Airforce Personnel Comment on Flying Nukes
http://www.oregontruthalliance.org/?q=node/236
Command Override: How Chinese Military Hackers
Took Over a Nuclear Armed B-52
http://www.oregontruthalliance.org/?q=node/234
http://www.oregontruthalliance.org/?q=node/245
B-52 Nukes Headed for Iran, Not For Decommissioning: Airforce Refused
-- SPECIAL REPORT --
Air Force refused to fly weapons to Middle East theater
By Wayne Madsen
Sept. 24, 2007
Author's website
WMR has learned from U.S. and foreign intelligence sources
that the B-52 transporting 6 Stealth AGM-129 Advanced Cruise
Missiles, each armed with a W-80-1 nuclear warhead,
on August 30, were destined for the Middle East
via Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
However, elements of the Air Force, supported by U.S. intelligence
agency personnel, successfully revealed the ultimate destination
of the nuclear weapons and the mission was aborted
due to internal opposition within the Air Force
and U.S. Intelligence Community.
Yesterday, the Washington Post attempted to explain away
the fact that America's nuclear command and control system
broke down in an unprecedented manner by reporting
that it was the result of "security failures at multiple levels."
>>>
It is now apparent that the command and control breakdown,
reported as a BENT SPEAR incident
to the Secretary of Defense and White House,
- was NOT the result of a
command and control chain-of-command "failures"
but the result of a revolt and push back by various echelons
within the Air Force and intelligence agencies
against a planned U.S. attack on Iran
using nuclear and conventional weapons.
>>>
The Washington Post story on BENT SPEAR may have actually
been an effort in damage control by the Bush administration.
WMR has been informed by a knowledgeable source that
- One of the 6 Nuclear-Armed Cruise Missiles was,
and may still be, unaccounted for.
In that case, the nuclear reporting incident would have gone
far beyond BENT SPEAR to a National Command Authority alert
known as EMPTY QUIVER,
with the special classification of PINNACLE.
Just as this report was being prepared, Newsweek reported
that Vice President Dick Cheney's recently-departed
Middle East adviser, David Wurmser, told a small group of advisers
some months ago that Cheney had considered asking Israel
to launch a missile attack on the Iranian nuclear site at Natanz.
Cheney reasoned that after an Iranian retaliatory strike, the U.S.
would have ample reasons to launch its own massive attack on Iran.
However, plans for Israel to attack Iran directly
were altered to an Israeli attack on a supposed
Syrian-Iranian-North Korean nuclear installation in northern Syria.
WMR has learned that a U.S. attack on Iran using nuclear
and conventional weapons was scheduled to coincide
with Israel's September 6 air attack on a reputed Syrian
nuclear facility in Dayr az-Zwar, near the village of Tal Abyad,
in northern Syria, near the Turkish border.
Israel's attack, code named OPERATION ORCHARD,
was to provide a reason for the U.S. to strike Iran.
The neo-conservative propaganda onslaught was to cite
the cooperation of the George Bush's three remaining
"Axis of Evil" states -- Syria, Iran, and North Korea -
- to justify a sustained Israeli attack on Syria
and a massive U.S. military attack on Iran.
WMR has learned from military sources on both sides of the Atlantic
that there was a definite connection between Israel's
OPERATION ORCHARD and BENT SPEAR involving
the B-52 that flew the six nuclear-armed cruise missiles
from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale.
There is also a connection between these two events
as the Pentagon's highly-classified PROJECT CHECKMATE,
a compartmented U.S. Air Force program that has been working
on an attack plan for Iran since June 2007, around the same time
that Cheney was working on the joint Israeli-U.S.
attack scenario on Iran.
PROJECT CHECKMATE was leaked in an article by military analyst
Eric Margolis in the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper,
the /Times of London/, is a program that involves over 2 dozen
Air Force officers and is headed by Brig. Gen. Lawrence Stutzriem
and his chief civilian adviser, Dr. Lani Kass, a former Israeli
military intelligence officer who, astoundingly, is now involved
in planning a joint U.S.-Israeli massive military attack on Iran
that involves a "decapitating" blow on Iran by hitting between
three to four thousand targets in the country.
Stutzriem and Kass report directly to the Air Force Chief of Staff,
General Michael Moseley, who has also been charged
with preparing a report on the B-52/nuclear weapons incident.
Kass' area of speciality is cyber-warfare, which includes
ensuring "information blockades," such as that imposed by the
Israeli government on the Israeli media regarding the Syrian
air attack on the alleged Syrian "nuclear installation."
