Was Sudan Arms Factory Bombing a Sign Israel Can Strike Iranian Nuclear Facilities?
Red points on Israel Channel 2 map graphic show Fordo (Iran) to the east, Israel in the center and Khartoum to the south
The Sudanese government is blaming Israel for carrying out the attack Wednesday on a weapons factory outside its capital Khartoum. Israeli officials are mum. But one prominent analyst points out that if Israeli Air Force (IAF) jets were behind the bombing, Israel will have carried out its longest distance bombing run ever. This would imply that, contrary to the assessment of skeptics, Israeli fighter aircraft would have the ability to reach and target Iranian nuclear facilities if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decides one day to carry out such an attack.
Sudanese Culture and Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman said that four aircraft managed to evade radars and dropped bombs on the Yarmouk military manufacturing facility. “We think Israel did the bombing,” AFP quoted him saying. “We reserve the right to react at a place and time we choose.”
Asked to respond, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak refused to comment, telling Channel 2 News: “I have nothing I can say about the matter.” He added, “I do not want to respond and will try not to express my emotions.”
Israel Channel 2’s veteran Arab Affairs Analyst Ehud Yaari reported Wednesday evening that if the Sudanese are correct in accusing Israel, that would mean IAF jets traveled armed and undetected almost 1,200 miles to carry out the attack. Interestingly, he pointed out, this is almost the same distance that would be required to bomb Iran’s key nuclear facilities in Fordo and Natanz. Yaari said (as translated by TheBlaze):
…They [the Sudanese] say it was an attack by a squadron of four planes coming from the east, that is coming from over the Red Sea and attacked. If we look at a schematic map, look, the rough distance…from Israel to Khartoum it’s roughly 1,900 kilometers [1,180 miles]. From Israel to the major nuclear facilities in Iran – Fordo that’s marked on this map and Natanz that’s more or less the same distance – it’s a shorter distance of 1,600 kilometers [995 miles]. That means, if the Sudanese are right in their claims, we’re talking about the deepest strike that the Israeli Air Force has ever carried out. And that’s a signal, whether they intended it to be or not, a signal to the Iranians that it’s possible to traverse those kind of distances.
Yaari points out that Sudan has for years been a key station on the weapons’ smuggling route from Iran to Gaza. He says that Sudan and Iran have had a military cooperation agreement for more than four years. And on Thursday, Haaretz quoted Sudanese opposition sources who say the bombed arms factory belonged to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
Haaretz quotes past reports in the international press indicating Iranian-built weapons factories in Sudan were used to secretly arm Hamas terrorists in Gaza. It also reports that after the fall of Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi, the Revolutionary Guards’ al-Quds Force smuggled “dozens of antiaircraft and SA-24 missiles from the Libyan army’s crumbling arsenals to Sudan, in order to later pass them on to Hamas” in Gaza.
In April 2011, Sudan blamed Israel for an airstrike on a car near Port Sudan. It also blamed Israel for 2009 attacks on weapons smuggling convoys in northeast Sudan reported to be carried out by pilotless drone. Israel did not comment on either strike.
The U.S. has included Sudan on its list of state sponsors of terrorism since 1993, and in 1998 launched a missile strike on a pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, believing it to be manufacturing materials used in chemical weapons, an allegation Sudan denied.
Osama bin Laden lived in Sudan in the 1990s where he funded at least three terrorist training camps.
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Comments (61)
Koz469
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 2:12pmNone of our damn business. Bring our troops home and defend our own soil.
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jman-6
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 8:13pmHey dummy this was Israel not our troops! Your just another anti-semite!
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Kaoscontrol
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 12:07amI’d rather be on God’s side, standing with Israel, than “soiling myself” like KOZ493.
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DeltaBravo193
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 9:41amYou need to i
understand that it is our business. Iran has been quoted in saying that they would attack Israel and US interests abroad. Most everything will come back to us if we have troops home or not. You think if we pull out of everywhere they won’t try attacking us? You live in a bubble! I am also standing with God on this one. If asked, i would gladly go and fight for Israel.
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RamonPreston
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 2:25pmYup, bring our boys home for the coming police state of America. A solder on every corner.
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 1:49pmThis was a smart warm-up for the Israelis. While over khartoum….may as well bomb something. Iran can start really worrying now.
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its_the_end_of_the_world_as_we_know_it
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 1:43pmNicely done.
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cdn1979
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 1:29pmwhere is the outrage here? israeli government officials should be tried as war criminals. they invade and bomb a sovereign country for no reason and with no justification. they should be held accountable for their atrocities.
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MasterJoshua7
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 2:05pmDo you read anything other than the headline? Iran has been using Sudan to smugle weapons to Hamas for four years. If Israel is responsible, they had a their reasons.
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laserblast92
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 3:30pmYour false outrage is amusing….
