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Britain took part in mock Iran invasion
The Guardian ^
| 15APR06
| Julian Borger and Ewen MacAskill
Posted on 04/14/2006 9:20:08 PM PDT by familyop
Pentagon planned for Tehran conflict with war game involving UK troops British officers took part in a US war game aimed at preparing for a possible invasion of Iran, despite repeated claims by the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, that a military strike against Iran is inconceivable. The war game, codenamed Hotspur 2004, took place at the US base of Fort Belvoir in Virginia in July 2004.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: britain; british; hotspur2004; invasion; iran; london; missiles; nuclear; on; terror; war; weapons
...Guardian front page, under "UK took part in Iran war games."
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posted on
04/14/2006 9:20:10 PM PDT
by
familyop
To: familyop
And there's some sort of a "problem" with this exercise?
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posted on
04/14/2006 9:21:59 PM PDT
by
nopardons
To: familyop
repeated claims by the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, that a military strike against Iran is inconceivable So inconceivable, that we're planning for it.
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posted on
04/14/2006 9:22:19 PM PDT
by
Brett66
(Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: familyop
LOL, Iranian, UK and US, trash-talkin to each other?
To: roses of sharon
Maybe Iran will do another war games displaying their 1940s missle technology.
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posted on
04/14/2006 9:32:08 PM PDT
by
Naptowne
To: Brett66
" repeated claims by the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, that a military strike against Iran is inconceivable " ( So inconceivable, that we're planning for it. )
Plausible denyability
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posted on
04/14/2006 9:39:20 PM PDT
by
Prophet in the wilderness
(PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
To: Prophet in the wilderness
We plan for everything no matter how remote. I remember hearing that we even had a plan to again storm the beaches of Normandy and liberate those undeserving French b-stards yet again. Bring it on!
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posted on
04/14/2006 11:03:16 PM PDT
by
appeal2
To: All
"despite repeated claims by the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, that a military strike against Iran is inconceivable."
Vizzini: "INCONCEIVABLE."
Inigo Montoya: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
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