British intelligence sources have reported that the Israeli attack
on Syria was a "true flag" attack originally designed to foreshadow
a U.S. attack on Iran. After the U.S. Air Force push back
against transporting the six cruise nuclear-armed AGM-129s
to the Middle East, Israel went ahead with its attack on Syria
in order to help ratchet up tensions between Washington
on one side and Damascus, Tehran, and Pyongyang on the other.
The other part of CHECKMATE's brief is to ensure
that a media "perception management" is waged
against Syria, Iran, and North Korea.
This involves articles such as that which appeared with Joby Warrick's
and Walter Pincus' bylines in yesterdays /Washington Post/.
The article, titled "The Saga of a Bent Spear," quotes a number
of seasoned Air Force nuclear weapons experts as saying
that such an incident is Unprecedented in the History of the Air Force.
For example, Retired Air Force General Eugene Habiger,
the former chief of the U.S. Strategic Command,
said he has been in the "nuclear business" since 1966
and has never been aware of an incident "more disturbing."
Command and control breakdowns involving U.S. nuclear weapons
are unprecedented, except for that fact that the U.S. military
is now waging an internal war against neo-cons who are embedded
in the U.S. government and military chain of command who are
intent on using nuclear weapons in a pre-emptive war with Iran.
CHECKMATE and OPERATION ORCHARD would have provided
the cover for a pre-emptive U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran
had it not been for BENT SPEAR involving the B-52.
In on the plan to launch a pre-emptive attack on Iran involving
nuclear weapons were, according to our sources, Cheney,
National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley; members of the
CHECKMATE team at the Pentagon, who have close connections
to Israeli intelligence and pro-Israeli think tanks in Washington,
including the Hudson Institute;
British Foreign Secretary
- David Miliband, a political adviser to Tony Blair
prior to becoming a Member of Parliament;
- Israeli political leaders like Prime Minister
- Ehud Olmert and Likud leader
- Binyamin Netanyahu; and French Foreign Minister
- Bernard Kouchner, who did his part last week to ratchet up
tensions with Iran by suggesting that war with Iran was a probability.
Kouchner retracted his statement after the U.S. plans for Iran
were delayed.
Although the Air Force tried to keep the B-52 nuclear incident
from the media, anonymous Air Force personnel leaked the story
to /Military Times/ on September 5, the day before the
Israelis attacked the alleged nuclear installation in Syria
and the day planned for the simultaneous U.S. attack on Iran.
>>>
The leaking of classified information on U.S. nuclear weapons
disposition or movement to the media, is, itself, unprecedented.
Air Force regulations require the sending of classified BEELINE
reports to higher Air Force authorities on the disclosure
of classified Air Force information to the media.
>>>
In another highly unusual move, Defense Secretary Robert Gates
has asked an outside inquiry board to look into BENT SPEAR,
even before the Air Force has completed its own investigation,
a virtual vote of no confidence in the official investigation
being conducted by Major General Douglas Raaberg,
chief of air and space operations at the Air Combat Command.
Gates asked former Air Force Chief of Staff, retired General
Larry Welch, to lead a Defense Science Board task force
that will also look into the BENT SPEAR incident.
The official Air Force investigation has reportedly been delayed
for unknown reasons. Welch is President and CEO of the
Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA), a federally-funded research
contractor that operates three research centers, including one
for Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office
of the President and another for the National Security Agency.
One of the board members of IDA is Dr. Suzanne H. Woolsey
of the Paladin Capital Group and wife of former
CIA director and arch-neocon James Woolsey.
WMR has learned that neither the upper echelons of the
State Department nor the British Foreign Office were privy to
OPERATION ORCHARD, although Hadley briefed President Bush
on Israeli spy satellite intelligence that showed
the Syrian installation was a joint nuclear facility
built with North Korean and Iranian assistance.
However, it is puzzling why Hadley would rely on Israeli imagery
intelligence (IMINT) from its OFEK (Horizon) 7 satellite when
considering that U.S. IMINT satellites have greater capabilities.
The Air Force's "Information Warfare" campaign
against media reports on CHECKMATE and
OPERATION ORCHARD also affected international reporting of
the recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
resolution asking Israel to place its nuclear weapons program
under IAEA controls, similar to those that the United States
wants imposed on Iran and North Korea.
The resolution also called for a nuclear-free zone throughout
the Middle East. The IAEA's resolution, titled
"Application of IAEA Safeguards in the Middle East,"
was passed by the 144-member IAEA General Meeting
on September 20 by a vote of 53 to 2, with 47 abstentions.
