Friday, August 24, 2012

Israel: On Ground Updates - August 24, 2012


Israel: On Ground Updates
Israel unlikely to provide much if any advance notice to the U.S. if it attacks Iran's Nuclear Facilities - Iran adds many more Uranium Enrichment Machines at its Underground Bunker in Fordow - New Satellite Imagery shows Iran covered suspected Nuclear Site Building at Parchin - Plus Charles Krauthammer’s take
Friday, December 24, 2012
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* USA Today brings us the following report and it starts off like this… Israel is unlikely to provide much if any advance notice to the United States if it attacks Iran's nuclear facilities, Middle East experts say… Advance warning is important because a surprise could hurt the United States' ability to respond and safeguard its many assets in the Persian Gulf… The assumption is that U.S. warning of an Israeli attack would come "significantly less than an hour" before it began, said Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "How much of that would come from Israeli notification and how much would come from sensors we have in the region, I don't know."…
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* JPost.com has this report this late Thursday afternoon and it goes in part like this. In a possible sign of further Iranian defiance in the face of such pressure, several sources said Iran had put in place additional enrichment centrifuges in its Fordow facility, buried deep inside a mountain to protect it against enemy strikes… One source suggested hundreds of machines had been installed… In another development likely to worry the West, they said satellite imagery indicated Iran had covered a building at a military site which UN inspectors want to visit with a brightly-colored, tent-like structure…
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* MercuryNews.com has the great read by Charles Krauthammer today that starts off like this… Either Israel is engaged in the most elaborate ruse since the Trojan Horse or it is on the cusp of a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities…
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