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Since Israel's
ham-handed attack of a Gaza-bound aid ship drew the ire of the world, a new
country will take over the task: the
United States. Once again, the US will
do Israel's dirty work and go to war on her behalf. It's the old joke: Israel is saying to the US "Let's YOU and HIM (Armani-job) fight; I'll hold your coat..."
Using the latest
UN sanctions as its legal pretext, the United States has increasingly moved massive war assets ever closer to the shores of Iran; that could account for Iran's canceling (6/27) its plan to
send an "aid ship for Gaza;" Iran was concerned that an American military boarding party would intercept the vessel and
search it.
Obama is provocatively
poking his finger in Armani-job's chest by sending the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier
Strike Group (twelve warships)
cruising in the Arabian Sea opposite Chah
Bahar, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards biggest naval base not far from
the Iranian-Pakistan border. It is there that most of Iran's special
commando units are housed.
The United States
continues its preparations for war; it has posted a third carrier, the USS Nassau, opposite Iran's
shores. "It is supported by amphibious assault ships and up to 4,000 Navy
and Marine Corps personnel, bringing the
total US strength in these waters to three carriers and 10,000 combat
personnel.
The USS
Nassau (LHA-4) Amphibious Ready Group 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit,
tasked with supporting the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet area of operations, is
cruising around the Bab al-Mandeb Straits where the Gulf of Aden flows into the
Red Sea.
The third US
carrier group to reach waters around Iran consists of three vessels:
1. The USS Nassau Amphibious
Assault ship is not just an enormous landing craft for the 3,000 Marines
aboard; its decks carry 6 vertical take-off AV-HB Harrier attack planes;
four AH-1W Super Cobra, twelve CH-46 Sea Knight and CH-53
Sea Stallion helicopters, as well choppers convertible to fast V-22
Osprey airplanes capable of landing in any conditions.
This vast warship has 1,400 cabinets for sleeping the entire Marine-24th Marine
Expeditionary Unit aboard.
2. The amphibious transport dock ship USS
Mesa Verde which carries 800 Marines equipped for instantaneous
landing.
3. The amphibious dock landing ship USS
Ashland which carries 400 Marines and 102 commandos trained for
special operations behind enemy lines.
Also posted in
the Arabian Sea, further to the west, is the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Strike Group.
These new
arrivals are a massive injection of naval, air and marine muscle to the
strength Washington has deployed in the Persian Gulf-Red Sea-Indian Ocean arena
in recent months. "
[source: Debkafile http://www.debka.com/article/8879/]
Third US carrier, 4,000 Marines augment US armada opposite
Iran
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 28, 2010, 10:45
PM (GMT+02:00)
