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Officials had initially indicated that the military moves were based in part on indications that Iran had moved short-range ballistic missiles on to small boats called dhows along its shore.
They would not say if the intelligence showed that the boats have mobile launchers on them, but a notice to mariners in the region has warned of potential threats to commercial maritime traffic.
US national security adviser John Bolton announced the initial moves, citing "troubling and escalatory indications and warnings" but did not explain what they were.
news.sky.com...
A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq – starting a nine-year war costing more than 100,000 lives and hundreds of billions of pounds – will come clean in his first British television interview tomorrow.
"Curveball", the Iraqi defector who fabricated claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, smiles as he confirms how he made the whole thing up. It was a confidence trick that changed the course of history, with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi's lies used to justify the Iraq war.
US officials "sexed up" Mr Janabi's drawings of mobile biological weapons labs to make them more presentable, admits Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, General Powell's former chief of staff. "I brought the White House team in to do the graphics," he says, adding how "intelligence was being worked to fit around the policy".
www.independent.co.uk...
Not saying it's going to happen but don't be surprised if it does.