KFC quickly markets its newest line of fast-food chicken, "Glow Wings."

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Duffman wrote:

I think the chance of having a Nukyellar bomb go off in a city
somewhere
within the next 10 years is not unreasonable.

Perhaps, but I'd rate the chances of a chemical or bio agent much
higher.

But should one just happen to go off in the US, what would the US do.

Depends.

There won't be any pieces of terrorists left or pieces of the bomb to
point the finger.

Um, actually, there is always debris from the bomb. Analysis of any
remaining nuclear material can provide a 'fingerprint' that can id the
origin of the material. This can be surprisingly accurate, even to
identing the reactor it was produced in.

Osama is not going to get on his donkey and say
Ok, It was Me.

Actually, he might.

There would a lot finger pointing going on in government and everybody
blaming everybody else. And the General Public would be going apeshit
as Martial Law would be Declared.

Probably.

---
The CO

KFC quickly markets its newest line of fast-food chicken, "Glow Wings."
Doc ;)

Actually, I think it will be quite hilarious (50 years from now).

that Ferdinand person (that know one really liked anyway), that started
World War I.

--

Mr. Hyde(ing) in Plan Site [ :-) ]


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The MOST hilarious part about all of this is; that 50 years from now,
we
will look back and
say (those that survive, that is) how did WW3 start over something as
stupid as a Cartoon in a
Newspaper ???

It won't be quite "hilarious", but it does show that there is, indeed, a
"clash of civilizations" and it is well underway.

Jane

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http://www.iran-daily.com/1384/2495/html/

Lavrov Warns Against Threatening Iran

ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 6--Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on
Monday warned world powers against threatening Iran and said the
dispute over Tehran's nuclear program must be resolved through
negotiations.

"I think that at the current stage, it is important not to make
guesses about what will happen and even more important not to make
threats," Lavrov said at the start of a two-day visit to Athens, AP
reported. Lavrov was responding to a request for his reaction to US
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's comments to a German newspaper
that a military option for dealing with Tehran should be kept open.

"What we must underline is that there are the decisions of the
International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN Security Council has been
informed and will not take any action in the immediate future,"
Lavrov said after talks with Greek Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis.

"There is cooperation with Iran which must continue" so that
drastic measures can be avoided, Lavrov said. Lavrov said the use of
force would be possible only on the basis of the United Nations
Charter.

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Opinion/Column...429211-sun.html


Clash of Civilizations Emerging

TEHRAN, Feb. 6--An official castigated the West's double standards
and warned against the emergence of a clash of civilizations.

In a message to the members of the Islamic Inter-Parliamentary Union,
Kazem Jalali, who heads the Iranian Inter-Parliamentary Union's
Executive Council, also said on Monday that publishing contemptuous
cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in some sections of the Western
print media led to large waves of protests among Muslims and followers
of other religions.

"The West had also launched similar moves under the pretext of
freedom of expression. This reasoning, especially at a time when
commenting against the Zionist viewpoints, including the holocaust of
Jews in WWII, in the European print media is forbidden. This is not
understandable and convincing." The message noted that the West
justifies the Zionist regime's occupation of Palestine and its
violation of human rights under the pretext of democracy, but pursues
double standards with regard to the Palestinian cause. It pointed out
the contradictions in the Western attitude toward the nuclear programs
of different countries and warned against the threats posed to global
peace and security....


http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/commo...5E31477,00.html

Russia last hope in Iran standoff
Richard Beeston and Ramita Navai
February 07, 2006
DIPLOMATS insisted yesterday that a compromise could be reached on the
Iranian nuclear crisis when officials from Moscow and Tehran meet on
February 16 to discuss a Russian offer to carry out enrichment work on
Iran's behalf.

Under the plan, the nuclear fuel would be shipped from Russia to Iran
for use at its nuclear power station, being built by Russian engineers.


Those who have negotiated with Iranians in the past point out that they
always hold out until the very end to achieve the best deal.

It is hoped that pragmatists in the regime may yet prevail before the
UN Security Council moves to impose sanctions.

Iran's dispute with the international community over its nuclear
program deteriorated sharply yesterday when Tehran withdrew from an
agreement with the UN's atomic watchdog and stepped up its
controversial uranium enrichment work.

