[Nettime-bold] more on WTC and bombs (7/2000)

["Steve Cisler" <cisler@pobox.com>]

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GreeNet where this appeared.  What's odd is that it only remains in
the cache on Google and is not available on the original site.

Posted by Anon.  <no_sp@m.gov>(195.92.198.78) on 28, July, 2000 at
03:04:20:

The mega-blast in the City of London last month, was the third in just
over a year to warrant a permanent place on the Richter Scale. This
bomb and others in London and the New York World Trade Centre all
shared three common features: Each mega-bomb was detonated in a
high-profile business district, each left few if any scorch marks, and
the resulting shock-blast on all three occasions exceeded by far the
normal explosive and logistic capabilities of any existing, known
"terrorist" organization.

The establishment media recently suggested the World Trade Centre bomb
was "home made" and placed in an underground car park by a blind
Islamic militant from New Jersey. The claim was ludicrous, because the
shock-blast needed to rip through seven floors of reinforced concrete
car park, cannot be generated by components purchased over the counter
at a chemical warehouse.

On 23 March, Tom Valentine of Radio Free America interviewed veteran
nuclear physicist Galen Winsor, who said the blast was not caused by a
low-yield conventional explosive charge. Galen Winsor went much
further than this. "I'm sure it was just exactly what John McPhee
predicted 20 years ago in his book, The Curve of Binding Energy" he
said, "where McPhee quoted Theodore B. Taylor, a theoretical physicist
out of Los Alamos, who said that someone someday was going to blow up
the World Trade Centre with a small nuclear device, the size of a
stick of gum." Winsor continued, "McPhee's book was published in 1975,
although the prediction first appeared in the New Yorker magazine in
1973. Taylor worked in the area of the micronization of nuclear
weapons, in other words making nuclear weapons small enough so the
Israelis could carry them around in a briefcase."

At first glance the thought of micronized nuclear weapons being used
in major cities seems absurd, but there is now considerable evidence
indicating strongly that small nuclear devices were also responsible
for the two massive London blasts. In London both mega-bombs were
detonated at or below street level, but still generated massive
shock-blasts. Here the finger was pointed at the IRA but the
propaganda value of the isolated bomb blasts is questionable, and the
IRA has no record of bombing high profile business centres.

Media use of IRA code-words in London to "authenticate" both mega-bomb
blasts means nothing: The establishment media in London can whistle up
five or more IRA code words in a matter of seconds if the mood takes
it. There is another drawback where the IRA is concerned, which is its
ability to obtain and import huge volumes of high explosive. If the
media is to be believed, the IRA, normally incapable of smuggling guns
to the mainland, apparently imported at least two tons of high
explosive in less than eighteen months. Sniffer dogs at UK ports are
famous for their ability to detect marijuana in quantities as low as
two ounces. The same dogs are also trained to sniff for explosives.

When the first London bomb exploded on the night of the British
General Election in April 1992, the police were lured away from the
site by a "known IRA code word". There is no IRA track record of such
deception. Traditionally the IRA either provides British authorities
with an accurate warning, or it provides no warning at all. Further,
the IRA does not normally waste vast quantities of explosive where it
will cause virtually no injuries. Backing up the non-IRA sequence of
events were eyewitness reports from a range of more than three miles,
which were chilling.

"The ground shook under our feet. There was a brilliant white flash
and a tall vertical column of smoke." Powerful modern high explosives
do not flash brilliant white at all, but critical nuclear devices
certainly do. Nuclear devices also send out near-instantaneous seismic
shock waves that ripple underground for miles, shaking the ground
severely."

in what may have been the greatest Freudian slip of the nineties, the
British Government claimed the weight of the first bomb was 45
kilograms, a puny weight in conventional explosive terms, but the
exact weight of the small atomic shell fired by NATO's 155mm FH-70
L/39 long range gun-howitzer. Two nuclear physicists in Australia
confirmed the 155mm gun's core nuclear device would measure no more
than three inches in diameter. Those physicist's April 1992 opinions
were considerably reinforced during March 1993 by Galen Winsor, when
he pointed out:" The model of a miniature nuclear bomb that I have
which is 2 3/4 inches in length, was made from 94 per cent pure Pu-239
[Plutonium]. This is actually a lot bigger than the Israeli briefcase
bombs."

Until now few members of the public have been aware how small modern
micronized nuclear devices really are, or the way in which their
explosive yield is tightly controlled. One device that has been around
since the seventies is the American SADM (Special Atomic Demolition
Munition), which is carried by a single soldier and used to create
behind-the-lines mayhem for the enemy. SADM is tiny and lethally
efficient: its tightly controlled 0.01 kiloton atomic yield generating
the same explosive blast as ten tons of TNT, from a package small
enough to send by motorcycle courier. Unluckily for the public at
large SADM also produces quantities of localized radiation, which can
be detected by reading the ultraviolet spectrum in the immediate
vicinity of the blast, but few workers in London or New York have
access to the scientific equipment needed for such specialized
monitoring.

