Sunday, May 4, 2008

United States Is Drawing Up Plans To Strike On Iranian Insurgency Camp

From The Times Online:

The US military is drawing up plans for a “surgical strike” against an insurgent training camp inside Iran if Republican Guards continue with attempts to destabilise Iraq, western intelligence sources said last week. One source said the Americans were growing increasingly angry at the involvement of the Guards’ special-operations Quds force inside Iraq, training Shi’ite militias and smuggling weapons into the country.

Despite a belligerent stance by Vice-President Dick Cheney, the administration has put plans for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities on the back burner since Robert Gates replaced Donald Rumsfeld as defence secretary in 2006, the sources said.

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Update: Last Efforts To Stop A Military Confrontation Between US And Iran -- Strata-Sphere

My Comments: You get the impression that the U.S. is daring Iran to do something.

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