Sunday, November 05, 2006

U.S. STRIKE FORCES ASSEMBLE OFF IRAN

"Hundreds of US and allied war ships foregathered in the strategic seas of the Middle East and India in the last days of October 2006 for two primary missions: To prepare for a US-led military strike against Iran... (and) to fend off palpable al Qaeda threats to oil targets... an Iranian spy plane had located the USS Boxer heading for the Persian Gulf... the Iranians suspect that at the end of the joint US-Indian exercise in the Arabian Sea, USS Boxer will veer west and head into the Persian Gulf. There would then be four US air carriers with task forces parked opposite Iranian shores, including the USS Enterprise Strike Group, the USS Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group and the USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, which are already in place.... DEBKAfile’s military sources provide details of the massive deployments..."
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1223