'Knowing this nutjob, his "final answer" to the US could be a dirty bomb or a nuclear test of some sort. I think Iran may be closer to the bomb than we think."
Iran has a bomb. They got it from Pakistan and they got the missile to launch it with from North Korea.
Question is how are they going to set it up and launch it without anyone knowing it came from Iran?
Something else needs to be said about August 22.
Let's say the Iranian lunatic does have a bomb and a missile to launch it with. Let's say he launches his missile at Tel Aviv because launching it at Jerusalem destroys a major part of Islam.
Now let's say the Israelis shoot the missile down. What's next?
I doubt it. As far as I know, the US and Pakistan are watching those Pakistani nukes like a couple of hawks and Bush is two steps ahead of Iran at stopping this threat. The US has given Pakistan a lot of help in nuclear weapons security, for their benefit and ours.
They know that any nuke attempt at Israel at this time would be futile. Not only would Israel's Arrow system shoot down their one or two firecrackers, but Israel could respond with a salvo that would wipe Iran "off the face and all that."
Their least detectable delivery system for a nuke would not be missile based. It will be a smuggle attempt. It might be up through South America. Our ports have increased geiger counter security as far as containers, and a ship-hidden device would only do half-damage.
An Iranian missile would be easy to detect days before it's ready to launch. All their missiles are liquid fueled and take a long time to get ready. The US and Israel would see them fueling and take out the missile/s.
It's much more likely that they have a smuggling network to get the bomb into Israel or the US. Again, that would be no easy task, what with radiation detectors and the like. But it could be done.
Other thoughts:
1) North Korea has been very quiet since their little fireworks show. The quiet dogs are often the one that bite. I always felt that was just a distraction, but have never seen anything to make it more than a hunch.
2) Nasrallah said if Israel hit Beirut, which they have, Hezbollah would hit Tel Aviv. Perhaps Iran has their nuke in Lebanon on a relatively easy to conceal missile. What is the point of Hezbollah throwing darts at Isreal as they have for the past couple weeks?
3) Imasgoodasdead needs to find out if the story about the virgins is true - very soon.
You're missing the author's point. (He believes) They don't care if Israel, the US, and Britain knows they fired a missile. They, or some of them, are trying to bring on the Hidden Iman. What's a few million Martyrs, in the face of such an accomplishment?
They know and they don't care EQAndyBuzz