By CBPO Jon A. Underwood, CBP, (Ret.)
This sort of thing has happened before.
Project Babylon.... Anyone remember? Does the name Gerald Bull ring a bell? HARP?
This is not the first or the last of these people who will die in their attempt to facilitate an attack upon “a certain nation to the west” 
Iran and the Mullahs will have to decide, will they be happy to dominate their own people, ghoulishly as they are and have been since 1979, or, are they going to start to fall for their own fatalistic propaganda and reap the whirlwind?
“A certain nation to the West” will defend itself, their "Points of contact" overseas will insure that that is done in support of the existence of said nation!
As the visual indicates, "Every Nation" will do whatever is "in its own best interest". The Islamic republic of Iran, for its own sake if nothing else, might want to consider that!
Gerald Bull thought that he was protected by the Iraqis -- and he was only working on a gun.
People are going to start dropping like flies around Iran before long...
Posted by: R.J. Godlewski | January 14, 2012 at 05:03 PM
A "gun" designed to reach a "certain nation to the west". You are right.
As a Customs Officer, I have to say I relished in the seizure of the "segments" of the barrel of this behemoth by my Brit Cousins!
Actually, I think that this might be the situation that actually works to free the millions of Iranians that have had it with the Mullahs and their abuse of their rights.
Of course, with "Mr. Obama" in Office, anything that will stop the Mullahs, and lesson the pressure on the existence of the Jewish state, will be fought tooth and nail.
Its not about the Muslim faith, its about the abuse of Power that has gone on since 1979.
Posted by: JON A UNDERWOOD | January 14, 2012 at 05:21 PM
Personally, I think that Bull was providing the Iraqis with a bunch of bull. As soon as that gun was fired, it would have been destroyed. Everybody in the world knew where it was located and, hell, it was not like it could be moved anywhere.
I think that the whole thing was based upon Saddam's Hitleresque fascination with BIG weapons technology (e.g, why did the Nazis spend so much time and resources on the Jagdpanzer VI Jagdtiger and the 185 ton behemoth Panzer Maus?).
Perhaps, the gun itself was a diversion from deploying SCUD missiles.
The Iranian nuclear program represents an entirely different beast. To defeat it, we have to target the infrastructure, the facilities, the personnel, and the Iranian leadership. Simply attacking one segment is not going to cut it.
Posted by: R.J. Godlewski | January 14, 2012 at 07:26 PM