ecopolis

life in transformation

Archive for the ‘war’ tag

Bomba Atomica in Iraq ‘91

leave a comment

Mancherebbe la “pistola fumante”, ma le prove sembrano supportare le sue gravissime accuse. Jim Brown, veterano della prima Guerra del Golfo, non ha dubbi: negli ultimi giorni del febbraio 1991, l’aviazione americana, proprio al termine del conflitto che non sovvertì forse volutamente il regime del Raìs Saddam Hussein, sganciò tra Bassora e i confini dell’Iran una bomba atomica della potenza di cinque kilotoni.

A raccogliere le sconvolgenti dichiarazioni Maurizio Torrealta, giornalista responsabile del settore inchieste per Rainews24 e autore di straordinari documentari tra i quali “Falluja, la strage nascosta” dove si denunciò per primi l’impiego da parte dell’esercito statunitense di armi chimiche ai danni della popolazione irachena. “Non possiamo da soli verificare definitivamente l’autenticità delle dichiarazioni, vista la complessità delle indagini – ha chiarito all’inizio della conferenza stampa svoltasi presso la sede nazionale dell’Fnsi, la federazione nazionale dei giornalisti italiani – ma le ricerche, che auspichiamo vengano approfondite dagli organismi internazionali predisposti, si muovono in questa direzione”. Diversi sono infatti gli elementi che comprovano le agghiaccianti affermazioni dell’ex soldato Brown, ingegnere degradato per la sindrome del Golfo dal rango di quarto livello al terzo e, infine, congedato con onore per l’impossibilità di svolgere le sue funzioni. Un dato su tutti: le rilevazioni effettuate dal Centro sismologico internazionale proprio in quell’arco temporale durante il quale secondo Brown si sarebbe svolto l’attacco. Infatti il 27 febbraio alle ore 13:39 nella zona circostante Bassora ai confini con l’Iran, una scossa sismica pari ai 4,2 gradi della Scala Richter è stata registrata dai sismografi del Csi. Esattamente lo stesso livello di magnitudo causato da l’innesco e l’esplosione di una bomba atomica di quella potenza.

Contemporaneamente i casi di tumori, malformazioni e leucemie nella zona sarebbero cresciute esponenzialmente. Jawad Al Alì, responsabile del Reparto oncologico dell’ospedale di Bassora, intervistato da Torrealta, mostra durante il documentario i dati frutto delle ricerche: dai 34 casi di tumori del 1989 si è passati agli oltre 600 degli ultimi anni. Moltissimi all’interno delle stesse famiglie, un fenomeno assolutamente fuori dal comune. “Abbiamo assistito a una rarissima forma di slittamento dell’età legata a particolari tumori, bambini sotto i dieci anni affetti da malattie e malformazioni inspiegabili”. In scena, mentre Torrealta lo intervista, decine di immagini strazianti di donne e bambini vittime delle radiazioni. L’utilizzo, in più sedi accertato, di proiettili all’uranio impoverito, dal comprovato contagio radioattivo del suolo e delle risorse idriche, non mina comunque l’impianto accusatorio. Secondo Brown infatti piccole testate nucleari sarebbero state impiegate anche nei primi giorni di marzo del 2002 in Afghanistan.

Facendo un passo indietro e ricontestualizzando le strategie militari ai primi anni Novanta torna alla mente la celeberrima “dottrina dell’ambiguità calcolata” varata dal segretario di stato americano James Baker e fortemente appoggiata dall’amministrazione repubblicana capeggiata da Bush padre.

Durante “Desert Storm” l’impiego di bombe atomiche non era affatto scartato a priori: “Il presidente non esclude l’impiego di armi nucleari – disse Baker in un’infuocata conferenza stampa – ma la considera semmai un’opzione credibile”.

