Posted on 01/06/2007 4:41:43 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
In an Israeli air force bunker in Tel Aviv, near the concert hall for the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, Major General Eliezer Shkedi might one day conduct operations of a perilous kind. Should the order come from the Israeli prime minister, it will be Shkedi’s job as air force commander to orchestrate a tactical nuclear strike on Iran.
Two fast assault squadrons based in the Negev desert and in Tel Nof, south of Tel Aviv, are already training for the attack.
The other potential targets are Iran’s uranium conversion facility at Isfahan — uncomfortably near a metropolis of 4.5m people — and the heavy water power reactor at Arak, which might one day be able to produce enough plutonium to make a bomb. These will be hit with conventional bombs.
In recent weeks Israeli pilots have been flying long-haul as far as Gibraltar to simulate the 2,000-mile round trip to Natanz. “There is no 99% success in this mission. It must be a perfect 100% or better not at all,” one of the pilots expected to fly on the mission told The Sunday Times.
On a plasma screen, Shkedi will be able to see dozens of planes advance towards Iran, as well as the electronic warfare aircraft jamming the Iranian and Syrian air defences and the rescue choppers hovering near the border, ready to move in and pluck out the pilots should the mission go wrong.
Another screen will show live satellite images of the Iranian nuclear sites. The prime target will be Natanz, the deep and ferociously protected bunker south of Tehran where the Iranians are churning out enriched uranium in defiance of the United Nations security council.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
If this happens, Iran will be the first to blame and Russia, the seller of this nuclear technology, the second. Israel must act soon and decisively.
More detail than the earlier threads, but the same journalists.
Absolutely. Do it. I want to read this article AFTER it happened, not BEFORE!
I believe one could infer, from ahmadinejad's latest antics (inviting David Duke and other rabid neo-nazis to Teheran on a discussion on the Holocaust, arguing that it didn't happen then, but we will midwife it now,) that he is capable of anything, including passing nukes to like-minded terrorists.
The rest of the world--including some Islamic states-- will owe Israel a big favor if they take out Iran's nuke facilities.
The only reactions Israel will get from the "world community" is rage, criticism and calls for restraint.
US troops in Iraq will be the ones to suffer the reprisals - I hope Israel gives them advance warning.
Once again, Israel will do what the West, in its failure of will, refused to do.
"Will Olmert have the cajones to actually give the order?"
He'd better have the huevos to do it because I doubt George Bush does.
Bush doesn't have the political capital to do it, to put it kindly.
Well put. The US should take out Iran's nuclear facilities, since a nuclear Iran is a threat to the entire Western world (not to mention its Arab neighbors in the Middle East). But I don't look for it to happen.
My guess is that the Bush administration is hoping against all reasonable hope that some third way can be magically found--some way to de-nuclearize Iran without bloodshed, without risking an attempted closure of the Strait of Hormuz, without prompting terrorist attacks against US servicemen and -women in Iraq.
A happy scenario, that. About as happy as Santa's landing atop my roof with a bagful of goodies.
And about as realistic.
It appears Israel is willing to face the world's wrath for saving the world.
Shut up and bomb 'em already. We're waiting with baited breath.
I always bait my breath when I'm fishing for compliments.
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