Breaking story in the London Sunday Times: Israel elite ground forces acquired nuclear material, analyzed it to be North Korean, and then bombed the facility.
This come now two weeks after John Bolton declared exactly the same in the Wall Street Journal. Amazing!
It also comes from just after a missing warhead from the B 52 incident is still unaccounted for.
Previous speculation has been rampant that in order to push America towards another war, an "real threat" would rise before us; this time real evidence needed to be provided to a skeptical American public......
There are some problems with the story. It is too new and has not, at this writing, been picked up by other services. Careful reading causes some questions to be asked, and it will take, perhaps another Joe Wilson, to provide the credibility to do so.
Ret. General Abizaid recently said we could live with a nuclear Iran. We could...., but the real question is this: could Israel live with a nuclear threat that could wipe out one of its cities at any time?
The perpetrators of such an explosion would not care one iota whether Iran was subsequently leveled in a retaliatory strike. This is what has set all the other Arab states on edge. The lack of a response over this Israeli air adventure by both Syria, and other Arab states, should have a chilling effect upon Iran. Translated, it means: "We support Israel in this adventure more than we support you, get it?"
Saber rattling has its purpose. If correctly applied, the differences can be resolved without fighting. Saber rattling is what we are currently doing with Iran, whether it is intentional or not......The problem occurs when neither party backs down, and war ensues.
The plan, as gleamed from the Telegraph UK, is to probe, poke, harass, until Iran retaliates and then annihilate Iran with both conventional and nuclear weapons. By November, the US will staff with 200 servicemen, a base in Iraq within 4 miles of the border. The British were asked by us and agreed, to move their troops up to the Iranian border.
The scenario plays out this way. The border patrols find caches of weapons including IED's headed into Iraq. An attack is staged across the border into Iran to take out the Revolutionary Guards base (Fajr) that makes the explosive IED's. Iran retaliate by attacking commercial shipping passing through the Gulf. The US uses that provocation to unleash nuclear weapons and destroy Iraq forever.
There is limited support at home, but no lack of such comes from the republican party. In the New Hampshire debate sponsored by Fox News, nine out of ten Republicans favored using nukes on Iran...Chilling....Unlike chicken hawk republican candidates, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have no stomach for the plan, but will follow orders. Across the Internet, Retired officers have begun calling on GI's to disobey orders if asked to launch nukes on Iran.....
Barring impeachment, it looks like the nuclear bombing is a done deal.....Barring impeachment, the next successor will find himself fighting China, Russia, who today are supporting Iran and have considerable longterm investments in that country. Barring impeachment.....we would have good reason for a container ship to go nuke, wiping out one of our greatest cities.....
I will leave speculation to others. I want to go back to the lead story at the top of this page. As I said, there were problems with the time-line that bother me, and should be debated over the internet.
According to the time-line presented by the story, the ground campaign attacked the plant, or trucks going into the plant, killed North Koreans, and one Syrian, stole the nuclear material, returned to Israel, analyzed the material as being North Korean, told Olmert who called Bush, and got his blessing, scrambled between 2 to 8 fighters, and destroyed the complex completely.
The problem with this time line, is that a raid occurred on Syrian soil,... against North Koreans,... and for the interim time frame between the ground raid, and the bombing,... no one said anything to anyone?
My knowledge of fissionable material is so non classified, but...how long would it take to do the necessary tests in order to analyze to the detail required to find out which country sourced the material?
My guess is twenty one days, but anyone who can collaborate this information from personal knowledge, please respond. Something about the time frame does not add up... unless everyone's silence was leading up to the doctoring of some extra nuclear material, that happened, for whatever reason, to be in Israel's possession....