from The Intercept
The information used to conduct airstrikes and fire long-range artillery weapons — has played a central role in Israel’s siege of Gaza. A document obtained through the Freedom of Information Act suggests that the U.S. Air Force sent officers specializing in this exact form of intelligence to Israel in late November.
Since the start of Israel’s bombardment in retaliation for Hamas’s strike on October 7, Israel has dropped more than 29,000 bombs on the tiny Gaza Strip, according to a U.S. intelligence report last month. And for the first time in U.S. history, the Biden administration has been flying surveillance drone missions over Gaza since at least early November, ostensibly for hostage recovery by special forces. At the time the drones were revealed, U.S. Gen. Pat Ryder insisted that the special operations forces deployed to Israel to advise on hostage rescue were “not participating in [Israel Defense Forces] target development.”
“I’ve directed my team to share intelligence and deploy additional experts from across the United States government to consult with and advise the Israeli counterparts on hostage recovery efforts,” said President Joe Biden three days after the Hamas attack.
But several weeks later, on November 21, the U.S. Air Force issued deployment guidelines for officers, including intelligence engagement officers, headed to Israel. Experts say that a team of targeting officers like this would be used to provide satellite intelligence to the Israelis for the purpose of offensive targeting...read more here
Another planned war that's coming, in some magnitude/scale or other.
ReplyDeleteinteresting at start mentions ellsberg shortly before he died recently mentioned usa had nuclear nike missiles actually on taiwan pointed into china during the 2nd china/strait crisis of 1958!
that's the same one where the russians got a free sidewinder to reverse engineer because the china fighter landed back safe with one with a defective fuse all fully intact buried in the jet's fuselage!
On September 24, 1958, the Sidewinder missile was used for the first time in air-to-air combat as 32 Republic of China (TAIWAN) F-86s clashed with 100 PLAAF MiGs in a series of aerial engagements. 6 MiGs were shot down by Sidewinders
Carl Zha
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Why the US want war on China over Taiwan?
Carl Zha
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLC5tE22xVk
Guess which enemy beaches and where these might be headed after these amphibious practice drills.
ReplyDeleteRecall DoD/JoeKer/somebody clealy about 1 month ago said they were going to send in commando raiding SF teams if their bombing raids didn't work. How will they get there?
It's called escalation.
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How the US is Launching Massive Number of AAVs in Middle of the Ocean
The Daily Aviation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC1me_PhIw4
BTW, it's likely that in this "aid to israel" $14B or so figure thrown out there it is very likely some of that, or from just any other source they can siphon it out of, is a few bill in "hush money" to egypt to help make up for the 40-50% drop in those suez ship transit fees they're experiencing.
ReplyDeleteThat $10B US/year they were getting can buy a lot there, including hush munny, buying armies of enforcer thugs and statist stooges!
So highest odds of any arab/muslim nation finally getting off their ass i say is egypt, thru a coup.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/02/28/720955/israeli-tourism-hits-rock-bottom-travelers-refuse-pay-gaza-genocide
Monthly figures announced by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) revealed that last month only 500 single-day visits to the occupied territories were registered, compared to 14,000 in January 2023, indicating a drastic decrease of 96 percent.