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US carrier battle group sails for Iran
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Eisenhower and its accompanying strike force of cruiser, destroyer and attack submarine slipped their moorings and headed off for the Persian Gulf region on October 2, according to an article by Dave Lindorff posted on www.jihadunspun.com. According to Lindorff, the Eisenhower strike force is scheduled to arrive in the vicinity of Iran around October 21, at the same time as a second flotilla of minesweepers and other ships. This build-up of naval power around the coast of Iran, according to some military sources of Lindorff, is in preparation for an air attack on Iran that would target not just Irans nuclear enrichment facilities, but its entire military command and control system. Lindorff says that while such an attack was likely to unleash a wave of military violence all over Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and elsewhere against US forces and interests and against oil wells, pipelines and loading facilities, as well as a mining of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, with a resulting skyrocketing of global oil prices, the real goal of this new war by the US would be ensuring Republican control of the House and Senate. According to Lindorff, journalist Larisa Alexandrovna, in the online publication Raw Story, reports that top military leaders are already engaging in branches and sequels planning for an Iran attack, which her sources tell her is the kind of planning that is done after an initial plan has been decided upon. Lindorff writes that he is surprised by the Democratic Partys silence. Not one Democrat in Congress and not one Democratic candidate for Congress not even anti-war insurgent Ned Lamont in Connecticut has demanded an answer from Bush and the Pentagon for the obvious military buildup around Iran, or about published reports that the US already has special forces inside Iran backing the terrorist organization MEK, and selecting targets for US bombardment. Lindroff also questions the status of the Enterprise carrier strike force, which has already been on station in the Arabian Sea for six months. If the Enterprise is held over for a longer deployment, after the arrival of the Eisenhower, we will know that something serious is planned, writes Lindroff. Posted by: Fred 2006-10-13 |
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