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AP Exclusive: Report warns of Iran nuke disaster
Ap/YahooNews ^ | 1/31/11 | GEORGE JAHN

Posted on 01/31/2011 11:58:20 AM PST by Kartographer

The control systems of Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant have been penetrated by a computer worm unleashed last year, according to a foreign intelligence report that warns of a possible Chernobyl-like disaster once the site becomes fully operational.

Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, also has raised the specter of the 1986 reactor explosion in Ukraine, but suggested last week that the danger had passed.

The report, drawn up by a nation closely monitoring Iran's nuclear program and obtained by The Associated Press, said such conclusions were premature and based on the "casual assessment" of Russian and Iranian scientists at Bushehr.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; bhomiddleeast; iraniannukes; nucleariran; proliferation; stuxnet
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Iranian Nuclear Program what Nuclear Program?

1 posted on 01/31/2011 11:58:26 AM PST by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

Is there any truth to the rumor that George W. Bush wrote the computer program for the worm? How else are they going to say it was Bush’s fault?


2 posted on 01/31/2011 12:05:52 PM PST by fhayek
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To: Kartographer

Prediction : If another “Chernobyl “ takes place AP will finally give “credit” to President Bush and the Israelis for making it happen.


3 posted on 01/31/2011 12:06:13 PM PST by sportscaster ("LET'S ROLL")
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To: Kartographer
Crystal Ball Iran
4 posted on 01/31/2011 12:07:15 PM PST by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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To: Kartographer

Nuke em til they glow in the dark and shoot en when they light up.

Who cares if Iran has a nuclear disaster?


5 posted on 01/31/2011 12:10:08 PM PST by Lessthantolerant (The State is diametrically opposed to our search for a better living.)
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To: Kartographer
"I love it when a plan comes together!"


6 posted on 01/31/2011 12:10:55 PM PST by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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To: Lessthantolerant

Anybody downwind from the site?


7 posted on 01/31/2011 12:12:39 PM PST by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: fhayek

Those shifty Jews!!!!! /s


8 posted on 01/31/2011 12:13:47 PM PST by rintense (The GOP elite & friends can pound sand.)
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To: Kartographer

Would that really be so bad if it takes out all of the Iranian nuclear scientists and the materiel parts of the program as well as a significant percentage of the “Revolutionary Guard”?

It would likely result in an uprising against the mullahs who approved the program. I doubt another Iranian revolution could be as disasterous as the last one.


9 posted on 01/31/2011 12:15:28 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Obama makes me miss Jimmah Cahtah!)
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To: Kartographer

Wonder if this is why Hillary had that big meetng.


10 posted on 01/31/2011 12:15:29 PM PST by rintense (The GOP elite & friends can pound sand.)
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To: Kartographer

TRON !!


11 posted on 01/31/2011 12:20:41 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Little Ray

The usual yahoos here never think about unintended consequences...


12 posted on 01/31/2011 12:20:41 PM PST by rahbert
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To: sportscaster; The Comedian; A Navy Vet
No, now the ball is in Iran's court. If Iran chooses to throw the switch and bring those reactors online, it'll be that choice that results in their country becoming a contaminated ball of radiated glass.

You just gotta love those Israelis. Seriously. They knew the United Nations would condemn a military response from Israel, despite Iranian "President" Achmed "I'm-a-dim-nut-job" vowing to use his new nukes to "wipe Israel from the face of the earth."

Go ahead, Nut-Job: Throw the switch. We'll see who gets wiped off the face of the earth. The Israelis smack another one out of the global park.

Priceless.

B^D

13 posted on 01/31/2011 12:26:10 PM PST by Gargantua (Palin ~ West 2012... Demand Exceptional--America deserves the best)
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To: rahbert

I was just gonna’ say - if some AQ operative caused a significant nuclear accident in this country we would regard it as an act of nuclear terrorism - and rightly so.

And if we knew - or even strongly suspected - that a national government had aided the effort, we would regard their action - rightly - as an act of war.


14 posted on 01/31/2011 12:29:46 PM PST by M. Dodge Thomas
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To: fhayek

Are you kidding? Everyone knows that GWB wasn’t smart enough to write his own name, let alone a computer program. Geesh!


15 posted on 01/31/2011 12:34:50 PM PST by Toespi
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To: M. Dodge Thomas
No, now the ball is in Iran's court. If Iran chooses to throw the switch and bring those reactors online, it'll be that choice that results in their country becoming a contaminated ball of radiated glass.

You seriously think that Americans would decide that a serious mishap an AQ compromised reactor on American soil was "our own fault" because we suspected or knew that it had been sabotaged? That we would be giving whoever sabotaged it a pass?

16 posted on 01/31/2011 12:36:50 PM PST by M. Dodge Thomas
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To: Kartographer
The centrifuges that were damaged by the computer virus have nothing to do with the operation of a nuclear reactor.

This is like claiming that a coal-fueled power plant will explode because someone shot out the tires of the trucks delivering the coal.

17 posted on 01/31/2011 12:51:32 PM PST by Johnny B.
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To: M. Dodge Thomas

Gee whiz, do you suppose that the Iranians might run and sue somebody over this?

Or maybe file a complaint with the UN?

(You’ll have to excuse me while I ROFLMAO. You have very obviously never heard of the fine old Navy tradition of Dirty Tricks Departments.....our groups’ motto was “We win, You lose, Tough Sh** Charley”.)


18 posted on 01/31/2011 12:51:53 PM PST by Unrepentant VN Vet (720 and a wakeup)
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To: Johnny B.

Why do you summarily conclude that separate infections at Bushehr did not take place? You have access to intelligence that the rest of us do not?


19 posted on 01/31/2011 12:55:52 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: Johnny B.
It's a computer virus, who knows what systems have be compromised.
20 posted on 01/31/2011 12:55:58 PM PST by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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