Cat and Mouse
This is pretty smart, and somewhat entertaining when you consider it..
There are conflicting reports. An "administration official" says they're happening, but a "Pentagon spokesman" says he doesn't have any knowledge of it. I tend to think that this is a lot like the allegations from Seymour Hirsh that I posted about last week. There are several possibilities.
* The overflights are happening in conjunction with the British/French/German negotiations. "Hey, Iran, stand down your weapons programs or else that crazy Mofo Bush will smite you! We can't control him, he's already patrolling in there with commandos and airplanes!" In this case, perhaps the information is being leaked on purpose in order to influence Iranian officials over the grapevine.
* The overflights are happening, they're supposed to be classified or low key, and traitors in the American government are leaking information to try to influence American foreign policy.
* The overflights aren't happening at all, and it's just another demonstration of the lack of journalistic/overall integrity by journalists or traitors within the government who are trying to influence American foreign policy.
If it's happening, I wish those Air Force boys a hearty Godspeed.
The U.S. Air Force is playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Iran's ayatollahs, flying American combat aircraft into Iranian airspace in an attempt to lure Tehran into turning on air defense radars, thus allowing U.S. pilots to grid the system for use in future targeting data, administration officials said.
"We have to know which targets to attack and how to attack them," said one, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The flights, which have been going on for weeks, are being launched from sites in Afghanistan and Iraq, and are part of Bush administration attempts to collect badly needed intelligence on Iran's possible nuclear weapons development sites, these sources said, speaking on condition of strict anonymity.
"These Iranian air defense positions are not just being observed, they're being 'templated,'" an ad ministration official said, explaining that the flights are part of a U.S. effort to develop "an electronic order of battle for Iran" in case of actual conflict.
However, a Pentagon spokesman told UPI he was unaware of any such actions.
"We are not aware of any incursions into Iranian air space," said Cdr. Nick Balice, chief of media at the U.S. Central Command.
There are conflicting reports. An "administration official" says they're happening, but a "Pentagon spokesman" says he doesn't have any knowledge of it. I tend to think that this is a lot like the allegations from Seymour Hirsh that I posted about last week. There are several possibilities.
* The overflights are happening in conjunction with the British/French/German negotiations. "Hey, Iran, stand down your weapons programs or else that crazy Mofo Bush will smite you! We can't control him, he's already patrolling in there with commandos and airplanes!" In this case, perhaps the information is being leaked on purpose in order to influence Iranian officials over the grapevine.
* The overflights are happening, they're supposed to be classified or low key, and traitors in the American government are leaking information to try to influence American foreign policy.
* The overflights aren't happening at all, and it's just another demonstration of the lack of journalistic/overall integrity by journalists or traitors within the government who are trying to influence American foreign policy.
If it's happening, I wish those Air Force boys a hearty Godspeed.
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