Scottish Newspaper May Have Exposed U.S. Plan to Hit Iran
(Issue # 14, April 5, 2010)
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By Ralph Forbes
While the American people are kept in the dark like mushrooms and fed
bull manure, Scotland’s award-winning newspaper The Sunday Herald
Scotland ran an exclusive revealing that hundreds of tons of powerful
U.S. `bunker-buster’ bombs and other weapons are secretly being
shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the
Indian Ocean’strategically placed for missions to Iran’in preparation
for an impending attack on the Persian nation.
The Sunday Herald expos� revealed that `the U.S. government signed a
contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the
island. According to a cargo manifest from the Navy, this included 387
`Blu’ bombs, used for blasting hardened or underground structures.’
Superior Maritime Services of Florida has a $699,500 contract to ship
many thousands of military items from Concord, Calif., to Diego
Garcia. The cargo includes 195 1,000-lb Blu-110 bombs and 192 massive
2,000-lb Blu-117 bombs.
`They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran. . . . U.S.
bombers are ready today to destroy 10,000 targets in Iran in a few
hours,’ said Dan Plesch, director of the Centre for International
Studies and Diplomacy at the University of London, co-author of a
recent study on U.S. preparations for an attack on Iran.
Ian Davis, director of the new independent think-tank, Nato Watch,
warned the shipment to Diego Garcia is a major concern.
`We would urge the U.S. to clarify its intentions for these weapons,
and the [UK] Foreign Office to clarify its attitude to the use of
Diego Garcia for an attack on Iran,’ he said.
For Alan Mackinnon, chair of Scottish Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament, the revelation was `extremely worrying.’ He stated: `It
is clear that the U.S. government continues to beat the drums of war
over Iran, most recently in the statements of Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton. . . . It is depressingly similar to the rhetoric we
heard prior to the war in Iraq in 2003.’
The utter insanity of war against Iran would’at best’be the worst
disaster to ever strike the United States. At a bare minimum it would
kill the economy of the United States and the world. It could trigger
the demise of the United States, or even destroy the Earth.
And yet the madmen who misrule Israel, and their Israel-first minions
high up in the U.S. government, are working feverishly to start this
unnecessary, unjust war.
Ralph Forbes is a freelance writer based in Arkansas.