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from: Adam
date: 2007-02-15 18:38:20
subject: Re: why is the US lying over bits of copper & iran?

From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

John Cuccia wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:23:11 +0000, Ad
>  wrote:
>
>> ROFLMFAO.
>>
>> So Tony.....
>>
>> (A) You're deeply knowledgeable about the Iranian gov &
seemingly "know"
>> it is a highly disciplined "governing machine"
which...well...."Let me
>> put it this way: There's not a whole lot of freelancing in the Iranian
>> government, especially when it comes to something like that".......
>>
>> Right.....As opposed to say Ollie North & co in the US? Heck they were
>> shifting TOW & HAWK missiles directly out of US Mil armories.
>>
>> (B) ""To counter that position, you would have to assume
that people
>> were able of putting together sophisticated weaponry, moving it across a
>> border into a theater of war and doing so unbeknownst and unbidden," he
>> said."
>>
>> It's not F*cking sophisticated. that's it's f*cking strength
>> you.....challenged person of dubious parentage.
>>
>> Gee some "formable"/plastic explosive. A steel tube with
one end blocked
>> (or indeed a strong cooking pan). A copper cone squidged into the PE at
>> the unblocked end.
>>
>> How "sophisticated" is that?
>
> Not very.  Additionally the copper cones are widely available anywhere
> there are oil and gas exploration and production operations (i.e, all
> over the Middle East).   Shaped charges are used in oilfield
> perforating guns to shoot holes in downhole piping and the surrounding
> rock faces to allow fluid flow intot he wellbore.
>

Yup & heck hezbollah used em against the Israelis in southern lebanon
for years precisely because they were easy to make so long as you have good
PE.

>> & then finally....
>>
>> (C) Snow declined to offer more details, referring reporters to the
>> Pentagon, and when asked whether the US military had provided him
>> details of the case against Iran he replied: "I didn't get
briefed on it."
>>
>> So (A) & (B) are simple conjecture & FUD....
>
> Nothing simple about it, it is more calculated misinformation from the
> lying shits in the Bush Admin.
>

Indeed it would appear so.


>> my Lord as per Peter Pace  the US mil must be so embarrassed at times.
>
> Some of them must be, surely.

Yup.

Adam

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