Ahmadinejad’s Iran has Its Tentacles In All Islamic Countries!
The Iranian Octopus uses suction cups to draw them to It
An Octopus has a hard beak mouth in its central Head
THERE ARE MANY Different Species Of THE Octopus!
ALL of the many Octopus varieties are Venomous
Only ONE type is venomous enough to kill Men
I Would SAY Iran Must Be of that ONE Type!
We spend Lives & Trillions in the Mid-East
The time is near when they will be Used
To drive Jews into a Negev Wilderness
All Arab nations will turn against U.S.!
August 27, 2011
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
I applaud the efforts the US has made to help oppressed people in Persian Iran, and in the Arab nations of Lebanon, Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. I have no criticism of our effort to do so.
However, I know that in a few years, they will not be democracies as we know them, but Islamic republics with shar’ia law, the foreign aid we have, are, and will send them to rebuild their infrastructures, will have made them strong Islamic foes against both us and Israel. And a lot of our foreign aid will be used to buy high tech weaponry from Russia, North Korea, and China.
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Drumbeats of War – Iraqi Scuds Hit Kuwait
August 26, 2011
No, this is not an old post.
This is being written in the wee hours of Friday morning, August 26, 2011, United States time.
Three Scud missiles exploded on open ground in Kuwait early Friday morning in Kuwait. Israeli sources with Mossad connections say these were warning shots to Kuwait to stop building the Grand Mubarak Port on the Persian Gulf.
They were not fired by the Iraqi government per se, although there is a convoluted pathway that involves the government. I’ll try to make it brief.
Jalal Talabani was first elected President of Iraq in 2005.
In 2010 he came up for reelection. He did not have the votes to win.
He went to Iran, hat in hand, and begged for Iran to order the Shia community in Iraq to vote for him.
He got his wish.
He has been dependent on Iran for his political life ever since.
Ketaeb Hizballah (KH), a Shia militant group in Iraq, is said to have direct connections with the radical Iranian Revolutionary Guards Al-Qods (Jerusalem) Brigade, and according to Israeli sources, has been trained by Lebanese Hezbollah.
KH has claimed, since the end of the U.S.-Iraq war, that they ‘liberated’ most of Saddam Hussein’s remaining inventory of 250 Scud missiles. That is the type which caused the most U.S. casualties during the war. They are big, awkward, not terribly accurate… but pack a pretty big wallop, if they find their target. The U.S. Patriot anti-missile defense was claimed to have a 90 percent or higher kill ratio of Scuds during the war. Afterward, we found out it was the other way around. About 10 percent.
So why, after all this time, has KH finally used three of them? And why did Iran let them?
The Grand Mubarak Port being built in Kuwait… I have have to stand in wonder at the choice of that name after the regime change in Egypt… is a very big deal, said to be costing well over a billion dollars for construction alone. When completed in four phases, the last ending in 2016, it will handle more than two million shipping containers annually.
And oil. Lots and lots of oil.
Problem is, Iraq has been building its own oil transit facility on the Persian Gulf, named the Faw Grand Port.
Ever since Kuwait announced plans for the Grand Mubarak, Iraq has been livid, accusing Kuwait of undermining Iraq’s economy, making the Faw Grand project obsolete before it was finished, and, perhaps self-servingly, providing friendly expert testimony that the Grand Mubarak is so big that it will ‘impede navigation’ in the Persian Gulf.
That was the official Iraqi government talking. According to Israeli sources, KH staged a ‘demonstration’ of some sort, nature unknown, against the port on
the Iraqi-Kuwait border. The Kuwaiti government warned… who it warned isn’t clear — call it everyone in Iraq… that Kuwait would show ‘zero tolerance for any border incursions’.
I’m thinking a few Scuds are probably a pretty palpable ‘border incursion’.
Even with all of the above, it just does not seem reasonable that Iran, through KH, with at least the passive acquiescence of the Iraqi government, would pull the tarps off some pretty valuable old missiles, and toss them into Kuwait as a warning.
