for up to 30 years.

http://news.bbc.co.u...ews/6238373.stm


They apparently take Irans threats to wipe them off the map seriously....who woulda thunk?

I see the palistinian civil war is heating up too with radical islam vs not quite so radical islam.

And the US has deported a terror supporting Muslim Cleric ...the largest Masque in the US! Who woulda thunk?
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#4 Rogerdodger

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 10:59 AM

The Military always has plans.
The "new" part is the need to use tactical nukes to penetrate the depth of the facilities.
The "LEAK" seems to be more of an attempt to put pressue on Tehran's enrichment.

The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb. Under the plans, conventional laser-guided bombs would open "tunnels" into the targets. "Mini-nukes" would then immediately be fired into a plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce the risk of radioactive fallout.

Israeli military commanders believe conventional strikes may no longer be enough to annihilate increasingly well-defended enrichment facilities. Several have been built beneath at least 70ft of concrete and rock. However, the nuclear-tipped bunker-busters would be used only if a conventional attack was ruled out and if the United States declined to intervene, senior sources said. Israeli and American officials have met several times to consider military action. Military analysts said the disclosure of the plans could be intended to put pressure on Tehran to halt enrichment, cajole America into action or soften up world opinion in advance of an Israeli attack.


To my warped mind the funny part was the headline grouping on Drudge:

"Boston looks to buy city-wide microphone system to listen for gun shots...
Israel plans nuclear strike."

That's gonna really hurt someone's ears!

Edited by Rogerdodger, 07 January 2007 - 12:12 PM.


#5 dcengr

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 12:09 PM

Geeze read the real article. Ain't so scary.

Focus: Mission Iran
Israel will not tolerate Iran going nuclear and military sources say it will use tactical strikes unless Iran abandons its programme. Is Israel bluffing or might it really push the button? Uzi Mahnaimi in New York and Sarah Baxter in Washington report
In an Israeli air force bunker in Tel Aviv, near the concert hall for the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, Major General Eliezer Shkedi might one day conduct operations of a perilous kind. Should the order come from the Israeli prime minister, it will be Shkedi’s job as air force commander to orchestrate a tactical nuclear strike on Iran.

Two fast assault squadrons based in the Negev desert and in Tel Nof, south of Tel Aviv, are already training for the attack.

On a plasma screen, Shkedi will be able to see dozens of planes advance towards Iran, as well as the electronic warfare aircraft jamming the Iranian and Syrian air defences and the rescue choppers hovering near the border, ready to move in and pluck out the pilots should the mission go wrong.

Another screen will show live satellite images of the Iranian nuclear sites. The prime target will be Natanz, the deep and ferociously protected bunker south of Tehran where the Iranians are churning out enriched uranium in defiance of the United Nations security council.

If things go according to plan, a pilot will first launch a conventional laser-guided bomb to blow a shaft down through the layers of hardened concrete. Other pilots will then be ready to drop low-yield one kiloton nuclear weapons into the hole. The theory is that they will explode deep underground, both destroying the bunker and limiting the radioactive fallout.

The other potential targets are Iran’s uranium conversion facility at Isfahan — uncomfortably near a metropolis of 4.5m people — and the heavy water power reactor at Arak, which might one day be able to produce enough plutonium to make a bomb. These will be hit with conventional bombs.

In recent weeks Israeli pilots have been flying long-haul as far as Gibraltar to simulate the 2,000-mile round trip to Natanz. “There is no 99% success in this mission. It must be a perfect 100% or better not at all,” one of the pilots expected to fly on the mission told The Sunday Times.

The Israelis say they hope as fervently as the rest of the world that this attack will never take place. There is clearly an element of sabre-rattling in their letting it be known the plan exists and that the pilots are already in training. But in the deeply dangerous and volatile Middle East, contingency plans can become horrible reality.

NO nuclear weapon has been fired in anger since the American bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Should Israel take such a drastic step, it would inflame world opinion — particularly in Muslim states — and unleash retaliation from Iran and its allies. But Israelis have become increasingly convinced that a “second holocaust” of the Jews is brewing, stoked by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president and chief Holocaust denier, who has repeatedly called for Israel to be destroyed.

Western Europe and the United States have been trying to persuade Tehran to drop its nuclear ambitions, using the carrot of co-operation with a legitimate nuclear energy programme and the stick of UN sanctions. But they have had no effect.

As a result, Israel sees itself standing on its own and fighting for its very existence. It got a taste of what Iran was capable of during last summer’s war in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah, Tehran’s proxy troops fighting from bunkers secretly built by Iranian military engineers, humiliated the Israeli army and rained missiles into northern Israel.

Every Israeli government has vowed never to let Iran acquire nuclear weapons. Ariel Sharon, when he was prime minister, ordered the military to be ready for a conventional strike on Iran’s nuclear programme. Since then, however, the Iranians have strengthened their nuclear facilities and air defences, making a conventional strike less likely to succeed.

“There are 24 strong batteries around Natanz, making it one of the most protected sites on earth,” said an Israeli military source. Its centrifuge halls, where the uranium is enriched, are heavily protected at least 70ft underground.

Ehud Olmert, the prime minister, recently “let slip” the world’s worst-kept secret that Israel is a nuclear power; Israeli defence experts are now openly debating the use of nukes against Iran. Shlomo Mofaz, a reservist colonel in Israeli military intelligence, believes that tactical nuclear weapons will be required to penetrate the defences that Iran has built around its nuclear facilities.

Israel developed tactical nuclear weapons in the early 1970s for use on the battlefield. In an attack on Iran, its air force would be expected to use a low-yield nuclear device of 1 kiloton (equivalent to 1,000 tons of TNT), loaded on a bunker-buster missile.

“If the nuclear device explodes deep underground there will be no radioactive fallout,” said Dr Ephraim Asculai of the Tel Aviv Institute for Strategic Studies, who worked for the Israel Atomic Energy Commission for more than 40 years.

Professor Peter Zimmerman, a nuclear physicist at King’s College, London, was less sure. “The definition of low-yield nuclear weapons is not easy,” he said. “I assume that it includes any device which is less than 5 kilotons. If such a bunker-buster missile is exploded at 70ft below ground” — thought to be the minimum depth of the hidden centrifuges in Natanz — “some radioactive fallout is expected.”


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#6 Jnavin

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 01:19 PM

That Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper has printed that same story 5 or 6 times over the last 2 or 3 years.

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 01:19 PM

The element of surprise is gone.....Trying to fly 2000 miles without detection?
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#8 Rogerdodger

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 02:18 PM

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Edited by Rogerdodger, 07 January 2007 - 02:20 PM.


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Posted 07 January 2007 - 05:32 PM

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