Posted on 06/25/2010 9:42:06 PM PDT by Strategy
MANAMA: Israel is massing warplanes in the Caucasus for an attack on Iran, it was revealed yesterday.
Preparations are underway to launch the military attack from Azerbaijan and Georgia, reports our sister paper Akhbar Al Khaleej, quoting military sources.
Israel was, in fact, training pilots in Turkey to launch the strike and was smuggling planes into Georgia using Turkish airspace, they said.
However, Turkey was unaware of Israel's intention of transferring the planes to Georgia, the sources said.
The unexpected crisis between Israel and Turkey following an Israeli commando raid on an aid flotilla bound for Gaza Strip hit Israeli calculations.
Azerbaijan-based intelligence units, working under the cover of technicians, trainers and consultants, have helped with the preparations, the sources said.
Military equipment, mostly supplied by the US, was transported to a Georgian port via the Black Sea.
Georgian coastguard and Israeli controllers are co-operating to hide the operations from Russian vessels, said the sources.
(Excerpt) Read more at gulf-daily-news.com ...
My guess, its disinformation.
Israel is probably quietly waging a psy-ops campaign so when the real attack comes it will surprise them and might even surprise the world.
First, the Turkish governmnt and the Turkish military are not on the same page. Considering who is running the Turkish government, this is good news.
Second, there is no hope that the Georgians and Azeris could hide their involvement from Russia. This means that Russia chooses not to know what is going on for the sake of deniability. This is good news.
The part about American ground troops strikes me as disinformation, and the carrier rotations through the area are routine.
But you're right that when Israel decides to go for it, the Iranians are not going to know what hit them. I think the goal is regime change, not taking out the nuclear sites.
I want whatever they are smoking.
The Israelis should leak it that they have bases in the Iran countryside and they could strike Tehran within 20 minutes.
Then, in the middle of the night, blow up the flotilla ship in the harbor before it leaves.
Deny everything.
If the USA is in any way involved in this - even if it is not saying “no” - it makes it all the more bizarre that BHO refused to intervene on the side of the demonstrators after the Iranian elections. I have some decent sources on these topics - they think this is a bluff.
It does seem a bit “fishy.”
Very few things would make me as happy as Israel kicking hell out of Iran.
I would trust DEBKA more than this gibberish.
why no YOUTUBE video? Hard to believe, otherwise.
Absolutely so!
LOL!
I see this article as disinformation. Yet what you say above would be the more brilliant move. There's been so much talk over time of attacking Iran for their nuclear facilities, yet regime change would be the better move.
Agreed. Next week they will be reported as concealing training beneath the ash cloud in Iceland.
As part of the ruse they need to release photos of crates stacked on a dock that say “Property of the Zionist Aggressor Army.”
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Israel is probably quietly waging a psy-ops campaign so when the real attack comes it will surprise them and might even surprise the world.
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True; but there will not be an above-the-board raid. Mossad will get a small Israeli nuke into one of the facilities and there will be an “accident.” This possibility is bolstered by IDF’s recruitment of “suicide mission” personnel from it’s special ops ranks.
Israelis will give their own lives to save lives as opposed to just taking lives randomly.
Why does this seem to have came from DEBKA word for word???
...sez the Gulf Daily News. :’) I think this disinfo campaign originated in the Arabian regimes, rather than among Israelis. Thanks Strategy.
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