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Title: Third US carrier, 4,000 Marines augment US armada opposite Iran
Source: DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
URL Source: [None]
Published: Jun 28, 2010
Author: AngK
Post Date: 2010-06-28 23:14:14 by angK
Keywords: Iran
Views: 114
Comments: 2

Third US carrier, 4,000 Marines augment US armada opposite Iran DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 28, 2010, 10:45 PM (GMT+02:00)Tags: Iran Persian Gulf USS Nassau

USS Nassau: More US naval-air-marine muscle off Irandebkafile's military sources report that Washington has posted a third carrier opposite Iran's shores. It is supported by amphibious assault ships and up to 4,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel, bringing the total US strength in these waters to three carriers and 10,000 combat personnel. The USS Nassau (LHA-4) Amphibious Ready Group 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, tasked with supporting the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet area of operations, is cruising around the Bab al-Mandeb Straits where the Gulf of Aden flows into the Red Sea. Its presence there accounts for Tehran announcing Sunday, June 27 that its "aid ship for Gaza" had been called off, for fear an American military boarding party would intercept the vessel and search it. This would be permissible under the latest UN sanctions punishing the Islamic Republic for its nuclear program. The third US carrier group to reach waters around Iran consists of three vessels: 1. The USS Nassau Amphibious Assault ship is not just an enormous landing craft for the 3,000 Marines aboard; its decks carry 6 vertical take-off AV-HB Harrier attack plans; four AH-1W Super Cobra, twelve CH-46 Sea Knight and CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters, as well choppers convertible to fast V-22 Osprey airplanes capable of landing in any conditions. This vast warship has 1,400 cabinets for sleeping the entire Marine-24th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard. 2. The amphibious transport dock ship USS Mesa Verde which carries 800 Marines equipped for instantaneous landing. 3. The amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland which carries 400 Marines and 102 commandos trained for special operations behind enemy lines.

debkafile adds: The USS Ashland was the target of an al Qaeda Katyusha rocket attack in 2005 when it was docked in Jordan's Aqaba port next door to the Israeli port of Eilat. One of the rockets exploded in Eilat airport. The ship exited harbor in time to escape harm. These new arrivals are a massive injection of naval, air and marine muscle to the strength Washington has deployed in the Persian Gulf-Red Sea-Indian Ocean arena in recent months. The USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group consisting of twelve warships is cruising in the Arabian Sea opposite Chah Bahar, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards biggest naval base not far from the Iranian-Pakistan border. It is there that most of Iran's special commando units are housed. Also posted in the Arabian Sea, further to the west, is the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Strike Group

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#1. To: angK (#0)

Third US carrier, 4,000 Marines augment US armada opposite Iran

The US Jewish people are ecstatic about this prospect of war!

YES - Gentiles killing each other - o boy o boy!

your_neighbor  posted on  2010-06-29   6:04:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: your_neighbor (#1)

The US Jewish people are ecstatic about this prospect of war!

Jewish people, the semites that is, do not want war any more than we do. It is the non-semitic Khazarian Ashkanazi Zionists that want war so bad, they pee war.

Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

Rev. 3:9

angK  posted on  2010-06-29   18:19:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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