We should find out who planned and executed this attack, particulalry if there are Iranian hands in it, and then respond in kind.
I do not put it past the Iranians at all to kill their own kind in an effort to create a larger civil-war in Iraq in an effort to drive the US out so they can waltz in.
Whatever one's complaints about Judaism or Christianity, it is nothing compared to the direct, made up and erroneous drivel that came from Mohammad. He pieced together what he learned about the Jewish and Christian faiths while on the run in Medina (Jewish) and Ethiopia (Coptic Christians) and melded that into the Arab pagan mythology.
It is such a contradictory and silly mishmash - that is the reason why Islamic "scholars" will not allow anyone to go against or question their teaching. They would find that the emperor has no clothes - and no brains.
Just for comparison .... this is roughly the equivalent of dropping 1.5 battleship 16 inch rounds into a neighborhood.
It seems to me that IF Israel has the capability to destroy these nuclear facilities, everybody would be better off if Israel strikes Iran. We should lease any kind of aircraft to Israel that they need, even B1 or B2 bombers. Then after Israel strikes, Iran would have much less justification to attack Europe, America, and Americans in Iraq. Not that Iran cares about justification, but the Western public would view Iranian retalitation as unjustified, and that helps sustain political support for a counter-attack against Iran. Israel is becoming a key player in stopping Iran.
Thank God and George Bush that this did not happen in the United States.
Iraq is in serious need of a neighborhood watch program that has some religious consistency, vigilance, balls, backbone and retribution. I cannot imagine people who seem so defenseless.
I manage a fleet of concrete mixers, most are 12 cubic yard capacity. Allowing even a smaller 8 or 10 cubic yard sized drum its easy to load up 30,000-48,000lbs. of high explosives or Ammonium-nitrate. And the real beauty is they could coat the inside circumfrance with shot, rebar chunks and scrap iron, put a good foot layer of RDX over that and then shotcrete over that. It hardens and then could still have a token amount of concrete turning around to fool inspecttions.
It may possibly be detected by a sniffer but if its sealed under layers of a nonporus membrane like rubber or ashphalt and nothing escape vaporwise its concievable they can go anywhere undetected. This truck bomb would be equal to a tactical nuke.
I know exactly how to build this and I am fervently hoping our troops know it as well and will stop them in their tracks, it appears they will keep getting bigger explosives and its obvious they pray for nukes, we must negate that dream or in the future these terrorists will take out whole cities. There in Iraq and soon elsewhere.