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| Newo |
Posted - 04/01/2007 : 16:06:22
Operation Bite: April 6 sneak attack by US Forces against Iran planned, Russian Military sources warn
Monday, 26 March 2007
By Webster G. Tarpley
The long awaited US military attack on Iran is now on track for the first week of April, specifically for 4 AM on April 6, the Good Friday opening of Easter weekend, writes the well-known Russian journalist Andrei Uglanov in the Moscow weekly “Argumenty Nedeli.” Uglanov cites Russian military experts close to the Russian General Staff for his account.
The attack is slated to last for twelve hours, according to Uglanov, lasting from 4 AM until 4 PM local time. Friday is a holiday in Iran. In the course of the attack, code named Operation Bite, about 20 targets are marked for bombing; the list includes uranium enrichment facilities, research centers, and laboratories.
The first reactor at the Bushehr nuclear plant, where Russian engineers are working, is supposed to be spared from destruction. The US attack plan reportedly calls for the Iranian air defense system to be degraded, for numerous Iranian warships to be sunk in the Persian Gulf, and the for the most important headquarters of the Iranian armed forces to be wiped out.
The attacks will be mounted from a number of bases, including the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Diego Garcia is currently home to B-52 bombers equipped with standoff missiles. Also participating in the air strikes will be US naval aviation from aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, as well as from those of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Additional cruise missiles will be fired from submarines in the Indian Ocean and off the coast of the Arabian peninsula. The goal is allegedly to set back Iran 's nuclear program by several years, writes Uglanov, whose article was re-issued (1, 2) by RIA-Novosti in various languages, but apparently not English, several days ago. The story is the top item on numerous Italian and German blogs, but so far appears to have been ignored by US websites.
Observers comment that this dispatch represents a high-level orchestrated leak from the Kremlin, in effect a war warning, which draws on the formidable resources of the Russian intelligence services, and which deserves to be taken with the utmost seriousness by pro-peace forces around the world.
Asked by RIA-Novosti to comment on the Uglanov report, retired Colonel General Leonid Ivashov confirmed its essential features in a March 21 interview: “I have no doubt that there will be an operation, or more precisely a violent action against Iran.” Ivashov, who has reportedly served at various times as an informal advisor to Putin, is currently the Vice President of the Moscow Academy for Geopolitical Sciences.
Ivashov attributed decisive importance to the decision of the Democratic leadership of the US House of Representatives to remove language from the just-passed Iraq supplemental military appropriations bill which would have demanded that Bush come to Congress before launching an attack on Iran. Ivashov pointed out that the language was eliminated under pressure from AIPAC, the lobbing group representing the Israeli extreme right, and of Israeli Foreign Minister Tsipi Livni.
“We have drawn the unmistakable conclusion that this operation will take place,” said Ivashov. In his opinion, the US planning does not include a land operation: “Most probably there will be no ground attack, but rather massive air attacks with the goal of annihilating Iran's capacity for military resistance, the centers of administration, the key economic assets, and quite possibly the Iranian political leadership, or at least part of it,” he continued.
Ivashov noted that it was not to be excluded that the Pentagon would use smaller tactical nuclear weapons against targets of the Iranian nuclear industry. These attacks could paralyze everyday life, create panic in the population, and generally produce an atmosphere of chaos and uncertainty all over Iran, Ivashov told RIA-Novosti. “This will unleash a struggle for power inside Iran, and then there will be a peace delegation sent in to install a pro-American government in Teheran,” Ivashov continued. One of the US goals was, in his estimation, to burnish the image of the current Republican administration, who would now be able to boast that they had wiped out the Iranian nuclear program.
Among the other outcomes, General Ivashov pointed to a partition of Iran along the same lines as Iraq, and a subsequent carving up of the Near and Middle East into smaller regions. “This concept worked well for them in the Balkans and will now be applied to the greater Middle East,” he commented. “
Moscow must expert Russia's influence by demanding an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council to deal with the current preparations for an illegal use of force against Iran and the destruction of the basis of the United Nations Charter,” said General Ivashov. “In this context Russia could cooperate with China , France and the non-permanent members of the Security Council. We need this kind of preventive action to ward off the use of force,” he concluded.
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Webster G. Tarpley is a journalist. Among other works, he has published an investigation on the manipulation of the Red Brigades by the Vatican’s P2 Suite and the assassination of AldoMoro, a non-authorized biography of George H. Bush, and more recently an analysis of the methods used to perpetrate the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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| PixieSteve |
Posted - 04/09/2007 : 10:21:01
i had quite a good friday actually. i had a picnic with my sister, my brother and his girlfriend in a park in south london. the weather was great. we played a bit of hackey sack.
you?
"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands." - Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Llamadance |
Posted - 04/09/2007 : 10:09:25
the Iranians got wind of it, that's why they released the British sailors.
