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A 30,000-pound 13,600-kg bunker buster bomb designed to smash through some 200 feet 65 metres of concrete before exploding is a great weapon that could be used by US forces in a clash with Iran over its nuclear program, an Air Force general said on Thur
stanley cup sday. HT Image Lieutenant General Herbert Carlisle, Air Force deputy chief of staff for operations, said the massive ordnance penetrator, which the military began receiving only last year, is part of the US arsenal available for strikes against countries like Iran, which has some buried nuclear facilities. The massive o
stanley cup rdnance penetrator is a great weapon. We are continuing to improve that. It has great capability now and we are continuing to make it better. It is part of our arsenal and it will be a potential if we need it in that kind of scenario, Carlisle told a conference on US defense programs. The Pentagon has begun working on military options if sanctions and diplomacy fail to prevent Tehran from building a nuclear weapon. Defense secretary Leon Panetta told the National Journal in an interview on Thursday that planning had been going on for a long time. Major powers are increasingly con
stanley cup cerned about Iran s nuclear enrichment program, which they view as an attempt to build an atomic weapon. But Tehran says it is meant for peaceful energy production. Israel also is worried about potential for Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to Washington th Fwgm Bush predicts bloody summer in Iraq
Pakistan on Thursday asked the US to halt its drone attacks in the country s restive tribal region terming it as counterproductive in the war o
stanley cup n terror and pressed the Obama administration to pass on intelligence so that Islamabad could take action against militants. HT Image In an interview with CNN, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said that Pakistan has
stanley cup no agreement with the US about drone attacks and Washington does not inform Islamabad about such strikes before hand. When asked about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton s statement that military aid to Pakistan should be conditional on how well it goes after al Qaeda and Taliban, Gilani said it would not work. That would not be favouring Pakistan. That would also mean like counter-productive, he said. But he replied in the negative when specifically asked whether he would reject conditional aid. No, we don t want to reject that. We want that it sh
stanley cup ould not be conditional, he replied. He also sought to make case for Pakistan army getting more sophisticated weapons to fight militants. We have the ability and we have even the will but there is a capacity. We don t have the capacity. The world is focusing on Afghanistan. They have got the most sophisticated weapons in the world. And our poor people, they are fighting without any arms and ammunition, he said. The American drone attacks targeting militants, mostly in the lawless areas bordering Afghanistan, are unpopular with the people and Gilani was hard
