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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- Has the People's Republic of China (who opposed us in the UN) been selling weapons to Iraq?
If so, what does that fact (or convenient fiction?) bode for the Cabal's longer-term game plan?
(You know, the one in which, by 2020, the US is at war with CHINA for control of Eurasia ...)
In the Iraqi war, as the first stage of World War Three, who are America's "enemies,"
and how can we distinguish between facts, rumors, and "national security" agitprop?
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Iraqi Missile Shatters Kuwait City Mall
March 28, 2003
By DIANA ELIAS, Associated Press Writer
KUWAIT CITY - A low-flying Iraqi missile screamed across the Persian Gulf early Saturday, avoiding the detection of U.S. defense systems and landing just off the coast of Kuwait City, shattering windows at a popular seaside shopping mall.
Two people were treated for minor injuries after the 1:45 a.m. blast, the closest a missile has come to the Kuwaiti capital since U.S. troops based in the Persian Gulf emirate invaded neighboring Iraq on March 20.
Earlier, U.S. and Kuwaiti officials said the missile was believed to have been made in China* ...
"It came from the northeast part of the Gulf. It seemed to be traveling at a very low level," so no air raid sirens sounded, Fire Chief Jassim al-Mansouri said. U.S. Patriot missile batteries guard Kuwait against missile attacks by neighboring Iraq. In Doha, Qatar, the U.S. Central Command said it was investigating.
The missile struck a small pier in front of the Souq Sharq mall — a multilevel shopping center with department stores, restaurants, theaters and Western-style shops. The explosion shattered windows, blasted a glass door at the front of the mall and blew out huge chunks of plaster from the adjacent parking structure. An Egyptian and a Kuwaiti were treated for injuries at a nearby hospital and released, the Kuwait News Agency reported.
Col. Youssef al-Mullah, the spokesman for Kuwait's military, told The Kuwait News Agency on Saturday that the missile that landed near Souk Sharq was manufactured in Iraq.
<<*By contrast, the BBC News reported the facts as follows:
<<
<<"While police and civil defence workers struggled to seal off
<<the area, at least one souvenir-hunter claimed to have found
<< scraps of the missile which carried English writing.
<<This led some bystanders to suggest that the missile
<<may have been accidentally fired by US-led forces,
<<rather than by the Iraqis. Official reports suggest [it was
<<launched] from the al-Faw peninsula -- an area of Iraq
<< supposedly secured by invading US-led forces."
<<
<<--Ryan Dilley, BBC News online, March 29, 2003
... It was the 16th missile Iraq has fired at Kuwait since the war began, said Kuwait's information minister, Sheik Ahmed Fahd Al Ahmed Al Sabah. None have contained chemical or biological weapons, or caused significant damage. At least three have been destroyed by Patriots, U.S. officials said.
"Some missiles we cannot detect with our missile defense system," al-Sabah said. "This kind of missile flies very low."
The mall is about half a mile from Sief Palace, the official seat of the emir of Kuwait. The emir lives in Dasman Palace, about two miles further away.
Air raid sirens have sounded repeatedly in the last week, cautioning the 2.3 million residents of this small, oil-rich state to take cover.
A U.S.-led force in 1991 liberated Kuwait from an Iraqi invasion and many here voiced anger at Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
"My heart is still pounding," said Batoul Tabtabai, a 40-year-old housewife who had been shopping at a 24-hour supermarket about 200 yards from the blast. "May God take revenge on Saddam. There will be no security as long as he is alive."
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World Tribune.com
November 1, 2002
Wolfowitz confirms Saudis
got Chinese long-range missiles
The United States has acknowledged that Saudi Arabia has acquired intermediate-range missile capability. In an address to a Washington audience on Oct. 24, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said Riyadh acquired the missiles from China in a development that stunned Washington, Middle East Newsline reported.
"I believe in the 1980s, when Saudi Arabia acquired long-range ballistic missiles from the People's Republic of China, it took us completely by surprise," Wolfowitz told Frontiers for Freedom. "We think a relatively harmless surprise, but nonetheless a surprise."
