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Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
23 January 2007
http://www.legitgov.org/
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U.S. warns Iran to back down --2nd U.S. aircraft carrier strike group
steaming toward Middle East 23 Jan 2007 A second U.S. aircraft carrier
strike group now steaming toward the Middle East is Washington's way
of
warning Iran to back down in its attempts to dominate the region [?!?
Hello, Pot? This is Kettle.], a top U.S. diplomat said here Tuesday.
Nicholas Burns, U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs,
ruled out direct negotiations with Iran and said a rapprochement
between
Washington and Tehran was "not possible" until Iran halts uranium
enrichment. [Why doesn't the US stop *its* uranium enrichment?]

The REAL Plan for Iran By George Washington 22 Jan 2007 A top former
U.S. intelligence analyst has stated that the U.S. plans a broad-scale
war against Iran... But how would the U.S. -- which has already
stretched its military thin in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars -- pull
it
off? By using "The Khuzestan Gambit", as military planners call it.
Basically, the U.S. would invade Khuzestan, a small region of Iran
containing 90% of Iran's oil.

Russian Admiral Says U.S. Navy Prepares Missile Strike on Iran 15 Jan
2007 U.S. Navy nuclear submarines maintaining vigil off the coast of
Iran indicate that the Pentagon's military plans include not only
control over navigation in the Persian Gulf but also strikes against
Iranian targets, a former commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet,
Admiral Eduard Baltin has told the Interfax news agency.

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