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2006-05-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran gave al-Qaeda in Iraq SAM-7 missiles (via JihadWatch)

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Posted by ed 2006-05-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If true...that is an act of war.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2006-05-14 01:49|| 2006-05-14 01:49|| Front Page Top

#2 #1. Dreamer.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-05-14 05:49|| 2006-05-14 05:49|| Front Page Top

#3 funny comment, grom - but sadly, due to the stupidity of the self-proclaimed "intellectual elite" a war we will have. In exchange for cheap praise and momentary pride they are willing to provide Iran cover with trendy phrases and waves of the hand. As usual millions will pay the price in blood for their inability to stand tall.

Posted by 2b 2006-05-14 06:11|| 2006-05-14 06:11|| Front Page Top

#4 The question is, whose millions.

Posted by lotp 2006-05-14 07:44|| 2006-05-14 07:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Hum, thoses who show their submission to the Great-Dictator-In-The-Sky (and his human henchmen) five times a day? That's what I would prefer, obvioulsy.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-14 07:48|| 2006-05-14 07:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Why don't we get SA-7's in the hands of the Arab rebels in the south and Kurds in the N of Iran?

Tit for tat.

They are a lot more vulnerable than we are.

A few bits of C4 in the right places, soem well applied .338 Lapua, and a couple well timed SA-7 shootdowns and you'd Iran in chaos, at least temporarily.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-05-14 12:04|| 2006-05-14 12:04|| Front Page Top

#7 I suspect the US is not expecially worried about the SA-7s. If I remember StrategyPage's article, these missles have a 1% hit probability and even when they hit are unlikely to bring down a multi-engine airplane. They are dangerous to helicopters though.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al">Frozen Al 2006-05-14 15:23|| 2006-05-14 15:23|| Front Page Top

#8 The British used to have an interesting approach to someone committing a warlike act directed at them. They would select some target wholly unrelated to the event at hand for a counter-attack.

The Israelis should adopt a similar technique, say, in this case, blowing up an ammunitions dump outside of Tehran, kept by some other Iranian power bloc than the one responsible for the SA-7s.

The idea is to get competing blocs among your enemy blaming each other for such attacks, and otherwise fighting among themselves.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-14 16:50|| 2006-05-14 16:50|| Front Page Top

#9 When was that 'Moose? During the Raj?

Posted by 6 2006-05-14 19:41|| 2006-05-14 19:41|| Front Page Top

#10 If true/untrue, an act of war

Posted by Captain America 2006-05-14 20:33|| 2006-05-14 20:33|| Front Page Top

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