America's Planned Nuclear Attack on Libya
by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research,
March 30, 2011
一場對利比亞的戰爭已在五角大樓的畫板上超過 20年，使用核武器對付利比亞是首先在1997年設想的。
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On April 14th 1986, Ronald Reagan ordered a series of bombings directed against Libya under "Operation El Dorado Canyon", in reprisal for an alleged Libya sponsored terrorist bombing of a Berlin discotheque. The pretext was fabricated. During these air raids, which were condemned by both France and Italy, Qadhafi's residence was bombed killing his younger daughter.
Barely acknowledged by the Western media, a planned attack on Libya using nuclear weapons, had been contemplated by the Clinton Administration in 1997, at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
The Department of Defense had developed a new generation of bunker buster tactical nuclear weapons for use in the Middle East and Central Asia:
"Military officials and leaders of America's nuclear weapon laboratories [had] urged the US to develop a new generation of precision low-yield nuclear weapons... which could be used in conventional conflicts with third-world nations." (Federation of American Scientists, 2001, emphasis added)
五角大樓的計劃要核炸利比亞
The Pentagon's Plan to Nuke Libya
The B61-11 tactical nuclear weapon was slated by the Pentagon to be used in 1997 against the "Qadhafi regime":
"Senior Pentagon officials ignited controversy last April [1997] by suggesting that the earth-penetrating [nuclear] weapon would soon be available for possible use against a suspected underground chemical factory being built by Libya at Tarhunah. This thinly-veiled threat came just eleven days after the United States signed the African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty, designed to prohibit signatories from using or threatening to use nuclear weapons against any other signatory, including Libya." (David Muller, Penetrator N-Bombs, International Action Center, 1997)Tarbunah has a population of more than 200,000 people, men, women and children. It is about 60 km East of Tripoli. Had this "humanitarian bomb" (with a "yield" or explosive capacity of two-thirds of a Hiroshima bomb) been launched on this "suspected" WMD facility, it would have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths, not to mention the nuclear fallout...
The man behind this diabolical project to nuke Libya was Assistant Secretary of Defense Harold Palmer Smith Junior. "Even before the B61 came on line, Libya was identified as a potential target". (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - September/ October 1997, p. 27, emphasis added)
Harold Palmer Smith had been appointed by President Bill Clinton to oversee nuclear, chemical, and biological defense programs with a focus on "the reduction and maintenance of the US arsenal of nuclear weapons". From the outset, his actual mandate, was not "reduce" but to "increase" the nuclear arsenal by promoting the development of a new generation of "harmless" mini-nukes for use in the Middle East war theater.
“測試“B611- 11核彈在一實際的國家
"Testing" the B611-11 Nuclear Bomb on an Actual Country
The Department of Defense's objective under Harold Smith's advice was to fasttrack the "testing" of the B61-11 nuclear bomb on an actual country:
Five months after [Assistant Defense Secretary] Harold Smith called for an acceleration of the B61-11 production schedule, he went public with an assertion that the Air Force would use the B61-11 [nuclear weapon] against Libya's alleged underground chemical weapons plant at Tarhunah if the President decided that the plant had to be destroyed. "We could not take [Tarhunah] out of commission using strictly conventional weapons," Smith told the Associated Press. The B61-11 "would be the nuclear weapon of choice," he told Jane's Defence Weekly.While the Pentagon later denied its intention to bomb Libya's Tarhunah plant, it nonetheless confirmed that "Washington would not rule out using nuclear weapons [against Libya]". (Ibid., emphasis added.)
Smith gave the statement during a breakfast interview with reporters after Defense Secretary William Perry had earlier told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on chemical or biological weapons that the U.S. retained the option of using nuclear weapons against countries armed with chemical and biological weapons. (http://www.nukestrat.com/us/afn/B61-11.htm, emphasis added)
核武器和微型核武器：伊拉克和阿富汗
Nukes and Mini-Nukes: Iraq and Afghanistan
The US military contends that "mini-nukes" are "humanitarian bombs" which minimize "collateral damage". According to scientific opinion on contract to the Pentagon, they are "harmless to the surrounding civilian population because the explosion is underground",
The B61-11 is a bon fide thermonuclear bomb, a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) in the real sense of the word.
Military documents distinguish between the Nuclear Earth Penetrator (NEP) and the "mini-nuke", which are nuclear weapons with a yield of less than 10 kilotons (two-thirds of a Hiroshima bomb). The NEP can have a yield of up to a 1000 kilotons, or seventy times a Hiroshima bomb.
