- When the attack comes, and it could be soon, it will
probably be a massive 'surprise' assault upon all Iraqi military and political
leadership sites simultaneously. One day we will all wake up and Iraq
as we know it now will simply be gone.
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- After that the Americans, Israelis, and Arab 'client-regimes'
will go about 'rebuilding' the region; the Americans insisting that no
Arab or Muslim state be allowed to develop 'weapons of mass destruction'
regardless of the fact that the Israelis are armed to the teeth with these
very same weapons. Indeed, it is the Israelis (always with American help
one way or another) who not only introduced such weapons into the Middle
East region and whose policies have greatly escalated the proliferation
of such weapons.
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- Already one can start envisioning what is to come then.
Next in line is Iran, then Syria; to be followed by insistence that the
'big' regional Arab/Muslim powers of Saudi Arabia and Egypt tow the line...'or
else'. At the end of the line (which official Washington doesn't want
to discuss at the moment) is Pakistan, whose nuclear weapons will not be
tolerated in this 'new world order' in which the US, Israel, and in this
case India, will not only be dominant but controlling.
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- US Continues Mass Buildup - 1000 Military Planners At
Work
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- The United States continues its military buildup in and
around the Persian Gulf with analysts estimating up to 100,000 troops within
striking distance of Iraq.
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- U.S. military sources and analysts said Washington has
sent tens of thousands of soldiers and military personnel to Gulf Arab
states, Central and South Asia and the Levant. They said the force includes
at least 1,000 military planners who have prepared for a rapid airlift
of forces in case Washington decides on a war against Iraq.
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- The U.S. Defense Department has been bolstering its transport
ship fleet as well as preparing its air cargo fleet to defend against Islamic
insurgents and Iraqi forces, Middle East Newsline reported. On Aug. 27,
the Pentagon said it awarded Northrop Grumman a $23.2 million contract
to provide the C-17 transport aircraft with systems to defend against infrared
surface-to-air missiles.
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- The Pentagon has also awarded a $20.5 million contract
for the maintenance and overhaul of the U.S. Navy's reserve air fleet.
The award for iBASEt, based om Lake Forest, Calif., is meant to support
a range of air programs.
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- Analysts said the total number of U.S. troops in the
Persian Gulf and surrounding regions now number around 100,000. They said
this could enable a U.S. attack on Iraq within weeks of a decision by President
George Bush.
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- The Washington-based Center for Defense Information said
the U.S. troop deployment effort has been muted and taken in cooperation
with host countries. The center said in a report that the cooperation is
meant to keep the airlift out of the public eye.
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- "Notably, the command posts throughout the southern
Gulf states and their implication of offensive operations are as politically
sensitive as ever," the center said in a report authored by [Ret.]
Rear Adm. Stephen Baker and Colin Robinson. "The U.S. 'footprint'
in each country requires actual personnel numbers, amount of prepositioned
equipment and support/cooperation agreements made with each country to
be kept out of the public's knowledge."
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- The center said the United States maintains 8,000 troops
in Afghanistan with several thousand more aboard naval ships in the Arabian
Sea. More than 20,000 additional soldiers are deployed in Gulf Arab countries.
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- [On Aug. 30, Germany Defense Minister Peter Struck warned
that Berlin would withdraw its military personnel from Kuwait if the United
States attacks Iraq. Germany maintains 52 soldiers and Fox infantry fighting
vehicles and has been training Kuwait in defending against a weapons of
mass destruction attack.]
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- Moreover, more than 1,000 military planners, logistics
experts and support specialists have been deployed in command posts throughout
the Persian Gulf, the report said.
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- They are in real-time contact with U.S. Central Command
headquarters in Tampa, Fla. by video teleconferencing, satellite imagery
and data link and have drafted plans to ship up to 200,000 tons of heavy
weapons and other equipment to the region.
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- The center said the United States could also use military
bases in Egypt and Jordan for an attack on Iraq. Currently, the U.S. 22nd
Marine Expeditionary Unit is exercising with Jordanian forces and the center
did not rule out that the maneuvers comprise a cover for prepositioning
forces at well-sited forward staging posts.
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- (WorldTribune)
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- http://www.MiddleEast.Org
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