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    (snip)"The IDF is drawing up options for a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities that do not include coordination with the United States, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

    "It is always better to coordinate," one top Defense Ministry official explained last week. "But we are also preparing options that do not include coordination."

    Israeli officials have said it would be difficult, but not impossible, to launch a strike against Iran without receiving codes from the US Air Force, which controls Iraqi airspace. Israel also asked for the codes in 1991 during the First Gulf War, but the US refused. (snip)

    (snip)In a related article at about the same time, TIME magazine raised the possibility that through the deployment of the radar, America wants to keep an eye on Israeli airspace, so that the US is not surprised if and when the IAF is sent to bomb Iran, a scenario Washington wants to avoid.

    The US army sent 120 EUCOM personnel to Israel's Nevatim Air Base southeast of Beersheba to man the new radar.

    Last week, Iran's nuclear chief Gholam Reza Aghazadeh revealed that the country was operating more than 5,000 centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz and would continue to install centrifuges and enrich uranium to produce nuclear fuel for the country's future nuclear power plants.

    "At this point, more than 5,000 centrifuges are operating in Natanz," said Aghazadeh, who is also the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. This represents a significant increase from the 4,000 Iran had said were up and running in August at the plant.

    The Islamic republic has said it plans to move toward large-scale uranium enrichment that will ultimately involve 54,000 centrifuges.

    Israeli officials said last week that the drop in oil prices and the continued sanctions on Iran were having an effect, although they had yet to stop Teheran's nuclear program. The officials said that while Iran was making technological advancements, it would not have the necessary amount of highly-enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb until late 2009. (snip)

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    Default Re: yet more post-election consequences ... Israel prepares to 'go it alone'

    If you're talking nuclear attack, we're much closer to it withthe India-Pakistan riff which is getting worse by the day. Keep monitoring that if you want to watch for doomsday events.
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    Quote Originally Posted by threlayer View Post
    If you're talking nuclear attack, we're much closer to it withthe India-Pakistan riff which is getting worse by the day. Keep monitoring that if you want to watch for doomsday events.

    Could it happen between P&I? Sure. Is it? Well, people always seem to look at the current 'goings on'. Both countries have a history of 'sabre rattling', they get in each others' faces and even though they exchange a few throws, they were never going to go all out.

    If you read up on it, the Indian guy and the Pakistani guy met and agreed to help each other. Sure, that's the public face, but the private one won't illicit a nuclear response.

    There is a differences of cultures and geopolitics going on here that are different then our way of doing things.
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    We'll just have to see since none of us know their true motivations. After all, it won't happen until it does happen. But Iran is different and we know thay have an underlying motivation and territorial expansion is not it.
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    Default Re: yet more post-election consequences ... Israel prepares to 'go it alone'

    The risk of a Nuclear attack from anyone is extremely low. The risk of nuclear comes from possible accidents and non governments launching them.

    Pakistan and India aren't going to do anything drastic. Now I beleive Israel striking down Iran is a possibility.

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    Default Re: yet more post-election consequences ... Israel prepares to 'go it alone'

    Rate people's nervousness as proportional to risk TIMES consequences. Not just risk alone.

    If you throw out an old bag of tomatoes, chances are that you'll toss a good one too.

    If you toss out all the old meds in your medicine cabinet, chances are you'll toss out one you can still use and will really need. So you tend to look closer at those.

    Same principle applies.
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