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[Jesus Lives!] DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the Russians, like the Iranians, cover their stealthy advance into new waters by apparent movements for joining the international task force combating Somali pirates. While Iranian warships have taken up positions in the Gulf of Aden, the Russians are moving naval units southeast into the Persian Gulf.

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[All Things News] Russia's first Persian Gulf naval presence coordinated with Tehran ...: The flotilla consists of four vessels from Russia’s Pacific Fleet: The submarine fighter Admiral Panteleyev is due at Manama Wednesday, escorted by the refueling-supply ship Izhorai, The supply-battleship Irkut and the rescue craft BM-37 are already docked in Salalah.

[The American Freedomist] The American Freedomist » Blog Archive » Russians in the Persian ...: The Obama administration has not responded to North Korean testing, and now it has not responded to the Russians moving ships into the Persian Gulf in coordination with the Iranian Navy. This is a test of our response to Russian naval presence.

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | France Opens Military Base in Persian Gulf: I just hope that NATO nations and Russia don't get into a "base craze" and start building everywhere. The last thing we need is nations to spread their armies all over the place on top of the current recession, global warming, and the world's other serious problems.

[80beats] In the Arctic Oil & Gas Lottery, Russia Looks Like a Big Winner ...: Researchers estimate that the Arctic holds about about 83 billion barrels of undiscovered oil, but say that's not enough to challenge the dominance of the oil-rich Persian Gulf states. Meanwhile, the researchers say that the Arctic's .

[Turkish Forum] DEBKA file's Exclusives for Week Ending May 28, 2009 | Turkish Forum: According to our sources, this is the first time a Russian flotilla will have taken on provisions and fuel at the same Gulf ports which services the US Navy. Moscow has thus gained its first maritime foothold in the Persian Gulf.

[Niqnaq] iran-pak pipeline: good for china, russia; bad for US « Niqnaq: Pakistan is the absolutely ideal transit corridor for China to import oil and gas from Iran and the Persian Gulf. With IP in place and with multi-billion-dollar, overlapping Tehran-Beijing gas deals, China can finally afford to import less energy via the Strait of Malacca, which Beijing considers exceedingly dangerous, and subject to Washington’s sphere of influence.

[SignOnSanDiego Forums] Handing Iraq to Iran: shifting the Persian Gulf balance of power ...: The Saudis believe civil war will break out in Iraq after the U.S. leaves, forcing them to provide military and financial assistance to the Sunni minority. They feel such an event will invite Iranian intervention and possible moves against other Sunni states in the region.

[Euronews 24 | Latest News | world] Australia joins fight against piracy off Somalia... | Euronews 24: The frigate HMAS Warramunga, presently patrolling in the Persian Gulf, will be attached periodically to a new combined taskforce established to combat pirate activity in shipping lanes off Somalia. An Australian airforce AP-3C Orion .

[Theoptimisticconservative's Blog] So? « Theoptimisticconservative's Blog: Beyond that, however, it is a holistic political approach to emphasizing our interests in Asia that will be most persuasive to China.  The message to be sent is that we will not back down, and we are not going away.  It need not be a confrontational message - and it should most certainly not be an unnecessarily provocative message un-backed up by credible force, as our deployments of vulnerable reconnaissance and surveillance assets run the risk of being.  The McNamara-era practice of using military reconnaissance to probe and test the reactions of other nations worked out very badly in at least three instances in the 1960s:  two of them in East Asia (Tonkin Gulf, and USS Pueblo).    This is not the model we should operate on:  if we deem close surveillance of China to be necessary, then it is the force back-up to the vulnerable collection assets that must serve as our posture statement - not the collection assets themselves.

[The Gaea News] Indian warship thwarts piracy attempt in Gulf of Aden: NEW DELHI - The commander of the UAE naval forces, Rear Admiral Ahmed Mohammed Al Sabab Al-Tenaiji, who embarks on a three-day visit to India Tuesday, is likely to be presented with evidence of terrorists from Pakistan using the sea route to stage their attacks on Mumbai, navy sources said. The visit of Al-Tenaiji, who graduated from the Pakistan Naval Academy in 1978, has gained significance in the aftermath of the Nov 26-29 Mumbai terror attack.

[Therearenosunglasses's Weblog] West Plots To Supplant United Nations With Global NATO ...: The first indication that the United Nations was marked for marginalization, selective application (and exploitation) or even de facto dissolution, however, occurred three years earlier in 1996 when the United States single-handedly browbeat the other fourteen then members of the Security Council to depose Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and replace him with Kofi Annan, who the preceding year had been appointed UN special envoy to NATO and authorized the NATO bombing in Bosnia behind the back of Boutros-Ghali.

[The American Freedomist] The American Freedomist » Blog Archive » North Korea- The Prelude ...: The Chinese believe that Obama is either too weak to act against, or outright complicit in, their plans to disassemble American power around the world (with the Russians racing right behind the Chinese to their own Persian ports). They are banking on a sudden onslaught of American casualties, which the leftist press will show for all Americans to see, convincing them to bring their kids home, giving China control of the entire Korean Peninsula (it would only be a matter of time before the Chinese swept into North Korea and seized it outright).

[Bobby's space] Russia's first Persian Gulf naval presence coordinated with Tehran ...: Russia's first Persian Gulf naval presence coordinated with Tehran. DEBKAfile Exclusive Report. May 26, 2009, 6:47 PM (GMT+02:00). See http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=6095. This article contains the following: ...

[1913 Intel] Iran deploys missiles in Persian Gulf | 1913 Intel: This week, Iranian official sources announced that Iran has started to arm the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps artilleries with state-of-the-art smart munitions and cluster shells, to which IRGC forces would "overwhelm invaders with their fire power." Iran's current missile system of Shahab-1, Shahab-2, and the new No Dong (North Korea) rockets are capable of firing deep into Europe. Stopping the Islamic Republic from developing nuclear missiles of this reach is the basis of the debate over .

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