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November 21, 2007
Ahmadinejad to conquer Tel Aviv via Turkey
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yup, that will work. squeeze the Iranian pistachio growers and they will march on Teheran and tell those mullahs to straighten up.
I wonder if this can get any more absurd.
Posted by: dan of steele | Nov 21 2007 20:04 utc | 1
dan
it can be guaranteed to get more absurd – absurd enough to make pirandello piss blood
Posted by: remembereringgiap | Nov 21 2007 20:11 utc | 2
I wonder if this can get any more absurd
Let me give it a try with a Thanksgiving theme:
Roast Turkey with Ahmadinejad couscous stuffing
Add the onion mixture, lemon rind, semi-dried tomatoes, Ahmadinejad and parsley to the couscous. Use a fork to mix until well combined. Taste and season with salt and pepper. Set aside.
Remove the excess fat, giblets and neck from the cavity of Turkey and use paper towel to wipe both inside and out. Don’t wash the skin as it contains natural oils that help keep the meat moist during cooking.
Place an oven shelf in the lowest position so Turkey will be in the centre of the oven. Remove remaining shelves. Preheat oven to 180°C.
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I just wanted to congratulate you, b (Bernhard) on the quality of your posts, and supplementary comments. It is not like Billmon (how could it be? different but equal), but in incisiveness this is by far the best of all the blogs I read. Of course I don’t expect you to be expert on my particular area, the Middle East, but I have to say that even there, the comments are very close, astounding for a non-specialist. So Well Done.
Posted by: Alex | Nov 22 2007 0:06 utc | 5
“…Turkey will be in the centre of the oven”?
Wait, I thought Iran was in the center of the oven.
Yup. Well done.
Posted by: beq | Nov 22 2007 2:19 utc | 6
this is by far the best of all the blogs I read
me too!
alex, you should comment more often..new voices are always welcome.
Posted by: annie | Nov 22 2007 2:45 utc | 7
I don’t expect you to be expert on my particular area, the Middle East, but I have to say that even there, the comments are very close
well, speak up if your expertise is surpasses our discourse. please, further any/all topics.
b, no one can be a specialist in everything. your well roundedness astounds me sometimes.
we’re so lucky.
Posted by: annie | Nov 22 2007 2:50 utc | 8
@Alex – 5 – thanks a lot!
Of course nothing compares to Billmon. He’s a writer, I am just another engineer who doesn’t even know English that well.
And as annie said. Please comment!
See if you can connect the dots …
Regional and Global Consequences of U.S. Military Action in Iran
By Ilan Berman, American Foreign Policy Council
Statement before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
Ilan Berman, Vice President for Policy, American Foreign Policy Council
November 14, 2007
Chairman Tierney, Congressman Shays, distinguished members of the Subcommittee:
Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to address the current crisis with Iran, and the potential of military action against the Iranian regime.
Today, the United States and its allies are fast approaching a fateful choice. After years of intensive work, the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program is mature-and approaching operational capability. According to recent European estimates, as well as the assertions of regime officials themselves, Iran is now operating some 3,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges, placing it just one year away from producing enough fissile material for one nuclear weapon.[1] Soon, therefore, Washington will need to choose, as French President Nicolas Sarkozy has put it, between “Iran with the bomb or the bombing of Iran.”[2]
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http://newsblaze.com/story/20071115082137nnnn.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html
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Let us be clear. There are no easy answers to the current conflict with Iran, only hard choices. A compelling case can be made that, at least for the moment, Iran’s nuclear ambitions can be curbed, contained and even derailed through non-military measures such as a robust, coordinated economic warfare strategy.[9] The time for such “non-kinetic” approaches, however, is rapidly running out. As Iran draws closer to the nuclear threshold, the use of force-unpalatable as it is-will loom ever larger on the horizon. This is only logical. For, as Senator John McCain succinctly explained last year, “there’s only one thing worse than the United States exercising the military option; that is a nuclear-armed Iran.”[10]
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The Mystery of Minot: Loose nukes and a cluster of dead airmen raise troubling questions
by Dave Lindorff
Wed, 11/21/2007—The unauthorized Aug. 29 cross-country flight of a B-52H Stratofortress armed with six nuclear-tipped AGM-29 Advanced Cruise missiles, which saw these 150-kiloton warheads go missing for 36 hours, has all the elements of two Hollywood movies.
