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2005-10-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-10-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And right after hitting "post" it occured to me that I should have put "Iran" in the title.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-10-09 00:09|| 2005-10-09 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Fixed, moved to Page 1.

Posted by Fred 2005-10-09 00:13|| 2005-10-09 00:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Gosh, I hope this isn't due to some of the SAS boys being careless with matches. Like Smokey the Bear sez: Only YOU can prevent pipeline blazes in oppressive theocracies.

Posted by SteveS 2005-10-09 00:20|| 2005-10-09 00:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe this is the beginning of severe destabilization within Iran. Unfortunately, sheer incompetence could just as easily explain what has happened. I dearly hope this will fuel further plummeting of their stock exchange.

Posted by Zenster 2005-10-09 00:22|| 2005-10-09 00:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Tit for tat. Every Iraqi pipeline fire matched by 2 Iranin ones.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-10-09 00:23|| 2005-10-09 00:23|| Front Page Top

#6 The fire "affected four out of 13 pipelines." Wotta coincidence.

Posted by Fred 2005-10-09 00:37|| 2005-10-09 00:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Gosh, I hope this isn't due to some of the SAS boys being careless with matches. Like Smokey the Bear sez: Only YOU can prevent pipeline blazes in oppressive theocracies.

You know, accidents are common enough that I doubt this is sabotage.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-10-09 01:02|| 2005-10-09 01:02|| Front Page Top

#8 I hope it is homegrown, sheer incompetence make up for 2 brigades of good men. muslims seem to not be able to look into the future, as in preventitive maintenence, so they may literally stew in their own juices, one can only speculate

Posted by SCPatriot 2005-10-09 01:57|| 2005-10-09 01:57|| Front Page Top

#9 I suspect that we are at the beginning of a time when things just stop working in Iran. That is, technology just seems to break all of the time, lubricating oil no longer seems to work, power outages and concrete failures seem commonplace, and certain warehouses containing expensive and difficult to replace spare parts have terrible fires. Replacement parts are of low quality, even though they are brand name, and factory delays due to equipment failure are the rule, rather than the exception.

Even such things as crop failures, plants just mysteriously withering in the fields yet suffering from no disease; public water tasting very bad, if non-toxic; people in mosques suddenly feeling irritable and prone to fistfights.

All are signs that Allah is displeased with a nation. Allah likes to do shit like that.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-10-09 10:55|| 2005-10-09 10:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Gotta be tough maintaining your watch on all the dials and warning lights and shit when you can't eat until the sun goes down.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-10-09 11:05|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-10-09 11:05|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, it happens to our own refineries and pipelines from time to time. That stuff is just plain dangerous.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-10-09 12:08|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-10-09 12:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Allah likes to do shit like that.

Him too, huh? I wonder if that isn't going to be a popular set of activities for a while.

PS: I'm not THE anonymoose, just staying anonymous for this comment

Posted by anonymoooose too 2005-10-09 13:21|| 2005-10-09 13:21|| Front Page Top

#13 "Most pipeline fires in south west Iran are due to ageing infrastructure, but officials have also blamed some recent blasts on Arab rebels seeking independence from Tehran."

Sweet irony if the UK was to find itself aiding/sponsoring such rebels - these were the guys responsible for the Iranian Embassy Siege back in 1980, in London. They were being helped by Saddam back then.

It would be nice to think Blair's given the nod to covert action against Iran. Maybe he feels he can now that NuLabour's Ethical Foreign Policy (TM) can now be considered forgotten and lost, still last seen in the hands of Robin Cook.

Posted by Bulldog 2005-10-09 14:46|| 2005-10-09 14:46|| Front Page Top

#14 #9... technology just seems to break all of the time, lubricating oil no longer seems to work, power outages and concrete failures seem commonplace, and certain warehouses containing expensive and difficult to replace spare parts have terrible fires. Replacement parts are of low quality, even though they are brand name, and factory delays due to equipment failure are the rule, rather than the exception.

Even such things as crop failures, plants just mysteriously withering in the fields yet suffering from no disease; public water tasting very bad, if non-toxic ...

Have you been rereading "Atlas Shrugged" again?

Posted by Zenster 2005-10-09 14:46|| 2005-10-09 14:46|| Front Page Top

#15 Or Revelations? ;-)

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-10-09 14:48|| 2005-10-09 14:48|| Front Page Top

#16 Actions-->consequences. Need a 101 lower division course in Iran for the MMs. Maybe lower oil output in the right places will also get the Chicoms attention. They need oil, lots of it, to keep their economic machine going. Problems of supply with Iran could get the Chicoms to send a message to the MMs to throttle back on their threats and nuke crap, for everyone's self interest. Just an idea.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-10-09 14:53|| 2005-10-09 14:53|| Front Page Top

#17 #9 Anonymoose and others

We don't know whether this fire is the result of sabotage, but it might be useful to encourage the mullahs and their disciples to believe that it is (without providing any real evidence, of course).

Attributing this kind of "invisible hand" action to the US and its allies will actually work to our advantage. It creates the impression of super-human power among a target group that essentially worships power and force.

I am not the only one to have noticed this. I may be mistaken, but it seems that the Islamic media and their lefty shills have toned down the HAARP-style evil super-tech conspiracy theories of late. At least there is little evidence of this in the aftermath of the devastating South Asia earthquake this week. Contrast this with earlier disasters, like the Boxing Day tsunami, after which even semi-mainstream outlets like Al Guardian were openly speculating about a US-based technological cause.
The conspira-liars may have realized that they are only doing our work for us.

"He who has ears, let him hear":
This realization is at the heart of one of our most important black propaganda operations.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-10-09 15:33|| 2005-10-09 15:33|| Front Page Top

#18 Speaking of black propaganda, there are people on Indymedia who actually believe that B-1s are using experimental death rays to assasinate "progressives" by zapping their cars on the streets of a couple of Texas college towns.

Buwahaahaa!

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-10-09 15:54|| 2005-10-09 15:54|| Front Page Top

#19 A blow to the Moolahs' Moolah

Posted by Captain America 2005-10-09 16:09|| 2005-10-09 16:09|| Front Page Top

#20 ... B-1s are using experimental death rays to assasinate "progressives" ...

Hunting jackrabbits with a Howitzer.

Swatting flies with a sledgehammer.

(Insert favorite hyperbole ->[here]<-)

Posted by Zenster 2005-10-09 16:33|| 2005-10-09 16:33|| Front Page Top

#21 B-1s are using experimental death rays to assasinate "progressives" by zapping their cars on the streets of a couple of Texas college towns.

Kegs and reefers manage that quite well without stealth bomber activity.

Posted by lotp 2005-10-09 16:47|| 2005-10-09 16:47|| Front Page Top

#22 Atomic Conspiracy and Seafarious:
I hear you. Pretty apt descriptions from 2,000 years ago, huh?

Revelation 9
The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. 3And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth....they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon."

Posted by Danielle 2005-10-09 17:32|| 2005-10-09 17:32|| Front Page Top

#23 Mene, mene tekel upharsin.

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