U.S. Aircraft Carriers Head For The Gulf (Kuwait News)

[lovuian]

http://operationitch.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/us-aircraft-carriers-head-for-the-gulf/

Kuwait City, Kuwait (AHN) — Two additional U.S. Navy aircraft carriers are on their way to the Gulf and the Red Sea, according to Kuwait Times. Kuwait began finalizing its “emergency war plan” on being told the vessels were bound for the region.

The U.S. Navy will neither confirm nor deny that carriers are currently en route. U.S. Fifth Fleet Combined Maritime Command located in Bahrain said it could not comment because of what a spokesman termed “force-protection policy.”

While the Kuwaiti daily did not name the ships it believes are heading for the Middle East, The Media Line’s (TML) defense analyst said they could be the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Ronald Reagan.

Within the last month, the Roosevelt completed an exercise along the U.S. east coast focusing on communication among navies of different countries. Since then, it has since been declared ready for operational duties.

The Reagan, currently with the Seventh Fleet, has just set sail from Japan.

The Seventh Fleet area of operation stretches from the East Coast of Africa to the International Date Line.

Meanwhile, the Arabic news agency Moheet reported at the end of July that an unnamed American destroyer, accompanied by two Israeli naval vessels traveled through the Suez Canal from the Mediterranean. A week earlier, a U.S. nuclear submarine accompanied by a destroyer and a supply ship moved into the Mediterranean, according to Moheet.
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Kuwait Bahrain UAE Quatar and Saudia Arabia starting to get prepared

They have been warned

[realisticphish]

1. well

this is a good time to do it. Theoretically, they could be maneuvering to put more pressure on Russia re: Georgia. But i don't think i'm that naive

[Selatius]

2. If there is going to be an aerial bombardment, they must move in offensive military units.

As far as I know, typically two aircraft carriers are on station either in the Persian Gulf or the Arabian Sea pretty much at all times. Adding two more would double the firepower in theater already, unless the existing two carriers are going to be relieved by the Reagan and the Roosevelt.

[lovuian]

4. From what I'm getting there bringing everything in to guard

Quatar Kuwait UAE and Saudis

[Selatius]

6. Guard them from what? A pre-emptive Iranian assault? Sounds like a cover story.

If they want a war with Iran, they would need to come up with a good excuse to move in a lot of firepower without foreign intelligence agencies across the world suspecting the US is about to hit Iran.

[lovuian]

11. it could be sanctions being implaced or support for a

Israel strike

[FogerRox]

17. We dont keep 2 carriers in the area.

Plenty of cites in some of my journals.

[isentropic]

3. Wow, that makes about...what, 70 we have there now?

(this comes up every time they rotate in and out)

[Ghost in the Machine]

5. Are they usually secretive when they're just rotating in & out??

We talked to one of our family members who is in the Navy wednesday, and he said all he could say was "I'm on the boat". He couldn't tell us where he was, where he was headed or what he was doing....


:hi:

[Angleae]

7. It's difficult to move a 98000 ton ship secretly.

The official navy website even has major ship deploments

http://www.navy.mil/swf/index.asp
(right column bottom)

[lovuian]

9. lol

how true

[lovuian]

10. Your right Ghost there is more secrecy here

they are not allowed to say

their on a boat

[FogerRox]

18. Heres another one

http://www.gonavy.jp/CVLocation.html

[FogerRox]

19. So true, Most times we dont even have 1 carrier in the Gulf.

Let alone 2 or more.

[dkofos]

8. I thought August was a bad time to roll out a new product (war).

[Vinca]

12. Who cares? John Edwards had an affair 2 years ago.

:sarcasm:

[lovuian]

13. You have just made the biggest point

meanwhile the public is oblivious

[Hubert Flottz]

14. Going in to cover the "Holy Land's" Ass when the shit hits the fans?

I don't trust these LIARS!

[Rage for Order]

15. BREAKING: Iran will be attacked on September 6!

I'm series!!!! I have a trusted source inside the Pentagon who leaked this information to me. Well, that, and September 6 is my birthday so it makes sense. Karl Rove is deliberately trying to f**k up my birthday by attacking Iran on September 6.

[Angleae]

16. Have there been extra USAF fighters deployed?

If not, I tend to discount war rumors related to navy units only when air force units can be used.