Another war is going on in Lebannon. The Middle East may be in flames
before 2010.
On May 9, 2:57=A0pm, Whileyouslept <whileyousl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Early Warning: =A0A Secret Afghanistan Mission Prepares for War with
> Iran
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> By William M. Arkin,
> Wa****ngton Post,
> 8 May, 2008
>
> Those predicting war with Iran or some Bush-Cheney October surprise
> attack on Tehran are constantly looking for signs of military
> preparations: a B-52 bomber that mistakenly takes off from North
> Dakota with nuclear-armed cruise missiles; a second or third aircraft
> carrier entering the Persian Gulf; a B-1 cra****ng in Qatar.
>
> Since the most likely path to war with Iran is not Marines storming
> the beach but a strike on nuclear facilities and "regime" targets,
> signs such as these can often just be mirages. The true strike is not
> necessarily going to come with any warning, and the U.S. military has
> developed an entire system called "global strike" to implement such a
> preemptive strike.
>
> A secret mission conducted last August over Afghanistan caught my eye
> because it tells us everything we need to know about the ability of
> the U.S. military to conduct a bolt-out-of-the-blue attack in Iran. It
> also tells us how useless such a strike might be.
>
> On Aug. 12, 2007, four F-16CJ fighters took off on an 11-hour mission
> from Iraq to Eastern Afghanistan, crossing the airspace of six
> different nations, before dropping more than a dozen precision-guided
> bombs on Taliban targets. The crews of the record-breaking flight
> received the coveted Clarence MacKay Trophy for 2007, an award given
> annually for "the most meritorious flight" of the year.
>
> The secret mission had never before been attempted, according to the
> Air Force, and the pilots were allotted a two-minute window of attack
> at the end of their 2,100-mile flight. The entire non-stop mission,
> which took 13 aerial refuelings, was the equivalent of flying from New
> York to Los Angeles and back.
>
> The mission was a success, according to the Air Force: It resulted in
> "direct hits" that allowed coalition ground forces to "conduct raids
> on Taliban positions."
>
> However, a check of the news out of Afghanistan for the week of Aug.
> 12 reveals no real air strike of significance. On Aug. 12, the wire
> services re****ted fighting near the Pakistani border and the death of
> three U.S. soldiers and their Afghan interpreter from a roadside bomb.
> Further fighting was re****ted on Aug. 13 and Aug. 14, but no
> significant bombing missions in sup****t of U.S. or Afghan forces. On
> Aug. 15, the Afghan government announced a large scale three-day
> operation in the area of Tora Bora, an operation launched in response
> to the killing of three U.S. soldiers by IED earlier that week.
> Officials said nearly 50 suspected Pakistani and Taliban militants
> were killed in air and ground operations. Coalition aircraft carried
> out two sorties to target the Taliban positions in that area, an
> Afghan official said.
>
> I don't doubt that the F-16CJ night mission was complicated and
> historic, as well as physically and mentally demanding. The crews,
> according to the Air Force, worked with new operating instructions and
> went into the unknown. The squadron commander had only 18 hours to
> plan and prepare for the attack. The mission was so secret,
> furthermore, it was not listed on the daily Air Tasking Order, the
> daily schedule distributed throughout the U.S. military, further
> complicating aerial refuelings and overflights.
>
> If on Aug. 12, 2007, the United States had killed Osama bin Laden or
> scored some major victory in Afghanistan, one might fully appreciate
> the mission and the award of the MacKay Trophy. But I suspect that
> what was im****tant here is that the mission went like clockwork, not
> that something im****tant in Afghanistan was destroyed.
>
> None of this is to besmirch the effort or the achievement. But if this
> was really a rehearsal to attack Iran, it was a mission where getting
> the airplanes over the target was more consequential than what was
> actually bombed.
>
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SOURCE:http://blog.wa****ngtonpost.com/earlywarning/2008/05/a_secret_afghan=
is...
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> =91U.S. Prophesizes Iran Striking
Back=92http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx=
?id=3D54690=A7ionid=3D351020101
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> =91Re****t: U.S. Convenes On Iran War
Scenario=92http://www.presstv.ir/deta=
il.aspx?id=3D54656=A7ionid=3D351020101
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> Attacking Iran; =91Neocons And The Truth: Bitter Enemies To The
End=92http=
://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/08/ledeen/index.html
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> =91Is War With Iran Imminent?=92- Justin
Raimondohttp://www.antiwar.com/ju=
stin/?articleid=3D12755
>
> =91The Iraq War Morphs Into The Iranian
War=92http://www.informationcleari=
nghouse.info/article19839.htm
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> 'Israel Preparing To Bomb Iran Nuclear
Sites'http://www.presstv.ir/detail.=
aspx?id=3D53558=A7ionid=3D351020104
>
> 'Joint Chiefs Chairman Says U.S. Preparing Military Options Against
>
Iran'http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR200=
....
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> NUCLEAR TREASON AT THE TOP OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT?
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> These serious allegations, involving the alleged =91sale=92 of nuclear
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the
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