CYBER WARFARE: 'ARE ISRAEL AND THE U.S. PREPARING FOR AN IMMINENT CRIMINAL 'PRE-EMPTIVE' STRIKE ON IRAN?'
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Emptive' Strike On Iran? The Internet Cable-Cutting, False
Allegations, And Psychops Have Suddenly And Dramatically Increased...
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'Middle East Internet Blackouts Spur Geopolitical Suspicions'
'Unprecedented mass Internet outages throughout the Middle East and
Asia after no less than four undersea Internet cables were cut without
explanation are spurring suspicions that a major event of geopolitical
proportions may be just around the corner. Internet blackouts are
impacting large tracts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa after
four undersea cable connections were severed. Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Pakistan and India,
are all experiencing severe problems. According to
InternetTraffic.com, Iran has been completely cut off from the
Internet, though Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's blog can still be accessed.
Most notably, Israel and Iraq are unaffected by the outage. "Stephan
Beckert, an analyst with TeleGeography, a research company that
consults on global Internet issues, said the damaged cables
collectively account for the majority of international communications
between Europe and the Middle East," reports CNN. Officials say that
the cause behind the severing of the cables remains unknown, but
United Arab Emirates' second largest telecom company said the cables
were cut due to ships dragging their anchors. Is this a pre-cursor to
throw a veil over an imminent staged event in the Middle East? "What
are the odds? Who benefits?" asks the Crimes and Corruptions blog.
"Let's see. Iranian rapprochement: "Recent months have brought signs
of a growing rapprochement between Iran and Egypt." "What nation would
not like this and has subs which could cut the cables? Why do it?
Payback as over the net business is badly damaged. Or is this a setup
for more? Note the internet is working just fine in Israel." Over at
WhatReallyHappened.com, Mike Rivero points out that the mysterious
cable sabotage could portend another imperial Neo-Con crusade in the
works. "The biggest problem the Bush administration faced during Iraq
were images coming over the internet that showed the
horrors being visited on the Iraqi people, and exposed the
government's lies about Saddam," he writes. "I am greatly concerned
that these undersea cable cuttings are intended to prevent the world
from seeing something that is about to happen, other than through the
government-controlled propaganda/media."...'
SOURCE: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7976
Pentagon: The Internet Needs To Be Dealt With As If It Were An Enemy
'Weapons System'
'The Pentagon's 'Information Operations Roadmap' is blunt about the
fact that an internet, with the potential for free speech, is in
direct opposition to their goals. The internet needs to be dealt with
as if it were an enemy "weapons system". The 2003 Pentagon document
entitled the Information Operation Roadmap was released to the public
after a Freedom of Information Request by the National Security
Archive at George Washington University in 2006...From the
'Information Operation Roadmap': "When implemented the recommendations
of this report will effectively jumpstart a rapid improvement of CNA
[Computer Network Attack] capability.",,,"Enhanced IO [information
operations] capabilities for the warfighter, including: ... A robust
offensive suite of capabilities to include full-range electronic and
computer network attack"...Would the Pentagon use its computer network
attack capabilities on the Internet? "We Must Fight the Net. DoD
[Department of Defense] is building an information-centric force.
Networks are increasingly the operational center of gravity, and the
Department must be prepared to "fight the net." ..."DoD's 'Defense in
Depth' strategy should operate on the premise that the Department will
"fight the net" as it would a weapons system."...It should come as no
surprise that the Pentagon would aggressively attack the "information
highway" in their attempt to achieve dominance in information warfare.
