WHITE HOUSE BUNGLES CRUISE MISSILE STRIKES The Pentagon, Virginia USAF officials have confirmed that the White House has a history of bungling missile strikes, in particular targeting the Air Launched Cruise missile (ALCM). One specific example cited was the un-successful 1996 DESERT STRIKE operation where USAF ALCM cruise missiles with fragmentary warheads were mis-targeted on hardened Iraq bunkers on White House orders. The White House bypassed the USAF Air Combat Command (ACC) and directly ordered B-52s to fire the ALCMs on to the Iraqi bunkers. The frag warheads exploded harmlessly outside the Iraq bunkers, causing no damage. The Iraq bunker was destroyed later by a second, follow on, strike of NAVY Tomahawk missiles with conventional blast explosive warheads. U.S. JETS BOMB CHINESE SILKWORM SITE IN IRAQ The Persian Gulf U.S. NAVY and U.S. MARINE F-18 Hornets bombed an Iraqi "SILKWORM" site that posed a threat to U.S. Naval forces in the Persian Gulf. The Chinese made SILKWORM is a improved copy of the Russian STYX anti-ship cruise missile. Iraq and Iran both own large numbers of SILKWORM missiles. A British warship dodged Silkworm missiles during the Gulf war and the U.S. Navy used the 16 inch guns from a battleship to bombard Iraqi SILKWORM sites during the Gulf War. U.S. ARMY & CHINESE ARMY SHARE SATELLITE NETWORK The Pentagon, Virginia The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has awarded Motorola a $219 million contract to supply satellite communications for the Pentagon. Motorola won a three year contract to provide mobile phones, pagers and other communications services operating with the Iridium LLC mobile satellite system. "The contract will allow users to buy all Iridium products, to include secure handsets when they are available," stated a DISA spokes-person. Iridium is a global communications satellite business that includes Motorola and China Great Wall Industries. Motorola invented Iridium, builds the phones and even makes parts of the satellites. Great Wall used China Aerospace Long March rocket to put some of the Iridium satellites into orbit (and was paid very well to do it). The system can best be described as cell phones in space. If you would like to see an Iridium phone you can view it in Bill Clinton's hands at my web site. There is a real neato photo of Bill at a Motorola Iridium factory from the 1996 campaign. http://www.softwar.net/barthman.html Motorola delayed the flight of two Iridium satellites on Chinese Long March booster and shipped both satellites back to America. An Iridium official told Aviation Week that the satellites were exposed to "environmental conditions" during processing in China. The satellites were replacements and the delay is not expected to effect the Iridium system operation. In addition, Motorola used former White House National Security Advisor Dr. Richard Barth to lobby for encrypted Iridium control systems to be exported to China. In 1995, Barth wrote to the White House "while we now are not yet applying for licenses for encrypted systems for satellite system positioning, we may within months be applying for such licenses for our Iridium systems". http://www.softwar.net/barth95.html Motorola has also been accused of helping Beijing build missiles with multiple nuclear warheads: http://www.softwar.net/missile.html Beyond The Loral-Hughes Controversy: A Decade of US Satellite Transfers And Their Military Significance, by Henry Sokolski, Executive Director, The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, 1-202-466-4406 Specific Technology Transferred Validated Chinese upper stage separation technology, vibrational and load coupling analysis, attitude control, and payload mounting. Two Motorola communication satellites were to be delivered with a kick motor and new satellite dispenser of Chinese design. To assure successful launch, the contractor demanded that the Chinese prove that the Chinese systems would work properly and do the job. Concerns included the properly timed release of the satellites, the mounting of the satellites in the delivery bus (would the two satellites break from their moorings due to improper vibrational and load coupling analysis), would the delivery bus's attitude control be stabilized by the release of the fast satellite, and would the kick motor generate too little or too much thrust at the wrong time. Military Significance Helped China master the technology needed to develop its own multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles for the new solid rocket intercontinental ballistic missile it is trying to drive from SS-25 missile technology with the Russians. ================================================================ 1 if by land, 2 if by sea. Paul Revere - encryption 1775 Charles R. Smith SOFTWAR http://www.softwar.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pcyphered SIGNATURE: A88355853F38C2C3F849B9BDA1ACE2E4421A2805A1AB47B8E4A8BFBC793C9764 1A1B37297597E7412010E6A6E80D87DCF0931CDFD53DC5D86A5B2746CC423BE5 0F9F3F2AE2C2F113 ================================================================ SOFTWAR EMAIL NEWSLETTER 04/12/99 *** to unsubscribe reply with "unsubscribe" as subject *** ================================================================
