USAF Mobilizing to Attack Iran
USAF Mobilizing to Attack Another Middle East Country!

Since Saturday, people in the Highlands of Scotland have been witnessing
large movements of US warplanes overhead. Experienced observers say the
large numbers are reminiscent of those that preceded the bombing of Iraq in
1998 and military strikes on Libya in the1980's as well as the first Gulf
War.

At the weekend warplanes were flying over at a rate of roughly one every 15
minutes. As well as watching them from the ground the plane spotters have
also been able to overhear pilots talking by listening to their radio
frequencies.

At this rate some 288 warplanes would have passed over Scotland in three
days. It is thought that the planes have flown on a route from the US over
the north pole to bases in Europe and the Mediterranean. The size and scale
of the movement suggests that the US may be preparing to strike at a country
in the Middle East in the next week to ten days.

Please pass this information on as widely as possible- the US may be
planning to use the pretext of "foreign" terrorist attacks on US personnel
in Iraq to attack Iran or Syria. Please alert any sympathetic elected
representatives, media representatives and other sympathetic organisations.
Publicising this military movement may prevent the air-strikes.

SCOTTISH CND, 15 Barrland Street, Glasgow, G41 1QH. Tel: 0141 423 1222 scnd
banthebomb.org http://www.banthebomb.org

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US and ISRAEL PREPARING AGAIN TO STRIKE BIG MID-EAST REALITIES - MER -
www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 4 November 2003:

There are growing rumors in Washington now that the US is preparing hard air
strikes somewhere in the Middle East. Secret heavy bomber deployments may be
underway to European bases as has been the case in previous years when major
strikes were being readied. Whether the targets are in Iran or Syria, or
even North Korea for that matter, are of course highly classified. Ariel
Sharon's surprise visit to Moscow this week to again meet personally with
Putin could be another ominous sign. The Israelis will probably try to
blackmail or threaten Putin in one way or another to stay out of whatever is
coming, especially if it involves Iran, now Israel's top target. Meanwhile,
as in previous MER analysis reports, the hijacking of Bush-Washington by the
Israeli-Jewish lobby hardliners working closely with Vice-President Cheney
was too much for a former ranking insider. The former Air Force
Lieutenant-Colonel is now trying to blow the whistle; but few in Washington
have the courage or understanding to both listen and act. Among other things
MER has learned that President Bush personally some time ago promised Ariel
Sharon -- during one of the nine meetings the two have held in the White
House -- that he would have advance copies of all Presidential speeches
dealing with the Middle East in case the Israelis felt any changes might be
necessary.

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TARGET IRAN It's a semi-secret joint US-Israel Operation

MID-EAST REALITIES - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 28 October
2003: The US has now secretly cooperated more than ever with the Sharon
regime in Israel to prepare for an attack which if successful will destroy
Iranian facilities that could be used to produce nuclear weapons and the
missiles to deliver them. The justification model is of course Israel's
attack on Osirak near Baghdad 22 years ago. Possibly to take place at the
same time the Americans are preparing to attack North Korean nuclear
facilities. This is the real military pressure that is now being ratcheted
up on both countries to quite literally attempt to force them to change
course. This was the reason senior European Foreign Ministers recently
rushed to Tehran. But after watching what the US has now done to Iraq -- a
country that in fact did succumb and change course only to find itself
'regime changed' and occupied by the Americans -- this historic cat and
mouse game may not work quite so easily as it has before for Washington.
Moreover there are other players much more intimately involved now --
Pakistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia...with China as well as Russia watching every
so closely and a whole world more skeptical of the Americans, as well as the
Israelis, than ever. Moreover as well the Americans are already overextended
-- both militarily and fiancially -- in Iraq which raises the spectre of
American as well as Israeli threats, and possible use this time, of tactical
nuclear weapons should the going get rough and any country attempt to fight
back against the modern-day crusading Empire now armed with the doctrine of
pre-emption and a Judeo-Christian zealotry.

