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Date: March 30, 2007 11:29:15 AM PDT
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Subject: Wars and Rumors of Wars
WHY THE DOW TOOK A NOSEDIVE JUST BEFORE NOON
by Melly Alazraki
Mar 30th 2007 1:04PM
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/03/30/why-the-dow-took-a-nose-
dive-just-before-noon/
This was the Dow today:
I'm sure you're all wondering what on earth happened.
So here's some insight.
An Israeli fringe news site that always claims to have inside
information on matters related to the military, Debka Files,
published that the USS Nimitz is set to sail to the Gulf on Monday,
officially to replace the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, but in reality
to add to the growing U.S. forces in the region.
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSWBT00674720070330
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has not heard anything about
U.S. citizens being advised to leave Bahrain, a senior White House
official said on Friday.
"I haven't heard anything," the official said when asked if
Americans had been advised to leave Bahrain.
Rumors may have stemmed from a U.S. embassy note to U.S. residents
posted on Thursday advising citizens to avoid being in areas where
opposition activists plan to hold protests, which often turn violent.
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March 30, 2007, 3:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=3990
US financial sources in Bahrain report American investors in
Bahrain advised to pack up business operations and leave
The advice came from officers with US Central Command 5th Fleet HQ
at Manama, who spoke of security tension, a hint at an approaching
war with Iran. Arab sources report the positioning of a Patriot
anti-missile battery in Bahrain this week; they say occupancy at
emirate hotels has soared past 90% due mostly to the influx of US
military personnel. They also report Western media crews normally
employed in military coverage are arriving in packs.
Thursday, March 29, Gen. Khaled al-‘Absi, Bahrain’s chief of air
defense operations disclosed that new alarm networks had been
installed and air defense systems upgraded to handle chemical,
biological and radioactive attacks.
The USS Nimitz and its support ships will be departing San Diego
Monday, April 2, to join the John C. Stennis Strike Group in the
Persian Gulf. The nuclear carrier is due to relieve the USS Dwight
D. Eisenhower , but military sources in the Gulf believe all three
US carriers will stay put if tensions continue to climb or if
fighting breaks out involving American, British and Iranian forces.
The mighty American armada is further supported by the USS Bataan
and USS Boxer strike groups.
Taking part in the big demonstration of American naval, air and
marine force launched March 27 are the two nuclear carrier strike
forces Stennis and Eisenhower , thousands of marines and 100
warplanes. Maneuvers on this scale in the tight, overcrowded waters
of the Persian Gulf carry risks of a collision between American and
Iranian craft.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the Nimitz group is
composed of the Princeton guided-missile cruiser, four guided
missile destroyers – the Higgins , Chafee , John Paul Jones and
Pinckney . The strike force is armed with two helicopter squadrons
and a special unit for dismantling sea mines and other explosive
devices.
Earlier, DEBKAfile quoted intelligence sources in Moscow as
predicting that a US strike against Iranian nuclear installations
codenamed Operation Bite has been scheduled for April 6 at 0040
hours. Missiles and air raids will conduct strikes designed to be
devastating enough to set Tehran’s nuclear program several years back.
March 27, 2007, 11:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
More than 10,000 US personnel, two aircraft carriers and 100
warplanes begin biggest simulated demonstration of force in Gulf
since the 2003 invasion of Iraq
DEBKAfile’s military sources note that the exercise was launched
March 27 the day before the Arab League summit opens in Riyadh, to
demonstrate the Bush administration’s determination not to let Iran
block the Strait of Hormuz to oil exports from the Persian Gulf, or
continue its nuclear program.
Taking part are the USS Stennis and USS Eisenhower strike forces.
The warplanes are flying simulated attack maneuvers on enemy
shipping with aircraft and ships, hunting enemy submarines and
seeking mines, off the coast of Iran.
US Navy Cmdr Kevin Aandahl declined to say when the maneuver was
planned or how long it would last. He said US warships would stay
out of Iranian territorial waters up to 12 miles from the Iranian
coast. Tehran does not recognize this limit and claims a deeper
stretch of water.
Our military sources explain the presence of the French naval
strike group led by the nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
which joined the two US carriers last Friday: The group will carry
out security missions in the Arabian Sea and its warplanes fly in
support of NATO in Afghanistan.
US OR ISRAELI MILITARY STRIKE AGAINST IRAN HINGES ON SECRET SAUDI
DIPLOMACY
DEBKA-Net-Weekly 290 revealed on Feb. 23:
In Amman, the US secretary met was a whole galaxy of Arab decision-
makers and intelligence chiefs: the two top Saudi security
officials, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, national security adviser, and
Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, head of the General Intelligence
Presidency, as well as a string of secret service chiefs from
various Arab countries, Jordan’s King Abdullah and, finally, an off-
the-record encounter with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, whom
she had met a day earlier at a three-way meeting with Israeli prime
minister Ehud Olmert.
According to the official communiqué, the US secretary met in Amman
with the heads of the secret services of Saudi Arabia, Jordan,
Egypt and the United Arab Emirates – nicknamed the Arab Quartet.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s sources describe the occasion as far more far-
reaching in scope, agenda and importance than the laconic statement
suggests.
For one thing, a deputy of CIA Director General Michael Hayden,
described as the agency’s No. 2, was present. So too were the US
military intelligence chief in Iraq and Washington’s Security
Coordinator for the Palestinians, Lt. Gen. Keith W. Dayton, as well
as the head of the United Arab Emirates’ intelligence services, who
is known as Emir Muhammad, and the head of Jordan’s intelligence
services, Gen. Muhammad Zuaibi. There, too, was Egyptian
intelligence minister, Gen. Omar Suleiman, alongside high-ranking
officials of the Kuwaiti and Moroccan secret services.
The importance of this US-Arab intelligence summit was quickly
appreciated in Tehran. No sooner had the participants dispersed
Tuesday night, than Iran’s national security adviser, Ali Larijani,
was on a special plane to Riyadh and closeted with Princes Bandar
and Muqrin to find out what was next on the agenda of the secret
exchanges Washington is conducting through Saudi mediation.
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