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[ photo ( 1980 ) Project Black Horse - Manta - McDonnell Douglas ( click to enlarge ) ]
Pegasus Program
USA, California, Edwards AFB – July 30, 2001 - U.S. Department of Defense ( DOD ) saw several versions of “air vehicles” ( aerial vehicles ) within both its Pegasus Program and Project Black Horse, wherein and amongst many defense contractors over a period of decades, NORTHRUP-GRUMMAN later announced its X-47 ( early version – see below ) and X-47A ( later version – see below ) that were claimed as being “company funded” ‘demonstrators’, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ( UAV ) of which many more were ‘not publicly announced’, ‘not publicly demonstrated’, and ‘not unmanned’ either.
‘Demonstrators’ are relatively low-cost ‘remote-piloted aerial vehicles’ built for ‘later development’ highly classified ‘low-profile’ surveillance missions employing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ( UAV ), on combat missions employing Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles ( UCAV ), on ‘extremely low-profile’ employment of Micro Aerial Vehicles ( MAV ), and on extreme highly classified surveillance and /or combat missions requiring all-weather capabilities Manned Combat Aerial Vehicles ( MCAV ).
[ photo ( above ) X-47A Prototype ( UAV ) ]
[ photo ( above ) X-47A ( Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ) UAV ]
[ photo ( above ) X-47A ( unmanned ) CAV over test range ]
June 19, 2001
Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems Sector ( ISS ) has received an ‘ X ‘ designation for the company’s Pegasus demonstration aircraft.
Pegasus will carry the designation X-47A, and a refined Navy Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle ( UCAV-N ) expected to be designated the X-47B is planned to be built under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) U.S. Navy UCAV-N program.
[ rare photo ( above ) NORTHROP-GRUMANN "Kite" X-47 Unmanned Combat Aerial Surveillance Drone ( UCAS-D ) - ( click to enlarge ) ]
The U.S. Air Force establishes ‘X’ designations given to ‘experimental aviation programs’. “Reserved for programs that ‘advance’ new and challenging aviation ‘concepts’, the ‘X’ designation for Pegasus acknowledges its significance and secures its position in aviation history,” said David Mazur, program manager for Pegasus. Designed with stealth features and ‘shaped like a kite’, Pegasus is constructed largely with composite materials. The aircraft measures, 27.9 feet long and has a nearly equal wingspan of 27.8 feet.
One of the first ( 1st ) tasks of the Pegasus flight program will be to demonstrate acceptable aerodynamic flying qualities suitable for ‘operations from an aircraft carrier’.
First ( 1st ) flight is planned for the fourth quarter ( Q-4 ) of this year ( 2001 ) at the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California.
Northrop Grumman is performing ‘trade studies’, ‘analysis’ and ‘preliminary design’ for a UCAV-N under a $12,000,000 million contract with DARPA and the U.S. Navy. The goal of the joint DARPA / U.S. Navy project is to demonstrate the technical feasibility for a UCAV system to effectively and affordably conduct sea-based 21st century surveillance, suppression of enemy air defenses, and strike missions within the emerging global command and control architecture. The UCAV-N is envisioned as a ship-based, “1st day of war” force multiplier that will complement manned systems by building and maintaining a common operational picture; providing targeting for other weapons and weapon systems; taking lethal action against designated fixed or moving targets; and collecting and disseminating post-strike information.
NORTHROP-GRUMMAN ISS unveiled its design for a ‘company funded’ Unmanned Air Vehicle ( UAV ) in February ( 2001 ) called “Pegasus” that will fly later this year ( 2001 ) to demonstrate ‘emerging technologies’ emanating from its new Advanced Systems Development Center ( ASDC ) in El Segundo, California. The Pegasus UAV is scheduled for completion this summer. Northrop Grumman efforts on Pegasus and UCAV-N are led by ISS Air Combat Systems ( ACS ) business area in El Segundo, California.
NORTHROP-GRUMMAN work, ‘leverages’ its ‘systems integration’ capability as well as ‘advanced technologies’ derived from years of experience in the design and development of ‘advanced weapons systems’ such as, the:
B-2 Stealth Bomber ( aircraft );
Global Hawk ( unmanned reconnaissance system );
E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System;
E-2C airborne early warning command and control ( EWAC2C ) aircraft; and,
F/A-18 Super Hornet.
Rare photos ( three – 3 – immediately below ) of the NORTHROP-GRUMMAN X-47B secret Manned Combat Aerial Vehicle ( MCAV ) suitable for autonomous operation from an ‘aircraft carrier’ as part of the U.S. Navy ‘Risk Reduction Workforce’ for what the U.S. Navy calls its Naval Combat Air Vehicle ( N-CAV ) [ NOTE: U.S. Navy does 'not' call this an Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle ( UCAV ) as it becomes secretly 'manned'. The X-47B is by NORTHROP-GRUMMAN Integrated Systems Sector ( ISS ) in El Segundo, California ( USA ).
[ photo ( above ) X-47B USAF ( MCAV ) launch from aircraft carrier ]
[ two ( 2 ) photos ( above ) NORTHROP-GRUMMAN X-47B MCAV ( click to enlarge ) ]
Besides ‘offshore test range sites’ for these and other similar looking aerial vehicles facilities for these are also conducted in the desert and dry lake test range regions of Edwards AFB ( California ), Nellis AFB S-4 ( Nevada ), Muroc Field ( Area 51 ), the 1969 built super secret China Lake Naval Weapons Center ( Trona, California ), and Dugway ( Utah ).
The X-47B is powered by a turbofan engine, which will enable it to carry a 4,000-pound payload. The aircraft’s endurance will be an estimated 12-hours. The X-47B is equipped with an open-architecture avionics system – designed by BAE Systems – and will use the JPALS ( Joint Precision Aircraft Landing System ) with its shipboard relative global positioning system ( SRGPS ) to land within 20 centimeters of a desired touchdown point.
[ photo ( above ) LOCKHEED Global Hawk RQ-4 TIER II URV and control station 5 man ground crew ( click to enlarge ) ]
One control station ( see above – LOCKHEED Global Hawk 5 man station crew ) will be able to simultaneously handle four ( 4 ) Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles ( UCAV ), dependant on technical specification requirements. The X-47B is equipped with dual-wheel main-mount landing gear from a naval aircraft such as the A-6 Intruder ( no longer in service ) – the X-47A is too small to accommodate dual-wheel gear.
The X-47B incorporates technologies developed for several other programs, such as the:
[ photo ( above ) LOCKHEED Global Hawk RQ-4A TIER III Global Hawk URV ( click to enlarge ) ]
RQ-4A Global Hawk ( Unmanned Reconaissance Vehicle ), see above ( 2 – photos );
RQ-8A Fire Scout VTUAV ( vertical-takeoff UAV );
F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter;
E-8 Joint Surveillance and Targeting System Radar aircraft;
E-2C Hawkeye radar warning aircraft; and,
B-2 Spirit stealth bomber.
PRATT & WHITNEY officials have announced its company intention to compete for the contract to produce the turbofan for the UCAV. Non-classified announcement is for the first ( 1st ) flight of the X-47B to be envisioned for late 2003 or early 2004. During the Phase III EMD ( Engineering and Manufacturing Development ) phase of the program, which will begin by 2007, the aircraft will conduct arrested landings and catapult launches at a land facility and later will make actual carrier launches and landings. Carrier operations – including safe deck handling as well as launch and recovery – present the greatest challenges in the UCAV program. Northrop Grumman officials estimate that the manning level of an aircraft squadron could be cut in half through the use of UCAVs.
The X-47 is in competition with a Boeing Phantom Works-designed UCAV demonstrator. Both demonstrators will continue testing through Phase II of the UCAV program, which is scheduled to begin in January 2002.
JT15D-5C PRATT & WHITNEY ( Canada )
U.S. Department of Defense ( DOD ) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) U.S. Navy Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle ( UCAV-N ) program progressed to the next phase of ‘research and development’ ( R&D ) awarded multi-million contracts leading to a UCAV-N ‘flight demonstration’.
May 8, saw DARPA awarded $9,900,000 million to BOEING and $10,000,000 million to NORTHRUP-CRUMMAN for Phase II-A ‘advanced technology development’ and ‘risk reduction activities’ regarding their UCAV-N candidates. Phase II is divided into two ( 2 ) sub-phases extending to mid-2005, with Phase II-B ( to begin late 2001 ) involving actual flight demonstrations. DARPA may allow both competing UCAV-N projects to proceed into actual flight-testing.
The U.S. Navy UCAV-N program – like the DARPA U.S. Air Force ( UCAV-AF ) project – is geared towards developing ‘reusable fighter aircraft-class combat drones’.
[ photo ( above ) BOEING X-45A ( UCAV ) ]
The UCAV-N, however is one ( 1 ) step ‘behind’ the DARPA USAF BOEING X-45 UCAV ( above ), with the BOEING X-46 ( below ).
[ photo ( above ) BOEING X-46 ( UCAV ) ( click to enlarge ) ]
[ photo ( above ) NORTHROP-GRUMMAN X-45C USAF ( UCAV ) ( click to enlarge ) ]
BOEING X-46 resembles a miniature B-2 stealth bomber ( NORTHRUP-GRUMMAN ), competing against the NORTHRUP-GRUMMAN X-47, a scaled-up version of the Pegasus ‘diamond planform technology’ demonstrator. The U.S. Navy BOEING UCAV-N initial requirement, is a ‘platform for surveillance missions’ as well as ‘strike and defense suppression’, with ‘larger’ and ‘longer range’ than the DARPA USAF Boeing X-45 ( UCAV ). The U.S. Navy sees its BOEING UCAV-N ‘initially providing’ intelligence gathering and reconnaissance capabilities with ‘armed strike’ following ( around 2020 ).
