US President George W Bush has stepped up pressure and urged the European Union to open membership talks with Turkey and for a return ‘favor’ I would surmise Turkey is to be more compliant and let the United States expand its military presence in Turkey as a means to widen the war and attack Syria and/or Iran after the election. #msg-3208349
Bush, if this is correct, has moved from blackmail regarding the Kirkuk-Mosul-Haifa pipeline which would bypass Turkey, to using his influence to gain Turkey’s long sought after membership in the EU in order to get Turkey to comply.
At present, Iraqi oil is being shipped via Turkey to a small Mediterranean port near the Syrian border.
Ankara, which considers the transit fee it collects an important source of revenue, has warned Israel it would regard the talked-about Kirkuk-Mosul-Haifa pipeline as "a serious blow to Turkish-Israeli relations."
Haaretz quoted sources as saying reports about the alternative pipeline are part of an American "attempt to apply pressure on Turkey" which had opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and is still reluctant to commit troops to the neighboring country to ease the burden on American forces. #msg-3423518
Bush urges EU to let Turkey join
From correspondents in Ennis, Ireland June 27, 2004
US President George W Bush urged the European Union to open membership talks with Turkey, saying it met standards for joining the continent-wide club.
Speaking to reporters after an EU-US summit at Dromoland Castle in western Ireland, Bush said Turkey was a "proud nation that successfully blends a European identity with Islamic traditions".
"Turkey meets the EU standards for membership," he said. "The EU should begin talks that will lead to full membership for the Republic of Turkey."
Bush headed to Turkey after the meetings. There he will attend a NATO summit and hold bilateral talks with Turkish leaders, where the issue is expected to come up again.
Bush has long urged Europe to open its doors to Turkey, which the United States wants to keep as a key ally, especially after the war in Iraq.
The plan also called for deploying several dozen additional US warplanes to Southern Turkey and positioning a naval force of an undetermined size in the vicinity of the southern Iraqi city of Basra to create a barrier to “the spread of communist power”.
The warplanes would have been deployed to Incirlik.
Now Bush who has long planned to attack Iran is planning to deploy additional US warplanes to Incirlik the same base that was to be used for a planned guerrilla campaign in Iran. #msg-3208349
Incirlik is near Adana.
-Am
iran: CIA ‘planned guerrilla campaign to counter communists in 1953’ The US Central Intelligence Agency planned a sustained guerrilla campaign in Iran in case its 1953 plan to ouster the government of Mohammad Mossadegh fell through and the communists increased their sway over the country, according to newly-declassified US government documents.
The top secret papers, produced in late 1952 and 1953 by the State Department and the National Security Council, provide proof that the widely-known US-British efforts to destabilize the government of then-Prime Minister Mossadegh were backed up by broad contingency plans that called for bolstering the American military presence in the region and launching an anti-communist guerrilla force in Southern Iran. The Mossadegh government, which drew the ire of Washington and London because of its persistent attempts to increase Iran’s control over its own oil resources, was toppled in an August 19, 1953, coup led by General Fazlollah Zahedi, who enabled Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to return from exile. US officials have grudgingly acknowledged that the coup had become possible due to the CIA-designed ‘Operation Ajax’, which helped plunge Iran into disorder and paved the way for Mossadegh’s downfall. But the Administration of then-US President Dwight Eisenhower was seriously concerned that the plan could go awry and that the communists of the Tudeh (Masses) Party would capitalize on instability and the unraveling economy to seize power, according to the documents released by the National Security Archive last week. To counter that possibility, the CIA made preparations for unleashing a guerrilla campaign targeting Tudeh members and other Iranian politicians, then-Undersecretary of State Walter Smith reported to the White House. In his memorandum dated May 20, 1953, Smith noted that the CIA had reached an agreement with Ghashghai tribal leaders in the South to establish a clandestine safe haven from which US-funded guerrillas and intelligence agents could operate. “To date CIA has trained and equipped a total of approximately 10 indigenous clandestine radio operators to be located throughout Iran and who can be called upon to maintain communications with CIA when desired”, Smith wrote. “Others are being trained”.
Stockpiles of weapons and ammunition were being secretly assembled at Wheelus Field, an air base in Libya used at that time by the US Air Force.
Smith reported that the base already had enough war materiel to equip a 10,000-strong guerrilla force and allow it to operate independently for at least six months. Other supply bases were being established in Tripoli, the Suez Canal Zone and New Jersey, in the eastern US.
“These supplies could, within three to four weeks, be transported by air and sea to certain strong tribal elements in Southern Iran”.
Reception points for this materiel were being set up in the Teheran and Tabriz areas, along with secret caches of gold and currency, while the CIA drew up plans for forming eight, three-person teams to run its secret guerrilla army. The plan also called for deploying several dozen additional US warplanes to Southern Turkey and positioning a naval force of an undetermined size in the vicinity of the southern Iraqi city of Basra to create a barrier to “the spread of communist power”.
In addition, the US government was determined to seek access to the Saudi military base in Dhahran “as a transit point in connection with contemplated US covert operations”, Smith wrote.
"A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," co-authored by Perle
On July 8, 1996, Richard Perle, now the Chairman of the Defense Policy Board, an advisory group that reports to Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, presented a written document to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, spelling out a new Israeli foreign policy, calling for a repudiation of the Oslo Accords and the underlying concept of "land for peace"; for the permanent annexation of the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip; and for the elimination of the Saddam Hussein regime in Baghdad, as a first step towards overthrowing or destabilizing the governments of Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. The document was prepared for the Jerusalem and Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS), a think tank financed by Richard Mellon-Scaife. The report, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," was co-authored by Perle; Douglas Feith, currently the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy; David Wurmser, currently special assistant to State Department chief arms control negotiator John Bolton; and Meyrav Wurmser, now director of Mideast Policy at the Hudson Institute.
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