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U.S. Troops Involved In Israeli Aggressions: Israeli Report
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Reports say U.S.
forces fight along side the Israelis
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WEST BANK, April 5 (IslamOnline) - Members of U.S. Special Forces Units reportedly were spotted in undercover action for the first time, an Israeli website claimed Friday.
U.S. Special Forces with combat gear and weapons were seen moving against Palestinian resistance activists around the monasteries and churches of Bethlehem on Wednesday, April 2.
When the moment came to extricate U.S. and European citizens - some held hostage by Palestinian activists – U.S. armored cars drove up through the streets of Bethlehem and well-armed American "security men" came to pick them up, the website (Debka File's military sources) reported.
The Debka report has been distributed through Middle East Realities, a U.S.-based e-mail news service, run by a Jewish person.
The U.S. commando contingent is present for an undercover assignment that could determine the outcome of the entire Israeli military operation to root out the threat of the Palestinian resistance.
The Debka File continued, “Even Barghouti, Tirawi and Abu Shbak are secondary targets, belonging to the past. A new threat is posed by the foreign crack force Arafat has been able to smuggle into the country from Lebanon. It is made up of highly-trained fighters - Palestinian, Hizballah and al Qaeda.”
This alleged group is assigned as the special target of the U.S. contingent. This seek-and- destroy mission is underway in deep secrecy. But when it is over, Arafat's alleged threat will be exposed as having posed one of the most decisive confrontations of the so-called global war against terror.
U.S. and Israeli commandos are now reportedly focusing all their strength on the effort to catch the infiltrators before they can do their worst. President Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Arafat and Middle Eastern leaders have all suspended their next moves pending the outcome of this clash.
Bush, Powell and Rumsfeld are defending the combined operation against critics around the world - some inside Israel too - to give Sharon and the U.S. contingent the time it needs to complete its mission.
In another separately related development, at least one internal military study says 20,000 well-armed U.S. troops would be needed in the Middle East. The Army's School of Advanced Military Studies(SAMS), an elite training ground and think tank at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., produced the study last year, reported the Washington Times Friday.
The 68-page paper tells how the major operation would be run the first year, with peacekeepers stationed in Gaza, Hebron, Jerusalem and Nablus. One major goal would be to ”neutralize leadership of Palestine dissenting factions [and] prevent inter-Palestinian violence." The military is known to update secret contingency plans in the event international peacekeepers are part of a comprehensive Middle East peace plan. The SAMS study, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, provides a glimpse of what those plans might entail.
Rumsfeld repeatedly said the administration has no plans to put American troops between the warring factions (Israelis and Palestinians). But since the escalation of violence, more voices in the debate are beginning to suggest that some type of American-led peace enforcement team is
needed.
Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Republican, quoted Zinni as saying there is a plan, if needed, to put a limited number of U.S. peacekeepers in the Israeli-occupied territories.
Asked on CBS whether he could envision American troops on the ground, Specter said Sunday: "If we were ever to stabilize the situation, and that was a critical factor, it's something that I would be willing to consider."
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