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Subject: "Lost" B-52 nuke cruise missiles were on way to Middle
East for attack on Iran
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20070923
Sept. 24, 2007 -- SPECIAL REPORT -- "Lost" B-52 nuke cruise
missiles were on way to Middle East for attack on Iran
publication date: Sep 23, 2007
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Sept. 24, 2007 -- SPECIAL REPORT -- "Lost" B-52 nuke cruise
missiles were on way to Middle East for attack on Iran; Air Force
refused to fly weapons to Middle East theater.
WMR has learned from U.S. and foreign intelligence sources that the
B-52 transporting six 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 six 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 United States 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 two 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
two 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 and 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
for 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 -- 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 January 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 neocons 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 fourth 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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