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To: Southack

(sigh)

You won't get a "confirmation"...

1. Iran would never openly admit that "yes, our forces fired that missile from Lebanon." That would be an ACT OF WAR and give the Israelis what they need to hit Iran.

2. It's not as if there are reporters with Hezbollah/Iran Rev. Guards reporting on what they do. Any reporter who tried would be killed on the spot.

All you can do is rely on intelligence. Apparently the presence of Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Lebanon has been an open secret for quite a long time, and it's also known where the missile came from (Iran). Either the Iranians told Hezbollah how to operate the missile and watched them flip the switch, or it was the Iranian's finger on the switch instead. It matters little. Either way, Iranians had to be on-site to teach the missile's operation at the very least, if not operate it themselves. Apparently Israeli intelligence thinks the latter is more likely.


650 posted on 07/13/2006 4:18:22 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Earth to libs: MARXISM DOESN'T SELL HERE. Try somewhere else.)
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To: Windcatcher
Kind of like the US position in 1962 two, that no matter how filthy, how communist, how cigar-stained, how Cuban of a finger it was on one of those nukes in the Carribean, for all intents and purposes as far as the USA was concerned, that would be considered a Soviet finger on that launch button, correct?
667 posted on 07/13/2006 4:23:01 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (A few clever bones tossed on gay unions, flag burning & Iraq still don't absolve GWB over BORDERS)
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