Operation Bite

April 6

Sneak Attack
By US Forces On Iran Planned
Russian Military Sources Warn

General Ivashov Calls For Emergency Session Of
UN Security Council To Ward Off Looming US Aggression

By Webster G. Tarpley

WASHINGTON DC -- The long awaited US military attack on Iran is now on track for the first week of April, specifically for 4 AM on April 6, the Good Friday opening of Easter weekend, writes the well-known Russian journalist Andrei Uglanov in the Moscow weekly "Argumenty Nedeli." Uglanov cites Russian military experts close to the Russian General Staff for his account. The attack is slated to last for twelve hours, according to Uglanov, lasting from 4 AM until 4 PM local time. Friday is a holiday in Iran. In the course of the attack, code named Operation Bite, about 20 targets are marked for bombing; the list includes uranium enrichment facilities, research centers, and laboratories. The first reactor at the Bushehr nuclear plant, where Russian engineers are working, is supposed to be spared from destruction. The US attack plan reportedly calls for the Iranian air defense system to be degraded, for numerous Iranian warships to be sunk in the Persian Gulf, and the for the most important headquarters of the Iranian armed forces to be wiped out. The attacks will be mounted from a number of bases, including the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Diego Garcia is currently home to B-52 bombers equipped with standoff missiles. Also participating in the air strikes will be US naval aviation from aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, as well as from those of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Additional cruise missiles will be fired from submarines in the Indian Ocean and off the coast of the Arabian peninsula. The goal is allegedly to set back Iran's nuclear program by several years, writes Uglanov, whose article was re-issued by RIA-Novosti in various languages, but apparently not English, several days ago. The story is the top item on numerous Italian and German blogs, but so far appears to have been ignored by US websites. Observers comment that this dispatch represents a high-level orchestrated leak from the Kremlin, in effect a war warning, which draws on the formidable resources of the Russian intelligence services, and which deserves to be taken with the utmost seriousness by pro-peace forces around the world. Asked by RIA-Novosti to comment on the Uglanov report, retired Colonel General Leonid Ivashov confirmed its essential features in a March 21 interview: "I have no doubt that there will be an operation, or more precisely a violent action against Iran." Ivashov, who has reportedly served at various times as an informal advisor to Putin, is currently the Vice President of the Moscow Academy for Geopolitical Sciences. Ivashov attributed decisive importance to the decision of the Democratic leadership of the US House of Representatives to remove language from the just-passed Iraq supplemental military appropriations bill which would have demanded that Bush come to Congress before launching an attack on Iran. Ivashov pointed out that the language was eliminated under pressure from AIPAC, the lobbing group representing the Israeli extreme right, and of Israeli Foreign Minister Tsipi Livni. "We have drawn the unmistakable conclusion that this operation will take place," said Ivashov. In his opinion, the US planning does not include a land operation: " Most probably there will be no ground attack, but rather massive air attacks with the goal of annihilating Iran's capacity for military resistance, the centers of administration, the key economic assets, and quite possibly the Iranian political leadership, or at least part of it," he continued. Ivashov noted that it was not to be excluded that the Pentagon would use smaller tactical nuclear weapons against targets of the Iranian nuclear industry. These attacks could paralyze everyday life, create panic in the population, and generally produce an atmosphere of chaos and uncertainty all over Iran, Ivashov told RIA-Novosti. "This will unleash a struggle for power inside Iran, and then there will be a peace delegation sent in to install a pro-American government in Teheran," Ivashov continued. One of the US goals was, in his estimation, to burnish the image of the current Republican administration, who would now be able to boast that they had wiped out the Iranian nuclear program. Among the other outcomes, General Ivashov pointed to a partition of Iran along the same lines as Iraq, and a subsequent carving up of the Near and Middle East into smaller regions. "This concept worked well for them in the Balkans and will now be applied to the greater Middle East," he commented. "Moscow must expert Russia's influence by demanding an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council to deal with the current preparations for an illegal use of force against Iran and the destruction of the basis of the United Nations Charter," said General Ivashov. "In this context Russia could cooperate with China, France and the non-permanent members of the Security Council. We need this kind of preventive action to ward off the use of force," he concluded. L'Iran serait attaqué début avril (experts militaires russes) Le Pentagone va attaquer des cibles militaires iraniennes (expert russe)

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'One-More-Time' THIS TIME,
Is One Too Many!

