Above article posted this pm,below article posted in the am.
Navy launches show of force near Iran
By BARBARA SURK, Associated Press Writer2 hours, 58 minutes ago
Ships packed with 17,000 sailors and Marines moved into the Persian Gulf on Wednesday as the U.S. Navy staged another show of force off Iran's coast just days before U.S.-Iran talks in Baghdad. The carrier strike groups led by the USS John C. Stennis and USS Nimitz were joined by the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard and its own strike group, which includes two landing ships carrying 2,100 members of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit. Aircraft aboard the two carriers and the Bonhomme Richard were to conduct air training while the ships ran submarine, mine and other exercises. The war games — which culminate in an amphibious landing exercise in Kuwait, just a few miles from Iran — appear to be a clear warning to Tehran, coming just ahead of the Baghdad talks and as the United Nations contemplates tightening sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. "There's a link to both events," said Mustafa Alani of the Dubai-based Gulf Research Center. "The Americans are sending a message to Iran that they are not coming to the negotiating table weak, but with their military at Tehran's doorstep." Washington is also showing Iran that the U.S. military will act to defeat any Iranian war strategy of closing the straits, which Iran shares with Oman, Alani said. U.S. and Iranian ambassadors are to meet Monday in Baghdad to discuss Iraq's security issues. Tehran has objected to U.S. claims that Iran is supplying Iraqi Shiite militias with roadside bombs that kill American troops. The U.S. has also accused Iran of covertly developing nuclear weapons; Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful. Publicly, at least, the Navy isn't saying the maneuvers, which are expected to last several weeks, are directed at Iran. "The timing of the exercise was determined by the availability of forces in the area of operations," said Lt. John Gay, spokesman for the Bahrain-based U.S. 5th Fleet. Warships under 5th Fleet command patrol the Gulf, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean. The nine ships taking part in the maneuvers were already on patrol in Mideast waters outside the Gulf when they passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday and began air and sea maneuvers in the Gulf. Two-fifths of the world's oil is transported through the busy straits. "This training demonstrates our commitment to security and stability in the Gulf area and our commitment to regional partners," said Vice Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff, commander of 5th Fleet. Wednesday's drill was the latest in a series of American and Iranian war games. Iran conducted naval maneuvers in November and April 2006, while the U.S. Navy held a two-carrier exercise in March and a training operation in October. The Navy has maintained its two-carrier presence since February when the Stennis arrived in the Mideast waters. Both carriers, with about 80 warplanes apiece, are expected to remain in the region through the summer. Besides the Stennis, Nimitz and Bonhomme Richard, the war games bring together the guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam and USS Princeton, the destroyers USS O'Kane and USS Higgins, and the landing ships USS Denver and USS Rushmore. America's Gulf Arab allies have grown increasingly uneasy with the U.S. stance against Iran, fearing an outbreak of hostilities could bring Iranian retaliation. All lie within range of Iranian missiles. The Gulf Cooperation Council, a loose alliance of Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, has called on members not to support any U.S. action against Iran, while Qatar and the Emirates have publicly prohibited the U.S. military from launching strikes on Iran from U.S. bases on their soil. During a landmark visit to the Emirates this month, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned of a tough retaliation if the United States attacked Iran. He also called on Gulf Arab states to eject the U.S. military and form a regional alliance with Iran — an offer that met no response.
Navy stages show of force off Iran coast
By BARBARA SURK, 26 minutes ago
The U.S. Navy staged its latest show of military force off the Iranian coastline on Wednesday, sending two aircraft carriers and landing ships packed with 17,000 U.S. Marines and sailors to carry out unannounced exercises in the Persian Gulf. The carrier strike groups led by the USS John C. Stennis and USS Nimitz were joined by the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard and its own strike group, which includes landing ships carrying members of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The Navy said nine U.S. warships passed through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday. Merchant ships passing through the busy strait carry two-fifths of the world's oil exports. Aircraft aboard the three carriers and the Bonhomme Richard were to conduct air training while the ships ran submarine, mine and other exercises. The maneuvers came just two months after a previous exercise in March when two U.S. carrier groups carried out two days of air and sea maneuvers off the Iranian coast. Before the arrival of the Bonhomme Richard strike group, the Navy maintained around 20,000 U.S personnel at sea in the Gulf and neighboring waters. U.S. warships have frequently collided with merchant ships in the busy shipping lanes of the Gulf.
IN THE EVENT OF SALVATION GOD WILL NOT ALLOW ANYTHING OR ANYONE STAND IN THE WAY FOR THOSE WHO NEED AND DESIRE SALVATION - BE THEY PERSONS OR NATIONS. THE USA HAS BEEN THE BENEFACTOR AND PROTECTOR OF ISRAEL, BUT THIS TIME IS COMING TO A CLOSE, AS GOD MUST BE LOOKED UPON BY ISRAEL AS THEIR ONLY MEANS OF PROTECTION AND SALVATION, THEREFORE, AMERICA MUST BE REMOVED AS GOD WILL DEAL DIRECTLY WITH ISRAEL HIMSELF.
WRITTEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, THUS WRITTEN UNTO ISRAEL AND THE JEW:
JOEL 2:30-32 And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call. (the key word is "delivered" not the word "saved" as recorded in the book of ACTS 2:21 - And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. - isn't it amazing that God knows exactly which word to use for both the Jew and the Gentile?).
SHE WAS QUITE A LADY BUT SHE MUST GO, HER TIME IS COME - AMERICA'S DEMISE -
LAMENTATIONS 4:17-18 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. (IT IS VAINITY TO LOOK FOR HELP OUTSIDE OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD)
NAME A NATION, OTHER THAN THE UNITED STATES, THAT HAS BEEN SUCH A GREAT PROTECTOR OF ISRAEL AND NOTE: THEY WATCHED FOR A NATION THAT "WOULD NOT" NO! THEY WATCHED FOR A NATION THAT "COULD NOT" SAVE THEM - SOMETHING HAS OCCURRED THAT HAS BROUGHT TO AN END THE ABILITY OF THAT NATION TO SAVE THEM, REMEMBER IT IS NOT THAT THEY WOULD NOT BUT THAT THEY COULD NOT.
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