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| Bigger role for Air Force on Iranian border - to stop Iranian weapons smugglers |
| 2007-02-02 |
| The efforts could include more air patrols by Air Force and Navy fighter planes along the Iran-Iraq border to counter the smuggling of bomb supplies from Iran, said a senior Pentagon official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Such missions also could position the Air Force to strike suspected bomb suppliers inside Iraq to deter Iranian agents that U.S. officials maintain are assisting Iraqi militias, said outside military experts. Bush warned two weeks ago that U.S. forces would take a harder line against Iranians in Iraq, vowing to "seek out and destroy" weapons supply networks that endanger U.S. troops. He expanded the warning Monday in a National Public Radio interview, saying Iranian threats to the Iraqi people also would be considered unacceptable. The tough stance has been backed by other military moves. Bush this month ordered a second aircraft carrier group, led by the John C. Stennis, to the Persian Gulf, a measure described as a warning to Iran. The stepped-up presence and visibility of U.S. warplanes is seen as likely to reinforce that message. "Air power plays major roles and one of those is as a deterrent, whether it be in border control, air sovereignty or something more 'kinetic,' " said the senior Pentagon official, using jargon that refers to offensive military action. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 contrux some near Yemen Joe, you definitely need to check a map. Not only is Yemen on the other side of Persian Gulf/Gulf of Oman, but separated by large chunks of SA, UAE, Oman--thusly almost as far away from Iran as Jordan is, as crow flies. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-02-02 20:45 |
| #6 IRAN is reportedly building 000's? kilometers-long TRENCHES alongst its eastern border areas wid Afghanistan + contrux some near Yemen, all for the Iran-claimed purpose of stopping/ interdicting "drug smuggling??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-02-02 20:30 |
| #5 Global Hawk pic, please. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-02-02 19:48 |
| #4 Finally. As we all know...the only way to stop the infiltration is to declare a 5 mile strip along border a free-fire zone from sunset to sunrise. I don't care how many goats, or goat-buggerers we take out. It will not take more than a week for the border infiltration to cease. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2007-02-02 12:49 |
| #3 AC-130s would be nice. |
| Posted by: Brett 2007-02-02 12:23 |
| #2 approximately innocent people You remaind me of my mentor's second favorite story, Mike. A mathematician gives a lecture on applying mathematics to biology. The lecture deals with a mathematical description of an elephant. The lecture starts with the sentence "Let us approximate an elephant by a ball of appropriate dimensions". |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-02-02 11:40 |
| #1 ...Way doable. Just one problem - a bunch of approximately innocent people are going to die because the stuff will be smuggled in alongside women and children. Are we ready? Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2007-02-02 11:07 |