[TheForge] Iranian Satellite.. OT

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

OOps< right Grant. I should have Omid them.

Grant Marcoux wrote:
> Ha!  Persians are not Semites.
> 
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> Phoebe Palmer
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> 
> 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.
>>
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