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2010-12-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2010-12-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 I like to point out now and then that the unstated purpose for the very existence of the fictional character James Bond was to kill people who messed around with nuclear weapons or who tried to start nuclear hostilities.

From World War II through the 1970s, it was *assumed* that the CIA had a covert assassinations branch for just this purpose. However, after the highly successful Phoenix Program in Vietnam, all mention of such things died out.

"Between 1968 and 1972, Phoenix "neutralized" 81,740 people suspected of NLF membership, of whom 26,369 were killed. This was a large proportion of the NLF and, between 1969 and 1971, the program was quite successful in destroying NLF infrastructure in many important areas."

Importantly, this use was for ordinary unconventional war purposes, so was "far down the pyramid" from any top tier assassination activities.

Today, as well, with the enormous amount of SOCOM operations, covert operations on a hitherto unprecedented scale for the WoT, you would think that the cream of the crop of anti-nuclear proliferation assassins would be numerous and amazingly deadly, and very active in taking out anyone and everyone in the world involved with illegitimate nuclear activities.

So the questions need to be raised: Why is Pakistan's Kahn and all of his buddies still alive? Why has Iran been allowed to build a nuclear weapons program from scratch? How is North Korea done so as well?

Even Russian and Chinese technical assistants to these schemes should be lying dead in piles. Why aren't they?

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-11 09:28|| 2010-12-11 09:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Well frankly, all the experts have been laid off. The cash was needed to build 16'' hidden naval guns in Korean warehouses. It's a tricky undertaking in the best of times, during times of high tension we can only hope that the SOK can borrow, buy or steal the knowledge necessary (from Japan?) to build-up a large naval gun. Perhaps there will be breakthroughs allowing them to be built up in less than a year. We'll see. The turret/warehouses should not be difficult, altho the supply of high quality armoured plate is not what it was. However, perhaps the lack of armour could be compensated somewhat by serious angles and perhaps could use the old disappearing gun trick or even go more out of the box with the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite_gun with enough steam and cash anything is possible.

Posted by Zombie Hillary Lover 2010-12-11 10:47|| 2010-12-11 10:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Ah, so they do spell it as 'armour' in ~~Canada's southern colony~~ Florida.

Posted by Pappy 2010-12-11 10:59|| 2010-12-11 10:59|| Front Page Top

#4 I still wouldn't discount the theory that the killings/attempted killings are intramural.

Posted by Pappy 2010-12-11 11:03|| 2010-12-11 11:03|| Front Page Top

#5 are intramural.

Are the various teams identified as shirts and skins, or do they wear different coloured pinnies?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-12-11 14:52|| 2010-12-11 14:52|| Front Page Top

#6 ZHL: Seriously? A thread jump to be sarcastic is a day late and a dollar short. At least put it in a Korea thread.

BTW, if you'd like to see such gun emplacements, they still have them, if not the guns, right next to the Golden Gate bridge.

"I find your lack of faith disturbing." - L.D. Vader

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-11 14:54|| 2010-12-11 14:54|| Front Page Top

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