Posted on 07/24/2009 2:34:08 AM PDT by Strategy
There is an overwhelming body of evidence that after destabilizing Iran for the past few weeks, Israeli government is going to directly attack Iran from airstrips in Egypt with flights over Saudi Arabia and via nuclear powered submarines that are capable of carrying nuclear tipped missiles.
In anticipation of an imminent attack, Turkey and the Gulf states have placed their armed forces on alert. British newspapers are reporting increased Israeli activity in the region. The chatter is growing. First there was a report in the Times. Now the London Daily News has investigated Israeli submarine movements.
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Since when did Israel have “nuclear powered submarines”...?
Ummm...where do I start... airfield in egypt?.... nuclear subs.... My BS meter is pegged on this one....
Don’t you know anything....
They are operating out of the secret base under the secret volcano on the secret island in the middle of the secret ocean that can’t be disclosed at this time.
Salutations!
Regardless of it’s authenticity, Israel will attack at some point. Everyone anticipates this. Iran will not have a finished product before they attack. Maybe not August, but very soon.
That I will agree with... Isreal will use this unstable time to act.... but I cannot see eygpt letting the launch attacks from inside thier borders....
Maybe not so much Egypt’s full cooperation, but I can definitely see Saudi Arabia giving them flyover permission.
There too I can agree.... I can see an air traffic controller turning a blind eye... or a system “failure” happening...
Flights from Egypt? I fail to see what advantage they will gain by doing that. Flight time won’t be shortened by much if any.
I believe they may have meant Nuclear armed subs.
BUT Israel using Egyptian airfields to launch from to attack Iran?
And I am very tall dark and handsome and I have sized 15 shoes.
thats my same conclusion... eygpt would not openly allow it...
It simply isn't happening...
It is transparent nonsense, in other words...
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. - 7/16/2009
An eventual attack on Iran may include ground forces. Units of Sayeret Matka”l (”Headquarters Scouts”, Israel's elite special forces) have been transferred to the mock in Biq’at Hayareach (”Moon Vale”), not far from Eilat. They have spent the last few weeks training there: parachuting, paragliding, urban warfare (laba”b in Hebrew), and hand to hand combat. Special emphasis is placed on explosives. The area is isolated (it got its name from its eerie similarity to the moonscape), but various civilian suppliers have reported massive explosions during the day.
In my previous article, titled “Preparations for Attack in Iran Almost Complete” (dated July 10), I revealed the existence of the training mock near Eilat and Aqaba by the Red Sea. A few days later, Israel made the presence of its Navy in the Red Sea public. Though it has not been a secret hitherto, it has hardly been trumpeted. The navy's role is support the mission with sea-launched precision cruise missiles (of Israeli manufacture). In general, Israel is trying to minimize the involvement of American materiel in its forthcoming foray into Iran.
One word about the “windows” mentioned in my earlier article. As any military planner and intelligence agent knows, these are not actual operational dates. “Windows” are possible operational dates and are dictated by the confluence of weather projections, known troop movements, political and geopolitical circumstances, and military preparedness. Additional windows exist in September and October this year (I have the dates). It is likely, therefore, that Israel will attack in July or August, but no later than October this year.
They are not nuclear powered, but they do have German Dolphin Class submarines that carry nuclear armed cruise missiles. The missiles fly in low and have a 48 mile range.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_class_submarine
They have been observed conducting operations in the Red Sea instead of the Med. in the last couple of weeks.
July 10, 2009
Late last year, Israel embarked on a coordinated campaign of leaks to the press regarding its determination to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities if Obama’s then-new administration fails to sway the Iranians diplomatically. Israel is unwilling to accept a nuclear Iran: “It is not an option”, say its senior intelligence and military leadership.
On January 20, 2009, I appeared as a guest in the most popular political affairs program in Macedonia (”Glasot na Narodot”, or The Voice of the People). I warned that Israel is willing to wait 6 to 8 months for Obama’s “diplomacy” with regards to Iran’s nuclear capability to show some progress. If Iran remains recalcitrant, Israel plans to bomb two facilities in Iran as it did in Iraq in 1981, I said. Refueling won’t be a problem, I assured the program’s host, Slobodan Tomic: both Egypt and Saudi-Arabia offered to help.
Israel has decided to go ahead. Taking into account political, geopolitical, military preparedness, and climatic conditions, there are two windows: between July 21 and 24 and between August 6 and 8. Advance teams comprised of Mossad agents and military personnel are already on the ground in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iraq (including in the Kurdish lands, adjacent to Turkey).
A mock has been erected not far from Eilat (near the Red Sea, opposite Aqaba). A defunct airbase in Biq’at Ha’Yareach (Moon Vale) has been resurrected to accommodate Air Wing 10. In a country as small and intimate as Israel, it is amazing that this has been kept a secret: hundreds of recruits and reservists - from mechanics and pilots to cooks and administrators - have been re-stationed there in the last few months.
A mysterious facility also sprouted up not far from Dimona’s nuclear reactor, next to a university town called Sde Boker. It is not known what is its role, though speculation is that it is intended to shield the sensitive facility from an Iranian counter-attack. Several batteries of aged Patriot missiles have been recently replaced with brand new anti-missile rockets developed by Israel.
Citizens are reporting dry runs in the skies of the Negev, Israel’s traditional air force training grounds and a desert with some resemblance to Iranian conditions. Piecing these scant testimonies together, it seems that the Israelis are concentrating their effort on midair refueling and surgical strikes on multiple targets.
Finally, HAGA (Hagana Ezrakhit), the Civilian Defense Force, a part of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), has been instructed to begin preparations for a possible Iranian counter-strike with long-range conventional missiles. At this stage, Israel is not contemplating chemical or biological warfare (though the distribution of gas masks does seem to be part of the drill).
No one knows for sure where will Israel strike. Wiping off all the widely distributed and impregnable components of Iran’s capability to enrich uranium is close to impossible. The after-effects of even a limited air attack may be devastating and not necessarily short-term, as the Israelis are convinced. The price of oil is likely to spike and radicals and extremists throughout the benighted region are bound to leverage the attack to smear and taunt Israel and its allies but, then, what else is new. The Arab countries are likely to breathe a sigh of relief that the Iranian bully has been humbled.
The big question mark is how will the Obama administration react to such a fait accompli that flies in the face of the new President’s stated policies. Will Obama try to make an example out of Israel and harshly punish it - or will he merely verbally lash it and proceed with business as usual? Time will tell. Soon.
“....Ummm...where do I start... airfield in egypt?.... nuclear subs.... My BS meter is pegged on this one....”
The original article is out of India. Consider the source.
Yeah right, I thought we were the instigators of the protests!
Somebody in India may be trying to curry favor, or is it curry flavor?
Hmmmmmm, loose lips sink ships...
In any case, this may be exactly what some people want us to think...
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If not August, September, or one of those other months.
If successful, the result of support of The One, if not, Bush's fault.
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