Iran Boosting Aid to Iraqi Militias to Kill U.S. Soldiers.

The Associated Press: US official: Iran boosting support for Iraqi insurgents

Iran is ratcheting up its support for militias in Iraq, providing them with newly manufactured weapons and bring them across the border to receive training from members of Tehran's elite Republican Guard, U.S. military officials said Friday.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the military is preparing to roll out evidence, such as date stamps on newly found weapons caches, that shows that recently made Iranian weapons are flowing into Iraq at a steadily increasing rate.

Mullen would not detail the evidence, which is expected to be unveiled by military leaders in Iraq as early as next week. But another senior military official said it will include mortars, rockets,small arms, roadside bombs and armor piercing explosives, known as explosively formed penetrators or EFP's, That troop have discovered in caches in recent months.

Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, believed to be in Iran, called for an end to Iraqi bloodshed on Friday and said his threat of an "open war" applies only to U.S. led foreign troops, U.S. soldiers. Mahdi Army commanders, who said they have recently taken delivery of new Iranian weapons, expressed disappointment that the cleric had not given them a green light for an offensive.

When are we going to do something to Iran to stop the flow of weapons into Iraq that is killing our soldiers. Iam not saying an all out war but something like the Israelis did in Syria. Let's say a warning shot. Right now it seems we are worried more of what the world thinks of us than saving U.S. lives.

Now Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has promised to give the West a "bloody nose" and "smash in on the mouth." Tehran plans to expand the number of new cascades of centrifuges, some of the advanced IR-2 design, to 54,000. This is an expensive and unnecessary effort in a country so rich with natural gas that it flares a good part of it. These Iranian gas flares contribute to global warming, and literally burning tens of millions of dollars a year, and are so large they can even seen from satellites in space.

Now is this enrich uranium fuel will be used to produce electricity or enriched to produce nuclear weapons explosives when they have so much natural gas? When you tell someone that a nuclear bomb will fit into a suitcase or in the back of a van, they don't believe you. They think that you watch too many James Bond movies. But there are people who want to hurt the U.S. and will die for that cause. These people , all they need is someone to give them this suitcase or the keys to the van.
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Risk of a Nuclear Attack on U.S. Soil on Rise.

Risk of Nuclear Attack on Rise - washingtonpost.com

A hearing, called by the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, featured charts showing the horrific effects of a small nuclear device detonating near the White House. It was the panel's third session in recent months on the threat of a nuclear explosion.

"The scenarios we discuss today are so hard for us to contemplate and so emotionally traumatic that it is tempting to push them aside," said Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn), the panel's chairman. "However now is the time to have this difficult conversation, to ask the tough questions, then to get answers."

The committee summoned witnesses yesterday who said the risk of such an attack on U.S. cities has grown in the past five years because of the spread of nuclear technology and the growth of a global terrorist movement.

At the committee's request, Cham E. Dallas, University of Georgia, prepared a report on the effects of a small nucleart device exploding near the White House. A 1-kiloton device, which could fit into a suitcase, could kill about 25,000 people, he said. A 10-kiloton explosive, which could be hidden in a van, could kill about 100,000, Dallas said.

When most people think of a nuclear attack, they think of a missile being fired in the air toward the United States. Because of this image they don't believe it is possible for the United States to be attacked. Why? Because the wrath of the power of the U.S. military would be unleashed on the nation that attacked us.

When you tell someone that a nuclear bomb will fit into a suitcase or in the back of a van, they don't believe you. They think that you watch too many James Bond movies. But there are people who want to hurt the U.S. and will die for that cause. These people, all they need is someone to give them this suitcase or the keys to the van. So we know that there are people who will carry this out. Who will supply the bomb?

Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz. Iran last year installed 3,000 centrifuges and entered the stage of enrichment. They will never fire a missile at us even if they could. But would they give someone a suitcase with a nuclear bomb? And do you think that suitcase could make it into the United States? Are they not giving bombs to the terrorist in Iraq and killing U.S. soldiers?

If you read the article, it doesn't tell us how we will stop the attack. What it does tell us, is what we must do to be prepared after an attack. How to keep the deaths down after a suite case nuclear bomb kills 25,000 citizens or to be prepared when a van bomb kills 100,000 citizens. Maybe we should bring our troops home and stick our heads in the sand.


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