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http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/112107Lindorff.shtml
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The American Conservative has discovered that to date, more than a month after the incident, Pentagon investigators have completely ignored a peculiar cluster of six deaths, during the weeks immediately preceding and following the flight, of personnel at the two Air Force bases involved in the incident and Air Force Commando Operations headquarters.
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“The reported problems with procedures and record keeping follows an incident in August when a B-52 bomber was mistakenly armed with six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and flown to a Louisiana airbase. [beside an international seaport]
The mission from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota was to ferry cruise missiles that had been slated for decommissioning but the warheads were supposed to have been removed beforehand.” [as well as the fuel, so clearly these were deliberately live.]
[SNAFUBAR. SAC doesn’t do decommissioning, the AF has a Cargo Command for that.]
The Air Force disciplined some 70 airmen. [and apparently terminated six of them.]
Posted by: Peris Troika | Nov 22 2007 7:43 utc | 10
Peris,
what is your angle here? why do you persist in bringing up bullshit stories that have been thoroughly debunked elsewhere? any search at all will tell you that some of those airman died before the missile thing and others died in states far away in road accidents.
are you that dense or are you deliberately spreading disinformation.
knock it off, please.
Posted by: dan of steele | Nov 22 2007 8:22 utc | 11
dos, while i completely agree it is not apparent whatsoever the airforce ‘terminated’ anyone i haven’t heard the ‘thoroughly debunked’ aspect. from yesterday’s baltimorecronicle
police and medical examiners in the Frueh and Blue cases say no federal investigators, whether from DOD or FBI, have called them. Worse still, because the B-52 incident got so little media attention—no coverage in most local news—none of those investigating the accidents and suicides even knew about it or about the other deaths.
“It would have been interesting to know all that when I was examining Mr. Blue’s body,” says coroner Mike Stoker, “but no one told me about any of it or asked me about him.”
“If we had known that several people had died under questionable circumstances, it might have affected how we’d look at a body,” says Don Phillips, the sheriff’s deputy who investigated the Frueh death. “But nobody from the federal government has ever contacted us about this.”
“Certainly, in a case like this, the suicides should be a red flag,” says Hans Kristensen, a nuclear-affairs expert with the Federation of American Scientists. It’s wild speculation to think that there might be some connection between the deaths and the incident, but it certainly should be investigated.”
if it had been thoroughly debunked one would assume all coroners would have been contacted by the feds, they weren’t.
frueh’s suicide in particular sounds odd to say the least.
Frueh, 33, a married father of two who had just received approval for promotion from captain to major, reportedly flew from Florida to Portland, Oregon, for a friend’s wedding. He never showed up. Instead, he called on Aug. 29, the day the missiles were loaded, from an interstate pull-off just outside Portland to say he was going for a hike in a park nearby. (It is not clear why he was at a highway rest stop as he had no car.) A day later, back in Portland, he rented a car at the airport, again calling his family. After he failed to appear at the wedding, his family filed a missing person’s report with the Portland police. The Sheriff’s Department in remote Skamania County, Washington, found Frueh’s rental car ten days later on the side of a road nearly 120 miles from the airport in a remote area of Badger Peak. Search dogs found his body in the woods. His death was ruled a suicide, though neither the sheriff’s investigator nor the medical examiner would give details. What makes this alleged suicide odd, however, is that the sheriff reports that Frueh had with him a knapsack containing a GPS locator and a videocam—odd equipment for someone intent on ending his life.
Posted by: annie | Nov 22 2007 10:52 utc | 12
one would assume all coroners would have been contacted by the feds, they weren’t.
actually i don’t know this. the article was first published in the Oct. 22, 2007 issue of American Conservative magazine. they could have been contacted since then.
