Tag: war provocation
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cheney mulled israeli strike on iran
from reuters: Vice President Dick Cheney had at one point considered asking Israel to launch limited missile strikes at an Iranian nuclear site to provoke a retaliation, Newsweek magazine reported on Sunday. The news comes amid reports that Israel launched an air strike against Syria this month over a suspected nuclear site. Citing two unidentified…
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2 russian strategic bombers fly along alaska, canada coasts
from itar-tass: Two Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers, within the scope of a long-range aviation drill, flew along the coasts of Alaska and Canada and returned to their home airfield via the North Pole on Thursday, Air Force spokesman Col Alexander Drobyshevsky told Itar-Tass. “A pair of Tu-95MS planes flew along a large range along the…
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china’s ultimatum
let us invade taiwan or we’ll dump the dollarfrom paul joseph watson: The Fed’s decision to cut interest rates again is likely to send the dollar tumbling to historic new lows, leading one financial analyst to predict that China’s fury at the devaluation of its huge dollar reserves will provoke them into giving the U.S.…
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was israeli raid a dry run for attack on iran?
from guardian: The head of Israel’s airforce, Major-General Eliezer Shkedi, was visiting a base in the coastal city of Herziliya last week. For the 50-year-old general, also the head of Israel’s Iran Command, which would fight a war with Tehran if ordered, it was a morale-boosting affair, a meet-and-greet with pilots and navigators who had…
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US develops 14-ton super bomb
bigger than russian vacuum bombfrom ria novosti: The U.S. has a 14-ton super bomb more destructive than the vacuum bomb just tested by Russia, a U.S. general said Wednesday. The statement was made by retired Lt. General McInerney, chairman of the Iran Policy Committee, and former Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force.…
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russia says US attack on iran would be ‘catastrophic’
from afp: Any US military intervention in Iran would be a “political error” that would have “catastrophic” consequences, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov said in an interview published Tuesday. “Generally speaking, bombings of Iran would be a bad move that would end with catastrophic consequences,” he told the daily Vremya Novosti. Losyukov expressed the…
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military exercise ‘solid curtain’ from sept 14-21
from navy compass: Exercise Solid Curtain 2007, a Navy force protection exercise, will be conducted on all naval installations in the continental United States Sept. 14 – 21, 2007. Exercise Solid Curtain 2007, conducted to enhance training and readiness of naval security personnel, is a regularly-scheduled exercise and is not in response to any specific…
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selling a war with iran
cheney orders media to sell attack on iranfrom paul joseph watson: Dick Cheney has ordered top Neo-Con media outlets, including Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, to unleash a PR blitz to sell a war with Iran from today, according to Barnett Rubin, the highly respected Afghanistan expert at New York University. The New…
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former cia officer: US to attack iran within 6 months
from raw story: Fox News asked former CIA field officer Bob Baer on Tuesday whether the US is “gearing up for a military strike on Iran.” Baer has written a column for Time indicating that Washington officials expect an attack within the next six months. “I’ve taken an informal poll inside the government,” Baer told…
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lieberman: US will back israeli strike on iran
from blacklisted news/israel today: Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that he received the tacit blessing of Europe and the United States for an Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. “If we start military operations against Iran alone, then Europe and the US will support us,” Lieberman told Army Radio…
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3rd US aircraft carrier heads to the gulf
from afp: Another US Navy aircraft carrier is heading towards the Middle East, boosting the number of the giant warships in the region to three, the navy said in a statement on Tuesday. The nuclear-powered USS Enterprise and its strike group will join the USS John C. Stennis and USS Nimitz in the navy’s Fifth…
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china threatens war escalation over bush handshake
from paul joseph watson: In an astounding development that has completely failed to register any attention amongst mainstream U.S. media, China promised to escalate preparations for war in advance of a potential conflict, after President Bush shook hands with a Taiwanese government official yesterday. Bush shook hands and met with Taiwan’s representative to the United…
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joint us-israeli military exercises begin
from rogue government/afp: American and Israeli air forces on Sunday began week-long joint exercises in southern Israel, simulating dog-fights and bombing targets on the ground, the army said. Dozens of aircraft are taking part in the exercises in the southern Negev desert, it said. Army radio said the exercises were taking place in the context…
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‘we gathered intelligence’
from blacklisted news/sky news: The captain in charge of the 15 marines detained in Iran has said they were gathering intelligence on the Iranians. Sky News went on patrol with Captain Chris Air and his team in Iraqi waters close to the area where they were arrested – just five days before the crisis began.…
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cia+isi=terroriniran
Terrorist group operating in southeastern Iran hired by CIAfrom press tv: America says its Central Intelligence Agency has hired a Pakistani gang to carry out terrorist operations inside Iran. The gang, called Jondollah, includes members of Baluch tribes and is led by Abdul Malek Rigi who is operating from Pakistan’s part of the Sistan and…