Donald Rumsfeld's involvement in the Project for a New American
Century sheds more light on the need and desire to control
information...The Project for a New American Century (PNAC) was
founded in 1997 with many members that later became the nucleus of the
George W. Bush administration. The list includes: Jeb Bush, Dick
Cheney, I. Lewis Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz among many
other powerful but less well know names. Their stated purpose was to
use a hugely expanded U.S. military to project "American global
leadership." In September of 2000, PNAC published a now infamous
document entitled 'Rebuilding America's Defences'. This document has a
very similar theme as the Pentagon's Information Operations Roadmap
which was signed by then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. From
Rebuilding America's Defenses: "It is now commonly understood that
information and other new technologies ...are creating a dynamic that
may threaten America's ability to exercise its dominant military
power."..."Control of space and cyberspace. Much as control of the
high seas - and the protection of international commerce - defined
global powers in the past, so will control of the new "international
commons" be a key to world power in the future. An America incapable
of protecting its interests or that of its allies in space or the
"infosphere" will find it difficult to exert global political
leadership."..."Although it may take several decades for the process
of transformation to unfold, in time, the art of warfare on air, land,
and sea will be vastly different than it is today, and "combat" likely
will take place in new dimensions: in space, "cyber-space," and
perhaps the world of microbes."...Internet 2: Part of the Information
Operation Roadmap's plans for the internet are to "ensure the graceful
degradation of the network rather than its collapse."...This is
presented in "defensive" terms, but presumably, it is as exclusively
defensive as the Department of Defense...As far as the Pentagon is
concerned the internet is not all bad, after all, it was the
Department of Defense through DARPA that gave us the internet in the
first place. The internet is useful not only as a business tool but
also is excellent for monitoring and tracking users, acclimatizing
people to a virtual world, and developing detailed psychological
profiles of every user, among many other Pentagon positives. But, one
problem with the current internet is the potential for the
dissemination of ideas and information not consistent with US
government themes and messages, commonly known as free speech.
Naturally, since the plan was to completely dominate the "infosphere,"
the internet would have to be adjusted or replaced with an upgraded
and even more Pentagon friendly successor...In an article by Paul
Joseph Watson of Prison Planet.com, he describes the emergence of
Internet 2. "The development of "Internet 2" is also designed to
create an online caste system whereby the old Internet hubs would be
allowed to break down and die, forcing people to use the new taxable,
censored and regulated world wide web. If you're struggling to
comprehend exactly what the
Internet will look like in five years unless we resist this, just look
at China and their latest efforts to
completely eliminate dissent and anonymity on the web."...'
SOURCE: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=JES20080202&articleId=7980
'Cutting Cables, Lighting Fuses')
'A third undersea cable has been cut, effectively eliminating the
Internet in the Middle East. But according to CNN that cable outage
does not extend to Israel, Lebanon and Iraq. Is it a coincidence that
these three countries, who represent the next phase of the war on
terrorism, were spared in the communications blackout that is
affecting the rest of the Middle East?...The news of the multiple acts
of cable sabotage are clear proof that a hostile force is doing its
best to isolate the greater Middle East region (all the way to India)
from the rest of the world. With the
Internet down, it will be impossible for anyone to transmit video
evidence out of the visually-embargoed zone, except for those who have
satellite uplinks, like the major news networks...The depth of these
cables means that they can only be reached by submarine or deep
submersibles, means that it could not have been done by al Qaida the
"toilet," which doesn't have a navy, or a submarine. The cable cutting
had to have been the work of state terrorists. This sabotage Friday
followed on the heels of another attack on two other submarine cables,
which took place Wednesday, 5 miles off the Mediterranean coast of
Alexandria, Egypt. The cable cut at 05:59 GMT Friday, 34.8 miles off
the coast of Dubai, belonged to the same British FLAG network
(FALCON), whose main line connecting Europe to Asia was severed
Wednesday along with SEA-ME-WE 4, a competitor's cable which served as
systems back-up. Both went through the Suez Canal on their way to
India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, as well as across Egypt (land segment),
where it cut across North Africa to Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. The
FALCON circuit that was taken down Friday, circled around the Persian
Gulf, picking-up the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and the other
Gulf States...In addition to the escalating psyops operation that is
being directed at Lebanon and Syria, Israeli leaders have stepped-up
their unending war of words being directed at Iran. PM Olmert used the
celebration of "Holocaust Day" to announce to the world (in an off-
hand manner) that Israel was ready to act against Iran on its own
(forcing the
US to honor Bush's commitments to defend Israel, no matter
what)...According to a Washington Post interview with Defense Minister
Barak, Iran has already "gone beyond the Manhattan Project"...As if
Barak's charges (if they were true) of Iran attempting to fit existing
nuclear warheads to its long-range missiles wasn't sufficient grounds
for a pre-emptive strike, Israel has recently opened another line of
attempted justification for its coming aggression, by announcing that
they have evidence that Iranian rockets have been launched from Gaza
into Israel...'
