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Intelligence indications and warnings abound as Bush finalizes military attack on Iran

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 4 January 2006
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Edito Nuclear Wars and conflicts USA Wayne Besen

By wayne madsen

January 2, 2006 — Intelligence and military sources in the United States and abroad are reporting on various factors that indicate a U.S. military hit on Iranian nuclear and military installations, that may involve tactical nuclear weapons, is in the final stages of preparation.

Likely targets for saturation bombing are the Bushehr nuclear power plant (where Russian and other foreign national technicians are present), a uranium mining site in Saghand near the city of Yazd, the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, a heavy water plant and radioisotope facility in Arak, the Ardekan Nuclear Fuel Unit, the Uranium Conversion Facility and Nuclear Technology Center in Isfahan, the Tehran Nuclear Research Center, the Tehran Molybdenum, Iodine and Xenon Radioisotope Production Facility, the Tehran Jabr Ibn Hayan Multipurpose Laboratories, the Kalaye Electric Company in the Tehran suburbs, a reportedly dismantled uranium enrichment plant in Lashkar Abad, and the Radioactive Waste Storage Units in Karaj and Anarak.

PRIMARY TARGET: BUSHEHR NUCLEAR REACTOR AND HUNDREDS OF RUSSIAN TECHNICIANS

Other first targets would be Shahab-I, II, and III missile launch sites, air bases (including the large Mehrabad air base/international airport near Tehran), naval installations on the Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea, command, control, communications and intelligence facilities. Secondary targets would include civilian airports, radio and TV installations, telecommunications centers, government buildings, conventional power plants, highways and bridges, and rail lines. Oil installations and commercial port facilities would likely be relatively untouched by U.S. forces in order to preserve them for U.S. oil and business interests.

There has been a rapid increase in training and readiness at a number of U.S. military installations involved with the planned primarily aerial attack. These include a Pentagon order to Fort Rucker, Alabama, to be prepared to handle an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 trainees, including civilian contractors, who will be deployed for Iranian combat operations. Rucker is home to the US Army’s aviation training command, including the helicopter training school.

In addition, there has been an increase in readiness at nearby Hurlburt Field in Florida, the home of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command. The U.S. attack on Iran will primarily involve aviation (Navy, Air Force, Navy-Marine Corps) and special operations assets.

There has also been a noticeable increase in activity at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, California, a primary live fire training activity located in a desert and mountainous environment similar to target areas in Iran.

From European intelligence agencies comes word that the United States has told its NATO allies to be prepared for a military strike on Iranian nuclear development and military installations.

On November 17, 2005, Russian President Vladimir Putin spent seven hours in secret discussions with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the the opening ceremonies in Samsun, Turkey for the Russian-Turkish underwater Blue Stream natural gas pipeline, festivities also attended by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

According to sources knowledgeable about the meeting, Erdogan promised Putin, who has become a close friend, that Turkey would not support the use of its bases by the United States in a military attack on Iran. That brought a series of high level visits to Turkey by Bush administration officials, including CIA chief Porter Goss, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Although Erdogan listened to Goss’s and Rice’s pleas for Turkish logistical, political, and intelligence help for an attack on Iran and Turkish Army Chief Yasar Buyukanit heard much the same from Pentagon officials during his recent trip to Washington, the word is that Putin now has enough clout in Ankara to scuttle any use of Turkey by the U.S. for an attack on Iran. [Mueller delivered Ankara intelligence "proof" of Iranian backing for Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) guerrillas in Turkey. Intelligence agencies and business intelligence units around the world are now discounting any intelligence coming from the Bush administration as neocon propaganda invented by think tanks and discredited intelligence agencies in Washington, Tel Aviv-Herzliya, and Jerusalem].

A U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN: THE PERFECT STORM FOR WIDER NUCLEAR CONFLICT

U.S. political and military officials have also approached Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Jordan, Oman, and Azerbaijan seeking their support for a U.S. attack on Iran. Ina replay of the phony pre-war intelligence on Iraq, Washington is trying to convince various countries that a link exists between Iran and "Al Qaeda."

Polish intelligence sources report that Poland’s Defense Minister Radek Sikorski assured Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of Poland’s support for any U.S. strike against Iran. Sikorski is a former American Enterprise Institute colleague of such neo-cons as Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen, and Lynne Cheney, the so-called "Second Lady" of the United States. Sikorski and Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Meller assured Rumsfeld and Rice, respectively, that Poland would stand by the United States during the split in NATO that will occur as a result of the American strike. Polish intelligence sources, who are unhappy with the arrangement of the new right-wing government in Warsaw with the Bush administration, leaked the information about the recent U.S. demarche to NATO in Brussels about preparation for the attack.

