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On October 16, DEBKA/file headlined, "Big US Airlift drill starts Monday," saying:
A large-scale Middle East exercise will involve "41 giant transports of the 22nd Airlift Squadron....The US Transport Command and its Air Forces Transportation will be testing its ability to provide a rapid strategic airlift response to major crises and contingencies."
Command and control elements will be involved with combat units. Transports will practice landings in Israel and Saudi Arabia.
After completing the exercise on October 21, US air contingents will remain "in Middle East skies ready to land at any moment" for any purpose.
Israeli, Saudi and Egyptian armies "are on a high state of preparedness." In addition, the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier group is heading from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean.
It includes eight warships, nuclear armed and dangerous. Its Air Wing CVW-9 is also involved, ready to provide combat troops support and lay mines in strategic locations.
Middle East saber rattling is common US policy. Iran is target one. Relations have been tense for decades. Other inflammatory charges accuse Tehran of threatening Israel and world peace, as well as involvement in targeting US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In fact, Washington and Israel alone jeopardize regional peace and stability. Iran hasn't attacked another country in over 200 years. It threatens none now.
America wages permanent wars. Israel's ready to help when asked. and practices state terror as official policy like Washington.
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