SOURCE: http://www.dailyscare.com/2955/cutting-cables-lighting-fuses
'Finger-Thin Cables Tie Internet Together'
'..."Most telecom companies have capacity at multiple systems, so if
one goes out, they simply reroute to a different system," said Stephan
Beckert, analyst at research firm TeleGeography in Washington. "It's
just that in this case, both the main route and the backup route got
cut for a lot of companies." The two cables - FLAG Europe Asia and SEA-
ME-WE 4 - were cut on the ocean floor just north of Alexandria, Egypt.
By an accident of geography and global politics, Egypt is a choke
point in the global communications network, just as it is with global
shipping. The reasons are the same: The country touches both the
Mediterranean and the Red Sea, which flows into the India Ocean. The
slim fiber-optic cables that carry the world's communications are much
like ships, in that they're the cheapest way for carrying things over
long distances. Pulling cable overland is much more expensive and
requires negotiation with landowners and governments. So fiber-optic
cables that go from Europe to India take the sea route via Egypt's
Suez Canal, just as ships do. Another Mediterranean cable makes land
not far away, in Israel. But there's no cable overland from Israel
into Jordan and to the Persian Gulf, which could have provided a
redundant connection for the Gulf States and India...'
SOURCE: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iRQi2agl1ORyqre-b3ZTP83Zt_EwD8UH80D80
And A Reminder Of Prior U.S. Navy Preparations In The Gulf For
February....
'U.S. Navy Steps Up Fuel Deliveries To Gulf Forces'
'The US military has stepped up chartering of tankers and requests for
extra fuel in the US Central Command area, which includes the Gulf,
shipping and oil industry sources say. A Gulf oil industry source said
the charters suggested there would be high naval activity, possibly
including a demonstration to Iran that the US Navy will protect the
Strait of Hormuz oil shipping route during tensions over Teheran's
nuclear programme. The US Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) has
tendered for four tankers in November to move at least one million
barrels of jet and ship fuel between Gulf ports, from Asia to the Gulf
and to the Diego Garcia base, tenders seen by Reuters show. It usually
tenders for one or two tankers a month to supply Gulf operations,
which include missions in Iraq...Fuels specified to be moved between
Gulf ports include JP5, high flashpoint jet fuel, used to power F18
fighters aboard aircraft carriers. "They have been very active," said
a ship industry source, familiar with the MSC tender process, who
asked not to be named. "Out of the multiple charter requirements they
issue, they usually do maybe one or two (tankers) a month in the
Gulf...The source in the Gulf, with 50 years of experience in the oil
industry, said the charters were indicative of extra US military
requirements for fuels. "Bahrain, for example, has confirmed that
there are additional volumes being requested by the US Defense Energy
Support Center, including JP5," the Gulf source said, speaking on
condition of anonymity.One of the largest commercial tanker hires is
on a time-charter basis, the length of time a ship is sought,
stipulating a period of 90 days to carry a range of fuels between
locations in the Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. The time charter, which
begins in early December and allows for multiple journeys in Gulf
waters, is to carry a minimum of 310,000 barrels of jet and marine
fuel, some of it JP5. "What's most interesting is the time-charter in
the Gulf. It's a big ship and here we have a commitment for a lot of
movement of fuels, backwards and forwards down to the Strait of Hormuz
and the Gulf of Oman," the Gulf source said. "This confirms there is
going to be a lot of activity, possibly a serious demonstration to
Iran that the military means to protect the Hormuz Strait," he
said...In February, 2007, oil industry sources told Reuters Riyadh
had raised the amount of jet fuel earmarked for the military from 1.5
million barrels last year to close to eight million in 2007. Apart
from the time charter, MSC has also tendered for commercial tankers to
move 235,000 barrels of marine diesel from South Korea to Jebel Ali
and Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates and 310,000 barrels of JA1
jet fuel from Bahrain to Mesaieed in Qatar. Both tankers are required
in November. A separate requirement is for a tanker to move 147,000
barrels of ship fuel from Singapore to Diego Garcia in the Indian
Ocean, close to the Gulf and Arabian Sea. MSC has ships stationed
there, known as Maritime Prepositioning Squadron Two, used to support
combat operations. In the past the United States has used the British
Indian Ocean territory for long-range bombing raids on Iraq and
Afghanistan. Fuel movements have provided advance clues of US
intentions...'
