Re: U.S. Iraq attack to involve ground troops White House plans multi-pronged offensive against Hussein

["Andrew Hagen" <xah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On its web site, the article reporting on a supposed imminent US ground
attack on Iraq is dated Thursday, 30 August 2001. Today, Friday, the US
attacked an Iraqi radar station in Basra from the air. Iraq issued a
press release stating that the radar station was destroyed. No ground
forces were involved. Was this the attack the article was attempting to
foresee? Or is there a second attack on the way, supposedly?

Typically, major US military actions follow months of domestic
propaganda to whip up a war frenzy. Here in the US we haven't had any
domestic propaganda of that kind lately.

Accuracy is a high virtue.

Andrew Hagen
xah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 18:21:22 -0700, Michael Pugliese wrote:

>   This could all just be right-wing BS, about an impending USMC action
>against Iraq. www.antiwar.com has some new pieces as well, mostly from the
>UK prestige press like the Guardian and the Independent, on the recent
>airstrikes against Iraq.
>WorldNetDaily purveys a heady RW brew...well not entirely RW, Alex Cockburn
>has a column there! And, I see Dr. Lenora Fulani has returned to
>WorldNetDaily!
>http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24293
>("Sharpton's dilemma")
>Debka, in my few glances at it, seems a Hawkish, Israeli version of
>Stratfor. Stratfor junkies, btw, don't pay whatever they are asking now for
>their geo-political punditry, go to this URL
>http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24298
>, for the latest, WND runs a new one every weekday.
>The below is from vampirekillers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, one of a zillion
>conservative Xtian millenialist lists, Gotta reread the Chipsters summary of
>pre, mid and post-tribulationalist viewpoints to figure these folks out.
>KJV is King James Bible, natch.
>Michael Pugliese 4JC sez
> , "No King But Jesus!"
>
>Message: 6
>   Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:15:24 -0700
>   From: "Georgia Reams" <nyknak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: U.S. Iraq attack to involve ground troops
>http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24283
>FROM DEBKA INTELLIGENCE FILES
>U.S. Iraq attack to involve ground troops
>White House plans multi-pronged offensive against Hussein
>
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>
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>
>An imminent U.S. attack against Iraq will not be limited to air
>strikes and missile barrages but involve ground forces, according to
>sources quoted by the DEBKA-Net-Weekly intelligence service.
>
>U.S. Marines who trained in desert warfare last month were flown to
>the region this week, according to the report. The Marines were
>trained in air landings of men, armor and artillery and in combined
>ground and air operations. They were told in no uncertain terms they
>could be called upon to move against Iraqi army forces in eastern
>Jordan and western Iraq.
>
>Signs in Riyadh, Kuwait, Jerusalem and Cairo point to an imminent
>U.S. operation. U.S. and Israeli spy satellites and planes flying
>over central and western Iraq last week found Scud B-1 and Scud-C
>missile launchers deployed at two Iraqi air bases, H-3 in the west
>and al-Baghdadi in the center of the country, the intelligence
>service reports. According to the photos, Iraq has also moved to
>these bases ? where Iraqi armored brigades have been deployed since
>July ? batteries of upgraded SA-6 anti-aircraft missiles of the type
>used to shoot down a U.S. drone this week. These improved surface-to-
>air missiles can hit targets flying above 23,000 feet. U.S. and
>Israeli reconnaissance data also revealed an increase over the past
>10 days in the number of Iraqi military personnel stationed near
>Syrian armored headquarters in northern Syria since the end of July.
>
>Nonetheless, Washington has yet to make a final decision, and the
>operation could be postponed for several days, Debka reports.
>
>In the past 24 hours, Israel has passed to the United States fresh
>intelligence information regarding the visit to Damascus last week by
>Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan. Ramadan, who turned up
>suddenly for urgent talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad and
>Syrian military chiefs, conveyed a personal appeal from Iraqi leader
>Saddam Hussein to order a Hezbollah attack on Israel the moment the
>U.S. strikes at Iraq. Assad agreed to Saddam's request.
>
>Saddam counts on Israel being pinned down by the Hezbollah and,
>therefore, too busy to join the fray against Iraq. Ramadan told his
>Syrian hosts that Iraq, if attacked by America, would not hesitate to
>launch missile strikes against Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Israel, as
>well as U.S. military targets in the Middle East, Red Sea and Persian
>Gulf.
>
>The Israelis also handed on intelligence information that the talks
>Palestinian foreign affairs executive Nabil Shaath held in Damascus
>this week centered on Syrian-Palestinian-Hezbollah collaboration in
>anticipation of a U.S. offensive against Iraq. Arafat's visit to the
>Syrian capital did not come up at all, despite reports to the
>contrary.
>
>Nabil Shaath, a businessman who never touches military issues, was
>deliberately picked by Arafat to go to Damascus to disguise his real
>mission.
>
>On another front, military sources report that the Egyptian Second
>Army exercise beginning at the Suez Canal port of Ismailia Tuesday
>also changed its character in the light of a possible U.S. strike
>against Iraq. Originally planned as a joint maneuver for the Second
>and Third armies, to take place in the first week of September on the
>west bank of the Suez canal, its first objective was to subject
>Israel to Egyptian political and military heat in its war with the
>Palestinians.
>
>Those plans changed as a consequence of last week's visit to Cairo by
>Gen. Tommy Franks, chief of the U.S. Central Command, to furnish the
>Egyptian government with information on the up and coming U.S.
>military operation against Iraq.
>
>So it was the Second Army, whose electronic warfare systems are more
>sophisticated than the Third Army's, which began maneuvers this week
>in the Ismailia area, along with the Egyptian air force.
>
>Those systems and intense Egyptian air activity were useful for
>masking U.S. air and sea transport of the aircraft and equipment
>required for the anti-Iraq operation. U.S. military flights passed
>through Egyptian air bases and U.S. air bases in the Sinai,
>particularly Sharm el-Sheikh.
>
>In addition to the Second Army's role in these diversionary tactics,
>the Third Army was put on the alert for unusual military activity in
>the Middle East and Persian Gulf. The highly mobile and capable Third
>Army has three parachute battalions and the means ? some of them
>American ? to drop them over various points in the Middle East and
>the Persian Gulf, at no more than three to four hours' notice.
>
>Pointers to a U.S. military operation were also heard, according to
>military sources, in Jerusalem and in the telephone conversations
>U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell held with Israeli Prime Minister
>Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres in the second half of
>the week. Powell asked them, on behalf of President Bush, to be
>considerate of U.S. military activity against Iraq and display the
>utmost restraint in the face of Palestinian terrorist activities.
>That is why Sharon informed Powell of Israel's consent to withdraw
>its troops from Palestinian Beit Jala, notwithstanding continued
>Palestinian gunfire from the village against Jerusalem.
>
>Military sources say, in the light of evidence on the ground, that
>the next U.S. anti-Baghdad operation will differ from previous U.S.
>strikes. Previously, bombs, missiles and cruise missiles were
>deployed against Iraqi strategic targets. This time, along with
>planes and missiles, the brunt of the operation will be carried by
>U.S. Special Forces landing in eastern Jordan, western Iraq and maybe
>even northern Syria. They will first wipe out the Iraqi military
>forces stationed in Jordan and Syria, then advance and destroy the
>Iraqi armored forces, missiles and planes deployed in the H-3 and al-
>Baghdadi air bases. After that, U.S. Special Forces troops will go on
>to attack military targets in central Iraq and possibly, Iraqi bases
>around Baghdad, too.
>
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