Three-day-blitz plan for Iran # 23

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Op zondag 9 september 2007 21:48 schreef Burakius het volgende:
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Altijd lekker om een plaatje te hebben.

Mijn vraag is... wat gaat de EU doen .. als USA Iran zou binnenvallen?

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Op zondag 9 september 2007 22:39 schreef Burakius het volgende:
Maar natuurlijk niet met manschappen. En wat gaat Rusland doen? Ik denk niets..

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Op zondag 9 september 2007 21:48 schreef Burakius het volgende:
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Altijd lekker om een plaatje te hebben.

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Pentagon wil militaire basis bij grens Irak-Iran
Het Pentagon is van plan een militaire basis op te zetten in het grensgebied tussen Iran en Irak. Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie wil hiermee een einde maken aan de levering van Iraanse wapens aan sjiitische strijders in Irak. Dit meldde de Amerikaanse krant The Wall Street Journal maandag op haar website.

De basis zou in november in gebruik worden genomen voor zeker twee jaar. Volgens de krant gaat het Pentagon ook bewapende controleposten installeren op de grote snelwegen die van het Iraanse grensgebied naar Bagdad leiden. Op de enige formele douanepost tussen de twee landen zouden röntgenapparaten en andere detectieapparatuur worden geïnstalleerd.

Rapport

Het nieuws komt op de dag dat de Amerikaanse generaal David Petraeus en ambassadeur Ryan Crocker in het Congres een rapport over de vooruitgang van het veiligheidsoffensief in Irak presenteren.

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Op maandag 10 september 2007 08:21 schreef NorthernStar het volgende:

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Dit is ook een mooi plaatje.

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De Shanghai Cooperation Organization

De groene landen zijn kandidaat-lidstaten. De groene meest links is Iran.

Een aanval op Iran zou door Rusland en China toch iets anders ervaren worden dan met Irak het geval was. Irak was nergens aan gelieerd en Saddam was daarbij zelfs een voormalig bondgenoot van de VS.

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Two US carrier-strike groups are bound for Persian Gulf region, bringing number back to three

September 10, 2007, 10:52 AM (GMT+02:00)

USS Truman Strike Group heading for Gulf



DEBKAfile’s military sources report that from the third week of July, the only American strike force- carrier in the Persian Gulf-Arabian Sea region was the USS Enterprise. By the end of September, it will be joined by the USS Nimitz and the USS Truman Strike Groups. Our sources note that with their arrival, three American naval, air and marine forces will again confront Iranian shores at a time of crisis in the military and civilian leadership of Iran - signaled by the abrupt change of Revolutionary Guards Corps commanders, rising Israel-Syrian tensions and a troubled situation in Lebanon.

The Nimitz left the region to take part in large-scale Malabar 2007 II exercise with five Asian nations, termed by Indian military observers “the first step towards establishing Asian NATO. Since the maneuver ended Friday, Sept. 7, the Nimitz has been on its way back to the Persian Gulf. The Truman group, made up of 12 warships and submarines, including a nuclear sub, with 7,600 sailors, air crew and marines aboard, has just completed a long series of training exercises and is preparing to set out for its new posting. It carries eight squadrons of fighters, bombers and spy planes.

The Truman force’s battle cry is: “Give ‘em hell”.

The combined naval strike groups include the Monterey-CG 61 guided missile cruiser, the USS Barry DDG 52 and USS Mason-DDG 87 guided missile destroyers, the USS Albuquerque-SSN 706 fast nuclear strike submarine and the combat logistical USNS Arctic T-AOE 8.

In the last week of August, the USS Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group took up position opposite the Lebanese coast amid trepidation over the September presidential election. Our military sources reported that aboard the group’s vessels are members of the 22nds Marine special operations-capable Expeditionary Unit, who are ready to execute landings on Lebanese beaches.

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Op maandag 10 september 2007 18:26 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Debka...

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Op maandag 10 september 2007 18:49 schreef PietjePuk007 het volgende:
3x is scheepsrecht .

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Iran Linked to Iraq Rocket Attack
U.S. military officials in Iraq tell ABC News that a rocket used in an attack on coalition headquarters at Camp Victory Tuesday was made in Iran. Officials say the rocket, which narrowly missed its target, was fired from an area of Baghdad controlled by Shia militia leader Moqtada al Sadr.

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Officials say Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner, the spokesman for U.S. forces in Iraq, will display fragments of the 240mm rocket -- complete with Iranian markings -- at a press conference in Baghdad Thursday.

"We want to show the link between the Iranian weapons and the damage they are doing," said a senior U.S. military official in Baghdad.

The official said the rocket was fired from Baghdad's West Rashid neighborhood. The area is controlled by Sadr, who is known to have ties to Iran.

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U.S. Officials Begin Crafting Iran Bombing Plan
A recent decision by German officials to withhold support for any new sanctions against Iran has pushed a broad spectrum of officials in Washington to develop potential scenarios for a military attack on the Islamic regime, FOX News confirmed Tuesday.

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Consequently, according to a well-placed Bush administration source, "everyone in town" is now participating in a broad discussion about the costs and benefits of military action against Iran, with the likely timeframe for any such course of action being over the next eight to 10 months, after the presidential primaries have probably been decided, but well before the November 2008 elections.

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Iran involvement in attacks 'clear'
THE top US commander in Iraq said overnight there was hard evidence of Iranian involvement in attacks on US soldiers but demurred on whether US forces should respond with operations inside Iran.

General David Petraeus said the evidence included captured hard drives that contained digitised items taken from the wallet of a US soldier killed in an assault in January in Karbala along with four other US soldiers.

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Rice says U.S. needs to keep Iraq safe from Iran
Rice said the United States needed Iraq and other allies in the region "to resist both terrorism and Iranian aggression."

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The 'proxy war': UK troops are sent to Iranian border
British forces have been sent from Basra to the volatile border with Iran amid warnings from the senior US commander in Iraq that Tehran is fomenting a "proxy war".

In signs of a fast-developing confrontation, the Iranians have threatened military action in response to attacks launched from Iraqi territory while the Pentagon has announced the building of a US base and fortified checkpoints at the frontier.

The UK operation, in which up to 350 troops are involved, has come at the request of the Americans, who say that elements close to the Iranian regime have stepped up supplies of weapons to Shia militias in recent weeks in preparation for attacks inside Iraq.

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Op donderdag 13 september 2007 19:45 schreef Monidique het volgende:

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