The Times of London is reporting that Israel plans to nuke Iran. Uzi Mahnaimi and Sarah Baxter (who are stationed in the United States) report:
ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.
Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-bustersâ€, according to several Israeli military sources.
The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb.
Under the plans, conventional laser-guided bombs would open “tunnels†into the targets. “Mini-nukes†would then immediately be fired into a plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce the risk of radioactive fallout.
“As soon as the green light is given, it will be one mission, one strike and the Iranian nuclear project will be demolished,†said one of the sources.
There’s good reason to be skeptical of this story and suspect either bad reporting or Israeli saber-rattling. Still …
You might want to take a gander at
this post over at War and Piece. Just another case of Murdoch making shit up, I’m glad to say.
One never knows. Here’s another interesting read, not saying it’s entirely true, but if the whole shit house goes up in flames in 2007 we had advanced warning. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=NIM20070102&articleId=4311
I assume that it is Iranian disinformation.
It’s still scary.
Iranian disinformation? Yeah, I know them eye ranians have a lock on that libral press……Sneaky-assed Eye Ranians!