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2006-05-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran Sought Advice in Pakistan on Attack

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Posted by john 2006-05-12 17:51|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Pakistani government officials have often suggested that they would be willing to have ties with Israel under certain conditions."

ties meaning weapon sales (preferably as aid)

Posted by john 2006-05-12 18:11|| 2006-05-12 18:11|| Front Page Top

#2 And Pakistan advising Iran thusly makes them our ally exactly how?

Posted by Zenster 2006-05-12 19:56|| 2006-05-12 19:56|| Front Page Top

#3 "They didn't want the technology. They asked: 'Can we have a bomb?' My answer was: By all means you can have it but you must make it yourself. Nobody gave it to us."

No, nobody gave it to you. You paid for the plans after Khan made the materials using technology that he personally stole:
"Around this time [1974], Dr. A.Q. Khan had privileged access to the most secret areas of the URENCO facility as well as to documentation on the gas centrifuge technology. A subsequent investigation by the Dutch authorities found that he had passed highly-classified material to a network of Pakistani intelligence agents..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan

Posted by Darrell 2006-05-12 20:53|| 2006-05-12 20:53|| Front Page Top

#4 An important point is that Iran is not scared of Israel, but it is scared of the US. For this reason, their primary goal is to drive the US out of the ME. If they can do this, then they figure they can whittle away at Israel, even if it takes years. And from then, they would dominate the region.

This means that, like the pre-WWII Japanese, they want to take away the USs will to force project. This means an attack on one or more of our carrier groups, with the idea that it be done in such a way that the US cannot counter-attack Iran with certainty.

In turn, this means using al-Qaeda as a proxy with a nuclear weapon, far away from Iran. About the limit to doing this would be in the Mediterranean, most likely near Italy or Turkey, both of which have considerable Islamist undergrounds. The Med is also suitable in that it has large amounts of surface traffic at close quarters, in which a nuclear device could be smuggled, yet kept under protection until detonated or not.

Of course the bomb would be under Iranian control at all times, with al-Qaeda just taking credit for it, and Iran would vigorously deny any responsibility to every other country on the planet.

Ideally, I suppose, it would be detonated upwind of Israel, for the purposes of fallout, but that is far less important than to destroy a US fleet.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-12 21:20|| 2006-05-12 21:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Nobody gave it to us."

Actually China gave it to you.

Posted by john 2006-05-12 21:30|| 2006-05-12 21:30|| Front Page Top

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