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Rating:  Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 07:39 pm: |
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/17/bombs-away-i n-three-days/ Israel's long-anticipated attack on Iran's nuclear program may come as soon as Friday. Yesterday, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said Israel had eight days to strike Iran's nuclear facility at Bushehr before it would become operational. He revised the timeline to three days after word came that nuclear fuel would begin loading on Friday. We're now down to two days and counting. Action is needed. In February, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported for the first time "concerns about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile." The United Nations has called on Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment activities, but this month the IAEA reported that Iran has expanded these activities and is enriching uranium to higher, more dangerous levels. Last month, former CIA director Gen. Michael V. Hayden said Iran was moving forward with its nuclear weapons program and that a military strike to stop it "seems inexorable." Two weeks ago, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff Adm. Mike Mullen told "Meet the Press" that the United States has a contingency plan ready should the inexorable become the inevitable. |