Paper: Israel Plans Nuclear Strike On Iran

mammasan
mammasan Posts: 5,656
edited January 2007 in A Moving Train
Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, the SUNDAY TIMES of London is planning to report, British media sources tell DRUDGE... MORE...



Just saw this on Drudge Report.
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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Will be interesting to read the article and what they base this on but in the meantime.... why am I not surprised?
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    mammasan wrote:
    Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, the SUNDAY TIMES of London is planning to report, British media sources tell DRUDGE... MORE...



    Just saw this on Drudge Report.


    So it's gotta be true. You know what the little idiot was doing before he started his little blog? Selling souvenirs at the CBS Radford Studio store in Studio City CA. This studio is where many sitcoms have been shot including Seinfeld, Rosanne etc. Suddenly the sheeple are listening to this guy like he's Deep Throat.
  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    scary. I hope that doesnt happen. Israel should defend itself from a regime trying to aquire nukes which has called for it to be wiped off the map but I hope Israel doesnt resort to using a nuke.
  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    8 minutes ago



    LONDON (Reuters) - Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper said.

    Citing what it said were several Israeli military sources, the paper said two Israeli air force squadrons had been training to blow up an enrichment plant in Natanz using low-yield nuclear "bunker busters."

    Two other sites, a heavy water plant at Arak and a uranium conversion plant at Isfahan, would be targeted with conventional bombs, the Sunday Times said.


    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070106/ts_nm/iran_nuclear_israel_dc_1
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    redrock wrote:
    Will be interesting to read the article and what they base this on but in the meantime.... why am I not surprised?

    I check the Sunday Time's website but there was no mention of it. I guess we have to wait till tomorrow.
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    MrBrian wrote:
    8 minutes ago



    LONDON (Reuters) - Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper said.

    Citing what it said were several Israeli military sources, the paper said two Israeli air force squadrons had been training to blow up an enrichment plant in Natanz using low-yield nuclear "bunker busters."

    Two other sites, a heavy water plant at Arak and a uranium conversion plant at Isfahan, would be targeted with conventional bombs, the Sunday Times said.


    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070106/ts_nm/iran_nuclear_israel_dc_1

    Drudge is still a tool though.;):)
  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    MrBrian wrote:
    8 minutes ago



    LONDON (Reuters) - Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper said.

    Citing what it said were several Israeli military sources, the paper said two Israeli air force squadrons had been training to blow up an enrichment plant in Natanz using low-yield nuclear "bunker busters."

    I would like to know more what exact these are
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    cutback wrote:
    Drudge is still a tool though.;):)


    Drudge is a tool, but I usually check a long list of different sites to get my news.
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  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    jlew24asu wrote:
    I would like to know more what exact these are

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_bunker_buster
  • trappedinmyradio
    trappedinmyradio Posts: 1,189
    well, if you ask me, if they do this then i hope they go all the way...if you're not going to go all the way then don't do it at all...not going all the way, but giving it a go anyway gets you what is going on in iraq now...turmoil...chaos...
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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    MrBrian wrote:
    8 minutes ago



    LONDON (Reuters) - Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper said.

    Citing what it said were several Israeli military sources, the paper said two Israeli air force squadrons had been training to blow up an enrichment plant in Natanz using low-yield nuclear "bunker busters."

    Two other sites, a heavy water plant at Arak and a uranium conversion plant at Isfahan, would be targeted with conventional bombs, the Sunday Times said.


    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070106/ts_nm/iran_nuclear_israel_dc_1

    This is too frightening to contemplate...
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    jlew24asu wrote:
    I would like to know more what exact these are

    They are GBU-28s that were shipped to Israel from the U.S.A. during the conflict in Lebanon. They aren't exactly nuclear bombs, they are depleted uranium U-238 bombs, but are fairly devastating and radioactive.

    That's my understanding anyway.
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  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    MrBrian wrote:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_bunker_buster


    cool thanks. I should have known there was a wiki page. go ol wiki ;)
  • DPrival78
    DPrival78 CT Posts: 2,263
    Ahnimus wrote:
    They are GBU-28s that were shipped to Israel from the U.S.A. during the conflict in Lebanon. They aren't exactly nuclear bombs, they are depleted uranium U-238 bombs, but are fairly devastating and radioactive.

