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2006-04-25 Iraq

Iraq builds 45 forts on its border with Iran

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2006-04-25 20:42|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This sounds like progress. I wonder if it could be duplicated anywhere else?

Posted by Phaviter Glineter1848 2006-04-25 21:03|| 2006-04-25 21:03|| Front Page Top

#2 "50,000 volts would be quite a surprise when you turn on the lights." They would be REALLY bright for a very short time, tho.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2006-04-25 21:29|| 2006-04-25 21:29|| Front Page Top

#3 HERE is a video of a 500,000 volt arc on a high voltage transmission line. Impressive arc! Click on the picture for a real thrill. Don't mess with the electricity gods, by gawd!

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-04-25 21:43|| 2006-04-25 21:43|| Front Page Top

#4 AP,
An ex-co-worker makes tesla coils with the primaries being coiled 1" waterpipe. That allows him to effectively water cool the dang things. He can light up lightbulbs with antennas and grounds from 1 mile away and run lighting bolts from basketball hoops to the ground.

I keep track of where he lives so I don't live anywhere near him. I don't wish to loose my electronics to his EMF pulses.

Posted by 3dc 2006-04-25 22:18|| 2006-04-25 22:18|| Front Page Top

#5 RE #1: There's a border just south of where I live in Tucson, Arizona that might fit your bill!

Posted by borgboy 2006-04-25 22:35|| 2006-04-25 22:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Each mud hut fort is also well marked on the roof for an easier target reference point for the Iranians. The Iraqi forts not only provide wonderful target reference points for the impending Iranian cross-border defensive move, but also good rubble reference points for Iranian units on the move. The better forts will be kept intact for Iranian special law enforcement and security services use. The worlds gone cuckoo and we all have a ringside seat. Didn't anyone annotate this in the planning stages for these forts?

Posted by Fun Dung Poo 2006-04-25 22:48|| 2006-04-25 22:48|| Front Page Top

#7 mud huts? Troll, only Iranians in earthquake zones live in those

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-04-25 23:09|| 2006-04-25 23:09|| Front Page Top

#8 I suspect a far deeper motive for these forts, assuming they are part of the contingency plan for a war with Iran, which they very might well be.

For example, the Iranians might be planning to set up defenses in depth in the North to preclude a quick advance on Tehran. Then they would plan for considerable unconventional attacks in southern Iraq to try and bog down US and British forces there.

A chain of forts would prevent any northern unconventional infiltration into Iraq, which would simplify things for us.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-04-25 23:52|| 2006-04-25 23:52|| Front Page Top

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