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Tehran plans a nuclear weapons test before March 20, 2006 – the Iranian New Year
DEBKAfile ^ | January 22, 2006, 9:30 AM (GMT+02:00)

Posted on 01/22/2006 2:57:22 PM PST by strategofr

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Less than 2 months to go, looks like.
1 posted on 01/22/2006 2:57:25 PM PST by strategofr
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To: strategofr

I would think they already have it!


2 posted on 01/22/2006 2:59:52 PM PST by Steveone (Liberalism is a brain tumor!)
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To: strategofr

DEBKA is not always reliable. What does STRATFOR say?


3 posted on 01/22/2006 3:01:41 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: strategofr

Whew. If DEBKA says it is, it probably isn't.


4 posted on 01/22/2006 3:04:29 PM PST by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

i read this is in UPI also.


5 posted on 01/22/2006 3:06:28 PM PST by nascar242005
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To: strategofr
Let's hope it goes off as their best Scientists and Technicians try to set it up for the test and takes them and the Lookie-Loo Leadership out all at once.
6 posted on 01/22/2006 3:07:02 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: strategofr

Already posted as:

Tehran plans a nuclear weapons test before March 20, 2006 ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1562793/posts

with links to earlier non-Debka sources.


7 posted on 01/22/2006 3:12:21 PM PST by Boundless
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To: nascar242005; lexington minuteman 1775

I believe the source for this story is the same : NCRI/MEK - a terrorist organization that wants to take over in Iran themselves. Though they have given us some good info in the past, (few yrs ago) their information recently on anything really substantial, has not been reliable.


8 posted on 01/22/2006 3:13:41 PM PST by Brooklyn Kid (What's it to ya? ) ((....west of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar.................))
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To: nascar242005

UPI is only slightly more reliable than DEBKA, which ain't saying anything.


9 posted on 01/22/2006 3:15:42 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: strategofr

SURPRISE! Our stealth bombers just left your airspace...and left you with, as we say in the USA, your pants down.

I love pre-emptive strikes, don't you?


10 posted on 01/22/2006 3:16:06 PM PST by RTINSC (There is no guarantee of Success but Failure is guaranteed if you are not successful..)
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To: strategofr
There is a huge difference between a static, underground blast, and a test of a warhead small enough to be carried by a plane, or put in a missile. The real danger is when they get the weapons small enough to deliver with something smaller than a box car.

Israel probably has better intel than the US, on what's going on for real with Iran's nuclear program. For us it is an irritant -- ba large one, but still an irritant. For them, this is life or death. As with the Iraqi nuclear facility that they destroyed in 1981 (right year?), at some point Israel will have to act, regardless of what the US, UN, EU, or any one else is doing. But that time will not come before 20 March.

Congressman Billybob

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11 posted on 01/22/2006 3:16:17 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (Hillary! delendum est.)
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To: nascar242005
i read this is in UPI also.

Eye red it two.

12 posted on 01/22/2006 3:17:44 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: Boundless; nascar242005; lexington minuteman 1775

It appears Ken Timmerman's group (The Foundation for Democracy) is also reporting this.


13 posted on 01/22/2006 3:18:42 PM PST by Brooklyn Kid (What's it to ya? ) ((....west of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar.................))
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To: Boundless

This seems to be DUMBKA yet again simply repackaging info already publicly reported as supposedly coming from their secret inside sources (which don't exist, as best I can tell.)


14 posted on 01/22/2006 3:21:43 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: strategofr; Dog Gone

Aslong as this president remains "the president" I promise there wil be a preimptive strike.


15 posted on 01/22/2006 3:26:52 PM PST by DainBramage
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That's possible, but if it's before March 20 of this year, I'll eat my hat.

And it's a pretty big hat.


16 posted on 01/22/2006 3:29:00 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: strategofr

Iran's nuke capability is either a few weeks or few years away, take your pick.

I believe that they could have acquired pre-fabbed, clandestinely built their own AND are working to produce more.


17 posted on 01/22/2006 3:31:19 PM PST by DoNotDivide (Romans 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.)
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To: strategofr

an Iranian underground nuclear blast, which will most probably be attempted on March 22, would turn around the strategic position of all the parties concerned and the Middle East as whole.

Not really, it would instead INSURE a strike on Iran.


18 posted on 01/22/2006 3:31:37 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Dog Gone

LOL now we're down to the day! But why the 20th, I'm shooting from the hip myself?


19 posted on 01/22/2006 3:32:28 PM PST by DainBramage
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To: Dog Gone

elections?


20 posted on 01/22/2006 3:33:03 PM PST by DainBramage
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