Pegasus was built with NORTHROP-GRUMMAN company funds to demonstrate aerodynamic qualities suitable for autonomous operation from an aircraft carrier. First ( 1st ) flight of the X-47A is expected later this year ( May 2002 ). Designed with stealth features and shaped like a kite, the NORTHROP-GRUMMAN funded technology demonstrator known as Pegasus has received the official “X” designation, X-47A. Built largely with composite materials, one of the first ( 1st ) tasks of the Pegasus flight program will be to demonstrate the aerodynamic qualities of an autonomous unmanned air vehicle ( UAV ) that would allow it to operate from an aircraft carrier, thus reducing the risk for carrier operations. Northrop Grumman recently completed another milestone on the road to first flight of the X-47A Pegasus. The air vehicle operator executed a command from a ground control center that allowed the X-47A to autonomously sequence through the engine start series and come to idle. Test team engineers then confirmed subsystems and engine performance. Once satisfied that all systems were working as planned, the operator initiated an autonomous shutdown of the Pratt & Whitney JT15D engine.
INTELL SYSTEMS
NAIC 10-Year Foreign Aerospace Intelligence Study
USA, District of Columbia,Washington – October 23, 2001 - The U.S. Department Of Defense ( DOD ) has outlined a ten ( 10 ) year foreign aerospace intelligence plan with its National Aerospace Intelligence Center ( NAIC ).
NAIC is just one ( 1 ) of fifteen ( 15 ) intelligence production centers.
NAIC primary mission is to be the World leader in Fifth ( 5th ) Dimension Data Dominance.
NAIC also deals with Foreign Aerospace Intelligence.
NAIC diversity of control center percentages is divided up amongst the following four ( 4 ) facilities:
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio ( 76% ).;
Langley Air Force Base, Virginia ( 11% ).;
Washington, D. C. ( 8% ).; and,
Offutt Air Force Base ( 5% ).
NAIC plan begins in 2001 and planned to last through the end of the year 2010. See, e.g. “DIA Photos“, for more information on this website.
Aeronautical Systems Center ( ASC ) [ 2196 D Street, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA ] is where NAIC will be handling seventy-six percent ( 76% ) of mission operations for the United States.
The primary purpose of the NAIC far-reaching scope for what it calls 5th Dimension Data Dominance is to acquire, collect, analyze, produce and disseminate the following:
(1) Foreign Aerospace Intelligence using Scientific and Technical ( S&T ) intelligence information methods.;
(2) Conduct an integrated analysis program.;
(3) Operate a Science & Technology ( S&T ) intelligence data handling system.;
(4) Collaborate with other organizations, i.e. CIA ( Central Intelligence Agency ), NSA ( National Security Agency ), NRO ( National Reconaissance Office ), etc. to improve the collection, acquisition, and utilization of foreign technology and intelligence.; and,
(5) Develop and maintain the highest attainable level of knowledge concerning foreign aerospace technology, capabilities, and limitations.
Displayed below, is just one ( 1 ) of many outlines of NAIC studies:
V/L Task Force
Richard “Dick” Ledesma affiliated with the DDTSE&E / T&E, has chartered the Vulnerability / Lethality Task Force ( V/L Task Force ) to develop a roadmap to include, the following:
(1) Identification of resources, analytical tools and shortcomings of existing models.; and,
(2) Start the efforts on NRC recommendations.
Specifically, recommendations 4 g., 4 i., 10 a. and, 10 d. are being considered which, are:
Recommendation 4 g.: Fund the JTCG/AS and JLF to assure the completeness of data on the vulnerabilities of on-board ordnance.;
Recommendation 4 i.: Emphasize continuing efforts by the F-22 SPO and JTCTG/AS to develop improved methodologies for reducing flight crew vulnerability.;
Recommendation 10 a.: Validate and accredit formally, by the Joint Technical Coordinating Group on Aircraft Survivability and the Joint Technical Coordinating Group on Munitions Effectiveness, the vulnerability assessment models used by the Air Force and other services.”; and,
Recommendation 10 d.: Focus on ways to understand fully the response of F-22 composite materials to ballistic damage, and develop and exercise analysis tools that can handle large scale damage effects.
The “Vision Statement” (See Below) emphasizes a fresh look at all V/L analytical tools used by DoD/Industry to assess V/L of airborne platforms and to examine the generic applicability of the tools to other platforms.
Mr. Ledesma emphasized that the task force should look beyond F-22 and address issues with strategic implications that may affect future acquisitions, e.g. JAST, F-18, Comanche, etc.. Furthermore, Ledesma has encouraged all participants to work closely together to the common goal, beyond the existing organizational stovepipe interests.
The chartered members of the Task Force are: JTCG/AS, JTCG/ME, TILV, DTSE&E and DOT&E.
The proposed Vision Statement and the Mission statement for the Task Force are:
(1) Vision Statement: The vulnerability/lethality community is committed to use all available resources of the Department of Defense (DoD) to identify shortfalls with the present tools used to assess the vulnerability/lethality of weapon systems and platforms upon which the D.O.D.’s Warfighter depends.; and,
(2) Mission Statement: Another DOD Task Force will be formed to identify the resources (analytical tools, databases and facilities) and shortfalls of existing vulnerability/lethality hardware, models, and methodologies (i.e., on-board ordnance, flight crew vulnerability) as presented in the National Research Council (aka) N.R.C. report on “Live Fire Testing of F-22″, to update and improve these analytic tools for use by both government and industry in the acquisition decision-making process.
Product
The product of this effort will be a “Roadmap” to correct deficiencies identified in the National Research Center (aka) N.R.C. report.
Task Force Composition
One ( 1 ) government representative from each affected agency/activity to serve as POC: JTCG/AS, Joint Technical Coordinating Group for Munitions Effectiveness ( JTCG/ME ), the weapons Target Interaction Lethality/Vulnerability (TILV ) Service Laboratory Initiative, DTSE&E and DOT&E.
Members of the Task Force must be empowered to make recommendations relative to the “Roadmap” to correct the noted deficiencies.
The Task Force is empowered to select its own chairman. Any unresolved issues are to be brought to the attention of the Senior Steering Group ( SSG ) expeditiously.
SSG Composition
One ( 1 ) senior government representative from each of the organizations comprising the Task Force plus one senior government representatives from each of the following: USD ( A&T ) / T&E, TFR and S&TS; DOT&E.
DDTSE&E / T&E will chair the SSG.
Joint Modeling and Simulation System ( J-MASS )
J-MASS is a M&S system which provides a software architecture for the development, execution, and post-processing of simulations. Additionally, it implements a set of standards by providing tools that assist in the development and application of re-usable models and model components.
J-MASS was designed specifically to fulfill the simulation architecture role as defined in the emerging standard test processes from within the Air Force T&E and DOD organizations.
J-MASS assists and supports the development of Digital System Models ( DSM ), and the J-MASS Modeling Library is designed to provide all the functions of the Test Process Archive.
J-MASS provides tools that support the five ( 5 ) activities of M&S:
(1) Develop Components;
(2) Assemble Players;
(3) Configure Simulations;
(4) Execute Simulations; and,
(5) Postprocess Results.
Furthermore, J-MASS will provide an object-oriented Modeling Library for the foundation of these tools as well as capture the specifications, designs, plans, T&E data, and other information generated during the weapon system acquisition process. Finally, the Modeling and Simulation Reuse Library, the main repository for components and models, supports the J-MASS community by allowing users to download files into the site’s Modeling Library.
Component Development
This purpose of this mode provides the J-MASS model developer with the capability to develop and maintain model components. Model components which related directly to real-world objects or phenomena can be created by either modifying an existing model component or by developing an entirely new component. Components are developed through visual programming with an object-oriented design tool called the Model Component Development Tool ( MCDT ).
Player Assembly
The purpose of this mode is to permit model developer to fabricate unique simulation models for a given scenario analysis by reusing existing model components. By browsing through the set of previously defined and tested model components, the user can select and assemble them into more complex players which can then be positioned and configured to create a required scenario.
Data Definition & Data Configuration Simulations
The purpose of this mode is to provide the user with a set of visual programming tools to define and configure data for the simulation. This mode also provides the ability to configure scenario level data and define which components, players, weapon systems, and environment will be utilized. The user can also provide parametric data specific to a model component and review the coverage of player sensors. With the Experiment Manager facility, the user has the capability to set up experiments (series of simulation runs). The user will specify not only initial data with the Experiment Manager, but ranges of data that allow the user to study the model under various conditions.
Previous Sumulations Execution
The purpose of this mode allows the user to execute simulations created earlier.
J-MASS provides an event driven, time-synchronized simulation engine for model execution, which includes services for data management, spatial object management, event synchronization and a centralized, non-intrusive data journalization capability. Intermodel communications are handled by features of the simulation engine’s data management services and allow for the user specification of all model player interactions.
Analaysis Post-Process
The purpose of this mode provides the capability to analyze and view simulation results. Standard plotting utilities are provided to graphically represent user-selected simulation results data in two dimensional ( 2-D ) and three dimensional ( 3-D ) formats with multiple datasets.
A visual playback capability is also provided to allow the user to replay the simulation results in an animated visual, 3-D presentation.
Modeling Libraries
The purpose of this mode provides a repository for user-developed model components to be used in the performance of M&S under J-MASS.
The components may be made accessible site-wide as well as program-wide to allow other users and user communities to reuse the components. This process is enhanced through the use of user-friendly browsers to facilitate the location of appropriate components. The purpose of this library is to perform database functions such as concurrency control, transaction management, security access, and versioning.
J-MASS provides a tool set that implements a single threat of functionality through the five M&S activities and the Modeling Library. J-MASS users can customize their installations with commercial tools that conform to POSIX standards. The table below describes these tools and states in which mode they are used:
MCDT ( Develop Components ) – Object-oriented design tool used to graphically represent the system being modeled.;
Code Generator ( Develop Components ) – Application that converts the Object-Oriented Design Application ( OODA ) data into compilable source code.;
Team Builder ( Configure Simulation ) – Builds a runable simulation.;
Configure Player ( Configure Simulation ) – This X window application edits model attribute values without recompiling simulation.
Configure Experiment ( Configure Simulation ) – Allows user to specify a range of initial attribute values to be used over many simulations.
Simulation Run-Time ( Execute Simulation ) – Controls the execution of the user’s models, Agent providing event, data, and spatial services.;
Filter / Extract ( Post-Process Results ) – Selectively converts simulation journal data to form used by post-processing applications.;
GNU Plot & X-Prism (Post-Process ( Results ) – 2-D and 3-D graph presentation.;
SimView ( Post-Process Results ) – This X window application allows the user to create animations from simulation journals.;
Batch Import / Export ( Modeling Library ) – Provide means of importing and exporting data into the J-MASS Modeling Library.
