From: Clive Denton
Date: 2007-09-17 15:07:42
Move troops to Iran border, Brown told 16 Sep 2007 General David Petraeus will press Gordon Brown to increase the number of British troops patrolling the Iraqi border with Iran when he meets the Prime Minister this week. The US commander in Iraq wants Britain to move a significant proportion of the 5,000 troops garrisoned at Basra airport to cut off the [alleged] smuggling of Iranian weapons to Shia militias. Read Full report http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/16/wiran316.xml Report: US wants war with Iran 16 Sep 2007 The United States Department of Defense has developed a list of up to 2,000 bombing targets in Iran, the Sunday Telegraph reported. According to the report, senior CIA and US defense officials believe that the White House was taking steps to ensure military confrontation with Iran, for fear that diplomatic efforts to slow the country’s nuclear weapons program are doomed to fail. According to a senior US intelligence officer, the escalation to military confrontation could begin with a public denunciation of Iran’s suspected meddling in Iraq, the report said. Read Full report http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3449757,00.html
