Monday, February 05, 2007

U.S. PREPARATIONS FOR ATTACK ON IRAN

"... the U.S.-Iran confrontation is getting very dangerous.
* The heaviest concentration of U.S. naval strike forces since the 2003 war against Iraq is concentrating off Iran...
* CIA drones and U.S. Air Force recon aircraft -- along with U.S. and British Special Forces -- are overflying Iran and probing its nuclear and military installations.
* CIA and Britain's MI6 are stirring unrest among Iran's Kurds and Azerbaijanis, and arming Iranian Marxist and royalist exiles...
* Half of the 21,000 additional U.S. troops headed to Iraq are being positioned to cover the Iranian border and block an Iranian threat to the main U.S.Kuwait-Baghdad supply line....
* New contingents of U.S. Air Force personnel and warplanes are arriving at key forward air bases in Bulgaria and Romania that link the U.S. to the Mideast and Central Asia.
* U.S. bases in Britain, Germany, Diego Garcia, the Persian Gulf, Central Asia, and Pakistan are reported on heightened alert.
* Turkey is being pressed to allow U.S. and Israeli strike aircraft to use its air space to attack northern Iran..."
http://www.torontosun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Margolis_Eric/2007/02/04/3522931.html