In developing J-MASS, Wright Laboratory, Electronic Warfare Division (aka) WL/AAWA-1, along with other Air Force, Army and Navy organizations represented by their acquisition, military intelligence and test communities formed an Architecture Technical Working Group ( ATWG ) under the auspices of DDT&E.
Under the leadership of the Electronic Warfare Division, the ATWG developed a System / Segment Specification containing eight-hundred and fifty ( 850 ) requirements to support the participating organizations and their missions.
Following these requirements, J-MASS exploits the technologies of re-use, object-oriented software development, and visual programming to reduce the cost of M&S and, ultimately, weapons system development, as well as ensuring consistent and credible analysis results.
Currently, J-MASS is in the Engineering and Manufacturing Development ( EMD ) phase. ASC/XREM is the J-MASS Program Office and McDonnell Douglas Aerospace ( MDA ) is the EMD contractor.
EMD effortings are responsible for developing, packaging and distribution of J-MASS ‘commercial level product’.
Electronic Warfare Division ( EWD ) along with its on-site contractor SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION ( SAIC ) is investigating and developing ‘emerging technologies’ ( tools and models ) for inclusion and improvement of J-MASS.
Technology areas, being investigate or have been investigated, are:
Object-Oriented, Scientific Visualization, Database Management Systems, Hypermedia, Scientific, Visual, Visual Programization, Real-Time Systems, Open Systems, Visual Programs, Virtual Realiting, Virtual Prototyping, Animation, Virtual Reality, Graphical User Interface ( GUI ), Distributed Processing, Geographic Information Systems ( GIS ), Graphical User Interface and, Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) / Expert Systems.
Recent investigations have provided functional J-MASS prototypes of an Infra-Red ( IR ) Environment, IR Jammer, and Distributed Interactive Simulation ( DIS ) Interface.
J-MASS will ultimately help the user reduce M&S costs and ensure consistency and credibility in M&S results. As a J-MASS user, one will be able to re-use model components and weapon system models from the Modeling and Simulation Reuse Library.
Models have been or are currently being developed by the Missile and Space Intelligence Center, National Aerospace Intelligence Center, Aeronautical System Center and Wright Laboratory Armament Directorate.
These models represent missiles, aircraft, and multi-spectral sensors.
Some models are of specific weapon systems while some are generic in nature using system specific data.
Models, data, and tools can be shared throughout the J-MASS community.
SMART Project
Susceptibility Model Assessment and Range Test ( SMART ) Project was tasked by the OSD / DTSE&E to accomplish three ( 3 )goals:
(1) Develop and demonstrate a process for improving the credibility of M&S used to support acquisition decisions for airborne weapon systems.;
(2) Test the proposed process on a specific set of existing M&S widely used within the D.O.D. to support system acquisition and development decisions.; and,
(3) Transition a documented V V & A process and support infrastructure to D.O.D. organizations and to maintain and promulgate the methodology to users and developers of other types of M&S.
During the first ( 1st ) year of the project, a Proof of Concept demonstration was completed and documented in a series of reports that provided results of comparisons between test data recorded on Air Force ranges and three simulation models.
These M&S are maintained by the JTCG/AS and are used to support COEA tradeoff studies and assessments of survivability by operational units throughout the Department Of Defense ( DoD ).
The next two ( 2 ) years of the project were devoted, to:
(1) Identifying, testing, and codifying elements of V&V essential to the credibility of M&S while integrating configuration management into the V&V process.; and,
(2) Establishing an integrated set of information requirements that, taken as a whole, would address the accreditation problem for all DoD M&S.
Both of these objectives required the development of a standard way to report V V&A and CM results, so the Accreditation Support Package ( ASP ) concept was born.
The final two ( 2 ) years of the project were devoted to documenting the SMART process, codifying V V&A and CM product standards, broadening their scope of applicability, and applying them to ongoing acquisition and testing programs with current M&S accreditation needs.
The development of an integrated V V&CM process focused on accreditation requirements was a challenging task. Although many D.O.D. components reported performance of V&V activities when SMART was commissioned, few documented the results of their activities.
Many technical papers and a few books on V V&A touted widely differing methods focused on specific M&S credibility issues, but a repeatable process aimed at integrating V&V results into a body of evidence that would address D.O.D. accreditation requirements was lacking. SMART’s greatest contribution to the DOD-wide M&S credibility debate was the development, testing and documentation of such a process, which simultaneously also afforded enhanced credibility to the M&S that were subjected to it.
Since initiation of the SMART Project, the ultimate goal has been to devise, test, and document a VV&A/CM process for existing M&S that could be extended to others both in existence and under development, and that could be tailored to provide information for support of unique accreditation decision requirements. Within the context of this process, accreditation has always remained the responsibility of the user, and no attempt has been made to replace, usurp, or otherwise undermine this prerogative. V&V results are integrated into the development plan for the model via its in-place CM process, thus establishing an increasing level of credibility as the model continues to develop and mature.
The SMART credibility assessment process integrates the technical results of V&V and CM activities into a documentation product known as the Accreditation Support Package ( ASP ).
ASP documents have been produced for the M&S examined by SMART and used by acquisition and testing programs across the D.O.D. to substantiate the use of M&S in their respective efforts. The SMART accreditation support process has been formalized, documented, and distributed throughout the community to encourage its wider use as a standard approach to M&S credibility assessment and maintenance. Aspects of the larger methodology recommended by SMART include:
(1) Process for analysis of intended user applications to develop accreditation requirements, acceptance criteria for M&S, and decision space with respect to suitability.;
(2) V&V process that can be tailored to address only those functional elements critical to user accreditation requirements as well as scaled to fit existing or planned resource limitations.;
(3) Configuration management process that provides mechanisms for inclusion of V&V results into subsequent M&S version releases and maintains the shelf life of those results for application to existing accreditation needs.;
(4) Test data collection process that can be used to plan, conduct, and report range testing activities performed in conjunction with existing programs or via dedicated tests aimed at M&S validation and accreditation requirements.; and,
(5) Specifications and guidelines for production of standardized documentation that is used to report test results, V V&A activities, and M&S support manuals.
In addition to demonstration of V V&A and CM processes, their benefits, and applicability to current and future accreditation requirements, SMART has also developed a support infrastructure that has been used by acquisition programs to investigate and report M&S credibility issues.
In addition to established interfaces with D.O.D. test range facilities and ongoing T&E programs, SMART has assembled a team of V V&A and CM experts with experience in a wide array of current program accreditation requirements. An Accreditation Support Database (ASD) was also implemented to provide a quick-look capability for examining summary V V&A data via on-line applications, and a test data archive (TDA) was implemented to allow M&S users to retrieve and reuse data that was used by SMART to assess credibility of M&S functional elements or areas of engagement and mission analysis models.
Finally, the many lessons learned from SMART V&V, CM, T&E, and accreditation support efforts have been documented along with the process methodology and in training courses to facilitate transfer of this important information to the M&S community within the DoD.
SURVIAC – Survivability Information Analysis Center
Survivability Vulnerability Information Analysis Center is a DOD Information Analysis Center ( IAC ) spanning non-nuclear Survivability and Lethality Issues.
In order to correctly perform a survivability analysis, the models used in the analysis must accurately represent the interactions between the threat, the environment and the target. This requires that the threat, environment, and target be defined accurately.
The JTCG/AS has initiated several programs to develop, enhance, and document the SURVIAC models.
One ( 1 ) project, the SMART Project, will develop a process for verifying, validating, and accrediting models.
Most of these projects have been directed towards improving models and few of them have focused on the model input data bases.
The SURVIAC model user community, constantly requests approved and documented data bases to be used in survivability studies.
There is currently no single source that lists available approved data bases. It is left to the individual organizations to either find existing data bases or build their own.
In either case, the organization will have to expend resources resulting in data bases that may not accurately describe the threat, environment, or target.
The creation of a single source document that lists approved data bases and other important data will reduce overall data base creation and maintenance costs for the entire survivability community.
SURVIAC Origin
The SURVIAC began operations on December 21, 1984.
SURVIAC was formed from the merger of two ( 2 ) pre-existing functions – the Combat Data Information Center ( CDIC ) and the Aircraft Survivability Model Repository ( ASMR ).
CDIC was a central repository for combat and test data related to weapon system survivability and vulnerability.
CDIC was sponsored by the Joint Technical Coordinating Groups ( JTCG ) for Aircraft Survivability ( AS ) and Munitions Effectiveness ( ME ) and had been in continuous operation since 1970.
Aircraft Survivability Model Repository ( ASMR ) was established in 1981 to serve as a focal point for models related to aircraft survivability.
ASMR was sponsored by the Joint Technical Coordinating Group on Aircraft Survivability.
Both the CDIC and ASMR were operated under the technical monitorship of the Flight Dynamics Laboratory ( FDL ) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio located in its Flight Dynamics Laboratory facilities.
DIA WATCH
TECHNOLOGY – DEFENSE
[ photo ( above ) Directed Energy Weapon ( DEW ) Test Bed Laser ( click to enlarge ) ]
[ photo ( above ) Directed Energy Weapon ( DEW ) Space based Laser ( click to enlarge ) ]
[ photo ( above ) Directed Energy Weapon ( DEW ) Fixed Ground based Laser ( click to enlarge ) ]
[ photo ( above ) Directed Energy Weapon ( DEW ) Portable Ground based Laser at Area 51 ( click to enlarge ) ]
[ photo ( above ) Directed Energy Weapon ( DEW ) Mobile based Laser ( click to enlarge ) ]
[ photo ( above ) Directed Energy Weapon ( DEW ) Hand Held Laser ( click to enlarge ) ]
SURVIAC Mission & Scope
SURVIAC purpose is to increase the knowledge and productivity of scientists, engineers and analysts engaged in non-nuclear survivabilityvulnerability and lethality scientific and engineering programs for the DoD.
SURVIAC’ mission is to perform the functions of a full-service D.O.D. IAC ( as described, in: ”DOD 3200, 12-E-2, Centers for Analysis of Scientific and Technical Information” ) in the vital technical areas of non-nuclear survivability / vulnerability and lethality.
