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2009-02-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Is Israel assassinating Iran nuclear scientists?

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Posted by Fred 2009-02-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 appears to be a good idea to me.

Posted by Skidmark 2009-02-18 05:12|| 2009-02-18 05:12|| Front Page Top

#2 People always hope that there is "some other approach" out there that we just haven't figured out yet. And now with the best and brightest people ever to walk the earth assembled together under Obama, the bestest president ever, that other approach is bound to appear. Right? Beuhler?

Posted by Cynicism Inc 2009-02-18 06:31|| 2009-02-18 06:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Gerald Bull reports that he has no problem with this technique.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-02-18 07:39|| 2009-02-18 07:39|| Front Page Top

#4 I once heard the brag of an EOD expert that he could shut down a major metropolitan area for a week, and on a budget. In this he included power, water, major transport, and much of its food supply. He estimated the cost at around $500.

But, he concluded, if you wanted quality work, it could cost ten times that amount.

Ever since then, I've wondered about his conjecture, and admit it makes a great thought problem.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-02-18 08:48|| 2009-02-18 08:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Not "wet work" but social engineering.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-02-18 09:43|| 2009-02-18 09:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Luca Brazzi?

Posted by mojo 2009-02-18 12:34|| 2009-02-18 12:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Are they really being assassinated? Could be suicide. Could be spontaneous human combustion. Could be a mold infection. Perhaps it's just that, like some things, some people are simply asking to be destroyed. Everything is possible. It's a weird, big world.

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-02-18 12:39|| 2009-02-18 12:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Mojo - it's Brasi. Small quibble but you don't dick with guys like Luca.

Posted by GORT 2009-02-18 13:02|| 2009-02-18 13:02|| Front Page Top

#9 It's a good policy, short of taking them out militarily, which probably carries unacceptable risks."

I dunno. I kinda think it would be unacceptable to risk Tel Aviv getting nuked. But I guess that's just me.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-02-18 13:13|| 2009-02-18 13:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Gort - why not? He does "sleep wit' da fishes", after all.

And Luca was definitely no nuclear scientist. He had trouble opening a bottle of vino.

Posted by mojo 2009-02-18 15:56|| 2009-02-18 15:56|| Front Page Top

#11 "Is Israel assassinating Iran nuclear scientists?"

God, I hope so....

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