When you're going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill |
| darwin |
Posted - 04/09/2007 : 10:00:36
I guess Cheney called off the attack. |
| Erebus |
Posted - 04/05/2007 : 14:35:03
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Originally posted by Newo
I guess there's only so long you can spend at a certain tack before folk go looking for another one from you.
Fair enough. It's true that I don't have much new to offer on the whole topic. Then again, it does feel like it's been close to year since I've gone off that like that.
If you're like me, you wish you were somebody else. |
| Newo |
Posted - 04/05/2007 : 04:17:17
sorry you didn't get the reaction you expected Erebus. I guess there's only so long you can spend at a certain tack before folk go looking for another one from you. If you want we could switch roles, you could be the guy who feels terrorism is just another branch of the executive and I could be the guy who worries it might be obligatory for future heads of states to wear beards and keffiyehs.
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| Erebus |
Posted - 04/04/2007 : 10:33:06
And to think that I came here today with trepidation, expecting to be blasted. How disappointing. Nobody takes me seriously anymore. Prophets are a dime a dozen, mostly deranged.
Yes, Thomas, maybe Iran figured out that the whole thing was a massive PR disaster, or maybe the UK paid a price that will emerge over coming weeks.
If you're like me, you wish you were somebody else. |
| Thomas |
Posted - 04/04/2007 : 07:40:02
Looks like you hotheaded warmonger will have to wait a little longer.
"Our Love is Rice and Beans and Horses Lard" |
| coastline |
Posted - 04/04/2007 : 05:01:33
Erebus!
 Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
| Erebus |
Posted - 04/04/2007 : 01:02:00
When reading stuff like this it's consistently amusing to see how matters are portrayed as though the rest of the world had somehow long since achieved a state of harmony that Bush's USA is incomprehensibly bent upon ripping to shreds. With luck the West would stick its neck far enough into the dirt to maintain its fiction that Iran does not even exist, let alone act 24/7 to foment ground-level chaos as widely as it can.
There’s a major challenge out there in the wide world and somebody is going have to step up to meet it. Who will it be? The EU, China, Russia? Or maybe nobody needs to step up. Maybe we can just add another decade of talk to the three we’ve already wasted. Maybe another thirty anti-Israel UN resolutions will do the trick. Maybe we just need to “give peace a chance”. T-Shirts and bumperstickers, what else ya got? Were it not that the longer we wait the worse it gets, and the greater the cost in lives and treasure, I’d suggest you simply set the alarm clock for just when you expect to get around to the coming global panic that will FINALLY “morally” sanction action.
Iran is not going away. Islam, that Islam that is “not the problem”, is not going away. Does anybody seriously doubt that young people, mostly sturdy young men, are going to have to die to set this straight? What’s the alternative people? Just how much of the life you take for granted are you willing to sacrifice to avoid dealing with this? And will that question be answered from Brussels or Tehran?
Does anybody seriously doubt where this is headed? The longer we wait, the more it’s going to cost. If that isn’t obvious, just what exactly are your recommendations? And what year is this anyway? 1938? Sounds like a joke right? Well think back upon Iran’s behavior over the past week and then extrapolate from there to how it will behave after it gets nukes. Your future, and welcome to it. At some point the world is going to want aircraft carriers like they were god incarnate, and a bunch of ignorant, southern rednecks are going to save the world. But as for just why they’d even bother, can’t say I know.
p.s. Feel free to cast this as neocon blather. Whatever gets you through the night.
p.p.s. It's been a while since I've done this, and it feels good. Thank you Owen.
If you're like me, you wish you were somebody else. |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 04/03/2007 : 10:07:58
That first article was a bit difficult to read.
I do have to agree that that source is awful vague.
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For Chrissakes have a cup of tea. |
| darwin |
Posted - 04/02/2007 : 10:23:15
"Fair and balanced" is the catchphrase for Fox News in the US. Many people (most?) see it as a joke since Fox News clearly has a right-wing perspective on the news. |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 04/02/2007 : 10:21:22
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_and_Balanced
haha you couldn't have picked a worse expression remig!
"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands." - Friedrich Nietzsche |
| remig |
Posted - 04/02/2007 : 09:56:06
I don't get the reference, being french... I mean not a moderate and/or serious website is talking about it.
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| hammerhands |
Posted - 04/02/2007 : 09:42:16
"Fair and balanced" has a copyright, and it doesn't mean what it should mean. |
| remig |
Posted - 04/02/2007 : 09:15:44
After googling a bit, i've only found this info on french extremists web sites, one that believes israel caused 9/11, one that is a far-right nationalist, one that is against globalisation.
Not a fair and balanced website is talking about it... |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 04/02/2007 : 08:25:56
Makes me wonder if this'll have any affect on the British sailors being held there.
