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2011-02-21 Arabia
Debka: US warships box in Iranian flotilla, delay Suez passage
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Posted by gorb 2011-02-21 16:31|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 USS Kearsarge, another aircraft carrier,

This is one cool-looking ship - I went on board during Fleet Week in NYC.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-02-21 19:00||   2011-02-21 19:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Iff true, POTUS BAMMER = the USA has to protect both the SUEZ CANAL for US, INTERNATIONAL TRADE INTERESTS, as well as EGYPTIAN + ME DEMOCRACY.

Iff Radical Islam succeeds in achieving REGIONAL POLITICAL POWER via usurpation of the various Legitimate pro-Democracy "Jasmine" agendums, THE SUEZ WILL LIKELY BE CLOSED OFF AGAIN AS PER DECADES AGO TO US, WESTERN TRANSHIPMENT.

GLITCH = Radical Islam = Iran? will likely demand the closure of the Suez after IRAN FORMALLY DECLARES ITSELF TO BE A NUCWEAPONS STATE.

As per MSM-NET PERTS, the only real thingy keeping HEU-happy Iran from de facto dev NucWeaps is a DIRECT ORDER FROM GOVT. EL SUPREMO + "HIDDEN IMAM/MAHDI" REPRESENTATIVE-ON-EARTH AYATOLLAH KHAMEINI.

Iran doesn't have to invade its ME Muslim neighbors - it just has to turn them into PRO-IRAN NEW "LEBANONS".
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-02-21 19:00||   2011-02-21 19:00|| Front Page Top

#3 The Kearsarge is actually an amphibious assault ship. You would think Debka would know that.
Posted by tu3031 2011-02-21 19:15||   2011-02-21 19:15|| Front Page Top

#4 "DEBKAfile Exclusive Report " in the dateline of the report says all you need to know. I have never in my life seen a DEBKAfile "exclusive" turn out to be true, and I mean *never*. They make interested reading sometimes, but they are never real.

Apparently they are designed to attract eyeballs to the ads or something.

This one is safe to ignore.
Posted by crosspatch 2011-02-21 19:31||   2011-02-21 19:31|| Front Page Top

#5 A little research finds that the Kharg is not a cruiser, but a supply ship. Most sources classify the Alvand as a frigate/corvette.
Don't think that's worthy of the attentions of 4 Carrier Battlegroups and a Marine Amphibious group.
Posted by tu3031 2011-02-21 19:38||   2011-02-21 19:38|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't buy it. Obama won't interrupt eating his waffles for something as "minor" as this. Now, the governor of Wisconsin trying rein in the spending & unions - THAT'S a crisis.
Posted by CincinnatusChili 2011-02-21 19:52||   2011-02-21 19:52|| Front Page Top

#7 The Kearsarge is actually an amphibious assault ship. You would think Debka would know that.

The Kearsarge is a light aircraft carrier - it can operate 20 Harriers.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-02-21 20:46||   2011-02-21 20:46|| Front Page Top

#8 If this is real, it's a brilliant plan.
Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-21 21:03||   2011-02-21 21:03|| Front Page Top

#9 USS ENTERPRISE, Red Sea (NNS) -- Enterprise Carrier Strike Group (CSG) transited the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and entered the Gulf of Aden, Feb. 18 in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR).

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=58681

Posted by crosspatch 2011-02-21 21:19||   2011-02-21 21:19|| Front Page Top

#10 They have the acoustic signatures now. A shallow water mine would work nicely, tuned specifically to them. Shallow water would fracture the ships completely. But we would not do such a thing. But I know one nation that would.
Posted by OldSpook 2011-02-21 21:41||   2011-02-21 21:41|| Front Page Top

#11 shallow water mine would work nicely, tuned specifically to them.

Bottom mine, influence type. Explosive element is easy. Question is how fast the nation in question can build the activator.

Problem is, who's manning the Iranian ships - regular Iranian navy or IRGC?
Posted by Pappy 2011-02-21 22:26||   2011-02-21 22:26|| Front Page Top

#12 My guess is they just have several tons of gold in the hold in case the people of Iran decide to get serious about running the mullah's out of Dodge. This is their "walking around money" for the rest of their lives.
Posted by crosspatch 2011-02-21 22:29||   2011-02-21 22:29|| Front Page Top

#13 ...shoulda told the Somalis that.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-02-21 22:39||   2011-02-21 22:39|| Front Page Top

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