The U.S. Military Thinks Israel Might Strike Iran Using The Dangerous 'Entebbe Option' | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 24537507 United States 09/28/2012 12:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That's some hardcore shit but how does it solve the long term problem? Wouldn't that just buy time? Even if the had success wouldn't the Iranians just go about producing more and then the problem would arise again years down the road? |
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DL (OP) User ID: 11619293 United States 09/28/2012 12:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I said weeks ago that a commando raid was the most likely outcome. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24451900 It will fail. Israelis will be paraded on Iranian TV. Russia will broker their return. No way it would fail. I don't consider fail Israel losing lots of Commandos... They'd be supported by f16s and subs. It would take 3 days for Iran to get reinforcements to that area. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 23902963 United States 09/28/2012 12:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Y'all have a unrealistic view of Israeli military prowess. The Israelis are filthy cowards, they I'll never intentionally run into battle. However they are good at tricking others to fight for them... Remember, how bad the hezbullahs kicked ther ass |
boilerbengal User ID: 24195231 United States 09/28/2012 12:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I said weeks ago that a commando raid was the most likely outcome. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24451900 It will fail. Israelis will be paraded on Iranian TV. Russia will broker their return. i love it when people are so sure,,,,, so what may i inquire is your opinion based on? A Clear Choice Is Upon US. Communists VS. Capitalists |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 24385367 Egypt 09/28/2012 12:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If the Iranians were stupid enough to leave all their nuclear power stations only with some guards then they deserve it. if they properly defended them then it will be a blood bath and Iranians will be all over the Israelis, and the Israelis will end up the stupid ones. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 23406708 United States 09/28/2012 12:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think, of the three options, the one the Pentagon seemed most afraid of was the Regime Decapitation option..... Because that was the option that was most likely to induce Iran to attack US assets in the region and drag US into a war..... BUT then, why have the placed so many assets in the area?? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24451900 United Kingdom 09/28/2012 12:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I said weeks ago that a commando raid was the most likely outcome. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24451900 It will fail. Israelis will be paraded on Iranian TV. Russia will broker their return. i love it when people are so sure,,,,, so what may i inquire is your opinion based on? Military experience and history. |
boilerbengal User ID: 24195231 United States 09/28/2012 12:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I said weeks ago that a commando raid was the most likely outcome. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24451900 It will fail. Israelis will be paraded on Iranian TV. Russia will broker their return. i love it when people are so sure,,,,, so what may i inquire is your opinion based on? Military experience and history. i guess that military experience wasn't the same as mine. when unshackled from politics its pretty damn solid oh when i was a young man. i miss those days A Clear Choice Is Upon US. Communists VS. Capitalists |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24451900 United Kingdom 09/28/2012 12:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I said weeks ago that a commando raid was the most likely outcome. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24451900 It will fail. Israelis will be paraded on Iranian TV. Russia will broker their return. i love it when people are so sure,,,,, so what may i inquire is your opinion based on? Military experience and history. i guess that military experience wasn't the same as mine. when unshackled from politics its pretty damn solid :93somalia: oh when i was a young man. i miss those days No mine was spent hiding U2's on Med islands. