FROM ANOTHER SITE--factual or just more fear-inspiring
fantasy?
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On Thursday, March 21, WorldNetDaily posted an article from STRATFOR, a
well-connected private intelligence firm. The title of the article was
"Crisis looming
between U.S., Russia." STRATFOR's article deals with CIA Director
George Tenet's March 19 testimony before the U.S. Senate Armed Services
Committee.
According to Tenet, Russia is hardly a reliable partner in the "war
against terror." Instead, Russia is "the first choice of proliferant
states seeking the most advanced
technology and training," said Tenet.
What the CIA director could not say, and perhaps what makes President
George W. Bush so desperately eager to wipe out the regime of Saddam
Hussein, is that
Russia may have given red mercury fusion technology to Saddam.
According to one of my sources, Iraq possesses "s-megaton" micro-nuclear
warheads. These are
softball-sized two-megaton fusion bombs triggered by an irradiated and
compressed compound of mercury antimony oxide. This device doubles the
nuclear yield with a
hundredfold reduction of weight. Using heavy hydrogen instead of
uranium or plutonium to fuel its explosive reaction, this hand-held nuclear
weapon cannot be detected
by U.S. sensors.
It should be acknowledged that CIA Director Tenet singled out Russia
for a reason. Only Russia has compression technology in advance of
America's. Only Russia has
worked long and hard to develop a perfect fusion bomb (the U.S. having
abandoned its own effort decades ago). And now American intelligence
has evidence of
something dire, something they don't want to tell us. According to
STRATFOR, "A severe crisis between the two sides [America and Russia] may
now be forming." As
STRATFOR further points out, "Now the director of the CIA has named
Russia as the key source of WMD proliferation."
Perhaps we are now in a position to understand what Mullah Omar, the
Taliban leader, meant when he said last fall that America would soon be
destroyed. He did not
say America would be crippled, or that America would be defeated. He
said America would disappear. When a suspect in the Danny Pearl
kidnapping and murder case
was being escorted by guards in Pakistan a couple of weeks ago, he
reportedly shouted to the press, "Sell your dollars! Soon America will be
gone."
What does Al Qaeda know that we don't?
CIA Director Tenet was very clear when he spoke to the U.S. Senate
committee last week. He holds Russia responsible for giving advanced mass
destruction
technology to Iraq. And Tenet evidently believes that Iraq is allied to
Al Qaeda. As STRATFOR explained, "Tenet delivered a blunt message to
Putin: The United States
believes that WMD proliferation is official Russian policy." The Bush
administration was offering a stern warning to Moscow. It must halt its
technology transfers to
rogue regimes or suffer the consequences. And what would those
consequences be? STRATFOR claims that President Putin "faces the distinct
possibility of attacks on
Russian weapons facilities and the potential elimination of his
country's nuclear capability."
This statement deserves further elaboration. But who dares to
elaborate? Is America actually contemplating a nuclear strike on the Russian
nuclear arsenal? Only a very
desperate crisis would trigger such unthinkable verbiage out of our
bloodless bean counters.
In fact, if STRATFOR's report is correct, the United States is holding
Russia directly responsible for Saddam Hussien's future actions. And
this should tell us, at the very
least, that Saddam Hussein is a much more terrible threat than the
general public has been led to believe. So terrible is the threat, that
U.S. officials find it necessary to
openly threaten Russia in order to reestablish the balance of terror in
the wake of Moscow's secret connivance with Iraq.
The revelations of yet another respected intelligence firm, DEBKA File,
dovetails with STRATFOR's information. According to DEBKA, the White
House is seriously
considering tactical nuclear strikes against Iraq. This drastic
approach can only be explained - once again - by a dire, immediate and
frightening Iraqi potential. If not for
this, U.S. leaders would hardly expend precious political and
diplomatically capital by pushing so aggressively for the eradication of
Saddam's regime in Baghdad.
According to intelligence sources close to DEBKA, [See article.] "The
White House is considering the use of tactical nuclear weapons and
planning the break-up of Iraq
… in a broad military campaign set now for April."
And why the hurry?
Surely, only a very grave threat would inspire such urgency in U.S.
policy-makers. DEBKA confirms that the reason for the U.S. urgency has to
do with Iraq's
possession of nuclear warheads, though DEBKA does not confirm that
these are "s-megaton" micro nuclear devices. Why the U.S. would be
concerned with large,
more cumbersome and detectable weapons is a question that readers will
have to sort for themselves. According to DEBKA, the main reason for a
nuclear blitzkrieg
against Iraq in April would be to "locate nuclear devices believed to
be in the possession of Saddam Hussein." The idea would then be to
destroy the weapons before
they could be used to trigger a nuclear or biological holocaust.
Judging by the tempo of U.S. moves, Iraq's nuclear capability will probably
become effective some time
after April 25. That is why, even though U.S. military authorities
confess that we are unready to attack Iraq, an attack must go forward
nonetheless. U.S. officials are
also said to be planning nuclear strikes that would eliminate the top
Iraqi leadership, opening the way for the negotiated surrender of
individual Iraqi divisions and the
creation of a Kurdish state in the north.
DEBKA further alleges that Vice President Richard Cheney received
intelligence during his recent Middle East trip that Iraq had already
transferred nuclear weapons
to Al Qaeda, along with weaponized smallpox. Cheney was supposedly told
that some of these munitions may have been smuggled into the United
States, Israel and
Saudi Arabia.
