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2003-08-26 Iran

Weapons-Grade Uranium Reported at Iran Plant

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Posted by Steve 2003-08-26 10:35:09 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How long before the "human shields" arrive to protect the reactor and assembly areas from attack?

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-26 12:20:37 PM|| 2003-8-26 12:20:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I think the cow has pretty much left the barn with respect to Non-proliferation of WMD. It would be better if the UN refocused its efforts regulating the quality of the weapons and components of weapons that are available on the open market. Whether I was a radical jihadist or a tinhorn dictator, I would have very little confidence that I was going to get the proverbial âbang for the buckâ that I required to extort the free world.

It just shouldnât matter whether I choose to buy my anthrax from Libya or from the Unabomber. The product should be to a worldwide ISO standard. Weapons making facilities should be subject to annual inspections and be required to have an effective system of internal audits. Yemen doesnât have a whole lot of cash to be slinging around on merchandise that wonât perform up to snuff.

A starting point might be in defining terms like âenriched uranium.â As Iran seems to be saying, âenrichedâ uranium can mean different things to different people. "Enriched" could just be a clever marketing technique by Niger or North Korea. If one of them trademarks the word that a dead givaway.

Posted by Steve D 2003-8-26 12:59:37 PM|| 2003-8-26 12:59:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 How long before the "human shields" arrive to protect the reactor and assembly areas from attack?
Ah, yes, Darwinism in action. Let the games begin!

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-8-26 1:05:52 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-8-26 1:05:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Frank G - Oh shit - they will too! Well, they'll get a nasty surprise meeting up with real Islam, Shi'a style. Not the same as that guy they met at the last street demonstration, Hank "Ahmed" Williams...

Steve D - I think enriched means that they added vitamins. Wonder Nukes, Builds Effective Mushroom Clouds 12 Ways...

OP - Amen, bro. Pancake Corrie Redux - only delivered by air this time?

Posted by .com 2003-8-26 1:22:39 PM|| 2003-8-26 1:22:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Pancake Corrie Redux - only delivered by air this time?

I'm pretty sure you can't air-drop a Cat D6. At least not one you want to use later.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-8-26 2:32:08 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-8-26 2:32:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey, guys, time is ticking. The Iranians have the materials and the means of getting to their goal of having some type of Islamic fission weapon within a year or so. A fission bomb fits the agenda. In the WOT Futures section of Rantburg, I posted the possibility of the US and/or Israel destroying the Iran nuke program because this will have to be addressed soon, and diplomacy is getting nowhere. Pakistan nukes seemed to be able to be managed (for now), but such a weapon in the hands of Iran is unthinkable. They are such theocratic nutcases that they will use it or give/sell it to some other nutjob that will.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-8-26 3:17:33 PM|| 2003-8-26 3:17:33 PM|| Front Page Top

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