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U.S. sends warships near Israel in case evacuation needed
cnn ^ | 11/19/12 | Barbara Starr

Posted on 11/19/2012 5:22:18 PM PST by Nachum

Three U.S. Navy amphibious warships are returning to the eastern Mediterranean to remain on standby in the event they are needed to assist Americans leaving Israel in the coming days, according to two U.S. officials.

The officials stressed an evacuation remains an extremely remote possibility and the Obama administration is not currently planning for one. Americans who wish to leave the region now are able to do so using commercial airlines.

But the decision to send the ships even if the event is such a remote contingency underscores the growing concern about where the Israel-Gaza conflict could be headed.

"This is due diligence. It is better to be prepared should there be a need," one official said Monday. Both officials said the ships would be used only for assisting Americans and not for any combat role.

The most immediate impact will be on the ships' crews and the estimated 2,500 Marines on board. They had been scheduled to return to Norfolk, Virginia, just after Thanksgiving; their homecoming will now be delayed several days depending on events, the officials said.

The ships involved are the USS Iwo Jima, the USS New York and the USS Gunston Hall. At the end of last week the ships were west of Gibraltar, before the decision was made to turn them around and send them back to the eastern Mediterranean, where they will remain for now.

(Excerpt) Read more at security.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: evacuation; israel; warships
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Can anyone remember another president doing this?
1 posted on 11/19/2012 5:22:29 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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2 posted on 11/19/2012 5:23:57 PM PST by Nachum (The List was hacked- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

“See, I care about our people. Now knock off this Benghazi stuff.”

What a poser...


3 posted on 11/19/2012 5:26:18 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Hurricane Sandy..., a week later and 48 million Americans still didn't have power.)
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To: Nachum

I got my US/Israel Fight Against Terrorism bumper sticker on my vehicle over the weekend —

Invade and destroy those miserable animals - push them back into Egypt or the sea!

GO ISRAEL!!! KICK THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF THOSE MUZZIES!!!


4 posted on 11/19/2012 5:28:39 PM PST by BCW (http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html)
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To: Nachum

Will the American Citizens have to show ID? Or will all the Hamas leaders be the first on board as the Israels drive them into the sea?


5 posted on 11/19/2012 5:30:58 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Nachum
I heard from a private pilot yesterday (in DC) in visiting with another pilot that was flying an "empty 777 to Amman, Jordan!"

Flight had with already left or was leavIng ASAP.

6 posted on 11/19/2012 5:34:50 PM PST by zerosix (Native sunflowerw)
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To: Nachum
The officials stressed an evacuation remains an extremely remote possibility and the Obama administration is not currently planning for one.

... Which is why we moved three ships into the area and made a big announcement that we were fully prepared to evacuate.

7 posted on 11/19/2012 5:35:13 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Global Warming is a religion, and I don't want to be taxed to pay for a faith that is not mine.)
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To: Nachum

I don’t think this has happened before. Must be a Hussein feely good ploy. I would think any concerned Americans are on planes out of there. Why three ships? That many? Maybe to save Hamas terrorists, they are Muslim brothers after all.


8 posted on 11/19/2012 5:49:19 PM PST by Marcella (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Nachum

I wonder if anyone here knows what happens with the tour groups that are in Isael?

I ask this because I had a friend that returned one day before the TSHTF.

She said there are busloads of tourists arriving. Surely thay can’t allow these folks to visit their religious sites.


9 posted on 11/19/2012 5:52:03 PM PST by berdie
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To: berdie

Isael=Israel


10 posted on 11/19/2012 5:53:11 PM PST by berdie
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To: Nachum

Evacuating Hamas, Hezzbollah, PLO and Syrian leaders, right?
Will they be relocated to the Bahamas like the terrorists from Gitmo?

Out of Guantánamo, Uighurs Bask in Bermuda
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/world/americas/15uighur.html?pagewanted=all


11 posted on 11/19/2012 5:53:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Thanks Nachum.


12 posted on 11/19/2012 6:02:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Nachum

No , but we’ve never had a muslim commander in chief before


13 posted on 11/19/2012 6:02:46 PM PST by Lera (Proverbs 29:2)
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To: Nachum

this idiot president embarrasses me - he need a trip to the woodshed

We should have war ships there in Israel’s defense being “in their face” with face with anybody that thinks they want some.


14 posted on 11/19/2012 6:03:29 PM PST by WorkerbeeCitizen (we are so screwed - ^_^)
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To: Nachum
Back in 1970, Nixon sent a big naval fleet towards Syria causing an invasion tank column heading into Jordan to turn around in its tracks back when Jordan was putting down a Palestinian uprising and Syria was intending to interfere.

http://www.ndu.edu/press/lib/images/jfq-55/25.pdf

15 posted on 11/19/2012 6:05:00 PM PST by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from runway mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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To: Nachum
Evacuation of US citizens from Israel? Only in event of an Iranian missile barrage launched in retaliation for an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear sites, I would think.
16 posted on 11/19/2012 6:07:34 PM PST by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from runway mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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To: Nachum

Oh, so we do have ships in the Mediterranean still!?! Just not to help Americans being killed by al Qaeda.


17 posted on 11/19/2012 6:10:41 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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IT'S GO TIME!

18 posted on 11/19/2012 6:21:15 PM PST by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: zerosix

That’s funny, Obama wasn’t fully prepared on September 11, 2011.


19 posted on 11/19/2012 6:26:10 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Nachum

If the evil Odumbo ordered our troops to attack Israel, what would they do?


20 posted on 11/19/2012 6:35:04 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (bahits.com)
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