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American Warships Heading to Egypt
Connecticut's newspaper The Day noted on January 24th:
Connecticut
National Guard Detachment 2, Company I, 185th Aviation Regiment of
Groton has mobilized and will deploy to the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, to
support the Multinational Force and Observers.
The unit left
Connecticut Jan. 15 for Fort Benning, Ga., for further training and
validation. The unit operates C-23C Sherpa aircraft and has deployed
three times in the last seven years in support of the conflicts in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
The unit will provide an on-demand aviation asset
to the Multinational Force and Observers commander to support its
mission of supervising the security provisions of the Egypt/ Israel
Peace Treaty.
Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reported:
The
Pentagon is moving U.S. warships and other military assets to make
sure it is prepared in case evacuation of U.S. citizens from Egypt
becomes necessary, officials said Friday.
The Kearsarge, an amphibious assault ship
carrying 700 to 800 troops from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit,
and the Ponce have arrived in the Red Sea, putting them off Egypt’s
shores in case the situation worsens.
Pentagon officials
emphasized that military intervention in Egypt was not being
contemplated and that the warships were being moved only for
contingency purposes in case evacuations became necessary.
In
addition to the Marines, the Kearsarge normally carries around four
dozen helicopters and harrier jets that would permit evacuations and
other humanitarian operations, the officials said. More than 1,000
Marines from the Kearsarge were sent to Afghanistan last month on a
temporary deployment, leaving roughly one-third still aboard, officials
said.
The Kearsarge is an attack vessel.
As Wikipedia notes:
In carrying out her mission, Kearsarge
not only transports and lands ashore troops, but also tanks, trucks,
artillery, and the complete logistic support needed to supply an
assault.
The assault support system aboard ship coordinates
horizontal and vertical movement of troops, cargo and vehicles. Monorail
trains, moving at speeds up to 600 ft/min (3 m/s), transport cargo and
supplies from storage and staging areas throughout the ship to a
13,600 square feet (1,260 m2) well deck which opens to the
sea through huge gates in the ship's stern. There, the cargo, troops and
vehicles are loaded aboard landing craft for transit to the beach. The
air cushion landing craft can "fly" out of the dry well deck, or the
well deck can be flooded so conventional landing craft can float out on
their way to the beach.
Simultaneously, helicopters are brought
from the hangar deck to the flight deck by two deck-edge elevators and
loaded with supplies from three massive cargo elevators.
Kearsarge's
armament suite includes the NATO RIM-7 Sea Sparrow point defense system
for anti-aircraft support, RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles, 25 mm
chain guns and the Phalanx close-in weapon system to counter threats
from low-flying aircraft and close-in small craft. Missile decoy
launchers augment the anti-ship missile defenses.
However, the Kearsarge has also been used in missions to evacuate people stranded in war zones. Wikipedia describes this unique dual capability:
Kearsarge is
fully capable of amphibious assault, advance force and special purpose
operations, as well as non-combatant evacuation and other humanitarian
missions. Since her commissioning, she has performed these missions the
world over, including evacuating non-combatants from Freetown, Sierra
Leone, on 31 May 1997 and rescuing Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady from
Serb-controlled territory in Bosnia on 8 June 1995. Additionally,
Kearsarge is fully equipped with state of the art command and control
(C&C) systems for flagship command duty, and her medical facilities
are second in capability only to the Navy's hospital ships, USNS Comfort
(T-AH-20) and Mercy (T-AH-19). These facilities allowed Kearsarge to
serve a dual role during the 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia, as a platform for bombing missions against Serb forces in
Operation Allied Force, and as a treatment facility for Albanian
refugees in Operation Shining Hope.
The Los Angeles Times continues:
In
addition, the aircraft carrier Enterprise is in the eastern
Mediterranean. The Pentagon originally announced that the carrier was
heading through the Suez Canal for the Arabian Gulf, but the crisis in
Egypt appears to have prompted a decision to keep it in the
Mediterranean at least temporarily.
Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea (as well as the Red Sea):
The Enterprise is the longest naval vessel in the world, and is powered by eight
nuclear reactors. The Enterprise does not appear to have any dual role
for evacuations, but is simply an offensive aircraft carrier.
Therefore,
I see no clear indication that the U.S. government has affirmatively
decided to directly involve our military in Egypt. However, it is
obvious that the government is at least planning for the possibility.
Update: Business Insider notes:
A "very senior" member of the US Marine corps is telling people "multiple platoons" are deploying to Egypt, a source tells us.
There is a system within the US Marines that alerts the immediate
families of high-ranking marines when their marine will soon be deployed
to an emergency situation where they will not be able to talk to their
spouses or families.That alert just went out, says our source.
This senior Marine told our source that the Pentagon will deploy
"multiple platoons" to Egypt over the next few days and that the
official reason will be ‘to assist in the evacuation of US citizens."Our source was told that "the chances they were going over there went from 70% yesterday to 100% today."
