In the Wash-Times, here
"...Up and down the Gulf, Patriot missile batteries have been quietly deployed around key oil installations.......There is also a steady traffic in and out of Washington of high-ranking GCC military and defense officials, including Army, Air Force and Navy chiefs. Gulf rulers are fearful Israel's new government will walk away from any possibility of a Palestinian solution....... The assumption among most GCC rulers is that Israel will launch bombers against some of Iran's 27 nuclear sites as soon as it becomes clear the mullahs won't agree to surrender their nuclear option at upcoming six-power talks. The United States and Iran will be at the same negotiating table - along with China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany - for the first time since the Iranian revolution ousted the late shah 30 years ago.....Interestingly enough, not all the ruling Sunni families in the Gulf are against an Israeli attempt to disrupt Iran's nuclear plans. Most feel threatened by nukes in the hands of a Shi'ite clerical regime that dreams of dominating the Gulf, as the shah once did when Britain in 1968 gave up all its commitments east of Suez..."
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