Posted on 01/12/2007 10:33:28 AM PST by Dog
ANKARA, Jan 11 (KUNA) -- U.S. F-16 jet-fighters arrived Thursday in Incirlik Air base in southern Turkish city of Adana after, the first time in three years.
According to Local Cihan News Agency, at least 16 F-16 jets joined by early warning system AWACS airplane, as well as tanker airplanes landed here at Incirlik coming from an American base in Germany.
An official at the U.S. embassy in Ankara announced that the planes arrived here for purpose of conducting exercises with the Turkish military in line with agreements between the two states.
Incirlik base was used as a northern recon base for American forces during the Iraqi war in 2003 and since then the base served as a logistic backup for the U.S. army.
Namik Tan, spokesman for the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also confirmed that the U.S. planes arrived for exercises' purposes. (end) tk.
gta
Only a moron would announce ALL their upcoming military plans in a "change of direction" speech. I think W has a few high-result-oriented strategic plans before this war is over.
Target: Tehran
Target: Tehran
This is another thing that I find very interesting...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1766234/posts
Hi mystery. Prayers for your loved ones as the build up continues. Meanwhile, those embarrassing California witches, Pelosi and Boxer, are worried about ending smoking in the Capitol bldg., and Condi's lack of an "immediate" family.
perhaps, but I don't think this is the "big one" against iran.
maybe not by the US, but don't forget Israel...what are they about to do....
I know....have I told you lately how much I detest the rats...lol
And now a word from our sponsor in Iran:
"DING-DONG - Jihad calling!"
This time the stakes are enormously more dangerous. It's Iran's nukes which will empower them to swallow Iraq whole and have the Shiites threatening the all the Sunni regimes including Turkey's.
Let's make some glass!
It was 2 B1-B's, easy to mess up the delivery of that news. The big story was it was the first time ever we needed more firepower than a single B1-B could carry.
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Marking the thread for you.
If the Iranian leaders still do survive and the government does not fall, we can sign a cease fire with no fly zone over certain parts of Iran.
Also, yesterday I noticed this very interesting article on Consortium News :
"At a not-for-quotation pre-speech briefing on Jan. 10, George W. Bush and his top national security aides unnerved network anchors and other senior news executives with suggestions that a major confrontation with Iran is looming."
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NBC’s Washington bureau chief Tim Russert said “there’s a strong sense in the upper echelons of the White House that Iran is going to surface relatively quickly as a major issue – in the country and the world – in a very acute way.”
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/011107.html
Hey, we haven't done something like this since the 80s.
Something must be up.
Hey, we haven't done something like this since the 80s.
Something must be up.
We have somalia's islamofacists kicked out, we have an announce troop increase and now this...
Thanks a lot for the clarification.
Yup, we don't need no fire power for no stinkin' insurgents. We need it for the towel heads in Tehran, that's for sure.
Interesting thought process. Catch the oil fields and play defense against all Iranian forces that come against them.
Choke off Iran's money supply and the nuke plans go to dust.
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