U.S. to Target Iranian Arms Entering Iraq

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September 10, 2007 The Wall Street Journal Yochi J. Dreazen and Greg Jaffe
The Pentagon is preparing to build its first base for U.S. forces near the Iraqi-Iranian border, in a major new effort to curb the flow of advanced Iranian weaponry to Shiite militants across Iraq. The push also includes construction of fortified checkpoints on the major highways leading from the Iranian border to Baghdad and the installation of X-ray machines and explosives-detecting sensors at the only formal border crossing between Iran and Iraq. The measures come as the U.S. high command in Iraq has begun to recalibrate the overall American mission in the country to focus less on the Sunni Muslim radicals who were long the primary U.S. targets of pacifying the country and more on the Shiite Muslim militias suspected of maintaining close ties to Iran.

Two US Carrier-strike Groups are Bound for Persian Gulf Region, Bringing Number Back to Three

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that from the third week of July, the only American strike force- carrier in the Persian Gulf-Arabian Sea region was the USS Enterprise. By the end of September, it will be joined by the USS Nimitz and the USS Truman Strike Groups. Our sources note that with their arrival, three American naval, air and marine forces will again confront Iranian shores at a time of crisis in the military and civilian leadership of Iran - signaled by the abrupt change of Revolutionary Guards Corps commanders, rising Israel-Syrian tensions and a troubled situation in Lebanon. The Nimitz left the region to take part in large-scale Malabar 2007 II exercise with five Asian nations, termed by Indian military observers “the first step towards establishing Asian NATO. Since the maneuver ended Friday, Sept. 7, the Nimitz has been on its way back to the Persian Gulf. The Truman group, made up of 12 warships and submarines, including a nuclear sub, with 7,600 sailors, air crew and marines aboard, has just completed a long series of training exercises and is preparing to set out for its new posting. It carries eight squadrons of fighters, bombers and spy planes. The Truman force’s battle cry is: “Give ‘em hell”. The combined naval strike groups include the Monterey-CG 61 guided missile cruiser, the USS Barry DDG 52 and USS Mason-DDG 87 guided missile destroyers, the USS Albuquerque-SSN 706 fast nuclear strike submarine and the combat logistical USNS Arctic T-AOE 8. In the last week of August, the USS Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group took up position opposite the Lebanese coast amid trepidation over the September presidential election. Our military sources reported that aboard the group’s vessels are members of the 22nds Marine special operations-capable Expeditionary Unit, who are ready to execute landings on Lebanese beaches.

Ready To Invade?

America is about to invade Iran. Any day now divisions of American tanks will be rolling toward Tehran as President Bush and the neoconservatives plunge the world into yet another disastrous war. I don't actually know this. But a professor at New York University, Barnett Rubin, apparently does. One of his correspondents in Washington, you see, alerted him to the scheme last month. By New York Sun

Iran-Turkey pipeline blast cuts gas flow -sourceReuters UK - UKANKARA, Sept 10 (Reuters) - A large explosion on a pipeline bringing natural gas from Iran to Turkey halted supplies late on Sunday, a Turkish energy ...

Pentagon planning base near Iraq-Iran border - reportReuters India - Mumbai,IndiaNEW YORK (Reuters) - The Pentagon is preparing to build a military base near the Iraq-Iran border to try to curtail the flow of advanced Iranian weaponry to ...

Iran's Plan for Iraq :

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Should American and Coalition forces withdraw immediately, begin pulling out, or staying the course, is the center of the ongoing debate. But to answer, one has to understand the goals of the adversaries in this ongoing conflict. Al Qaeda has a plan for Iraq, and U.S. forces are fighting it along with Iraqi units. But the direct geopolitical threat that is linked to the role of U.S. troops in that country is the Iranian regime and its allies in the region and inside Iraq. How does Tehran see the American presence, what are its plans for Iraq, and what will happen if U.S. forces are withdrawn abruptly?

