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2012-09-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Could US be behind Iran power line blasts?

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Posted by Glinesh Craling7938 2012-09-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Could US be behind Iran power line blasts?
Aw shucks, who knows.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2012-09-20 00:44|| 2012-09-20 00:44|| Front Page Top

#2 I would certainly hope so, Ollie.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2012-09-20 01:08|| 2012-09-20 01:08|| Front Page Top

#3 The blueprint from a 2004 Air Force study

Posted by tipper 2012-09-20 01:38|| 2012-09-20 01:38|| Front Page Top

#4 A retired US intelligence officer who still works as a contractor with the US military on Iran-related operations said the US Special Forces have trained for sabotage missions inside Iran for years.

Contractors and retirees, we all know they can't be trusted.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-09-20 08:08|| 2012-09-20 08:08|| Front Page Top

#5 So it was either the US, Israel, or the Iranian opposition. Or some combination of those three. Great! I'm glad we cleared that up.

Posted by SteveS 2012-09-20 12:09|| 2012-09-20 12:09|| Front Page Top

#6 "Could US Be Behind Iran Power Line Blasts?"

It was probably Southern California Edison. They can get very snarky - if you don't pay your bill on time.

Posted by Raider 2012-09-20 14:36|| 2012-09-20 14:36|| Front Page Top

#7 If so, I'm proud of their accomplishment.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-09-20 16:59|| 2012-09-20 16:59|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm blaming djinn until someone proves otherwise.

Posted by lotp 2012-09-20 20:24|| 2012-09-20 20:24|| Front Page Top

#9 If so, Obama and Dempsey are running one of the great deception ops of all time.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2012-09-20 20:54|| 2012-09-20 20:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Missions against insurgencies or powerful criminal gangs (e.g. Pablo Escobar) for beleaguered Third World allies, I can see. However, having an A-Team captured in Iran is the stuff of presidential nightmares. Qom is hundreds of miles inside Iran. How do you get them in? How do you get them out if they're detected? Unless the Super Friends are part of the Special Forces, it's not clear how they do some of these things.

Between the books Bravo Two Zero and Sole Survivor, it's quite clear that elite troops face extreme danger even in areas where our air force has established air supremacy. In a shooting war, dead or captured GI's are a part of doing business. Given that there's no such war going on with Iran, it's hard to conceive of a situation in which any president would send small special forces units deep into Injun country. If it's something that absolutely, positively has to be destroyed, they'll send in the B-2's or (more likely) sub-contract it via one or a combination of Kurdish, Arab, other ethnic separatist or communist opposition groups operating in Iran. A B-2 strike is feasible without anyone on the ground because it's not as if anyone's invented mobile power lines. However, given the fact that no air-dropped ordnance has been publicized, I'd go with the internal opposition (financed by us and/or the Gulf kingdoms) theory.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2012-09-20 21:51|| 2012-09-20 21:51|| Front Page Top

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