Tuesday October 30, 2012

I've Been Thinking:

Two Iranian naval ships arrived in Sudan yesterday. The ships are a statement of support. They are a gesture from Iran. They are the Iranian way of saying "Sudan, we have your back."

It all began last week when four mysterious planes attacked and blew up a Sudanese arms factory. Everyone but the CIA has said that the bombers must have been Israeli. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied involvement and I do not anticipate any change in their comments.

Intel on the attack has it that the target was not necessarily the factory but the finished products housed near the factory and which were about to be shipped out to Hamas in Gaza - highly sophisticated weapons could do serious harm to Israel.

At the site when it was bombed were weapons imported from Iran and weapons that had made their way from Libya. In fact, some of those weapons may have been American and may have been given to Libya in order to oust Ghadaffi.

The strike was huge news in the Arabic world. Almost every leader and every media outlet shouted about Israel being a cancer on the region and a country that, on a whim, will launch an attack.

The most important note of this entire issue is not the Iranian ship's arrival. It is the idea that Israel is behind the attack.

If the attack came from Israel, it means Israeli planes flew 1600 kilometers to their target. That is 300 kilometers further than Fordow, the main nuclear underground facility in Iran. That would mean that four planes - three fighter jets and a coordinator plane, made the 1600 kilometer trip, destroyed their target, refueled mid air and safely returned home without being detected.

Believe me, Iran knows all this, the Iranians can do the math.

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