Posted by: annie | Nov 22 2007 11:03 utc | 13
Janet Reno’s ‘Song of America’
This says all you need know with regards to Iran.
I’m with Peris Troika here, further, this would fall right in line with the Modus operandi of everything we have seen and recorded thus far. Bomb the Tehranian capital or not even that, some oil region of Iran, with the missing nuke, pretend it was Iran’s own nuke, and then follow up with even more nukes. All this of course several weeks right before the elections. As I have said all along, I don’t believe we will attack Iran until their last few weeks in office.
Back to my holiday alcohol drowning…
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Nov 22 2007 15:15 utc | 14
just like the truth, the risk seems to be somewhere else…
in this case: in the iranian nuclear plants
Interview: Waiting for an Iranian Chernobyl
* 11 July 2007
* NewScientist.com news service
Earlier this year an Iranian nuclear scientist at the uranium conversion facility at Isfahan died from poisoning with uranium hexafluoride gas. Accidents like this keep Najmedin Meshkati awake at night. A leading expert in nuclear safety at the University of Southern California, the Iranian-born engineer worries that the Russian technology and human error that led to the Chernobyl disaster may cause a similar tragedy at Iran’s nuclear facilities in Bushehr and elsewhere. The biggest nuclear threat from Iran is not from an attack but from an accident, he told Deborah Campbell, and international sanctions are only increasing the risk
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this links with an article by Mohammad Sahimi, pointed by this anna missed’s post
Posted by: rudolf | Nov 22 2007 16:23 utc | 16
Uncle $cam – now that was cruel and unusual punishment!
I keep trying to sort out the maneuvering v-a-v Iran. I am convinced that George will attack yet the recent news of Fallon etc saying nope is odd. Is there really a step back or just a move to look more reasonable so George can present the bombing of Iran as something he was forced into by those evil Iranians who persist in selling pistachios to Israel? On the same weekend Fallon was backing away from an attack, the green zone spokesman was increasing the “iran is arming iraqi bad guys” talk …
It just seems like an attack on Iran – and yes a nuclear attack on Iran – is precisely the sort of grand finale George would want.
I should rewrite my #14 for clarity…
I’m with Peris Troika here, further, this would fall right in line with the Modus operandi of everything we have seen and recorded thus far. Detonate the “missing nuke” over the Tehranian capital or not even that, some oil region of Iran, (to keep oil off the market like in Iraq) once the covert missing nuke is used we can say, “see they were building offensive nukes!” By pretending it was Iran’s own nuke in the first place, (an Iranian misstep i.e., accident) WE CAN then blame them, follow up with even more nukes…
All this of course, several weeks right before the elections. As I have said all along, I don’t believe we (Cheneyco) will attack Iran until their last few weeks in office.
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Nov 22 2007 17:10 utc | 18
Detonate the “missing nuke” over the Tehranian capital or not even that, some oil region of Iran, (to keep oil off the market like in Iraq) once the covert missing nuke is used we can say, “see they were building offensive nukes!” By pretending it was Iran’s own nuke in the first place, (an Iranian misstep i.e., accident) WE CAN then blame them, follow up with even more nukes…
Nonsense, pure nonsense.
No way – every decent nuclear lab in the world could determine where the nuke was produced. Iran is working on Uranium enrichment. It is unlikely to have any Plutonium which would have to come from Uranium actually used up within a reactor or a heavy water reactor Iran currently doesn’t have.
So any plausible Iranian device would have to be a bomb from highly enriched Uranium like the physical huge gun type “Little Boy”. The physically small U.S. bombs in cruise missiles are implosion plutonium devices.
The signature is unmisstakeable.
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Likewise the “6 dead airmen” story in the American Conservative is nonsense too. That doesn’t mean everything that happened at the Minot base is kosher or that we have been hold the truth about it.
It might have been a major screw up by the people involved. Those do the job day by day and make mistakes. Especially when the stuff gets boring and routine. It might have been something else, but why then would we know about the lost nuke story at all?
Maybe you folks smoke too much of that good stuff?