    That's my understanding anyway.

    well we've already covered iraq in a nice layer of depleted uranium, so why not iran?

    i guess israel is running out of patience trying to get us to attack iran for them. but it doesn't really matter if they do it or we do it.. either way, more american troops will be killed.
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  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    jlew24asu wrote:
    cool thanks. I should have known there was a wiki page. go ol wiki ;)

    yea np,
  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    I dont think I will see byzine lining up to post this so I guess I will




    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070107/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_iran_nuclear



    LONDON - A British newspaper reported Sunday that Israel has drafted plans to strike as many as three targets in Iran with low-yield nuclear weapons, aiming to halt Tehran's uranium enrichment program. The Israeli Foreign Ministry denied the report.

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    Citing multiple unidentified Israeli military sources, The Sunday Times said the proposals involved using so-called "bunker-buster" nuclear weapons to attack nuclear facilities at three sites south of the Iranian capital.

    Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said it would not respond to the claim. "We don't respond to publications in the Sunday Times," said Miri Eisin, Olmert's spokeswoman.

    Israeli Minister of Strategic Threats Avigdor Lieberman also declined to comment on the report.

    Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev denied the report and said that "the focus of the Israeli activity today is to give full support to diplomatic actions" and the implementation of a U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt enrichment.

    The United States and its allies accuse Tehran of secretly trying to produce atomic weapons, but Iran claims its nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes, including generating electricity.

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has condemned as invalid and illegal the U.N. resolution.

    Though Olmert has not explicitly ruled out a military strike against Iran's nuclear program, he has repeatedly said the issue should be dealt with diplomatically.

    Because an Iranian nuclear bomb would affect the entire world, Olmert has said, the problem must be solved by the international community.

    The Sunday Times reported that Mossad, the Israeli spy agency, believes Iran could produce enough enriched uranium to build nuclear weapons within two years. It also reported the top three targets for the Israelis were Natanz, where thousands of centrifuges are being installed, a heavy water reactor at Arak and a uranium conversion facility near Isfahan.

    Israeli pilots, the newspaper reported, have made flights to the British colony of Gibraltar to train for the 2,000-mile round trip to the Iranian targets.

    The Israeli army declined to comment when asked by The Associated Press on Sunday whether the Israeli air force was training for an attack against Iranian nuclear facilities.

    "I refuse to believe that anyone here would consider using nuclear weapons against Iran," Reuven Pedatzur, a prominent defense analyst and columnist for the daily Haaretz, told the AP. "It is possible that this was a leak done on purpose, as deterrence, to say 'someone better hold us back, before we do something crazy.'"

    Ephraim Kam, a strategic expert at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Strategic Studies and a former senior army intelligence officer, also dismissed the report.

    "No reliable source would ever speak about this, certainly not to the Sunday Times," Kam said.

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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    jlew24asu wrote:
    LONDON - A British newspaper reported Sunday that Israel has drafted plans to strike as many as three targets in Iran with low-yield nuclear weapons, aiming to halt Tehran's uranium enrichment program. The Israeli Foreign Ministry denied the report.
    ___

    Full Sunday Times article can be read here

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2535310,00.html

    "...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....."
  • PaperPlates
    PaperPlates Posts: 1,745
    Whats with nations and their inability to keep a secret? Who's making these "secret" plans, and do they have any hope of success when they can't even keep a fuckin secret? Maybe this is just Israel flexing their muscles a bit. Otherwise, we'd not be reading of "secret plans", instead we'd be reading about the aftermath.
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  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    PaperPlates wrote:
    Whats with nations and their inability to keep a secret? Who's making these "secret" plans, and do they have any hope of success when they can't even keep a fuckin secret? Maybe this is just Israel flexing their muscles a bit. Otherwise, we'd not be reading of "secret plans", instead we'd be reading about the aftermath.

    Your probably right. This could be nothing more than the Israel's doing a little saber rattling.
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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    PaperPlates wrote:
    Whats with nations and their inability to keep a secret? Who's making these "secret" plans, and do they have any hope of success when they can't even keep a fuckin secret? Maybe this is just Israel flexing their muscles a bit. Otherwise, we'd not be reading of "secret plans", instead we'd be reading about the aftermath.

    Read my post above!!!!!

    Still... US and Israel are in it together... with past actions, can't trust it's only a little saber rattling....

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