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Thread ID: 5347 | Posts: 9 | Started: 2003-03-04
2003-03-04 22:11 | User Profile
ââ¬ÅThe aim is to prove to Israel that the U.S. is doing everything in its power to prevent Iraqi missiles from landing here....ââ¬Â
Yes, master our only aim and raison dââ¬â¢etre is to please you. Itz coming soon ... with or without UN sanction.
U.S. military plugs Israel into real-time war monitoring
Unprecedented access to command intelligence aims to keep IDF out of Iraq conflict
By Nathan Guttman
WASHINGTON - Israel and the United States have set up a joint command post next to the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv at which Israeli army officers will be able to view real-time pictures of the movements of American war planes over Iraq in the event of a war.
In addition, an American early warning system that is hooked directly into U.S. intelligence satellites over Iraq was transferred to Israel a few weeks ago, giving Israel direct access to information on any Iraqi missile launches at its territory, with no delays and no filtering.
Both of these are unprecedented measures, according to a report in yesterday's Wall Street Journal. The aim is to prove to Israel that the U.S. is doing everything in its power to prevent Iraqi missiles from landing here, and therefore to convince it not to retaliate should any missiles nevertheless hit.
According to the Journal, Israel will be the only country other than the U.S. hooked directly into the U.S. Central Command's communications system. The joint command post in Tel Aviv will enable Israel Defense Forces officers to view what is termed the "common air picture" - essentially an upgraded version of a flight command and control system that enables the viewer to follow the activities of all American and Iraqi aircraft in real time. Israeli officers will thus be viewing exactly the same pictures as the U.S. officers running the war from the CENTCOM base in Qatar.
A senior U.S. official told the Journal that this decision was made because the Americans' experience in the 1991 Gulf War convinced them that the best way to restrain the Israelis was to let them see for themselves that the U.S. was doing everything possible to eliminate the Iraqi threat.
Israel Given Full Access To Military Command/Control Unprecedented access to command
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2003-03-04 22:56 | User Profile
Originally posted by seq@Mar 4 2003, 14:11 Israel and the United States have set up a joint command post next to the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv...
"You and me against the world Sometimes it feels like you and me against the world..."
2003-03-05 00:08 | User Profile
Wow, America's not even maintaining the pretense anymore that we're something other than a satellite of Israel.
2003-03-05 14:53 | User Profile
This is off topic, but what is a "Drakmal" ?
2003-03-05 16:10 | User Profile
The most shocking aspect about the imminent American war with Iraq is that Ariel Sharon may have the final say, that American boys and girls are condemned by the corrupt and monstrous conventions of ZOG to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
-Z-
2003-03-05 21:41 | User Profile
This is off topic, but what is a "Drakmal" ?
Originally, a shortened version of my old handle "Drake Mallard" (Darkwing Duck's secret identity :ph34r:). I later found out it was a trade name for a certain species of Brazilian catfish. It's also intentionally similar to the currency used in ancient Greece, the [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1627442.stm]drachma[/url].
2003-03-06 15:29 | User Profile
Originally posted by Drakmal@Mar 5 2003, 15:41 ** > This is off topic, but what is a "Drakmal" ?
Originally, a shortened version of my old handle "Drake Mallard" (Darkwing Duck's secret identity :ph34r:). I later found out it was a trade name for a certain species of Brazilian catfish. It's also intentionally similar to the currency used in ancient Greece, the [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1627442.stm]drachma[/url]. **
Was that the one were a vampire duke fights crime and he keeps getting vaporized whenever the sunlight hits him?
2003-03-06 20:34 | User Profile
Originally posted by heritagelost@Mar 6 2003, 09:29 Was that the one were a vampire duke fights crime and he keeps getting vaporized whenever the sunlight hits him?
Close. :D It was the Disney cartoon where a crime-fighting duck fights a variety of nocturnal criminals, including his photo-negative counterpart, a water salesman who became liquid himself, and a walking talking plant. A very 50s-reminiscent cartoon.
2003-03-07 04:47 | User Profile
Originally posted by Drakmal@Mar 6 2003, 14:34 ** > Originally posted by heritagelost@Mar 6 2003, 09:29 Was that the one were a vampire duke fights crime and he keeps getting vaporized whenever the sunlight hits him?
Close. :D It was the Disney cartoon where a crime-fighting duck fights a variety of nocturnal criminals, including his photo-negative counterpart, a water salesman who became liquid himself, and a walking talking plant. A very 50s-reminiscent cartoon. **
The Vampire Duck cartoon I'm thinking of was on Nickelodean.