Similar intelligence "leaks" about the U.S. attack plans were also leaked to the German magazine Der Spiegel.

European intelligence sources also report that the recent decision by Putin and Russia’s state-owned Gazprom natural gas company to cut supplied of natural gas to Ukraine was a clear warning by Putin to nations like Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Moldova, France, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Bosnia, Serbia, and Germany that it would do the same if they support the U.S. attack on Iran. Gazprom natural gas is supplied, via pipelines in Ukraine, from Russia and Turkmenistan to countries in Eastern and Western Europe. The Bush administration charged Russia with using gas supplies as a "political tool."

Putin has additional leverage on Western Europe since former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder accepted an appointment to the board of a joint Russian-German North European Gas Pipeline Consortium that is controlled by Gazprom. The pipeline will bring Russian gas to Scandinavia, Germany, Netherlands, and Britain, giving Putin additional leverage over Washington in Europe.

Southeast Asian intelligence sources report that Burma’s (Myanmar’s) recent abrupt decision to move its capital from Rangoon (Yangon) to remote Pyinmana, 200 miles to the north, is a result of Chinese intelligence warnings to its Burmese allies about the effects of radiation resulting from a U.S. conventional or tactical nuclear attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. There is concern that a series of attacks on Iranian nuclear installations will create a Chernobyl-like radioactive cloud that would be caught up in monsoon weather in the Indian Ocean.

RANGOON (YANGON) CAPITAL MOVED 200 MILES NORTH OVER FEARS OF MONSOON SEASON IRAN NUCLEAR FALLOUT?

Low-lying Rangoon lies in the path of monsoon rains that would continue to carry radioactive fallout from Iran over South and Southeast Asia between May and October. Coastal Indian Ocean cities like Rangoon, Dhaka, Calcutta, Mumbai, Chennai, and Colombo would be affected by the radioactive fallout more than higher elevation cities since humidity intensifies the effects of the fallout. Thousands of government workers were given only two days’ notice to pack up and leave Rangoon for the higher (and dryer) mountainous Pyinmana.

In neighboring West Bengal, the leftist government and its national leftist allies around the country are planning massive demonstrations during Bush’s upcoming trip to India. They are protesting the war in Iraq as well as the threats against Iran.

Reports from Yemen indicate that western oil companies are concerned about U.S. intentions in Iran since the southern Arabian country catches the edge of the monsoon rains that could contain radioactive fallout from an attack, endangering their workers in the country.

The Bush administration aborted last minute plans to attack Iranian nuclear and political installations prior to the 2004 presidential election. On October 9, Rumsfeld met with defense minister colleagues on the now decommissioned USS John F. Kennedy in the Persian Gulf to seek support for the attack. That meeting has been confirmed by the Danish Defense Minister who was in attendance, however, the topic of the meeting was not discussed. According to U.S. naval personnel on board the Kennedy, a special "war room" was set up to coordinate the attack. Britain, Australia, Italy, Netherlands, and Japan did not attend the meeting because of their opposition to the attack plans.

Intelligence and military officials around the world are also bracing for the results of a U.S. attack on Iran. This includes the distinct possibility of a major Shia retaliatory attack in Iraq, the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, and Afghanistan against U.S. military, diplomatic, and economic targets in the region. Radioactive fallout from a conventional or tactical nuclear attack on Iran will result in major problems with Pakistan, India, China, Russia, Japan, and other downwind countries in Asia and the Pacific Rim, possibly including the fall of the Pervez Musharraf government in Pakistan and replacement by a radical Islamist regime having possession of nuclear weapons. That would provoke a military response from nuclear power India.

In a counter-attack, Iran would immediately launch its Shahab I and II missiles at the U.S. Green Zone in Baghdad, the Al Udeid airbase in Qatar, the US Navy base in Bahrain, Camp Doha base in Kuwait, Al Seeb airbase in Oman, Baghdad International Airport, the U.S. base in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Iran would also launch its long-range Shahab III missiles on the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv, Haifa, Beersheba, Eilat, and the Israeli nuclear complex at Dimona. Iranian missiles would also be launched at US naval ships in the Persian Gulf and oil installations in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

The virtual end of NATO as a viable defense organization may also result from an attack that will drive a final wedge between Washington and Europe. And China may elect to respond financially and militarily against the United States since Iran is China’s second largest source of imported Middle East oil after Saudi Arabia and plans to use an Iranian terminal for the export of natural gas from Turkmenistan. [China now imports 60 percent of its oil needs, and Iran represents 17 percent of those imports].

Russia recently participated in, through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a three-way military exercise (code named "Indira 2005") between Russia, China, and India to prepare for any new U.S. power projections in Asia, including an attack on Iran, a prospective SCO member. Last August, Russia and China held their first-ever joint land-sea-air military exercises.