SURVIAC mission specifics are to maintain a technology base of its technical area, provide authoritative responses to user inquiries, provide technical assistance and support to its user community, prepare authoritative technical reference works, i.e. handbooks, data books, state-of-the-art reports, and perform special tasks and studies.
SURVIAC technical area is non-nuclear survivability/vulnerability and lethality as they relate to U.S. and foreign aeronautical and surface targets. Nuclear survivability information is provided by the DOD Nuclear Information and Analysis Center ( DASAIC ).
Non-nuclear threats included within the SURVIAC scope, are:
(1) Conventional weapons ( i.e. small arms / automatic weapons ( SA/AW ), AAA, SAM ( surface to air missiles ), air to air guns, air to air missiles ( AAM ), field artillery and direct fire weapons ( i.e. tanks, TOWs, etc. ).;
(2) Directed Energy Weapons ( DEW ), i.e. laser, millimeter wave, particle beams, sonic flocculators, etc.; and,
(3) Chemical and Biological Weapons ( CBW ).
Data requirements ( in threat areas ) include ( as applicable ):
- Acquisition ( target acquisition or TA );
- Detection;
- Tracking;
- Launch;
- Fly-Out characteristics;
- Fuzing characteristics;
- Counter Measure ( CM ) employment;
- Counter-Counter Measure ( CCM ) employment; and,
- Terminal Effects ( kill analysis ).
SURVIAC scope involves, both:
U.S. ( domestic ) defense ‘aeronautical targets’ ( ‘atmospheric’ and ‘space’ ) and ‘surface targets’ ( ‘ground’ and ‘water’ ); and,
International ( foreign ) defense ’aeronautical targets’ ( ‘atmospheric’ and ‘space’ ) and ‘surface targets’ ( ‘ground’ and ‘water’ ).
Aeronautical targets, include: Aircraft ( ‘fixed winged’ and ‘rotary winged’ and ‘manned’ and ‘unmanned’ ) and Missiles.
Surface targets, include: Shelters, Armored Personnel Carriers ( APC ), Radar Vans, Trucks, Tanks, Artillery, and similar others.
Data requirements, in these areas, include ( as applicable ):
Physical design, performance and operational information characteristics, of: Acoustic signatures, Infra-Red ( IR ) signature , Optical signatures, Electro-Optical ( EO ) signatures, and Radar signatures;
Functional design, performance and operational information characteristics, of: Acoustic signatures, Infra-Red ( IR ) signature , Optical signatures, Electro-Optical ( EO ) signatures, and Radar signatures;
Combat damage and repair; and,
System, sub-system and component Probability of Kill given a Hit ( Pk/h ) functions.
Initial holdings are concentrated on aeronautical targets with an expanding scope to surface targets.
SURVIAC Organization
BOOZ-ALLEN & HAMILTON INC. full-time staff of professional engineers, computer scientists, information specialists and support members operate SURVIAC.
SURVIAC assistance is provided by the SURVICE ENGINEERING COMPANY [ 'not' mis-spelled ] ( SEC ) and the BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ( BMI ) for system vulnerability and susceptibility matters, respectively.
The extensive staff of Booz-Allen employees located in offices around the world are also available to SURVIAC, as required.
Other sub-contractors and consultants may be hired for specific projects requiring specialized expertise.
To address the survivability concerns of organizations located in the Washington, D.C. area, a SURVIAC Satellite Office is maintained at the BOOZ-ALLEN facility in Arlington, Virginia.
SURVIAC Information Operations
SURVIAC capabilities include the technology base of information and data held by and available to the SURVIAC, the physical facilities and equipment used to store, retrieve and process this information and data, and the skilled personnel required to use and analyze them.
The technology base consists of data, reports, data bases, models, methodologies, libraries, etc.
These are available as computer-resident and computer-retrievable. Much of the information and data are classified and, therefore, stored in secure computer facilities and large, secure vaults.
The libraries and equipment are physically located at: Wright-Patterson A.F.B., Ohio, Area B, Building 45.
The computer capabilities of the Aeronautical Systems Division ( ASD ), Information Systems and Technology Center ( IS&TC ) are used for the computerized technology base.
SURVIAC maintains four ( 4 ) reference libraries with copies of the document available on site and retrievable through computerized operations with key word searches.
Arrangements have been made with seven ( 7 ) other library-type data bases for on-line access to additional specialized information resources related to SURVIAC technical area.
SURVIAC libraries currently total approximately 11,000 separately retrievable items.
SURVIAC also maintains five ( 5 ) major additional numerical databases focusing on combat damage and survivability testing of systems, subsystems and components.
A “single-incident” philosophy has been adopted for these databases where each individual data record is backed by a folder which contains all known information relevant to that incident.
SURVIAC currently maintains and disseminates to qualified requesters copies of selected survivability models and their documentation.
SURVIAC provides configuration control and limited technical support to the survivability and lethality communities for these models.
SURVIAC Services & Products
SURVIAC provides the full range of services inherent to D.O.D. IAC operations including response to bibliographic and technical inquiries and referrals to other centers or organizations when appropriate.
SURVIAC has also hosted several workshops and offers training on the SURVIAC models.
Special tasks, funded by the requesting organization, are conducted consistent with the SURVIAC charter and technical area.
The full range of IAC products such as handbooks, data books, state-of-the-art reports, critical reviews and technology assessments, etc., will be provided.
A critical review has been produced and the first data book is in publication.
Another data book, a handbook and SOAR are also being prepared for publication.
Introductory materials are produced and distributed to provide an overview of survivability and lethality, and present the resources and services available through SURVIAC.
SURVIAC Brochure, Current Awareness Bulletin, capabilities video and SURVIAC Model and Product Guides introduce goals, resources, and services that are available through the Center.
Technical Inquiries are handled by SURVIAC’s technical experts using the Center’s resources to provide needed information on a timely basis.
SURVIAC responds to over 1,000 user inquiries a year on a variety of subjects such as the following, as a brief example:
(1) Combat damage and attrition.;
(2) Aircraft and ground system signature data.;
(3) Laser and microwave effects.;
(4) System survivability, vulnerability, and susceptibility issues.;
(5) Hypervelocity kill mechanisms and test facilities.; and,
(6) Aircraft battle damage repair.
Information resources are maintained in computerized databases, in original form, and in computer-indexed reference libraries. SURVIAC’s library holdings include more than 15,000 documents developed through an aggressive continuing acquisition and review process.
Special studies and routine reviews of literature applicable to the survivability and lethality community contribute to the library’s continued expansion.
SURVIAC personnel access other existing databases, such as the Defense Technical Information Center holdings through the Defense RDT&E On-Line System ( DROLS ), the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Library, Lessons Learned Program, and the Chemical Defense Database, to name just a few.
SURVIAC major reference libraries include:
(1) Survivability/Vulnerability Reference Reports, Studies, Analysis, and Raw Data Laser Reference Library: Test, R&D, and Directed Energy Weapons ( DEW ).;
(2) Aircraft Battle Damage Repair ( ABDR ) Library: Reports and Data on ABDR Vehicle Signatures Reference Library.; and,
(3) Reports and Data on Vehicle Signatures Combat Evaluation Library: Reports, Studies, and Analyses from U.S. Army Experience in Southeast Asia Database Services.
The Center has developed specialized databases storing information not otherwise readily available.
SURVIAC databases contain thousands of items spanning detailed combat incidents, battle damage repair information, and sophisticated system and subsystem test data. Additions continually keep pace with community needs. The major databases maintained by SURVIAC include:
ACFTDAB: Southeast Asia Fixed-Wing Aircraft.;
HELODAB: Southeast Asia Rotary-Wing Aircraft.;
GNDVEHSEADB: Southeast Asia Ground Vehicle.;
LASERDAB: Laser Shots Against a Variety of Materials.;
RAM TEAM: ( Rapid Area Maintenance Team Database ) Yom Kippur Arab-Israeli Tank and Personnel Carrier.;
Fixed Wing Aircraft: Just Cause Battle Damage Repair from 1989 Panama Incident.; and,
Pk/h: Matrix Critical Component and Supporting Test Data Requirements.
Matrix Modeling Services
SURVIAC is a focal point for distribution of and expert advice on the most widely-used, up-to-date, and accepted survivability and lethality models. SURVIAC maintains and disseminates model code and documentation, provides technical advice regarding their use, and conducts workshops on their application and operation.
The Center is also the clearinghouse for changes and updates to the models. The SURVIAC holdings include:
AASPEM – Air-to-Air System Performance Evaluation Model – Air Combat Analysis Model, Evaluates Aircraft and Weapon Systems.;
ALARM 87 – Advanced Low Altitude Radar Model – Represents Radar in Search or Track Mode.;
BLUEMAX II – Aircraft Flight Path Generator.;
COVART II – Computation of Vulnerable Areas/Repair Times – Determines Vulnerable Areas and Repair Effort.;
ESAMS – Enhanced Surface-to-Air Missile Engagement Model – Surface-to-Air Survivability/Vulnerability Assessments.;
FASTGEN 3 – Target Geometric Description – Methodology to Generate Shotline Information.;
HELIPAC – Helicopter Piloted Combat Model – Helicopter Version of PACAM 8 ( See Below ).;
IMARS – Integrated Missile and Radar Simulation – Surface-to-Air Missile Model.;
LTM 3.0 ( Laser Threat Mode l) – Ground Laser Weapons against Dynamic Airborne Targets.;
PACAM 8 – Piloted Air Combat Analysis Model – Provides Weapon Performance Data in Air-to-Air Combat.;
P001A Anti-Aircraft Artillery Simulation – Computes Single Shot Probability of a Kill of a Target Aircraft.;
RADGUNS Simulates One-on-One Engagement between Aircraft and Radar Directed Anti-Aircraft Artillery.;
SCAN Target Vulnerability Model – Evaluates Effects of Fragmentation Warhead Missiles.; and,
TRAP Trajectory Analysis Program – Detailed Air-to-Air Missile Model ( Available Soon ).
