{news} FW: Lost U.S. Nukes and WWIII?

Sat Sep 29 00:27:54 EDT 2007

I don't know what to make of this story. It could be just another
disinformation campaign by the Bush/Cheney regime.  But I think the details
, if true,  make it imperative to move impeachment along.  If people within
the military are willing to expose the details of this kind of activity then
we need to give them legal cover to stop the Bush/Cheney regime from really
starting WW III.   Wayne Madsen is very controversial. He used to be an
analyst for the NSA (that does not mean No Such Agency).  He has a track
record as a reporter and seems to have a lot of inside sources (see code
names below).   He has been wrong before.  But I think the official story
that all of this activity was an oversight is impossible.  The system
controlling the transport and control of U.S. Nukes is one of the most
sophisticated control and command systems in our government or any
government.  We know the basic facts of this story are true because the
government has admitted it happened. Now they are saying it was mistake or
an oversight.  Numerous sources on and off the internet (i.e. alternative
radio) who have military or intelligence backgrounds say this had to be a
black bag job.  A really incredible and scary story if true. 

The question is: Who ordered it and what was the mission?

Don't expect any real answers from the corporate mass media anytime soon.

We need to get the congress to hold hearings on this.

Sincerely,

Mike DeRosa

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are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions,
folly, hatred and schizophrenia. 
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

 <http://worldcontent.twoday.net/stories/4289860/> BY WAYNE MADSEN
<http://worldcontent.twoday.net/stories/4289860/> . 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. This is the embargoed
report posted by worldcontent.twoday.net. A must-read. 

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.
br>ates 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.

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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 <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 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.

publication date: Sep 23, 2007

Wayne Madsen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Madsen>  is a Washington,
D.C.-based investigative journalist, author, and syndicated columnist. His
articles have appeared in The Village Voice and Wired.

Wayne Madsen Report <http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/> 

Related News:
Simple Error My Ass - Loose Nukes
<http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/2480/81/>
(atlanticfreepress.com, 24.09.2007)
Air Force Personnel Involved With Nuke Mishap In Minot
<http://www.kxmc.com/News/Nation/164330.asp>  Being Murdered?
(kxmc.com, 20.09.2007)
Israeli air strike did not hit nuclear
<http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Intelligence_officials_say_Israel_received_fl
awed_0924.html>  facility, intelligence officials say
(rawstory.com, 24.09.2007)

USAF budget document:
Committee Staff Procurement Backup Book FY
<http://www.saffm.hq.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070212-005.pdf>
2008/2009 (PDF, p. 119 ff)

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