Operation Bite - April 6th Sneak Attack By US Forces on Iran Planned

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Operation Bite - April 6 Sneak Attack By US Forces On Iran Planned
- Russian Military Sources Warn

General Ivashov Calls For Emergency Session Of
UN Security Council To Ward Off Looming US Aggression
By Webster G. Tarpley
3-25-7

http://fr.rian.ru/world/20070319/62260006.html

http://fr.rian.ru/world/20070321/62387717.html

WASHINGTON DC -- The long awaited US military attack on Iran is now on
track for the first week of April, specifically for 4 AM on April 6,
the Good Friday opening of Easter weekend, writes the well-known
Russian journalist Andrei Uglanov in the Moscow weekly "Argumenty
Nedeli." Uglanov cites Russian military experts close to the Russian
General Staff for his account.

The attack is slated to last for twelve hours, according to Uglanov,
lasting from 4 AM until 4 PM local time. Friday is a holiday in Iran.
In the course of the attack, code named Operation Bite, about 20
targets are marked for bombing; the list includes uranium enrichment
facilities, research centers, and laboratories.

The first reactor at the Bushehr nuclear plant, where Russian
engineers are working, is supposed to be spared from destruction. The
US attack plan reportedly calls for the Iranian air defense system to
be degraded, for numerous Iranian warships to be sunk in the Persian
Gulf, and the for the most important headquarters of the Iranian armed
forces to be wiped out.

The attacks will be mounted from a number of bases, including the
island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Diego Garcia is currently
home to B-52 bombers equipped with standoff missiles. Also
participating in the air strikes will be US naval aviation from
aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, as well as from those of the
Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Additional cruise missiles will be
fired from submarines in the Indian Ocean and off the coast of the
Arabian peninsula. The goal is allegedly to set back Iran's nuclear
program by several years, writes Uglanov, whose article was re-issued
by RIA-Novosti in various languages, but apparently not English,
several days ago. The story is the top item on numerous Italian and
German blogs, but so far appears to have been ignored by US websites.

Observers comment that this dispatch represents a high-level
orchestrated leak from the Kremlin, in effect a war warning, which
draws on the formidable resources of the Russian intelligence
services, and which deserves to be taken with the utmost seriousness
by pro-peace forces around the world.

Asked by RIA-Novosti to comment on the Uglanov report, retired Colonel
General Leonid Ivashov confirmed its essential features in a March 21
interview: "I have no doubt that there will be an operation, or more
precisely a violent action against Iran." Ivashov, who has reportedly
served at various times as an informal advisor to Putin, is currently
the Vice President of the Moscow Academy for Geopolitical Sciences.

Ivashov attributed decisive importance to the decision of the
Democratic leadership of the US House of Representatives to remove
language from the just-passed Iraq supplemental military
appropriations bill which would have demanded that Bush come to
Congress before launching an attack on Iran. Ivashov pointed out that
the language was eliminated under pressure from AIPAC, the lobbing
group representing the Israeli extreme right, and of Israeli Foreign
Minister Tsipi Livni.

"We have drawn the unmistakable conclusion that this operation will
take place," said Ivashov. In his opinion, the US planning does not
include a land operation: " Most probably there will be no ground
attack, but rather massive air attacks with the goal of annihilating
Iran's capacity for military resistance, the centers of
administration, the key economic assets, and quite possibly the
Iranian political leadership, or at least part of it," he continued.

Ivashov noted that it was not to be excluded that the Pentagon would
use smaller tactical nuclear weapons against targets of the Iranian
nuclear industry. These attacks could paralyze everyday life, create
panic in the population, and generally produce an atmosphere of chaos
and uncertainty all over Iran, Ivashov told RIA-Novosti. "This will
unleash a struggle for power inside Iran, and then there will be a
peace delegation sent in to install a pro-American government in
Teheran," Ivashov continued. One of the US goals was, in his
estimation, to burnish the image of the current Republican
administration, who would now be able to boast that they had wiped out
the Iranian nuclear program.

