Posted on 10/04/2007 9:39:34 AM PDT by Parmenio
Nutjob promises final response
Israeli intelligence tracked a North Korean vessel carrying a cargo of nuclear material labelled 'cement' as it travelled halfway across the world. On 3 September the ship docked at the Syrian port of Tartous and the Israelis continued following the cargo as it was transported to the small town of Dayr as Zawr, near the Turkish border in north-eastern Syria... It had already been the subject of intense surveillance by an Israeli Ofek spy satellite, and within hours a band of elite Israeli commandos had secretly crossed into Syria and headed for the town. Soil samples and other material they collected there were returned to Israel. Sure enough, they indicated that the cargo was nuclear... With prior approval from Washington, Israeli F151 jets were scrambled and, minutes later, the installation and its newly arrived contents were destroyed... The Syrians have good reason to up the ante now. The Alawite regime of Bashar Assad is facing a slew of tough questions in the coming months -- most particularly over its alleged role in the murder of the former Lebanese leader, Rafiq Hariri, and its active support for the insurgency in Iraq. Either of these issues could threaten the survival of the regime. How tempting, then, to create a counter-threat that might cause Washington and others to pull their horns in -- and perhaps even permit a limited Syrian return to Lebanon?I have my doubts about this supposed nuclear threat, and until everyone has forgotten this and I can change my mind without anyone's noticing, I'll continue to believe that this was an exercise to show up the Russians' hottest antiaircraft stuff, and to wipe out a multinational terrorist installation.
Nope, it’s definitely satellite. Pretty easy to tell - because the car was a white Suburban, which looks like a white rectangle from orbit (the pic is known to come from a USGS satellite).
It also does not show the pool that was put in a few years ago.
Alternately, someone managed to slip a tracker or homing beacon on the thing (or it may have had one already and someone figured out how to track it) and they wanted to see where it was going to go.
Otherwise, yeah, disposing of the boat over some of the oceanic trenches would be the best thing to do.
We’re really at semantics here, but active EA is comprised of jamming, deception, active cancellation, and EMP use. Of course there’s kinetic attack via HARM as well
If a system is cancelled, I would not consider it to be jammed. Jammed is providing too much or too many signals in order to overload the system or operator. A cancellation is electronic white out. It sounds like you’ve seen cancellation in operation.
And you are most right that its a continuously changing game.
Another date to watch.
Thing is, he’s given several such terminal-sounding dates, only to have nothing happen.
I heard Michael Ledeen say a couple of weeks ago that the ruling mullahs have been moving their money out of Iran. Maybe they're hedging their bets prior to unleashing Armageddon.
There’s also a possibility of it being meaconing. Fooling the radar into believing that it’s some place else.
“Trust, but verify”.
Sure, but that leads to multiple contacts, which is evident to the operator.
Plutonium can form plutonium hydride in the presence of air and water, and that will catch fire all by itself. But normally you won't ever see pure plutonium, as they stabilize it with other metals when making bombs. Still, the point is that plutonium is not indestructible. It's just a metal, a very strange one, but still just a metal.
Welllll *people* may not have known, but, those closest to the world's oil market knew since $80+ p/bbrl was a sure indicator *something* was amiss in the absence of any disaster around the globe.
So world aside, those who watch & reason knew.
Make no mistake.
...about that. ;^)
Here is a link to a Discovery Channel show, “Future Weapons” about EMP. There is a video of the show’s experiment with EMP on the right side of the page.
http://dsc.discovery.com/search/results.html?query=electromagnetic%20pulse
Mitch Rapp??
I was more or less quoting the Jerusalem Post article, which stated that Ofek 7 orbits over Iran, Iraq and Syria every 90 minutes. I took that to mean that the orbit was set to track the earth's rotation rate, rather than staying in a fixed plane and having the earth rotate beneath it once every 24 hours. Does that make sense? I can certainly see where the Israelis would do it that way if it were possible.
No -- that would put the satellite in geosynchronous orbit, well outside range for effective hi-res imagery.
Trust my description of their actual coverage of 6-7 passes per day: I ran the numbers.
>>>>I wish I could remember where I read (and who knows if true), that the soldiers on the ground “took” something of interest.
IIRC, someone wrote that we would be shocked when/if revealed.
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