Products are made available as a result of specific projects and special studies, and provide new sources of information and methodologies for the D.O.D. survivability/lethality communities. Products currently available include:
A Critical Review of Graphite Epoxy Laser Damage.;
Advanced Materials for Enhanced Survivability ( state-of-the-art report ).;
ABDR Directory/ABDR Library.;
Aircraft Engine Analysts Reference Manual ( ARM ) ( 9 volume set ).;
Aircraft Survivability ( video ).;
An Overview of Laser-Induced Eye Effects.;
An Overview of Laser Technology and Applications.;
Army Survivability Information Resource Database.;
Battle Damage Repair – A Survey of Actual Combat Experience ( 3 volume set ).;
Battle Damage Repair of Composite Structures ( video ).;
Comparative Close Air Support Vulnerability Assessment Study ( multi-volume set ).;
Compendium of References for Non-nuclear Aircraft Survivability.;
DOD Aircraft Joint Live Fire Test Program ( 3 video set ).;
Gas Explosion suppression Agent Investigation proceedings of the 7th DOD Conference on DEW [ Directed Energy Weapons ] Vulnerability/Survivability and Effects multi-volume set ) Note: 5th and 6th also available.;
Threat Effects in Aircraft Combat Survivability ( video ).; and,
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ( UAV ) Survivability Compendium
VALIDATE
VALIDATE objective is to improve the fidelity and the credibility of the analysis tools which are used by all the services for vulnerability and lethality assessments in support of weapon system design, test and evaluation.
Detailed goals include verification and validation of Joint Service analysis methodologies, application of physics based methods such as hydrocode and finite element methods to vulnerability assessment techniques, improvement of these methodologies for credible assessment of vehicle vulnerability and prediction of test results, and demonstration of these improvements by comparison with results from the Joint Live Fire test progam ( JLF ).
Specific Fiscal Year 1996 objectives were:
(1) Develop a detailed program master plan by adapting the verification and validation process developed by the SMART project to vulnerability models and simulations, and coordinate the plan with other ongoing and planned efforts.;
(2) Initiate the development of verification and validation documentation for the COVART and FASTGEN models.;
(3) Institute a structured configuration management process for COVART and FASTGEN.;
(4) Perform an analysis of damage mechanism criticality to prioritize methodology improvement tasking.; and,
(5) Conduct a pilot feasibility study for the use of advanced “physics based” methods, such as hydrocodes, to assess their applicability to air vehicle [UAV] vulnerability analysis. The results of this feasibility study will determine the scope of effort for advanced code applications in the outyears, which will be incorporated into the program master plan.
At the end of the first (1st) year’s effort, a decision point in the program will have been reached. The Feasibility Study will have established the risks and costs associated with applying advanced physics methods to vulnerability analysis. The Damage Mechanism Criticality Study and the initial V&V work accomplished on the vulnerability analysis tools will have established the risks associated with applying the V&V processes developed for susceptibility models to vulnerability M&S.
At this point a decision will be made whether to:
(1) Terminate the program;
(2) Terminate the advanced physics part of the program and continue only with vulnerability model V&V; or,
(3) Continue the program according to the master plan developed during the first (1st) year.
Background
Aircraft vulnerability is a major factor in overall aircraft survivability. In fact, vulnerability modeling is used directly to support COEAs, design trade studies, specification development, live fire testing, and ensuring specification compliance throughout the system acquisition cycle.
Even though the trend is toward “commercial practices” in defense systems acquisition, due to the unique requirements of combat aircraft vulnerability it is anticipated that vulnerability specifications will still be required for military aircraft programs, and those specifications are derived and evaluated using models and simulations.
Vulnerability analysis codes have been integrated with computer aided design ( CAD ) packages by all major airframe designers. Consequently, these codes have major impact on air weapon system design, in all the services.
Therefore, it is imperative that decision makers have the utmost confidence in the estimates provided by vulnerability models. A verification and validation process provides the basis necessary to establish that confidence; however, current vulnerability models are not verified or validated in any systematic way.
The resulting lack of confidence impairs the ability of vulnerability modeling to impact decisions at critical acquisition decision points. This results in the potential for vulnerability features wrongly being excluded from air weapon systems to save weight and cost. To ensure that vulnerability models can influence aircraft acquisition decisions a systematic verification and validation process must be undertaken.
The Susceptibility Model Assessment and Range Test (SMART), funded by OUSD (A&T) DTSE&E, has developed a M&S credibility assessment process which is in use by a number of system acquisition programs to support M&S accreditation requirements.
The SMART process converts the technical results of verification, validation and configuration management activities into a documentation product known as the Accreditation Support Package (ASP). This document may be used by acquisition and testing programs across D.O.D. to substantiate the use of M&S in major acquisition and testing decisions.
The verification sections of the ASP document the correctness of M&S software with respect to design criteria, allowing decision makers to determine the applicability of the model’s algorithms to their analytical or testing requirements. The validation sections of the ASP document the results of comparisons of M&S predictions with empirical testing, allowing decision makers to assess the confidence that can be placed in M&S predictions.
The configuration management sections of the ASP document the degree to which M&S development is controlled and managed, allowing decision makers to assess the “shelf life” of analytical results taken from M&S.
Taken as whole, the SMART ASP provides a high level of confidence in the analysis of phenomena affecting air vehicle susceptibility. However, the SMART program has not addressed the vulnerability aspects of survivability modeling.
To guarantee full flexibility in estimates and to provide realistic test predictions vulnerability models need to be based on physical principles.
Current component vulnerability analysis techniques are empirically derived, and so they are not generally applicable to new technologies, and they can only be applied to evaluation of new system design in limited circumstances.
Detailed physics level “first principle” models have not seen great application in the vulnerability analysis methodology for several reasons: in many cases, they are not well enough developed to represent ballistic impacts, they are computer intensive and time consuming to run, and in some instances simply no resources have been available to consider their application.
New model developments are on the horizon, such as the Advanced Joint Effectiveness Model (AJEM), which may accommodate the results of detailed first principle models (and in some cases the models themselves). Some of these techniques may also be readily integrated with existing vulnerability codes. However, this has not been done to date to any great extent.
One of the lessons learned from the SMART project was to allow for funding to improve the models as they are being verified and validated. SMART taught that correcting errors and integrating new enhancements during the V&V process requires extra funding initially, but, saves money in the end.
This project will integrate the elements of a systematic and proven V V&A process for both existing and developmental models with the development of first principle vulnerability analysis methods, and validate the resulting M&S using ballistic test data obtained from all the services from a number of ongoing test sources.
These test sources include the Joint Live Fire (JLF) program, Live Fire Testing (LFT) by various acquisition programs, and other sources such as the JTCG/AS, JTCG/ME, the Defense Nuclear Agency (aka) DNA, and the National Laboratories.
Requirements
Validated vulnerability assessment methodologies are required for all weapon system development programs. In order to support procurement decisions, design tradeoff decisions, specification development and verification, ECP and P3I decisions, live fire testing and advanced concept studies for combat weapon systems, the ability to evaluate the vulnerability of the vehicle in a realistic threat environment is essential.
This is a requirement for all the services for any new procurement or weapon design improvement. This is particularly true for the new generation of aircraft and weapons systems where vulnerability reduction is such an important part of the design. In order to adequately support mandated Live Fire Testing, validated and detailed vulnerability assessment tools which provide realistic predictions of test results are essential.
In “Live Fire Testing of the F-22″, the National Research Council concluded that “. . . significant improvements are needed in several of the tools that complement live fire testing”; that “There is considerable need for expanded efforts over the next several years to improve the databases used in models for conducting vulnerability assessments”; “formal validation and accreditation . . . of (vulnerability) models used by the Air Force and other services is warranted”; and, that the “vulnerability community could make much better use of advanced analytical tools (e.g., finite element analysis) . . .”.
Advanced Joint Endgame Model (AJEM) – Encounter Group Software Overview
Proposed
AJEM is a computer simulation of the terminal conditions that result when a weapon engages an air target. The endgame involves elements of missile flyout and guidance, projectile trajectories, fuzing, and warhead interactions with targets. With appropriate modeling of targets, threat trajectories, and encounter conditions the methodology is not limited to air targets and can be utilized for surface target analysis or to support live fire tests by emulating single or multiple object impacts with specific target structures.
AJEM will allow the User to combine the elements of target modeling, encounter geometries and kinematics, generation of weapon burst positions from proximity or contact fuzing, propagation of damage mechanisms to the target, damage mechanism/target interaction (penetration, fire, blast, etc.), target systems relationships (functionality, redundancies, etc.), and target remaining capability or loss of function to perform lethality and vulnerability analyses. AJEM is structured to contain several options for handling level of complexity versus speed of computation and level of detail known about the targets or threats.
Needed input data is gathered from multiple sources and models (for existing as well as conceptual systems) and are input to and stored in data files. The data can be generated and maintained by respective expert sources (e.g., intelligence agencies, fuze, warhead, and guidance engineers, and vulnerability analysts) for use by analysts desiring to do component studies up to COEA level studies.
Using these databases, an analyst can specify a static, singular trajectory and/or variable, Monte Carlo conditions in order to accomplish a wide range of study objectives. For example, the analyst can vary the terminal flight path in a deterministic pattern to determine how aircraft survivability varies with threat approach aspect. AJEM provides the capability to specify and vary each of the dozens of conditions and simulation options within a study.
Once the study conditions are specified, the analyst can run AJEM in various modes. Runs can be made individually with detailed, time stepped, real-time output describing what is going on during a single encounter, or many thousands of encounters can be run with just a single output, Pk (aka) Potential Kill, for each. Based on study requirements, AJEM could be linked with other models, like ESAMS and RADGUNS, to provide effectiveness evaluations for their engagements or it could be linked to hardware in the loop test facilities to provide endgame effectiveness determinations.
The AJEM analysis utilities allow the analyst to visually display pictures of target and threat models; three-dimensional, variable aspect, views of the engagement; two-dimensional graphs of data (e.g., Pk versus angle-of-attack); and statistics such as average Pk of a missile against a set of targets or average Pk for each target. With the graphical displays (for which hardcopy output can be obtained as well) and associated digital data, the analyst can see what happened during the engagements and can provide input (such as a particular SAM Pk envelope for a conceptual aircraft) to other models used to do mission analysis, COEA support, or for inclusion in a report.