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maggiegrace
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 4:30pmGOD BLESS Israel !! Those who stand behind her & Bless her will be blessed those who curse her will be cursed…Watch Almighty GOD do his miracles for Israel & Glorify himself!
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G-WHIZ
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 11:32amYou’re just p-o’ed that Isreal does NOT have progressive-commie-leakers like you.
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schroeder123
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:40pmI think I’ll go get a burger, and one other thing…Don’t screw with me.
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The_Jerk
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 1:28pmSudan was not screwing with them any more than Israel screws with everyone else. Israel is a proven belligerent. Not because I say that it is true, but because their history proves it to be true. They want to attack many in the Middle East, and have attacked many in the Middle East. Now, they’ve moved to north Africa.
Any nation can use the excuse of preemption, in order to excuse its bad behavior. Both Nazi Germany and the former USSR did the same. Israel finds itself in good company.
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Fubared
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 1:52pmJihad jerk
What you consider good company is belligerent bs. Nazis and commies have long used Islam against their foes; and there is where you are in good company. Lalalalalala.
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Fubared
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 1:57pmhttp://ca.news.yahoo.com/israel-kills-one-second-day-gaza-strikes-062552365.html
Like these huh jihad jerk. Belligerent nazi is still a nazi.
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jman-6
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 8:17pmjerk- you need to lay off the revisionist history bud. Israel has only defended itself you anti semite!
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KidCharlemagne
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:10pmYet another veiled warning issued to China advising them to stay away from the Sudanese gas pump:
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China welcomes oil deal between Sudan, South Sudan
2012-08-06 19:45:53
BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) — China on Monday welcomed an oil agreement between Sudan and South Sudan and urged South Sudan to protect the interests of its cooperation partners.
According to the agreement, the two sides will share their oil resources, which will allow South Sudan’s oil to resume being exported via Sudan’s territories.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-08/06/c_131765167.htm
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Walkabout
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:35pmIsrael could care less where China gets its’ oil. China has been in Sudan for years.
Israel does care about Sudan arming militants in Gaza.
We hit the aspirin factory in Sudan. Was it an aspirin factory or did we pay up so as to not reveal our intelligence sources & methods?
Seems to me that Khartoum has been very radical for years. The hosted Usama bin Laden. They persecuted black Christians for years. They persecute black Muslims in Darrfur who are not radical Muslims. The persecute black polytheists.
Time for people to not write an apologia for Sudan.
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KidCharlemagne
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:56pmWalkabout
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:35pm
Israel could care less where China gets its’ oil. China has been in Sudan for years.
Israel does care about Sudan arming militants in Gaza.
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If that were really true, then Israel would have already dispatched Al-Qaeda to Sudan to wipe them out:
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“A new ally has joined Israel in the struggle against Hezbollah. Al-Qaida recently published a harsh attack on Hezbollah, in which it calls on Shi’ites to leave the renounce the organization “if they do not wish to be the target of Al-Qaida attacks.”
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/al-qaida-threatens-hezbollah-over-its-support-of-the-syrian-regime-1.462076
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Walkabout
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 3:13pm“If that were really true, then Israel would have already dispatched Al-Qaeda to Sudan to wipe them out:”
That made 0 sense.
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So Haaretz reports the Sunni & Shia are fighting each other at least some of the time. So how does that allow Israel to send Al-Qaeda to do in the Sudanese gov. ?
Just wow! Check your meds.
http://www.haaretz.com
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pragmaticpatriot
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 11:59amLet me be clear, Sudan didnt build, that factory, by themselves! Iran, made that happen!
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The_Jerk
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:13pmLet me tell you something else. This attack would fit with Israel’s belligerent world policy of striking nation after nation, then claiming the status of the victim.
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Fubared
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:23pmLalalalala. Who would have guessed jihad jerk would blather on about belligerent Israelis taking care of bidness? Hahahaha. No wiki or hitler quotes to bolster you own belligerent bs? Haha lalalalala. You go jihad jerk, go be an inhuman shield for the Hezbos.
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Walkabout
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:39pmThe Jerk
Before your comrade moved to Afghanistan, he found sanctuary in Sudan.
The Sudanese Muslim government persecutes moderate black Muslims in Darfur, and black Christians & polytheists in South Sudan.
I’ll stand with Israel before I would stand with Sudan. It is informative. who you defend. You have a confession you need to make?
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dblaess
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 1:01pm@The_Jerk
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:13pm
Let me tell you something else. This attack would fit with Israel’s belligerent world policy of striking nation after nation, then claiming the status of the victim.
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Sounds like they would be great Democrat voters who are always the victim of some real or preceived wrong.
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The_Jerk
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 1:22pmWalkabout, “The Jerk Before your comrade moved to Afghanistan, he found sanctuary in Sudan.”
Before all of that he found support from America. So, what’s your point. It’s a fact that Israel is a belligerent nation that practices gunboat diplomacy. All of the name calling and progressive labeling of me can not change those facts.
