London Guardian Clinton wants $60bn missile defence system to fail test Julian Borger in Washington Friday July 7, 2000 Senior officials in the state department, the Pentagon and the White House itself are opposed to a planned $60bn missile defence system and are privately hoping that a crucial test planned for late tonight will end in failure. The test involves launching a rocket from a Pacific island and hitting an incoming mock warhead in space. If it succeeds, President Bill Clinton will come under heavy political pressure to give the national missile defence (NMD) scheme a green light before the November election - despite the concerns of some of his top advisers that the system is unworkable and destabilising. "I think you have to say this is a dilemma, to say the very least," a political aide in the White House said. "And certainly it is possible to argue that a failure, or a mixed outcome, would be politically easier to handle at this time." President Clinton, a reluctant convert to the NMD project after coming under heavy Republican attack for being soft on defence, had been hoping to pass on a decision on the scheme to his successor. "He doesn't want to go down in history as the president who violated the ABM [anti-ballistic missile] treaty," said Chris Hellman, an analyst at the Centre for Defence Information thinktank in Washington. But according to new Pentagon estimates, a decision has to be taken before the election on whether to go ahead with a key radar installation on Alaska's Aleutian islands, for it to be ready by the administration's self-imposed goal of having a basic network with 20 interceptors up and running by 2005. By that time, NMD proponents argue, North Korea could be ready to launch a long-range missile at the US, armed with a nuclear, chemical or biological warhead. Other "rogue states" could catch up technologically soon afterwards. But White House, Pentagon and state department officials have dissented from an intelligence report laying out the North Korean threat. They argue that it focuses purely on the communist nation's technological potential, and not enough on political, economic or social factors. They also believe that the US faces a far greater threat from terrorists carrying a nuclear, chemical or biological bomb into the country in a suitcase. And there are considerable doubts among defence experts and scientists over whether the scheme will work. Critics of the scheme say its Pentagon backers and contractors have rigged test results to hide the fact that the rocket-launched interceptors have serious problems distinguishing warheads from decoys. ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om