Saturday, May 02, 2009
5/02/2009 10:02:00 PM | 
Posted by
JoeSettler
Some while ago I was discussing the Iranian nuclear threat.
At the time I said that Iran wasn’t going to launch a nuclear missile at anybody. Instead they were going to ship over a dirty bomb to a few terrorist organizations and sneak them into Israel and the US.
Some people disagreed with my assessment, for one primary reason. They claimed that there is no way a bomb could be brought close enough (to the US at least) without it being noticed by any of the various detection systems allegedly in place for such attempts.
The New York Times Magazine printed an interesting article last week.
It seems that in the 3rd world jungles of Columbia, the drug lords have a new hobby.
They build submarines. In fact they build submarines at the incredibly cheap cost of a mere $500,000 and build them in a mere 90 days. (And when you consider the $100 million dollar profit, that’s a bargain).
These submarines regularly smuggle in a tremendous amount of Columbian drugs into the US. These subs can carry up to 10 tons of drugs (or other stuff)!
The US Coast Guard estimates that they have managed to capture a mere 14% of these submarines or (10 out the 70 built this year) – apparently through a combination of luck and simply hanging out on the most common route of the smugglers.
60 of these submarines have successfully breached the US border this past year alone.
Now realize, these are built in the middle of the jungle by drug lords and 3rd world craftsmen.
Imagine what Iran could do when it will be ready to sneak a dirty bomb into the US. That should keep you up at night.
In fact I'm not the only one to consider this, as John Pike, a defense expert and the director of GlobalSecurity.org, said, “If Al Qaeda decided they wanted to attack the homeland, or Iran decided they can attack the American homeland, this might be the way of getting in.” Then he added, “This is the 21st-century equivalent of German U-boats.”
Makes one even hope that Obama will take some military action against Iran’s nuclear bomb development facilities before its too late.
At the time I said that Iran wasn’t going to launch a nuclear missile at anybody. Instead they were going to ship over a dirty bomb to a few terrorist organizations and sneak them into Israel and the US.
Some people disagreed with my assessment, for one primary reason. They claimed that there is no way a bomb could be brought close enough (to the US at least) without it being noticed by any of the various detection systems allegedly in place for such attempts.
The New York Times Magazine printed an interesting article last week.
It seems that in the 3rd world jungles of Columbia, the drug lords have a new hobby.
They build submarines. In fact they build submarines at the incredibly cheap cost of a mere $500,000 and build them in a mere 90 days. (And when you consider the $100 million dollar profit, that’s a bargain).
These submarines regularly smuggle in a tremendous amount of Columbian drugs into the US. These subs can carry up to 10 tons of drugs (or other stuff)!
The US Coast Guard estimates that they have managed to capture a mere 14% of these submarines or (10 out the 70 built this year) – apparently through a combination of luck and simply hanging out on the most common route of the smugglers.
60 of these submarines have successfully breached the US border this past year alone.
Now realize, these are built in the middle of the jungle by drug lords and 3rd world craftsmen.
Imagine what Iran could do when it will be ready to sneak a dirty bomb into the US. That should keep you up at night.
In fact I'm not the only one to consider this, as John Pike, a defense expert and the director of GlobalSecurity.org, said, “If Al Qaeda decided they wanted to attack the homeland, or Iran decided they can attack the American homeland, this might be the way of getting in.” Then he added, “This is the 21st-century equivalent of German U-boats.”
Makes one even hope that Obama will take some military action against Iran’s nuclear bomb development facilities before its too late.
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