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2013-01-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli Sources Confirm Blast At Iranian Nuclear Facility
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Posted by trailing wife 2013-01-28 07:50|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [336085 views ]  Top

#1 Interesting. Stuff like this makes you wish you were a fly on the wall in Netanyahu's office and could read the daily briefing from Mossad. HAHAHA!!!
Posted by Raider 2013-01-28 10:23||   2013-01-28 10:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Just remember, Israel is not the only country that does not want Iran to go nuclear. The list is as long as a radical Imam fatwa.

Saudi Arabia
UAE
Iraq
Turkey
Yemen
Oman

Heck even the nuts in Egypt don't want a nuclear Iran.
Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-01-28 10:30||   2013-01-28 10:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Actual votes:

KSA - Nay
UAE - Nay
Iraq - Nay
Turkey - Nay
Yemen - Nay
Obamanland - Present
Posted by Besoeker 2013-01-28 10:38||   2013-01-28 10:38|| Front Page Top

#4 If this incident really was sabotage (and not a centrifuge accident) ... someone deserves to be awarded a medal.

No mention of whether Iranian workers are still trapped underground in the Fordow plant, or whether there were casualties. But it seems highly likely that some of the workforce must have been unable to escape the incident.
Posted by Raider 2013-01-28 12:25||   2013-01-28 12:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Raider, I think the original, unconfirmed WND report claimed something like 240 workers were trapped underground at the Fordow plant.
Posted by trailing wife 2013-01-28 13:16||   2013-01-28 13:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Yep -- see here.
Posted by trailing wife 2013-01-28 14:32||   2013-01-28 14:32|| Front Page Top

#7 In 2009, the EU took the MEK (aka Mujahadeen e Khalq aka The [Iran] People's Warriors) off the terrorist list. In Sept 2012, the US took them off the US terrorist list. Subsequently, several of the pro Mullah orgs in the US protested claiming that the unlisting would lead to the MEK engaging in sabotage in Iran.

Tee Hee.
Posted by lord garth 2013-01-28 14:53||   2013-01-28 14:53|| Front Page Top

#8 If there is any radiation leakage, I guarantee it is being picked up by satellites. That would make folks at CIA and NSA HQ do a little happy dance.
Posted by DarthVader 2013-01-28 17:01||   2013-01-28 17:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Rad leak or no, ima doing a happy dance.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-01-28 17:39||   2013-01-28 17:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Would the explosion be big enough to move seismographs? The articles I've seen haven't mentioned such a thing...
Posted by trailing wife 2013-01-28 17:50||   2013-01-28 17:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Hyperbaric hidden in the supplies? Criticality incident? Either would slow them down nicely.
Posted by KBK 2013-01-28 18:10||   2013-01-28 18:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Something happened, buy I doubt it was the big kaboom.

Posted by Shipman 2013-01-28 18:10||   2013-01-28 18:10|| Front Page Top

#13 Criticality incident aren't the big kaboom, more like a small fizzle. But they sure are messy. We can hope.
Posted by KBK 2013-01-28 18:16||   2013-01-28 18:16|| Front Page Top

#14 "Would the explosion be big enough to move seismographs? The articles I've seen haven't mentioned such a thing..."

That's actually a very good point. I thought the same thing after you broke the original story last week. It seems like if the explosion actually shook the ground out to a radius of several miles around Fordo - then YES someone should have seen it on local seismographs in the ME. Not sure what the closest monitoring station would be.
Posted by Raider 2013-01-28 19:30||   2013-01-28 19:30|| Front Page Top

#15 The Magic Cellphone...don't leave home without it.
Posted by The MOSSAD 2013-01-28 22:45||   2013-01-28 22:45|| Front Page Top

#16 Here is the MSDS for UF6.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-01-28 23:42||   2013-01-28 23:42|| Front Page Top

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