Bunker Bomb Missiles approved for Israel!
Will Congress approve the sale in 30 Days?
Will Israelis Attack Irani
an Nuclear Comple
x?
And What Would be Reaction After the Attack
To Israel and All her Allies across Planet Earth:
Would Such An Attack Initiate A World War III?
September 15, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Is this sale intended to scare Iran off from its mad rush to develop nuclear warheads, or is it to actually launch an attack already planned and set in motion? I honestly don’t know! It could go one way or the other!
I will say that I do not believe attacking Iran’s facilities
will start a grand land assault on Israel by Islamic forces. I do believe it will cause terror organizations across the Middle East, Europe, United States, and Israel to begin a series of terror actions inside these areas in retaliation for the attack on Iran.
Most Arab nations would secretly love to see Iran’s nuclear facilities destroyed, because they are scared of a radical extremist Shiite nation like Iran in possession of weapons they could eventually use against any Arab nation. However, publicly they will certainly not be vocal about it for obvious reasons and, rest assured if such an attack were conducted, they would scream bloody murder to the UN in multiple formal protests recommending bombing the guilty party or parties.
The Russians, Chinese, and North Koreans would also love to see the Iranian nuclear facilities destroyed, because they would continue to receive the monies from Iranian oil revenues to rebuild them.
The total result of such an attack would leave Israel and the U.S. as the great Satan and little Satan bullies on the international front to a much greater extent than ever before – at least OFFICIALLY, that is! Terror attacks by many terrorist cells in America and Israel would be carried out on a widespread basis, as well as in those nations friendly to them.
Begin Excerpt from Jerusalem Post
DoD approves sale of bunker buster missiles to Israel
September 14, 2008
Yaakov Katz , THE JERUSALEM POST
The US Department of Defense has notified Congress of a potential sale of 1,000 small diameter bunker-buster missiles to Israel, which would likely be used in the event of a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The notification of the possible sale to Congress was made over the weekend by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the branch of the Pentagon responsible for evaluating foreign military sales. The bunker-buster missile Israel has asked for is called GBU-39.
The deal
is valued at $77 million and the principal contractor will be Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.
In addition to the missiles, Israel has also asked for 150 mounting carriages, 30 guided test vehicles as well as two instructors to train the Israei Air Force how to load the missiles on its aircraft.
In its recommendation to Congress, the DSCA wrote that Israel’s strategic position was “vital to the United States’ interests throughout the Middle East.”
Congress has 30 days to obstruct the deal.
“It is vital to the US national interests to assist Israel to develop and maintain a strong and ready self-defense capability. This proposed sale is consistent with those objectives,” the statement read.
The DSCA announcement came amid growing concern in Israel that the Pentagon was not willing to sell Israel advanced military platforms such as bunker-buster missiles in an effort to dissuade Jerusalem from attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities. Bunker-buster missiles are a vital component of a potential airstrike since many of the Iranian facilities, such as the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, have been built underground in heavily fortified bunker-like facilities.
During the Second Lebanon War Israel reportedly received an emergency shipment of bunker-buster missiles from the US to use to attack underground Hizbullah facilities.
The GPS-guided GBU-39 is said to have a 50 percent chance of hitting its target within 5-8 meters, thereby minimizing collateral damage. It is also said to be capable of penetrating several meters of thick reinforced concrete.
Begin Excerpt from the Irish Times Via World News
Israeli threat to strike Iran real, warns Sarkozy
Irish Times
Friday September 05, 2008
SYRIA: PRESIDENT NICOLAS Sarkozy yesterday explicitly warned that Israel would bomb the Islamic Republic of Iran if it continued to enrich uranium, reports LARA MARLOWE in Damascus.
“Iran is taking a major risk by continuing the process of obtaining nuclear weapons, which is a certainty for us,” Mr Sarkozy said. “Whatever government is in power in Israel, we may wake up one morning and find that Israel has struck.
“Then the problem won’t be figuring out whether it’s legitimate, whether it’s a good idea.
It will be a catastrophe and we must avoid this catastrophe.”
Mr Sarkozy made the remarks in a closed session at the “dialogue for stability” summit here. The comments were addressed to the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, the Emir of Qatar and prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.
Journalists in an adjoining room in the presidential palace could not hear what Mr Sarkozy said, but his voice was inadvertently transmitted to a press centre in a Damascus hotel.
The brief summit was supposed to further progress towards direct negotiations between Syria and Israel, but it was dominated by the Iranian nuclear question.
An adviser to Mr Sarkozy said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) believes the Iranian enrichment facility at Natanz has produced “quantities sufficient for half a nuclear warhead”.
“Time is working against ,” Mr Sarkozy said in public remarks at the close of the summit. In the closed session, he said: “Iran must stop enrichment. I’ve said that France would help Iran with civil nuclear energy. But Iran cannot continue enrichment and accept only partial IAEA inspections.”
He opposed Iran pursuing the uranium enrichment process. “If they continue, it’s a problem, but they must at least accept full inspection.”
Mohamed Raad, a representative for the pro-Iranian Hizbullah in the Lebanese parliament, recently said his group would fire 11,000 missiles at Israel if the Jewish state attacked Iran.
After Hizbullah’s three-week war with Israel in July-August 2006, President Assad encouraged the group to exploit its perceived victory politically.
France has 2,000 peacekeepers deployed with Unifil in southern Lebanon. The Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has promised not to attack them, but Paris fears they would be in great danger if fighting resumes between Israel and Hizbullah.
Mr Sarkozy’s warnings did not seem to faze his Syrian hosts. “Any Arab will tell you it’s not a big deal if Iran has nuclear weapons,” said a Syrian businessman who attended Mr Sarkozy’s inauguration of the Lycée Charles de Gaulle here yesterday morning.
“There needs to be a balance of power in the region.
The country that represents a danger, that keeps attacking people, is Israel.”
There are two precedents for Israel attacking suspected nuclear installations. In 1981 Israel bombed the Osirak power plant that France was building for Iraq. Last September, Israel destroyed a complex near the Syrian-Iraqi border in a mysterious raid about which neither Israelis nor Syrians would comment.
There is speculation it was a trial run for an attack on Ir
an.
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