Forti dubbi invece sorgono sulle motivazioni plausibili che possano giustificare un tale atto di barbarie. Rainews24 prova a suggerirne una: mancano pochi giorni al ritiro definitivo delle truppe americane quando un missile Scude iracheno colpisce una base americana uccidendo una ventina di soldati ferendone una ottantina. In seguito a quell’incursione, in un’ottica da mera e semplice vendetta, ebbe luogo una delle stragi più cruente e spietate degli ultimi venti anni: “l’autostrada della morte”. Sull’Highway 80, che unisce il Kuwait alla provincia irachena di Basra, vennero rinvenute le carcasse di migliaia di veicoli carbonizzati. Tra le migliaia di morti soldati in ritirata ma soprattutto civili sfollati inermi alla ricerca di un rifugio sicuro. Forse l’attacco nucleare potrebbe rientrare nella stessa malsana logica di morte.

Di fronte alla tesi che si trattasse in realtà di bombe “Blue-82”, la cosiddetta madre di tutte le bombe, simile ad una piccola testata nucleare, il veterano Brown ha ribattuto energicamente: “A differenza dell’attacco svoltosi nel ‘91 che colpì il sottosuolo, le blue-82 necessitano di ossigeno per causare l’esplosione”. Le rilevazioni del Csi confermano quest’ipotesi, l’impatto avvenne tra 0 e 33 km sottoterra. Di fronte a un certo grado di diffidenza Brown conclude svelando la propria fonte: “Ho fondato un associazione che conta circa trecento veterani, la “GulfWacth IW”, da lì ho tratto queste informazioni, da lì ne ho ricevuto conferma”.

via ilbenecomune.net

Written by Luca

October 14th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged with

Cyber Command Stopped

leave a comment

The Air Force is about to suspend its controversial effort to reorganize its forces to “dominate” cyberspace. The provisional, 8,000-man Cyber Command has been ordered to stop all activities, just weeks before it was supposed to be declared operational.

“Transfers of manpower and resources, including activation and reassignment of units, shall be halted,” according to an internal e-mail obtained by Nextgov’s Bob Brewin — and confirmed by Air Force sources. Instead, the Air Force’s new leadership — including incoming Chief of Staff Norton Schwartz — will be given time to rethink how big the command will be, and what exactly it will do.

via Wired.

Written by Luca

October 7th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged with

Al Qaeda 9/11 Anniversary Tape posted Late!

leave a comment

As Sahab, the “press” agency of Al queda, produced an al Qaeda 9/11 anniversary video that has finally been released last week. They’re calling it “The Results of Seven Years of the Crusades” which meshes footage of Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Abu Yahya al Libi, with pre recorded material like the the “martyr video” of Ahmed Salah al-Ghamdi, one of 19 terrorists of 9.11.
It was little bit late for the anniversary video of 11.9 and people on the field suppose it can be connected to recent off-line position of major jihadi’s forums.

Written by Luca

September 24th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged with ,

Drone Wars in Georgia

leave a comment

In Georgia the war is not over. Seems like now they first start with the robots and then the humans.

Georgia today said it had shot down a Russian drone over territory close to the breakaway province of South Ossetia, which is due to be patrolled by EU observers.

The interior ministry spokesman, Shota Utiashvili, said Georgian police downed the reconnaissance drone yesterday in the central district of Gori. The drone was spying on Georgian troops and the country’s oil pipeline, he said.

Russia this morning dismissed the claim as “provocation”.

The incident is the latest in a series of skirmishes along the border with the breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia involving Russian and separatist forces and Georgian police.

via The Guardian.

the comment of John Robb, Global Guerrillas, about the war in Georgia:

Situation: The Russian invasion of Georgia has sent shock waves through the Baltics. Are they next?

Question
: How can the Baltics defend themselves against Russia?
Answer: Make it prohibitively expensive for Gazprom.

Expanded Answer: Small teams that can make deep strikes on Gazprom’s pipelines — from Russia to Ukraine to Central Asia. Small teams of hackers (Estonia has many) that can break Gazprom systems (from electricity to pipelines to corporate records to executive data).

Objectives
: Drive down Gazprom’s stock price. Anger Gazprom’s customers.