This distinction between mini-nukes and the NEP is in many regards misleading. In practice there is no dividing line. We are broadly dealing with the same type of weaponry: the B61-11 has several "available yields", ranging from "low yields" of less than one kiloton, to mid-range, and up to the 1000 kiloton bomb.
In all cases, the radioactive fallout is devastating. Moreover, the B61 series of thermonuclear weapons includes several models with distinct specifications: the B61-11, the B61-3, B61- 4, B61-7 and B61-10. Each of these bombs has several "available yields".
What is contemplated for theater use is the "low yield" 10 kt bomb, two-thirds of a Hiroshima bomb.
利比亞1997“核選項“已設置舞台...
The Libya 1997 "Nuclear Option" had set the Stage...
Neither the Bush nor the Obama administrations have excluded using thermonuclear bunker buster bombs in the Middle East war theater. These weapons were specifically developed for use in post Cold War "conventional conflicts with third world nations". They were approved for use in the conventional war theater by the US Senate in 2002, following the adoption of the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review.
In October 2001, in the immediate wake of 9/11, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld envisaged the use of the B61-11 in Afghanistan. The stated targets were Al Qaeda cave bunkers in the Tora Bora mountains.
Rumsfeld stated at the time that while the "conventional" bunker buster bombs "'are going to be able to do the job'... he did not rule out the eventual use of nuclear weapons." (Quoted in the Houston Chronicle, 20 October 2001, emphasis added.)
The use of the B61-11 was also contemplated during the 2003 bombing and invasion of Iraq. In this regard, the B61-11 was described as "a precise, earth-penetrating low-yield nuclear weapon against high-value underground targets", which included Saddam Hussein's underground bunkers:
"If Saddam was arguably the highest value target in Iraq, then a good case could be made for using a nuclear weapon like the B61-11 to assure killing him and decapitating the regime." (Defense News, December 8, 2003, emphasis added)"All options are on the table"... Sheer madness. Nukes to implement "regime change"... What Rumsfeld had proposed, as part of a "humanitarian mandate", was the use of a nuclear bomb to "take out" the president of a foreign country.
(author's note: There is no documentary evidence that the B61-11 was used against Iraq).
Is a Nuclear Attack on Libya Still on the Pentagon's Drawing Board?
"The Coalition of the Willing" under US-NATO mandate is currently involved in "a humanitarian war" on Libya to "protect the lives of innocent civilians".
Is the use of a nuclear bomb excluded under the Alliance's R2P Responsibility to Protect Doctrine?
The Bush administration's 2001 nuclear doctrine contained specific "guidelines" regarding "preemptive" nuclear strikes against several countries in the broader Middle East Central Asian region, which explictly included Libya.
As revealed by William Arkin in early 2002, "The Bush administration, in a secret policy review... [had] ordered the Pentagon to draft contingency plans for the use of nuclear weapons [The 2001 Nuclear Posture Review approved by the Senate in late 2002] against at least seven countries, naming not only Russia and the "axis of evil"--Iraq, Iran, and North Korea--but also China, Libya and Syria. (See William Arkin, "Thinking the Unthinkable", Los Angeles Times, 9 March 2002)
In addition, the U.S. Defense Department has been told to prepare for the possibility that nuclear weapons may be required in some future Arab-Israeli crisis. And, it is to develop plans for using nuclear weapons to retaliate against chemical or biological attacks, as well as "surprising military developments" of an unspecified nature. These and a host of other directives, including calls for developing bunker-busting mini-nukes and nuclear weapons that reduce collateral damage, are contained in a still-classified document called the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), which was delivered to Congress on Jan. 8. (ibid)The preemptive nuclear doctrine (DJNO) --endorsed by the Obama Administration-- allows for the preemptive use of "mini nukes" in conventional war theaters directed against "rogue states". While the "guidelines" do not exclude other (more deadly) categories of nukes in the US /NATO nuclear arsenal, Pentagon "scenarios" in the Middle East and North Africa are currently limited to the use of tactical nuclear weapons including the B61-11 bunker buster bomb.
The fact that Libya had been singled out by the Pentagon for a possible 1997 mini-nuke "trial run" was a significant element in the formulation of the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR).
