Iranian nuke plot, through banks.

[Oldemandalton]

Iranian nuke plot vaporized in the city: NY banks unwittingly aided in material transfers, says DA

BY Melissa Grace
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Updated Tuesday, April 7th 2009, 8:20 AM


AP

Experts say Iran is close to amassing enough nuclear material to make an atom bomb.


Saribas/Reuters

Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Take our PollNuke all the nukes?
Do you agree with Obama's plan to eliminate all of our nuclear weapons?


Yes. It's time to close the chapter on nukes once and for all.



No way. How naive is he? We'd be too vulnerable.



It's never going to happen, so why even bother considering it?

The Manhattan district attorney's office has smashed a sinister plot to smuggle nuclear weapons materials to Iran through unwitting New York banks, the Daily News has learned.

Officials plan to unseal a 118-count indictment Tuesday accusing a Chinese national of setting up a handful of fake companies to hide that he was selling millions of dollars in potential nuclear materials to Tehran.

"This case will cut off a major source of supply to Iran and it shows how they are going ahead full steam to get a nuclear bomb. Long-range missiles they pretty much have already," a law enforcement source close to the case said.

"We think it is one of the largest suppliers of weapons of mass destruction to Iran."

Experts say Iran, under the leadership of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, appears close to amassing enough nuclear material to make an atom bomb. A United Nations embargo bans Iran from acquiring the high-tech metals needed to make a long-range nuclear weapon a reality.

The indictment will outline the financial conspiracy behind 58 different transactions, including shipments of various banned materials from China to Iran between 2006 and late 2008.

Among them:

33,000 pounds of a specialized aluminum alloy used almost exclusively in long-range missile production.
66,000 pounds of tungsten copper plate, which is used in missile guidance systems.
53,900 pounds of maraging steel rods, a superhard metal used in uranium enrichment and to make the casings for nuclear bombs.
The recipient is believed to have been a subsidiary of the Iranian Defense Ministry.
The suspect, who is not believed to be in the U.S., set up four bogus import-export companies that did business with six Iranian shell firms, one source said.

"They took elaborate steps to conceal the identity of the shipper and the recipient," the source said.

The deals went through "several" New York banks, which cooperated when the alleged plot was uncovered.

"The New York banks were completely unaware," the source said.

Authorities first stumbled over the scheme seven months ago in an unrelated probe into Iranian money-laundering through Lloyd's, a British bank.

In January, Lloyd's paid a $350 million fine to settle accusations it "stripped" information from Iranian money transfers to New York banks, hiding where the cash came from.

Officials said they suspected that money was also used to finance Iran's nuke program.

"The important thing is to put sunlight on these deals," the law enforcement source said.

Is this what they call "toxic assets"?

OMD

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I think they should have a Nuke if they have advanced to that point. If they use it on israel then they should expect their country to be turned into glass with a 300 nuke enema.

[Oldemandalton]

Yes, but then what do we say to the millions of dead Israelis, "ops, sorry 'bout that, we should have listened to your warnings"? "Here's some aloe for that nasty burn, dude."


OMD

[Blip]

Yes, but then what do we say to the millions of dead Israelis, "ops, sorry 'bout that, we should have listened to your warnings"? "Here's some aloe for that nasty burn, dude."


OMD

The muslim countries don't want to nuke israel. They want to keep it intact. It is as holy to them as it is to the jews. I will agree that they want to kill jews. That is in part do to the fact that the israelis are not to goog in the PR department. A nuke that Iran is far from being able to make won't matter when they can send an arab horde on israel if they wanted. To me it is more of a propaganda tool so that we can keep the peoples' mind open to the possibility of an Iranian invasion to secure that part of the world for oil. Scratch the surface a litttle and see how much it actually has to do with a nuke.

Besides, If everyone thinks that Iran has got a nuke (many people do now), then they can stage another 9/11 that can be blamed on the Iranians, pakistan and whoever else?

It will make the playing field a little more even with the israelis. I think they have over a 130 nukes? Maybe they will start to be a little nicer to the "gentiles" in that area.

I think the Iranian nuke program is hyped up for manipulation by the zionist owned media. And yes, oddly enough I still support israel. Just tired of playing their stupid game. I am sure the regular jews are sick of it too. Just as soon as the zionists and other groups get what they want I believe they will turn on israel. And we will not be able to help them.

We suck at playing God. That is God's Job. We shouldn't have our hands in deciding what other nations should do. We should spend money building our own arsenal and tech. And help the jews in a different way?

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Yes, but then what do we say to the millions of dead Israelis, "ops, sorry 'bout that, we should have listened to your warnings"? "Here's some aloe for that nasty burn, dude."


OMD

Why would we say anything?

[drjme]

What easier way for the neocons to create a 'plan' than to do it right at home where they can control all the information to influence what ever outcome they desire. NY banks 'unwittingly' aid Iranians in amassing nuclear materials??
Iran: lets buy all our materials to make nuclear weapons off the americans, and launder all our money where they will be able to find it. . those war drums just won't stop beating will they.

