Secret move to upgrade air base for Iran attack plans

[kpete]

Secret move to upgrade air base for Iran attack plans
IAN BRUCE, Defence Correspondent October 29 2007

The US is secretly upgrading special stealth bomber hangars on the British island protectorate of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, according to military sources.

The improvement of the B1 Spirit jet infrastructure coincides with an "urgent operational need" request for £44m to fit racks to the long-range aircraft.

That would allow them to carry experimental 15-ton Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bombs designed to smash underground bunkers buried as much as 200ft beneath the surface through reinforced concrete.

more at:
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/foreign/display.var.1792035.0.0.php

The £44m, or over $88 million, the Herald refers to was included in Bush’s recent $196.4 billion supplemental war funding request sent to Congress. The $88 million would be used to modify B2 stealth bombers to carry 30,000-pound bunker busters.

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2007/10/30/diego-garcia-secretly-readied-for-bunker-busters/#more-1004

[OKNancy]

1. discussion about this yesterday here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2161797

[Truth2Tell]

2. and here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3046801&mesg_id=3046801

[Bitwit1234]

3. I guess bush is crazy enough to start a war here a war there til

he finds one he can win. He has never succeeded at anything he has ever done in life we all know this, but why does he have to ruin this country in trying to find something.