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Misawa-based U.S. fighter jet attacked Afghanistan

 

It has been revealed that in August last year F-16 fighter jets from the U.S. Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture carried out a secret bombing mission on the stronghold of the insurgent Taliban in eastern Afghanistan.

 

Some U.S. military analysts say that the mission may have been conducted in preparation for a U.S. attack against Iran in connection with the countryfs nuclear program.

 

The website of the U.S. Misawa Base shows that U.S. F-16 fighter squadrons were deployed to Iraqf Balad Air Base as an expeditionary force. On August 12 last year, four F-16 fighters flew about 3,380 km to eastern Afghanistan and fired more than 12 precision-guided missiles against the Taliban foothold to pave the way for U.S. ground forces to attack.

 

The F-16 fighter jets based in Misawa have been tasked to support ground forces in Iraq, which indicates that they have an ganti-terrorismh mission in addition to their original task of destroying enemy air defense systems. The latest secret operation shows that they are now involved in a gglobal strikeh strategy.

 

U.S. military analyst William Arkinfs article in the Washington Post, gA Secret Afghanistan Mission Prepares for War with Iran,h stressed that the U.S. forces have developed an gentire system called eglobal strikef to implement such a preemptive strike.h

 

gA secret mission conducted last August over Afghanistan caught my eye because it tells us everything we need to know about the ability of the U.S. military to conduct a bolt-out-of-the-blue attack in Iran,h Arkin wrote.

- Akahata, August 24, 2008

 

 



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