Posted on 12/02/2007 2:49:01 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
I read speculation about this about two or three weeks ago in a Jewish blog - believe it was in an article by a Member of the Knesset.
Interestingly, I refered to this in a post earlier about the "NIE" (fraud) that just came out.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934533/posts?page=26#26
Since I believe that Iranian scientists were killed at the Syrian site when the Israeli's attacked, I think this throws great doubt on the NIE....maybe Iran has outsourced the making of a weapon, but they are still involved.
As will various pits in Iran.
It's not that easy anymore, DB. Not that it was ever easy, of course. Any over-water flights are picked-up by ATC and Military quite a ways out, and IFF is pretty rigid and unforgiving. Even more so after 9/11.
I got braced by a pair of F-4's returning from Canada many years ago. Detroit-Center said they were just taking a look. Scared-the-shit outa me.
From Mexico-way might be different considering all the drugs that are flown in, but they're down in the sand - not good for a sizeable jet ................................ FRegards
Smells like ... Friday ............................... FRegards
You have a great tagline yourself there, P8riot! ;) Thanks for the laugh. :)
I agree with you completely, Jeff. And, of course you have said it in a much more concise way than I’ve been able to up to this point — Thank you. I only hope more people will start to see what is so incredibly obvious to so many of the rest of us (at least here at FR).
Another problem best resolved with high explosives.
“I’d strongly hesitate before assuming they could fit any of these to a missile warhead, where size and weight are critical restrictions.”
What about the possibility of an aircraft borne device?
You know a one way trip to somewhere and KABOOM!
I give President Bush unlimited reams of credit for his first term. I give him no credit for listening to Condi Rice led State Department or co-towing to his Mexican & big business constituents leaving our border wide open. He has acted like he has been on hallucinagenic drugs for the last 3 years. I do not like the direct insults to our President, no matter who it is. But I call a spade a spade and on this NK affair, he had it right prior to 2004 and again, listened to fools.
I honestly don't understand his flippo episodes (Dubai, immigration, Miers, etc) , but I know he's serious about the Middle East cleaning up, growing up.
2CAVTrooper wrote:
What about the possibility of an aircraft borne device?
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Generally no.
Go back to the Trinity test site. That thing atop the tower, with all the wires, wooden scaffolding, shielding, flux meters, test mice, that’s what we’re talking about here.
Additionally, any general ordering such an attack knows he could easily get caught, earn nuclear reprisals, and have his own device fail to function properly. All the risk, none of the benefit.
Except in the case of known tested plans, like those peddled by A.Q. Khan, nuclear wanna-be’s generally require successful testing before they’re sure enough to depend on the result.
Yeah well Mymood Imonajihad doesn’t care about that because he sees it as a means for the return of the 12th imam.
And even if the bomb fails, detonating a plane load of plutonium over a major city makes it uninhabitable for a thousand years.
Think of the dispersion of the above scenario compared to a dirty bomb in a semi truck.
*’nucular’ placemarker ping*
That way the mullahs can deny having a bomb program..
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