Kuwait on alert for war in Persian Gulf?

Kuwait has activated its Emergency War Plan

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Kuwait, located on the coast of Persian Gulf, has placed its military on 'war alert' to avoid being caught off-guard by any possible conflict in the region. "Kuwait was caught by surprise last time, when Iraqi troops invaded the small emirate and routed the Kuwaiti army in just a few hours," a former US diplomat to Kuwait told the Middle East Times. Washington and allies accuse Iran, a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), of pursuing a military nuclear program and have threatened to launch military strikes on Iran should the country continue its uranium enrichment. The UN nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency, has confirmed that Iran's uranium enrichment does not exceed 3 percent and is therefore within the limits of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The military build-up in the Persian Gulf comes amid speculation that Israel is lobbying to push the Bush administration to launch a joint attack on Iran before President George W. Bush leaves office in January 2009.

Bush and Gang Prepares to Unleash Hell on Iran

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In July, I highlighted that House Concurrent Resolution 362 would enable war against Iran in the form of a total air, sea, and land blockade. This bill passed the House and is now in the Senate as Senate Resolution 580, with 32 co-sponsors. For those who would say such a blockade is NOT an act of war I remind you of the Union naval blockade of the South in the War of Succession, and the British blockades during the War of 1812, which led to the burning of Washington DC in 1814. In April I noted Iran removed the dollar from their oil bourse. This was in understandable retaliation for the United States declaring what can only be termed as financial war on Iran, as I noted here in March. FACT: A week ago a joint US/UK/French strike force practiced in the Atlantic to enforce a naval blockade on Iran. Codenamed Operation Brimstone, this exercise is now completed and the group led by the nuclear powered supercarrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is at this very moment powering toward the Persian Gulf. The world’s mightiest armada ever will now reside in Arab waters.

Is bush about to unleash another tragic war ?

very possibly Ken.......Operation Sea Breeze is just finished..thenOperation Brimstone......there has been speculation that Brimstone was an opportunity to gather together the necessary naval resources to blockade Iran.
Operation Frukus has been cancelled ( if it was ever meant to happen)
The speculation was occasioned by the inclusion of assault ships in the Brimstone exercise ( the Uss IWO Jima) and the fact that French Rafale fighters are on the Uss Theodore Rosevelt. The French hunter killer sub Amethyste and the UK's Ark Royal were also involved. This, it's suggested caused Kuwait to put in place its emergency war plan.

The US have denied that they are putting together an armada to blockade Iran ( this denial came AFTER events in Georgia)

Meantime keep an eye on the UAE and their territory dispute with Iran about the islands of Abu Musa and Greater and Lesser Tunb . Could this be a flash point and a source of possible escalation?

Next week there is another Naval exercise in the Med involving US, Turkey and Isreali Defense Force.

I'm intrigued by the resignation of Musharraf to be replaced by Soomro ( graduate of Northop Univ, one time employee of the Bank of America, sometime chief exec of a number of middle eastern banks and general good guy as far as the World Bank is concerned). Pakistan's coastline is obviously important in any blockade of the straits of Hormuz

Meanwhile Isreal is getting jittery about Iran's Shihab3 missiles and of course are smarting from the fact that the Russians have just dismantled and or destroyed their missile launching sites in the south of Georgia ( which it was speculated were ideally placed to attack Iran's nuclear installations).

Storm clouds gathering....very possibly