[lit-ideas] Re: Bomb Design by Proxy
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 17:31:46 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 4/5/2006 2:48:21 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Bomb Design by Proxy
>
> Andreas: Just why is it that you bring up nuclear
> weapons?
>
>
> See the first post in the thread, which references
> "Operation Divine Strake."
>
> By the way, retired General Wesley Clark recently
> opined that, contrary to common impressions, the
> entire Iranian nuclear industry and all its
> research facilities could be permanently taken out
> in two weeks.
How long did it take to fell Baghdad?
Others have suggested that the
> Iranian operation could be demolished by only two
> B-2 bombers, each equipped with 16 payload devices.
>
> Iran also seems to be preparing Hezbollah to
> attack Israel. See:
>
>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/04/wiran04.xml&;
sSheet=/news/2006/04/04/ixworld.html
>
> Iran's spies watching us, says Israel
> By Con Coughlin
> Defence and Security Editor, on Israel's northern
> border
> (Filed: 04/04/2006)
>
> Iran has set up a sophisticated intelligence
> gathering operation in
> southern Lebanon to identify targets in northern
> Israel in the event of
> a military confrontation over its controversial
> nuclear programme.
>
> Senior Israeli military commanders say Iran has
> spent tens of millions
> of pounds helping its close ally, Hizbollah, the
> Shia Muslim militant
> group that controls southern Lebanon, to set up a
> network of control
> towers and monitoring stations along the entire
> length of Israel's
> border with south Lebanon.
>
> Some of the new control towers, which are made of
> reinforced concrete
> and fitted with bullet-proof reflective glass, are
> less than 100 yards
> from Israeli army positions and are clearly
> visible for long stretches
> along Israel's border.
>
> "This is now Iran's front line with Israel," a
> senior Israeli military
> commander said. "The Iranians are using Hizbollah
> to spy on us so that
> they can collect information for future attacks.
> And there is very
> little we can do about it."
>
> The Israeli military has reported a significant
> increase in Hizbollah
> activity in southern Lebanon since Syria came
> under intense
> international pressure to withdraw its forces from
> the area last year
> following the assassination of the Lebanese prime
> minister Rafik Hariri.
>
> Israeli military officers report that teams of
> Iran's Revolutionary
> Guards travel regularly to southern Lebanon to
> help train local
> Hizbollah fighters in terrorist tactics. Tensions
> between Iran and
> Israel have intensified dramatically since the
> election last summer of
> President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran's new
> leader. Israel has
> repeatedly threatened to take military action to
> prevent Iran from
> acquiring nuclear weapons, and the new Iranian
> government has responded
> by calling for Israel's destruction.
>
> Senior Israeli military officers believe Iran is
> deliberately exploiting
> the power vacuum caused by Syria's withdrawal to
> intensify pressure on
> Israel's northern border.
>
> Hizbollah is aware that Israel is keen to maintain
> friendly relations
> with the new government in Lebanon and believes it
> can act freely in
> southern Lebanon without provoking retaliatory
> strikes from Israel.
>
> Officers report a sharp increase in border
> incidents between Hizbollah
> fighters and Israeli units on the northern border,
> with the main flash
> points located at the disputed Druze village of
> Ghajar, which is divided
> by the border between Israel and Lebanon, and
> Mount Dov, which Hizbollah
> also claims should be part of Lebanon.
>
> The situation is now regarded as so serious that
> many senior Israeli
> officers openly admit to missing the restraining
> influence of Syria over
> Hizbollah.
>
> "When the Syrians were in Lebanon it was easy for
> us to control
> Hizbollah," said an officer with Israel's northern
> command. "If things
> got too tense we could put pressure on Damascus
> and the Syrians would
> act quickly to calm things down."
>
> Although the Lebanese government technically
> controls the border area,
> its military is not considered strong enough to
> control Hizbollah, which
> takes its orders directly from Teheran.
>
> "Iran is playing a very dangerous game of cat and
> mouse on our northern
> border and it could easily spiral out of control
> at any moment," said
> the officer.
>
> In recent weeks Hizbollah sent unmanned aircraft
> on reconnaissance
> missions over the border to photograph sensitive
> Israeli military
> installations. The spy planes returned to base
> before being detected by
> air defence systems.
>
> In addition to providing intelligence-gathering
> and communications
> equipment, Iran has also equipped Hizbollah with
> improved weapons and
> ammunition to launch attacks against Israel,
> including heavy mortars and
> rockets with a range of up to 30 miles.
>
>
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