If this information is correct whoever leaks/ed it should be summarily shot as a traitor. This has to be classified and letting the enemy/target in on the secrect is unfathomable.

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As the old saying goes; “I’d fly 10,000 miles to smoke a camel”.

Bombs away!

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Iran is too valuable to China for oil. Things could get really messy if China doesn’t put up with an attack on Iran. Iran is probably Russia’s best customer so Russia may not stand an attack on Iran either. Aggressive containment (like shooting anything that leaves the Iran boarder) might be more effective from a political standpoint.

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Arthur, some of Saddam’s “patio furniture” (i.e. proscribed missiles) ended up in a Netherlands junkyard, per the UN MOVIC quarterly report in May 2003.

Per Georges Sada’s book, “Saddam’s Secrets”, UNMOVIC’s Demetrius Perricos says that thousands of tons of bio warheads had been shipped out to several other countries in the Middle East, along with nuclear reaactor vessels and fermenters. Field intelligence documented that Syria’s Baath Party were involved.

So take your pick where da “patio furniture” went. They had ample time with prewarnings to pick the locations. But Syria appears to be the biggest beneficiary.

Sada’s brother, BTW, is Syria’s President Bashar all-Assad. He’s been trying to convince him for years to come clean. I’m holding my breath… NOT.

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Just where did the ‘patio furniture’ wind up anyway?

Ebay?

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Understandable about not a “shock and awe”, Scott. We’ve been doing air strikes on Iranian convoys in and on Iranian soil in the Basra area for some time, without repercussions.

However taking out Qud headquarters? That’s a bit more major than the sorties on smaller militant operations mentioned above. It’s the response from Iran on a direct assault on his Revolutionary Guard that is risky. If you’ll remember, Ahmadinejad addressed this concept just last month.

Ahmadinejad said all the branches of the armed forces would react forcefully in response to any attack against Iran’s soil and boasted that no-one would dare to launch a strike on the country.

“The army, the Revolutionary Guards and the Basij (militia) will resist with force and coordination and respond strongly to the slightest aggression.”

I suspect the UN/int’l community would back Iran in their indignation at the “intrusion”.

According to another Asia Times article yesterday, discussing progress of the Iraqi-US relations in the coming future, the US has established a base near the Iranian border.

The explicitly aggressive tone of the Bush-Maliki agreement on protecting Iraq against foreign intervention has set off alarms in Washington that the administration may seek to use it as a cover to attack Iran, which has been repeatedly accused by US civilian and military officials of destabilizing Iraq.

In an unexpected move that could further increase tensions, the US military has established a station near the Iranian border without the consent of Iraqi authorities, and which sparked Iranian protests, Iran’s English-language Press TV reported in late April.

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It doesn’t have to be a massive Shock & Awe bombing campaign. All the US needs to do in order to get Iran to the negotiating table is to help create an “accident” at their gasoline refineries and/or their nuclear facilities. That’s it. It’s the antithesis of a major bombing campaign and is the pinnacle of pinpoint strategic, surgical operations. Just my armchair generalin’ again though. We’ll see what happens. I wouldn’t be surprised though. Pretty sure that with or without a newspaper report, the Iranians won’t be surprised either. Sat pics of their Natanz facility show a brigade of troops surrounding it and 2 rings of impressive, new, fresh from Russia air defenses. The facility was also built deep underground, under dozens of feet of steel reinforced concrete. These features are not the norm for a peaceful nuclear facility (as is the lack of a power grid upgrade), but are more indicative of an expectation for air attack. Hence the words AIR DEFENSE.

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