Scottish newspaper says US transferred ammunition containers with ‘bunker-buster’ bombs to Diego Garcia in Indian Ocean. Expert: They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran
Ynet 03.17.10, 08:50 / Israel News
Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean ahead of a possible attack on Iran, The Herald reported Wednesday.
The Scottish newspaper said the American government signed a contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island. According to a cargo manifest from the US navy, this included 387 “Blu” bombs used for blasting hardened or underground structures, The Herald reported.
The report quoted experts as saying that the bombs are being put in place for an assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
According to the newspaper, although Diego Garcia is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, it is used by the US as a military base under an agreement made in 1971.
The report said Superior Maritime Services, a shipping company based in Florida, , will be paid $699,500 to transport many thousands of military items from Concord, California, to Diego Garcia.
The cargo includes 195 smart, guided, Blu-110 bombs and 192 massive 2000lb Blu-117 bombs, said The Herald.
Dan Plesch, director of the Center for International Studies and Diplomacy at the University of London and co-author of a recent study on US preparations for an attack on Iran was quoted by the Scottish newspaper as saying, “They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran. US bombers are ready today to destroy 10,000 targets in Iran in a few hours.”
According to Plesch, US President Barack Obama may decide that it would be better for the US to act instead of Israel.
“The US is not publicizing the scale of these preparations to deter Iran, tending to make confrontation more likely,” he was quoted by The Herald as saying. “The US … is using its forces as part of an overall strategy of shaping Iran’s actions.”
According to The Herald, the British Ministry of Defense has said in the past that the US would need permission to use Diego Garcia for any attack. It has already been used for strikes against Iraq during the 1991 and 2003 Gulf wars.
The report said about 50 British military staff are stationed on the island, with more than 3,200 US personnel. Part of the Chagos Archipelago, it lies about 1,000 miles from the southern coasts of India and Sri Lanka, well placed for missions to Iran.
Seeing will be believing.
Put me down in the “skeptical” column.
I think there is a better chance that Obama will convert to Judaism and change his name to Moshe Herskowitz, but time will tell.
Comment by ayn reagan — March 17, 2010 @ 5:49 pm
…and pigs fly. If the article said that we planned to drop 50 million “bowing Obama” bobble-head dolls on the country, I would believe it.
Comment by BlandOatmeal — March 17, 2010 @ 11:12 pm
I’m waiting for the Jewish people to gain some pride and self respect. Would any nation other than the Jewish state accept such an affront to it’s sovereignty and dignity by a foreign head of state within its own borders? The president of Brazil should have been kicked out and never allowed to return until he grovels and profusely apologizes.
http://www.guysen.com/en/news_Brazil-s-President-lays-wreath-on-Arafat-s-grave-calls-to-dismantle-Wets-Bank-se_1437.html
Now this is what I would call an insult. But I don’t suppose Bibi will throw a tantrum the way Biden did and create a diplomatic crisis with Brazil.
Comment by Laura — March 18, 2010 @ 12:29 am
Lula is Chavez’ lapdog.
He is a Jew hater supreme.
He was apparently in Israel to sign a multi-billion dollar trade deal that enriches his domestic benefactors.
Israel should have insisted on signing the agreement elsewhere.
Like Dachau.
Comment by ayn reagan — March 18, 2010 @ 12:50 am
my little yamit,
What do we think of Yossi Klein Halevi?
I have admired him for years, but must defer to your opinion because unlike you I have never slept with him:
Comment by ayn reagan — March 18, 2010 @ 12:52 am
Laura,
Just once when a foreign leader from some third world paradise decides that, while in Israel, he is going to score political points with the Arabs by making the Jews look bad–and speaking in his morally superior tone about “the world cannot accept fences of any kind”–perhaps he should be told that the world cannot accept favelas and shanty towns. Perhaps he should be shown a comparison about the quality of housing for Israel’s minorities with those of the Brazilians living in shacks on the hillsides, many the descendants of former slaves. Maybe he should be publicly lectured about how many people die from gang violence and police violence and street crime and told that is not acceptable, and how can a leader of a society with so much violence, where the rich live in gated communities, behind fences and walls, have any business telling Israel how to keep her citizens safe. Why doesn’t this asshat start by taking down all the fences, gates and walls surrounding his residence? And how many of his citizens are better clothed, better fed, receive better health care and have a longer life expectancy than those Arabs in Gaza who we always hear about being on the verge of a humanitarian crisis? Let that help persuade some foreign leaders that Israel practices reciprocity, and those who take verbal shots at Israel can expect their countries to be on the receiving end of the same. Perhaps that will shut them up!
Or how about asking him if he will condemn the fence that Saudi Arabia built on its border with Yemen and the wall that Egypt build along its border with Gaza. Not condemn all fences, but condemn those countries by name for building fences? Why just sit quietly and take it from a man who runs a country where people live like this:
http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/22/neuwirth_2.jpg
Comment by 4infidels — March 18, 2010 @ 1:31 am
I guess if it is fine for the socialist in the White House to dump on Israel, why shouldn’t the socialist in Brazil feel he can do the same?
Comment by 4infidels — March 18, 2010 @ 1:35 am
You’re absolutely right 4infidels. It’s really time to embarrass a few folks, particularly the ones who live in glasshouses - which is just about everyone who engages in criticising Israel from a “morally superior” position. Perhaps “morally supine” would be a more appropriate phrase.
Enough of delicately nuanced diplospeak. That’s for the self-proclaimed (and self-acclaimed) intellectuals.
Comment by keelie — March 18, 2010 @ 1:50 am
could just as plausibly read:
Comment by ayn reagan — March 18, 2010 @ 3:20 am
Great interview on Fox with Obama.
For the first time in his political career, Dear Leader was aggressively challenged.
And he did quite badly.
Turns out that he is not smart/cool/suave.
That image has been cultivated by the left wing media, but it is phonier than Pam Anderson’s chest.
Comment by ayn reagan — March 18, 2010 @ 3:52 am