Wolfowitz's disclosure comes as Riyadh is said to be mulling a new missile purchase from China and Pakistan. Western intelligence sources said Riyadh has built new silos and facilities for intermediate-range missiles and has intensified efforts to procure nuclear weapons.
Wolfowitz compared the Saudi acquisition of Chinese missiles to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. He said before the crisis the United States had dismissed the prospect that the Soviet Union would transfer missiles to Cuba.
"I think it is not an inappropriate assumption of planning when you're dealing with countries that have demonstrated their intentions as clearly as the ones we're talking about, to anticipate that they will look for any doors that are open and it's got to be our job to try to close any doors that we can think of," Wolfowitz said.
The Jamestown Foundation, a nonprofit organization that studies strategic issues, said in a report that Pakistan could be serving as an intermediary for Chinese weapons to Saudi Arabia. The report, authored by Thomas Woodrow, a former senior China analyst at the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, said China has reportedly approached Saudi Arabia with an offer to sell intermediate-range missile systems, including the CSS-3, with a range of 5,500 kilometers.
"Saudi Arabia could be buying a nuclear capability from China through a proxy state, Pakistan serving as the cutout," the report said. "If Riyadh's influence over Pakistan extends to its nuclear programs, Saudi Arabia could rapidly become a de facto nuclear power through a simple shipment of missiles and warheads."
Wolfowitz's disclosure came on the eve of military cooperation talks between Saudi Arabia and the United States in Riyad. The talks, held earlier this week, were in the framework of the annual military cooperation meeting between the two nations and were headed by the Saudi and U.S. chiefs of staff. Saudi officials stressed that the American delegation did not ask the kingdom for help in any U.S-led war against Iraq. ______________________________
New Missile Threat to America
Charles R. Smith
Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2002
NewsMax.com
Outlaw State Building Ship-Based Missile
to Strike U.S. Homeland
The Bush administration is concerned that the U.S. homeland may come under attack from a ship-based short-range missile in the very near future.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz recently stated that U.S. intelligence satellites had observed a hostile foreign power testing of a ship-based ballistic missile system. However, Wolfowitz refused to identify the nation involved.
According to Wolfowitz, "we have observed an outlaw state" developing a ship-launched missile capability.U.S. officials are concerned that rogue nations or proxy terrorist groups may hide SCUD or North Korean-made No Dong missiles inside commercial ships to launch a surprise attack against U.S. coastal cities. Ships equipped to fire hidden missiles may be able to approach unnoticed within a few miles of the U.S. coastline and attack major East Coast or West Coast cities with little or no warning.
Outside the Box
"This new focus is a welcome development. It indicates that the Bush administration has begun to think 'outside the box' on the issues of missile defense and homeland security," stated Ilan Berman, vice president for policy at the American Foreign Policy Council [one front for the Wolfowitz-Perle Cabal].
"In addition to work on the traditional components of its national missile defense architecture, the Pentagon is now looking over the horizon at emerging threats and unconventional scenarios involving proliferation and terrorism, including the possibility of ship-borne missile attacks," noted Berman.
Patriot Missiles for U.S. Home Defense
The concern that the U.S. homeland may come under attack from short-range sea-based missiles has Pentagon analysts concerned enough to seek money to quickly improve U.S. defenses.
"We are looking at ways to accelerate the production of (Patriot) PAC-3 out of concern for near-term vulnerabilities," stated Undersecretary Wolfowitz.
"It remains to be seen if the White House will translate this new focus into concrete action by deploying theater missile defenses at home. Clearly, though, there is an emerging consensus among U.S. policymakers that a convincing case can be made for such a move as part of the Bush administration's homeland security efforts," concluded Berman.
The concern that a rogue state may deliver a weapon of mass destruction using a short-range missile was heightened when North Korea admitted to an ongoing nuclear weapons program. CIA analysts recently noted that North Korea has up to three plutonium-based nuclear warheads, which could be delivered from the 400-mile range No Dong missile. However, both the SCUD and No Dong missiles require volatile liquid propellants to be loaded before firing. The fueling process can take several hours before a missile is ready to fire.