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US MISSILES TARGETED AGAINST IRAN BY ISRAEL

US Harpoon missiles armed with nuclear warheads are now aimed by Israeli's
fleet of Dolphin-class submarines against Iran's nuclear facilities.
Following September's exclusive report in American Free Press about Israel's
submarine nuclear attack capability, over 100 Harpoon cruise missiles have
been secretly flown to the remote island of Diego Garcia, a joint UK-US base
in the Indian Ocean. The three Israeli submarines which arrived at the base
early this month were each loaded with 24 Harpoon missiles. They then set
sail for the Gulf of Oman ---- bringing Iran's nuclear facilities all within
range of their submarines' multi-payloads. The decision to launch them is
entirely in the hands of Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon. Just as he
gave Washington only a short warning he was going to attack an alleged
terrorist camp deep inside Syria, Sharon has made it clear to Washington
that the same rule of engagement will apply if it comes to launching the
Harpoon missiles. Sharon made his position clear in a telephone call to
President Bush the day after the attack on Syria. According to one Israeli
source, Bush said he "just wanted to be kept informed". Credible
intelligence sources say the reality is that Sharon believes he would have
the support of Bush if he did launch an attack. But an indication of the
deepening concern that some members of the Bush Administration now feel, is
that national security advisor Condoleezza Rice last weekend allowed one of
her senior aides to confirm our September report to the Los Angeles Times
and London's Guardian newspaper. Both drew heavily on the original American
Free Press story. The senior Pentagon and State department sources for our
first story, about Israel's Dolphin class submarines, have told us
exclusively that, in the words of one high-level Pentagon source, "matters
have now advanced considerably and for the first time Rice is sounding alarm
bells in the Oval Office". Rice''s decision to leak is also the first clear
indication of her concerns over Israel ---- as well as her own direct
challenge to the authority of Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld. She is
now engaged in an internal power struggle with Rumsfeld ----and has chosen
to use what she sees as his failure in the Middle East to harness Sharon''s
behaviour as her launch pad to have the Secretary of State ousted. "Rice has
a long-term strategy to become Secretary of State. While Rumsfeld is no
supporter of Powell, he knows that having Rice in charge of State would give
her more power than she even has now. And there is also the ultimate
ambition for Condi, to be Bush's running mate, if not in this election, then
in the one afterwards. Her own inner circle say that she would relish a
face-off with Hillary Clinton in 2008. If Condi became vice-President, then
she is but a step away from becoming the first Black woman in the White
House. That is what is driving her," said a senior Washington analyst.
Meantime, Rice's concerns have deepened following Sharon's stark warning
last Sunday that "states harbouring terrorists are legitimate targets".
Aides in Tel Aviv have confirmed to American Free Press that "Iran and Syria
are top of that list ---- with Iran in the top spot". The revelation comes
at a time of rapidly escalating tensions in the region. Israel's senior
Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gideon Meir, insisted "any country that harbours
a threat to Israel is a legitimate target for us out of self-defence".
Today, American Free Press can reveal, again for the first time, that a team
of US computer specialists flew to Diego Garcia to fit the latest version of
the software known as "over the horizon". This would allow a Harpoon missile
to hit any of Iran''s nuclear establishments with pin-point
accuracy.Originally developed by Inslaw, the Washington based specialist
computer software company, the "over the horizon" capability has been
enhanced to handle the sophisticated electronics of the Harpoon missiles. In
the meantime, Sharon has ordered Mossad to put together a specialist team to
prepare. by Gordon Thomas - 27 October 2003

P.S. MER exclusively reported nearly three years ago now that the Israelis
had received new conventionally-powered submarines, made and financed in
Germany in fact, which they were planning to fit with nuclear-tipped
missiles despite earlier assurances given the Germans they would not do so;
and that Israel also has an extensive super-secret biological and chemical
weapons program.

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Cheney's Hawks 'Hijacking Policy'

By Ritt Goldstein Sydney Morning Herald - Australia, 30 October 2003:

A former Pentagon officer turned whistleblower says a group of hawks in the
Bush Administration, including the Vice-President, Dick Cheney, is running a
shadow foreign policy, contravening Washington's official line.

"What these people are doing now makes Iran-Contra [a Reagan administration
national security scandal] look like amateur hour. . . it's worse than
Iran-Contra, worse than what happened in Vietnam," said Karen Kwiatkowski, a
former air force lieutenant-colonel.

"[President] George Bush isn't in control . . . the country's been
hijacked," she said, describing how "key [governmental] areas of
neoconservative concern were politically staffed".

Ms Kwiatkowski, who retired this year after 20 years service, was a Middle
East specialist in the office of the Undersecretary of Defence for Policy,
headed by Douglas Feith.

She described "a subversion of constitutional limits on executive power and
a co-optation through deceit of a large segment of the Congress", adding
that "in order to take that first step - Iraq - lies had to be told to
Congress to bring them on board".

Ms Kwiatkowski said the pursuit of national security decisions often
bypassed "civil service and active-duty military professionals", and was
handled instead by political appointees who shared common ideological ties.

There was speculation earlier this year that such an ideologue group had
emerged, and that it was behind the US attack on an Iraqi convoy in Syria in
June.

The New York Times quoted Patrick Lang, a former senior Defence
Intelligence Agency (DIA) official, as saying that many in the Government
believed the incursion was an effort by ideologues to disrupt co-operation
between the US and Syria.

Ms Kwiatkowski said there was an extra-governmental network operating
outside normal structures and practices, "a network of political appointees
in key positions who felt they needed to take some action, to make things
happen in a foreign affairs, national security way". She said Pentagon
personnel and the DIA were pressured to favourably alter assessments and
reports.

In a separate interview, Chalmers Johnson, an authority on US policy, said
that the Administration's neo-conservatives had in effect seized power from
Mr Bush.

Dr Johnson said the neo-conservatives had pursued an agenda outlined in the
controversial 1992 Defence Planning Guidance. That document, drawn up at the
direction of Mr Cheney when he was defence secretary, said the world's only
superpower should not be cautious about asserting its power.

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'They will suffer until they understand... When you look at this through
Palestinian eyes, you can understand why they hate us so much... Just like
any other war, this is not a clean war. This is a dirty war. You cannot
judge it in humanitarian terms... We're in the middle of a hundred-years'
war' -- The Israeli colonel in command of Nablus, Oct 2 2002

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