Posted on 10/25/2010 8:00:18 AM PDT by jhpigott
In the media, when one does NOT know, one “suggests.”
My family is French. Le Figaro is a right-of-center major, major newspaper, supporter of Sarkozy, and THE newspaper most likely to have access to French Intel sources. I would sayLe Figaro is about as reliable a source as you can find in France.
Ordnance rules are written in blood (Old Navy saying).
Actually, even those who hate Ahmadinajad (sp? / who cares) in Iran, are very nationalistic. If it was revealed that Israel intervened in Iran, they would be up in arms against it.
I wouldn’t put it past Iran to lie their collective buts off saying it was Israel, also, to gin up more hatred.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Aside from admitting the IAF violated their airspace, the Syrians to this day deny the IAF took out that nuke facility back in 07’.
As much as Iran likes to spew hatred for Israel, admitting a sensitive military site was taken out by the Israelis may be a touch embarrassing. Not to mention harmful to their deterrence if they don’t respond militarily to the provacation.
That’s not a bad response really. Iran could announce a plant “accident”. Of course it might be quite difficult to explain why 14 different plants had accidents on the same night at precisely 2:30 am. Har...
“Official Iranian reports stated that the explosion occurred after a fire broke out in a weapons depot.”
If the Iranians say it was their own problem, $$ to donuts it was. They’d be crying foul big time if they even had a suspicion it was the Evil Joooooos.
Yes, that’s the conventional wisdom. However, you don’t have to look very far back in time to see where the Syrians denied an Israel attack back in Sept 07’ so as not to back themselves into a corner where they had to respond militarily.
An explosion that killed 18 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on October 12 was ordered by the Mossad, French newspaper Le Figaro suggested on Monday. Another cause for the blast mentioned by the paper was a targeted Israeli air raid. Official Iranian reports stated that the explosion occurred after a fire broke out in a weapons depot.And the official Iranian reports stated that because that was the actual cause of it. Thanks jhpigott.
thats just a sample,they can have the whole dish if they like
I SUGGEST that President Terrorist of Iran sent that against his own country.
As long as the Iranian Guards are dead, I don’t really care how it happened, just that it did happen.
Many more happy explosions, please!
http://www.debka.com/article/9087/Blasts hit secret Iranian missile launching-pad for US, Israeli targets
DEBKAfile Special Report October 15, 2010, 1:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tags: Iran Shehab-3 launchers Sabotage deep underground
A top-secret Iranian military installation was struck by a triple blast Tues. Oct. 12 the day before Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Lebanon. debkafile's military and intelligence sources report the site held most of the Shehab-3 medium-range missile launchers Iran had stocked for striking US forces in Iraq and Israel in the event of war - some set to deliver triple warheads (tri-conic nosecones).
The 18 soldiers officially reported killed in the blasts and 14 injured belonged to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) main missile arm, the Al-Hadid Brigades.
The Imam Ali Base where the explosion occurred is situated in lofty Zagros mountain country near the town of Khorramabad in the western Iranian province of Lorestan. This site was selected for an altitude which eases precise targeting and the difficulty of reaching it for air or ground attack. It lies 400 kilometers from Baghdad and primary American bases in central Iraq and 1,250 kilometers from Tel Aviv and central Israel. Both are well within the Shehab-3 missile's 1,800-2,500-kilometer operational range.
Our Iranian sources report that Tehran spent hundreds of millions to build one of the largest subterranean missile launching facilities of its kind in the Middle East or Europe. Burrowed under the Imam Ali Base is a whole network of wide tunnels deep underground.
Somehow, a mysterious hand rigged three blasts in quick succession deep inside those tunnels, destroying a large number of launchers and causing enough damage to render the facility unfit for use.
In its official statement on the incident, Tehran denied it was the result of "a terrorist attack" and claimed the explosion "was caused by a nearby fire that spread to the munitions storage area of the base." In the same way, the regime went to great lengths to cover up the ravages wrought to their nuclear and military control systems by the Stuxnet virus - which is still at work.
In actual fact, debkafile's military sources report, Iran's missile arsenal and the Revolutionary Guards have also suffered a devastating blow. Worst of all, all their experts are a loss to account for the assailants' ability to penetrate one of Iran's most closely guarded bases and reach deep underground to blow up the missile launchers.
The number of casualties is believed to be greater than the figure given out by Tehran.
The soldiers' funerals took place Thursday, Oct. 14, at the same time as Ahmadinejad declared in South Lebanon that Israel was destined to "disappear." A few hours later, he ended his contentious two-day visit to Lebanon.
This week, Aviation Week discovered that the new intermediate-range BM-25 Musudan ballistic missile exhibited at the North Korean military parade Sunday Oct. 10 - at which Kim Jong-II also paraded his son and heir - bore a strong resemblance to the Iranian Shehab-3.
It is therefore possible that the explosions at the IRGC base in Lorestan Tuesday also sabotaged secret models of Iran's latest road-mobile, liquid-fuel version of the Shehab-3 ballistic missile.
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I doubt it, but if true, a well executed operation.
Fixed it.
Much better. Thank you.
“If I recall correctly, it took a few weeks before we really had a clear picture of what the IAF did to that Syrian nuke facility back in Sept 07.”
I didn’t know the actual story ever came out???
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