ISRAELI WARPLANES MOVED INTO IRAQ?
July 11th, 2008Yes, no, maybe so, I don’t know.
Via: Jerusalem Post:
Israel Air Force (IAF) war planes are practicing in Iraqi airspace and land on US airbases in the country as a preparation for a potential strike on Iran, sources in the Iraqi Defense Ministry told a local news network on Friday.
The report, carried also by Iranian news outlets, claimed that recently massive nocturnal activity by IAF craft was noted in several American held airbases, including measures by the US army to increase security around the bases.
The Jerusalem Post could not confirm the veracity of the report.
According to the sources, former military officers in the Anbar province said IAF jets arrive during the night from Jordanian airspace, enter Iraq’s airspace and land on a runway near the city of Hadita. The sources estimated the jets were practicing for a raid on Iran’s nuclear sites.
The sources also said the American bases in Iraq might serve as a platform for the IAF from which to attack Iran. If Israeli warplanes will take off from Iraq, they can reach Bushehr in five minutes – a “record time,” the sources said.
After reports of a massive IAF exercise over the Mediterranean surfaced several weeks ago, an Israeli official told the times that the drill was “the dress rehearsal” for an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites.
On Thursday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Israel was the “strongest country in the region.” Sending a thinly veiled warning to Iran, Barak said Israel “has already proved it did not shy away in the past from acting when it fears its vital interests are at stake.”
My god – not to be obvious – but the repercussions of this are mindboggling. The U.S. is already seen as blindly supporting Israel against the Palestinians by the Muslim world. If Israeli airplanes actually strike Iran from bases in Iraq, then U.S. troops and personnel will be considered viable targets by Iranian forces. One has to wonder if certain powers in the Bush cabinet have this in mind as an acceptable consquence? Unbelievable…
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In answer to your question, um, well, yeah. That would be a made-to-order justification for deploying nuclear weapons against Iran.
Could this just be disinformation as like in Operation Gladio? There are just layers upon layers of disinfo where ever Israel is involved.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=gladio&hl=en#
“Today’s resistance movement of counter-reaction to neoconservative/Zionist fascism is under assault by dueling forces, who either want to silence the movement, or to misdirect and co-opt it. If the movement is silenced by Zionists or divided by anti-Zionists, it will not be able to disrupt the neoconservative plans to launch nuclear war against Iran and thereby usher in a state of permanent war.
The over-eager Zionist zealots who willingly became part of this conspiracy have unknowingly sealed Israel’s fate, as the intended target for the coming wave of anti-Semitism. Little did they know that their Republican friends planned to drag-up Zionism’s historical record of utilizing anti-Semites in their secret plans to force the Jewish “Diaspora” out of Europe to forcefully colonize Palestine, as proof of a global “Jewish conspiracy.” The intensive campaign of lies and subterfuge that have been used to hide fascist Israeli intentions to “ethnically cleanse” Palestine and the surrounding area of its Arab inhabitants, confirm all the negative stereotyping of the “Jewish state,” especially in light of “Israel lobby” plans to force America to fight Israel’s wars, even the ones started by Israel.
The Gladio-centered US foreign policy, which was so successfully played-out in Europe, effectively countered the Soviet expansion at a high cost to European democracy. The application of that policy to Islamic countries facing a Soviet threat, such as Afghanistan, helped to roll-back the Soviets, but at a terrible cost. The training of Islamic paramilitary forces to carry-out terror attacks for political reasons, evolved into the unfolding nightmare known as the war on terror.”
http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/
Completely random tangent:
There’s a level named “The Gun Pointed At The Head Of The Universe” in Halo, an Xbox game.
The Iranians have their guns pointed at one of the heads of the global economy, the Straits of Hormuz.
The Israelis have their guns pointed at Iran.
The Lebanese-Syrian unity government, now featuring Hezbollah, can only expect Israeli retaliation in a larger conflict.
The US military have their guns pointed at the Shias (and remnant Sunni insurgents) in Iraq and the pro-Taliban forces in Afghanistan.
Does anyone else see this as a giant Mexican standoff, waiting for some idiot* to pull the trigger? Once the shooting starts, does anyone expect it to end? And if it ends, will it end before or after some idiot* lets loose nuclear weapons?
* or highly self interested party motivated by personal gain.