Unless you know that Kuwait had started massing military forces there two weeks ago.
And that Iran has discovered, according to Israeli sources, that the Grand Mubarak will include military naval facilities for the warships of Kuwait, naturally… but also for the U.S. and for the Arab arch-enemy of Iran, Saudi Arabia. Because of the Grand Mubarak’s location in the extremely narrow Gulf, it is big naval trouble for Iran, which has long counted on being able to control the Gulf if a shooting war starts.
Now it makes sense, yes?
It is even a little poetic… using Saddam’s Scuds to deliver a warning message.
And since Iran has developed a tremendous number of different missile types since the U.S. sanctions caused them to become militarily self-sufficient, there is the possibility that a well-aimed barrage, if it were to come, might include new, sophisticated missiles.
Or perhaps the Scuds are good enough to wreak havoc on a port under construction.
Either way, this first use of Scuds by any Middle East militant group marks today as a definite red letter day.
As postscript, I should mention that a sudden ceasefire between Gaza and Israel is to take effect on Friday at 1 p.m. local Israel time, about two hours from the writing of this post.
It is said to be brokered by Egypt and the United Nations.
Hard telling if it is because of the events in Iraq and Kuwait… or despite them.
Either way, the heat under the cauldron of the Middle East just now got turned up a whole bunch of degrees.
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Iran stirs up new conflict: Its Iraqi terrorist arm shoots Scuds at Kuwait
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
August 26, 2011, 9:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
Three Scud missiles flying from Iraq to Kuwait early Friday, Aug. 26 were launched by the Iran-backed Ketaeb Hizballah of Iraq, the first such attacks since the US invaded Iraq in 2003.
It was also the first time any Middle East terrorist group had used Scud missiles.
They exploded on open ground, but DEBKAfile’s sources report that this round was meant as a warning for Kuwait to halt construction of the Grand Mubarak Port opposite the Iraqi shore – or else it would be followed by a massive volley.
In the second week of August, Kuwait massed troops on Boubiyan Island just across from Iraq to defend the huge $1.1 billion Grand Mubarak Port under construction there. The force was composed of Military Police of the Amoun Defense Organization, units of intelligence and air defense, the 35th Company, the 6th Brigade and naval forces.
This appeared to be rather a disproportionate reaction to Iraq’s demand that Kuwait freeze construction of the Persian Gulf port until guarantees were provided that the new facility would not hinder the operations of Iraq’s own planned harbor in the southern region of Basra. Iraq also fears it will block the main Persian Gulf gateway for its oil exports to reach the world’s shipping lanes from the Shatt al-Arb.
A government spokesman in Baghdad demanded assurances that free and safe navigation would not be affected by the Kuwait port which is scheduled for completion in 2016.
This dispute did not account for Kuwait’s heavy military deployment on its largest island.
What did is another factor DEBKA-Net- Weekly’s military and intelligence sources reported on Aug. 12: A threat from the Iraqi Shiite radical Ketaeb Hizballah, an arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Al-Qods Brigades, trained by the Lebanese
Hizballah, to strike the new port with Scud missiles, a threat they started carrying out this Friday.
This followed Tehran’s discovery that Mubarak Port was also projected to house a large naval base to serve the fleets of Kuwait, the US and Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf, a project Iran is determined to put paid to by any means.
Until Friday, there was no confirmation of the group’s claim to have recovered most of the inventory of 250 Scuds held by Saddam Hussein before the US invasion of 2003. But now, is clear to Kuwaiti and Western intelligence officials in the Gulf that the Scud cache has indeed fallen into the hands of the Ketaeb Hizballah of Iraq and that there is a real danger of Tehran using Iraqi Shiite extremists to sabotage the Boubiyan Island project.
Last week, Iraqi Hizballah activities staged a demonstration against the port on the Iraqi-Kuwait border. Kuwait warned it would show zero tolerance for any border incursions.
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