[UPDATE below: Israeli denials]

Eesh:

ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.

Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters”, according to several Israeli military sources.

Oh. "Low-yield." I guess that's OK then.

Under the plans, conventional laser-guided bombs would open “tunnels” into the targets. “Mini-nukes” would then immediately be fired into a plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce the risk of radioactive fallout.

However, the nuclear-tipped bunker-busters would be used only if a conventional attack was ruled out and if the United States declined to intervene, senior sources said.

Israeli officials believe that destroying all three sites would delay Iran’s nuclear programme indefinitely and prevent them from having to live in fear of a “second Holocaust”.

Of course, the entire Middle East will explode, the crazies will take over in Pakistan, and then the Taliban, who we can't deal with, will have nukes, instead of the Iranians, who we can deal with.

Can't someone give Bush a blowjob so we can impeach him?

UPDATE Via AP this morning:

A British newspaper reported Sunday that Israel has drafted plans to strike as many as three targets in Iran with low-yield nuclear weapons, aiming to halt Tehran's uranium enrichment program. The Israeli Foreign Ministry denied the report.

Citing multiple unidentified Israeli military sources, The Sunday Times said the proposals involved using so-called "bunker-buster" nuclear weapons to attack nuclear facilities at three sites south of the Iranian capital.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said it would not respond to the claim.

Israeli Minister of Strategic Threats Avigdor Lieberman also declined to comment on the report.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev denied the report and said that "the focus of the Israeli activity today [hmmm] is to give full support to diplomatic actions..."

An Israeli analysis does give analysis that sounds plausible to me:

"I refuse to believe that anyone here would consider using nuclear weapons against Iran," Reuven Pedatzur, a prominent defense analyst and columnist for the daily Haaretz, told the AP. "It is possible that this was a leak done on purpose, as deterrence, to say 'someone better hold us back, before we do something crazy.'"

Some of us have tried to use that logic over here. The problem has been that the crazy people have been in charge, and keep doing crazy things.

And with Bush and the Christianist base, the neo-cons, the Likudniks (and the former Likudniks) forming--- Gosh, what shall I call it? Hmmm -- an axis of evil, it's almost impossible not to give this report some credence.