There was another thread with a link confirming this hypothesis. It posited 3 US cities might be targeted, NYC, Washington DC, (I forget the last). Same reference to ability to rebuild a freighter to launch missiles off the east coast, which might be dirty bombs or a 40,000 air burst EMP device.
The link was posted around 4pm PST 10Feb10.
It also posed a number of other possible targets or concurrent sceanrios including:
A kiloton device detonating in Iran against civil enemies, not affording others justification to intervene, but entering the nuclear club.
Attack on Allied or US warships in the gulf.
Multiple terrorist cells in the US formed over the last 10 years as dark cells being activated.
Then again it might also simply be another Conspiracy Theory bluff, which Iran and Al Quaida have utilized fairly routinely now over the past 10 years. Since some terrorist activity has happened in the last 10 years, it isn’t always a bluff.
About 3 hrs until midnight in east coast. Already 11Feb10 in Iran, though only about 5:55AM in Tehran and 4:25AM in Jerusalem.
According to Wikipedia, one 10kt fission device detonated at 450km would generate enough of an EMP to finish off the entire Eastern seaboard.
For comparison, Hiroshima was a 15kt device, and the reported yield of the 1998 Pakistani devices were 12-40kt.
And Iran launched a satellite into a 384km orbit last year.
We’ve got to develop a hardened infrastructure. This is ridiculous. At this rate, within 25 years, every country will be able to take us out.