The blog world, and now, timidly, the “real” media (if Netscape News is the real media) are abuzz about a purported attack code named Operation Bite in six days against Iran. Many of the stories are straight cut-and-paste, all pointing back to a single newspaper article in Russia, by Andrei Uglanov in the Moscow weekly “Argumenty Nedeli.”
With tensions at the present level between the US and Iran, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that the U.S. would take unilateral action like this. But is this all just a propaganda leak from the Russians? Apparently an ex-advisor to Putin, former Colonel General Leonid Ivashov, speculated that the US might even use small-scale tactical nuclear weapons against hardened underground facilities. Well, that got people’s attention.
So, anyway, April 6 at 4 am Iran time…
I’m going to be in India on April 6. I hope they don’t miss by too much.
Was it, perhaps, the April 1 edition of the paper?
the article was publishes 3/28. Anyhow, there has been no triangulation of sources, so the chances are there is no attack. Even if the story is correct, the attack must now be rescheduled.
The attack date April 6th need not be rescheduled. The number six plays an important part in the life of the Antichrist. He walked on water albeit on the deck of an aircraft carrier. He descended out of heaven albeit in the cockpit of a navy jet in the right seat. He was born on July 6th 1946. He rose to power on the sixth. No powerful leader in the world has a closer association with the number six. April 6th is believed to be the Christ’s birthday. The number of the Antichrist’s name is the number of a man. Six hundred, three score, and six. or 666. Rev 13: v 18. To change the attack date now would be to deny himself the opportunity to shove a sharp stick in the eye of almighty God, and to bring to pass unspeakable carnage and human suffering.
Here are some interesting events which also occurred on April 6.
6 BC This day is believed by some Biblical scholars to be the actual date of the historical birth of Jesus Christ.
0610 Lailat-ul Qadar, the night the Koran descended to Earth
1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
This is nonsense, unless we’re talking April in 2008. The Bush admin hasn’t done enough terror alerts and diplomatic groundwork to pull this off yet. Iran has less than 60 days to suspend enrichment under the latest U.N. Security Council resolution, and I think after this deadline passes and Iran doesn’t kow-tow to Bush (plus the UK prisoner scandal) then we can begin the countdown to war.
Also, another carrier is heading to the Gulf which will arrive in mid-April. Supposedly, the Eisenhower will go home so there won’t be 3 aircraft carriers off Iran’s coast simultaneously but Bush could easily decide to postpone their return for a month.
If for one do believe a war with Iran is inevitable (I’ve posted extensively about it in my blog.) But it’s very premature to set a date or predict with any accuracy when it will happen. My own personal take is that Bush will do it before he leaves office in Jan 2009 and that it will coincide with the “surge” in Iraq (to put the Shia militias on the defensive before you bomb Iran is the smartest dumb move he could make).
I hate to say it but it will be the 6th, God Forgive us on the power we will unleash.
NERO is dead and so is the antiChrist in Rev.13 v18.
The article is not reliable Iran has an extensive Anti Aircraft network which is too big of a risk with manned aircraft. Unmanned Aircraft require land based units targeting.
Iran is too big of a bite to chew.
If you may recall Saddam attacked Iran inthe 80’s and the human wave of fanaticalism nearly cost him his country. The lesson learned is not lost on the neighboring states or the forces trying to stabilize Iraq so they can go home.
Well. God will not forgive this time.
As far as I can tell America is due to human judgement or God’s punishment.
Either OR.
Your president is attacking Iran because China stopped purshasing green paper from you. ($) Mainly this is the reason for today. This is why Iran took hostages. (british) right after the leak.
As much as the rest of the countires are swinging towards Euro currency in their
rainy day savings.
We can say plenty of bad things about Islamic culture and US governmet
brainwashing you just like in “old good” USSR days. But i’ll say only few more things here, please think about it:
1. You, american people, will be responsible for the crimes against humanity done by your goverment and large corporations (which is actually same thing
Not them. They always manage to get away, just like Flick, Krupp, Tissen
families/clans managed to get away from Nazi tribunal.
