An Israeli attack on nuclear sites in Iran would go beyond air strikes from fighter planes and likely include electronic warfare against Iran’s electric grid, Internet, cellphone network, and emergency frequencies for fire and police services, according to a report by Eli Lake, a correspondent for Newsweek and the Daily Beast.
For much of the last decade, writes Lake, "Israel has been assembling a multibillion-dollar array of high-tech weapons that would allow it to jam, blind, and deafen Tehran's defenses in the case of a pre-emptive aerial strike."
U.S. intelligence officials are reported as saying that Israel has developed a weapon capable of mimicking a maintenance cellphone signal that commands a cell network to “sleep,” effectively stopping transmissions. The Israelis "also have jammers capable of creating interference within Iran’s emergency frequencies for first responders," they said.
In the 2007 attack on a suspected nuclear site in Syria, Israeli planes “spoofed” the enemy's air-defense radars, "at first making it appear that no jets were in the sky and then in an instant making the radar believe the sky was filled with hundreds of planes," Lake writes.
It is not clear why U.S. officials would want to leak any of this information – unless they were bluffing, or trying to derail [or sabotage-- Editor] Israeli plans for a strike.
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In the old days, releasing this kind of information would result in the arrest of someone. The fact that obama's administration isn't acting like this is a big deal tells volumes about their true intentions. But no matter, thos ewhack jobs in Iran have a big mouth, but also KNOW they are no match for the Israeli's weapons and technology. And Israel knows , too, that oce they decide to do the attack (it's coming, without question), its an all out total complete destruction mission.
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