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24283440 United States 09/28/2012 12:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Israel's likely inability to destroy Iran's nuclear capacity in a single stroke, even in a best-case scenario, has led U.S. war planners to speculate about a second, out-of-the-box, and extremely dangerous military option: what they're calling an "Iranian Entebbe." Quoting: DL In this scenario, the Israelis would forego a massed air attack and instead mount a high-risk but high-payoff commando raid that would land an elite Sayeret Matkal (special forces) unit outside of Iran's enrichment facility at Fordow, near Qom. The unit -- or other elite units like it -- consisting of perhaps as many as 400 soldiers, would seize Iran's enriched uranium for transport to Israel. The operation's success would depend on speed, secrecy, simplicity, and the credibility of Israeli intelligence. According to the Pentagon war planner, Israel's access to intelligence on Iranian military and policy planning is unprecedented, as is their willingness to share it with U.S. intelligence officials. The Israeli unit would be transported on as few as three and perhaps as many as six C-130 aircraft (which can carry a maximum of 70 troops) that would be protected by a "swarm" of well-armed F16Is, according to the scenario being considered by U.S. military officers. The C-130s would land in the desert near Fordow. The Israeli commandos would then defeat the heavily armed security personnel at the complex, penetrate its barriers and interdict any enemy units nearby, and seize the complex's uranium for transport back to Israel. Prior to its departure, the commando unit would destroy the complex, obviating the need for any high-level bombing attack. (Senior U.S. military officers say that there are reports that some of the uranium at Fordow is stored as uranium hexafluoride gas, a chemical form used during the enrichment process. In that case, the material may be left in place when the commandos destroy the complex.) "It's doable, and they have to be thinking along these lines," the highly placed U.S. military officer said. "The IDF's special forces are the best asset Israel has." That said, "In some scenarios," the U.S. military planner who told me of the potential operation said, "there would be very high Israeli casualties because of nearby Republican Guard divisions. This operation could be quite bloody." Bloody or not, the Israeli leadership may not be quick to dismiss such an operation, given Israel's history of using such units. Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are former Sayeret Matkal officers, and recently Israeli Defense Forces head Benny Gantz (himself a Sayeret Matkal veteran) said the IDF had formed an elite special operations "Deep Corps" to strike far inside hostile territory. And, of course, it bears remembering that Netanyahu's brother Yonatan was the sole casualty in Israel's Entebbe operation. [link to www.foreignpolicy.com] Why do I believe we wouldn't even be in on this shit if Iran didn't have OIL. |
boilerbengal User ID: 24195231 United States 09/28/2012 12:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: boilerbengal i love it when people are so sure,,,,, so what may i inquire is your opinion based on? Military experience and history. i guess that military experience wasn't the same as mine. when unshackled from politics its pretty damn solid oh when i was a young man. i miss those days No mine was spent hiding U2's on Med islands. then DL comment on the time to rush reinforcements to the area would make sence to you. the enemy's infrastructure isn't modern and would be easy to target. A Clear Choice Is Upon US. Communists VS. Capitalists |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24451900 United Kingdom 09/28/2012 12:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i guess that military experience wasn't the same as mine. when unshackled from politics its pretty damn solid :93somalia: oh when i was a young man. i miss those days No mine was spent hiding U2's on Med islands. then DL comment on the time to rush reinforcements to the area would make sence to you. the enemy's infrastructure isn't modern and would be easy to target. They managed to hide an entire nuclear facility from the West's satellites. Neither of us have seen the intel but I'm guessing they thought of this scenerio before we even knew it was there. |
boilerbengal User ID: 24195231 United States 09/28/2012 01:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: boilerbengal i guess that military experience wasn't the same as mine. when unshackled from politics its pretty damn solid oh when i was a young man. i miss those days No mine was spent hiding U2's on Med islands. then DL comment on the time to rush reinforcements to the area would make sence to you. the enemy's infrastructure isn't modern and would be easy to target. They managed to hide an entire nuclear facility from the West's satellites. Neither of us have seen the intel but I'm guessing they thought of this scenerio before we even knew it was there. just like a chess board .. but i do know that the intel in the field is right on... ( not the news intel ... lol ) but the briefings for the field. iv never had one that was wrong. in my experience. im sure it can happen. but im sure it would be rare A Clear Choice Is Upon US. Communists VS. Capitalists |
MuslimAmerican User ID: 9621028 United States 09/28/2012 01:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What a joke, Iran hasn't attacked any other country or threatened to in over a century, only defended itself. They do not have nukes, yet Israel does and has attacked their neighbors and their own citizens. Hell they've even attacked the US(USS Liberty) and have killed Americans in many other terror plots carried out by Zionists posing as Jews. Last Edited by MuslimAmerican on 09/28/2012 01:02 PM Feed the hungry, visit the sick, free a captive if he be unjustly confined(kidnapped/enslaved by someone). Assist any person oppressed, whether they're of the Muslim or non-Muslim. - Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) |
