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Originally posted by mrpotatohead
Seems like if one could figure out who has the most to gain, then it would be easier to figure out who-done-it.
You guys sure seem to know the various factions involved. Some one give us a best guess.......
it does seem logical, that before any type of military action to be taken against an enemy, that if the command structure was done away with, a successfull attack on this enemy would be much easier. Maybe I've answered my own question....
Originally posted by mrmonsoon
Not to be overly picky or anything, but reading the link made me ask a question.
what is the difference between being murdered by a suicide bomber and being assassinated but a suicide bomber.
What brought this up is the story says assassinated, not killed or murdered.
Is that important, i am not sure.
I have found in the past a simple word change can completely change what is said/meant.
I am taking as meaning that the man/men in that car were specifically targeted, as opposed to just killing any Iranian military leader.
A Sunni resistance group, Jundullah, said they carried it out.
Originally posted by Pathos
A Sunni resistance group, Jundullah, said they carried it out.
Wow! Hmmm... I'm predicting that it was the Iranian government staged who the attack.
[edit on 18-10-2009 by Pathos]
Originally posted by antonia
reply to post by SLAYER69
Except that isn't the only target in question. Did you know in the beginning of the Gulf War when we were using Uranium weapons in Iraq there was actually a 300% increase in radioactive particles in the air in the United Kingdom according to British scientists? Sorry, Americans aren't getting away from this one. According to two researchers for the Scientific American in 1981 concerning different situations in which radioactive materials could be released, the bombing of a nuclear reactor would contaminate up to 8600 miles around that reactor. now despite what you may believe this is very different from a nuclear bomb going off. There are different materials involved. There has never been a bombing of an active nuclear reactor. What happened in Iraq all those years ago was not the same. That was an unloaded, offline reactor. But hey, Americans are invincible right? Go on and bomb that thing but don't cry when that 700 million year half-life material blows your way.
[edit on 18-10-2009 by antonia]
[edit on 18-10-2009 by antonia]
Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War
The use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States, defying all international treaties, will slowly annihilate all species on earth including the human species, and yet this country continues to do so with full knowledge of its destructive potential
Since 1991, the United States has staged four wars using depleted uranium weaponry, illegal under all international treaties, conventions and agreements, as well as under the US military law. The continued use of this illegal radioactive weaponry, which has already contaminated vast regions with low level radiation and will contaminate other parts of the world over time, is indeed a world affair and an international issue. The deeper purpose is revealed by comparing regions now contaminated with depleted uranium — from Egypt, the Middle East, Central Asia and the northern half of India — to the US geostrategic imperatives described in Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997 book The Grand Chessboard.
SOUTH REGION: “This huge region, torn by volatile hatreds and surrounded by competing powerful neighbors, is likely to be a major battlefield, both for wars among nation-states and, more likely, for protracted ethnic and religious violence. Whether India acts as a restraint or whether it takes advantage of some opportunity to impose its will on Pakistan will greatly affect the regional scope of the likely conflicts. The internal strains within Turkey and Iran are likely not only to get worse but to greatly reduce the stabilizing role these states are capable of playing within this volcanic region. Such developments will in turn make it more difficult to assimilate the new Central Asian states into the international community, while also adversely affecting the American-dominated security of the Persian Gulf region. In any case, both America and the international community may be faced here with a challenge that will dwarf the recent crisis in the former Yugoslavia.” Brzezinski
The fact is that the United States and its military partners have staged four nuclear wars, “slipping nukes under the wire” by using dirty bombs and dirty weapons in countries the US needs to control. Depleted uranium aerosols will permanently contaminate vast regions and slowly destroy the genetic future of populations living in those regions, where there are resources which the US must control, in order to establish and maintain American primacy.
Described as the Trojan Horse of nuclear war, depleted uranium is the weapon that keeps killing. The half-life of Uranium-238 is 4.5 billion years, the age of the earth. And, as Uranium-238 decays into daughter radioactive products, in four steps before turning into lead, it continues to release more radiation at each step. There is no way to turn it off, and there is no way to clean it up. It meets the US Government’s own definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
After forming microscopic and submicroscopic insoluble Uranium oxide particles on the battlefield, they remain suspended in air and travel around the earth as a radioactive component of atmospheric dust, contaminating the environment, indiscriminately killing, maiming and causing disease in all living things where rain, snow and moisture remove it from the atmosphere. Global radioactive contamination from atmospheric testing was the equivalent of 40,000 Hiroshima bombs, and still contaminates the atmosphere and lower orbital space today. The amount of low level radioactive pollution from depleted uranium released since 1991, is many times more (deposited internally in the body), than was released from atmospheric testing fallout.
A 2003 independent report for the European Parliament by the European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR), reports that based on Chernobyl studies, low level radiation risk is 100 to 1000 times greater than the International Committee for Radiation Protection models estimate which are based on the flawed Atomic and Hydrogen Bomb Studies conducted by the US Government. Referring to the extreme killing effects of radiation on biological systems, Dr. Rosalie Bertell, one of the 46 international radiation expert authors of the ECRR report, describes it as:
“The concept of species annihilation means a relatively swift, deliberately induced end to history, culture, science, biological reproduction and memory. It is the ultimate human rejection of the gift of life, an act which requires a new word to describe it: omnicide.”
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Although restricted to battlefields in Iraq and Kuwait, the 1991 Gulf War was one of the most toxic and environmentally devastating wars in world history. Oil well fires, the bombing of oil tankers and oil wells which released millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Arabia and desert, and the devastation from tanks and heavy equipment destroyed the desert ecosystem. The long term and far reaching effects, and dispersal of at least 340 tons of depleted uranium weapons, had a global environmental effect. Smoke from the oil fires was later found in deposits in South America, the Himalayas and Hawaii. Large annual dust storms originating in North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia will quickly spread the radioactive contamination around the world, and weathering of old depleted uranium munitions on battlefields and other areas will provide new sources of radioactive contamination in future years. Downwind from the radioactive devastation in Iraq, Israel is also suffering from large increases in breast cancer, leukemia and childhood diabetes.
My words exactly, this has US military (read: SEALS) written allover it.
Originally posted by mtok7
Yet another "black op", who do they think they are kidding pinning this on local terrorists. You never hear the MSM mentioning the possibility of intel agency involvement, until it crops up in released files 50 years later.
Originally posted by mtok7
Yet another "black op", who do they think they are kidding pinning this on local terrorists. You never hear the MSM mentioning the possibility of intel agency involvement, until it crops up in released files 50 years later.
Lets not forget who put the Ayatollahs in power by removing a democratically elected government and installing an American puppet who was overthrown.
The west is baying for the blood of the Iranian people, when will we ever rid ourselves of this blood lust.
Why, would advanced civilizations want anything to do with this planet?