Trinarian:
I hate to admit it but I read a few diaries on Kos about it. I suppose this is the equivalent of constructing theories about extraterrestial life based on the Weekly World News cover stories.
In my defense, the information on the ship movements seemed to be well sourced even if the accompanying conspiracy theories were beyond credulity.
Now that I've googled a bit, came up with this
Navy Times article which contradicts my original assertion.
For comparison, here's the original Kos
diary, which might be useful if you can read past the purple prose.
But I haven't been able to find any serious unbiased source for this ship movement, so I suppose I should double my dosage of anti-gullible pills.
Addendum on preview: Found a
Pajamas Media article about it, though they're sourcing Debka, which probably makes this as useful as the Kos link.
And then there's this
Global Security article about the deployment of the Eisenhower's group, though if the Navy Times is to be believed, this is just a normal maneuver.
Another
link from the Nation, which is hardly an unbiased source, but might be useful.
And then a
Stars and Stripes article on the Iwo Jima performing training exercises in Kuwait.
If you have any links, better than my quick searches, which could prove or disprove this matter, I'd love to see them.