October 30
The US (a Coast Guard cutter), France, Italy, Britain, Australia, New Zealand (no ships) and Bahrain (a frigate) are participating in the nine-vessel two-day 'Exercise Leading Edge'.  The exercise in the Persian Gulf will intercept a British vessel apparently-transporting dangerous weapons technology.  Russia, Japan, South Korea, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates will act as observers.  Saudi Arabia, the largest of the Gulf countries, has not joined them.

October 18
- documents recent developments, focusing on military deployment and preparations in the event of a US led war on Iran.  (This text follows a number of earlier reports published by Global Research pertaining to the War on Iran.)
http://moderate.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/cold-war-shivers-war-preparations-in-the-middle-east-and-central-asia/


October 17,
the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group steamed into the Persian Gulf to join the US naval, air and marine concentration piling up opposite Iran’s shores.
Now three US naval task forces will be in place opposite Iran in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea by October 21.
http://www.debka.com/

October 2006
The somewhat larger picture
http://www.droppingknowledge.org/web/thedrop/2006/10/14/world-war-no/

October 10
"It may be a bluff. It may be a feint. It may be a simple show of American power. But I doubt it." - Chris Hedges  (former Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times)
http://www.alternet.org/story/42774/

October 7
Naval build-up in the Persian Gulf and the Eastern Mediterranean
http://moderate.wordpress.com/2006/10/07/the-march-to-war-naval-build-up-in-the-persian-gulf-and-the-eastern-mediterranean/

Sept 4
"extraordinary buildup of European naval and military strength in and around Lebanon’s shores"
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1208