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Posted on 03/11/2003 3:25:54 PM PST by rumrunner
Israeli monitor intercepts order: War starting on March 18
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Tuesday, March 11, 2003
TEL AVIV The U.S. military has been ordered to launch a war against Iraq on March 18, an Israeli official said in a televised report.
Israeli government monitor, Michael Gurdus, reported on late Tuesday that the order was relayed by U.S. Central Command to all American forces in the Persian Gulf. Gurdus told Israel's Channel 2 television that he heard the order being relayed to U.S. fighter-jet pilots and others over U.S. military radio communications he intercepted.
Gurdus is regarded as the leading communications monitor in the Middle East and works for Israel radio and television. He has broken numerous stories because of his ability to intercept and understand foreign-language civilian and radio broadcasts and communications. He said the U.S. military, in its radio communications, refers to Iraq as "bad cows" and "kabab", Middle East Newsline reported.
On Monday, Israel's media reported that the United States had demanded that senior Israeli officials stop issuing predictions of when the war would erupt. Israeli defense officials have concluded that the United States plans to strike Iraq after March 17, the deadline set for Iraq to answer questions regarding its missile and weapons of mass destruction programs.
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So what's wrong with that? Beats the hell outta being surrounded by the brain dead, Oprah following morons that make up the bulk of this country these days...
Why would this order be given to pilots?
Commanders, maybe.
But I would think pilots would be given the GO at the last minute.
The need-to-know is low, I think.
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OK. But at the time of Esther, Persia was a great empire. So, I reckon part of the empire slopped over into Iraq? Just asking.
Yes, I hardly think battle plans would be transmitted in the blind, where anybody with a radio receiver can intercept it. They will use really secure communications to do it.
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