"United States is drawing up plans to strike on Iranian insurgency camp"
"The US military is drawing up plans for a “surgical strike” against an insurgent training camp inside Iran if Republican Guards continue with attempts to destabilise Iraq, western intelligence sources said last week. One source said the Americans were growing increasingly angry at the involvement of the Guards’ special-operations Quds force inside Iraq, training Shi’ite militias and smuggling weapons into the country....
Although American defence chiefs are firmly opposed to any attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, they believe a raid on one of the camps training Shi’ite militiamen would deliver a powerful message to Tehran....
President George W Bush is known to be determined that he should not hand over what he sees as “the Iran problem” to his successor...."
Yeah, being the Third Anti-Christ is also another reason.
"Troops mass as attack on Mosul looms"
Wonder if the MSM will keep this quite like Basra and Sadr City.
"The government is massing troops for an imminent attack on the northern city of Mosul, the interior minister said. The minister Jawad al-Bolani said the government has deployed "elite units" in the city, home to nearly three million people and currently one of the most violent places in the country.
U.S. troops will assist with aerial bombardment, logistics and artillery. U.S. marines will intervene if necessary. The battle to overtake Mosul is billed as the 'last’ major offensive Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki intends to launch to bring the country under control....
Bolani said the troops sent to calm down Basra were being redeployed in Mosul. Analysts say the battle for Mosul is expected to be one of the bloodiest since the 2003 U.S. invasion.
Mosul is a mixed city. Though predominantly Sunni Arab, it holds sizeable communities of Kurds, Christians, Shebeks and Yezidis....
[Bolani] predicted the attack to be swift with minimum damage and casualties. But the analysts expected a long and difficult 'street-to-street and house-to-house’ fight as the city is almost completely under the Qaeda and other forces resisting U.S. occupation."
