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War scare

Here the facts:

- After the Iranian satellite carrier space was launch Sunday, Aug. 17, a joint caution to Tehran from Saudi King Abdullah and Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was issue to Iran.

- A spokesman of the presidential palace in Cairo, Suleiman Awwad, said: Iran should not present on a silver platter the “justifications and pretexts for those [US and Israel] who want to drag the region down a dangerous slope.” Debka file quoted.

- London Arabic daily Al Quds interpreted Awwad worlds as a warning to Tehran that an attack is impending by the US, some European nations and Israel.

- Tehran responded by exhibiting a ballistic missile capable of reaching outside the Middle East, as far as Britain and France, with the launching the Safir satellite carrier into orbit.

- Kuwait as placed its military on “war alert ”

FIRE Power:

- The USS Theodore Roosevelt ( Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarrier ), the USS Ronald Reagan ( Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarrier), and the USS Iwo Jima ( WASP-class Amphibious Assault Ship- equip with Harrier V/Stol attack aircraft, Landing craft cushion hovercraft, a large air wing of helicopters) are bound or in the the Persian Gulf to join the USS Abraham Lincoln
( Nimitz-class supercarrier ) and USS Peleliu ( Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship equip with attack planes and helicopters) to reinforce the US strike forces in the region.

- This is the mightiest naval task force the US has in place in the region since the 1991 Gulf War.

Petroleumworld News 08/22/08

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