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2012-01-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Panetta: Iran Not Building A Nuclear Weapon But Trying To Develop A Nuclear Capability

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Posted by tipper 2012-01-08 14:15|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Leon, Leon, Leon. Your lips will fall off next.

Posted by Muggsy Glink 2012-01-08 15:18|| 2012-01-08 15:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Mighty fine PC Doublespeak this AM.

Iff one believes that IRAN = JAPAN = lotsa Nucplants everywhere + large HEU, Plutonium stockpiles, but no NucWeaps by treaty, THE US IS FAILING TO MAKE THE DIRECT CASE WHY JAPAN CAN DO IT, BUT NOT IRAN.

We hear the reasons why from Israel + UK, etc. but not from Washington DC, e.g. RUSSIA + INCOMING SPACE ROCKS.

"SMART POLITICS" IS NOT NECESSARILY GOOD OR PROPER LEADERSHIP.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-08 18:59|| 2012-01-08 18:59|| Front Page Top

#3 ION TOPIX > IRAN HAS ABILITY TO BLOCK STRAITS OF HORMUZ [but US will reopen it]: US GENERAL DEMPSEY [Chair, JCS] TELLS CBS.

* SAME > IRAN TO MOVE [uranium]NUCLEAR WORK TO [underground] MOUNTAIN BUNKER IN "NEAR FUTURE", as per immunity form US, Israel air strikes.

Mountain plex at Fordow, near QOM city in central Iran.

* SAME > IRAN CLAIMS [undergound] NUCLEAR PLANT WILL BE OPERATIONAL BY FEBRUARY 1st.

versus

* WAFF > [US Topographer Mark Langfan] TURKEY IS TRYING TO STEAL [monies + natural resources to expand Islam]: ISRAEL IS NATO'S FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE FOR GREECE + CYPRUS, + Malta, Grete, Rhodes, etc. from attacks by Iran + Turkey + hedge agz Iran or Turkey-led expansion of Islam vee Christian/Non-Muslim States throughout the Mediterranean Region = Southern Europe.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-08 21:52|| 2012-01-08 21:52|| Front Page Top

#4 WORLD NEWS > [IRNA = Ahmadinejad] PRESIDENT: IRAN MUST TURN INTO A DEVELOPED, ADVANCED COUNTRY.

IMO Moud just indrectly admitted [once again] that dev + acquisition of NUCWEAPS IS IN IRAN'S DE FACTO LT OR STRATEGIC INTERESTS AS A "GREAT POWER" NUKE, GEOPOL = CALIPHATE WANNABE.

* NEWSMAX > EX-CIA DIRECTOR GEN. HAYDEN WARNS IRAN ON "INEXORABALE PATH" TO NUKES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-08 22:57|| 2012-01-08 22:57|| Front Page Top

#5 EMP

Posted by newc 2012-01-08 23:11|| 2012-01-08 23:11|| Front Page Top

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