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Top UK Brass Plan For US Strike On Iran

 

by Michael Carmichael

 

April 10, 2006

The Planetary Movement Unlimited

 

 

 

Immediately after Condoleezza Rice's visit to the north of England for

a series of secret meetings and public appearances with Foreign

Minister Jack Straw, the UK top brass held their own secret meeting

Monday in London to prepare Britain for what they now describe as the

" inevitable " U.S. military strike against Iran.

 

Chief of the Defense Staff Gen. Sir Michael Walker; Chief of Defense

Intelligence Lt. Gen. Andrew Ridgway, and Assistant Chief of the

General Staff Maj. Gen. Bill Rollo were scheduled to attend the secret

meeting along with top-ranking civilian officials from Downing Street

and the Foreign Office.

 

Experts confirm that the U.S. strike against multiple targets in Iran

is positively in the pipeline; only its date remains uncertain.

Current White Hall speculation is that the U.S. will strike Iran's

nuclear sites at some obscure date vaguely described as sometime later

this year or next.

 

The UK government's most loyal supporters in the British media have

reported plans for the secret meeting of the top brass and begun the

process of preparing the UK public for what will be a very unpopular

U.S. military intervention.

 

In a candid lead editorial, the Sunday Telegraph pointed to the oil

factor as one of the primary objectives driving U.S. policy in the

region and a key element in its plan to bomb multiple targets in Iran.

 

In Britain, there are grave concerns that the U.S. strike will have a

cascade effect and will produce deeply negative reactions across the

board in Iraq, the Middle East, and throughout the world. One risk

that is being weighed very heavily in White Hall is that the U.S.

bombing campaign will strengthen the hand of Iran's controversial

president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

 

Anticipating massive political repercussions throughout the region,

observers are predicting the eruption of strident and violent

anti-American protests in Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India,

Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia. Some British officials will argue against

any visible UK involvement in what is being seen by many as yet

another foolish move on the international chessboard by Bush and Rice

­ one that follows a revealing reference to " thousands of mistakes " in

Iraq that were openly confessed by Secretary Rice during her latest

high-profile visit to Britain.

 

Planetary Movement has been informed that the timing of the U.S.

strike will be synchronized with the political cycle in Bush's America.

 

Political intelligence experts based in Washington, D.C., advise that

the U.S. strike against Iran will likely occur between Labor Day

(Sept. 4) and election day (Nov. 6) ­ although it could come earlier

if the president's popularity continues its precipitous decline. The

political spin of the U.S. action is now being designed by Karl Rove

and his minions to strengthen the weakening hand of a deeply unpopular

presidency and to stave off a drastic defeat for the Republicans in

this year's midterm elections by galvanizing the American voters with

the bombing campaign that will be ballyhooed as " essential for national

security. "

 

After their public appearances in the north of England, Rice and Straw

unexpectedly boarded Rice's 757 and flew overnight to Baghdad for a

face-to-face confrontation with Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, whom

they hope to convince to abdicate his office for a more malleable

replacement.

 

Adel Abdul Mahdi is a Shi'ite politician deemed by Rice and Straw to

be a somewhat more reliable pair of hands than Jaafari. Rice and Straw

view Mahdi as a political operative who might be somewhat less hostile

to U.S. objectives in the region than Jaafari.

 

In Baghdad, the pair met with President Jalal Talabani and the U.S.

ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, to arrange the ouster of Jaafari

and his replacement by Mahdi. The imminent regime change in Baghdad is

merely a first step in their preparations for the U.S. air strike

against Iran, which will create massive political pressures on the

U.S.-backed government in Iraq.