Perilous
Times
More signs Israel preparing to launch attack - Leaves
cancelled, helicopter traffic surging
Posted: October 31, 2011
10:25 pm Eastern
A U.S. intelligence source has said that there are more indicators
Israel is preparing to launch an attack – possibly against Iran.
And if it does, it may be looking at how to undertake a
multi-front strategy that would include an assault against
Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in the Gaza Strip or even Syria,
according to a report.
Separate sources suggest that Syria would welcome such an attack
to divert attention from its own internal violent demonstrations
against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The latest indications and warnings, or I&W, come two weeks
following an initial report that the Pentagon was watching for a
long-anticipated Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear sites.
That came after revelations of an alleged Iranian plot to kill the
Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States. At that time, a
U.S. intelligence source who monitors Israeli I&W said the
U.S. was watching "an indicator and warning matrix" in which the
U.S. can "go so far as to plot the illumination tables to pick out
what nights would be best" for such an attack.
He said that U.S. analysts were concerned that an attack could be
"imminent." The intelligence source said there was a "green light"
for the Israelis "to do a strike," although it wasn't clear
whether that green light is coming from within the Israeli
political and military command structure, or from the U.S.
government.
The source now reports further I&W to include unusual
helicopter traffic at one of the Israeli training bases.
The source reports that the traffic involves some 20 utility
helicopters and three attack helicopters.