The Encounter Group Software Design Document (SDD), discusses those portions of the AJEM computer model which deal with defining the initial encounter conditions, generating a burst position from internal or external fuze modules, and output data display and analysis requirements. See, e.g. “DIA Photos“, for more information on this website.
NAIC Support INSS Profile
USA, Washington, D. C. – October 23, 2001 – The United States Air Force ( USAF ), Institute for National Security Studies ( INSS ) published “Occasional Paper” ( its own published volumed editions ) are primarily sponsored by the National Security Policy Division ( NSPD ), Nuclear and Counter-Proliferation Directorate ( NCPD ), Headquarters U. S. Air Force ( HQ USAF / XONP ) and the United States Air Force Academy ( USAFA ) faculty Dean.
INSS sponsors currently include:
Air Staff Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Directorate ( XOI );
U.S. Department of Defense ( DOD ), Office of the Secretary, Office of Net Assessment ( OSD / NA );
Defense Threat Reduction Agency ( DTRA ), Defense Special Weapons Agency ( DSWA ), On-Site Inspection Agency ( OSIA );
U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute ( AEPI );
U.S. Space Command ( SPACOM ) Plans Directorate ( PD ); and,
U.S. Air Force ( USAF ) Long-Range Plans Directorate ( XPXP ).
INSS mission promotes U.S. Department of Defense ( DOD ) National Security Research ( NSR ) – within the military academic community – and supports U.S. Air Force National Security Education ( NSE ) programs.
One ( 1 ) of its authors, Lieutenant Colonel Roy E. Horton III ( for the INSS Occasional Paper ) holds an interesting background:
- Bachelor of Sciences degree in Electrical Engineering;
- Masters degree in Strategic Intelligence – originally commissioned into the U.S. Air Force through the Reserve Officer Training Corps ( ROTC ) at the University of Southern California ( 1979 );
- Intelligence officer radar analyst for the National Aerospace Intelligence Center ( NAIC ) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio;
- Chief, Command Control and Communications ( C3I ) Electronics Group ( EG ), Liaison Officer at USAF Europe Headquarters ( HQ ) Intelligence ( Ramstein Air Base, Federal Republic of Germany ) providing ‘critical intelligence support’ for “must know” operational and developmental programs like the F-117 ( Stealth military strategic aircraft ), F-22 and B-2 ( military bomber aircraft );
- Defense Intelligence Agency ( DIA ) Scientific and Technical ( S&T ) manager of intelligence products on foreign air defense command and control systems deployed extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East in support of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm;
- Air Command and Staff College attendee;
- Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe Intelligence Division ( Mons, Belgium ) principal intelligence support planner for NATO operations in Bosnia and Hercegovnia;
- National Defense Fellowship from the Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security program at the University of Illinois ( Urbana – Champaign, Illinois, USA ) from July 1997 to May 1998;
- Commander, 91st Intelligence Squadron ( Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, USA ) during August 1998.
CIA WATCH
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USS Cole Secrets Or Propaganda?
YEMEN, Aden – September 2000 - Yemen Navy base commander General Mohammad Ali Ibrahim reportedly said the explosion that ripped open the side of the U.S. Navy U.S.S. Cole was not caused “intentionally by external forces.”
Gen. Ali Ibrahim said the explosion “was most likely caused by a technical malfunction in the U.S. Navy destroyer itself . . . the large hole – the explosion left in the vessel – shows it is far fetched that it was caused by explosive devices, no matter how big.”
U.S. private sources held facts that the ‘ends’ of the ‘steel hull plates’ appear ‘snapped’, ‘torn’ and ‘ripped-away’ rather than from any massive ‘bending’. The deck plates appeared ‘bowed upward’ showing impact carried from ‘inside’ to ‘spread upward’.
U.S. sources revealed that ‘shooting’ ( as its referred to ) or ‘cracking steel plates’ is an ‘exact science’ with the bomber normally using ‘shaped line charges’ - cut to order - backed with ‘wood frames’ and ‘metal frames’, however when ‘underwater’ or at ‘water level’ 55-gallon drums of SEMTEX ( plastique, a plastic compound ’stable’ explosive ) or a ANFO ( a mixed ‘unstable’ explosive ) either in the boat ( highly unlikely as it would have taken 1,000 to 1,500-lbs. of SEMTEX to detonate that type of explosive force plus that ‘small’ of a ’rubber inflatable boat’ could not carry that payload weight onboard without being severely low in the water level but could have been ‘towed underwater’ possibly accomplishing an act like this. Water under explosive pressure – at a high order of detonation such as this – would be tantamount to a steel fist punching ‘inward’ – though steel - but not ‘outward’.
CIA WATCH
Iraq Rematch Bush vs. Hussein Set
IRAQ, Tuwaitha – July 30, 2001 - Unfriendly and old reminders are coming to a head this year between Saddam Hussein and – this time – it’s George Bush Jr. Almost akin to an old America televison series rerun or boxing rematch, these same two ( 2 ) names are seen yet again set in the same place ( with exception of a few minor modifications ) but coming in a ‘new time slot’ set for more action so, stay tuned with this new handy program guide ( below ) providing legacy secrets ( below ) for what may come:
United States, and air raid allies, targeted Iraq veterinary clinics, hospitals and more without public mention of military strategic Initial Point ( IP ) location interests. Why? Intelligence data ( below ) sheds some light now.
OCR ( Optical Character Recognition ) ‘official intelligence transmissions’ of teletype image documents, sent to respective global intelligence reception centers, have now been translated into text readable publishing ( below ).
[ NOTE: Information ( immediately below ) was "Not finally evaluated intelligence," consequently "Unclassified" and "Non-Classified" in these 'back-channel message traffics', although 'routed' by 'only one' ( 1 ) official U.S. Navy 'field intelligence agent' ( NSA assigned NSG ) worldwide for 'further review' by U.S. domestic and foreign station intelligence analysts', actually originated from an 'Iraq based intelligence source' ( a 'physics and science doctor' ) advisor ( very close to Saddam Hussein ) to an Iraq based CIA transmitter relay for U.S. Navy processing with satellite routing distribution coordinates read ( below ). ]
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COUNTRIES: ( U ) IRAQ ( IZ ); GERMANY ( GM ); NETHERLANDS ( NL ); JORDAN ( JO ).
SUBJECT: IIR 2 201 0629 92/ VACCINE PROCUREMENT (U).
WARNING: ( U ) THIS IS AN INFO REPORT NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE. REPORT CLASSIFIED. [ oops! ]
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DOI: (U) 920000.
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SUMMARY: IRAQ IS ATTEMPTING TO PROCURE RABIES AND ANTHRAX VACCINES. IRAQ MAY HAVE OBTAINED THE VETERINARY ANTHRAX BOVINE LIVE SPORE VACCINE FOR USE IN HUMANS.
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1. AT THE END OF 1991, KIMADIA (NFI) SHOWED INTEREST IN THE PROCUREMENT OF AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY OF RABIES VACCINES. A SHIPMENT WAS ALSO TO HAVE BEEN DELIVERED AT THE BEGINNING OF 1992 FROM GERMANY’S KARL KOLB COMPANY TO KIMADIA. THE SHIPMENT WAS TO HAVE BEEN ROUTED VIA AMMAN, JORDAN.
2. AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR, IRAQ WAS ENGAGED IN THE PROCUREMENT OF 4000 VIALS ( 100 MILLILITERS EACH ) OF ANTHRAX BOVINE LIVE SPORE VACCINE’ THIS ACTIVITY WAS CARRIED OUT UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE UNITED NATIONS’ FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION or FAO WHICH APPROACHED THE DUTCH ORVET B.V. COMPANY. THE PROJECT WAS DESIGNATED FAO PROJECT OSRO/IRQ/103/FIN.
COMMENTS: ( SOURCE COMMENT ) – IN VIEW OF IRAQ’S PRESENT DIFFICULTIES IN OBTAINING HUMAN ANTHRAX VACCINES’ IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THESE VACCINES, USUALLY INTENDED FOR VETERINARY USE, ARE IN THIS CASE INTENDED FOR IMMUNIZATION OF HUMANS. IT IS RECALLED THAT VETERINARY ANTHRAX VACCINES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PRODUCED AT THE AL-KINDI LABORATORIES IN ABU-GHRAIB.
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SERIAL: (U) IIR 2 340 0258 90
COUNTRY: (U) IRAQ ( IZ ); KUWAIT ( KU ); SAUDI ARABIA ( SA ).
SUBJECT: IIR 2 340 0258 90/ USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS ( U ).
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SUMMARY: INITIAL CHEMICAL RELEASE AUTHORITY IS HELD BY SADAM HUSSEIN. TO INITIATE CHEMICAL ATTACK, HUSSEIN INFORMS THE GENERAL STAFF WHICH ISSUES VERBAL ORDERS TO CORPS CDRS AND SHOWS THEM THE ONLY EXISTING CHEMICAL MAP. CORPS CDRS INFORM DIVISIONS TO PREPARE TROOPS FOR CHEMICAL ATTACK FROM OPPOSING FORCES.
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SOURCE, AT LEAST IN GENERAL TERMS, HAS A FAIRLY ACCURATE INTELLIGENCE OVERVIEW OF THE SITUATION IN THE GULF AS OF 900807 AND HAS NUMEROUS RESOURCES AT HIS DISPOSAL TO SUPPORT HIS ASSESSMENTS.
2. CHEMICAL RELEASE AUTHORITY – DURING THE INITIAL PHASE OF CONFLICT, RELEASE AUTHORITY FOR USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS WILL REMAIN WITH SADAM HUSSEIN. SADAAM HUSSEIN WILL INFORM THE GENERAL STAFF WHEN IT IS TIME TO UTILIZE CHEMICAL WEAPONS.
3. COMMUNICATIONS – RADIO COMMUNICATIONS CONCERNING THE USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS IS FORBIDDEN EXCEPT UNDER THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS – DIVISION AND CORPS COMMANDERS ARE AUTHORIZED TO REQUEST USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS IF THEY ARE IN IMMINENT DANGER OF BEING OVERRUN OR DEFEATED. EVEN IN THIS INSTANCE THE USE OF COURIERS IS PREFERRED.