"Perhaps we just do not know. It is possible to envision a scenario where Iran chooses to not retaliate or where the US action is not as harrowing as propaganda makes it out to be. We do not know what deals are being made." From a reader Wishful thinking - will not make it so. Making "Deals" is what got us into this - and it is what will flow directly from all the multiple masks still being tried-on-for-size: This is WAR, WAR & LOTS MORE WAR! That much is crystal clear. Cheney-Bush has drained our supply of troops - that part of this was never bottomless. Now Cheney wants to go back to that old and disproven strategy of air power, which when it goes against a sophisticated Air-Defense System, now backed by the Russians, (because there are Russians inside that plant that they're planning to bomb) ­ we will fail: Not to mention that the entire region has specific interests at stake in NOT allowing this attack to go forward, under any circumstances: but especially not on the bogus lies that Cheney wants to use to create Iraq III, inside Iran. CHENEY needs to be IMPEACHED - immediately! This time, there won't be "the usual," this time there will be CONSEQUENCES, not afterward, not from the all too compliant politicians everywhere who have failed a thousand times before ­ NO! This time because it is Iran, there will be immediate retaliations all over the region: against us, against the Brits, but especially against the cowardly Israeli's (that only fight against unarmed civilians and kids), and everyone else that indirectly wants to use the oil. The Gulf is so full of ships and submarines now that they need undersea traffic lights just to keep them all from running into each other, not to mention all that intimidating hardware that we're trying to use on the surface - to scare the Iranians ­ this is a pageant of farce, on a canvas made of oil. Iran conducted war games not once but three times to warn us off, to show us what we would face if we attack them now. Did we listen - Hell no! The War Department simply flipped over into denial and proceeded with their plans, as if nothing in this world was capable of standing up to US Military might - which is pure farce - especially now! We're way beyond broke, our vaunted military is nothing but an advanced form of the Dirty-Dozen with thugs and criminals, and want-to-be immigrants mixed in (about 40%) with the disadvantaged that had to join to find a way to pay for daily life. Then there's Blackwater and their commercialized murder, plunderers for hire, for triple what a GI gets. They can quit anytime: not to mention that they can commit any crime and face no punishment at all-the world knows this all too well! "What other country maintains over 700 military bases worldwide? This alone costs us around a trillion dollars a year, most of it borrowed, including paying operations and maintenance, buying new and overpriced weapons systems, ramping up for more preemptive war, etc. We are already paying close to 400 Billion Dollars a Year (maybe more) for interest alone on the national debt. What could we do with 400 Billion Dollars if we weren't paying interest on money borrowed for wars that cannot possibly be paid off by this or even the next ten generations unless peace breaks out today and lasts forever? Politicians care about nothing beyond the next election. None of the profiteers care about anything beyond the bottom line this quarter. The profiteers, because they fund the political campaigns, own the politicians who give the profiteers the money borrowed from China in the form of excessive profits for materiel and services, sometimes under-delivered and under-performed, while taxpayers are expected to pay off the debt floated to pay those excessive profits and fund those military-commercial fraudulent contracts, and those multi-level secret subcontracts. It's a house of cards. Wait for the first stiff breeze." Moreover, what is being attempted here with this one last attempt to seal the fate of the people, and guarantee the continuance of this criminal enterprise that has stolen all our names, and who are trying to rig the global board game one-more time, so none of them can be thrown to the wolves. This has to be thwarted, because there is no up-side to this scheme to take-over yet another Middle- Eastern nation that has the misfortune to be sitting on something that the Cabal really wants to own! Does anyone really think anyone else gives a damn about whether or not we have our asses handed to us this time - %&@* NO! That's clear because many of those former by-standing nations will see this misguided new adventure as their chance to jump in; once we begin to fail - Again! Another difference this time is that it will not take weeks to determine what's happening there, because Iran has promised an instant and all-out response immediately: as soon as planes cross their borders. Iran is not the backward nation that Japan was when we sent in the Great White Fleet. The Iranians have already had enough of US Imperialism to last them for many Centuries to come - so they have promised us all: that they will utterly destroy Israel, Qatar, Kuwait, the Green Zone, and whatever else we have sent into the Gulf, to interdict the flow of oil. There is a huge difference now between what we did to Iraq and what we shall be 'able' to do to Iran very soon. Cheney is playing with Nitro-glycerin, which is far more unstable than mere dynamite: he's a half-baked moron that has contributed minus zero to life and civilization: but he's been very instrumental in creating WAR Incorporated. This will bury him and the "crazies" for all time; unfortunately a great number of other people will also be buried with them! This is not Iraq - this is IRAN, with real associations, with industry and a way of life, with a whole lot of other nations that do not buy the bullshit that Cheney keeps trying to spread over anyone that will listen to him. We've become the rabid pit-bull of international relations, the junk-yard dog that dumps on all diplomatic efforts anywhere that seek to contain our blood-lust for the property of others. It was only a matter of time until that BACKLASH reared it's vicious head and began to tear us to pieces for what we've done to millions of "others," just since the Decider began to carve up the world according to the dictates of his banker- friends, and the global-corporate interests in combination with the insanity of the born-again-Nazi's that have been masquerading as Jews. For every action there will always be an equal and opposite reaction: that is the true nature of consequences. Humanity's pathetic attempts to mimic this law of nature, have fallen far short of the true mark, and because justice is not the purpose behind our court systems, but only the legalized theft of whatever the moneyed-interests want to buy - most people have forgotten that this law of nature cannot be denied forever - and April 6th looks more and more like the beginning of "payback"! American and Amarrikans have for too long stood idly by on the sidelines of what they've chosen to see as global chess games, lily- white and clean, while the world's "other people" perish! This time things will be different: because if we pop the top off Pandora's Box and try to do the macho thing one more time, we shall all begin to see what the open mouth of Hell really looks like, from the inside this time, instead of from the safety of our pretend nation: Because we shall finally begin to become part of the collateral damage for our own actions. . . This is so overdue - and at the same time so beyond the pale that finally Cheney-Bush will finally have it both ways: Because this is the ultimate threat against the civilized world, and at the same time it's a meaningless gesture that can only trigger chaos - not just in the region but around the planet. This is not unlike the scientific splitting of the atom in 1945 - except that instead of this being a matter of science, this is about disturbing the political and economic equilibrium of the entire world: 'One-More-Time' THIS TIME is one time too many! The completely focused megalomaniacs in this world now-by allowing their puppets to push this envelope to the breaking point are going to get something that no one can predict or protect against: and all because we missed so many opportunities to remove the traitors from their offices, before they could commit this additional TREASON against anyone that cares about being able to live out their lives. . . There are eleven days to wait until anyone can know for sure-time enough to demand that the media stop this half-baked plan for yet another attack! Background: The Controlled Demolition of the American Republic http://www.strike-the-root.com:80/71/herman/herman5.html