Iran also held a large military exercise in early December in Bandar Abbas on the Gulf. An Iranian C-130 carrying Iranian journalists from Mehrabad airport to Bandar to cover the exercise crashed into a Tehran apartment building on December 6, killing at least 116 people, including 68 journalists.

Within the U.S. military and across the globe, there is heightened tension about the intentions of the neocon Bush administration and its allies in Israel.

– http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

Forum posts

  • 2006 get ready the globalist will launch an attack on America to start a war against Iran. The draft is down the road. 911 was an inside job and there are more to come.

  • Oh terrific. We have the “A” team on the case. The Chimp in Chief and Condoleezza "mushroom cloud" Rice. Two class A jerks who threw the first matches into the mid east tinder box are once again playing with fire.

    Here we go. Sound familiar? Iran must have ties with Al Qaeda, the shrub’s perennial bad guys to be woken up and dusted off when they are needed. If anyone is still wondering how big an idiot the shrub is just stay tuned and watch his cabal of incompetents do the replay. What a jerk. What a dangerous jerk. It’s unfortunate there is no governing world authority like the UN that could sanction Bush for the international terrorist that he is.

    Haven’t he and his reprobates learned by now that it is much cheaper to buy a nation’s friendship than it is to bomb it back to the stone age? It must have something to do with the effect it would have on his swagger. Oh and then there are the lucrative no-bid nation building contracts probably already signed by KBR CheneyBurton.

    When are we all going to understand the truth that Bush is the real threat to world peace and responsible for more deaths of innocent people than any other murderous scoundrel since Adolph Hitler, his role model.

    Pull up a chair and fill up the popcorn bowl and get ready for the fireworks. I’m sure the shrub’s friends, Jack Abramoff and Tom Delay couldn’t be happier that this will keep them off the front page. A coincidence, I’m sure.

    Will Fields

  • this cant be true.... like the others said, america is perfect

    • America has lost its face of trust, and most of all truth.

      Under this present President of US
      and his rotten suppoerters who lie and cover each other such as Cheney, Rumsfeldt, Rice, Rove, Gunzeles and many others have created the fear and yes they lie.

      Do not dismiss the news written about the coming invasion of Iran is just the beginning of hell.

      Bush thinks he is above the morel judgement that he talks to god, who is he kidding. Trust, if you believe any words that comes from this neocon you are are in denial.

      He lied about Sept. 11, Invasion of Iraq, he blames the CIA faulty information, about WMD/ another lie, knew this was planned long before he entered into office.

      Anyone thinks bush is a christian born again he is a man from hell.

      He will stay the course, and invade Iran. He talks to God, what god would plan to invade and nuke another cournty with the fall out far beyond anyone can even bear to think about.

      It will be terrible, it will spread around the world the fall out.

      Wake up you in denial that bush is for freedom, he is a war crazied idiot.

  • 911 was the prelude now for the next victim of our democracies.
    Trust me nuclear strike is pending.The end is nigh.
    Go back to sleep America.

  • but thos evil muslims peoples will attack us with their bombs and their korans in 45 minutes if we don’t do this. thie is the war of good agains evil and jesus apointed me as his guarden and said to attakc them John 54:22 bacuse if we dont attack them, they’ll attack us and they have nuculker wepons and we have to desotry it to mak the world safe!

    signed,
    George Bush

  • The Book of Revelation is not prophecy. It is a RECIPE BOOK and the Neo-cons and the Judeo/xtian thugs are following the recipe perfectly to bring about the desired result. We must protect the holy land as our middle man to oil/gas profits.

    Happy New year Iran! Sorry about your kids!

  • another boogeyman in the middle east eh? When are we gonna get rid of the REAL boogeymen in Washington? Another chapter in the "War OF Terror"

  • Buy persian rugs NOW. Their value will multiply tenfold.

  • With a little luck, impeachment proceedinsg will start before this insane animal bUsh can create more devastation and death. Terrorism is a Red Herring people! Wake up!

    • There are reasons why america might attack Iran, all to do with gws handlers and advisers. Most of the reasons/advisers can be traced back to the oil industry, the armaments industry, and a small group of zionists. All three together are completely nuts. But if they invade/attack Iran, it could result in the end of the american oil industry, the end of the armaments industry and the end of israel, ....or not. Because the only people who can stop them are the american public, or the american military itself. One can be certain that many of the american military are currently considering the option of a coup, and lets face it, they have had years of organising coups all over the world.

      Or will the chinese and russians so weaken the dollar that it goes the same rad as the post war deutschmark, hundreds of bucks for a coffee, thousands for a loaf of bread.