Also makes me wonder why they don't help out in Somalia where they're seeing some of the worst bloodshed (of course mainly civilian) ever.
Is it some sort of tactic or is there some sort of reason these things always start on holidays?
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For Chrissakes have a cup of tea. |
| Carl |
Posted - 04/02/2007 : 04:35:23
For fuck's sake, will they never learn? |
| vilainde |
Posted - 04/02/2007 : 01:30:04
quote:
Originally posted by Newo
The long awaited US military attack on Iran is now on track for the first week of April, specifically for 4 AM on April 6, the Good Friday opening of Easter weekend, writes the well-known Russian journalist Andrei Uglanov in the Moscow weekly “Argumenty Nedeli.” Uglanov cites Russian military experts close to the Russian General Staff for his account.
The attack is slated to last for twelve hours, according to Uglanov, lasting from 4 AM until 4 PM local time. Friday is a holiday in Iran. In the course of the attack, code named Operation Bite, about 20 targets are marked for bombing; the list includes uranium enrichment facilities, research centers, and laboratories.
Heh. This reminds me of that:
"- My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.
- When will you be back?
- I can't tell you that. It's classified."
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say." |
| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 04/01/2007 : 18:07:03
quote:
Originally posted by The King Of Karaoke
You're the man Owen. I've been following this for about six months now. WWIII begins on Friday kids. Feeling a draft yet?
Another member just alerted me to your awareness, so I had to log in.
Here's some main stream stuff that appeared on Google last night.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173879220977&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
'US ready to strike Iran on Good Friday'
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF AND AP
The United States will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps "from 4 a.m. until 4 p.m. on April 6," according to reports in the Russian media on Saturday.
According to Russian intelligence sources, the reports said, the US has devised a plan to attack several targets in Iran, and an assault could be carried out by launching missiles from fighter jets and warships stationed in the Persian Gulf.
Russian news agency RIA Novosti quoted a security official as saying, "Russian intelligence has information that the US Armed Forces stationed in the Persian Gulf have nearly completed preparations for a missile strike against Iranian territory."
The Russian Defense Ministry rejected the claims of an imminent attack as "myths." There was no immediate response from Washington.
The reports come as the Iranian chief of staff, Hassan Fayrouz Abadi, was quoted on Saturday by Iran's Fars news agency warning leaders of Arab countries that Israel plans to open a "suicidal attack" on its neighbors this summer, to "prevent the withdrawal of the US troops from Iraq and the area."
"I warn the dear leaders and Muslim brothers in the neighboring countries of the occupied territories that this suicidal attack of the Zionists is threatening them," he said.
The countries in danger, he said, were "Lebanon and Syria, and later Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia."
Also on Saturday, Russia urged Britain and Teheran to resolve the dispute over 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran last week, a local news agency reported.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin urged the two sides to provide the United Nations with their own assessments as to what happened and where exactly the detention occurred so that the body could conduct an independent probe.
"We hope these actions will provide a foundation for the soonest possible resolution of the crisis," Kamynin was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted that the captured British sailors and marines trespassed in Iranian waters and called world powers "arrogant" for failing to apologize, the country's official news agency reported.
"The British occupier forces did trespass our waters. Our border guards detained them with skill and bravery. But arrogant powers, because of their arrogant and selfish spirit, are claiming otherwise," IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying during a speech in the southeastern city of Andinmeshk.
The European Union grappled with a double bind over Iran Saturday - the country's nuclear program and its seizure of the British troops - and reported no progress on either issue.
A debate about Iran's nuclear ambitions had been scheduled as a key agenda item but "was overshadowed to a certain extent by the issue of the sailors and marines," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after hosting a two-day EU foreign ministers meeting in Bremen, Germany.
The Foreign Ministry in Iran dismissed the EU's "biased and meddlesome" comments on the captured troops, saying the dispute solely involved the governments of Iran and Britain.
Speaking to reporters in Bremen, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett urged Iran to resolve the crisis over the military personnel peacefully, saying London remains open to dialogue.
"We encourage Iran to peacefully resolve this issue," she said.
"We continue to express our willingness to engage in dialogue and discussions with Iran," she added. "That is very much in the best interest of our people and that is our foremost concern."
"I think everyone regrets that this position has arisen," she said. "What we want is a way out of it."
AP contributed to this report.
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| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 04/01/2007 : 18:01:30
You're the man Owen. I've been following this for about six months now. WWIII begins on Friday kids. Feeling a draft yet?
Another member just alerted me to your awareness, so I had to log in. |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 04/01/2007 : 16:56:14
wow. this is really intersting. we have known for a long time that it's just a matter of time before the Bush adminstration invades Iran. I hope that this advance warning will like they said motivate pro peace forces and hopefully intimadate the US to backing down and not invading Iran.
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