Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Even As We Speak

Reports emerged this weekend from Scotland’s Sunday Herald that the US government has contracted with a Florida company to ship a massive amount of weaponry, including hundreds of bunker buster bombs, to Diego Garcia.

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The island’s proximity to Iran suggests it may be used as a staging ground for US air strikes against the nation.

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The Sunday Herald report also cites numerous experts as saying that the lack of publicity for the move, just one of several examples of the Obama Administration adding major amounts of weaponry to the area around Iran, suggests they believe a confrontation is more likely.

  Antiwar

And I guess our military doesn't move its own equipment any more. Or was that part of the secrecy? Who owns that Florida company?

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