Posted on 08/13/2008 9:52:15 AM PDT by Perdogg
Kuwait has activated its Emergency War Plan after an armada of US naval battle groups headed for the Persian Gulf, Middle East Times reports.
The report comes after DEBKAfiles claimed on Monday that the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the USS Ronald Reagan, and the USS Iwo Jima are sailing toward the Persian Gulf to reinforce the US strike forces in the region.
The US naval force is accompanied by a British Royal Navy carrier battle group and a French nuclear hunter-killer submarine.
The deployment is believed to be the largest naval task force assembled by the United States and its allies in the region since the Persian Gulf war in 1991.
The move comes nearly a week after Operation Brimstone, which saw more than a dozen warships from US, British and French naval forces conduct war games in the Atlantic Ocean in preparation for a possible confrontation with Iran.
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“The report comes after DEBKAfiles claimed on Monday that the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the USS Ronald Reagan, and the USS Iwo Jima are sailing toward the Persian Gulf to reinforce the US strike forces in the region.”
DEBKA? lol
Note that this is from an IRANIAN source — propaganda to prepare the Iranian population for some unpleasantness??
Who is on the money? Debka or Miss Cleo’s predictions./Just Asking - seoul62.......
Hee-Hee, I needed the chuckle./Just Asking - seoul62.......
Paraphrasing Ruyard Kipling, stock up on red wine, good books, ammunition and gasoline.
Hasn’t DEBKA predicted 50 of the last 2 wars?
I am currently in Kuwait City. This report is true. The Kuwait Times ran an article about the Kuwaiti government’s activization of its War Emergency Plans a few days ago.
Kuwait’s close to Iran — it’s a spit across the Gulf. Iran has threatened “US interests” in the Gulf region if attacked. Kuwait’s the region’s biggest embarkation point for our guys going into Iraq. Do the math.
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