Written by Luca

September 23rd, 2008 at 10:19 pm

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged with

Al Qaeda 2007 Yearbook

leave a comment

LauraMansfield.com announces the release of “The Al Qaeda 2007 Yearbook Volumes 1 and 2: A Complete Reference and Translation of Al Qaeda Messages in 2007“.

During 2007, As Sahab, the media production department of Al Qaeda, has released an unprecedented number of videos. Because of size restrictions by our printer, the Al Qaeda Yearbook for 2007 is being released in two volumes. Volume I is available for shipment on December 1; Volume 2 will be available shortly after the beginning of the year.

This publication includes the videos and audios produced and released by As Sahab during 2007.

The “Yearbook” is heavily indexed, with extensive footnotes.

Written by Luca

July 26th, 2008 at 9:50 am

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged with , , ,

Karadzic’s website

leave a comment

Dr. Dragan “David” Dabic was born some six decades ago in a small Serbian village of Kovaci, near Kraljevo. As a young boy he liked to explore nearby forests and mountains, spending a lot of time on Kopaonik mountain where he tended to pick the omnipresent, natural and potent medicinal herbs that grew at those green pastures. As a young man he moved to Belgrade, and then on to Moscow where he graduated with a Doctor of Medicine degree (spec. in Psychiatry) at the Moscow State University (Lomonosov). After Russia, Dr. Dabic travelled around India and Japan, after which he settled in China where he specialized in alternative medicine, with a special emphasis on the mind-body control, meditation, Yoga, spiritual cleansing, as well as Chinese herbs. In mid-1990s Dr. Dabic returned back to mother Serbia for good, and ever since then emerged as one of the most prominent experts in the field of alternative medicine, bioenergy, and macrobiotic diet in the whole of the Balkans, and is frequent contributor to the regional alternative health magazines, and guest expert with numerous TV appearances and on many public forums, seminars and symposiums (Belgrade, Novi Sad, Pancevo, Sombor, Smederevo, Kikinda…) dedicated to these issues and topics.

Dr. Dragan Dabic currently resides on Yury Gagarin street in New Belgrade, but for public forum invitations, television appearances or private consultations he can be reached directly at the following contact:

healingwounds @ dragandabic . com

Written by Luca

July 23rd, 2008 at 2:37 pm

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged with , ,

Photoshop Wars….

leave a comment

They tell us that Iran is the worst enemy on the planet, but at the same moment seems that their sronget arm is…Photoshop.
As you can see on the image their 3° missile is copyed from the 2° and pasted with the stamp tool of Photoshop.

Here’s the original one.

And it wasn’t even the first time….

Does Iran’s state media use Photoshop? The charge has been leveled before. So far, though, it can’t be said with any certainty whether there is any official Iranian involvement in this instance. Sepah apparently published the three-missile version of the image today without further explanation.

For its part, Agence France-Presse retracted its four-missile version this morning, saying that the image was “apparently digitally altered” by Iranian state media. The fourth missile “has apparently been added in digital retouch to cover a grounded missile that may have failed during the test,” the agency said. Later, it published an article quoting several experts backing that argument.

via New York Times

Written by Luca

July 15th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged with , , ,

Military’s High-Pain Mobile Power Crisis…

leave a comment

The U.S. military relies on more than 500 mobile battery-dependent devices that often require soldiers to carry 20 to 35 pounds of batteries on a mission. First responders, such as policemen and firemen, face the same life-threatening and mission-critical challenges.

The Canadian Ministry of National Defense recently estimated that NATO forces are spending $57,000 per soldier per year in Iraq and Afghanistan for batteries alone. 75% of the capacity of those batteries tends to be wasted as soldiers trade out partially used batteries after every patrol.

M2E’s extended, grid-free operational life and lower weight will improve the soldier’s load factor and provide mission extension opportunities. M2E has the potential to reduce the logistics burden as well.

Written by Luca

June 13th, 2008 at 9:54 am

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged with ,