Israel/ Iran?
Sep 17th 2012, 10:42 am
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Israel/ Iran?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9545597/Armada-of-British-naval-power-massing-in-the-Gulf-as-Israel-prepares-an-Iran-strike.html[/URL]
Are they just finding it a temperate time for some en mass R&R?
Are they just finding it a temperate time for some en mass R&R?
Sep 17th 2012, 10:55 am
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Re: Israel/ Iran?
The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most congested international waterways. It is only 21 miles wide at its narrowest point and is bordered by the Iranian coast to the north and the United Arab Emirates to the south.
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Sep 17th 2012, 11:56 am
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Re: Israel/ Iran?
a friend who works for a rather well known airline has had a warning to expect something in Oct
Sep 17th 2012, 12:16 pm
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Sep 17th 2012, 4:12 pm
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Re: Israel/ Iran?
well that's when Eid will be
Sep 18th 2012, 8:47 am
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So long as the Israelis don't start chucking sunshine around will this really cause us any issues here?
Sep 18th 2012, 9:11 am
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Sep 18th 2012, 9:20 am
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Re: Israel/ Iran?
thats the great question isnt it. iran is huge so if they are chucking conventional weapons around up north near the reactor sites we have little to worry about. they start turning the place into an ashtray and we are ****ed in a hurry
Sep 18th 2012, 9:56 am
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They won't nuke them.
Sep 18th 2012, 11:12 am
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Re: Israel/ Iran?
Anyway, I'm guessing now's not a good time to consider coming back to the big sand pit... strangely enough the recruiters in that region have been very active in the last week or two. Are there more vacancies because everyone's leaving?
Sep 18th 2012, 11:28 am
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The impact is more like a Dirty bomb, so fissionable material would be spread around the immediate vicinity and further depending on weather patterns etc. Nuclear reactors can't go off like bombs, they're made of not enough of the wrong sort of radioactive materials and you can't get them to critical mass. You'd be looking at something like Chernobyl minus the meltdown.