Israel will hit Iran in the next few months: Israeli official

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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in the next “month or two or three,” an Israeli official has been quoted here as saying.

The unnamed official told Arnaud de Borchgrave, editor-in-chief of the United Press International (UPI), at the recently held national day reception at the Israeli Embassy that he believed Israel would strike Iran first in the next two or three months and that fighter bombers would not be involved as they had been to take out Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor before it went critical in 1981. For Osirak, Israel had used 14 F-15s and F-16s. This time, the Israeli said, it would be missiles. Asked if Israel would employ Cruise missiles, he replied, “with a gesture of his hand that went up and down again”, which meant that it would be the weapon of choice. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\05\09\story_9-5-2006_pg1_3 THE SUMMER IS GETTING HOTTER..........................

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May. 9, 2006 11:29 | Updated May. 9, 2006 13:10 "Wiping Israel off the map is just one step in Iran's attempt to create a new world order," said Brig.-Gen Yosef Kuperwasser, head of the IDF Military Intelligence's research division.
"Iran is interested not only in turning into a superpower, but also in changing the world order," Kuperwasser said at a conference on power projection at the Fisher Institute of Strategic Studies in Herzliya.Just hours before the UNSC votes on sanctions against Iran, Maj-Gen. (res.) Amos Gilad said that he believed Iran was vulnerable to sanctions. "Iran is Not North Korea," Gilad said. "It's a country of intelligent, intellectual people." http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961309870&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

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The world needs to grasp this reality and take it to heart.
There are religious factions that encourage their followers to strap on a vest of explosives and get onto a bus, train or walk into a crowded market and detonate themselves all for the thought of a reward in Paradise. Now imagine those same religious zealots with an opportunity to do this with a dirty bomb.
Don't think for one minute that this is not a realistic scenario. It will happen.

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The world needs to grasp this reality and take it to heart.
There are religious factions that encourage their followers to strap on a vest of explosives and get onto a bus, train or walk into a crowded market and detonate themselves all for the thought of a reward in Paradise. Now imagine those same religious zealots with an opportunity to do this with a dirty bomb.
Don't think for one minute that this is not a realistic scenario. It will happen. Al-Qaida in league with Mexican radicals in plot to penetrate U.S., says MI6 report: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50130 :no:

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Al-Qaida in league with Mexican radicals in plot to penetrate U.S., says MI6 report: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50130 :no: A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed the notification process, describing it as a standard procedure meant to reassure the Mexican government that migrants' rights are being observed.
"It's not a secret where the Minuteman volunteers are going to be," Mario Martinez said Monday.
"This ... simply makes two basic statements -- that we will not allow any lawlessness of any type, and that if an alien is encountered by a Minuteman or arrested by the Minuteman, then we will allow that government to interview the person."
Minuteman members were not so sanguine about the arrangement, however, saying that reporting their location to Mexican officials nullifies their effectiveness along the border and could endanger their lives.
"Now we know why it seemed like Mexican officials knew where we were all the time," said Chris Simcox, founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. "It's unbelievable that our own government agency is sending intelligence to another country. They are sending intelligence to a nation where corruption runs rampant, and that could be getting into the hands of criminal cartels.
"They just basically endangered the lives of American people." http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3799653

[Lonestar]

It is definitely heating up over there and needs to be watched.

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What does Japan and Iran have in common?
ANSWER: Nothing yet