Proxy Terrorism From Iran a warning from Sharansky and Putin

It’s time to bring the fight against terrorists to the countries that arm and fund them.
Natan Sharansky with a warning about the stakes in our war against Islamic Terrorism. See unlike the Democratic party and some wimps in the Republican party nearly every other serious person in the world understands that if you want to attack Terrorists, go after the countries that sponsor them.

Proxy Terrorism From Iran – Los Angeles Times
IN THE SUMMER of 2000, Russian President Vladimir V. Putin told me a story that I have been unable to get out of my mind. We were meeting in the Kremlin, and I raised the grave danger facing the world from the transfer of missile technology and nuclear material to the Iranians. In Putin’s view, however, the real danger came not from an Iranian nuclear-tipped missile or, for that matter, from the lethal arsenal of any nation-state.

“Imagine a sunny and beautiful day in a suburb of Manhattan,” he said. “An elderly man is tending to the roses in his small garden with his nephew visiting from Europe. Life seems perfectly normal. The following day, the nephew, carrying a suitcase, takes a train to Manhattan. Inside the suitcase is a nuclear bomb.”

But we are told that suitcase nukes don’t exist by otherwise serious people. Course it would seem like the former Director of the KGB might know a thing or two about what does or does not exist in the wonderful world of covert nuclear weapons. Suitcase nukes were never meant to be delivered by a Soviet Bear bomber. No they were meant to be delivered the exact same way that ours were meant to be delivered by a Special Forces operator walking into a city, setting it down and boom. This was a comment left in response to Dean Barnett’s attempt to put our minds at ease about Suit Case nukes.

Suitcase Nukes
Mr. Barnett,
I just finished reading your 09/13/2006 blog “Suitcase Nukes – The Facts,” and found it very interesting. I don’t know where you found the information you presented, but I do know it wasn’t from a 60′s, 70′s or 80′s “Sspecial Projects”/”Green Light trained U.S. Special Forces soldier. Had it been, I believe your blog’s analysis would have been less resolute.

As a special Forces soldier in 1966, I went through a course of training called “Special Projects.” At that time, the purpose of this highly specialized training was to teach three-man special forces teams how to attack very specific enemy targets by packing, parachuting in, placing and detonating one of two Small Atomic Demolitions Munitions [SADMs].

I respect Dean Barnett a great deal as he has been the source of some terrific articles and given me a lot to think about in many of his posts. But this time I think I will bet on Sharansky and Putin being correct and start dealing with the possibility that the unthinkable is being planned. Furthermore I will start asking a bit more urgently of my politicians that no matter how terrible it may be to deal with regimes that we know sponsor terror like Iran and Syria and N. Korea the time has come to not wait till a weapon goes off in NYC.

Here is Sharansky again (Hat tip to “A Daily Briefing on Iran” by Doctor Zin)

Five years ago, after 9/11, such a lack of culpability seemed inconceivable. That was when President Bush abandoned the conventional approach to fighting terror by vowing that the United States would henceforth make no distinction between terrorists and regimes that support them. You are either with us or you are with the terrorists.

In the pre-9/11 world, regimes were rarely held responsible for the actions of terror groups. Now the Taliban regime was being held accountable.

This was critically important for two reasons. First, it recognized that international terrorism relies on the support of sovereign states. It is regimes, after all, that give terror groups territory on which to train, arm and indoctrinate their members, and regimes that provide them critical financial, diplomatic, logistical and intelligence support.

This is why it is so critically important to understand why we cannot allow the Democrats and their Leftist allies to diminish the evidence showing state support for attacks the United States. Indeed the truth of the matter is attempts to dimish these links is even evident amongst some Republicans who are supposed to be more adult like. Mostly driven by a fear of being forced to act against a state as powerful as Iran. It seems that we the public are being forced to take another hard blow to the head before our politicians will defend us against a gathering storm.

All of this makes this a bit more worrisome.

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