The nuclear facility at Brushehr is not:
Posted on 10/18/2004 4:18:34 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
Israel is preparing for military action against Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor and other nuclear facilities, including underground plans and storage depots, US defense officials say.
Officials said a transfer of 5,000 bombs in Israel is likely preparation for the attacks.
"why breath a word about any of this in advance? are they nuts?" Well, it is pretty much 2x2=4 - common knowledge. As for operational details - noone's broadcating these.
Buckle up, ping.
If Isreal did this in the next week it would clinch the win for Bush because it would take the media focus off the economy and the situation in Iraq. Right now the election is still up in the air and I see no way that Isreal attacking Iran could hurt Bush, it could only help him and help him alot.
iran is looking for this air attack,i say they use cruise missles from their subs,maybe from the indian ocean ...something that is not expected
Well, the Iranian facilities are widespread and much of it is burried deep in hardened sites.
This could also be a way to try and flush out Saddams WMD. Either Syria or Iran will either have to announce they have them and are willing to use them or they will have to come clean and give them up.
Israel doesn't need US approval to protect itself from an atomic/nuclear threat.
"This could also be a way to try and flush out Saddams WMD. Either Syria or Iran will either have to announce they have them and are willing to use them or they will have to come clean and give them up."
Sorry, meant to write more. Either way Bush wins. If either country comes clean, it proves that Iraq moved their weapons before the war. If neither country comes clean, Israel takes out the Iranian facilities, America moves towards Syria and you now have what I would call a good ole Texas BBQ.
"Iran will invade Iraq in retaliation"
Fire up the A-10s.
It's Basra highway turkey shoot time again.
The nuclear facility at Brushehr is not:
Please wait until after the election.
John
wish i could do photoshop and make it Team israel
Must be a ruse.
Waste 'em and let the chips fall where they may.
a good read (new book) RAID ON THE SUN
From the earliest days of his dictatorship, Saddam Hussein had vowed to destroy Israel. So, when France sold Iraq a top-of-the-line nuclear reactor in 1975, the Israelis were justifiably concerned—especially when they discovered that Iraqi scientists had already formulated a secret program to extract weapon-grade plutonium from the reactor, a first critical step in creating an atomic bomb. The reactor formed the heart of a huge nuclear plant situated twelve miles from Baghdad, 1,100 kilometers from Tel Aviv. By 1981, the reactor was on the verge of becoming “hot,” and Israeli Prime Minister Begin knew he would have to confront its deadly potential. He turned to Israeli Air Force commander General David Ivry to secretly plan a daring surgical air strike on the reactor—a never-before contemplated mission that would prove to be one of the most remarkable military operations of all time.
Written with the full and exclusive cooperation of the Israeli Air Force high command, General Ivry (ret.), and all of the eight mission pilots (including Ilan Ramon, who became Israel’s first astronaut and tragically perished in the shuttle Columbia disaster), Raid On the Sun tells the extraordinary story of how Israel plotted the unthinkable: defying its U.S. and European allies to eliminate Iraq’s nuclear threat. In the tradition of Black Hawk Down, journalist Rodger Claire re-creates a gripping tale of personal sacrifice and survival, of young pilots who trained in America on the then-new, radically sophisticated F-16 fighter-bombers, then faced a nearly insurmountable challenge: how to fly the 1,000-plus-kilometer mission to Baghdad and back on one tank of fuel; he recounts Israeli intelligence’s incredible “black ops” to sabotage construction on the French reactor and eliminate Iraqi nuclear scientists; and he gives reader a pilot's-eye view of the action on June 7, 1981, when the planes roared off a runway on the Sinai Peninsula for the first successful destruction of a nuclear reactor in history.
Refueling? I don't think the Israelis have long range bombers or refueling capability. I can see the USAF providing refueling over Iraq on the QT and let the Israelis do the heavy lifting.
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