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Indeed, we are far richer, materially, and quite a bit poorer, mentally.
To wit: 52% voted for a guy who has ZERO executive experience to run the world's largest, most powerful organisation. To try to get a grip on this, recall that effing Sarah Palin had more executive experience than The Won up until he was throned, and let's be generous and tack on six months to that for his steep learning curve.
maybe, but the plumbism usually gets 'em first.
Warships are for evacuations. The airport is a mess. This does not help America's standing in the area with the locals. The only other thing it might do is send a signal to the Muslim Brotherhood to keep their hands off the Suez canal.
Nothing to see here, move along please.
This joke ain't funny no more
« Open your eyes, see the lies right in front of you! ...
They scare us all with threats of war
So we forget just how bad things are »
The current global situation was well foreseen by counter-culture thirty years ago ... those of age in the 1980s, may well remember this hit by the goth punk band, 'Lords of the New Church', from 1982 ... summarises it all quite well:
Lords of the New Church, « Open Your Eyes » (1982), video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Esuqywo9k
Full lyrics to « Open Your Eyes » by the Lords of the New Church:
Video games train the kids for war
Army chic in high-fashion stores
Law and order's done their job
Prisons filled while the rich still rob
Assassination politics
Violence rules within' our nation's midst
Well ignorance is their power tool
You'll only know what they want you to know
The television cannot lie
Controlling media with smokescreen eyes
Nuclear politicians picture show
The acting's lousy but the blind don't know
Open your eyes, see the lies right in front of ya
Open your eyes see the lies right in front of you
Open your eyes, to the lies right in front of ya
Open your eyes ...
They scare us all with threats of war
So we forget just how bad things are
You taste the fear when you're all alone
They gonna git ya when you're on your own
The silence of conspiracy
Slaughtered on the altar of apathy
You gotta wake up from your sleep
'Cause meek inherits earth...six feet deep
Open your eyes, see the lies right in front of you
Open your eyes see the lies right in front of ya
Open your eyes to the lies right in front of you
Open your eyes ...
I have the LP album and in excellent shape, somewhere in my collection.
That album was spot on what would we live today.
Thirty years later we in ZH have ORI saying: "The meek shall inherit the earth while the geek die trying."
We have another saying around here: "It takes a Sodomite to know an Edomite".
but you just don't hear much of gomorrah anymore (to the tune of nobody cares about the railroads anymore). speaking of the clash, "guns of brixton" and "spanish bombs" seem apt as well (indeed that whole beauty).
;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAkfHShATKY&feature=related
Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin' to the top
The sheik he drove his Cadillac
He went a' cruisnin' down the ville
The muezzin was a' standing
On the radiator grille
[Chorus]
The shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
The shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy Casbah sound
But the Bedouin they brought out
The electric camel drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the shareef
Had cleared the square
They began to wail
[Chorus]
Now over at the temple
Oh! They really pack 'em in
The in crowd say it's cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
The temple band took five
The crowd caught a wiff
Of that crazy Casbah jive
[Chorus]
The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way
As soon as the shareef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare
As soon as the shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed
[Chorus]
He thinks it's not kosher
Fundamentally he can't take it.
You know he really hates it.
because they gotta keep kosher.
I cannot help but wonder how many other 'support' ships (and troops and planes and armored vehicles) are already in the area. How many bases does the Untied States have already in and around Egypt? What will the PTB do to make sure that 'business' continues as usual? And, lastly, when will Faux Snooze learn that the proper labeling of a map is not that hard?
It's the permanent base of operations of the USN 5th fleet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Fifth_Fleet
The USS lincoln is already there and carries typically 100+ planes and is accompanied by 10 or so support ships.
Egypt's army is basically US Trained same /same .As is most of their equipment, M1A1 ABRAMS.
They are no slouch for sure, we have no beef w/Egypt's military, and the leaders from there 99% of the time come thru their Military.
And I see it coming down the same again,or look for a draft, and another front in the Sands of the ME.
imo no draft. a nuke, false flag or otherwise would be a temptation but knowing, for sure, the perps would be the problem. draft would be a sign that the revolution is starting here. and it would.
George, I heard a rumor that Business Insider / Huffington Post and its backers are making a move to invest in Zero Hedge. Or is it just a coincidence that you are linking to Henry's site? Mr. Bloge scored $3m back in the summer on top of the $2.7m he raised previously.
http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/business-insider-gets-new-3m-ro...
Huh?
If zerohedge's independace is in question, just tell how much do we have to raise, to keep it as it is - it's the single most important web-media worldwide! And as I say worldwide, I mean it - I'm from small european country Slovenia and our only daily-financial newspaper is publishing at least 3 articles based on zerohedge's stories every day - and that's going on in county where people never realy cared much about what's going on globaly (a simptom of closed ex-socialstic society) - well that's huge success and let me say that this "blog" is causing revolution in people's heads!
