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Iran's Act of War Seems Kind of Weird, But Also Kind of Predictable

We're obviously in no position to add anything about the Iranian act of war that isn't being done better on Hot Air and NRO (also see NRO here and here).

Here's one of Ledeen's happier FYIs:

Then there are the insistent stories I have been told for several months now, pointing to 9 April, or thereabouts, as the date for a big nuclear event. Maybe a test, maybe an announcement. Remember a couple of months ago A-N promised a major announcement? And then it was postponed? Maybe they are building up to it.

Isn't being informed fun?

The debate in the intelligence community seems to be between those who thinks the order came from the top and those who think that some lower-level guy committed an act of war and only then told the higher ups about it. We have a third theory:

The British Royal Navy is taking strides to ensure that in the 21st century, loose lips won’t be the only things that sink ships and Microsoft has their back... and their helm. Our closest allies will be equipping their entire fleet of destroyers with a different software package than the one they’ve used in past years to control their onboard command systems and that software is Windows 2k.

And people wonder why we're losing the War on Terror. They've got Allah on their side (or, at a minimum, they've got violent fanaticism). We've got operating systems that function as training grounds for 9 year old hacker script kiddies.

References:

* Hostage update: British ambassador to Iran demands to see sailors; Update: U.S. commander says American sailors would have resisted [Hot Air]
* The Mullahs and Mario [NRO]
* Mario and the Mullahs (different article) [NRO]
* Iran News Round-Up [NRO]
* Windows Sank My Battleship! [G4TV]

Previously:
* Nasrallah Is More Honest About Iran Than The British Press
* IAEA: Maybe Iran Is Developing Nukes and Maybe They're Not
* Iran Now Blaming Sunni-Shia Split On Israel. No, Really.

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