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Report: U.S. Positioning 'Bunker-Busters' For Possible Iran Strike
Haaretz ^ | March 17, 2010

Posted on 03/17/2010 1:06:25 AM PDT by Fennie

The United States is transporting 387 "bunker-buster" bombs to its air base on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean as part of preparations for a possible strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, according to a report in Scotland's Sunday Herald.

The U.S. government signed a contract in January with Superior Maritime Services to transport 10 ammunition containers to Diego Garcia from Concord, California. The shipment includes 195 smart, guided BLU-110 bombs and 192 Blu-117 2,000lb bombs.

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; diegogarcia; iran; iraniannukes; israel; military; nukes
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1 posted on 03/17/2010 1:06:26 AM PDT by Fennie
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To: Fennie
It’s about time.

But this is all supposition.

2 posted on 03/17/2010 1:18:15 AM PDT by Pontiac
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To: Fennie

We got the goods, but do we got the leadership?


3 posted on 03/17/2010 1:19:23 AM PDT by oyez (The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has it limits.)
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To: Fennie

These are fairly small as BLUs go.


4 posted on 03/17/2010 1:26:57 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: oyez

>>but do we got the leadership?

For an attack on Iran? Only if it helps his polls.


5 posted on 03/17/2010 1:27:45 AM PDT by The Raven
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To: The Raven

Might be a good attention diverter if Bummercare falls on the floor.


6 posted on 03/17/2010 1:30:13 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

mark


7 posted on 03/17/2010 1:32:17 AM PDT by amom (Proud Blue Star Mom of a US Army tanker)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
"These are fairly small as BLUs go."

yeap and obama will give the Iranians advanced warning when they will get hit with these bombs that do nothing. The Iranians will put in a few prisoners for the camera shots of the dead.

presto, Obama done his job and the Iranian's can show how evil we are.

8 posted on 03/17/2010 1:36:08 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: Fennie

They’ll need the MOP. And for that they will need the B-2 or the B-52.


9 posted on 03/17/2010 1:40:39 AM PDT by valkyry1
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Exactly, they’ll need the MOP.


10 posted on 03/17/2010 1:42:02 AM PDT by valkyry1
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To: oyez
We got the goods, but do we got the leadership?

No.

MM

11 posted on 03/17/2010 1:44:28 AM PDT by MississippiMan
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To: Fennie

NO way we hit Iran. NO WAY. This is gonna be left up to little old Israel, after which we will abandon her.

MM


12 posted on 03/17/2010 1:52:15 AM PDT by MississippiMan
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If we were serious, the first report should have been that the last bomber had left Iranian airspace. We’re sending a message, one that Obama’s Islamist friends will ignore.


13 posted on 03/17/2010 1:59:17 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Fennie

All they need to do now is post the date, time of the strike, which aircraft will be involved and the air routes to be taken.

Of course a list of target locations and their expected time to strike should also be provided.. give or take a few minutes so there no waiting.


14 posted on 03/17/2010 2:23:12 AM PDT by maddog55 (OBAMA, Why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
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To: MississippiMan

We already KNOW that in a showdown, Resident (Pres_ent) Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., or Barry Soetoro, or Mr Michelle Robinson, or Sock-Puppet, supposedly the son of an out-of-control teenager and a Kenyan exchange student, is going to come down solidly on the side of the jihadists. He has said as much, and even though many people throughout the US regard him to be a liar, on this he was pretty truthful.

Besides, George Soros wants to keep the pot boiling. That means pre-announcement of any raids, branding the US as “aggressors”, and failure of mission.

Reprise of Jimmy Carter’s attempted strike against Iran back in the bad old days after the Iranians took US hostages and our embassy, Operation Eagle Claw, on April 24, 1980. Remember that, one helicopter crashing into another in a desert sandstorm? Kind of broke the stride of the attempted “surgical” insertion and extraction.

The attempt, or supposed attempt, to “take out” the uranium enrichment and weapons facilities of the Iranians, will fail, if in fact it is ever made. This is all show and saber-rattling for the folks back here in America. The Iranians won’t be fooled for a second.


15 posted on 03/17/2010 2:32:27 AM PDT by alloysteel (....the Kennedys can be regarded as dysfunctional. Even in death.)
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To: Fennie

Won’t happen. Hillary is the military leader that Obama kneels down and takes orders from. It’s a cultural thing.


16 posted on 03/17/2010 2:41:14 AM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
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To: Fennie

Maybe Obama will attack Israel.


17 posted on 03/17/2010 2:41:44 AM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: familyop

mmmmmmm, Hillary is a semi-hawk.


18 posted on 03/17/2010 2:43:08 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: valkyry1
For something as important as this, they need airborne rangers (if they are committed to the non-nuclear response).
19 posted on 03/17/2010 3:00:27 AM PDT by RC one (WHAT!!!!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
These are fairly small as BLUs go

Perfect for dog-wagging.

20 posted on 03/17/2010 3:28:01 AM PDT by cmj328 (Filibuster FOCA--a/k/a ObamaCare--or lose reelection)
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