THREE U.S. CARRIER STRIKE GROUPS AND TWO MARINE CARRIERS OFF IRAN

"... in recent months, the USS Enterprise was the only US nuclear carrier cruising Gulf waters with its strike force. On Nov. 5, a second nuclear carrier, the USS Harry S. Truman set out quietly from its Norfolk base for the Gulf with 7,500 sailors and marines aboard the carrier and its strike force. It will be followed by the USS Nimitz. All three carrier groups are escorted by fast nuclear submarines, cruisers and missile destroyers... (also present are) the two US Marine carriers the USS Wasp and the USS Kearsage, with thousands of marines and landing craft on their decks...."
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1314

CHENEY UNABLE TO STIFLE DISSENTING N.I.E. ON IRAN
(But key findings will be kept secret from public)

"A National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran has been held up for more than a year in an effort to force the intelligence community to remove dissenting judgments on the Iranian nuclear programme, and thus make the document more supportive of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's militarily aggressive policy toward Iran... The White House wants a document that it can use as evidence for its Iran policy... (but) some analysts have refused to go along... The White House has now apparently decided to release the unsatisfactory draft NIE, but without making its key findings public..."
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39978

ARAB STATES OFFER IRAN A NUCLEAR COMPROMISE

"Gulf Arab states is reported to have proposed providing enriched uranium to Iran via a multinational consortium... the six states of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE - would develop a uranium enrichment plant in a state outside the Mideast... (to) provide nuclear fuel... for all users of enriched uranium in the Middle East..."
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A415ACD4-2E69-49AF-8E06-49FCAFB2780A.htm

48-HOUR ATTACK WOULD LET IRANIANS TAKE COUNTRY BACK

"... The air campaign will be easy,” says retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a FOX pundit who was a rabid advocate of shock and awe over Iraq. “Ahmadinejad has nothing in Iran that we can’t penetrate,” he adds, and several hundred aircraft, including stealth bombers, will be enough to do the trick: “Forty-eight hours duration, hitting 2,500 aim points to take out their nuclear facilities, their air defense facilities, their air force, their navy, their Shahab-3 retaliatory missiles, and finally their command and control. And then let the Iranian people take their country back.”
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/31/4914/