Aftrap WO-III: Israel bereidt nucleaire aanval op Iran voor

[Henk Vreekamp]

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Zou dit niet een ordinaire psychologische oorlogsvoering mogen heten? Op
zich wel nuttig - die fundamentalissche president van Iran heeft laatst in
ieder geval de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen zwaar verloren. Dus als je het
volk met berichten kunt bekeren, dan is daar niks mis mee...
hv,u
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At 22:56 1/7/2007 +0100, Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks wrote:
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>Bron:   Sunday Times
>Datum:  7 januari 2007
>Auteur: Uzi Mahnaimi, New York and Sarah Baxter, Washington
>URL:    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2535310,00.html
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>Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran
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>Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uraniumenrichment
>facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.
>
>Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian
>facility using low-yield nuclear 'bunker-busters', according to
>several Israeli military sources.
>
>The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the
>United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli
>weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the
>Hiroshima bomb.
>
>Under the plans, conventional laser-guided bombs would open 'tunnels'
>into the targets. 'Mini-nukes' would then immediately be fired into a
>plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce the risk of
>radioactive fallout.
>
>'As soon as the green light is given, it will be one mission, one strike
>and the Iranian nuclear project will be demolished,' said one of the
>sources.
>
>The plans, disclosed to The Sunday Times last week, have been prompted in
>part by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad's assessment that Iran
>is on the verge of producing enough enriched uranium to make nuclear
>weapons within two years.
>
>Israeli military commanders believe conventional strikes may no longer be
>enough to annihilate increasingly well-defended enrichment facilities.
>Several have been built beneath at least 70ft of concrete and rock.
>However, the nuclear-tipped bunker-busters would be used only if a
>conventional attack was ruled out and if the United States declined to
>intervene, senior sources said.
>
>Israeli and American officials have met several times to consider military
>action. Military analysts said the disclosure of the plans could be
>intended to put pressure on Tehran to halt enrichment, cajole America into
>action or soften up world opinion in advance of an Israeli attack.
>
>Some analysts warned that Iranian retaliation for such a strike could
>range from disruption of oil supplies to the West to terrorist attacks
>against Jewish targets around the world.
>
>Israel has identified three prime targets south of Tehran which are
>believed to be involved in Iran's nuclear programme:
>* Natanz, where thousands of centrifuges are being installed for uranium
>   enrichment
>* A uranium conversion facility near Isfahan where, according to a
>   statement by an Iranian vice-president last week, 250 tons of gas for
>   the enrichment process have been stored in tunnels
>* A heavy water reactor at Arak, which may in future produce enough
>   plutonium for a bomb
>
>Israeli officials believe that destroying all three sites would delay
>Iran's nuclear programme indefinitely and prevent them from having to
>live in fear of a 'second Holocaust'.
>
>The Israeli government has warned repeatedly that it will never allow
>nuclear weapons to be made in Iran, whose president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
>has declared that 'Israel must be wiped off the map'.
>
>Robert Gates, the new US defence secretary, has described military action
>against Iran as a 'last resort', leading Israeli officials to conclude
>that it will be left to them to strike.
>
>Israeli pilots have flown to Gibraltar in recent weeks to train for the
>2,000-mile round trip to the Iranian targets. Three possible routes have
>been mapped out, including one over Turkey.
>
>Air force squadrons based at Hatzerim in the Negev desert and Tel Nof,
>south of Tel Aviv, have trained to use Israel's tactical nuclear weapons
>on the mission. The preparations have been overseen by Major General
>Eliezer Shkedi, commander of the Israeli air force.
>
>Sources close to the Pentagon said the United States was highly unlikely
>to give approval for tactical nuclear weapons to be used. One source said
>Israel would have to seek approval 'after the event', as it did when
>it crippled Iraq's nuclear reactor at Osirak with airstrikes in 1981.
>
>Scientists have calculated that although contamination from the bunker-
>busters could be limited, tons of radioactive uranium compounds would be
>released.
>
>The Israelis believe that Iran's retaliation would be constrained by
>fear of a second strike if it were to launch its Shehab-3 ballistic
>missiles at Israel.
>
>However, American experts warned of repercussions, including widespread
>protests that could destabilise parts of the Islamic world friendly to
>the West.
>
>Colonel Sam Gardiner, a Pentagon adviser, said Iran could try to close
>the Strait of Hormuz, the route for 20% of the world's oil.
>
>Some sources in Washington said they doubted if Israel would have the
>nerve to attack Iran. However, Dr Ephraim Sneh, the deputy Israeli defence
>minister, said last month: 'The time is approaching when Israel and the
>international community will have to decide whether to take military
>action against Iran.'
>
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>(c) 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd.
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