Pentagon plans base along Iran border

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Pentagon plans base along Iran border
RAW STORY
Published: Monday September 10, 2007

http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Pentagon_plans_base_along_Iran_border_0910.html

The Pentagon is preparing to build a base near the Iraq-Iran border in an effort to stem the flow of "advanced Iranian weaponry" to Shiite militants in Iraq, according to Monday's edition of the Wall Street Journal. "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 Journal said.

The move comes amid continuing reports of US plans to strike Iran and several weeks after a RAW STORY report which signaled that the US had shifted its focus from Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program to its alleged shipment of IEDs across the Iraq-Iran border as the principal rationale in selling a possible attack.

“There is clear evidence that someone in Iran is manufacturing the EFPs,” a source currently working with military and intelligence joint operations in the Middle East told RAW STORY. “They have a distinctive signature. These devices are being used against US troops, Sunnis, and even some Shi'as.”

“This is viewed by some in the Bush Administration as sufficient justification for taking military action against Iran,” said the source, who wished to remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of the topic.

[tridim]

1. So the outfit that "lost" trillions of dollars is going to..

"stem the flow of advanced Iranian weaponry" from a base on the Iranian border?

:rofl:

[peacetalksforall]

2. So, if we are only protecting Iraq, then we can use the Iraqi Air Force

and infantry and their manufacturers for the equipment. Right? We only have to provide technological guidance. Right? After all, they are only Persians who speak Farsi. Right?

(How do you make the dripping sarcasm image?)

[doublethink]

3. Interesting ....... 200 troops ain't enough for any incursion into Iran ....

and another 2,000 Georgian troops based there won't help much but it's a start huh? Could create more tension on the Iranian border? (ya think?) But ..... just for history's sake I'm gonna post a couple of maps on your thread. First one is the province of Wasit (Iraq) where this new base is going to be located 4 miles from the Iranian border. The other is the Khuzestan Province of Iran (where 90% of Iran's oil wealth is located) ..... I always said that if there was to ever be any land incursion into Iran it wouldn't go further than the Khuzestan Provence.




Wasit (Iraq) is just on the north/western tip of Khuzestan (Iran) .... I draw no conclusions, just food for thought. Peace.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070910/pl_afp/usiraqiranmilitary