[TheForge] Iranian Satellite.. OT

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

A first instance of space piracy?
Odd how those Semites keep hoping for a messiah.
Makes those toughened folks so very vulnerable.

Mike Linn wrote:
> Got this from a friend of mine.. one with good contacts...
> 
> 
> Last week (2/03), Iran launched a communications satellite named "Omid" 
> (Hope in Farsi) into low-earth orbit.The Wall Street Journal 
> subsequently ran an op-ed by Michael Ledeen , who explained that the 
> mullahs will use the satellite to broadcast to the world that the Last 
> Days are coming and the Mahdi (Shia Islam's Messiah) is soon to arrive.
> 
> A day or so after reading Michael's WSJ piece, my Congressman friend ran 
> across an article about Boeing's Airborne Laser. This is an anti-missile 
> defense system carried aboard a high-flying 747 that targets ICBM 
> warheads in the boost phase with a mid-infrared chemical laser beam.
> 
> The Airborne Laser or ABL can vaporize a heavy ICBM warhead 300 miles up 
> in space.Hmmm, my friend thought... that means it sure could do the same 
> to a tinfoil aluminum lightweight (about 60 pounds) Iranian satellite 
> flying low and slow less than 200 miles up.
> 
> Testing of the ABL system onboard a 747 is being conducted in New Mexico 
> right now.What better test could there be, my friend surmised, than on 
> the Omid satellite?You couldn't ask for a lighter target of genuine 
> military/national security interest than the Omid.And if it doesn't 
> work, who's to tell?
> 
> Further, if it doeswork, who's to tell?There's no warning with the ABL 
> and no evidence afterward.One second the Omid is working, the next 
> second it mysteriously vanishes as act of God, with only tiny fragments 
> left over.Sorry, mullahs, Allah doesn't want the Mahdi to come just yet.
> 
> My Congressman friend has known Gen. Jones for years, and learned he 
> could work well with him when Jones was Commandant of the Marine Corps 
> (1999-2003).Further, until he stepped down to become NSC Director, Jones 
> was on Boeing's Board of Directors and is a strong advocate of the ABL.
> 
> So my friend will shortly be paying Jones a visit and thinks he has a 
> reasonable chance to sell him on the idea.
> 
> Wish him luck.
> 
> Now this week we have this;
> 
> *
> Well, that didn't take long.Last week's HFR revealed that National 
> Security Director Jim Jones was receptive to an Airborne Laser (ABL) 
> test on the Omid satellite launched by Iran's mullahs on February 3rd. 
> Perhaps it's just a coincidence, but on February 10, Omid suddenly and 
> mysteriously stopped transmitting its radical Islam propaganda. Nobody 
> is saying a word about it, including the mullahs who are silent about 
> their dead bird in space.
> 
> 
> 
> Follow up by reading this;
> 
> http://www.space.com/news/090215-satelllite-debris-reentry.html
> 
> OK? Does anyone see a possible connection here?
> Very interesting to say the least.
>