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[raysr]

Revealed: Israel Plans Nuclear Strike on Iran
By Uzi Mahnaimi, New York and Sarah Baxter, Washington
The Sunday Times

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-busters", 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.

The plans, disclosed to The Sunday Times last week, have been prompted in part by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad's assessment that Iran is on the verge of producing enough enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons within two years.

Israeli military commanders believe conventional strikes may no longer be enough to annihilate increasingly well-defended enrichment facilities. Several have been built beneath at least 70ft of concrete and rock. However, the nuclear-tipped bunker-busters would be used only if a conventional attack was ruled out and if the United States declined to intervene, senior sources said.
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[k_jerome]

1. attack will occur within 3 business days. nt.

[Lurking Dem]

2. BWA!

:applause:

[spanone]

3. Timing is everything...bush* set to address nation on ... Wed???

Should this happen, the press will move right past Iraq and the war will go on indefinitely while Iran becomes the 24/7 story.

Now wouldn't that be convenient.

[madeline_con]

7. The "secret surge" could begin. n/t

[Behind the Aegis]

4. He "reported" the same thing two years ago...

What's the delay?

Revealed: Israel plans strike on Iranian nuclear plant


by Uzi Mahnaimi

Global Research, May 18, 2005
The Times - 2005-06-14


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Revealed: Israel plans strike on Iranian nuclear plant
Uzi Mahnaimi

The Times, 15 may 2005

ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans for a combined air and ground attack on targets in Iran if diplomacy fails to halt the Iranian nuclear programme. The inner cabinet of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, gave “initial authorisation” for an attack at a private meeting last month on his ranch in the Negev desert.

Israeli forces have used a mock-up of Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant in the desert to practise destroying it. Their tactics include raids by Israel’s elite Shaldag (Kingfisher) commando unit and airstrikes by F-15 jets from 69 Squadron, using bunker-busting bombs to penetrate underground facilities.


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[Lurking Dem]

5. Don't forget his famous "Ethnic Bomb".

Guess they won't be able to use that one on Persians, huh?

[Mojorabbit]

8. They did not have their own Lieberman in

power back then either. It would not surprise me if it happens though I hope it won't.

[madeline_con]

6. "Israel has drawn up secret plans ..."

SHHH! Word will get out!