Many will dismiss the claims of DEBKA, but according to Dr. Robert
Morey, an Islam expert who predicted the Sept. 11 attacks, three small
nuclear devices have been
smuggled into the United States and are being held in reserve for
future use. Speaking with the Assist News Service (ANS), Dr. Morey said: "I
have Middle Eastern
friends throughout the U.S. who continually feed me information as to
what the terrorists are up to." [See article.]
Then comes the most curious and frightening story of them all, which
may tie everything into one neat package. This story comes out of Canada
and involves a U.S.
citizen who has been granted political asylum by Ottawa in accordance
with international law. The U.S. citizen in question is Delmart Edward
Vreeland. [See article.]
The United States government says that Vreeland is a petty criminal.
But Vreeland identifies himself as a lieutenant with the Office of Naval
Intelligence who defected
to Canada in December 2000 after retrieving documents from Moscow. One
of these documents, a communiqué from K. Hussaine of Iraq to V. Putin
of Russia,
discusses "the initial phase of our planned assault against the United
States in September of 2001 and after." Because of these shocking
revelations, Vreeland maintains
that he cannot return to the United States because the Russian mafia
would assassinate him and because an important American official would
assure Vreeland's death
or imprisonment upon his return. The Russian document, in fact, refers
to "our official in America" who can "assure" the desired results if
security should be
compromised. The document does not name the official in question, but
Vreeland believes it is someone with great influence.
I interviewed Mr. Vreeland on Monday and reviewed a key document he
allegedly retrieved from Moscow. The communiqué from K. Hussaine to V.
Putin (referred to
above) is dated June 13, 2000, and was used by Vreeland to successfully
predict the Sept. 11 attack in a letter to Canadian prison authorities.
The document, which
names the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a nuclear power plant as
the initial targets of Sept. 11, curiously describes these as
"diversionary strikes" attributed to
the work of "our brothers." The real attack, says the Iraqi official,
will involve the use of "new s-megaton mini satellite [guided]
rocket[s]." This is a weapon that would
be smuggled into the United States, and better resembles a small robot
aircraft than a missile. The striking power of this satellite guided
toy rocket is listed as two
megatons. The document says, "The shock wave from the air burst of our
two megaton mini combined with its own reflection from the ground will
form a blast wave of
such power that everything will be destroyed … within 8 to 13 U.S.
miles of ground zero." The document also refers to a top secret Russian
stealth satellite termination
system (called S.S.S.T.). According to Vreeland, this is a stealth
orbital platform armed with clusters of electromagnetic pulse bombs capable
of knocking out global
communications and frying U.S. nuclear warheads leaving the Western
Hemisphere.
If Vreeland's information is reliable, we might have a handle on why
the United States is threatening Russia with nuclear strikes. Like a
trapped animal the U.S. realizes
the mistake it has made. Disarming after our alleged Cold War victory
was an error. Now the U.S. must make terrible threats and take drastic
action to restore the
nuclear balance. To do this the United States must hold Russia directly
responsible for Russian-supported and Iraqi-directed nuclear terrorism
against the American
homeland. By doing this, and by mopping up Iraq, the United States
might reestablish that same "balance of terror" that kept the peace during
the Cold War.
Readers may ask, "Is red mercury fact or fiction?"
U.S. officials have sometimes ridiculed red mercury as a hoax. But not
former Russian Atomic Energy Minister Viktor Mikhailov, who once spoke
of a new kind of
bomb that could devastate "foreign territory" while carrying no risk of
retaliation. During a Pravda interview almost a decade ago, Mikhailov
described the existence of
"little bombs" that "could appear by the year 2000." In 1993 General Y.
Negin said that Russia had developed a special nuclear weapon, "in
which a doubling of yield is
achieved with a hundredfold reduction of weight compared to existing
weapons." American scientist Sam Cohen, inventor of the neutron bomb,
pointed out in 1995 that
such an increase in nuclear efficiency would only be possible if the
Russians had developed a red mercury device.
Today the Russian Defense Ministry says red mercury doesn't exist.
Western officials treat the subject dismissively. After all, Russian
smugglers have created fake
samples of red mercury, which have conveniently fallen into the hands
of Western authorities. But Russian sources, derided as "questionable,"
continue to report that red
mercury - first produced in 1965 at a nuclear research center outside
Moscow - is currently being mass-produced at six secret sites in the
Urals at a rate of 150 pounds
per year. United States officials would never admit that Russia had
developed such a technology. Such an admission, after a decade of smug
denials, would indicate
incompetence and dereliction of duty in high places. It would indicate
that U.S. strategic thinking has been blind, deaf and dumb. As any
nuclear strategist might tell you:
the development in Russia of a micro-nuclear fusion bomb would
completely change the strategic nuclear balance. Undetectable from space, easy
to deliver, such a
device could not be tracked or counted by "national technical means."
In addition, it would be the ultimate terrorist weapon.
Did Russia give Iraq red mercury fusion technology?
Last week CIA Director George Tenet pointed his finger directly at
Russia for a reason. The United States now seeks the annihilation of Saddam
Hussein for a reason.
Mullah Omar and the killers of Danny Pearl say that America will soon
be gone - perhaps with reason. >>>
Namaste!
Jim |