It is worth noting that tactical B61 nuclear weapons have also been deployed by America's NATO partners: five European "non-nuclear states", including Belgium, The Netherlands and Italy, which are directly participating in the Libya bombing campaign, have B61 mini-nukes stockpiled and deployed under national command in their respective military bases. (Michel Chossudovsky, Europe's Five "Undeclared Nuclear Weapons States", February 10, 2010)
These European-based mini-nukes are earmarked for targets in the Middle East. While Libya is not mentioned, according to "NATO strike plans", the European-based thermonuclear B61 bunker buster bombs could be launched "against targets in Russia or countries in the Middle East such as Syria and Iran" (quoted in National Resources Defense Council, Nuclear Weapons in Europe, February 2005).
In the context of the ongoing war against Libya, "all options are on the table", including the preemptive nuclear option, as part of a "humanitarian mandate" to protect the lives of innocent civilians.
In 2007, a Secret 2003 STRATCOM Plan was revealed, which confirmed Washington's resolve to wage preemptive nuclear attacks against Iran, Syria and Libya. While the concepts and assumptions of this document were derived from the 2001 NPR, the Plan formulated by Strategic Command headquarters (USSTRATCOM) focused concretely on issues of implementation.
The use of nuclear weapons including the B61-11 against Libya in the course of the current military campaign, as initially envisaged by the Department of Defense in 1997 and subsequently embodied as the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) cannot, therefore, be ruled out.
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24049
醒來！奧巴馬的利比亞叛軍正在實行非洲黑人的種族屠殺
Wake up! Obama's Libyan Rebels are Carrying Out Genocide of Black Africans
By Andrew Steele
March 31, 2011
Like every war the United States has been in since World War 2, the current war in Libya needs a drummed up motive in which all ambitions for empire are forgotten, coaxing the public to unite against a grave threat and/or a just cause, giving the collective OK for the government to kill people while the taxpayers watch it on TV. Vietnam had the staged Gulf of Tonkin incident. The first Gulf War had the liberation of Kuwait and the fabricated incubator baby incident. Afghanistan had the 9/11 false flag event. Iraq had WMD's. (Wait...no it didn't) . The media plays out the war story like an action movie, beginning with a staged provocation from an evil adversary so that the audience doesn't think the handsome leading man is just blowing away hundreds of extras for no reason. It's like lighting a dark room with a dim flashlight-- feeding the nation's thirst for war while at the same time writing a fiction of noble sacrifice for justice and a greater good.
Make no mistake-- President Obama has committed the United States to another war, though he refuses to use that word. Not only that, he has done it without a declaration from Congress, forcing the United States to collectively jump to its feet at the command of the United Nations. Bringing his promised "change" (for the worse), Obama and his puppeteers are steering the dying horse of our nation towards the next phase of world empire for the globalists, draining the public treasury to do it and blatantly ignoring the already weak facade of checks and balances in U.S. government, especially when it comes to the use of military force.
Not only that, but his "humanitarian" mission is doing the opposite of its stated intention-- it's backiing genocide.
The Somalialand Press reports that black Africans in Libya are being kidnapped, raped, and murdered by U.S. backed rebels, who are pointing to Gaddafi's use of African mercenaries as an excuse to carry out a campaign of terror against refugees, students, and workers who come from countries like Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ghana, Nigeria, Chad, Mali and Niger.
No concrete number of total victims has been reported in the news, though Onwuchekwa Jemie-- a Nigerian journalist-- claims the number of black Africans slaughtered to be in the thousands. The Financial Times mentioned one black African who was threatened by rebel sympathizers who told him he would be murdered once Gaddafi is overthrown and the rebels take complete control over the country.
One could make the excuse that this is simply blowback resulting from the bumbling foreign policy of a president who doesn't know what he's doing...if not for the fact that this witch-hunt was taking place even before the United States and its allies officially announced their support for the Libyan rebels and started bombing the country.
This report from Al Jazeera was posted to Youtube on March 1st, 2011. While still subtly perpetuating the myth that the uprising in Libya is anything other than a staged globalist attack on Gaddafi's regime to seize Libyan oil and plunge the nation into debt slavery, it covers the attacks on black Africans in Libya before their civil war officially became America's new foreign entanglement.
Black Africans in Libya live in fear
利比亞的非洲黑人活在恐懼之中
2011-03- 1
The reality that the United States' first black president-- whose father was from Africa-- is backing thugs who are carrying out a racist, murderous purge of black Africans is, on an intellectual level, ironic, and on a human level horrifically tragic. Like the protagonist of a Shakespeare play set in modern day, Obama is a character who illustrates the cannibalistic nature of those seek not even power, but the illusion of power, as he's led by the money forces that control United States policy and obediently continues an agenda that was set in motion long before he even came into office.
http://uruknet.info/?p=m76410&hd=&size=1&l=e
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