U.S. Air Strike in the Middle East imminent?

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BREAKING NEWS --- THE DAILY GRIND
Monday November 3, 2003

UK RED ALERT - U.S. Air Strike in the Middle East imminent?

Courtesy the Peacewatchers at USAFs Fairford and Welford bases in the UK

Since Saturday, people in the Highlands of Scotland have been witnessing large movements of US warplanes overhead. Experienced observers say the large numbers are reminiscent of those that preceded the bombing of Iraq in 1998 and military strikes on Libya in the1980's as well as the first Gulf War.

At the weekend warplanes were flying over at a rate of roughly one every 15 minutes. As well as watching them from the ground the plane spotters have also been able to overhear pilots talking by listening to their radio frequencies.

At this rate some 288 warplanes would have passed over Scotland in three days.

It is thought that the planes have flown on a route from the US over the north pole to bases in Europe and the Mediterranean. The size and scale of the movement suggests that the US may be preparing to strike at a country in the Middle East in the next week to ten days.

Please pass this information on as widely as possible- the US may be planning to use the pretext of "foreign" terrorist attacks on US personnel in Iraq to attack Iran or Syria. Please alert any sympathetic elected representatives, media representatives and other sympathetic organisations. Publicising this military movement may prevent the air-strikes.

Meanwhile, US warplanes launched an air strike on areas surrounding the Iraqi city of Tikrit, signalling a possible change in tactics by occupation forces.

“This time, US warplanes, rather than helicopters, have launched the strike, making it different from other US military operations in Iraq”, Aljazeera correspondent Aktham Sulaiman reported.

Two 500-pound bombs were dropped and artillery shells fired to flatten three of four abandoned farm houses near where a Black Hawk helicopter was downed on Friday.

“We ended up destroying three of four abandoned farm houses that could be used for ambushes”, Major Gordan Cate, a spokesman for the 4th Infantry Division told AFP.

Cate said the bombardment began after sunset on Friday and lasted early into Saturday morning.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exe...DC8F60533DC.htm

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