'Iran And Bush's Crisis of Truth'
'...By now most of us are familiar with the President's feelings and
rhetoric concerning Iran. They have a familiar ring. They sound a lot
like the buildup to the invasion and occupation of Iraq.Recently the
Center for Public Integrity, a non-profit investigative reporting
institution, published a report: "Iraq: the War Card." The report
documented 935 false statements made by President Bush and seven top
administration officials in the two years following September 11, 2001
concerning the national security threat posed by Iraq to the US The
top liar was the President. He made, according to the report, 232
false statements about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and 28 false
statements about Iraq's links with al-Qaeda. In this light we should
examine carefully any statement the President makes concerning Iranian
threats to world peace. A look at a map of the region helps put things
in perspective. We see that Iran has 13 "next-door neighbors." Seven
share land borders with Iran while six countries lie directly across
the Persian Gulf. Of these 13 all but five (Oman, Saudi Arabia,
Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan) contain US military bases. Of
these five, Oman and the US negotiated a 10-year agreement in 2000
which gives the US access to three Omani air fields.The other four
neighbors are all recipients of US aid. Pending congressional
approval, this will include President Bush's recent offer to Saudi
Arabia of a $20 billion arms package. Two of Iran's neighbors,
Afghanistan and Iraq, have recently been invaded and occupied by the
US. Another neighbor, Pakistan, is a nuclear power and a US ally in
the "Global War on Terror." Another nuclear power and US ally, Israel,
lies within striking distance of Iran. In the Persian Gulf, according
to the US Navy Times, the US is currently deploying an aircraft
carrier strike group and two expeditionary strike groups. A partial
list of this force includes an aircraft carrier; two amphibious
assault ships; three guided-missile frigates; four guided-missile
cruisers; six-guided missile destroyers; two dock landing ships; two
amphibious transport dock ships; and two fast-attack submarines (one
deployed independently of any strike group). In sum, Iran is nearly
encircled by the air, land and naval forces of the world's most
powerful military. Iran may not be run by saints. No country is. But
Iran has never threatened the US. Nor has Iran ever invaded another
country. The Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has
pledged there will be no Iranian nuclear weapons, nor will Iran start
a war. On the other hand, preemptive war is now openly acknowledged to
be an "option" in US political/military strategy. We demonstrated this
convincingly when we invaded Iraq -- a country which had never harmed
us, was not preparing to harm us and had never even threatened to harm
us. Nevertheless we initiated a conflict which has, to date, killed at
least 150,000 and created 4,000,000 refugees. Invading a country which
has not threatened the invader is aggression: the "supreme
international crime," according to the Nuremberg Tribunal. Whether
Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who is not the ultimate decision maker
in Iran, has threatened to "wipe Israel off the map" is open to debate
(http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/GEO237.HTM ). It is not open to
debate, however, that both Israel and the US have repeatedly
threatened to attack Iran. Despite all this President Bush
continues to assert that Iran is a threat to world peace and the
world's leading sponsor of terror...'