Among the other outcomes, General Ivashov pointed to a partition of
Iran along the same lines as Iraq, and a subsequent carving up of the
Near and Middle East into smaller regions. "This concept worked well
for them in the Balkans and will now be applied to the greater Middle
East," he commented.

"Moscow must expert Russia's influence by demanding an emergency
session of the United Nations Security Council to deal with the
current preparations for an illegal use of force against Iran and the
destruction of the basis of the United Nations Charter," said General
Ivashov. "In this context Russia could cooperate with China, France
and the non-permanent members of the Security Council. We need this
kind of preventive action to ward off the use of force," he
concluded.



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http://www.sundayherald.com/internat..._rom ania.php

America 'poised to strike at Iran's nuclear sites' from bases in
Bulgaria and Romania
Report suggest that 'US defensive ring' may be new front in war on
terror.


By Gabriel Ronay

PRESIDENT BUSH is preparing to attack Iran's nuclear facilities before
the end of April and the US Air Force's new bases in Bulgaria and
Romania would be used as back-up in the onslaught, according to an
official report from Sofia.

"American forces could be using their two USAF bases in Bulgaria and
one at Romania's Black Sea coast to launch an attack on Iran in
April," the Bulgarian news agency Novinite said.

The American build-up along the BlackSea,coupled with the recent
positioning of two US aircraft carrier battle groups off the Straits
of Hormuz, appears to indicate president Bush has run out of patience
with Tehran's nuclear misrepresentation and non-compliance with the UN
Security Council's resolution. President Ahmeninejad of Iran has
further ratcheted up tension in the region by putting on show his
newly purchased state of the art Russian TOR-Ml anti-missile defence
system.


Whether the Bulgarian news report is a tactical feint or a strategic
event is hard to gauge at this stage. But, in conjunction with the
beefing up of America's Italian bases and the acquisition of anti-
missile defence bases in the Czech Republic and Poland, the Balkan
developments seem to indicate a new phase in Bush's global war on
terror.

Sofia's news ofadvanced war preparations along the BlackSea is backed
up by some chilling details. One is the setting up of new refuelling
places for US Stealth bombers, which would spearhead an attack on
Iran. "The USAF's positioning of vital refuelling facilities for its
B-2 bombers in unusual places, including Bulgaria, falls within the
perspective of such an attack." Novinite named colonel Sam Gardiner,
"a US secret service officer stationed in Bulgaria", as the source of
this revelation.

Curiously, the report noted that although Tony Blair, Bush's main ally
in the global war on terror, would be leaving office, the president
had opted to press on with his attack on Iran in April.

Before the end of March,3000 US military personnel are scheduled to
arrive "on a rotating basis" at America's Bulgarian bases. Under the
US-Bulgarian military co-operation accord, signed in April, 2006, an
airbase at Bezmer, a second airfield at Graf Ignitievo and a shooting
range at Novo Selo were leased to America. Significantly, last year's
bases negotiations had at one point run into difficulties due to
Sofia's demand "for advance warning if Washington intends to use
Bulgarian soil for attacks against other nations, particularly Iran".

Romania, the other Black Sea host to the USmilitary, is enjoying
adollar bonanza as its MihailKogalniceanu base at Constanta is being
transformed into an American "place d'arme". It is also vital to the
Iran scenario.

Last week, the Bucharest daily Evenimentual Zilei revealed the USAF is
to site several flights of F-l5, F-l6 and Al0 aircraft at the
Kogalniceanu base.Admiral GheorgheMarin, Romania's chief of staff,
confirmed "up to 2000 American military personnel will be temporarily
stationed in Romania".

In Central Europe, the Czech Republic and Poland have also found
themselves in the Pentagon's strategic focus. Last week, Mirek
Topolanek, the Czech prime minister, and the country's national
security council agreed to the siting of a US anti-missile radar
defence system at Nepolisy. Poland has also agreed to having a US anti-
missile missile base and interceptor aircraft stationed in the
country.

Russia, however, does not see the chain of new US bases on its
doorstep as a "defensive ring". Russia's defence chief has branded the
planned US anti-missile missile sites on Czech and Polish soil as "an
open threat to Russia".

