U.S. studying Iran's retaliation options

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060603/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_hezbollah

WASHINGTON - If cornered by the West over its nuclear program, Iran could direct Hezbollah to enlist its widespread international support network to aid in terrorist attacks, intelligence officials say.

In interviews with The Associated Press, several Western intelligence officials said they have seen signs that Hezbollah's fundraisers, recruiters and criminal elements could be adapted to provide logistical help to terrorist operatives.

Such help could include obtaining forged travel documents or off-the-shelf technology — global positioning equipment and night goggles, for example — that could be used for military purposes.

The senior officials spoke only on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive positions they occupy.

Hezbollah was responsible for the 1983 bombings of the U.S. Embassy and the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. The group's Saudi wing, in coordination with the larger Lebanese Hezbollah, is blamed for the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia in 1996 that killed hundreds of American servicemen.

[AnOhioan]

1. Or they could just use their armed forces......

to give us hell in the Persian Gulf area overall. Memo to the chimp....Iran is not Iraq....they actually have armed forces who can, and will, fight.

Invading Iraq, illegal, stupid, not well-planned at all

Invading Iran, biting off more than we can chew. In more ways than one.

Of course this may all be be according to plan.

Lob a few missiles at Tehran, then sit and wait for the LIHOP, then cancel elections in the name of national security.

If that happens, all bets are off.

[cantstandbush]

2. How about if Iran just friggin ignored us unless we attack them? n/t

[Toots]

5. Isn't that basically what they are doing?

:shrug:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

3. That's okay- we have Homeland Security® to protect us!

It's impossible for terraists to strike us here!

Oops, I keep forgetting: :sarcasm:

[Eugene]

4. Iran doesn't need Hezbollah to strike back.

Iran has a better grip on Iraq than we do. Iranian backed militias can make
the U.S. occupation of Iraq even more untenable and much bloodier than it already is.

[AlamoDemoc]

6. This talk of Iran and how they supposedly sponsor terrorism

But we are in Iraq terrorizing entire nation....or that of Palestine...but it all falls down on a deaf ear. Va fangul!