While the British Government was busy convincing its citizens "The IRA
did it", London TV cameras were accidentally filming a team of experts
entering the blast area wearing full nuclear protective clothing.
Extraordinary behaviour from experts simply walking around taking a
quick peek at the remains of an old-fashioned IRA bomb, traditionally
manufactured from ammonium nitrate & diesel.

Almost exactly a year later the second London mega-bomb exploded in
the same part of the financial centre. Like the first, damage was
awesome with repair estimates running as high as US$1 billion. Once
again the obvious was completely overlooked: repair bills from huge
IRA bombs detonated in the centre of Belfast generally range from ten
to twenty million dollars. Viewed in dollar-damage terms alone then,
each mega-bomb in London was at least fifty times more powerful than
its crude IRA cousins across in Northern Ireland. Put bluntly, the
Irish Republican Army simply does not have access to the technology
for the London mega-bombs.

The April 1993 bomb was supposedly detonated in a parked garbage
truck, but managed to create a huge crater in the road that was
subsequently filmed by the media: another crucial error confirmed by
independent explosives experts in Australia. The blast from most bombs
takes the easiest path, in this case outwards then upwards to
atmosphere. The crater could only have appeared if the bomb was
dropped from an aircraft, or was buried in advance. Forget the
"garbage truck", which was merely a decoy device. The crater is very
impressive, measuring roughly forty feet deep by sixty feet in
diameter. The media footage provides mute proof the awesome bomb could
not have originated in Northern Ireland.

Radiation left behind by nuclear devices, even micronized nuclear
devices, can be extremely dangerous for those forced to work in the
area after the bomb has exploded: Probably a very good reason for the
American and British Governments to blame Islamic Militants and the
IRA respectively. For as long as the general public remain unaware of
the risk they will continue to commute to work and happily beaver away
at their desks. If either government "went public" with the news that
nuclear devices had been detonated, there might be widespread panic in
two of the most important business districts in the world, perhaps
leading to a complete refusal to return to work.

Worse still would be the "run-on" effect when smaller conventional
bombs exploded at a later date. To a nervous and jittery public, every
explosion would be a potential nuclear device with the attendant risks
of radiation poisoning. Under the harsh doctrine of the "New World
Order", it seems likely the health & lives of a few thousand office
workers would gladly be sacrificed in order to avoid short term chaos.

During early May 1993, ITN World News from London carried an
interesting feature in which it was explained that due to thefts of
highly-radioactive Uranium 235, terrorists would now be able to
contaminate conventional bombs with 500 grams of Uranium, thereby
forcing the police to stay away from the area for days. Exactly why
experienced terrorists would risk detection & death by transporting
deadly unshielded Uranium around in their pockets was not explained.
There is no credible reason for keeping the police and other
authorities away from a bombsite after the weapon has been detonated.
However, the rumour could form the basis of a government defence in
cases where American or British citizens located positive traces of
radiation, near the World Trade Centre or in the City of London, for
example.

The question of exactly "who" is bombing some of the largest business
centres in the world currently remains unanswered, though the brute
power of the bombs limits the candidates. Much has been said in
America about the possible involvement of the Israeli intelligence
service, Mossad, but the only hard evidence pointing in its direction
are the two London bombs exploding on a Saturday: the Jewish Sabbath.
While this would certainly have limited the number of possible deaths
among Jewish business staff in the City of London, the timings might
be coincidental.

Most likely the question of "who" will never be answered. The
self-appointed "New World Order" has imposed its draconian will on a
large number of resentful countries in a very short period of time,
evidently wishing to change the world into a great, peaceful,
American-led democratic environment. Perhaps one similar to that
existing in Los Angeles after the first Rodney King verdict was handed
down.

Any one of a dozen different countries with a grudge against the "New
World Order" could be responsible for the bombs if it managed to buy
or manufacture micronized nuclear weapons. Most frightening of all is
the reality that America and Britain are utterly powerless to resist
attacks of this kind. Though their intelligence services have
computers full of Islamic and IRA suspect's names, those names are
worthless if the attacks are being launched by another nation, as
appears to be the case. There is no way in the world the American or
British police can hope to detect a complete stranger with a briefcase
bomb among tens of thousands of other citizens with briefcases, in two
of the most densely populated western cities on earth. The most
compelling question is when the bombers are going to remove the kid
gloves and place one of these devices in Time Square or Piccadilly
Circus during the rush hour.

American nuclear physicist Galen Winsor claimed the bomb planted in
the World Trade Centre was incorrectly placed: " They intended to
topple one tower of the World Trade Centre into the other tower and
take out [kill] more than fifty thousand people." On the available
evidence it seems the aspirations of a small arrogant bunch of men who
decided to impose a "New World Order'" on a host of very unwilling
small sovereign nations, did not think the exercise through to its
perhaps inevitable conclusion. Those same arrogant men have placed
tens of millions of citizens at risk because of their own gross
incompetence and thirst for absolute power. The "New World Order" now
seems set to face the unbridled wrath of large numbers of citizens for
many years to come.





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