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Walkabout
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 3:10pmI read the book “Charlie Wilson’s War” about America’s support for the mujaheddin fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. I am still looking for where we said Usama, he is a great guy & we should support him.
The person who unfortunately who got the lion’s share of arms was Hekmaktyar, a fundementalist.
This was at the insistence of Pakistan. We might have had more say in the matter if the sissy Jimmy Carter had not trashed America’s image abroad during his ill fated presidency.
If we had had our druthers, we would have supported the Lion of Panshir, Massoud.
Try Again Harder
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tzion
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 9:38pm@Jerk
Israel has been attacked far more time than it has attacked. Israel has less blood on its hands than Jordan, Sudan, Libya, Iran, and many others. If this is the history you’re talking about, it proves Israel to be far less belligerent than most of the Middle East, North Africa, and even parts of Europe.
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DeOppressoLiber
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 11:58amIn the same area of interest.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/23/CIA-Hosts-Training-By-Muslim-Brotherhood-Leader-and-Hamas-Supporter?goback=%2Egde_4244984_member_178433576
Are we trying to pick the least extreme of the extremest to help? Out standing foreign policy, its a no win stratergy.
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pragmaticpatriot
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 11:51amand they made it look easy
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NobleDar
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 11:28amThe time will come for the US to fire the new MicroBlast missle in Egypt and a decimation of their air force and any islamic dog who shows his tail. The Murdering Muslim Brotherhood air force US taxpayers built in egypt will have to be removed for our security as well as Israel’s and the entire world. We will have Israel’s back after the election and the evil murdering pork rind eating Mullahs will crawl back into their rat holes, act like a dog and like their own nuts as they decend into the fire of Hell.
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pragmaticpatriot
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 11:55amdont forget the hundreds of M1A1 Abrahms MBTs and Bradley IFVs
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Oneirishman
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 11:18amTaking out Irans ability to produce fissel material is a long shot and risky. Taking out Irans leadership is practical resulting in political upheaval, we will see soon.
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Walkabout
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:41pmI love political decapitation. Spare the common man & get rid of the evil leadership. Except progs have lied & label it assassination.
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beabout
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 11:00amgood move, destroy one source of rockets.
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Landon410
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 10:58amIAF didn’t build that bomb raid on their own
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Twinspeedr
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 10:57amWhen you’re a radical Jihadist, every bomb that you didn’t throw looks like an Israeli airstrike to you.
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Gonzo
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 10:54am“Israeli officials are mum.” Take notes Obama administration, this is how it’s done.
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MasterJoshua7
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 2:08pmExcellent point.
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Carlinpa
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 10:54amWho ever did this was really good,,, even after the undetected attack they still aren’t sure who did it.. that’s stealthy
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wordsofwisdom
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 10:54amEvery day we hear of something else that has happened some where on the planet that leads one to believe the prophecies about the end of days are true. I don’t have a Chrystal ball but I do have a song called
“The End Times” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_10381143
That speaks to the possibility that we are indeed entering a period that could be considered the end of times?
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fobama
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 10:46amIAF is one of the most deadly AF’s in the world… Never under estimate there power!
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momrules
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 10:45amNever, ever underestimate what the Israelis can and will do to protect themselves and their country.
Benjamin Netanyahu will always defend Israel unlike Obama who has worked to undermine and destroy America.
God bless Israel. God will surely damn all who come against her.
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Wayner
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 11:31amDavid said to Goliath, “You come at me with sword and spear, I come at you in the Name Of the Lord God of Israel”
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Zipit
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 10:36amNo big deal! We could hit them “undetected” with a couple of B-2s, from a base in Missouri!!
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 10:44amWe have Romney for POTUS, then that becomes a viable option to deter Iran. Under Obama, never happen unless it is to give Iran a B-2.
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Landon410
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 10:57amha, you’re right though…..
I don’t know why your comment was so funny to me, but you are 100% right.
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DZ-015
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 5:13amTo paraphrase the Bard: B-2 or not B-2–that is the question.
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RamonPreston
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 2:33pmOr HAARP in Alaska. I have heard that we have weapons we can beam right through the earth and hit the target.
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republitarian
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 10:33amIt certainly sends a message to Iran. But it’s also possible that the factory was making rockets for Hamas.
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Walkabout
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:36pmAnd that would make it a two-fer! :)
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 10:22amYes. Goodbye to the nukes of Iran.
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woodyee
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 10:01amGoodbye Ahmedinejad Nuke Factory, Nov. 7…
Wheeeeeeee!
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conservativeblackman
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 10:01amIf the IAF did bomb there factory they had help from someone.
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spfoam1
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 9:59amWhen will we see the picture of the rubble with a sign in front, written in English, that says “baby milk factory”?
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woodyee
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 10:05amJust as soon as Ayers and his commie wife can get there!
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