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Here we go again!
Reported by the National Post E-mail up-date at 0938
* U.S. attack on Iraq looms, reports say
WASHINGTON - CONFLICTING SIGNALS are emerging about the imminence of
a U.S.-led attack on Iraq. An Israeli-based intelligence firm, DEBKA,
is guessing "a major U.S. ground assault on Iraq is only three or
four weeks away." Apparently, U.S. planes are transporting large
numbers of troops and mat/riel to air bases in Turkey and Patriot
anti-aircraft missile batteries are being beefed up throughout the
Middle East. Backing up DEBKA, a Japanese newspaper, Sankei Shimbun,
is reporting U.S. special forces are already operating alongside
Iraqi resistance fighters in Kurdish-dominated northern Iraq. On the
other hand, no other newspaper is carrying the story, and it is
unlikely the Japanese media would be privy to such information
without its U.S. and British counterparts being kept apprised by the
Pentagon. Moreover, the only corroborative evidence is that allied
planes overflew northern Iraq on Feb. 20, possibly to provide cover
for the infiltration. U.S. and British aircraft regularly keep tabs
on the Iraqi no-fly zone, however, so this could have been merely a
garden-variety patrol. Conversely, if there is to be a U.S.-led
assault, there would be a preparatory period of
intelligence-gathering by special forces in northern Iraq.
Afghanistan was infiltrated by the CIA‘s Special Activities Staff as
early as 1997, several months before the cruise missile attack of
August, 1998.
Reported by the National Post E-mail up-date at 0938
* U.S. attack on Iraq looms, reports say
WASHINGTON - CONFLICTING SIGNALS are emerging about the imminence of
a U.S.-led attack on Iraq. An Israeli-based intelligence firm, DEBKA,
is guessing "a major U.S. ground assault on Iraq is only three or
four weeks away." Apparently, U.S. planes are transporting large
numbers of troops and mat/riel to air bases in Turkey and Patriot
anti-aircraft missile batteries are being beefed up throughout the
Middle East. Backing up DEBKA, a Japanese newspaper, Sankei Shimbun,
is reporting U.S. special forces are already operating alongside
Iraqi resistance fighters in Kurdish-dominated northern Iraq. On the
other hand, no other newspaper is carrying the story, and it is
unlikely the Japanese media would be privy to such information
without its U.S. and British counterparts being kept apprised by the
Pentagon. Moreover, the only corroborative evidence is that allied
planes overflew northern Iraq on Feb. 20, possibly to provide cover
for the infiltration. U.S. and British aircraft regularly keep tabs
on the Iraqi no-fly zone, however, so this could have been merely a
garden-variety patrol. Conversely, if there is to be a U.S.-led
assault, there would be a preparatory period of
intelligence-gathering by special forces in northern Iraq.
Afghanistan was infiltrated by the CIA‘s Special Activities Staff as
early as 1997, several months before the cruise missile attack of
August, 1998.
