Wednesday, September 05, 2007

So? B-52 flies from one B-52 base to another? So what?

The story about a B-52 bomber taking off from a B-52 base in Minot, ND and flying to the B-52 base at Barksdale, LA should have been a non-event. How could anyone even guess what the payload was? Obviously someone leaked it. Why?

Larry Johnson offers some additional data. Like, for example, "the only times you put weapons on a plane is when they are on alert or if you are tasked to move the weapons to a specific site." Also relevant is the fact that Barksdale, LA is where the B-52's are staged to the Middle East.

As Larry says, why would the Air Force need to move nuclear-tipped cruise missiles to the base from which flights going to the Middle East normally begin?

Click on the label "Iranian War" below for my previous posts on the buildup to the attack on Iran.

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