SergeyIvanov, Russia's defence minister,spoke more circumspectly while
emphasising Moscow's concern. He said:"Russia is not worried.Its
strategic nuclear forces can assure in any circumstance its safety.
Since neither Tehran, nor Pyongyang possess intercontinental missiles
capable of threatening the USA, from whom is this new missile shield
supposed to protect the West? All it actually amounts to is that
Prague and Warsaw want to demonstrate their loyalty to Washington."

Bush's Iran attack plan has brought into sharp focus the possible
costs to Central and Eastern Europe of being "pillars of Pax
Americana".

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Interesting that what is mentioned above in the Sunday Herald article
about a possible attack on Iran coming by this April seems to fit with
what was mentioned in that Kuwait media report as well:

Kuwait media: U.S. military strike on Iran seen by April


www.chinaview.cn2007-01-1415:19:28


Special report: Iran Nuclear Crisis

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_5604565.htm

KUWAIT CITY, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. might launch a military strike
on Iran before April 2007, Kuwait-based daily Arab Times released on
Sunday said in a report.
The report, written by Arab Times' Editor-in-chief Ahmed al-Jarallah
citing a reliable source, said that the attack would be launched from
the sea, while Patriot missiles would guard all Arab countries in the
Gulf.
Recent statements emanating from the United States indicated the Bush
administration's new strategy for Iraq doesn't include any proposal to
make a compromise or negotiate with Syria or Iran, added the report.
The source told al-Jarallah that U.S. President George W. Bush
recently had held a meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense
Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other
assistants in the White House, where they discussed the plan to attack
Iran in minute detail.
Vice President Dick Cheney highlighted the threat posed by Iranto not
only Saudi Arabia but also the whole Gulf region, according to the
source.
"Tehran is not playing politics. Iranian leaders are using their
country's religious influence to support the aggressive regime's
ambition to expand," Dick Cheney was quoted by the source as saying.
Indicating participants of the meeting agreed to impose restrictions
on the ambitions of Iranian regime before April 2007 without exposing
other countries in the region to any danger, the source said "they
have chosen April as British Prime Minister Tony
Blair has said it will be the last month in office for him. The United
States has to take action against Iran and Syria before April 2007."
Claiming the attack will be launched from the sea and not from any
country in the region, he said "the U.S. and its allies will target
the oil installations and nuclear facilities of Iran ensuring there is
no environmental catastrophe or after effects."
The source added that the U.S. has started sending its warships to the
Gulf and the build-up would continue until Washington has the required
number by the end of this month.
"U.S. forces in Iraq and other countries in the region will be
protected against any Iranian missile attack by an advanced Patriot
missile system," the source noted.
The Bush administration believes that attacking Iran will create a new
power balance in the region, calming down the situation in Iraq and
paving the way for their democratic project, which have to be
suspended due to the interference of Tehran and Damascus in Iraq,
according to the source.


Editor: Pan Letian

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Citizens for Legitimate Government
15 January 2007
http://www.legitgov.org/

All links to articles as summarized below are available he

http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

Kuwait media: U.S. military strike on Iran seen by April 14 Jan 2007
U.S. might launch a military strike on Iran before April 2007, Kuwait-
based daily Arab Times released on Sunday said in a report. The
report, written by Arab Times' Editor-in-chief Ahmed al-Jarallah
citing a reliable source, said that the attack would be launched from
the sea, while Patriot missiles would guard all Arab countries in the
Gulf.


