YayaCanada agrees with What Really Happened

The US is trying hard to provoke or create an event that will justify an all-out assault on Iran

UPDATE: Jan. 25 - I've just discovered that Press TV can be reached if you don't include the "www" in the URL. Who'd a thunk it???? Try this: http://presstv.com/detail/222475.html, and then try this: http://www.presstv.com/detail/222475.html  If anybody knows why that is, feel free to enlighten me.

UPDATE: Jan. 24 -  I still can't access Press TV, as noted below *, and apparently the UK has banned it. Nothing in the Canadian news about it, though.

Contributor: "YYC"

List: False Flag Events

A few stories have collided recently from which I can only conclude that the US is attempting to provoke Iran into attacking one of its carriers, of which it seems to have several in need of recycling.

For me, this all started when I wrote this on January 7. It seemed clear that the US had butted into something that the Iranians could just as easily have handled themselves, and Iran showed considerable restraint in thanking the US for its help in capturing the pirates who stole one of its fishing boats.

In what the New York Times called "a geopolitical thriller", the USS Stennis had arrived in the gulf just in time to take on board some pirates captured on a "Bahamian flagged" boat, feed them, and then release them back into the wild so they could be followed to their "mothership", a stolen Iranian fishing boat. Those "pirates" are in US custody, being fed again no doubt ... and released again?

I pointed out that "Bahamian flagged" doesn't necessarily mean Bahamian owned, and that this is from where the term "false flag" derives.

Commenter "userdude" provided a link that indicated what the US really wanted was a confrontation; they have several old carriers that are basically now scrap metal they wouldn't mind seeing blown to bits.

Since then, a couple of people have mentioned this January 23 WRH item to me, which focused on the USS Enterprise, an old tub in need of recycling. In fact, "Timmy Timbit" included it as a comment here.

* Press TV seems to be offline at the moment, so here is the Google cached version of the article WRH quotes, stating that the USS Enterprise is being sent to the Persian Gulf.

So, yes, Michael Rivero at WRH, I agree with you and am happy to post a link to your suspicion that a false flag attack may be in the works, and your hope that this knowledge may help to forestall such an event.

Related: See this article about the reported need to cut down on the number of carriers due to budget limitations, but they've all been sent to the Gulf anyway. Among them, along with the Enterprise which is 50 years old, is the USS Vicksburg which could be 20 years old or 50 years old, depending on which Vicksburg they actually sent.

There was speculation that budget pressures would force the Pentagon to scale back the number of carriers, perhaps to 10, and Mr Panetta’s predecessor, Robert Gates, questioned maintaining 11 ships.

But the US Congress has expressed strong support for the current US carrier fleet and has passed a law requiring the Defence Department to maintain all 11 of the ships.