In a weekend punctuated by angry verbal exchanges between Iranian and
Western leaders, Tehran showed no signs of curbing its ambitions for
nuclear power, which many outside Iran suspect are a cover for building
a nuclear bomb.

The International Atomic Energy Agency voted on Saturday to report Iran
to the UN Security Council, which has the power to impose sanctions and
use force against the Iranians.

To Tehran's dismay, 27 of the 35 member states on the IAEA's board of
governors voted in favour of the move, with five abstentions.

Iran's only support came from Cuba, Venezuela and Syria.

The move will not come into effect until March 6, when IAEA
director-general Mohamed ElBaradei is due to report back to the nuclear
watchdog on Iran's atomic industry. It had been hoped that the month
would allow further diplomatic efforts to find a compromise.

With the Russian offer in mind, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw
said: "Iran has still a crucial opportunity between now and the March
IAEA board to comply. Otherwise, decisions by the Security Council are
almost inevitable."

But hopes of a climbdown were fading fast after the Iranians were good
to their word and announced a hardening of their position.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Tehran was withdrawing
from its commitments under the so-called Additional Protocol, signed
two years ago with the IAEA, which allowed the UN's inspectors to make
snap visits to atomic sites.

Iran also signalled that it would go ahead with the enrichment of
uranium, which can be used to produce fuel for a civilian nuclear power
industry or, in its highly enriched form, can be diverted to make
fissile material suitable for an atomic warhead.

"Iran has stopped all voluntary measures that it undertook in the past
2 1/2 to three years," Mr Mottaki said.

"We have no commitment to the Additional Protocol any more ... We had
two clear options. One was to decide to abandon our nuclear rights, the
other to preserve our rights. We chose resistance."

Saturday's IAEA resolution demands that Iran freeze its uranium
enrichment; halt the construction of a heavy-water reactor that could
produce plutonium, which is also fissile material; and grant the
agency's inspectors greater authority to probe its nuclear industry.

In typically defiant fashion, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed
the resolution as "funny" and branded Iran's enemies "idiots".

"Our enemies cannot do a damn thing. We do not need you at all. But you
are in need of the Iranian nation," he told a crowd in Tehran.

"Issue as many resolutions like this as you want and make yourself
happy. You can't prevent the will of the Iranian nation," he said.

"In the name of the IAEA they want to visit all our nuclear facilities
and learn our defence capabilities, but we won't allow them to do
this."

The comments play on the fact that 27 years after the Islamic
Revolution, the regime has finally found an issue on which its citizens
are united: Iran's right to a nuclear program.

Reformists are in agreement with conservatives, Islamic fundamentalists
with regime haters, and political dissidents with north Tehran's rich
set that Iran has an "inalienable" right to nuclear energy.

Most important for the Government is that Iranians are siding with it
against the West.


http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/02/07/vzhiriran.shtml

Russian Ultranationalist Leader Expects U.S. to Attack Iran in Late
March
Created: 07.02.2006 10:54 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:07 MSK, 6 hours 20
minutes ago

MosNews

A senior Russian parliamentary official and leader of the
ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Vladimir Zhirinovsky believes that
a US attack on Iran is inevitable, he has told Ekho Moskvy radio
station.

"The war is inevitable because the Americans want this war," he
said. "Any country claiming a leading position in the world will need
to wage wars. Otherwise it will simply not be able to retain its
leading position. The date for the strike is already known - it is
the election day in Israel (March 28). It is also known how much that
war will cost," Zhirinovsky said.

He went on to add that the publication of Prophet Muhammad cartoons in
the European press was a planned action by the U.S. whose aim is "to
provoke a row between Europe and the Islamic world". "It will all
end with European countries thanking the United States and paying, and
giving soldiers," he said. Russia should "choose a position of
non-interference and express minimal solidarity with the Islamic
world", Zhirinovsky added.

