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2013-11-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iranian ICBM threat to U.S. a distant prospect, think tank says

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-11-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Hell, load it on a boat and bring it in about 12 miles off New Jersey and launch,

Think. ( like a nutjob Moslem )

Posted by Spereting Tingle4064 2013-11-16 08:05|| 2013-11-16 08:05|| Front Page Top

#2 #1 Hell, load it on a boat and bring it in about 12 miles off New Jersey and launch,

Think. ( like a nutjob Moslem )

...ya' mean like these...?: <LINK>

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-11-16 08:16|| 2013-11-16 08:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't even have to launch. Hijack a container ship and sail it into New York Harbor or San Francisco Bay.

Stick it in a truck in Mexico and simply drive it across our wide open southern border right into downtown LA or Houston.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-11-16 08:43|| 2013-11-16 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Damn, why have we spent so much money on SLBMs, we need to find what kinda rate DLH or FedEx will charge to deliver the end of the world to specific cities in the Eurasian land mass. Must be inside delivery, will prepay freight of course.

Posted by Shipman 2013-11-16 08:53|| 2013-11-16 08:53|| Front Page Top

#5 IIRC, Bill Gertz wrote about this in 2000 in his book, The China Threat. He talked about the Chinese company Hutchison Wampoa getting contracts for port management at both ends of the Panama Canal. Perfect place for storing missiles in 40 ft ocean containers to be used against the US.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-11-16 16:54|| 2013-11-16 16:54|| Front Page Top

#6 No effn way, Jumpin' Joe Biden told me that this is impossible.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-11-16 18:37|| 2013-11-16 18:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Is this so-called think tank thinking about the Norks?

Posted by gorb 2013-11-16 18:51|| 2013-11-16 18:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Same think tank who were consulted for the 2007 Intelligence Estimate?

Posted by mossomo 2013-11-16 20:01|| 2013-11-16 20:01|| Front Page Top

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