Judgments Against Iran : FrontPageMagazine.com : Joseph A. Klein

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The Iranian regime has come under withering attack within the last few days in the Middle East and the United States – but neither originated with Israel, the Bush Administration, Senator Lieberman or any of the other so-called war-mongers whom the Leftist appeasers of Islamic terrorism insist are pushing some sort of neo-conservative, Israeli-inspired war of aggression against Iran. The first condemnation was a warning about the true intentions of Iran and its ally Syria. The author was Faisal Al-Sheikh Muhammad, a member of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood – no friend of the United States or Israel: [1] "Soul-mates Ahmadinejad and Bashar are playing for time, and [taking] preventive steps to preserve the status quo in Iraq and Lebanon. Everything we hear about meetings between Iranian and U.S. representatives over the situation in Iraq is nothing but another diplomatic game [played] by Iran, contemptible but ever brilliant at fraud and deception….Ahmadinejad wants to buy time in order to obtain nuclear weapons and to force the world to face this as a fait accompli…They are deviously and malevolently aspiring to destroy this region, with which they feel neither affinity nor kinship." Here we have a fellow Muslim lifting the veil that Iran and its apologists have used to cover up the truth. Iran has no interest in any genuine negotiations about Iraq, where they are supplying munitions to kill our troops, or about their nuclear aspirations. Syria is little more than Iran’s help-mate in facilitating the spread of terror, with its own ambitions to liquidate any democratic rumblings in Lebanon. The second condemnation of Iran came from a Federal District Court decision this past Friday, which finally brought some sense of justice to the families of the 241 US service members killed in the 1983 suicide bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut. A previous court ruling in 2003 had held that Iran provided financial and logistical help to the terrorist group Hezbollah, which carried out this lethal attack resulting in the largest number of American deaths from a terrorist attack until 9/11.

Times Bomb : September 10, 2007 National Review Online Michael Ledeen
Peter Beinart seems surprised that I think the al Qaeda terrorists who committed the East African bombings had ties to Iran. There’s good reason for me to believe it, starting with the testimony of Ali Mohamed, who was one of those terrorists: “I was aware of certain contacts between al Qaeda and...Iran and Hezbollah...I arranged security for a meeting...between Mughniyah (the operational head of Hezbollah) and bin Laden.” He cites the 9/11 Commission Report to debunk my claim that there was an ongoing relationship between Iran and al Qaeda. But he hasn’t read page 61, which says: “Both Hezbollah trainers and experts from Iran’s Ministry of Information and Security trained al Qaeda fighters in Sudan...Lebanon (in Hezbollah camps) and Iran (in officially run bases). Thereafter al Qaeda’s modus operandi came to resemble closely that of Hezbollah.” He says I think the mullahs “were probably behind 9/11.” But I never said it. I only said that it’s “altogether possible” Iran was involved. And so does the 9/11 Commission.

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Kurdish Guerillas Launch Clandestine War in Iran

Kurdish guerrillas have launched a clandestine war in north-western Iran, ambushing troops as they seek Western backing to secure an ethnic homeland. In retaliation, the Iranian army has carried out a series of counter-attacks in the mountains, which span the border with Iraq. By Daily Telegraph
Military Force Should be Last Resort Against Iran

Speaking at Sunday's IDC Herzliya International Institute for Counterterrorism's Seventh Annual Conference on "Terrorism's Global Impact," former NATO supreme allied commander Wesley Clark said there was no distinction between terrorists and criminals - a view seconded by Public Security Minister Avi Dichter, who spoke afterwards. By The Jerusalem Post

on Iran-Turkey Pipeline Cuts Supplies

ANKARA -- An explosion on a pipeline bringing natural gas from Iran to Turkey halted supplies late on Sunday, a Turkish energy official told Reuters. By Reuters

Islamic Unity: Bin Ladin's Version v. Khameini's

Usamah bin Ladin’s September 2007 video address has been analyzed five ways from Friday: as an anti-capitalist screed; yet another indictment of Bush administration Middle East policy; a coded go-ahead for another attack on the U.S.; vindication of Noam Chomsky and Michael Scheuer; and even as a fashion statement (journalists have not been so agog over a beard since Lincoln ran for President). But considering that Bin Ladin is in effect one of two global poles of authority for anti-Western Islam, it would be useful to take the analysis in another direction and compare his latest fulmination to similar statements coming, lately, out of Tehran. 1 Bin Ladin and the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) government, most obviously Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khameini, seem to be engaged in a parallel (if not quite complementary) quest for leadership of the Islamic world that has global ramifications. By History News Network