However, the liquid propellant problem does not apply to advanced Chinese-made missiles such as the solid fuel Dong Feng 11 or Dong Feng 15. Both missiles can be quickly fired from mobile platforms using solid-fuel propellants. The People's Liberation Army has sold the Chinese DF-11, also known as the M-11, to Asian client states. Pakistan has as many as 38 DF-11 missiles and produces a virtual carbon copy of the Chinese design, which is called the Shaheen.
Cruise Missile Threat to U.S. Homeland
Ballistic missiles are not the only threat to U.S. coastal cities that could easily be hidden on commercial shipping. Several rogue states such as Iran, Libya, North Korea and Iraq have also purchased advanced airborne cruise missiles. Defense Undersecretary Wolfowitz noted that it is not "far fetched" that such weapons could be used by a rogue nation or a proxy terrorist group to attack the U.S. from platforms close to the American shores. China has exported several types of cruise missile systems to Iran, Iraq and Libya, including long-range C-802 Silkworm missiles and shorter-range C-801 Sardine missiles.
China also recently test-fired a 150-mile-range C-803 cruise missile from its indigenously developed FH-7 strike fighter. The FH-7 strike fighter is being considered by Iran as a replacement for its aging force of U.S.-made F-4 Phantoms. The C-803, described as a supersonic version of the C-802 Silkworm, is clearly aimed at future export sales to Middle East customers and is teamed with its launch platform, the FH-7 strike fighter.
In addition, France sold Exocet anti-ship missiles to Iraq prior to the 1991 Gulf War. An Iraqi F-1 successfully used an Exocet to damage the US destroyer USS Stark prior to the 1991 war. Iraqi forces were also able to modify and launch two Exocet missiles at land-based targets from Mirage F-1 fighter jets during the Gulf War.
Although the Exocet missiles missed their intended targets, the launches demonstrated that Iraq could modify existing hardware to serve in the land attack role. Airborne cruise missiles such as the Silkworm or Exocet can be fired from shipboard launcher systems. The cruise missiles and launchers could easily be hidden inside a cargo vessel until just prior to firing.
Unlike the SCUD, No Dong or DF-11 ballistic missile threats, a cruise missile attack would provide little warning before a strike. Airborne cruise missiles such as Silkworm and Exocet are designed to fly at sea-skimming levels only a few feet above the surface in order to avoid radar contact.
The French-made Exocet and Chinese-made Sardine cruise missiles are unlikely to be armed with nuclear weapons. Both anti-ship missiles are normally armed with small, lightweight high-explosive warheads. Yet both missiles could be equipped with chemical or biological agents.
Iraqi Silkworm Chemical Warhead
The Chinese Silkworm missile, however, is normally equipped with up to one ton of high explosives, and could easily be modified for chemical or nuclear warheads. Iraq reportedly modified a number of Silkworm missiles to carry nerve gas warheads. U.N. inspection teams are expected to closely monitor Silkworm missile sites.
In addition to the modified Silkworm missiles, Iraq has modified a number of manned aircraft to operate as unmanned cruise missiles. Iraq reportedly modified a Czech Delfin jet trainer and a MiG-23 Flogger to operate as unmanned cruise missiles equipped with chemical warheads. Both the MiG-23 and the Delfin have the capability to be launched from short ramps using rocket boosters.
The threat to U.S. coastal cities was underscored recently when a small cargo vessel beached itself in south Florida. The cargo ship landed over 100 Haitian refugees onto the Florida beaches and onto a nearby highway. Defense officials noted that the ship could have easily been armed with several cruise missiles, a single short-range ballistic missile or a simple chemical weapon.
Need for Human Intelligence
"This is a hard one to get the arms around. WMDs can be delivered by platforms ranging from an ICBM to a U-Haul rental truck," stated Richard Fisher, a Senior Fellow at the Jamestown Foundation [another front for the Wolfowitz-Perle Cabal]. "SRBMs (short-range ballistic missiles) and cruise missiles may still lean toward the high end of this spectrum, but they represent a present threat nonetheless. New technologies like long-range reconnaissance UAVs and the SIBRS series of LEO satellites may be necessary parts of the response, but we will also need vastly enhanced human intelligence resources to provide warning before these threats get close enough to fire," concluded Fisher.
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