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Naval Update: T-Minus One Week Until Arabian Sea Destination Reached

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/04/2012 21:53 -0400

The news surrounding the Middle East, particularly Iran and Syria, may come and go in waves, but for the most part it is loud political grandstanding, jawboning and largely noise. Or rather, it will be noise until these two catalytic events occur: the third US Aircraft carrier (CVN-74 Stennis) and the second big deck amphibious warfare ship (LHA-5 Peleliu), both dispatched as of several weeks ago with a destination the 5th US Fleet headquartered in Bahrain, reach their target - the Arabian Sea, located by the Straits of Hormuz and right next to Iran. As the following naval update map from Stratfor shows, both are now within a week of reaching their destination: conveniently so with at least two weeks to go until the presidential election. Needless to say, once on location, the naval and airborne support for any offensive operation, especially those launched during new moon cycles, will be simply suffocating.

Source: Stratfor

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Fri, 10/05/2012 - 06:46 | 2858649 ZippyBananaPants

Great thread of comments. Read every one. Love ZH

Fri, 10/05/2012 - 07:52 | 2858692 xear

Building 7 could not be hit by flight 93 until the Twin Towers were down because the Twin Towers were in the direct flight path. So the idea was that 7 minutes after the twin towers collapsed flight 93 was supposed to hit building 7.

Unexpectedly, some maverick air force pilot got in the air and took down flight 93 which left the Dick Cheney and Condi Rice in a tither. Now what do we do? Screw it, start a few office fires and then pull it anyway ... who is going to notice?

Let's see, the first modern tall building to collapse in its footprint from an office fire...

Fri, 10/05/2012 - 08:43 | 2858919 surfsup