Iran 13

En terwijl op dit moment de beelden van de martelende Britse soldaten de hele islamitische wereld doorgaan, staat bondgenoot de Verenigde Staten te popelen om Iran te bombarderen. De Sunday Telegraph bericht: 'US prepares military blitz against Iran's nuclear. Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran's nuclear sites as a "last resort" to block Teheran's efforts to develop an atomic bomb. Central Command and Strategic Command planners are identifying targets, assessing weapon-loads and working on logistics for an operation, the Sunday Telegraph has learnt. They are reporting to the office of Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, as America updates plans for action if the diplomatic offensive fails to thwart the Islamic republic's nuclear bomb ambitions. Teheran claims that it is developing only a civilian energy programme.
"This is more than just the standard military contingency assessment," said a senior Pentagon adviser. "This has taken on much greater urgency in recent months." The prospect of military action could put Washington at odds with Britain which fears that an attack would spark violence across the Middle East, reprisals in the West and may not cripple Teheran's nuclear programme. But the steady flow of disclosures about Iran's secret nuclear operations and the virulent anti-Israeli threats of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has prompted the fresh assessment of military options by Washington. The most likely strategy would involve aerial bombardment by long-distance B2 bombers, each armed with up to 40,000 lb of precision weapons, including the latest bunker-busting devices. They would fly from bases in Missouri with mid-air refuelling.' Lees verder:
http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/12/wiran12.xml En omdat de Nederlandse journalistiek deze ontwikkelingen niet structureel volgt en niet in een breder kader plaatst is men straks verrast en zelfs verbijsterd als het tot een woede-explosie in de islamitische wereld komt. Intussen blijft die woede als een veenbrand ondergronds doorgaan.