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Die atomar
ausgerüstete US-Kriegsmarine
Hier
die neueste Mitteilung ---- Forwarded Message --
War
Ahead or Just Training? WOW ... almost everything that can carry a Marine is now at sea. Enough stuff is now out to fully outfit an ADDITIONAL FIVE (5) Marine Expeditionary Strike Forces. All 8 LSD's are out 6 of the 8 LPD's are out (1 was scheduled for retirement this spring and another 1 in Aug so I don't even know those two (2) are capable of going to sea)
4 of
our 7 LHD's (new model mini carrier) and 3 of our 5 LHA (old model mini
carrier) are out (enough for one for each real and each potential ESG). Carriers:
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) - Pacific Ocean Command Ships: USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) - Atlantic Ocean Tarawa Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) [13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) (SOC)] USS Tarawa (LHA 1) - Indian Ocean USS Cleveland (LPD 7) - Indian Ocean USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) - Indian Ocean Nassau Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) [22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) (SOC)] USS Nassau (LHA 4) - Arabian Sea USS Austin (LPD 4) - Persian Gulf USS Carter Hall (LSD 50) - Arabian Sea Amphibious Warfare Ships: USS Peleliu (LHA 5) - Pacific Ocean USS Essex (LHD 2) – Pacific Ocean USS Boxer (LHD 4) - Pacific Ocean USS Bataan (LHD 5) – Atlantic Ocean USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) - Atlantic Ocean USS Ogden (LPD 5) - Pacific Ocean USS Juneau (LPD 10) - East China Sea USS Nashville (LPD 13) - Atlantic Ocean USS San Antonio (LPD 17) - Gulf of Mexico USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41) - Atlantic Ocean USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43) - Pacific Ocean USS Comstock (LSD 45) - Pacific Ocean USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) - East China Sea USS Oak Hill (LSD 51) - Atlantic Ocean USS Germantown (LSD 42) - Pacific Ocean Could Iran (or somewhere else) be about to "go hot?" We're watching for the last few days of the month into first week of Feb in part because of the movement of forces, partly because of the dark of the moon then, and because the web bots say something unexpected is coming around then... Now, place your bets: Is this a bluff? You saw our reports of air units moving to the Middle East we reported last week, right? At the same time, stories are floating around the 'net today about how terrorists are likely to use WMD's in the near future. siehe: (1) If I were wildly speculating, the sequence would go something like this: Proliferation of a lot of terrorist/WMD stories this week, an event of some kind" around the end of next week, a purported smoking gun" that would point to Iran or Syria, and a strike during he dark of the moon. Just a possible sequence to watch for. No doubt, China and Russia are watching this closely, too... siehe: (2)
*** U.S.: 'Very high' chance of WMD terror strike LONDON, England (AP) -- There is a "very high" probability that a terrorist group will strike using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said in comments published Tuesday. "I rate the probability of terror groups using (weapons of mass destruction) as very high," U.S. State Department counterterrorism coordinator Henry Crumpton was quoted as saying by the Daily Telegraph newspaper. "It is simply a question of time." Crumpton said a biological attack was potentially the most troubling scenario. He said evidence from Afghanistan suggested al-Qaeda had been seeking to develop anthrax before the overthrow of the Taliban regime in 2001. "It is not just the nuclear threat that bothers me," he was quoted as saying. "I think, if anything, the biological threat is going to grow."
"As
catastrophic as a nuclear attack would be, it would be self-contained. But
if you look at a worst-case scenario for a biological attack, it would be
difficult to determine whether or not Crumpton told the newspaper that U.S. and international efforts had severely disrupted the al-Qaeda network since the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, but that "in all probability" Osama bin Laden was still alive.
*** Iran: The Money Issue So, you want to understand international diplomacy, do you? Well, start by looking at the money issues. Both China and Russia are now pushing for a peaceful resolution (a) of the "crisis" because both have made major investments in the country. Of course, on the other side of the equation, the US is more anxious than ever to move on this latest fortress of evil. Why? Because, as one observer notes, they dare to speak the Great Heresy: They wish to sell Oil for Euros not Dollars. (b) Collision of economic proportions, no doubt about it. Iran knows something is coming - and perhaps it will start with an "event" late this month or within the first week of February. What are they doing to prepare for self defense? For one thing, they're letting CNN back into the country.. (c) (a) http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-01/17/content_513083.htm (b) http://www.321gold.com/editorials/petrov/petrov011706.html
(c)
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