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2009-02-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

New Israel killer drone can take out Iran's S-300 anti-air missile

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-02-28 15:37|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 I wonder how long it will be until we see it in action?

Posted by OldSpook 2009-02-28 16:25|| 2009-02-28 16:25|| Front Page Top

#2 i don't old spook but i can't wait

Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-02-28 16:53|| 2009-02-28 16:53|| Front Page Top

#3 But can it make the result look like it resulted from insh'allah maintenance? ;-)

From a 2/16/09 article in the Telegraph:

Mossad was rumoured to be behind the death of Ardeshire Hassanpour, a top nuclear scientist at Iran's Isfahan uranium plant, who died in mysterious circumstances from reported "gas poisoning" in 2007. Other recent deaths of important figures in the procurement and enrichment process in Iran and Europe have been the result of Israeli "hits", intended to deprive Tehran of key technical skills at the head of the programme, according to Western intelligence analysts.

Mossad's covert operations cover a range of activities. The former CIA operative revealed how Israeli and US intelligence co-operated with European companies working in Iran to obtain photographs and other confidential material about Iranian nuclear and missile sites. "It was a real company that operated from time to time in Iran and in the nature of their legitimate business came across information on various suspect Iranian facilities," he said.

Israel has also used front companies to infiltrate the Iranian purchasing network that the clerical regime uses to circumvent United Nations sanctions and obtain so-called "dual use" items metals, valves, electronics, machinery for its nuclear programme. The businesses initially supply Iran with legitimate material, winning Tehran's trust, and then start to deliver faulty or defective items that "poison" the country's atomic activities.

Mossad and Western intelligence operations have also infiltrated the Iranian nuclear programme and "bought" information from prominent atomic scientists. Israel has later selectively leaked some details to its allies, the media and United Nations atomic agency inspectors. On one occasion, Iran itself is understood to have destroyed a nuclear facility near Tehran, bulldozing over the remains and replacing it with a football pitch, after its existence was revealed to UN inspectors. The regime feared that the discovery by inspectors of an undeclared nuclear facility would result in overwhelming pressure at the UN for tougher action against Iran.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-02-28 17:16|| 2009-02-28 17:16|| Front Page Top

#4 The regime feared that the discovery by inspectors of an undeclared nuclear facility would result in overwhelming pressure at the UN for tougher action against Iran

Ha ha ha ha ha - you kidders!

Posted by Frank G 2009-02-28 17:29|| 2009-02-28 17:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Iran, fear the strongly worded UN memo! /sarcasm

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-02-28 18:24|| 2009-02-28 18:24|| Front Page Top

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