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ISRAEL: On the slippery slope to the Big Mistake
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Israel is massing warplanes in the Caucasus
for an attack on Iran, as
[Akhbar Al
Khalee, military sources.]
A very large contingent of US ground
forces have recently massed in Azerbaijan, near
the
Iranian border.
[Azerbaijani news website Trend]
Israel has been training pilots in
Turkey to launch the strike and was smuggling planes into Georgia using Turkish
airspace, they said.
However, Turkey was unaware of Israel's intention of transferring the planes to Georgia, the sources said.
The unexpected crisis between Israel and
Turkey following an Israeli commando raid on an aid flotilla bound for Gaza
Strip hit Israeli calculations.
Azerbaijan-based intelligence units,
working under the cover of technicians, trainers and consultants, have helped
with the preparations, the sources said.
Military equipment, mostly supplied by the
US, was transported to a Georgian port via the Black Sea.
Georgian coastguard and Israeli controllers
are co-operating to hide the operations from Russian vessels, said the sources.
They point out that according to Israel, it
will not be in a position to launch a strike on Iran without using bases in
Georgia and Azerbaijan due to the limited capabilities of its nuclear
submarines stationed near the Iranian coast.
Press TV also quoted Iranian Revolultionary
Guard Brigadier General Mehdi Moini as saying that the country's forces are
mobilised and ready to face Israelli and American "misadventures"
near its borders.
* Iran last night said it has cancelled
plans to send an aid ship to the Gaza Strip as Israel "had sent a letter
to the UN saying that the presence of Iranian and Lebanese ships in the Gaza
area will be considered a declaration of war on that regime and it will
confront it," Irna said.
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