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Turkey's power cutoff to Incirlik Air Base a problem for Pentagon
cnn ^ | July 19, 2016 | Barbara Starr

Posted on 07/19/2016 11:50:43 PM PDT by Mount Athos

The US military is doing "prudent planning" in case it needs to move its anti-ISIS operations out of Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey following the country's failed coup, several US defense officials told CNN Tuesday. The Turkish government cut off the power to the base after the coup attempt took place Friday, leaving it without a commercial power supply for four days and counting.

The Pentagon has been able to fully operate the base through generator power but said it would be difficult to continue indefinitely.

The Turks still have not given a clear explanation about why they cut the power to Incirlik.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: bhodod; erdogancountercoup; incerlik; incirlik; incirlikhostage; turkey; turkeycoup
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To: MarchonDC09122009; Squantos

and post #25


41 posted on 07/20/2016 5:29:03 AM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: Tench_Coxe

I think this was all a parlay for the nukes at Incirlik. Think about it...the fake coup sets up the opposition to fall and enables Erdogan to trade nukes to ISIS for fuel.


42 posted on 07/20/2016 5:55:19 AM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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To: Lower Deck

“If we had an actual commander-in-chief, that base would have power.

How?”

Could always move the base, pull out several hundred million dollars in revenue for the local economy and at the same time moving to remove Turkey from NATO. I am sure there are other things out there a CIC with a set of cajones can do.


43 posted on 07/20/2016 5:56:01 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Edmund/Liawatha 2016. If you are going to lie, lie big.)
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To: MIA_eccl1212; Old Sarge; aragorn; AZ .44 MAG; Art in Idaho; Candor7; easternsky; ...

PING!!

....this coup is Obama’s plot with Erdogan, to get american nukes handed off to his Islamist buddies...

Suspiciously like a nuclear “fast and furious” play

Article and comments, esp #23 and #25

Thanks, WildHighlander57


44 posted on 07/20/2016 5:59:29 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: Mount Athos

Waiting for something? Maybe they know something is going to happen on the day of Trumps inauguration speech ;)


45 posted on 07/20/2016 6:14:54 AM PDT by Democrats hate too much
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Could always move the base, pull out several hundred million dollars in revenue for the local economy and at the same time moving to remove Turkey from NATO. I am sure there are other things out there a CIC with a set of cajones can do.

Move it where? Turkey has allowed a U.S. presence at Incirlik since the 1950's Right now it supports the U.S. strikes against ISIS. You don't just pick up and move something like that even if there was an alternative available, no matter who the commander-in-chief is.

As for having Turkey expelled from NATO, most NATO countries are wondering if the U.S. is going to stay in much less worry about expelling a member.

46 posted on 07/20/2016 6:21:36 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: TYVets
The US Military is using $50 per gallon Bio-Diesel to fuel those generators?

While it wouldn't surprise me, most military generators are multi-fuel designs. They're probably burning JP-8.

47 posted on 07/20/2016 6:27:02 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Lower Deck

How? Because this sort of situation would have been foreseen and planned for long ago.


48 posted on 07/20/2016 7:38:16 AM PDT by JennysCool
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To: MIA_eccl1212; TYVets; MinuteGal; LucyT

And YOU think he’s going to leave office voluntary, sigh ???


49 posted on 07/20/2016 7:48:47 AM PDT by danamco
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To: JennysCool
How? Because this sort of situation would have been foreseen and planned for long ago.

So Obama should have foreseen a coup by the Turkish military and should have taken steps? Then shouldn't all of Obama's predecessors have done the same?

50 posted on 07/20/2016 7:52:53 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: cynwoody

I agree. My understanding is that we are in control of some tactical nukes being stored by NATO at the base. They should be moved out ASAP. If Erdogan continues building his Islamic caliphate Turkey’s membership in NATO may come to an end. We definitely don’t want Turkey getting their hands on those nukes.

IMO the power is being kept off at the base to pressure OFail into giving up Guelen.


51 posted on 07/20/2016 7:57:52 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Lower Deck

Yup.


52 posted on 07/20/2016 8:08:27 AM PDT by JennysCool
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To: cynwoody
LOL.....your name is like my old Q clearance/CNWDI clearance (sin-widdy).

Anyways they'll need LOTS of air cover for surreptitious exfiltration.....either 1-2 B61s per aircraft (that would be a major sortie) or just land a couple of B1/B2/B52 to take them all out.

It's not just the logistics of getting them out of country, its the air cover, protection, and the back up plans for recovering a nuke in, what I consider, indian country full of mujs.

Anyways, I think the B2 can carry a dozen or so, the B1 double that. I would bet a single B52 could carry the entire Incirlik B61 bombs in the WSAs out of the AO. I'll let the zoomies figgur that one out for me with their OSINT I dont' watch.

53 posted on 07/20/2016 8:18:26 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: Mount Athos

Kerry said all is well. So this must be wrong info...../s Pfft!


54 posted on 07/20/2016 8:44:33 AM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~GOPe=Vichy Republican swine/Lock Her Up!!!)
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To: Mount Athos

“Anti-ISIS operations”

Translation:

Shooting craps, solitaire, throwing the pigskin around, etc.


55 posted on 07/20/2016 8:50:36 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: Mount Athos

Turkey is a moslem country. We should just nuke it and be done with it.

We’ll have to nuke the moslems eventually anyway, may as well get it started.


56 posted on 07/20/2016 9:11:54 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: Mount Athos

They don’t have backup wind turbines and solar panels?

Geeesh. Obammy really did transform this country and its military, huh?


57 posted on 07/20/2016 9:18:38 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: DCBryan1

Problem is the instant the doors to the bunkers open and the nukes roll out, Erdogan’s cell phone rings. And unlike Hillary, he will answer the phone.


58 posted on 07/20/2016 10:15:09 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Mount Athos

Who has control of the nuclear weapons on that base?


59 posted on 07/20/2016 12:00:24 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Mount Athos

Who has control of the nuclear weapons on that base?


60 posted on 07/20/2016 12:10:57 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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