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2018-05-01 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Mossad stole Iran’s nuke archive and smuggled it back to Israel the same night

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Posted by trailing wife 2018-05-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 I thought you were just supposed to photograph or copy the evidence and then leave it be.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-05-01 01:45|| 2018-05-01 01:45|| Front Page Top

#2 An aside, year after next will be the 75th aniversary of the onlz time nukes were used in war against an adversary.

Posted by Omeger Gray6606 2018-05-01 03:17|| 2018-05-01 03:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Correction....atomics....not nukes.

Posted by Flilet Omeremble3846 2018-05-01 04:09|| 2018-05-01 04:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Not only a huge victory in the espionage field, but ballsy as hell.

The Mossad is still as good and as dangerous as ever while our CIA and NSA have withered on the vine of political correctness.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-05-01 09:04|| 2018-05-01 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Half a ton spirited out in one night??

Not really that much. Figure 1000 lbs breaks down to 20 50lb boxes. Don't know how they were packaged but it probably took some time to decide what had to go.

Posted by AlanC 2018-05-01 09:25|| 2018-05-01 09:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Ballsy indeed, considering getting caught would no doubt lead to torture, show trial, and death

Posted by Frank G 2018-05-01 09:29|| 2018-05-01 09:29|| Front Page Top

#7 I know it sounds slightly out of the box (or possibly more so), but what if the "Archive's" were actually transferred documents, bought and paid for as part of the Obama-Iran deal ?

Think on that for a moment or two.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-05-01 09:39|| 2018-05-01 09:39|| Front Page Top

#8 A 500-sheet ream of 20-pound bond paper weighs 5 pounds

1/2 ton = 1000 lbs. = About 200 reams of paper? Not so much to haul away. A good pick-up truck load.

How did they know what was important to haul away? How did they know where the stuff was being stored? Now there's a good story.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-05-01 09:58|| 2018-05-01 09:58|| Front Page Top

#9 I bet they just loaded it up on a Caspian Sea fast boat and sped north.

Posted by 3dc 2018-05-01 14:15|| 2018-05-01 14:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Meanwhile Top Men at the CIA continue to push the dodgy dossier.

Let's zero out their budget and outsource to a pro-American spy organization, shall we?

Posted by regular joe 2018-05-01 14:27|| 2018-05-01 14:27|| Front Page Top

#11 "1/2 ton = 1000 lbs. = About 200 reams of paper? Not so much to haul away. A good pick-up truck load."

A bit more than that actually...It would be about 4 pallets of copy paper, if my prior memories as Print Manager can be trusted.

Posted by Capsu78 2018-05-01 14:56|| 2018-05-01 14:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Strike my "bad maths" above- 10 reems per carton would be 20 cartons, which would fit on a pallet and inside a pick up truck.

Posted by Capsu78 2018-05-01 15:00|| 2018-05-01 15:00|| Front Page Top

#13 That's papers in folders not packages, multiply the volume by 3 to 5.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-05-01 15:01|| 2018-05-01 15:01|| Front Page Top

#14 The way we talk about paper in the United States is amazingly convoluted. The short answer is that 500 sheets of bond paper with a size of 17" by 22" have a weight of 20 pounds. The manufacturer would cut a sheet that big into four letter-size sheets, so a 500-sheet ream of 20-pound bond paper weighs 5 pounds.

Posted by magpie 2018-05-01 15:38|| 2018-05-01 15:38|| Front Page Top

#15 What about the staples?

Posted by gorb 2018-05-01 15:53|| 2018-05-01 15:53|| Front Page Top

#16 "Two Mullah's and A Truck" could have that moved and in the truck before first morning smoke break... "Two Mossad's and an Invisible Hoovercraft" probably even faster.

Posted by Capsu78 2018-05-01 18:52|| 2018-05-01 18:52|| Front Page Top

#17 "How did they know what was important to haul away? How did they know where the stuff was being stored? Now there's a good story."

I don't care. Take it all.

Posted by newc 2018-05-01 22:25|| 2018-05-01 22:25|| Front Page Top

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