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Largest Naval Deployment Since 1991
Kuwait activates emergency war plan as three U.S.
warships steam towards Iran
Paul Joseph Watson
[1] Prison Planet
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
The largest naval deployment since 1991 is unfolding as no less than
three U.S. warships make their way towards the Persian Gulf in what
observers are calling an “unprecedented” build-up, while Kuwait has
activated its highest war alert in anticipation of a potential
attack on Iran.
According to reports, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the USS Ronald
Reagan, and the USS Iwo Jima are steaming towards Middle East waters
to reinforce the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS Peleliu which are
already in the region.
They will be joined by a British Royal Navy carrier battle group and
a French nuclear hunter-killer submarine.The maneuvers represent the
largest movement of warships into the region since the 1991 Gulf War
and come just a week after Operation Brimstone, a drill “which saw
more than a dozen warships from US, British and French naval forces
conduct war games in the Atlantic Ocean in preparation for a
possible confrontation with Iran,” [2] reports Press TV.
The deployment has fueled rumors that Georgia’s sneak attack on
Russia in South Ossetia, backed by the U.S. and Israel, was a shot
across the bow to warn Russia against interfering in a strike on
Iran which could be imminent.
Kuwait has activated its highest priority Emergency War Plan in
response to the naval deployment.
“Kuwait was caught by surprise last time, when Iraqi troops invaded
the small emirate and routed the Kuwaiti army in just a few hours,”
a former US diplomat to Kuwait told the Middle East Times.
The Israeli news source [3] Debka File speculates that the U.S.
naval deployment could have five alternate implications.
1. The US, aided also by France, Britain and Canada, is finalizing
preparations for a partial naval blockade to deny Iran imports of
benzene and other refined oil products. This action would indicate
that the Bush administration had thrown in the towel on stiff United
Nations sanctions and decided to take matters in its own hands.
2. Iran, which imports 40 percent of its refined fuel products from
Gulf neighbors, will retaliate for the embargo by shutting the
Strait of Hormuz oil route chokepoint, in which case the US naval
and air force stand ready to reopen the Strait and fight back any
Iranian attempt to break through the blockade.
3. Washington is deploying forces as back-up for a possible Israeli
military attack on Iran’s nuclear installations.
4. A potential rush of events in which a US-led blockade, Israeli
attack and Iranian reprisals pile up in a very short time and
precipitate a major military crisis.
5. While a massive deployment of this nature calls for long
planning, its occurrence at this time cannot be divorced from the
flare-up of the Caucasian war between Russia and Georgia. While
Russia has strengthened its stake in Caspian oil resources by its
overwhelming military intervention against Georgia, the Americans
are investing might in defending the primary Persian Gulf oil
sources of the West and the Far East.
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