Posted on 02/16/2005 5:31:03 AM PST by 12B
Large blast heard near City of Dailam. Iran TV says fired from unknown aircraft.
No other details.
Read my post again. You are not following.
A fuel tank from an airliner would be the wing. That's the other place it's stored besides the body.
is that what they make there now? the nuke business must be slowing down.
Maybe the explosion was designed to set them scurrying to their "secret" sites to make sure everything was okay. And our intelligence watched them when they did this.
Just a guess.
ORNL develops - Y-12 manufactures and reprocesses. ORNL is a tech development facility - but it has plenty of hotspots on the property.
The fuel tank is inside the airliner, the airliner fell from the sky (crashed) would be the scenario.
Iran and Syria talk alliance
Wednesday 16 February 2005, 16:54 Makka Time, 13:54 GMT
Syria and Iran are both under major US diplomatic pressure
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Will the US attack Iran? Iran and Syria - both locked in rows with the US – have said they are to form a common front to face challenges and threats.
Iranian Vice-President Muhammad Reza Aref said in Tehran after meeting Syrian Prime Minister Naji al-Utari on Wednesday that both countries were ready to help "on all grounds to confront threats".
Al-Utari told reporters: "This meeting, which takes place at this sensitive time, is important, especially because Syria and Iran face several challenges and it is necessary to build a common front".
The announcement came barely minutes after an unknown aircraft fired a missile on Wednesday in a deserted area near the southern city of Dailam in the province of Bushehr where Iran has a nuclear power plant, Iranian state television said.
"A powerful explosion was heard this morning on the outskirts of Dailam in the Bushehr province. Witnesses said that the missile was fired from an unknown plane 20km from the city," Iran's Arabic language al-Alam said.
Accusations and claims
Earlier on Wednesday, Israel had said that Iran was just six months away from having the knowledge to build an atomic bomb while Tehran accused the US of using satellites "and other tools" to spy on its nuclear sites.
Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said on a visit to London that he believed "in six months from today they [Iran] will end all the tests and experiments they are doing to have that knowledge."
Iran retaliated with its own claim that the US was using satellites to spy on Iran's nuclear sites, Iran's Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
"We believe the US has been spying against Iran for some time using satellites and other tools," he was quoted as saying on the official IRNA news agency, when asked about US denials that it was using drones over Iran.
Yunesi also denied allegations by Washington that Tehran was secretly trying to develop nuclear weapons. Iran says its nuclear activities are for generating electricity. Meanwhile, the US has stepped up political pressure on Syria by recalling its ambassador for urgent consultations to show its deep displeasure with Damascus after Monday's killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
US officials said they were considering imposing new sanctions on Syria because of its refusal to withdraw its 41,000 troops from Lebanon.
While acknowledging they do not know who was to blame for al-Hariri's car-bomb assassination, US officials argued Syria's military presence and its political power-broking role were generally responsible for Lebanon's instability.
Syria rejects accusations it supports terrorism.
That hit close to home. There seems to be a multitude of them damn things in Southern Indiana.
"Commander Abdul, what does THIS button do?"
Or maybe a sneak preview of Michael Moore's new movie?
Moore making a second movie... I haven't seen the first one yet, any reason I should?
no worries.
It was not an attack!
sorry, that was meth joke.... hotspots, like meth labs?
This won't be his second but his fifth or sixth. His TV show wasn't bad but his movies blow. Hence the bomb comparison. This next one is about the health insurance industry, and he promised/threatened a followup to Fahrenheit 9-11. Oh joy.
Wing-tip tanks for fighters -- can be dumped if necessaary.
these tanks will be dumped before any high-G manuevers...
OH OH
I wonder if IDF took road trip to Iran
Per Fox:
Final answer (at least until next answer)
Construction accident
That is a good call.They had me going there for a moment, until I thought this out some more. I really want to see those sites destroyed.
i would too, but we wont' touch them lest we offend someone. mebbe the israelis would do the deed for us. or the russians.
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