US Intel: Plutonium Sent By North Korea This Year Makes Iran Direct [Nuclear] Threat

Geostrategy Direct ^ | May 31, 2005 Issue | Bill Gertz

[gopwinsin04]

US Intelligence officials have told President Bush news that has left him stunned:

Iran has completed all elements required for an atomic bomb.

The intelligence information asserted that North Korea this year transferred components to Iran to assemble a plutonium based nuclear warhead.

The components were believed to have originated in Pakistan.

[blam]

"What do the mullahs think we're going to do if they nuke us? What do they think the consequences for them will be? Are they thinking?

They don't care about the consequences as long as you're dead. They want to show the world that the US military/government cannot protect you and our only hope is to convert to Islam.

[fso301]

What do the mullahs think we're going to do if they nuke us?

I don't think they plan on striking us. I think Israel is their target.

What do they think the consequences for them will be?

They believe that a nuclear strike against Israel would result in a massive nuclear retaliation by Israel which is fine since there are billions of virgins awaiting them and Israel doesn't have enough nukes to kill all mohammed worshippers who in the aftermath will re-occupy all of Palestine.

Are they thinking?

Yes.

[Pirate21]

Not what we should do, but what you think we actually would do. I think that would depend on who is in power. If it were our current socialist activists, they’d be delighted at the “leveled” playing field (be it any US city), sing “We Are the World”, and beg for forgiveness for whatever we did to offend the bomber. I don’t think the terrorists want to mess with President Bush; but with the image Voinovich is projecting..... .....and the system of unchecked’s and imbalances..... .....hmmmm, just what would Ruth Ginsburg do???

[Pirate21]

A country does not sink the billions of dollars in R&D etc. to build a nuclear weapon with the primary purpose to then give it to some radical group that would use it. Sure it would --- for trillions of dollars.

[Imperialist]

"China is behind this."

Totally agree. China supplied Pakistan's Dr. Khan the plans. The nuke plans Libya handed over last year and were claimed to be from Pakistan had Chinese writing on them.

[RobFromGa]

The thing that comes to my mind is that the socialist opposition forces (aka Democratic Party-MoveOn-Soros alliance) have succeeeding in weaking the US's strength around the world making it much more difficult to resolve these problems.

But President Bush is not one to shirk his duties so if this is True, then there must be some action pretty soon...

[Paul_Denton]

Order a First Strike

I agree!

[cherokee1]

It could happen----this very minute FOX (Page H.) reported that 15 F-117's from Holoman are being rotated to SKorea. With any luck at all the story will play on the Ngook news. Maybe they're being sent to drop the fertilizer Kimmie has been asking for---should help keep the starving NK's settled down!!!

[cherokee1]

It's being done---see 48 above. Back at the Big Boy Boxing School we called this telegraphing a punch. No one had to advertise the F-117 transfer---Bush doctrine is proceeding, and probly on schedule.

[atomicweeder]

I'm not familiar with geostrategy-direct.com. Are they a credible news source? Or tin-foil land?

[cherokee1]

See 48 above. fifteen F-117's is a "do " not a "think"---that's enough horsepower to actually turn the lights ON in Ngookland. Does the frase "target rich environment" come to mind?

[cherokee1]

See 40 above---I'm leaning tin-foil.

[SevenofNine]

Me too Tiger

I think Iran and Chia Pet are working together now I going have Team America reset in my head all weekend unless something major happen on World wires

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OK!

[hershey]

Some months back Charles Krauthammer said that Iran's nuclear ambitions wouldn't wait until January. Well, it's now almost June. What in the world has the admin. been doing all this time -- chewing their fingernails?

[hershey]

Ooops, I thought Gertz was talking about Iran...which is what Krauthammer discussed. No matter, NK is a big problem. I hope we have Plan A. in the works. They're just crazy enough to target the west coast.

[NJ_gent]

"China is behind this."

Not a chance. China has been keeping North Korea on life support for a good long time, but would never hand them the technology or weaponry to make them a potential adversary. This is the work of rogue Pakistani government folks and people from the old Soviet nations that have been whoring out their nuclear knowhow to anyone who'll feed them. China has been handing North Korea help with low-end weaponry to keep them in the area as a helpful distraction to US pacific forces so we can't look too closely on Taiwan. With the US tying up significant resources in South Korea, we're far less likely to be in a position to assist Taiwan in the event that China decides to take the island.

The bottom line is that China's leadership recognizes that Kim Jong-il is a nutjob and is as likely to send a nuclear weapon to Beijing as he is anywhere else. They've been frantically working inside and outside North Korea, publicly and privately, to difuse the nuclear situation.

[cherokee1]

It just did---see 48 above---rest your head a bit.

[cherokee1]

Plan A would appear to be in motion---see 48 above. I expect to hear about the Peeyongyang fly-by any time soon.

[the anti-liberal]

Thanks for the update.

I, for one, will be very interested to see how this plays out with the filibustering of Bolton, the Dems argument for filibustering him, the response of the UN, and the case for "US out of the UN".