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Barak: 'Regular' Attack Cannot Hit Iran's Nuclear Plant
IsraelNationalNews ^ | December 28, 2009 | By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

Posted on 12/28/2009 5:28:40 AM PST by Fennie

The recently-revealed Qom nuclear plant in Iran is buried so deep under concrete that a "regular" military attack would not affect it, Defense Minister Ehud Barak revealed to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee on Monday.

Concerning Iran, the Defense Minister said that the Qom nuclear reactor was under construction for several years and is buried in a bunker that is resistant to regular bombing. He did not mention the prospect of a nuclear strike.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel
KEYWORDS: barak; barakisisraeli; barbaraann; ehudbarak; iran; iraniannukes; islam; israel; israelibarak; madmullahs; nukes; obama
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To: screaminsunshine

YUP, my thoughts exactly !!


61 posted on 12/28/2009 9:48:06 AM PST by W-Girl
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To: upchuck

Yeah people need to read more carefully.


62 posted on 12/28/2009 10:38:29 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
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To: upchuck; Nachum; SJackson; onyx; Quix; sonofstrangelove; Bob J; MrB; SunkenCiv
>>>> "Who knows the difference between Ehud Barak and Barack Obama? Y'all are a major embarrassment." <<<<

Oh ... no ... are you serious? I was going to read this thread, but then came across your comment, do you mean to tell me that freepers saw the surname Barak AND they thought that it referred to BHO?????

This is almost as bad as all the posters who are yelling about how much they hate Arabs and do not seem to realize that Iran is NOT in the middle east and that Persians are NOT arabs.

VERY very sad, indeed.

63 posted on 12/28/2009 11:08:19 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: Fennie

Attacking Iran’s nuke facilities now would quell the anti-Gov’t protests for the time being - WHICH IS ACTUALLY A GOOD THING. The Iranian people hate the Gov’t, so a respite from protests would give the Mullah’s even more time to destroy their economy and population, thus making Iran a basket case (and a non-threat) for even longer.


64 posted on 12/28/2009 11:08:20 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Fennie

Can we switch our Barack with their Barak please?


65 posted on 12/28/2009 11:21:11 AM PST by ksm1
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To: BP2

Did you not get the Memo? That was modified to “Only one US nuclear bomb can ruin your day (Other countries need them to protect from us).


66 posted on 12/28/2009 11:23:47 AM PST by RoadGumby (For God so loved the world)
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To: Fennie

Thinking about it some more, I can interpret this in many ways. I’m not sure how to read into it. It could mean:

1. Israel really can strike the Qom facility and this statement is disinformation to let Iran put its guard down
2. Israel is trying to pressure the US into borrowing our bunker busters
3. Israel is putting on the table something a bit more powerful than a regular strike...something on the order of a few kilotons

Time will tell, I suppose.


67 posted on 12/28/2009 11:25:28 AM PST by ksm1
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To: Bobalu
“Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man.”

- General George Patton Jr


Was that before or after he got his butt kicked at Metz. A fort cannot hold forever, but it can slow you down and make you change your plans. For example the Maginot line did work in cutting off the easiest attack route from Germany into France. It failed in that the French mobile forces failed to take into account a changed German plan to invade via Holland and Belgium.

The Iranian bunkers are just designed to prevent the kind of quick raid that Israel has used on Iraq and Syria. Sure a determined bombardment could dig it out. But that is going to take time. Time for Iran to mobilize it's much larger population and more importantly its Dhimi friends in the UN and the White House.

A nuke will break up the Iranian facility. Shock waves actually move much better through rock than they do through air. A nuclear bunker buster may not completely destroy the facility on anything except a direct hit, but it would knock out the delegate centrifuges with their micro millimeter tolerances. Also the fallout would keep the workers away until it could be cleaned up. Of course if you throw a nuke it is all out war all across the Middle East.

Is Israel willing to accept the diplomatic damage from using a nuke? In 1940 France didn't think that Germany would accept the diplomatic damage to invade Holland and Belgium. They were wrong and their super fortifications were rendered useless.
68 posted on 12/28/2009 11:53:08 AM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: GonzoGOP
Is Israel willing to accept the diplomatic damage from using a nuke?

It's far far easier to accept diplomatic damage than it is millions of dead Jews from an Iranian nuke hit....and that is exactly what is going to happen if Israel does not act.

Conflagration across the ME and worldwide economic chaos seem to be in the cards if Israel saves itself or not.

69 posted on 12/28/2009 12:12:01 PM PST by Bobalu (I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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To: Bobalu

although the structure might survive would not delicate machinery for nuke construction just be shaken of their legs and destroyed? ie centrifuges?


70 posted on 12/28/2009 12:32:18 PM PST by doria253
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To: DrC
1. Mine the area with billions of bombs.

2. Don't worry about Mohammed Obamma. He cant change his spots, he thinks America sucks, and Americans will be out in historic numbers in November to voice their mutual feelings.

71 posted on 12/28/2009 12:44:23 PM PST by PA-RIVER
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To: Fennie

Damn! All of these Barak’s. I’m so confused! This is the Jewish Barak and not the islamic Bowrama Barak?


72 posted on 12/28/2009 2:05:34 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 ( I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! The "other" Jim Thompson)
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To: Eye of Unk

A reality bomb would turn matter into Atoms and Atoms into nothing.


73 posted on 12/28/2009 3:29:58 PM PST by omega4179 (Marco2010)
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To: Bobalu
No kidding... let's see, we have on the one hand: Diplomatic Damage; on the other hand, we have Iran nuking Israel.

Decisions, decisions.... what to do, what to do?

[...../sarcasm]

74 posted on 12/28/2009 3:44:28 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: hennie pennie; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...

Thanks hennie pennie.

Russia to develop new strategic bomber by 2017
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20091223/157335991.html
Posted on 12/28/2009 1:10:19 PM PST by kronos77
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2416509/posts


75 posted on 12/28/2009 5:05:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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To: upchuck
Your reading comprehension is a major embarrassment!

I never mentioned BHO or EB!

The fact remains U.S. Senate “leadership” in years past, has taken options off of the table.

76 posted on 12/28/2009 5:47:44 PM PST by G Larry (DNC is comprised of REGRESSIVES!)
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To: xzins

i think youve answered yer own question...if they wont [cant] attack the mullah preemptively, then they must actually desire for their nuke program togo online so as to launch a ‘defensive’ strike...???


77 posted on 12/28/2009 6:18:53 PM PST by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: Eye of Unk

Yes, antimatter is real. Anihilation (total conversion of mass to energy) is real, too.

However, the tech doesn’t exist yet to store/transport it, let alone in quantity. It is also the most expensive substance on Earth - about $25,000,000,000 per gram (cost to produce). That is, if you could produce and contain a whole gram at once.

Good old H-bomb is a LOT cheaper.

This is all beside the point, though. Find the air shafts and drop a few thermobaric bombs at their inlets. If the mach 20 shockwave doesn’t kill everyone in the compound, it will at least cut off the air supply. Either way, the facility would be destroyed.


78 posted on 12/28/2009 6:28:58 PM PST by piytar (Ammo is hard to find! Bought some lately? Please share where at www.ammo-finder.com)
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To: xzins

I say program a robotic nuclear boring machine, tunnel beneath the underground nuke facility, then 90 degree down until it runs into magma and allow it to vent magma into the nuclear facility from below.


79 posted on 12/28/2009 6:39:46 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Eye of Unk

I’m not so sure about anti-matter but plasma could work...assuming they still have the R&D funding after being Odummiesized.


80 posted on 12/28/2009 7:44:24 PM PST by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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