| Submit your comments on this article |
| Iran |
| Israel ’would bomb Iran nuclear plant’ |
| 2003-08-30 |
| Apologies if this was referred to on Rantburg before, and I missed it... Israel has made plans to bomb an Iranian nuclear power plant if it begins producing weapons grade material, it was reported today [Friday]. Military commanders have mapped out a route Israeli fighter jets would take to destroy the Bushehr reactor on the Persian Gulf, officials told the Washington Times. Russia has been helping Iran to build its first nuclear plant for eight years in a deal worth about £500 million to Moscow. Both countries say it is purely for civilian purposes. But the US claims Iran could use the technology to build a nuclear bomb, and President George Bush is expected raise the issue with Russian leader Vladimir Putin at next month’s Camp David summit. Russia said this week it would stop building the plant if the UN nuclear watchdog presents "concrete evidence" that Tehran is secretly developing banned weapons. Iran has tested 600-mile-range ballistic missiles that can reach Israel and carry nuclear, biological or chemical warheads. |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #2 Saddly I think it is only a matter of time before one of the Asshat Brigades gets their hands on a bomb or more than one. Between the NKs, Pakland, Iran and now Indoamnesia it is only a matter of time. Then their problem will be who to strike. The US or Israel. Now is the time to make it plain to these clowns. The US and Israel should announce that if there is ever the use of nuclear weapons by these groups against them the retaliatory targets will be Mecca and Medina. Not the cities so much but the "Holy Sites" that are situated in them. Low yield presicion guided nukes. Very dirty nukes. Extremely dirty Nukes. Nukes contaminated with all of the worst sludge from Hanford. They would not even have to be nukes, J-DAMS sheathed in waste could do the job too. Followed up with crop dusters spaying liquified lard. But this would only happen if THEY start the process. |
| Posted by: Someone who did NOT vote for William Proxmire 2003-8-30 8:27:17 PM |
| #1 Debka had it/posted earlier, but still, I think it's good that the option is out in the public/on the table....keep the blackhats wary. It would be a lot easier to do it with a SLCM from the gulf, than expose aircraft and pilots...but that would be us, not Israel. If we do it, I hope it's soon, before dispersal of components can happen |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-30 3:52:09 PM |