[Oldemandalton]

Blip;
The muslim countries don't want to nuke israel. They want to keep it intact. It is as holy to them as it is to the jews. I will agree that they want to kill jews. That is in part do to the fact that the israelis are not to goog in the PR department. A nuke that Iran is far from being able to make won't matter when they can send an arab horde on israel if they wanted. To me it is more of a propaganda tool so that we can keep the peoples' mind open to the possibility of an Iranian invasion to secure that part of the world for oil. Scratch the surface a litttle and see how much it actually has to do with a nuke.

Besides, If everyone thinks that Iran has got a nuke (many people do now), then they can stage another 9/11 that can be blamed on the Iranians, pakistan and whoever else?

It will make the playing field a little more even with the israelis. I think they have over a 130 nukes? Maybe they will start to be a little nicer to the "gentiles" in that area.

I think the Iranian nuke program is hyped up for manipulation by the zionist owned media. And yes, oddly enough I still support israel. Just tired of playing their stupid game. I am sure the regular jews are sick of it too. Just as soon as the zionists and other groups get what they want I believe they will turn on israel. And we will not be able to help them.

We suck at playing God. That is God's Job. We shouldn't have our hands in deciding what other nations should do. We should spend money building our own arsenal and tech. And help the jews in a different way?

I agree, Blip, that Jerusalem would not be a target of Iranian nukes, Tel Aviv would. I think that before they launched on Israel that one or more of the nukes would be used here in the US, The Great Satan. Once we are out of the picture then Israel could be swarmed over by the rest of the Muslim world as you suggested. If you read in Ezekiel and Revelations about the war that Gog and Magog brings upon Israel you will notice that she has no allies. Where is the US? Will we have changed our foreign policy towards Israel and abandoned her voluntarily or will we be physically unable to support Israel because we will have suffered a devastating attack that will have rendered us unable to offer any help at all. Two nukes exploding above the US would do that. This would make 9/11 look like a pop gun. You think the LDGs would welcome this. YES!

If we had a functioning SDI we wouldn’t have to worry about Iran or N. Korea.


None of the plans to knock out Iran’s nuke production include invasion or occupation. Hopefully we have learned from our mistakes.


OMD

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I agree, Blip, that Jerusalem would not be a target of Iranian nukes, Tel Aviv would.

Yes I think that could be a target.

If you read in Ezekiel and Revelations about the war that Gog and Magog brings upon Israel you will notice that she has no allies.

Which chapter. My LDS version are packed for the moment. Got an old king james.

Will we have changed our foreign policy towards Israel and abandoned her voluntarily or will we be physically unable to support Israel because we will have suffered a devastating attack that will have rendered us unable to offer any help at all. Two nukes exploding above the US would do that. This would make 9/11 look like a pop gun. You think the LDGs would welcome this. YES!

That is a good think question. I think 9/11 was staged now. I wouldn't put it past the gov to nuke it's own people for motivation purposes. That would be much harder to pull off though. It would be prefered if it came from a foreign country. That might be why we of ruffleing up pakistan. I am sure there are CIA ops in there right now doing some dirty work.

Regardless of if it is staged or not the results will be the same.

If we had a functioning SDI we wouldn’t have to worry about Iran or N. Korea.

You are right about that. That is exactly what I heard, but we could have. It is very frustrating. The PTB are just begging for someone to nuke. We don't have the defense for it. And yet we are messing with all the coutries that got Nukes. There is no sacred place in the US for other countries either. It is all a target, but just one nuke would send these T.V watching cake eating Gap wearing zombies in an uncontrollable panic.

None of the plans to knock out Iran’s nuke production include invasion or occupation. Hopefully we have learned from our mistakes.

OMD, I think that if we do any more then we are going to seriously undermine the other 2 world powers. Iran may put Russia over the edge. The Sudan may get China a swingen. Maybe that is the idea. I don't know. Not a good idea for an empire on the decline.

Stay out of Iran. In all ways. I agree that we should help the jews, but it should be on our terms. And it should be the people who decide. All of it should be defensive measures. Not this the best O is a good D. That ain't going to happen.

A lot of Irans problem is that we went through Iraq and they are scared. I imagine I would be trying to scrape together as much arms as I could if I were them to. I don't want Iran to have a nuke either, but Israel is constantly threatening everyone with nukes. They need to shut-up. They also need to do something about the War crimes against the Palestinians. I don't like the Palestinians, but Israel needs to change some of it's nazi tactics.

I believe that Iran is the one painted in the corner. They got US troops on the borders and Air force that flies in 200 ft or 2 miles in their air space here and there just to let them know. And of course israel is always threatening with nukes or their own flying missions. I know the game.

No more, stay out of Iran. Let them have a Nuke and deal with the awesome and awful responsibility of it.

Let them have their oil too. They can't even refine it and we are worried about Nukes?