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Pro-Israel lobby (AIPAC and similar) Pushing US to attack Iran for
Israel like AIPAC did to get US into the Iraq quagmi

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0...ic.php?t=49800

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http://fanonite.wordpress.com/2007/0...the-bugle-boy/

AIPAC's War and the Bugle Boy
March 24th, 2007

Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, who blew the whistle on the ersatz
intelligence being manufactured at Douglas Feith's Office of Special
Plans, offers the following sharp critique of Cheney's speech at the
AIPAC conference:

But it is Cheney - not al Qaeda - who is watching the clock now. This
former Secretary of Defense understands only too well that the
deployment of two battle groups in the Persian Gulf, and the onset of
this year's "spring offensive" in Afghanistan both point to a ticking
clock - second-generation shock and awe forces require many months of
planning, and a massive logistics tail to support even a short-lived
coordinated attack. The clock is indeed ticking, and nothing must get
in the way of that. It is not ticking for the occupied Palestinian
territories, nor the fractured and dazed Iraqis living out some kind
of neo-colonial nightmare. Those efforts are perfectly on track, as
hoped for, and AIPAC completely understands this.

It is all about Iran. The U.S. military, from the tone and content of
Cheney's speech, is now ready, and the window is open. The
administration may actually be a bit behind in building its public
case - at least one as plausible as the false case made by this same
administration less than five years ago regarding Iraq. Part of this
case-making process entails boxing the Congress, and preventing that
body from asserting its collective intellect, refreshing its own
collective familiarity with truth, justice, reality and even the
Constitution. Iran is back on the table, and the House warning
language on Iran stricken.

70% of the American public, and most of the soldiers and Marines in
Iraq understand the idiocy, the pointlessness and shoddy logic of this
alter-ego "war" we are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, soon
Iran and perhaps even Syria... But the 70% in this country have no
important conferences for the political leadership, they have no
lobbyists, they have no deep pockets...AIPAC, on the other hand, has all
these things.

And soon, it is likely they'll have their desired attacks on Iran. We
may soon hear of an accident, an incursion, or a purported attack on
our forces. That provocation will force the President to bomb until
our bombs run out, and will give the Democrats one more opportunity to
prove their abject fealty to war. From what we are hearing of this
year's AIPAC conference, it will be up to a few honest and courageous
souls in the Senate, or a revolt of the generals, to stop America's
next war.

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http://www.postchronicle.com/comment...e_21270952.sht

The AIPAC Girl, Nancy Pelosi Leaves Iran War In Bush/Cheney Hands
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Mar 24, 2007

If George W. Bush launches a pre-emptive war on Iran, House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi will bear full moral responsibility for that war.

For it was Pelosi who quietly agreed to strip out of the $100 billion
funding bill for Iraq a provision that would have required President
Bush to seek congressional approval before launching any new war on
Iran.

Pelosi's capitulation came in the Appropriations Committee.

What went down, and why?

"Conservative Democrats as well as lawmakers concerned about the
possible impact on Israel had argued for the change in strategy,"
wrote The Associated Press' David Espo and Matthew Lead.

"Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.) said in an interview there is a
widespread fear in Israel about Iran, which ... has expressed
unremitting hostility to the Jewish state.

"'It would take away perhaps the most important tool the U.S. has when
it comes to Iran,' she said of the now-abandoned provision.

"'I don't think it was a very wise idea to take things off the table
if you're trying to get people to modify their behavior and normalize
in a civilized way,' said Gary Ackerman of New York."

According to John Nichols of The Nation, Pelosi's decision to strip
the provision barring Bush from attacking Iran without Congress'
approval "sends the worst possible signal to the White House."

"The speaker has erred dangerously and dramatically," writes Nichols.
Her "disastrous misstep could haunt her and the Congress for years to
come."

Nichols does not exaggerate.

If Bush now launches war on Iran, he can credibly say Congress and the
Democrats gave him a green light. For Pelosi, by removing a provision
saying Bush does not have the authority, de facto concedes he does
have the authority.

Bush and Cheney need now not worry about Congress.

They have been flashed the go-sign for war on Iran.

Pelosi & Co. thus aborted a bipartisan effort to ensure that if we do
go to war again, we do it the constitutional way, and we do it
together.

Nothing in the provision would have prevented Bush, as commander in
chief, from responding to an Iranian attack or engaging in hot pursuit
of an enemy found in Iraq. Nor would the provision have prevented Bush
from threatening Iran. It would simply have required him to come to
Congress -- before launching all-out war.

Now Pelosi has, in effect, ceded Bush carte blanche to take out Iran's
nuclear facilities