http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070512/wl_mideast_afp/usiraqdiplomacycheney_070512113257BU DHABI (AFP) - US Vice President
Dick Cheney headed for Saudi Arabia on Saturday to seek its aid in
Iraq, two months after close ally King Abdullah slammed the "illegitimate foreign occupation" of that war-torn land.
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Over the weekend, Cheney was also to visit Egypt and Jordan to wrap up a week-long Middle East visit aimed at encouraging Washington's friends to help pull Iraq's minority Sunni Muslims into the country's fragile political process.
The vice president's diplomatic mission also aims to win the US allies' help in curbing the influence of a rising
Iran, amid talk that the Islamic republic and Saudi Arabia are in the early skirmishes of a proxy war in Iraq.
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from article by babylon sister
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2007/me_gulf_05_09.htmlBahrain preparing for
a U.S.-Iran war
SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
ABU DHABI — Bahrain has reported preparations for a war between Iran and the United States.
Bahraini officials said the Gulf Arab kingdom has been working with Western allies to protect strategic sites from Iranian missile strikes amid any war with the United States. They said Bahrain has been introducing measures to protect against Iranian infiltration and respond rapidly to any missile or insurgency strike.
On April 25, Al Khalifa was quoted as telling the official Bahrain News Agency that the kingdom established a committee to plan for war, Middle East Newsline reported. He said the panel would prepare for emergency supplies and strategic facility protection.
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rticle from CGowen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/11/AR2007051100572.htmln Gulf, Cheney Pointedly Warns Iran
As He Talks Tough, U.S. Pursues Diplomacy
By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 12, 2007; Page A01
Aboard an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf 150 miles off Iran's coast, Vice President Cheney warned Tehran yesterday that the United States and its allies will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, close off vital sea lanes for oil supplies, or control the Middle East.
Cheney issued the blunt warning during his Middle East tour, and just two days before Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes his own trip to the Gulf. The two visits reflect the growing rivalry between Washington and Tehran for influence in the regio
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Article by Eugene
and there is another article I couldn't find but saw earlier which said Kuwait is stocking up on food
Have they all been given the heads up and not us
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