Iran can target missile at US, Europe in less than eight years: US (AFP)

[Eugene]

:eyes: Here it comes...

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Source: Agence France-Presse

Iran can target missile at US, Europe in less than eight years: US

by P. Parameswaran
Thu May 3, 7:51 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iran may have a long range missile capable of
striking the United States and Europe in less than eight years, a
senior State Department official said Thursday.

John Rood, the assistant secretary of state for international security
and non proliferation, said the weapon could be wholly obtained from
North Korea, which had provided Iran ballistic missiles previously.

The American intelligence community has estimated that Tehran, which
has defied UN sanctions to pursue a sensitive nuclear program, could
develop long-range missiles capable of reaching all of Europe and the
United States before 2015 if it chooses to do so, he said.

"Our intelligence estimates are based on projections of when Iran could
acquire this capability on its own, perhaps with some foreign assistance.
A key determinant how rapidly Iran might progress of course would be
that foreign assistance," Rood told a Congressional hearing.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070503/wl_mideast_afp/usiranmissilenuclear_070503235028

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[Lerkfish]

1. gee, now why do I find this suspicious?

[GeorgeGist]

2. I've seen this movie...

geesh get a new script.

[madeline_con]

4. Part DUH will be a bigger blockbuster! n/t

[madeline_con]

3. Foreign assistance....

like what Belgium sold them.

[Malikshah]

5. From the State Department? Ah, the one headed by the consumate liar?

Please---

[Canuckistanian]

6. And they want to do this... why?

Because they hate freedom?

Because they want to destroy Western civilization as we know it?

Because they want to sell more oil?

Because they're bored?

[youngdem]

7. And how many do WE have pointed at THEM? Fucking Hypocrites.

[Theduckno2]

8. Expected payload on those Iranian missiles: probably a cheese danish.

"The American intelligence community has estimated that Tehran, which
has defied UN sanctions to pursue a sensitive nuclear program, could
develop long-range missiles capable of reaching all of Europe and the
United States before 2015 if it chooses to do so, he said."

Don't you just love how they get "nuclear" in the same sentence with "long range missiles"? What's next? Condi talking about mushroom clouds? Geesh!

[magellan]

9. How many years did Russia have missiles pointed at us? And still do.

There was no bigger, badder, scarier bogeyman than the Soviet Union for decades. Yet somehow we managed to survive their "evil empire"...and then we even let China achieve the bomb in 1964 without raining bombs on their heads to stop them. Good thing, too, or the Chinese might be selling us radioactive grain glutens now instead of just poisonous ones.

They just aren't making presidents of the same stuff they used to.

[Javaman]

10. Where is Dr. Strangelove when you need him? nt