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| Listening device disguised as rock blown up at Fordo nuclear site |
| 2012-09-23 |
| Officials fear significant intelligence on Iran nuclear program may have been lost with discovery of data-catcher, UK paper reports A spying device disguised as a rock at Iran's Fordo nuclear facility blew up when it was discovered by Iranian security forces, Western intelligence officials told The Sunday Times. Plenty of rocks in the desert, Mahmoud. Just saying... The device, which was discovered last month but only reported on Sunday morning, was capable of collecting data from computers at the nuclear site, which is one of the country's main enrichment facilities. The device was happened upon by soldiers on patrol and its remains were examined by Iranian experts after it went kaboom!, according to the Sunday Times. A significant amount of information tracking Iran's uranium enrichment activities could have been lost in the kaboom, the British paper reported. Last week, Iran's vice president revealed that power lines near the plant had been blown up a day before officials from the International Atomic Energy agency requested to inspect the site. He accused the IAEA of harboring saboteurs bent on destroying Iran's nuclear program Fordo, buried beneath hundreds of feet of rock, is considered Iran's most heavily guarded nuclear facility. Officials fear the uranium being enriched at the site's 3,000 centrifuges will be used to build a nuclear weapons program, a claim Iran denies. Israel and the US have been accused of mounting a covert war on Iran's nuclear program, siccing sophisticated computer viruses on nuclear sites to sabotage centrifuges and collect data, and assassinating nuclear scientists. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 D *** NG IT, WE KNOW THE TRUTH - THE "ROCK" IS ACTUALLY ADVANCED SPACESHIP OPERATED BY AN OUTLAWED BUT FRIENDLY TINY MAD SCIENTIST FROM THE FUTURE NAMED "GAZOO/GADZOO" WHOM WAS EXILED TO BEDROCK. Maybe Fred-n-Barney's "rock" would still be around iff it was one those very nice, glarishly silvery ones as used in US residential surveillance??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-09-23 22:00 |
| #7 In fact, that giant rock in Mecca is a listening device too. We switched them out. Don't tell anyone. |
| Posted by: Charles 2012-09-23 19:36 |
| #6 That rock has cousins and cousins on cousins. Don't dick around with the metamorphic clan. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2012-09-23 18:47 |
| #5 But have they found the fake sand, plants, snakes, and rodents? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-09-23 17:59 |
| #4 "listening bug disguised as rock blows up" I blame it on Gimli and all those dwarves from the Middle Kingdom. They always were such troublemakers :-) |
| Posted by: Raider 2012-09-23 17:09 |
| #3 Heh. The fake rebar sensor in the concrete structure was a nice touch, Juice |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-09-23 13:04 |
| #2 They can relax now,I'm sure there was only the one. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2012-09-23 11:36 |
| #1 EMSCO 2282-1. No problem. Plenty more where that one came from. We buy in bulk. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-09-23 11:32 |