    • Better put Darth Cheney in the docket along with Bush. At least Bush is human (I think). But Cheney is Borg.

  • The Bush administration charged Russia with using gas supplies as a "political tool."

    Well that’s a hell of a lot more legitimate and reasonable than using the threat of Nuclear Attack as a political tool.

    Rabbitvoz

    • "....using the threat of a nuclear attack as a political tool." ??? Are you referring, perchance, to the demented religious fanatic currently occupying the presidential palace in Iran? He has, if I recall correctly, threatened to turn every Jew in Israel into nuclear ash. Now, no one who knows me would consider me a judaiophile, but, nonetheless, nuking several millions of essentially harmless human beings simply because you do not like them does seem a tad.....drastic. What do you think Mr. Rabbitvoz?

    • The post is old, but in reply to the zionist shill or stooge.

      Your recollections are false since the Iranians didn’t threaten Israel, you lot made that up, and Iran doesn’t own the means to threaten the terrorist nation of Israel, its just your imaginings.

      No I am talking about the religious fundamenralist nutcase in the WH threatening the historically peaceful Iranians with nuclear holocaust.

      Rabbitvoz

  • If we all pray for Peace, God will stop this upcoming war like he stopped Sharon!
    J. Fele NJ USA

    • World War is coming and no amount of praying will stop these Neo Nazi’s they orchestrated 911 to launch World War 3. go New World Order hehhehhehehehheheh

  • 6 billion souls worldwide are praying that the United States does not attack Iran with or without nuclear weapons. Such an attack would create global economic and environmental suicide. If the United States does launch an offensive attack against Iran, it will be proof positive that we as a country have lost our moral compass and are no better than the terrorists themselves.

  • U. S. attack on Iran for having nuclear tactical weapons!!!! Just a thought all the various countries that are in support of such an attack on Iran are completely either stupid, ignorant and in my opinion supporting the U.S. for the simple reason that they are weak and have been bought by the U.S. government in the way that these countries are receiving some sort of financial aid (BLACKMAIL) and do not want to lose it.

    With the U.S. military at a breaking point, a huge U.S. debt; (8 point something trillion dollars) and a huge trade deficit along with a extrodinary large personal debt and very important I think that IRAN and other countries are indicating that they are going to switch to the EURO for trading in the Oil business indicates to me that this is the only reason that the U.S. wants to attach Iran.

    An attack on Iran will disrupt its economy; this will stabilize the American Dollar and hence the same American control of the world will continue and we will be the slaves.

    If the U.S. attacks Iran this could cause all countries holding American currency to dump it and if Iran switches to trading in the EURO this also can cause a devaluation in the American dollar which will have severe repercusions through out the Western World if not worldwide (which probably will be better as it is time for the U.S. to collapse) hense causing mass unloading of U.S. dollars and complete chaos. Right now there is only the American dollar used as the world reserve currency.

    In closure for anyone out there that has U.S. dollars begin dumping them as they are going to be worthless.

    Why did the U.S. attack Iraq not because of weapons of mass destruction or Iraq supporting the terrorist;;; NO BECAUSE IRAQ WAS DOING TRADE IN THE EURO and begining to have an influence on other countries. So what to do Blast them to Hell and that is all the U.S knows from the beginning of time, to do with any country that does not dance to its tune, like the stupid countries that support the present or any American administration they are just weak.

    SO DUMP YOUR AMERICAN CURRENCY!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Calm down people. America isn’t going to attack Iran. Don’t you know that attacking Iran is like attacking Russia. That would be NUTS! Bush and our government ain’t that crazy. At the most a few targets might be bombed by Israel maybe. America will be strong economically untill her end. The scriptures are clear about her end and its very clear that our commerce will be strong untill God judges her.

    • America strong economically until her end...? Keep dreaming mate. You are already in a perilous situation, so too is Australia and Britain, all domestic economies buoyed by artificial housing "booms". The end is near economically for all of in the developed world.
      A timely distraction from the realities of who we are and what we have become is imminent.
      I can see the driving force behind this global suicidal move quite clearly. Who needs any more evidence to see who is manipulating the strings of the talking head in Washington.
      I think that they WILL do it, because the puppet masters want it. And God save us all economically and for wherever we will end up - World war III will be traced back to this point.
      Large blocks are being established from Russia to Brazil. For the sake of their own economies they are all playing along, for now. There will come a point when they will all say enough is enough. Latin America is on the verge of joining anyone that has the balls to face the Yanks down.
      Bring all of the worlds problems to bear at one crucial moment for humanity and we can see that there will be no more Iraq’s - allowing the big boys to get ever closer to you and murder you back to the stone age or submission.
      Its a big issue.
      REALLY, REALLY big.
      Scared.