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AP Exclusive: Report warns of Iran nuke disaster
Ap/YahooNews ^
| 1/31/11
| GEORGE JAHN
Posted on 01/31/2011 11:58:20 AM PST by Kartographer
The control systems of Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant have been penetrated by a computer worm unleashed last year, according to a foreign intelligence report that warns of a possible Chernobyl-like disaster once the site becomes fully operational.
Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, also has raised the specter of the 1986 reactor explosion in Ukraine, but suggested last week that the danger had passed.
The report, drawn up by a nation closely monitoring Iran's nuclear program and obtained by The Associated Press, said such conclusions were premature and based on the "casual assessment" of Russian and Iranian scientists at Bushehr.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; bhomiddleeast; iraniannukes; nucleariran; proliferation; stuxnet
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To: Kartographer
I question the timing of this article ... but not it’s intent.
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posted on
01/31/2011 12:56:51 PM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Kartographer; Quix; Whenifhow; houeto; null and void; Squantos; xrmusn; bronxville; ...
Stuxnet-has-done-more-for-world-peace-than-the-entire-Democrat-Party-ever-will ping.
"Nuclear Terror" ping.
Ping list covering atomic/nuclear/thermonuclear terrifying events and discussions.
FReepmail me if you want on or off The Comedian's "Nuclear Terror" ping list...
Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
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posted on
01/31/2011 1:03:05 PM PST
by
The Comedian
(It's 3am all over the planet.)
To: Unrepentant VN Vet
Gee whiz, do you suppose that the Iranians might run and sue somebody over this? What?
You think we are living in some sort of impregnable Truman Show dome?
You think that the Iranians are primitive idiots, incapable of cyber-warfare?
The more technological the society, the more subject it is to this sort of attack, and the more open your society, the more open you are to this sort of attack.
This was an *invitation* to asymmetric electronic warfare, and considering the cost we are already incurring from the "conventional" sort in places like Afghanistan, you would have though we would have given a bit more thought (assuming this was our creation) to the potential blowback, especially considering at all this did was buy a bit of time without fundamentally improving the situation.
To: fhayek
We can only hope this is true. I’d enjoy seeing Iranians begin to glow in the dark.
To: Kartographer
Yes, only a part of the worm viruns was operatibve. It is a sleeper worm, waiting for the reactor to go on line and then....Chernobyl Checkmate!!!
You have to love those Norwegian hackers hired by the Mossad, and they didn’t even leave home to git ‘er done!Obama is having fits about it.
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posted on
01/31/2011 1:28:54 PM PST
by
Candor7
(Obama . fascist info..http://wwvw.americanthinker.com2009/05/brack_obama_the _quintessentia_1.html)
To: The Comedian
Given that OArrogance likes BJ’s so much . . .
perhaps we could enlist a giant worm for his . . . pleasure?
Call Dune!
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posted on
01/31/2011 1:30:02 PM PST
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: M. Dodge Thomas
You are right we should have just "Nuke the site from orbit it was the only way to make sure."
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posted on
01/31/2011 1:44:30 PM PST
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: Quix
You’d have to call Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib). He’s the mover and shaker on Dune, literally and literately.
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posted on
01/31/2011 1:46:39 PM PST
by
TheOldLady
("...Communists in Congress, and Islamics everywhere, are showing who they truly are." - Lazamataz)
To: The Comedian
If only we could get a nice virus into the vast left-wing conspiracy that Hillary admitted in her famously projected fantasy when she mentioned a vast right-wing conspiracy. Oooh, was her slip showing!
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posted on
01/31/2011 1:49:33 PM PST
by
TheOldLady
("...Communists in Congress, and Islamics everywhere, are showing who they truly are." - Lazamataz)
To: TheOldLady
Oh right.
Thx.
I don’t think my Trak phone reaches that far.
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posted on
01/31/2011 1:56:56 PM PST
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: TheOldLady
Oh right.
Thx.
I don’t think my Trak phone reaches that far.
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posted on
01/31/2011 1:56:56 PM PST
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: Quix
LOL! Just wait until we find the Star Gate, and we’ll be all set. ;-D
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posted on
01/31/2011 1:59:47 PM PST
by
TheOldLady
("...Communists in Congress, and Islamics everywhere, are showing who they truly are." - Lazamataz)
To: TheOldLady
Some claim there’s one by the Gulf of Aden.
I vote we send Shrillery through first . . .
WITHOUT the return code.
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posted on
01/31/2011 2:02:44 PM PST
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: TheOldLady
If only we could get a nice virus into the vast left-wing conspiracy that Hillary admitted in her famously projected fantasy when she mentioned a vast right-wing conspiracy. Oooh, was her slip showing! You are describing an "Alinsky Positron".
I love it.
Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
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posted on
01/31/2011 2:14:34 PM PST
by
The Comedian
(It's 3am all over the planet.)
To: Quix
Stuxnet = worm targeted at sand empire of Iran. Sand + Worm :-)
Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
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posted on
01/31/2011 2:17:45 PM PST
by
The Comedian
(It's 3am all over the planet.)
To: The Comedian
"Alinsky Positron"LOL! I love it.
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posted on
01/31/2011 2:20:53 PM PST
by
TheOldLady
("...Communists in Congress, and Islamics everywhere, are showing who they truly are." - Lazamataz)
To: Quix
Why would she need a return code? She’d probably love to go back to her own “people.”
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posted on
01/31/2011 2:21:44 PM PST
by
TheOldLady
("...Communists in Congress, and Islamics everywhere, are showing who they truly are." - Lazamataz)
To: M. Dodge Thomas
My guess - the USA had a big role in this. ( I am a good guessed.)
They ought to thank us, because the alternative was a huge bombing raid.
We took risk to show constraint.
Anyone in a leadership position would recognize this fact. There lives may depend on that recognition.
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posted on
01/31/2011 2:22:10 PM PST
by
Triple
(Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
To: The Comedian
——Sand + Worm = Muad’Dib
The empire of the Spice will be taken down
Muad’Dib will lead the way
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posted on
01/31/2011 2:24:21 PM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 .....( History is a process, not an event ))
To: steve86
Well for one a nuclear power reactor doesn’t spin like a centrifuge. You’re talking apples and oranges when you try to compare the two.
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posted on
01/31/2011 2:24:31 PM PST
by
meatloaf
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