Turkey slips the veil, Carriers mass, Abdullah gives his orders...where is Sharon ?

Turkish President Ahmed Necdet Sezer signed a decree authorizing the United States to use the Incirlik (South Turkey) air base. The terms and conditions for US access to the Incirlik airbase near Adana, include the requirement that information on planes and their entire cargo using the base be submitted to Turkish authorities one month in advance. A limit on basing no more than six cargo C-17 planes at Incirlik has also been set.
Ankara will retain the right of control for each flight and if any operation is seen as being against the national interests of Turkey they could be stopped at anytime.
According to information released, these requirements are part of the finalised term of the agreement reached between Ankara and Washington.
Turkish Foreign Minister Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul said on Wednesday, 4th May 2005, ``we have decided to accept the request of the United States to use the Incirlik Air Base, and provide it with the necessary facilities. Flights at the base will be restricted to transportation of unlethal cargo to Afghanistan and Iraq.``

Incirlik Air Base (37°00'N 35°26'E) is a Turkish Air Base.It’s home to the Turkish Air Force’s 10th Refueling Wing (KC-135Rs). is close to many of the world’s potential trouble spots—Iraq, Armenia and Iran to name a few—offers a 10,000-foot main runway and 9,000-foot alternate runway, both sitting amidst 57 hardened aircraft shelters. A request for a logistics hub at Incirlik was submitted formally to the Turkish government last year, in June, 2004. The request is for a transhipment cargo hub. Currently, US C-130s and C-17s fly out of Iraq to Germany to pick up cargo to take back into Iraq. Because of safety issues (preventing overly long days and providing sufficient rest) aircrews can only make one such round trip per day. With a cargo hub at Incirlik, the same crews with the same number of aircraft can fly two sorties per day, doubling the amount of cargo that can be airlifted into Iraq.

Note 1. The 173rd Airborne is currently staging forward from the huge US base at Caserne Erdele (Vicenza) in Italy to Afghanistan.

Note 2. Iran will read it as a building military threat. Kyrgyzstan may see it as either a peacekeeping lifeline– or the launchpad for western troops. Syria is only “slightly east” of Adana (more south, actually).


Note 3. The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt group is in the Eastern Mediterranean. The USS Carl Vinson group after mopping up the tsunami is currently in the Indian Ocean placed handily for the Middle-East. That mean there are 3 major carrier groups stationed on and around Middle East. Each carrier battle group will include nuclear submarine protective cover. The battle groups can act independently and can stay on station indefinitely.

Each group carries nearly 85 aircraft and can deliver precision-guided munitions. In addition there are anti-submarine aircraft, airborne-early-warning and rotary-wing aircraft. Because of the air refueling capabilities these aircrafts can operate from a long distance. The carrier groups are independent and can operate indefinitely.
U.S. military air bases in Turkey, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and British Inoidan Ocean Territory of Diego Garcia and the three carrier groups will create a formidable force far superior to any military in the region.



Note 4 April 25, 2005 · President Bush meets Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah at Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas.

The White House wants Saudi Arabia to step up oil production to ease prices.(?)












The way they are holding hands and whispering to each other they may have had soemthing else on the agenda.

Note 5 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, on March 20, 2005, the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, in two TV appearances, blamed Turkey’s refusal to permit the U.S. Fourth Infantry Division to use its territory to open a northern front against Iraq with preventing the capture or killing of future insurgents hardest and reducing their number. If that had happened, he said “the insurgency today would be less.” It follows that if that had happened fewer American soldiers would have been killed by the insurgents.

Note 6 Mr. Feith, (now Former) Defense Under Secretary for Policy Douglas Feith an assistant to Mr. Perle at the Defense Department in the 1980’s, is a former paid agent of Turkey who headed International Advisors Inc. (IAI) from 1989-1994 and received $60,000 annually. IAI was registered with the U.S. Department of Justice as a foreign agent for Turkey.

Pic shows Feith (on left, with glasses), Rumsfeld shaking hands with President Karimov of Uzbekistan - who boils people to order for the CIA / MI6 - whoever pays best I guess.