SOURCE: http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/75218
'Iran Warns U.S. Against Irrational Decisions'
'Iran's top military commander said his forces will retaliate against
American military bases in the Persian Gulf if they are involved in
any possible future attack on Iran. Commander of the Iran's Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari
told Al-Jazeera television on Saturday that it was Iran's "natural
right to respond" if attacked by land or air, AP reported...On a
recent visit to the Persian Gulf countries, US President George W
Bush
branded Iran the leading state sponsor of terror, and said "all
options" against Tehran remain on the table. Bush, who finished a tour
of the Middle East earlier this month called on his Arab allies to
unite against Iran. But hosting officials of the regional nations
dismissed Bush's allegations, describing Tehran as a good friend of
their countries. '
SOURCE: http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8611130592
'Israel: Washington Backs Middle East's Nuclear Outlaw'
'..."Every civilised nation has a stake in preventing the spread of
weapons of mass destruction... We're determined to confront those
threats at the source", US President George Bush declared in a
February 11, 1993, speech. "We will stop these weapons from being
acquired or built. We'll block them from being transferred. We'll
prevent them from ever being used. One source of these weapons is
dangerous and secretive regimes that build weaponsof mass destruction
to intimidate their neighbours and force their influence upon the
world."...The February 11, 1993, speech marked a new high for
hypocrisy and cynicism...the most spectacular - and under-reported -
example of Washington's support for nuclear proliferation is its
dealings with Israel...While Washington was not Israel's main
collaborator in its first acquisition of nuclear weapons, it made a
significant contribution, which has expanded over the years. Israel's
original nuclear scientists and technicians were trained in US
universities and government weapons labs. This cooperation continues
to this day. In 1955, the US supplied Israel's Nahal Sorek research
reactor, which
began operation in 1960 under the Atoms for Peace program. Farr notes
that there is evidence that Israel had access to data from US nuclear
tests in the 1950s and '60s. On March 7, 1993, Israel's Haaretz
newspaper reported that the US provided at least six tonnes of weapons-
grade uranium under Atoms for Peace. Considering Israel's chronic
shortage of uranium in the early years of its weapons program, some of
this prized material almost certainly was diverted to
Dimona. The US also supplied Israel with heavy water. According to
British Sunday Times reporter Peter Hounam's 1999 book, 'Woman From
Mossad: The Torment of Mordechai Vanunu', Dimona's control panels were
supplied by Tracer Lab, the company that outfits US military reactors,
with the knowledge of US intelligence agencies...'
SOURCE: http://www.greenleft.org.au/2004/576/32775
'Brzezinski's War'
'...We see a nation where people inside and outside government
participate in the nuclear black market of the Middle East and Central
Asia, international terrorism, money laundering, and the global heroin
trade as revealed in the case of F.B.I. whistleblower Sibel
Edmonds...'
SOURCE: http://mmonk-ponderings.blogspot.com/2008/02/brzezinskis-war.html
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And, in case you missed them....
The London 'Sunday Times': 'For Sale: West's Deadly Nuclear Secrets'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3137695.ece
The London 'Sunday Times': 'FBI Denies File Exposing Nuclear Secrets
Theft'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3216737.ece
The London 'Sunday Times': 'Mole's Tip-Off Thwarted Nuclear Spy Ring
Probe'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3257725.ece
'Treason at the State Department: A Whistleblower's Story'
http://pajamasmedia.com/2008/01/fbi_whistleblower_bombshell_tr.php
'Congress Seeks to Limit 'State Secrets' Privilege'
http://www.antiwar.com/ips/fisher.php?articleid=12299
Watch this superb 50 minute streaming video on Sibel Edmonds:
'Kill The Messenger' http://tinyurl.com/2ukg78
'Update On The Social Network Map For The Sibel Edmonds Story''
(A very useful work-in-progress, linking individuals and
organizations)
http://wecanchangetheworld.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/164/
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For constantly-updated news headline and blogger article links on the
recent sensational 'U.S. Nuclear Treason And Betrayal' revelations of
Sibel Edmonds, the ex-FBI whistleblower who has been called 'The most-
gagged woman in America', go to http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/EDMONDS.HTM
These serious allegations, involving the alleged 'sale' of nuclear
secrets, reach right to the top of the U.S. government. The
prestigious London 'Sunday Times' first broke this blockbuster story
on 6th January, 2008 - it has been completely 'blacked out' by the
U.S. media and wire services!
"If you made public all the information that the FBI have on this
case, you will see very high-level people going through criminal
trials" - Sibel Edmonds
These news items are posted here under 'Fair Use' provisions.
(This posting may be freely reproduced and re-posted)
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