On Aug 5, 2:17 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> TWA 800 was a dry run…SAM launched from Iranian cargo ship.****
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> Iran Plans For A World Without America****
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> Posted 08/04/2011 06:28 PM ET ****
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> *Defense:* Tehran's navy deploys ships to the Atlantic capable of launching
> long-range missiles. This is not a joke. This is a dress rehearsal for the
> day an EMP attack ends our way of life.****
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> 'Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism?"
> Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked at "The World Without Zionism" Tehran
> conference in 2005. "But you had best know that this slogan and this goal
> are attainable, and surely can be achieved." He added that Iran had a "war
> preparation plan" for, as he put it, "the destruction of Anglo-Saxon
> civilization."****
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> Electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, is not a subject familiar to most Americans.
> But it's quite familiar to the Iranian military.****
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> It's been practicing for the day when an Iranian missile tipped with a
> nuclear warhead lifts off from a vessel parked in international waters off
> our shores, the warhead detonating high above the American heartland,
> sending electromagnetic waves rippling across the American landscape, frying
> every electronic circuit within range.****
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> *In a July 18 statement, Rear Adm. Habibollah Sayyari said the Iranian navy
> plans on deploying warships in the Atlantic Ocean as part of a program to
> ply international waters.*
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> *Two days later, another Iranian rear admiral, Seyed Mahmoud Mousavi,
> revealed for the first time that his navy has equipped a number of its
> logistic vessels and units with long-range missiles.*
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> The squadron will be equipped with the Nur missile, which is based on
> China's long-range Silkworm C-802 anti-ship cruise missile and has a
> 125-mile range and 365-pound warhead.****
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> It is not these ships and their missiles that threaten us, but what comes
> later as they use these forays to gain experience operating far from Iranian
> shores.****
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> A simple Scud missile, with a nuclear warhead, could be fired from an
> inconspicuous freighter in international waters off our coast and detonated
> high over the U.S.****
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> It would wreak devastation on America's technological, electrical and
> transportation infrastructure. Masked as a terrorist attack, Iran would have
> plausible deniability of any responsibility.****
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> Iran has practiced launching and detonating Scuds in midflight, launched
> from ships in the Caspian Sea. It's also tested high-altitude explosions of
> its Shahab-3 ballistic missile, a test consistent with an EMP attack.****
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> The warhead need not be of a staggeringly high yield — nor must the missile
> have an intercontinental range.****
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> "One nightmare scenario posed," according to Peter Vincent Pry, an expert on
> EMP who sits on a congressional panel looking into the threat of such a
> weapon, "was a ship-launched EMP attack against the U.S. by Iran, as this
> would eliminate the need for Iran to develop an ICBM to deliver a nuclear
> warhead against the U.S. and could be executed clandestinely, taking the
> U.S. by surprise."****
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