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Operation Bite: April 6 sneak attack by US forces
against Iran planned, Russian military sources warn
By Webster G. Tarpley
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Mar 26, 2007, 01:02
(Excerpt)
WASHINGTON DC, -- The long awaited
US military attack on Iran is now on track for the first week of April,
specifically for 4 am on April
6, the Good Friday opening of Easter weekend, writes the
well-known Russian journalist Andrei Uglanov in the Moscow weekly
“Argumenty Nedeli.” Uglanov cites Russian military experts close to the
Russian General Staff for his account.
The attack is slated
to last for 12 hours, according to Uglanov, from 4 am until 4 pm
local time. Friday is the Sabbath in Iran. In the course of the attack,
code named Operation Bite, about 20 targets are marked for bombing; the
list includes uranium enrichment facilities, research centers, and
laboratories.
The first reactor at
the Bushehr nuclear plant, where Russian engineers are working, is supposed
to be spared from destruction. The US attack plan reportedly calls for the
Iranian air defense system to be degraded, for numerous Iranian warships to
be sunk in the Persian Gulf, and for the most important headquarters of the
Iranian armed forces to be wiped out.
The attacks will be
mounted from a number of bases, including the island of Diego Garcia in the
Indian Ocean. Diego Garcia is currently home to B-52 bombers equipped with
standoff missiles. Also participating in the air strikes will be US naval
aviation from aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, as well as from those
of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Additional cruise missiles will be
fired from submarines in the Indian Ocean and off the coast of the Arabian
peninsula. The goal is allegedly to set back Iran’s nuclear program by
several years, writes Uglanov, whose article was reissued by RIA-Novosti
in various languages, but apparently not English, several days ago.
The story is the top item on numerous Italian and German blogs, but so far
appears to have been ignored by US websites.
Observers comment that this dispatch
represents a high-level orchestrated leak from the Kremlin, in effect a war
warning, which draws on the formidable resources of the Russian
intelligence services, and which deserves to be taken with the utmost
seriousness by pro-peace forces around the world.
More…
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'Possibility' Brit
Marines Were Inside Iran's Waters: by Yossi Melman, March 25, 2007, Haaretz, Israel
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Kidnapping
of British Marines Can Be Traced Back to U.S. Forces: by Richard Beeston: Analysis, March
27, 2007, The
Times, U.K.
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US Launches Show of Force in
Persian Gulf: March 27, 2007, MSNBC via
AP
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UAE territory
off-limits for anti-Iran strike - president: March 27, 2007, RIA – Novosti, Russia
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Two Delusional Leaders … and One Very Small
World: By Sergei Strokan March 26, 2007, Kommersant,
Russia
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Americans
Believe Iran Arming Iraqis, but Oppose Attack: March 27, 2007, Angus
Reid Global Monitor: Polls & Research
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Proof of US orchestration of death squads’ killings in Iraq: By Max Fuller, Mar 22,
2007, Online Journal Guest
Writer
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Germans Skeptical Over Terror Leader's Confession: March 16, 2007, Der Spiegel Online, Germany
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MISSION CREEP,
ANDEAN WARS - Colombia raid with U.S. GIs raises combat issues: by Carmen
Gentile, March 26, 2007, The Washington
Times
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America
Speaks Out: Military Spending Too High… by Carl Conetta,
26 March 2007, Project on Defense
Alternatives Briefing Memo #41
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Breaking Ranks:
The answer to military strain is not more troops but less war: by
Christopher Preble, March 12, 2007, The
American Conservative Magazine
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Ghost Prisons, Ghost Courtrooms: by Nat Hentoff, Village Voice
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The Orwellian
Ideology of 24: by Matt McCaffrey, The
Ludwig von Mises Institute
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Americans Face a Moral Reckoning: by James Carroll, Boston
Globe
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All Hail
Israel - Homage to Fear and Fawning: by William A. Cook, March 20, 2007, Atlantic Free Press
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When Does
Opposition to Israel or the Israel Lobby Indicate Anti-Semitism? by Walter
C. Uhler, March 7, 2007, Atlantic Free
Press
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Has
the dollar met its date with destiny? by Jeremy
Batstone, Director of Private Client Research at Charles Stanley, March 26,
2007, MoneyWeek
Cartoons
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Patriot Act: Clay Bennett, The Christian Science
Monitor, Boston
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How Torture Works:
Nik Scott, Australia, Curious Moments
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Patience is a Virtue… Adam Zyglis, Buffalo, NY, The Buffalo
News
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Mistakes Accomplished! Robert Ariail, The State, South Carolina
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Help! Hasan Bleibel Al-Mustakbal, Beirut, Lebanon
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Afghan Mission: Patrick Chappatte, the Geneva daily "Le
Temps", Sunday edition of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung, weekly cartoon for
the International Herald Tribune.
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Time Flies… Cameron (Cam) Cardow, Canada The Ottawa Citizen
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Happy Birthday, Mr. President: Tab (Thomas Boldt), The Calgary Sun, Alberta,
Canada
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