boilerbengal User ID: 24195231 United States 09/28/2012 01:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What a joke, Iran hasn't attacked any other country or threatened to in over a century, only defended itself. They do not have nukes, yet Israel does and has attacked their neighbors and their own citizens. Hell they've even attacked the US(USS Liberty) and have killed Americans in many other terror plots carried out by Zionists posing as Jews. Quoting: MuslimAmerican you mad ? i would be if i were you. A Clear Choice Is Upon US. Communists VS. Capitalists |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 11835165 United States 09/28/2012 01:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | hope the iranians rig the whole place with biological weapons , then it will be a sooprise indeed when the "heroes" return and infect lots of other zionshits with a deadly infections disease ) Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2994748 You really earned your Anonymous Coward brownie badge now. Trying to peer inside your mind for a second: it's supposed to be a GOOD thing that Iran gets nukes? Have you decided yet where they should deliver yours? Do you prefer the clean or dirty kind? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24451900 United Kingdom 09/28/2012 01:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | then DL comment on the time to rush reinforcements to the area would make sence to you. the enemy's infrastructure isn't modern and would be easy to target. They managed to hide an entire nuclear facility from the West's satellites. Neither of us have seen the intel but I'm guessing they thought of this scenerio before we even knew it was there. just like a chess board .. but i do know that the intel in the field is right on... ( not the news intel ... lol ) but the briefings for the field. iv never had one that was wrong. in my experience. im sure it can happen. but im sure it would be rare Green slime working overtime. :) Guess we'll see what the outcome is if it happens but if I was planning it I'd have to know that the aircover could stop a brigade size rapid reaction force from engaging a lighty armed special forces unit, even one of this size. Otherwise it could be more Raid on Arnhem then raid on Entebbe. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24487131 United States 09/28/2012 01:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Of course the U.S. might be talking them into doing it and then warn Iran to make sure the Israelis get clobbered. Maybe that would bring Israel to it senses and humble them for once. Maybe they will stop talking all this crazy nonsense about war. . |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 23182389 United States 09/28/2012 01:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What a joke, Iran hasn't attacked any other country or threatened to in over a century, only defended itself. They do not have nukes, yet Israel does and has attacked their neighbors and their own citizens. Hell they've even attacked the US(USS Liberty) and have killed Americans in many other terror plots carried out by Zionists posing as Jews. Quoting: MuslimAmerican Calm down. Have a bacon cheeseburger! |
MuslimAmerican User ID: 9621028 United States 09/28/2012 01:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What a joke, Iran hasn't attacked any other country or threatened to in over a century, only defended itself. They do not have nukes, yet Israel does and has attacked their neighbors and their own citizens. Hell they've even attacked the US(USS Liberty) and have killed Americans in many other terror plots carried out by Zionists posing as Jews. Quoting: MuslimAmerican you mad ? i would be if i were you. If I got angry over every bit of bigot BS being put into circulation, I would have been in anger management a long time ago. Besides there's no point in being mad at stupidity and ignorance as there's apparently no cure. What a joke, Iran hasn't attacked any other country or threatened to in over a century, only defended itself. They do not have nukes, yet Israel does and has attacked their neighbors and their own citizens. Hell they've even attacked the US(USS Liberty) and have killed Americans in many other terror plots carried out by Zionists posing as Jews. Quoting: MuslimAmerican Calm down. Have a bacon cheeseburger! No thanks I don't eat foods derived from GMO meat yogurt. Last Edited by MuslimAmerican on 09/28/2012 01:13 PM Feed the hungry, visit the sick, free a captive if he be unjustly confined(kidnapped/enslaved by someone). Assist any person oppressed, whether they're of the Muslim or non-Muslim. - Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 20676524 United States 09/28/2012 01:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This option will prevent or greatly reduce civilian casualties. If Iran responds with missles against Israelies then hell yes, it's gonna not only drag using but other nato countries. Iran is screwed, Israel special forces will tear the hell out of the Iranian "special forces". Get ready to watch in awe the power of Israel. God bless Israel. |
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