Fidel Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 It was nice knowing you all... Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran Uzi Mahnaimi, New York and Sarah Baxter, Washington ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iranâ??s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear â??bunker-bustersâ?Â, according to several Israeli military sources. The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 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 â??tunnelsâ? into the targets. â??Mini-nukesâ? would then immediately be fired into a plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce the risk of radioactive fallout. â??As soon as the green light is given, it will be one mission, one strike and the Iranian nuclear project will be demolished,â? said one of the sources. The plans, disclosed to The Sunday Times last week, have been prompted in part by the Israeli intelligence service Mossadâ??s assessment that Iran is on the verge of producing enough enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons within two years. 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. Some analysts warned that Iranian retaliation for such a strike could range from disruption of oil supplies to the West to terrorist attacks against Jewish targets around the world. Israel has identified three prime targets south of Tehran which are believed to be involved in Iranâ??s nuclear programme: # Natanz, where thousands of centrifuges are being installed for uranium enrichment # A uranium conversion facility near Isfahan where, according to a statement by an Iranian vice-president last week, 250 tons of gas for the enrichment process have been stored in tunnels # A heavy water reactor at Arak, which may in future produce enough plutonium for a bomb Israeli officials believe that destroying all three sites would delay Iranâ??s nuclear programme indefinitely and prevent them from having to live in fear of a â??second Holocaustâ?Â. The Israeli government has warned repeatedly that it will never allow nuclear weapons to be made in Iran, whose president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has declared that â??Israel must be wiped off the mapâ?Â. Full Story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bkkbound04 Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 It was nice knowing you all... I'm sure theres a few caves in the tora bora mountains available for the elite few. I just hope they do the job properly using maximum force. JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidel Posted January 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 Actually, the Tora Bora mountains are just up the road.... "Taxi!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 Fidel, this is discussed in the bar too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidel Posted January 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 Shit, I just noticed that, under the "Oh, frabjus day ... " thread... sorry 'bout that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 ............ does this mean we might have to check our gas at the gas pump with a geiger counter before we fill up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrenova Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 And who gave the Israelies nukes ? Good ol' US of A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALHOLK Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 Or the froggies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 I wonder if Isreal really has them? (nukes)?? or all just a bluff? What kind, and what kind of delivery? The scarey part is, there was talk a few years back that Isreal would use the "Massada Principle" if they were ever going to get over run, that is, blow themselves up, and their invaders as well...scarey the nut jobs involved. NMo idea if that is true, or ever was, but the zionist hard liners are likely to go with it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 'It is rumoured' they have submarines that will go on firing off nukes long after Israel is overrun... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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