4. NORMAL PROCEDURES – CHEMICAL PLANNING IS AN INTERGRAL PART OF ALL IRAQI MILITARY OPERATIONS. WHEN HUSSEIN DECIDES TO USE CHEMICAL WEAPONS HE WILL INFORM THE GENERAL STAFF. THE GENERAL STAFF WILL SUMMON THE CORPS COMMANDERS TO COME TO THE GENERAL STAFF HEADQUARTERS ( HQS ) IMMEDIATELY. ALL COMMANDERS ARE GIVEN A VERBAL CHEMICAL WARNING ORDER AND ARE SHOWN THE ONLY EXISTING CHEMICAL MAP. CORPS COMMANDERS CALL THEIR DIVISION COMMANDERS AND TELL THEM TO PREPARE THEIR TROOPS FOR AN OPPOSING FORCE CHEMICAL ATTACK. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN IRAQ USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST THE IRANIANS, THE IRAQI FRONTLINE TROOPS WERE INFORMED THAT THEY COULD EXPECT AN IRANIAN CHEMICAL ATTACK. WHEN THERE IS INSUFFICIENT TIME TO CONDUCT THIS PROCEDURE, THE CHEMICAL WARNING ORDER BYPASSES ALL ECHELONS AND THE FRONTLINE TROOPS ARE TOLD TO EXPECT AN OPPOSING FORCES ATTACK. COURIERS ARE USED TO RELAY THE INFORMATION.
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CIA WATCH
Sri Lanka Boat Detained At Yemen Port
YEMEN, Aden – August 16, 2001 and August 26, 2001 - One hundred and sixteen ( 116 ) Sri Lanka passengers still remain detained in an Aden, Yemen sea port for having illegally arrived in Yemen territorial waters.
On August 16, 2001 and August 26, 2001 passengers arrived at the Aden Sea port in two ( 2 ) conventional boats – typically used for ‘smuggling foreign workers’ into neighboring countries – for ‘refueling’ and upon entry were detained by security port authorities.
Boats were found overcrowded with most Passengers, with ’no passports’ or ‘identity papers’, were found overcrowed into the boats lacking safety measures for the large number of occupants.
Boat owner is to be contacted, for sending a well-equipped ship to collect them, the Yemen Port Authority only said.
Yemen Soldiers & Politicians Exiled In Iraq Returned To Yemen Via Syria
YEMEN, Aden – September 2001 - A Yemen military returnee said he was just one of twenty four ( 24 ) Yemen Army ‘officers’, and ‘politicians’, whom were returned Friday – from Damascus, Syria – in Aden after exile for seven ( 7 ) years in Iraq.
Lieutenant Colonel Mahdi Shaush said that a group of twenty ( 20 ) military officers, four ( 4 ) military civilians and more than seventy five ( 75 ) family members were returned from Damascus, Syria.
The returnees were leaders of the aborted Yemen 1994 secession attempt by former South Yemen which, had been unified with the former, Yemen Arab Republic in 1990. Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh earlier issued a pardon and gave his directives to ease the return of the exiles.
Yemen Sets Up Flights To Iraq With Jordan Permission
YEMEN, Sana’a – September 2001 - Yemen officially requested Jordan to allow Yemen air flights to cross Jordan airspace into Baghdad, Iraq.
Al-Zawraa newspaper mentioned Yemen wanted to organize weekly flights from Sana’a, Yemen to Baghdad, Iraq meeting increased demands for passengers between those two ( 2 ) country’s cities.
INTELL NEWS
Usama bin Laden CIA Boomerang Monsters
USA, Washington, D.C. – September 12, 2001 - President George W. Bush Jr. announced that, the United States was officially at War as a result of the Nation having sustained damages from multiple international terrorist acts – however he neglected to mention ‘who’ the United States was now at “War” with.
How did Usama bin Laden (aka) Osama bin Laden terrorist cells initially came to be fuele has not been addressed by any U. S. news media.
Usama bin Laden, former Iran government leader Ayatollah Khomeni and former Pamama President General Manuel Noriega all have similar things in common. Drug cartel interests, formerly run by burned-out stooge monsters previously turned-around by the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ). In the case of Usama bin Laden, however the biggest difference was the ‘considerable degree’ his ‘blowback’ was either ‘unwilling or ‘unable’ to be stopped.
From the 1970s thru 1980s, during the Soviet war against Afghanistan ( Soviet-Afghan War ), saw Russia military soldiers fighting Afghanistan domestic soldiers and its imported foreign soldiers whom were being ‘secretly militarized’ by America that called them “Afghan Freedom Fighters” ( also known as ) the ”Mujahideen” whom were also seen fighting against the Afghanistan ”Northern Alliance.”
From the 1970s through the 1980s, Usama bin Laden led his Islam religious fanatic militant terrorist cells enabled through foreign sources - believed connected to CIA interests - that nourished these same monsters whom just bit-off a chunk of America. Head monster Osama bin Laden has - for many years previously – continued nibbling ( on America ) by leading global terrorist attacks elsewhere ( overseas ).
Some claim America renigged on certain promises or just simply abandoned Usama bin Laden and his cause back in Afghanistan as America was seen doing to friends in Viet Nam when it left there. There subtle difference was, no one was supposed to ‘know’ the United States was ‘involved’ in Afghanistan back then.
Russia Soviet military war in Afganistan gave up much, in the same fashion as did the U.S. in Viet Nam, however the Soviet posture was to continue allowing the ‘Taliban way of government’ maintaining rule over Afganistan citizens.
The Taliban government has been permitting Usama bin Laden paramilitary Islamic extremists ‘al Qaeda’, and others, free harbor and continued sanctuary for training and housing international terrorists within its borders, however for years Pakistan has been financially supporting Taliban government rule.
The following notes and referral pages to other points on this website that are sensitive points of interest that may serve to identify the Afganistan and Pakistan regime leaderships as those collective entities with which the West will present their final ultimatum to “Give up Usama bin Laden or else be blasted out of existence”. Interesting problems arise from that type of psychological warfare simply because that part of the World knows full well what the United States initially fueled what are now terrorist cells provided with modern era military warfare strategies, considerable funding, military armaments and other supplies. In short, long ago America military influences served to nurture Usama bin Laden type Islamic terrorists that now possess rather solidified emotional footholds in both Afghanistan and Pakistan citizenry.
Residents of Afghanistan are in-part unwitting victims of internal party struggles to gain one (1) supreme leadership government. Most Afghan residents are incredibly poor, underprivileged, starving and virtually stuck – unable to move away from a war – with mass transportation systems inoperable for the most part. Afghani children, on a daily basis, are killed or maimed from encountering landmines that were never cleared away by anyone so, deadly explosive systems remain buried in residential areas for even more suffering as United Nations ( UN ) and International Red Cross ( IRC ) assistance in Afghanistan has greatly diminished. In short, bombing and blasting on a widespread basis counters efforts to help Afghan people who are already suffering.
Surgical strikes might be effective ‘if’ target areas could be ‘properly identified’ before terrorist cells go underground traversing their tunnel systems, however that is highly unlikely – this late in their game.
Here are some points to consider:
1. Usama bin Laden has been extremely successful in his ability to unite and direct the carrying out of multiple and very well-planned Islamic-extremist terrorist-cell group’s fight against the United States and in many other foreign Countries as well. Usama bin Laden, via old CIA-type brainwashing techniques, has successfully mounted a new radical Islamic religious militant front which, fights U.S. interests both at home (domestic) and abroad (foreign). Usama’s mentors or trainers as it unbelieveably turns out was “us”, i.e. America. We, are wholly responsible for the indoctrination, training and support which created this monster’s new radical Islamic militant religious front. as history now proves.
2. There exists today, a self-said member of Usama bin Laden’s “al-Qaede” terrorist cell. A Morroco man by the name of, L’Houssaine Kherchtou, who was supposedly sent under direct orders of Usama bin Laden to Nairobi, Kenya in order to become a pilot. The true degree and sophistication of his pilot training skills were not initially revealed except to say that he said he performed some crop dusting on fields in Nairobi.
L’Housainne Khertou being only a crop dusting pilot training under Usama bin Laden directives was down-played by, U.S. Department of Justice officials during the first World Trade Center bombing in New York, years ago. It seems that L’Housainne was being trained many years ago in-advance for an ingenious plan. Although he would appear as only a low-profile type crop dusting pilot, L’Housainne was to have a future very high-profile. His future and significantly higher profile would appear when he would appear out of nowhere as a “sleeper” for Usama bin Laden as he was trained to use a new delivery method for chemical warfare attacks on World citizenry by, loading the plane’s chemical tanks with deadly chemicals rather than crop chemicals.
Kherchtou L’Housainne and his family are safe within the U.S. Government’s, Witness Protection Program now, after his aid many years ago in providing the U.S. with information leading to the conviction of the bombers who staged the New York World Trade Center bombing, years ago. The same men who were just “recently convicted”.
3. Afghanistan, is a country rich in history and tradition. It was once the crossroads of very ancient and medieval worlds. Today, Afghanistan (aka) Land Of Khurasan, is suffering a humanitarian crisis unprecedented in World history.
4. The United Nations High Commission for Refugee Resettlement (aka) UNHCRR has been instrumental in aid to relocating approximately 2.5-million former Afghan citizens as refugees to Pakistan and Iran, ½-million others are internally displaced and, 1-million or more are at risk of famine. This catastrophe is the result of over twenty (20) years of war and, the worst drought in memory where “water” continues as an ever-increasing problematic issue throughout the entire global region. The ruling Taliban regime is doing little to alleviate the suffering of the Afghan people.
5. Although Taliban leadership publicly declares a desire for their negotiated end to Afganistan Civil War strife, their radical Islamic religious militant form of Taliban government rule has now embraced Usama bin Laden trained terrorist cell troops as their own military and police force enforcement which, is currently undertaking fresh offensives against the Taliban opposition and conducting numerous illegal border crossing sqirmishes in norther neighboring Soviet-controlled countries such as Tajikistan.