2. Tradicional Islam considers “interest” or “loan” with percentage to return/make as a “kharam” or a sin. This is what western civilization’s
is standing on.
3. Now. IF USA attack Iran and Iran fires 29 nuke missiles
(they possibly have) at Israel in return - we have a WW3.
IF Iran does not - USA would still use nuke against their bunkers.
Radioactive debree will spread around affecting all the neibours,
including India, China, Russia, Arabic countries and possibly Europe.
This means simple working people dying. In millions.
Including women and children
(but when did American care? In 1945 I guess… when you nuked non-combatants, women and children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Or maybe when you bombed Drezden. Your military has a long and proud record of killing those who could not fire back at you).
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Needless to remind - there will be no winners in WW3.
Those who may survive will curse you.
God is dead. Bend over and kiss your butt goodbye. If this attack happens it is futile to consider specific reprocussions. Global Chaos will ensue. April 6th would be a good day to be a cockroach. They will survive at least.
Well this story seems to be gathering momentum now. Israeli News reported on it on the 2nd. Afgani and saudi news also have reports on it today.
I expect God forgave Stalin and the 20 million (5 million more than the total of WW1)he wiped out, he started his purges before Hitler went on his Jewish bent. Then there is Ivan the terrible - he was a Saint right?
Are a people truly responsible? - was a Russian peasant responsible for the actions of Stalin? Was every German responsible for the actions of a Hitler Fascist regime?
Most religions don’t have a God that is a punisher so I am unsure which religion that would be.
Traditional Islam? the interpretation must be based on
the Qur’an and Sunnah. It must be based on knowledge and motivated by piety. It must also serve(rather than harm) the maslaha of Muslims in particular and humanity in general. The Taliban and the fanatical minority stirring up civil wars from Moracco to the Philippenes have rejected the overarching Islamic model of harmonious gender, racial, religious and general human relations.
** Mahmoud Ahmadinejad released the 15 Britons, it is Extremely unlikely that the “Americans” are going to attack Iran on April 6th.
But lets see, Iran denied testing centrifuges with uranium, denied the existence of a laser enrichment program, denied producing enriched uranium, and denied receiving any foreign assistance in its centrifuge program (Russia). In each case, Iran confessed the truth only when confronted with irrefutable technical evidence.
Iran does not have a Nuclear weapon YET, but they can produce polonium 210 and since the only other use of Polonium 210 is deep space satellites then Iran is building the BOMB. The prevention of which is likely the Israeli’s not American’s.
Well, it’s 6:30am in Iran, and it doesn’t look like we’ve started WWIII today.
Thank Go… er Moha… er… Ala… er… ah f**k it. Let’s just be thankful that GW has no balls afterall.
And Chicken Little said:
“Help! Help! The sky is falling! I have to go tell the king!”
“помощь! Помощь! Ðебо падает! Я должен пойти говорю королÑ!”
“Hilfe! Hilfe! Der Himmel fällt! Ich muß gehen erkläre dem König!”
“aide ! Aide ! Le ciel tombe ! Je dois aller dis le roi!”
“aiuto! Aiuto! Il cielo sta cadendo! Devo andare dico al re!”
I guess media leaks must change the presidents mind???
It is hopeful, but unlikely, that the Persian nuclear puzzle will be solved by negotiation. Unfortunately, a military strike against the nuclear facilities is likely only to postpone the eventual attainment of nuclear power.
Persian culture is an ancient culture, Persian nationalism has been around longer than most Arab states and in fact this is just one of many slights it feels from Islamic neighbors as well as Europian and Western cultures.
Iran however, in spite of the deplorable western foreign policies, and slights by Arab neighbors and abuses by gready counteries whose existance as a people are relatively new in comparison is still suffering from an illusion and a false expectation that the world owes them something.
That pride and ambition will eventually lead to war it is something they are familiar with as are most cultures old and new.
In six months time, we’ll all forget how seriously we took this piece of ‘inside information’ and how nothing came of it - but as soon as some blog or other points out another operation bite - we’ll all come out again to comment on how its the end of the world etc etc!
We never learn, do we?
Operation Bite is the April’s lie.