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Posted on 04/02/2007 2:34:36 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet
CAIRO, Egypt — Iran's state-run Arabic-language TV channel reported Monday that all 15 captured British sailors had confessed to illegally entering Iranian waters.
The claim was carried by the news channel Al-Alam, a state-run channel that is broadcast across the Arab world but not in Iran. Iran's military chief had said on Saturday, March 24 that the sailors had confessed after interrogations to illegally entering Iranian waters.
There was no source given for Al-Alam's new claim. The station has so far broadcast video footage of four of the 15 saying they were in Iranian waters at the time of their capture, including footage on Monday in which two of the sailors used maps to show the alleged location where they were seized.
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Little do these goat-boys realize that such televised "confessions" only infuriate those that can do them considerable harm.
The nut in Tehran now accuses the U.S. Air Force of violating Southern Iranian air space. Lets dust those bombers off and show whack job what violating air space looks like.
A word (a place, actually) worth spelling over and over today.
OPINION: Ahmadinejad and the Mad Mullahs know exactly what they are getting in to. Exactly.
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http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
Nothing violates airspace as pure and easily like a B2. No triple A fire, no missile bases in alert, no fighter pilots scrambling - just smooth violation :)
Oh Baby, I like you're thought process. Talks cheap, bombing is better when it comes to a demonstration of communication skills with the mad Mullahs.
And the UK politicians as well as the US politicians don't have the balls to do one damn thing about it. The middle east knows it.
Well executed rescue that was.
Damned shame the prisoners were not there.
Remember how the Republicans told us how When Bubba ran out of Somalia that emboldened the terrorists? Osam Bin Laden said the Americans are weak . Well I guess the Old adage is correct ,Those who forget the past are CONDEMNED to repeat it.
How much longer is the west going to tolerate this cruel farce before blowing the ayatollahs to the kingdom they so ardently desire?
How Long? Remeber anna nichol smith..? The MSM just loves a flail. Just be fair and balanced.
The capture of British Navy servicemen by Iranian forces is not simply an incident over sea sovereignty in the Persian Gulf. It is a calculated move on behalf of Teheran's Jihadi chess players to provoke a "projected" counter move by London and its American allies. It is all happening in a regional context, carefully engineered by the Mullahs strategic planners. Here is how:
The Iranian regime's master plan is to wait out the remainder of Tony Blair's mandate (few more months) and the remaining "real time" of President Bush (till about the end of 2007). For the thinking process in Tehran, based on their Western consultants, believe that Washington and London have reached the end of the rope and will only have till 2008 to do something major to destabilize Ahmedinijad regime. As explained by a notorious propagandist on al Jazeera today the move is precisely to respond to the Anglo-American attempt to "stir trouble" inside Iran. Anis Naccash, a Lebanese intellectual supporter of the Ayatollahs regime, appearing from Tehran few hours ago on the Qatari-based satellite and "explained" that the "US and the UK must understand that Iran is as much at war with these two powers in as much as they support the rise of movements and security instability inside Iran." He added that Khamenei is clear on the regime's decision to strike: "we will be at war with you on all levels: secret, diplomatic, military and other." Pro-Iranian propagandists in the region, via media and online rushed to warn that this movement is part of Iran's counter-strike against any attempt to destabilize the regime. Two major tracks emerge from these statements, the Iranian military maneuvers and the capture of British Navy personnel.
1) Iran's domestic front is putting pressure on the Ahmedinijad regime.
From internal reporting, dissidents and anti-Ahmedinijad forces from various social sectors are practically in slow motion eruption against the authorities. Students, women, workers and political activists have been demonstrating and sometimes clashing with the regime's security apparatus. Western media didn't report proportionally on these events over the past few weeks. In addition, ethnic minority areas have been witnessing several incidents, including violence against the "Revolutionary Guards," including in the Arab and Baluch areas. And last but not least, the defection of a major intelligence-military figure early this month to the West was, according to internal sources, a "massive loss" to the regime and a possible first one in a series.
2) The regime "needs" an external clash to crush the domestic challenge.
As in many comparable cases worldwide, when an authoritarian regime is faced with severe internal opposition it attempts to deflect the crisis onto the outside world. Hence, Teheran's all out campaign against the US and its allies in Iraq, Lebanon and the region is in fact a repositioning of Iran's shield against the expected rising opposition inside the country. Hence the Khomeinist Mullahs plan seem to be projected as follow:
a. Engage in the diplomatic realm, to project a realist approach worldwide, but refrain from offering real results
b. Continue, along with the Syrian regime, in supporting the "Jihadi" Terror operations (including sectarian ones) inside Iraq
c. Widen the propaganda campaign against the US and its allies via a number of PR companies within the West, to portray Iran as "a victim" of an "upcoming war provoked by the US."
d. Engage in skirmishes in the Gulf (and possibly in other spots) with US and British elements claiming these action as "defensive," while planned thoroughly ahead of time.
3) The regime plan is to drag its opponents into a trap
Teheran's master planners intend to drag the "Coalition" into steps in engagement, at the timing of and in the field of control of Iran's apparatus. Multiple options and scenarios are projected.
a. British military counter measure takes place, supported by the US. Iran's regime believe that only "limited" action by the allies is possible, according to their analysis of the domestic constraints inside the two powerful democracies.
b. Tehran moves to a second wave of activities, at its own pace, hoping to draw a higher level of classical counter strikes by US and UK forces. The dosing by Iran's leadership is expected to stretch the game in time, until the departure of Blair and of the Bush Administration by its political opponents inside the country's institutions and public debate.
In a short conclusion the "War room" in Tehran has engaged itself in an alley of tactical moves it feels it can control. But the Iranian regime, with all its "political chess" expertise, may find itself in a precarious and risky situation. For while it feel that it can control the tactical battlefield in the region and fuel the propaganda pressure inside the West with its Petro-dollars, it may not be able to contain the internal forces in Iran, because of which it has decided to go on offense.
The Ahmedinijad regime wishes to crumble the international consensus to avoid the financial sanctions: that is true. But as important, if not more, it wants to be able to crush the revolt before it pounds the doors of the Mullahs palaces.
Dr Walid Phares is a Senior Fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington and the director of its Future Terrorism Project. Author of the newly released The War of Ideas: Jihadism Against Democracy www.thewarofideas.net
"This continued, drawn-out Iranian tactic is allowing us to get more capability into the theaterj, which is fine."
I'm really, really hoping you're right, man.
Why woudn't I be?
Bush's legacy is in the tank, no where to go but up.
Bush preached the axis of evil, one down, two to go.
Bush will not let Iran have nukes on his watch as Clinton allowed on his watch.
Bush does not want to see another terrorist attack on his watch.
Bush owes Tony Blair for sticking with him in Iraq.
Bush knows the arab and muslim world hates the U.S. anyway.
Bush is not running for re-election.
Bush just needs to get'er done.
Just bombing, no occupation. No reconstruction, no nation-building, maybe drop some MREs.
Oh!..and some SOF to hunt down Ahmanutjob when the smoke clears.
Isn't SONTAY that kid from American Idol?
Oops, someone is slipping. The Iranians should have claimed that 12 hours into it. They need their own Baghdad Bob. Tehran Ted sounds good.
Time to arm the Tomahawks.
So have the Red Cross, Amnesty International, CANSWER, MoveOn, et al visited these facilities? Or do they not CAIR that this is a hostage situtation and that war crimes are being committed?
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