By R. Cort Kirkwood (Th New American)
The U.S. Army reportedly secretly deployed part of the 82nd Airborne Division to Israel in April as part of a “contingency plan” to seize Kharg Island, the nerve center of Iran’s petroleum industry.
While the 82nd’s move to the Middle East to fortify the U.S. Central Command in March was widely reported, publicly unknown was that part of the force landed in Israel, independent journalist Ken Klippenstein disclosed on his Substack.
The deployment suggests that any attack on Kharg might be a joint U.S.-Israeli operation.
As The New American reported in March, about 5,000 U.S. Marines went to the Middle East aboard the USS Tripoli, USS Iwo Jima, and other ships.
Israel-First GOP U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham turned lavender with glee over the deployment, apparently hoping to see bloodshed. Seizing Kharg Island would be, he said, easy peasy lemon squeezy.
“I trust the Marines, not” the author of an article in The Atlantic who warned that taking Kharg Island would be a “grinding war of attrition,” Graham said:
I trust [the Department of Defense]. We’ve got two Marine Expeditionary Units sailing to this island. We did Iwo Jima. We can do this. My money is always on the Marines.
Graham forgot to mention that almost 7,000 Marines died on Iwo Jima.
“The additional Army soldiers include elements of the 82nd Airborne Division headquarters, some logistics and other support, and one brigade combat team,” the Military Times reported in March…
But again, Field Marshal Graham — who wants South Carolinians “to send their sons and daughters over to the Mid East” — says taking Kharg Island won’t be a problem even though a top trade intelligence publication called it “Iran’s most vital — and now most vulnerable — economic asset, situated deep within the Mideast Gulf.”
Read the rest here: https://thenewamerican.com/features/report-82nd-airborne-secretly-deployed-to-israel-possibly-to-seize-kharg-island/
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