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Did the Pentagon attack Iran’s nuclear reactor with Stuxnet worm?

Pentagon’s spokesman Colonel David Lapan said the Department of defence can “neither confirm nor deny” reports that it launched this attack

Pentagon Accused Of Launching Supervirus Attack On Iran Gizmodo Australia, By Jesus Diaz on September 28, 2010 Stuxnet – which some experts consider to be the most advanced virus ever – appears to be focusing its attacks on Iranian nuclear plants. Now, the Pentagon and German intelligence are being accused of creating the virus to take down Iran’s atomic weapons program.

The worm seems to be designed to focus on very specific systems, differentiating between industrial computers “without human assistance,” according to German researcher Ralph Langner:

“Stuxnet is the key for a very specific lock—in fact, there is only one lock in the world that it will open. The whole attack is not at all about stealing data but about manipulation of a specific industrial process at a specific moment in time. This is not generic. It is about destroying that process.”……..

The Pentagon is now being accused on working with the friendly German intelligence services to create the Stuxnet virus. Pentagon’s spokesman Colonel David Lapan said the Department of defence can “neither confirm nor deny” reports that it launched this attack. If the attack came indeed from the US, experts say, it would have been created and launched under President Obama’s orders. [Fox News and Christian Science Monitor via AP and The Atlantic]

Pentagon Accused Of Launching Supervirus Attack On Iran | Gizmodo Australia

September 30, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, reactor