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Iran Tested a Nuke?
American Daughter Media Center ^ | October 30, 2008 | Allan Erickson

Posted on 10/30/2008 2:30:08 PM PDT by Earl Voak

Iran may have tested a series of nuclear weapons underground. The Israel Insider reported:

Iranian source: “Quake” Saturday was nuclear bomb test October 28, 2008 at 11:00am

Israel Insider exclusively reports that a seismic event this weekend in southern Iran may in fact have been a massive underground nuclear bomb test. According to the USGS, the tremor measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale took place Saturday night, October 25 just before midnight Iran time, with its epicenter at 26.70°N, 55.02°E, just north of the strategic straits of Hormuz, opposite Abu Dhabi.

The claim that the tremor was in fact a nuclear test came from an Iranian nuclear scientist who claims to be working in uranium enrichment for the project. A report published by Israel Insider on Friday, October 24 included a captionless map that portrayed the area of the seismic event that occurred the following night, based on location information previously provided by the Iranian source.

Israel Insider’s source reports that the test is in fact the second in a series. A 4.8 Richter scale event occurred on October 21 with an epicenter (26.70N, 54.96E) within 5 km (3 miles) of the October 25 tremor.

Israeli and foreign sources have long speculated that Iran has been in possession of ready nuclear bombs but would only begin testing them when a full production line for nuclear weapons is in place.

The source indicated that Iran is being assisted by China and North Korea. Israel Insider’s Iranian source reports that two “nuclear rockets” have been completed and are intended for use against the Jewish State in the coming months.

The site of the test and the development facility are believed to be in close proximity. The location appears to have been carefully selected. The area is exposed to significant seismic activity, which could serve to mask nuclear tests, although the recent spike in activity in that specific area significantly deviates from historical trends. A tremor measuring 6.2 struck the area on September 10, 2008 (its epicenter was 80km or 50 miles due west), the largest seismic event in the area in more than 33 years.

The location on the Persian Gulf near the straits of Hormuz would also facilitate delivery and transport of material and personnel. the strategic importance of the immediate area may also be intended to deter potential strikes against the facilities, which could close down the flow of a substantial percentage of the world’s oil.

There has been NOTHING in the mainstream media about this. Perhaps they think it would help the McCain/Palin ticket!


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; crackpotblog; iran; mccain; nuclear; nuke; nukes; obama; test
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To: Lazamataz

Yeah, I wish Jim would block new sign ups for six months prior to a Presidential election. That would stop a lot of this trolls from posting this kind of crap.


61 posted on 10/30/2008 3:18:22 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Earl Voak

Story is complete and utter garbage.

Said earthquake was at a depth of 35 kilometers. Hence, impossible to be a nuke.

The area in question has plenty of natural seismicity. And if the Iranians were to test, they’d not be testing there anyway.

No story here.


62 posted on 10/30/2008 3:19:08 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Earl Voak

Bush had 8 years to remove this most deadly of all threats, but he didn’t. Why?


63 posted on 10/30/2008 3:23:11 PM PDT by LowTaxesEqualProsperity
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To: DuncanWaring

It certainly should be. One very sharp detonation with no pre-event rumblings. A very specific initial pressure gradient. No long duration aftershocks. One very centralized epicenter as opposed to wide “plate shifting” areas.


64 posted on 10/30/2008 3:26:14 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Never kick a leftist when they are down. Wait 'til they're halfway back up! You get better leverage!)
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To: MindBender26
Just tryin’ to bump up the price of oil. If it was a bomb, any country with seismographs would know it. And some one would talk!
65 posted on 10/30/2008 3:29:47 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: VigilantAmerican

An “OH NO” ping to you...

as if we don’t have enough to worry about!


66 posted on 10/30/2008 3:35:43 PM PDT by jacquej
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To: ichabod1
"But would our government admit it?"

I dunno. But other countries pick up the seismic trace and they'll know the difference.

67 posted on 10/30/2008 3:41:16 PM PDT by avacado
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To: DoneWithDems

This is a BS report. You can easily distinguish a nuclear test from a quake.

Report is false.


68 posted on 10/30/2008 3:42:04 PM PDT by silentknight
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To: Earl Voak; All; Ernest_at_the_Beach; SunkenCiv; FARS

get it to Drudge asap.


69 posted on 10/30/2008 3:43:42 PM PDT by dervish (Acorn,Ayers, Rezko,Wright,Farakhan,Khalidi. America wake up!)
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To: DuncanWaring

yes, the nuke is an instant spike and an earthquake builds. I wouldn’t get worked up over this. Everyone and their brother in the mid-east would know if it really happened.


70 posted on 10/30/2008 3:44:52 PM PDT by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: Paved Paradise; refermech; Salamander; shibumi; Flavius Josephus; Donald Meaker; ketelone; ...
“set up?” What does that mean exactly?

"Somebody set up us the bomb"?

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
YOU ARE ON THE WAY TO DESTRUCTION.
...
YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME."

71 posted on 10/30/2008 3:47:23 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Earl Voak
Last 115 earthquakes Iran

Way too deep to be a tremor from a nuke test.

72 posted on 10/30/2008 3:48:18 PM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: Earl Voak

Well, well, well, who would have expected a thing like this?

Funny, I don’t recall the Shah of Iran threatening to wipe out Israel, let alone seeking to develop a nuclear weapons capability.

Of course what do I know, Jimmy Carter said he thought the Ayatollah Khomeini was a ‘godly’ man and shoved the shiv into the back of the Shah with relish.

We can thank the Buffoon from Plains for starting this chain of events, and if our current Commander-in-Chief has any testosterone left in his ‘Rat-neuterized scrotum, maybe he’ll finally drop the hammer on those Islamofascist thugs in Tehran.


73 posted on 10/30/2008 3:48:45 PM PDT by mkjessup (If 0bama is elected, 'Reverend' Wright will be proved a prophet, as 'God D@mns America')
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To: mywholebodyisaweapon; Earl Voak

I think this is what biden was talking about. If obama wins Iran will attack Israel with a nuke after the inauguration and obama will do nothing.


74 posted on 10/30/2008 3:53:05 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

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What's the big deal. We know they're developing a bomb, we know they intend to use it, that they'd test it is obvious.

75 posted on 10/30/2008 3:53:48 PM PDT by SJackson (I don't believe that people should be able to own guns, BH Obama to John Lott)
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To: dervish

So Drudge can embarrass himself more? This is non-news. Iran is a threat and they are developing nukes... but this wasn’t a nuke test.


76 posted on 10/30/2008 3:58:26 PM PDT by SolidWood
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To: DoneWithDems

An the Jews will vote 4 u kno who


77 posted on 10/30/2008 4:03:18 PM PDT by reefdiver (He voted to Kill the infants - Because the intended Abortion was unsuccessful. You think your safe)
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To: Doug TX

No, they will not be more open to us. The long term goal, as it has been for centuries, is to destroy the West. That will not have changed if Israel is destroyed; it is just a step.


78 posted on 10/30/2008 4:07:42 PM PDT by doug from upland (8 million views of .HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
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To: doug from upland
I think it is more likely than not that there will be such an event in NY, DC or both w/in four years if Obama is elected.

I also fervently hope to be wrong.

79 posted on 10/30/2008 4:10:02 PM PDT by cvq3842
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To: silentknight
Should be printed in bold:

You can easily distinguish a nuclear test from a quake..

It's hard to distinguish a crappy nuke (a "fizzle") from a fake nuclear test using conventional explosives. But an earthquake has a distinct signature.
80 posted on 10/30/2008 4:11:45 PM PDT by wolf78
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