The United States has posted a second aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, in the Persian Gulf and northern Arabian Sea. The announcement came from the Pentagon Tuesday, Oct. 19, two days after the vessel put into port at Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain. debkafile‘s sources note that this is the first time in two years that Washington had deployed two aircraft carriers at same time – not just one – in waters opposite Iran and Afghanistan.
Facing Iran at the moment therefore is the USS Harry S. Truman which has four squadrons of Hornet and Super Hornet fighter-bombers plus Squadron 116 of early warning, surveillance and command craft, Squadron 131 of electronic warfare craft, two more squadrons of helicopters and one of transports.
The Abraham Lincoln’s arrival has raised the number of US fighter-bombers in Iran’s neighborhood to 120.
The carrier was accompanied by the guided missile cruiser USS Cape St. George.
The Pentagon announcement was careful to avoid mentioning Iran: US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates approved the presence of a second carrier… to provide surge support for coalition forces in Afghanistan “and to support existing maritime security operations.”
But the significance of two massive American naval-aerial strike forces opposite Iranian shores was not lost on Tehran, our sources report. Wednesday, Oct. 20, Brig. Gen. Hussein Salami, Deputy Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, came out with this statement: “The enemies of Iran should know the Islamic establishment’s red lines and not trespass them.”
WarSclerotic 
October 21, 2010 at 4:28 AM
THE IRANIAN FORCES WILL BE SETUP FOR CATASTROPHIC MILITARY FAILURE TO GO HEAD TO HEAD WITH THE U.S. AND ISRAEL AS WELL AS N.A.T.O. OR ANYOTHER MILITARY ALLIANCE WE CAN PUT TOGETHER FOR THIS SHOWDOWN AND THE COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF THE TERRORIST NUCLEAR THREAT. THE AFGHAN AND PAKISTANI TERRORIST NETWORKS WILL FAIL IN A COMPLETE COLLAPSE OF THEIR PRESENT STATUS TOO. AND IF NESSESSARY WE COULD HANDLE MEXICO AND NORTH KOREA AT THE SAME TIME. THIS IS A PLAN THAT WAS PUT FORTH AT A TIME AS TO BE ABLE TO SYNCHRONIZE THE ENTIRE WAR AND MAY BE THE REASON PRESIDENT OBAMA IS FEELINNG THE HEAT TOO. FOR HE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO LET GO OF ANY NOTION THAT THIS IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN AND IS NOW THE TIME FOR THE BIG SHOW OF THE GLOBAL RESISTANCE TO TERRORISM ANF THE FINAL CONFLICT WITH THE EVIL EMPIRE.