I don't have a dime left. But, I'll make a wizzard 4 ZH. ( Don't ignore my $10, it's earned and I'm not a Bernank ... :-P
It is just in the last year getting real CREDIBILITY with the MSM nuts, and all.
The TRUTH needs to be heard.
If this goes HuffPo, there goes ZH.
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It is just in the last year getting real CREDIBILITY with the MSM nuts, and all.
The TRUTH needs to be heard.
If this goes HuffPo, there goes ZH.
i'm impressed that ZH has escaped corruption for this long, and it would be a shame to see them sell out.
+1
one tell will be comment "moderation". tptb like "moderate" public comments and secret control frauds and war crimes. and not just in the morning but 24/7.
Huff Po = Saudi Money.
saud$ = joo$
http://www.coffinman.co.uk/jewish_roots_of_the_saudi_royal_family.htm
Hell their all COUSINS.
so were the kings of england and the kaisers of germany. and the hatfields and the mccoys, in all probability. didn't keep the blood from flowing though.
Amazing story, it is. Now the text uses the term Jew-ish.
That name MORDAKHAI BIN IBRAHIM BIN MOSHE' sounds Edomite to me.
So what you are saying is we should not be race specific?
By some counts there are approx. 90,000 Americans in Egypt. Trying to extricate them using commercial flights with an average capacity of 200-300 people would've required 300-450 flights.
What are 90,000 Americans doing in Egypt? Who are they, what do they do?
And- your point is? They got themselves there- let them get themselves out. I don't feel like having to pay one way of their dream vacation gone awry.
And YOUR point is?
What if it was you and your family and kids?.
One lady that has lived their as an Expat for years, can't even get out of her apt, across the street to try and escape.
You assume a lot...........
expat is short for expatriate. what does it mean again? oh that's right, one who leaves or renounces citizenship in one's former country. why not be clear on your motives, the protection of israel? then we could discuss that, not some poor "lady expat".
Or, assuming they could wedge 1000 people onto each ship, another 89 Kearsarges.
"Or, assuming they could wedge 1000 people onto each ship, another 89 Kearsarges."
the evacuation capacity of the ships seems very insignificant relative to the number of people that would need to be evacuated
seems more plausible that the ships are there in their primary role of projecting US power into a region (whether the region wants it or not ...)
indeed.
Well,...duh!
War is a business and very profitable. US Military will simply bomb, invade and occupy a country at will, raid their banks, steal the resources and the rest will follow: Ge, Bechtel, ATT, Coke, PizzaHut, McDonalds, Exxon, Jpm, Citi, Monsanto, Blackwater, Porn etc. That's one hell of a business plan. Fucking brilliant.
Just think of it this way, bankersters make 100's of millions........Dictators make multi-billions!
then put those billions in banks in secret accounts which may or may not be drawn on later, depending on luck and political/legal exigencies. who is it that's got the billions again?
Well said Hannibal. Everyone who's junking you is welcome to double-junk me. Oh- and don't forget to add "organized right-wing Christian religion" to your list of invader species soon to follow. Big money there as well.
"organized right-wing Christian religion" to your list of invader species soon to follow. Big money there as well.
Explain, how so?, the Coptic Christians in Egypt are hanging on, barely.
They have been murdering Christiains and bombing churches in Egypt, so WHERE's the BIG MONEY for Org religion, (to whit you know nothing about), esp in that area.
the christian zionists (bush, cheney, obama, pelosi...) are an essential component of israel's support in the u.s. the israelis know it and happily entertain and inculcate those of this persuasion when said c.z.'s visit, as perpetually they do, the sites of their saviour's exploits. this nexus serves to give gut to the fire and steel that mere money can't quite. that's how.
Exactly, and protect Israel which directs US policy in the Middle East. And what has Joseph Lieberwhore been mouthing lately?
I just wish we could get better at stealing their resources.
Eric Prince on the corner... "We" ain't :-P
Got any links that shows us getting control of Iraq's wells, and or any other country we have been into?.Have they offered a DIME to help repay for the rebuilding, costs of their liberating?
Hell no.
Last I checked we always foot the bill, and get fudgepacked.
Same author, same comment section, above:
It is funny to see what propangadists indulge themselves into when it comes to deliver propaganda. It is unsure they realize how weak their efforts have become.
Iraq story is quite young. The story of nullification of contracts made quite a fuss when the iraq invasion was launched. Some countries were told to refuse to participate to the invasion because they had huge contracts with the Iraqi tyrant and therefore, by invading, they would participate to cancel the contracts they had signed.
Here's a way to seize resources: a country has contracted and when invaded, the tyrant is declared illegitimate and the contracts are redrawn.
Comment above showed the propagandist is aware of this possibility as he called Egypt to honour the standing contracts. It does not want an Egyptian popular government to cancel the deals, renegociate them on the same ground the US cancelled Iraqi contracts.