U.S. has five secret military bases in Israel

[RockStar]

U.S. has five secret military bases in Israel
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/534726.html

The United States has five secret military bases in Israel, according to a new book published recently in the U.S.
"Code Names," written by journalist William Arkin, a former U.S. intelligence official, says there have been secret ties between the U.S. and Israel since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Arkin says the American military is present at Ben-Gurion International Airport, in the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya Pituah and in three other sites, called bases 51-56, across the country.

The book also claims to decipher 3,000 code names and secret passwords used to develop international military contacts between the Pentagon and other countries, including Israel.

The book also offers a detailed description of U.S. military ties and secret presence in countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa following the 2001 attacks.

[paineinthearse]

1. Not any more. n/t

[Tinoire]

4. Lol. Thanks for the chuckle. I'm glad this is getting out n/t

[EVDebs]

2. So the map posted on Christian Science Monitor back in 2002 needs

updating !

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0319/p01s04-wosc.html click 'see map'

also see www.globalsecurity.org for troop deployment info.

Sen John McCain says we're going to be in Iraq for 'ten to twenty years'. With all the new bases, it looks like a lot lot longer than that.

[RockStar]

5. Playboy this month had a great map and listed how many US soldiers in each

country..For instance I did not know US SOLDIERS were even stationed in CANADA until I saw the map.

[seemslikeadream]

3. Ultra-secret troops poised at inaugural

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1175281



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These commandos, operating under a secret counterterrorism program code-named Power Geyser, were mentioned publicly for the first time last week on a Web site for a new book, "Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and Operation in the 9/11 World," by William Arkin, a former Army intelligence analyst.

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The special-missions units belong to the Joint Special Operations Command, a highly secretive command based at Fort Bragg, N.C., whose elements include the Army's Delta Force. In the past, the command has also provided support to domestic law-enforcement agencies during high-risk events like the Olympics and political party conventions, according to the Web site of GlobalSecurity.org, a research organization in Alexandria, Va.

The role of the armed forces in the United States has been a contentious issue for more than a century. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which restricts military forces from performing domestic law enforcement duties, like policing, was enacted after the Civil War in response to the perceived misuse of federal troops who were charged with policing in the South.

Over the years, the law has been amended to allow the military to lend equipment to federal, state and local authorities, assist federal agencies in drug-interdiction work, protect national parks and execute quarantine and certain health laws. About 5,000 federal troops supported civilian agencies at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City three years ago.

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The commandos in Washington last week were the same type of special-ops forces that are hunting top insurgents in Iraq and Osama bin Laden in the wilds of the Afghan-Pakistan border. But under the top-secret military plan, they are also conducting counter-terrorism missions in support of civilian agencies on U.S. soil.
more
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5200163.html

[CHIMO]

6. Code Names: A Look Behind Secret U.S. Military Plans in the Middle East, A

Code Names: A Look Behind Secret U.S. Military Plans in the Middle East, Africa and at Home


WILLIAM ARKIN: Well, I’m in a position as a journalist and a military expert to collect a lot of this information. I guess it has been a passion of mine to follow the secret and not-so-secret meanderings of the military over the years. It seemed to me that there was an incredible explosion of secrecy after 9/11, and I guess I just felt compelled to do what it is that I was asking the government to do, which is to put it out there. I felt like if I had hoarded that information or kept it for my own use, then I would be no better than what I’m criticizing the government for doing. And I also believe that, you know, there are secrets and there are secrets, and merely because the government stamps something classified or claims that it is secret doesn’t make it so. And I wanted to challenge the trivial secrecy because it seemed to me that that was also the area where we got into the most trouble. Scandal follows secrecy like night follows day. And to me, I felt compelled, both as a citizen and then as an expert, to put as much out there as I could, so that people would be able to understand better the kind of world that we are building after 9/11.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/27/1359252&mode=thread&tid=25

[alexisfree]

7. Amen

[BrotherBuzz]

8. It's not mentioned in the breif article....

but I understand there is also a new campus of US Army School of Americas (SOA) in Israel. You might call it the Middle East satellite campus, I guess. Same as the one at Fort Benning, Georgia, only they're not teaching in Spanish (you know what I mean, Vern?).

[wadestock]

9. Potential 1/2 of the reason we're in Iraq

is to make sure no one shoots nukes at Israel.

It's a psychotic logic; we support Israel having nukes....which we don't have under any control....but we support risking the lives of our kids to make sure other countries in the middle east don't develop any nuke capability that will challenge Israel.

[RockStar]

10. Exactly