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Final destination Iran?
« on: March 16, 2010, 04:39:54 PM »
I don't know if this is true or not, it was sent to me by another person with no links.
I hope its true but something tells me Obama doesnt have what it takes to do this.
Time will tell.....
 
Final destination Iran?

By Rob Edwards

March 14, 2010

Hundreds of powerful US "bunker-buster" bombs are being shipped
from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian
Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.

The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government signed a
contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island.
According to a cargo manifest from the US navy, this included 387
"Blu" bombs used for blasting hardened or underground structures.

Experts say that they are being put in place for an assault on Iran's
controversial nuclear facilities. There has long been speculation
that the US military is preparing for such an attack, should
diplomacy fail to persuade Iran not to make nuclear weapons.

Although Diego Garcia is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory,
it is used by the US as a military base under an agreement made in
1971. The agreement led to 2,000 native islanders being forcibly
evicted to the Seychelles and Mauritius.

The Sunday Herald reported in 2007 that stealth bomber hangers on
the island were being equipped to take bunker-buster bombs.

They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran

Dan Plesch, director, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy,
University of London

Although the story was not confirmed at the time, the new evidence
suggests that it was accurate.

Contract details for the shipment to Diego Garcia were posted on
an international tenders' website by the US navy.

A shipping company based in Florida, Superior Maritime Services,
will be paid $699,500 to carry many thousands of military items
from Concord, California, to Diego Garcia.

Crucially, the cargo includes 195 smart, guided, Blu-110 bombs
and 192 massive 2000lb Blu-117 bombs.

"They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran,"
said Dan Plesch, director of the Centre for International Studies and
Diplomacy at the University of London, co-author of a recent study on
US preparations for an attack on Iran. "US bombers are ready
today to destroy 10,000 targets in Iran in a few hours
," he added.

The preparations were being made by the US military, but it would be
up to President Obama to make the final decision. He may decide that
it would be better for the US to act instead of Israel, Plesch argued.

"The US is not publicising the scale of these preparations to deter
Iran, tending to make confrontation more likely," he added
"The US ...is using its forces as part of an overall strategy
of shaping Iran's actions
."

According to Ian Davis, director of the new independent think-tank,
Nato Watch, the shipment to Diego Garcia is a major concern. "We
would urge the US to clarify its intentions for these weapons, and
the Foreign Office to clarify its attitude to the use of Diego Garcia
for an attack on Iran," he said.

For Alan Mackinnon, chair of Scottish CND, the revelation was
"extremely worrying". He stated: "It is clear that the US
government continues to beat the drums of war over Iran,
most recently in the statements of Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.

"It is depressingly similar to the rhetoric we heard prior to the war
in Iraq in 2003."

The British Ministry of Defence has said in the past that the US
government would need permission to use Diego Garcia for offensive
action. It has already been used for strikes against Iraq during the
1991 and 2003 Gulf wars.

About 50 British military staff are stationed on the island, with
more than 3,200 US personnel. Part of the Chagos Archipelago, it lies
about 1,000 miles from the southern coasts of India and Sri Lanka,
well placed for missions to Iran.

The US Department of Defence did not respond to a request for
a comment.

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - Ronald Reagan - June 12, 1987

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Re: Final destination Iran?
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2010, 08:08:39 PM »
Personally, I think the U.S. is just blowing smoke, because it's all they can afford to do.  Don't look to me like they're in a position to withstand a quadrupled oil price over the next couple of years.  Telegraphing a punch is just a crude and thuggish form of blackmail, but it's certainly in line with U.S. foreign policy.

Whatever the delusional losers do with their "bunker buster" bombs, it'll wind up with one more humiliating defeat for the U.S. and a resurgent, nuclear-armed Iran, sooner or later.  The obvious fact is that with 73 million people, a 3,000-year-old civilization, and a population determined to continue living their own lives free of Anglo-American domination, Iran will not be dictated to by the Americans, the Jews the British or anyone else who thinks they can bludgeon these people back into their previous state of subservience and exploitation.  In fact, the stories of the past decade have to include the dramatically rising regional power of Iran in the Middle East and China in the Far East, both in consequence of the continuing decline of America.

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Re: Final destination Iran?
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2010, 08:32:10 PM »
I don't know if this is true or not, it was sent to me by another person with no links.

It was on reddit.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/final-destination-iran-1.1013151
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Re: Final destination Iran?
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2010, 09:16:24 PM »
Thanx Ami...I will pass it along to her.
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Re: Final destination Iran?
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2010, 10:08:18 PM »
The same story was also on Antiwar.com today and, I think, yesterday too.  I don't know if it's identical, but the same basic facts.

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