For his part, the head of the Centre for Strategic Studies of Religions
and Modern World Politics, Maxim Shevchenko, also believes that a U.S.
attack on Iran is very likely although he sees no preconditions for
this war. "Iran does not threaten anyone, is not pointing its
missiles at anyone. No Iranian leader has ever threatened to carry out
a strike against the U.S. Therefore preparations for a war against Iran
appear to be a global act of provocation," he said.

In Shevchenko's opinion, the reason behind "this barefaced
promotion of a world war lies not in a conflict between the West and
the Islamic World but in a fight for power in the world between US and
European elites". "The fate of humanity will be decided between a
saber-rattling America and an allegedly democratic Europe,"
Shevchenko concluded.

Whereas a senior research associate of the World Economy and
International Relations Institute, Georgy Mirsky, is confident that
"there will be no war".

"The Americans got so very much stuck in Afghanistan and Iraq that
they will not start a new war without definite proof of the fact that
Iran poses a threat to the world. Besides, the U.S. has mid-term
elections this year and the Republicans, who have suffered a severe
blow to their trust, will not be able to win these elections if they
drag the country into a new hazardous escapade.

"As for Israel, it can carry out a strike against Iran but only when
it knows for certain that only one step remains before an Iranian
atomic bomb is created. But that time has not come yet," Mirsky said.


http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/18367

WHY TEHRAN HOPES FOR WAR
by Amir Taheri
New York Post
September 19, 2005

INCREDIBLE though it may sound, there are signs that Tehran may be
preparing for a military confrontation with the United States - and
has convinced itself that it can win....

...One may guess the outline of Tehran's scenario for what it believes
is an inevitable clash with the United States.

Suppose that the tussle over Iran's nuclear plans goes to the Security
Council - which fails to take a decision, thanks to Russian and
Chinese vetoes, and America (after much huffing and puffing) launches
airstrikes against Iran's nuclear installations.

Iran's retaliation could begin with orders to the forces it controls
inside Iraq to attack U.S. and British troops. The Lebanese branch of
Hezbollah would launch massive rocket attacks against Israel, while
Hamas and Islamic Jihad (whose leaders spent the past month in Tehran,
meeting Khamenei and his aides) would begin suicide operations against
Israel from Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Iran-allied Hazara Shiites might begin strikes against Kabul, the
Afghan capital, from the west, while Pushtun warlord Gulbuddin
Hekmatyar and the remnants of the Taliban attack across all of
Afghanistan.

U.S./U.K. forces might answer with a conventional attack out of Iraq.
But the Iranians could retreat to the Zagross mountain range, the first
line of Iran's natural defences. The IRGC is now building several new
bases to bolster this line. The bases would assure supplies for a
quarter of a million troops, and provide shelter for half a million
refugees from the border.

The Americans could attempt to "decapitate" Iran with cruise missiles
against "regime targets" in Tehran. But the regime would already be in
Mashad, protected by the Eighth Imam.

Meanwhile, Iran could close the Strait of Hormuz - thereby choking
off the world supply of oil, which would surely top $100 a barrel,
plunging the global economy into a crisis.

The U.N. Security Council would surely meet in emergency, perhaps
forcing the U.S. to veto a vote for a ceasefire. Global TV networks
would air images of "indiscriminate carnage" and "wanton destruction"
in Iranian cities, while marches in Washington and dozens of other
cities would feature Hollywood celebrities and others calling for
impeachment.

At this point, the Iranian strategy/fantasy would expect the U.S. media
and Congress to revolt against President Bush and his "pre-emptive"
strategy - obliging Bush to accept a U.N.-brokered cease-fire and
withdraw his forces, and the Americans to leave Iraq and Afghanistan.

The victory would bring the Islamic Republic new domestic legitimacy,
allowing it proceed to crush its internal opponents as "enemies of the
nation and of Islam." It could also speed up its nuclear-weapons and
long-range missile programs without being harassed by Washington.

At the next stage of what Ahmadinejad sees as "a clash of
civilizations," Iran would become "the core power" of a new "Islamic
pole" in a multipolar system with China, the European Union and Latin
America (under the leadership of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez) emerging as
other "poles."

The Islamic Republic would then be free to proceed to address what
Khamenei has described as its "greatest historic task": the destruction
of Israel....

Iranian author Amir Taheri is a member of Benador Associates.

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