US Air Force refused to fly nuclear bombs to attack Iran
El Kabong
on Iran; Air Force refused to fly weapons to Middle East theater.
by Wayne Madsen
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.
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.
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.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20070923
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over a cup of warm hemlock".
snakehawk
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Very amusing. Maybe you would like to comment on the tale that six
(count 'em) Advanced Cruise Missiles carry a W80-1 150 kiloton
warheads, specifically designed for delivery by B-52 strategic
bombers, were "misplaced" and "accidentally" mounted on a B-52 bomber
without anyone being aware of what was happening. Hell, stuff like
that happens all the time.
Pope-About-Town
Is that how the nuclear bombs "mistake" happened?
> Very amusing. Maybe you would like to comment on the tale that six
> (count 'em) Advanced Cruise Missiles carry a W80-1 150 kiloton
> warheads, specifically designed for delivery by B-52 strategic
> bombers, were "misplaced" and "accidentally" mounted on a B-52 bomber
> without anyone being aware of what was happening. Hell, stuff like
> that happens all the time.
An Israeli company provides security for US nuclear weapons storage
facilities. Maybe that's how it happened?
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zzpat
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> 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.
>
For anyone interested in reading the original "bent spear" article go here:
It's very good.
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zzpat
> El Kabong wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> For anyone interested in reading the original "bent spear" article go here:
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2007/09/23/ST2007092300048.html?sid=ST2007092300048
>
>
> It's very good.
>
I forgot to mention that one of the authors, Walter Pincus, did some
bang-up writing before the war, exposing many of Bush's lies.
While some say Bush cherry picked intelligence (which is true) so did
the editors of our major newspapers. If they had read their own papers
they would have easily seen Bush was lying about WMD.
me
> Very amusing. Maybe you would like to comment on the tale that six
> (count 'em) Advanced Cruise Missiles carry a W80-1 150 kiloton
> warheads, specifically designed for delivery by B-52 strategic
> bombers, were "misplaced" and "accidentally" mounted on a B-52 bomber
> without anyone being aware of what was happening. Hell, stuff like
> that happens all the time
The explanation was pretty vanilla actually. With the reduction in
our
nuclear equipped forces, the handling of these weapons has been
reduced in scope and funding. As such, nuclear weapons were
permitted to be stored with none nuclear weapons (including
"dummy" weapons used for training). To the outside observer,
these weapons look every bit like a nuclear weapon, except for
an internal feature which is only visible through an inspection port.
Somebody screwed up and either didn't look through the port,
or mistook what they saw. Everyone else (until they got to the
other airport) didn't check (double check actually). The pilot
only checked one side, not the other.
The procedures weren't followed, but it was enabled because
"everyone knows" what it looks like when nukes are being
handled and transported around a base, or on an aircraft. So
it was "obvious" to everyone around that these were "dummys"
because of the way they were being handled. The moment they
were misidentified in the storage facility, it started the long
chain of "assumptions" based upon the way their were erroneously
handled.
The primary "lessons learned" is not to store them with
other weapons. They are different, and need to be handled
differently. And that starts at the storage facility so that
nothing in that facility ever gets handled differently because
everything there is the same. From that point on, everyone
"knows" they are different, just from the way they were
handled, and the way they came upon them.
With guns, even the blank shooting, plugged barreled,
fake guns used on sets, the rule is handle everything that
looks like a gun, as a gun. And it is always presumed
that a gun is loaded. With nukes the rule gets reversed
(predominately because of the cost of handling them).
ONLY nukes get handled like nukes. Fake nukes, practice
nukes, conventional versions of nukes, get handled
like conventional weapons.
snakehawk
> On Sep 26, 10:01 am,snakehawk<snakeh...@MailAndNews.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > Very amusing. Maybe you would like to comment on the tale that six
> > (count 'em) Advanced Cruise Missiles carry a W80-1 150 kiloton
> > warheads, specifically designed for delivery by B-52 strategic
> > bombers, were "misplaced" and "accidentally" mounted on a B-52 bomber
> > without anyone being aware of what was happening. Hell, stuff like
> > that happens all the time
>
> The explanation was pretty vanilla actually. With the reduction in
> our
> nuclear equipped forces, the handling of these weapons has been
> reduced in scope and funding. As such, nuclear weapons were
> permitted to be stored with none nuclear weapons (including
> "dummy" weapons used for training).
Since you are obviously able to operate a computer, you can't possibly
be stupid enough to believe that. So what is your agenda in proposing
such a silly scenario? After all, we can all read. So we're not dumb
enough to believe it either.
me
Which part do you find difficult to believe? That they stored
the
nearly identical weapons together, figuring they wouldn't get them
mixed up? Or is it that cost cutting under Clinton and Bush Sr.
encouraged the consolidation of these assets?