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2006-12-11 Home Front: WoT
Seeking Iran intelligence, U.S. tries Rantburg Google
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Posted by Seafarious 2006-12-11 03:37|| || Front Page|| [11142 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 European officials said their governments did not rely on Google searches but came up with nearly identical lists to the one U.S. officials offered.

So Google worked as well as all those highly paid professional (Euro) spooks.
Posted by phil_b 2006-12-11 04:42||   2006-12-11 04:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Millions of ethnic minorities and ideological opponents of the Ayatollahs, are more than willing to inform on the Arab wannabes. Intelligence vacuum? Not where you have what the Spooks call "walk-ins."
Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-12-11 04:43||   2006-12-11 04:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Persians v Islamofascism:

http://www.islam-watch.org/AmilImani/RulingMullahsNotIranian.htm
Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-12-11 05:07||   2006-12-11 05:07|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm sure Fred could be convinced to share Thugburg with them. For a reasonable fee, of course.
Posted by Steve 2006-12-11 08:28||   2006-12-11 08:28|| Front Page Top

#5 So the CIA does not want to work with a junior State dept guy. Agency fears are probable well founded, just by the nature of this report getting out it shows the state still can't keep its mouth shut. This is not an issue of seams between agencies and the CIA closing the door on our State Dept. The State Dept has a great track record of blowing classified info out into the public sector.
Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan  2006-12-11 08:39||   2006-12-11 08:39|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm still convinced that the most cost-effective way of neutralizing much of Iran's nuclear program is to smuggle some devices into the facilities that quietly sprays enough highly toxic agent to kill everyone inside and make the place totally unusable.

Not only would the facility be ruined, but the vast majority of Iranian nuclear physicists would be killed, a brain drain.

Polonium 210 would be just perfect for that exercise, don't you think?
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-12-11 09:01||   2006-12-11 09:01|| Front Page Top

#7 I second Anonymoose's motion.
Posted by Excalibur 2006-12-11 09:12||   2006-12-11 09:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Thirded.
Posted by Mike N. 2006-12-11 10:39||   2006-12-11 10:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Couldn't we just send them 100+ lbs of Pelosium?
Posted by SteveS 2006-12-11 11:54||   2006-12-11 11:54|| Front Page Top

#10 My name is true. US are aggressores in Asia.

There is no intellegence in US. All estupidos.

Think wisely and ofen.
Posted by Bleeding Heart 2006-12-11 13:52||   2006-12-11 13:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Couldn't we just send them 100+ lbs of Pelosium?

Sorry, SteveS, that would be considered an attack by weapons of mass disruption. You'd get the entire US sanctioned for that.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2006-12-11 13:54|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2006-12-11 13:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Bleeding Heart, did your mother never teach you that it's rude to insult your hosts? Obviously you aren't Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Indian... Would any of Rantburg's Spanish speakers like to help poor Mr. Bleeding Heart understand in his native tongue? His English skills are clearly quite weak, based on the sentence structure and mixture of grammatical formulations.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-11 14:03||   2006-12-11 14:03|| Front Page Top

#13 
My nomination for WMD's is "Trial Attornies". Ship them to Iran and solve two problems at once.
Posted by Master of Obvious 2006-12-11 14:07||   2006-12-11 14:07|| Front Page Top

#14 My nomination for WMD's is "Trial Attornies". Ship them to Iran and solve two problems at once.

Do we send them in by land or -- my preference -- air drop them?
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-12-11 14:12|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-12-11 14:12|| Front Page Top

#15 Anybody got their decoder ring handy? I think Beeding Heart wants us to drink more Ovaltine, but I'd like it verified.
Posted by tu3031 2006-12-11 14:36||   2006-12-11 14:36|| Front Page Top

#16 ROFLMAO! I'm looking forward to seeing that movie again. It's the best thing on T.V. during Christmas.
Posted by Mike N. 2006-12-11 14:44||   2006-12-11 14:44|| Front Page Top

#17 Think wisely and ofen.

It is sed, a wise man has a thermometer, but a morons tongue is glued to the pole.

Say Lavee, it is written. Peace be upon Lake Erie and adjoining areas.

It is written.

Posted by Shipman 2006-12-11 15:21||   2006-12-11 15:21|| Front Page Top

#18 So it is written.

So it shall be done.

Amen.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-11 17:17||   2006-12-11 17:17|| Front Page Top

#19 Would any of Rantburg's Spanish speakers like to help poor Mr. Bleeding Heart understand in his native tongue?

I'm pretty good with the Spanglish but BH's attempt doesn't even qualify for that. BTW BH, what's an agressore? And can it be treated with a cream?
Posted by Intrinsicpilot 2006-12-11 17:33||   2006-12-11 17:33|| Front Page Top

#20 Re - Bleeding Heart.

Well, I've been to one world's fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over (rantburg).

Posted by Maj. Kong 2006-12-11 18:13||   2006-12-11 18:13|| Front Page Top

#21 He said the word and we ate it! Hot Dawg!
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2006-12-11 18:19||   2006-12-11 18:19|| Front Page Top

#22 Bleeding Heart blogs from the 'Earth's naturally occurring "ENGINE MUFFLER/TAILPIPE"'

/ht our Joe M
Posted by RD 2006-12-11 19:45||   2006-12-11 19:45|| Front Page Top

#23 Yeah... Sacramento. Lol,
Posted by .com 2006-12-11 19:48||   2006-12-11 19:48|| Front Page Top

#24 thought it might be SF! not much diff

LOL!
Posted by RD 2006-12-11 20:10||   2006-12-11 20:10|| Front Page Top

#25 Forsooth and Fort Smith.
Posted by Fred 2006-12-11 20:35||   2006-12-11 20:35|| Front Page Top

#26 Handy thing, this google.

There were 5 hits for "google is communist," including one from a chap who says that MIT is the center of the communist universe and should be firebombed.
"Google supports terrorism" returned 38 hits.
"Google supports Islam" got 29 hits.
"Google is subversive" also returned 5.

The ever popular "google sucks" and "F*** you, google" returned 37,100 and 5,570 respectively.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-12-11 22:12|| http://www.nuclearspace.com]">[http://www.nuclearspace.com]  2006-12-11 22:12|| Front Page Top

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