Israel is asking for permission to take out nuclear facilities in Iraq before Iran builds the bomb.
Israel is negotiating with the United States for permission to fly over Iraq as part of a plan to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.
To conduct surgical air strikes against Iran’s nuclear programme, Israeli war planes would need to fly across Iraq. But to do so the Israeli military authorities in Tel Aviv need permission from the Pentagon. ~telegraph.co.uk
As John Edwards said recently, stopping suicidal regimes from developing weapons of mass destruction is the greatest threat to world peace right now and Israel is obviously part of that threat.
Ah, peace. Wherefore art thou world peace?
The other major threat to world peace is obviously us. Meaning U.S. of A.
The aircraft carrier, backed by its sister vessel, a handful of destroyers and a shoal of support ships, has placed a maritime ring of steel around an increasingly unstable region.
While the Eisenhower is ostensibly assisting US operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is the looming threat of Iran that increasingly occupies its attention.
Recent tensions between America and Iran over Teheran’s attempts to develop a nuclear weapon have raised the prospect of its third regional war in a decade.
The addition of a second aircraft carrier to its strike groups has fuelled the belief that America is gearing up for a fight with Iran. Not since the Iraq war in 2003 has America amassed so much fire power around the Gulf. ~telegraph.co.uk