Posted on 01/18/2012 7:40:54 AM PST by tired&retired
In the past 48 hours, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Turkey have alerted Washington to intelligence reports of Iranian Al Qods Brigades operatives heading their way for attacks on oil installations and American targets. The alert was accompanied by a query about how the US intended to respond to the approaching menace. Reporting this, DEBKAfiles intelligence and counterterrorism sources say the information relayed to Washington was more detailed and specific than the customary tip-off.
Tuesday night, the Turkish Security General Directorate-EGM put all the country's 81 districts on guard for the expected arrival of Al Qods operatives to stir up mass unrest against the Erdogan government and attack the US embassy and provincial consulates-general. Their arrival, said the EGM notice, would be coordinated with the infiltration of Hizballah terrorist teams to Turkey.
A senior counterterrorism source told DEBKAfile sources on Wednesday, Jan. 18 that the Iranians are setting Turkey up as an example to show the US and their Middle East antagonists what they can expect when Tehran lets the Al Qods Brigades loose against them.
According to the information relayed to Washington by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Al Qods has been placed on the ready for action, such as blowing up oil fields, oil pipelines and oil export terminals. Some of its cells are already present among the two countries' Shiite populations in the guise of longtime Saudi and Kuwaiti nationals of Iranian descent; others to be dropped by sea on the Saudi and Kuwaiti coasts.
(Excerpt) Read more at debka.com ...
The next DEBKA-Net-Weekly out Friday will bare features of Israel’s strike plan, as well as tracking Saudi Arabia’s entry to the Middle East nuclear race with active Chinese assistance.
Can’t we just send Zer0 and Dr. Rue Paul over to talk some sense into them?
To paraphrase Trumans comnment about Germany and the USSR,
If the Sunnis and the Shiites go to war we should support whichever side is losing, then switch.
Iran threatened to forcibly bar the Strait of Hormuz to “enemy ships” i.e. the USS Stennis carrier. The US bowed to the threat by stopping sending aircraft carriers through the strait to the Persian Gulf. Rather than confronting Tehran, the Obama administration is straining hard to hold Israel back from striking Iranian nuclear sites.
These Dem’s always get us into the big wars... and the smaller ones...
Wilson...2nd term re-election “Keep us out of the war” elected and WW I
FDR...Re-election “No American boys on foreign soil”.. elected and WW II
Truman.. Re-election after finishing FDR’s 4th term Korea
Johnson.... Re-election after finishing Kennedy’s term, Gulf of Tonkin and full escalation into Vietnam
Here we go again...
The Dem’s foreign policy is like parents raising their children, and every time the child does something wrong, they just keep saying “Don’t Do That!” over and over. Until the child grows into a teenager who doesn’t listen and the stakes are bigger, then it’s a knock down drag out!
AND for extra effect lets have bro Obama veto the Keystone so they have no oil!!!!
salad akbar allah!
Uhh...we didn’t bow to anything. The Stennis headed for deep blue water as that is her advantage. To be cooped up in the gulf would have been exposing her Achilles heal.
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