Posted on 03/30/2007 1:53:41 PM PDT by maquiladora
MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russian intelligence has information that the U.S. Armed Forces have nearly completed preparations for a possible military operation against Iran, and will be ready to strike in early April, a security official said.
The source said the U.S. had already compiled a list of possible targets on Iranian territory and practiced the operation during recent exercises in the Persian Gulf.
"Russian intelligence has information that the U.S. Armed Forces stationed in the Persian Gulf have nearly completed preparations for a missile strike against Iranian territory," the source said.
American commanders will be ready to carry out the attack in early April, but it will be up to the country's political leadership to decide if and when to attack, the source said.
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How 'bout we give them Nancy in exchange for the Brits they capured?
Iranians could be hanging on the captured Brits to use them as human shields.
If we do it, we should do it before Congress comes back...
Yeah, yeah I have heard that before. I will believe it when I see pictures of Tehran lit up in orange.
This timetable seems a little optimistic.
We should be contacting the Chinese, and suggesting that if they want to protect the flow of oil to CHINA, they had better be scrambling and getting into position to protect that supply line. In fact, we shall have to be vacating Iraq in a few months, and we can ferry in a number of troops from the People's Liberation Army, to simply substitute for the US troops who shall have to start coming home (as per the Dem'crats' funding mandate). We shall also have to leave a great deal of war material and equipment behind, as there shall be no funds to relocate them elsewhere, only the troops. The Chinese would be in place to watch our backs, as the US troops were rotated out. Within weeks, with careful attention to logistics, as many as a half-million members of the People's Liberation Army could be in place in and around Baghdad, and the US could capably continue to ferry in still more Chinese troops. In fact, a similar rotation could be carried out in Afghanistan, and ALL US troops could be out of the Middle East by fall 2007.
I remember the same thing last year..."before the end of March." I'm a bit skeptical.
>> Scott Ritter is a nobody and Seymour Hersch is a journalist.
Which is like saying Seymour Hersch is a nobody and Scott Ritter is a journalist.
It would be difficult for our military to fund any attack, since the funding is going to fun out on the fifteenth. As a matter of fact, the end of April might be a good time for Iran to attack our soldiers in Iraq, rather than the other way around.
I seem to recall that the Rooskies did just that a couple of weeks ago under the guise that Iran wasn't paying them for work on the nuke plants.
yitbos
yeah it's kinda hard to take home oil in your pockets
Well there goes our secret!
I sure hope the enemy doesn't read this forum, because I wouldn't want them to also learn that; according to anonymous sources, there is a high degree of confidence that Pelosi and her tag-alongs are planning a suicide mission in Libya, using their plane to start WW III.
This should be kept Top Secret or it could have dire effects on our overall plan to own all of the Middle East, it's oil and enslave the few we don't vaporize.
Good luck Nancy.....may Allah Snack-Bar be with you.
Don't bet the farm on that idea.
April? We are ready right now. Just waiting for the word from the top.
My gosh, someone scooped DEBKAFiles!
Our military excercises are done, now everybody takes a vacation. No war now for Iran, we leave them in the capable hands of the Russians.
Rosie says by summer...
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