The only 2 countries to vote against
were Israel and the United States.
However, the story carried from the IAEA meeting in Vienna
by Reuters, the Associated Press, and Agence France Press,
was that it was Arab & Islamic nations that voted for the resolution.
This was yet more perception management carried out
by CHECKMATE, the White House, and their allies
in Europe and Israel with the Connivance of the Media.
In fact, among the 53 nations that Voted fFr the resolution
were China, Russia, India, Ireland, and Japan.
The 47 abstentions were described as votes "against" the resolution
even though an abstention is neither a vote for nor against a measure.
America's close allies, including Britain, France,
Australia, Canada, and Georgia, all abstained.
Suspiciously, the IAEA carried only a brief item on the resolution
concerning Israel's nuclear program and a roll call vote
was not available either at the IAEA's web site -
- http://www.iaea.org -- or in the media.
The perception management campaign by the neocon operational
cells in the Bush administration, Israel and Europe was designed
to keep a focus on Iran's nuclear program, not on Israel's.
Any international examination of Israel's nuclear weapons
program would likely bring up Israeli nuclear scientist
Mordechai Vanunu, a covert from Judaism to Christianity,
who was kidnapped in Rome by a Mossad "honey trap"
named Cheryl Bentov (aka, Cindy) and a Mossad team in 1986
and held against his will in Israel ever since.
Vanunu's knowledge of the Israeli nuclear weapons program
would focus on the country's own role in nuclear proliferation,
including its program to share nuclear weapons technology
with apartheid South Africa and Taiwan
in the late 1970s and 1980s.
The role of Ronald Reagan's Director of the Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency Ken Adelman in Israeli's nuclear
proliferation during the time frame 1983-1987 would also
come under scrutiny. Adelman, a member of the Reagan-Bush
transition State Department team from November 1980 to Jan 1981,
voiced his understanding for the nuclear weapons programs of Israel,
South Africa, and Taiwan in a June 28, 1981 /New York Times/
article titled, "3 Nations Widening Nuclear Contacts."
The journalist who wrote the article was Judith Miller. Adelman
felt that the three countries wanted nuclear weapons
because of their ostracism from the West, the third world,
and the hostility from the Communist countries.
Of course, today, the same argument can be used by Iran,
North Korea, and other "Axis of Evil" nations so designated by the
Neo-Cons in the Bush administration and other governments.
There are also news reports that suggest
an intelligence relationship between Israel and North Korea.
On July 21, 2004, New Zealand's /Dominion Post/ reported
that three Mossad agents were involved in espionage in New Zealand.
Two of the Mossad agents, Uriel Kelman and Elisha Cara (aka Kra),
were arrested and imprisoned by New Zealand police
(an Israeli diplomat in Canberra, Amir Lati, was expelled by
Australia and New Zealand intelligence identified a 4'th Mossad
agent involved in the New Zealand espionage operation in Singapore).
The third Mossad agent in New Zealand, Zev William Barkan
(aka Lev Bruckenstein), fled New Zealand -- for North Korea.
New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff
revealed that Barkan, a former Israeli Navy diver,
had previously worked at the Israeli embassy in Vienna,
which is also the headquarters of the IAEA.
He was cited by the /Sydney Morning Herald/ as trafficking
in passports stolen from foreign tourists in Thailand, Myanmar,
Laos, and Cambodia. New Zealand's One News reported
that Barkan was in North Korea to help the nation
build a wall to keep its citizens from leaving.
The nuclear brinkmanship involving the United States and Israel
and the breakdown in America's command and control systems
have every major capital around the world
wondering about the Bush administration's true intentions.
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NOTE: WMR understands the risks to informed individuals
in reporting the events of August 29/30, to the present time,
that concern the discord within the U.S. Air Force,
U.S. intelligence agencies, and other military services.
Any source with relevant information and who wishes
to contact us anonymously may drop off sealed correspondence
at or send mail via the Postal Service to: Wayne Madsen,
c/o The Front Desk, National Press Club,
13th Floor, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, DC, 20045.
Airforce Personnel Comment on Flying Nukes
http://www.oregontruthalliance.org/?q=node/236
Command Override: How Chinese Military Hackers
Took Over a Nuclear Armed B-52
http://www.oregontruthalliance.org/?q=node/234
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And it is in such Twilight that we all must be
- Most Aware of Change in the air - however slight
- lest we Become Unwitting Victims of the Darkness."
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