Ruh-oh -- > Israel will hit Iran in the next few months: Israeli officia

[LunaC]

Hey, BushCo could use a well-timed distraction right about now.

I’ve been saying all along that Israel will be the one to attack Iran first so the U.S. can “come to the aid of an ally” as an excuse to jump into the fray. It’s the only story they have left to sell to the now-wary ’merikun public. Looks like my intuition/common sense may be on the mark.

WASHINGTON: Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in the next “month or two or three,” an Israeli official has been quoted here as saying.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C05%5C09%5Cstory_9-5-2006_pg1_3

There have been rumors posted here that the date for an Iran attack is set for June 7.….anyone else hear any tidbits that would fit into this timeframe?

[existentialist]

1. Scary, probably realistic except that

I don't believe that they would lock in any one date more than a few hours in advance and under the tightest security.

And unlike our present Administration I would credit Israel with--if not much else--the capacity to keep its security matters secret.

[MaggieSwanson]

2. My guess is that Israel

will be "attacked" first, from within Iran. But not necessarily by Iranians...

Then we will "come to the aid of our ally".

:tinfoilhat:

[Dunvegan]

3. Larisa at Rawstory has two more carrier groups moving to the Gulf theatre.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/US_military_seen_ready_for_Iran_0511.html

US military, intelligence officials raise concern about possible preparations for Iran strike

Use of Iraq terror group bypassed Congress, sources say

Larisa Alexandrovna
Published: Thursday May 11, 2006

Concern is building among the military and the intelligence community that the US may be preparing for a military strike on Iran, as military assets in key positions are approaching readiness, RAW STORY has learned.

According to military and intelligence sources, an air strike on Iran could be doable in June of this year, with military assets in key positions ready to go and a possible plan already on the table.

{snip}

"I would expect two or three aircraft carriers would be moved into the area," Gardner said, describing what he thinks is the best way air strikes could be carried out without disengaging assets from US fronts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Two air-craft carriers are already en route to the region, RAW STORY has found. The USS Abraham Lincoln, which recently made a port call in Singapore, and the USS Enterprise which left Norfolk, Virginia earlier this month, are headed for the Western Pacific and Middle East. The USS Ronald Reagan is already operating in the Gulf.

[iconoclastic cat]

6. That's exactly what they did before "shock and awe."

I remember that very clearly. It's coming.

[LunaC]

8. "air-craft carriers are already en route to the region"

yeah, it's coming......and when it does, we can expect a global FUBAR.

[rucky]

4. That would make more sense.

have Israel start Bush's war for him.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Bet it happens before the elections

oh what a coincidence !

[Balbus]

7. On no!!! It's the Joooooooooos!!!!

[bananas]

9. Here is the original article by de Borchgrave

Here's four paragraphs, I think it's worth reading in full.

http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060508-111500-1011r

Commentary: Iran's nuclear nightmare
By Arnaud de Borchgrave
UPI Editor at Large
Published May 8, 2006

WASHINGTON -- A U.S. and/or Israeli air strike against Iran's nuclear facilities before November conjures up a dead duck rather than a lame one at one end of Pennsylvania Avenue and at the other, key Congressional committees under the control of prominent liberals.

<snip>

Yet conservative Republicans, as polled by NewsMax.com, a conservative web-based news service, show overwhelmingly strong support for bombing Iran. Almost 60,000 people took part in NewsMax's poll and 88 percent agreed Iran poses a greater threat than Saddam Hussein did before the Iraq War.

<snip>

At Israel's National Day reception in Washington last week, an Israeli official, speaking privately and not for attribution said he believed Israel would strike first in the next "month or two or three" and that fighter bombers would not be involved as they were to take out Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor before it went critical in 1981. For Osirak, Israel used fourteen F-15s and F-16s. This time, the Israeli said, it will be missiles. Cruise missiles, we inquired? No, he replied, with a gesture of his hand that went up and down again.

<snip>

The State Department's top proliferation official said the administration is determined to ensure that "not one centrifuge spins in Iran." Israel is certainly poised to stop the spinning. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called Ahmadinejad a "psychopath who speaks like Hitler before taking power." And Israel is not about to succumb to the appeasement of the 1930s.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

13. What is the World Peace Herald?

And why are its top two "other sites" links to Moonie publications? I question the trustworthiness of this site.

[Coastie for Truth]

10. Moonie Arnaud de Borchgrave in the Pakistan Daily Times

Come on,

"The unnamed official told Arnaud de Borchgrave(see note 1, below), editor-in-chief of the United Press International (UPI), at the recently held national day reception at the Israeli Embassy that he believed Israel would strike Iran first in the next two or three months.



(Note 1) - Old Arnaud de Borchgrave was the editor of Rev Moon's Washington Times.

:shrug: Gimme something more credible - Arnaud de Borchgrave? :shrug:

[Dunvegan]

11. Uh oh...de Borchgrave. He doesn't just drink the Kool-Ade...

...he's one of the ones stiring up cauldrons of the stuff for others to partake of.

I'd say there's nothing stopping the US from first-strike against a soverign nation, at this point.

Since the "unitarian executive" and the "unitarian defence/intellegence" power consolidation has gotten this far, what's stopping the Blivet from doing this all on his own.

[Coastie for Truth]

12. I get my kooks mixed up

Wasn't de Borchgrave a LaRouchian at one time?