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US preparing for air strikes
against Iran, says ex-CIA official

 

Former Official Says U.S. Aiming at Iran
The Moscow News Thursday, 6 September 2007

WASHINGTON (RIA Novosti) — The United States is confidentially
preparing for a military strike against Iran, which will include
several days worth of aviation strikes on several targets at once,
a former CIA official told Harper's magazine.

"It looks like there's preparations for a military strikes, and I base
this on two things: on facts that we can observer, and on the
rhetoric coming out of the White House," said the former CIA official,
who worked in the Persian Gulf during the first US war there and
served in Iraq after the 2003 invasion.

"A massive deployment of troops and equipment in the region is
taking place, and the US can't hide that. Sending the US Navy to
the Persian Gulf is very expensive, but we have three such units
there."

There is a deployment of ships, an increase of supplies, shipments
of military supplies, and the general activity level is very high, said
the former US intelligence agent. "There is only one region in the
world where this is all being deployed to.

'Pilots have all disappeared'

"Moreover, everyone that I know — pilots and other aviation units —
have all disappeared. Usually someone remains, but now all of them
have gone at once." Besides unusual activity in the US military,
"other evidence of a possible strikes are harsh statements from the
White House."

According to the source, "the only part of US military forces that
isn't strained to the fullest extent is aviation," that is why if there
is a military strike on Iran "it will be days-long, multi-target air
campaign," which will aim a "brutal strike on President Ahmadinejad."

"We should strike not the Iranian aviation or naval bases, but its
nuclear objects and the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps," the former
CIA official believes. He thinks that an "un-proportionally" massive
strike on these targets will undermine Ahmadinejad's position inside
the country.

Comments and rumors about possible preparations of a military strike on Iran have been circulating in Washington and the American media for several weeks, and during a Tuesday briefing State Department spokesman Tom Casey was once again forced to make an official denial.

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