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1)USAF Mobilizing to Attack Another MIDDLE EAST Country!

2)US and ISRAEL PREPARING AGAIN TO STRIKE BIG

3)TARGET IRAN

4)US MISSILES TARGETED AGAINST IRAN BY ISRAEL (nuclear submarine)

5)Cheney's Hawks 'Hijacking Policy'

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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.
> >
> > =======+++=======
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > ========+++========
> >
> > 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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[che]

such a peaceful world in which we live.

[ciaranwombat]

And I've just heard that the US have killed the guy they installed as interim leader in Baghdad. Small news, I suppose in comparison with Prince Charles delivering handjobs to manservants.