Can We Talk About This? 4AM on April 6 - Good Friday

You are a "news" correspondant? You call this "news"? Are you expected to conform to ANY standards of journalistic integrity? No. I thought not. This is nothing but BS back-fence gossip. Come back when you can tell us something substantial, and substantiated.

uhhh....ya lost me bro. whos attackin who?

OK, I looked at the site in Russia written in French. I used babelfish.altavista.com to get a translation from french to english:

International
Iran would be tackled at the beginning of April (Russian military experts)
21:05 | 19/ 03/ 2007

Printed version

MOSCOW, March 19 - RIA Novosti. The Russian military experts estimate that the planning of the American military attack against Iran passed the point of nonreturn on February 20, when the director of the IAEA, Mohammed El Baradei, recognized, in his report/ratio, the incapacity of the Agency "to confirm the peaceful character of the nuclear program of Iran".

According to the Russian weekly magazine Argoumenty nedeli, a military action will proceed during the first week of April, before Easter catholic and orthodoxe (this year they are celebrated the 8), when the "Western opinion" is on leave. It may be also that Iran is struck Friday 6, public holiday in the Moslem countries. According to the American diagram, it will be a striking of only one day which will last 12 hours, 4 hours of morning to 16 hours of afternoon. The code name of the operation is to date "English Cock" (Bite). A score of Iranian installations should be touched. With their number, centrifugal machines of uranium enrichment, centers of studies and laboratories. But the first block of the nuclear thermal power station of Bouchehr will not be touched. On the other hand, the Americans will neutralize the DCA, will run several Iranian buildings of war in the Gulf and will destroy the key positions of command of the armed forces.

As many measurements which should remove in Teheran any capacity to counteract. Iran projected to run several tankers in the strait of Ormuz with an aim of cutting the provisioning of the international markets of oil and of striking with the Israel missile.

The analysts affirm that strike them American will be launched from the island of Diego-Garcia, in the Indian Ocean, from where will take off of the bombers with long operating range B-52 with on their board cruise missiles; by the embarked aviation of the American aircraft carriers deployed in the Gulf and forming part of the 6th American Fleet in the Mediterranean; cruise missiles will be also drawn since the submarines concentrated in the Pacific and with broad from Arabia.

Result, the Iranian nuclear program will be rejected several years in back. In private talks, American Generals suppose that the times of deployment of American anti-missile defense in Europe can be postponed. Another event envisaged, the oil barrel could fly away to 75-80 dollars and this for one prolonged period.

Meanwhile, the new resolution on Iran and whose project was adopted by the five permanent members of the Security Council and Germany should be voted with CS as of this week. The text envisages sanctions against 10 Iranian public companies and to three companies concerned with the Body of the guards of the Islamic revolution, unit of elite to the orders of the spiritual leader of the Islamic Republic, the ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Sanctions are also envisaged against 15 physical people: eight leaders placed high of companies of State and seven key characters with the Body of the guards of the Islamic revolution.

Maybe you are right, this stuff is pure fiction. I agree that the imagery of the good Friday Operation is bad. I thought that the translation by babelfish.altavista.com did a pretty darn good job.

It's possible that this was written after the date it was claimed to have been written on (March 19th) but then why?

http://fr.rian.ru/world/20070319/62260006.html

is the web page that this was translated from.

To reiterate: CRAP!

I sincerely hope so. I hope that there won't be an operation. Good Friday is probably bad taste. It's not far away. Other than that, the logic used isn't that unreasonable. I don't think we would invade Iran. It's too difficult to put boots on the ground in significant numbers.

At another site I visit, www.freerepublic.com, they were talking about how Iran only has 10 refineries, and they have to import about 40% of the gasoline. If we were to implement a blockade and destroy 4 refineries, we could cause alot of pain to Iranian society, but that ultimately would probably be less successful than bombing to degrade their capacity.

I'd like it if Britain would take a lead, but I'm thinking that they probably won't.

Can we talk about this? is the name of the column. Thank you.

I hope nothing will happen. I hope the British sailors won't be held for 444 days. Supposedly, Britain is in talks at some level with Iran.

Wouldn't our boys in the planes prefer a night without a moon? After all, with our night vision equipment, we can see much better than the average Iranian in near total darkness.