Posted on 06/28/2010 6:46:24 PM PDT by Star Traveler
Submitted by Tyler Durden
06/27/2010 12:50 -0500
As we first reported last week, in an article that was met with much original skepticism, the Pentagon has now confirmed that a fleet of 12 warships has passed the Suez Canal, and is now likely awaiting orders to support the escalation in the Persian Gulf. The attached image from Stratfor shows the latest positioning of US aircraft carrier groups as of June 23: the USS Harry Truman (CVN-75) is now right next to USS Eisenhower (CVN 69), both of which are waiting patiently just off Iran.
As for the catalyst the two carriers may be anticipating, we provide the following update from the Gulf Daily News where we read that Israel may be on the verge of an attack of Iran, with an incursion originating from military bases in Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Israel is massing warplanes in the Caucasus for an attack on Iran, it was revealed yesterday.
Preparations are underway to launch the military attack from Azerbaijan and Georgia, reports our sister paper Akhbar Al Khaleej, quoting military sources.
Israel was, in fact, training pilots in Turkey to launch the strike and was smuggling planes into Georgia using Turkish airspace, they said.
However, Turkey was unaware of Israel's intention of transferring the planes to Georgia, the sources said.
The unexpected crisis between Israel and Turkey following an Israeli commando raid on an aid flotilla bound for Gaza Strip hit Israeli calculations.
Azerbaijan-based intelligence units, working under the cover of technicians, trainers and consultants, have helped with the preparations, the sources said.
Military equipment, mostly supplied by the US, was transported to a Georgian port via the Black Sea.
Georgian coastguard and Israeli controllers are co-operating to hide the operations from Russian vessels, said the sources.
They point out that according to Israel, it will not be in a position to launch a strike on Iran without using bases in Georgia and Azerbaijan due to the limited capabilities of its nuclear submarines stationed near the Iranian coast.
Meanwhile, Iran's Press TV reported that a very large contingent of US ground forces had massed in Azerbaijan, near the Iranian border. The independent Azerbaijani news website Trend confirmed the report.
Those reports came just days after the Pentagon confirmed that an unusually large fleet of US warships had indeed passed through Egypt's Suez Canal en route to the Gulf. At least one Israeli warship reportedly joined the American armada.
Press TV also quoted Iranian Revolultionary Guard Brigadier General Mehdi Moini as saying that the country's forces are mobilised and ready to face Israelli and American "misadventures" near its borders.
* Iran last night said it has cancelled plans to send an aid ship to the Gaza Strip as Israel "had sent a letter to the UN saying that the presence of Iranian and Lebanese ships in the Gaza area will be considered a declaration of war on that regime and it will confront it," Irna said.
We caution readers to take this news with a grain of salt as the Gulf Daily News' sister publication, Akhbar Al Khaleej, has a slightly less than stellar credibility rating. Then again, this is what some, Breaking News Online most notably, said about last week's carrier news, urging readers to ignore it.
lol
enjoyed the laughter from this nonsense.
No.
If Obama does something, it will be just to distract the sheeple from the economy he is destroying.
I'd say it's a good time to sell your stock in Sudanese Aspirin factories.
I wonder if Russia and China post the locations of their warships somewhere on the internet?
If this was true, this guy needs to be in the slammer. I am sure he is quite safe.
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Very much like when Slick Willy got caught with his pants down (again) so he started launching cruise missles at pill factories to distract attention in the media....I put nothing past these narcissistic parasites.
I wonder if this is a Bush Administration war plan.
With that POS OBama as Prez, the aircraft carrier is there to protect Iran from those “evil Israelis” Fat Chance zero would do anything to help Israel.
If he did anything, it would be to block Israeli jets from carrying out such missions.
Wasn’t it Bill Clinton that destroyed the aspirin factory when things got hot for him?
There is a better chance of Obama invading Oklahoma, than there is of him invading Iran. A much better chance.
Is the Force in place to take on Iran or to shoot down the IAF if Israel makes the move?
If anything happens over there it won’t be Zero’s doing. He doesn’t have the intelligence, the know-how, or the balls.
If anything, I’d say the military TOLD him that Israel was going for it, and we’d better be there to keep the entire area from exploding.
It is also the closest we can get to Afghanistan. Maybe that’s where they’re heading.
Let’s see... His bosses in Riyad are Sunni and the Iranians are Shia. Oh this is just more dead American boys for no purpose or reason for their muslim leader.
The masses of idiots support him killing American boys when they pay their cable and sat TV bill or go to Hollywoods crappy movies. Sheep.
I wouldn’t bet 10 cents that he will, he’ll bow and talk.
Wow. Why not just tell Iran WHERE the attacks will be so they can crowd as many women and children there, thus making Israel the bad guy, once more? Incredible.
I sure hope he does but I don’t think even this would help the dems in Congress 2010 and it should be pretty much over before 2012?
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