6. The Taliban provides safe havens to indicted international terrorists and goes on even further to utilize the financial support from Pakistan to allow terrorist organizations to run and maintain terrorist-bred training camps in Taliban-controlled, Afghanistan territories. These policies de-stabilize the region and endanger people around the world.
7. The United Nations Security Council has passed two resolutions – UNSCR 1267 (1999) and 1333 (2000) – demanding the Taliban cease their support for terrorism.
8. The United States has great sympathy for the Afghan people and is the largest single donor of humanitarian assistance for Afghans through the United Nations’ support efforts which, includes food, shelter, and medicine.
9. The United States participates in reviews by the United Nations Security Council to assure that the United Nations’ sanctions avoid undue humanitarian impact on the Afghanistan people. See, e.g., “INTELL Briefs“, “CIA Watch” and, “INTELL Photos” subject areas on this website.
U.S. Encounters Multiple Strikes
USA, Washington, D.C. – September 11, 2001 – In a series of multiple terrorist strikes today within the United States, a rumor was begun amongst the confusion that, the U.S. State Department office building on “E” Street had somehow been threatened by a car bomb here, however it was not struck while other targets were. Multiple targeted strike locations ensued across other parts of the United States today with a variety of explosively destructive techniques.
In Arlington, Virginia the Pentagon building was struck today by a terrorist group implementing a kamikaze style air strike. Used in the attack was a commandeered U.S. commercially flown passenger airline which, was “flown to impact” on the Pentagon building itself which, resulted in the destruction of its west wall and inner building areas. The passenger airline was used as the sole source of destruction by nose-diving it into and colliding with the Nation’s largest military single aboveground complex building here. The specific building-area destroyed was already under a partial re-construction effort included reinforcing ( via retro-fitting ) the building’s “window structures” to defend against armor-piercing bullet and small rocket projectile penetration plastic laminate glass and, outside eavesdropping penetration by using honeycomb-designed plastic-layer window tint.
Also, in another part of the United States at approximately 8:45 a.m. in New York City, New York both of the World Trade Center twin tower buildings were attacked using two ( 2 ) separately commandeered U.S. passenger airlines in yet another kamikaze nosedive attack where they were flown-to-impact at a speed of approximately 300-knots for these strikes. The second twin tower building impact strike came at approximately 9:03 a.m..
The twin-tower buildings, formerly standing 110 stories tall, were instantly reduced in minutes to only about 15 stories tall, that initially remained of these twisted behemoth structures made of steel reinforced concrete cement and glass.
An estimated fifty-thousand ( 50,000 ) human lives appeared trapped within and outside ‘all area buildings affected including those on sidewalks and streets in adjacent areas. In the aftermath of this World Trade Center dual-strike, traffic vehicles ( buses, trucks, and cars loaded with human occupants as well as pedestrians in adjacent areas were literally disintegrated and/or melded into streets and sidewalks littered with building rubble below where buildings once towered.
A new type of very ugly 21st Century graveyard appeared below where the twin-tower structures once stood after they began collapsing ‘inwardly’ in a cascading fountain of flames, smoke and melted destructive rubble.
CIA WATCH
Former CIA Monsters Out Of Control
USA, District of Columbia, Washington - September 11, 2001 – Brought to past, the devastating kamikaze air strike on three ( 3 ) locations within the United States with commandeered commercial passenger jet aircraft airlines flown-to-impact created a wake of death and mass destruction the likes of which the World has never seen during peacetime. These attacks were wrought on American soil sites from out of the extremist and radical wrath of paramilitary global-wide Islamic-extremist terrorist cell groups.
Names: There are a multitude of group and splinter group names and some with “no names”. Identifying a terrorist cell via its “label” will not necessarily serve to identify the true culprits of their terrorist attacks in these instances since, many cells are instantly formed and then disbanded and then members are re-joined and split-up into yet another variety of other cells some of whom either have no names per se or simply new “given names” from Usama bin Laden, himself. In short, pinpointing culprits for any long periods of time is next to impossible due to flexibilities in their operational planning, intelligence and, terrorist methodologies or works. Here’s the short list:
Pakistani run camps near Miranshah ( Afghan – Pakistan border town );
Harkatul Ansar (aka) HUA;
Jamiatul Mujahideen ( 250 soldiers + ).;
( unkown name: Bangladesh, India based Islamic militant group );
International Islamic Front For Jihad Against Jews & Crusaders;
al-Gama’a al-Islamiya;
Egyptian Islamic Jihad;
Aden-Abyan Islamic Army;
Gama’at al-Islamiya;
Harakat Ul-Mujahidin;
al-Qa’ida (aka) al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda fighter wing (aka) 055 Brigade;
Islamic Army;
World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders;
Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Places;
Usama Bin Laden Network;
Usama Bin Laden Organization;
The Group for the Preservation of the Holy Sites;
Islamic Salvation Foundation;
Some of Usama bin Laden terrorist camp names are: Salman Farsi, Badar 1, Badar 2, and Saiful Islam - inside Afghanistan – and others elsewhere.
Description: Established by Usama bin Ladin around 1990 to bring together Arabs who fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet invasion. He through the direction of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, helped finance, recruit, transport, and train Sunni Islamic extremists for the Afghan resistance against the Soviet Union. His current goal is to “re-establish the Muslim State” throughout the World. He works with allied militant Islamic-extremist groups to overthrow regimes it deems “non-Islamic” and remove Westerners from Muslim countries. Usama’s issued statement under banner of “The World Islamic Front for Jihad Against The Jews and Crusaders” in February 1998, said in short that, “it is the duty of all Muslims to kill US citizens, civilian or military, and their allies everywhere in the World”.
Global Activities: Primary terrorist training camps are located deep inside Afghanistan subterranean bases. One headquarters is in the Kandahar province area. Specifically, Jalalabad and Khost, Afghanistan were bombed by over eight ( 80 ) cruise missiles launched by the United States. His groups conducted the bombings of both U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania on August 7, 1998 killed at least 301 persons and injured more than 5,000 others. He claims to have shot down U.S. helicopters and killed U.S. servicemen in Somalia in 1993 and, to have conducted three (3) bombings targeted against the U.S. troop presence in Aden, Yemen in December 1992. He’s linked to plans for attempted terrorist operations, include the attempted assassination of the Pope in Manila, Philippines in late 1994 with simultaneous bombings of the U.S. and Israeli Embassies in Manila and other Asian capitals in late 1994, the mid-air bombing of a dozen U.S. trans-Pacific flights in 1995 and, a plan to kill President Clinton during a visit to the Philippines in early 1995. Usama bin Laden, continues to train, provide finance and, provide logistic support to his terrorist groups that support his goals spelled out in his fatwahs or holy orders issued which serves to be his Islamic misguided holy ruse.
More groups and camps cover the Globe from the Philippines, Bosnia, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Zimbabwe and a host of many other countries throughout the World.
Strength & Size: From several hundred to several thousand members. And, 1,200,000 million was the “Usama bin Laden estimate”. Also serves as the core of a loose umbrella organization that includes many Sunni Islamic extremist groups, including factions of others.
Location & Area of Operation: The U.S. Embassy bombings in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania underscore the Usama bin Laden, al-Qa’ida global reach. Usama bin Laden and his key lieutenants in Afghanistan maintained some of its primary terrorist training camps and groups there. Aden, Yemen where the U.S.S. Cole was bombed in an attack, has just as tightly a knit group of supporters which is said to be an ideal second or back-up location to that of Afghanistan as a base of operations for Usama bin Laden and his other groups.
Yemen officials however, have been known to provide sanctuary for other leaders of terrorist organizations by housing them right inside their own palace homes. Such was the case for terrorist, Sheikh Tariq Bin Nasir Bin Abdullah al-Fathli (aka) Tariq al-Fathli.
External Aid: Usama bin Laden (aka) Osama bin Laden, is the son of a billionaire Yemen family based in Saudi Arabia family, who is believed to have initially inherited what amounted to approximately $300,000,000 million dollars he may have used as seed money start-up financing for the global terrorist network base al-Qa’ida (aka) al Qaeda believed deriving its terrorist financing support from other money-making businesses, monetary donations and property collections from like-minded supporters, global funds illicitly siphoned from donations – by both, ‘witting’ and ‘unwitting’ others – provided through a host of others to and including multiple Muslim charitable organizations and Islam religious organizations, amongst which but not limited to, the Islamic Salvation Foundation and others.
CIA WATCH
Libya Gaddafi Ultimatum For U.S. Oil Company Interests
LIBYA, Tripoli - September 13, 2001 – On the heels of 9/11, one of the primary supporters of international terrorism against the West is Libya where back into the limelight sees its leader Colonel Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi who enlightened the World and the United States with an unfriendly reminder, “U.S. oil company’s ‘oil leases’ are about to expire in Libya” – and if the U.S. wants to renew its ‘oil lease’ for yet another 15-years, the U.S. must lift its ‘trade ban’ against Libya.
The United States may be concerned over Gaddafi’s potential oil lease resales and or oil lease renewals of U.S. oil company’s former oil lease properties there. The “sell-out” will make instant the pathway for yet another third world country to benefit and thereby bolster its economy that could provide further state fund global terrorism.
Afghanistan is interested in the oil lease deal with Libya as are other state sponsored supporters, of terrorism, offering safe harbor to terrorist groups undermining interests of the U.S.
Gaddafi has his country’s own new problems threatening what he believes is a CIA backed group, the SUDAN PEOPLE’S LIBERATION ARMY ( SPLA ) [ background, see: FIRST INTERNATIONAL BANK OF GRENADA LTD. founder Van Brink meetings with SPLA chief commanders for NEW SUDAN currency, Uganda African Reserve entity and other development plannings. ] leading Civil War strife in Libya to dislodge its leader Gadaffi.
In 1999, a little known about ceremony between Libya and the United Kingdom ( UK ) lifting trade sanctions between those two ( 2 ) countries. The United States has not been pleased with the British decision for making the deal they did with Gaddafi.
Britain was handed on a silver platter ( so-to-speak ), by Gaddafi, his own two ( 2 ) former Libya government intelligence agents – responsible for the 1998 killing of 270 passengers aboard the PanAm jumb jet passenger airline crash over Lockerbie, Scotland – in-exchange for the UK lifting its former trade ban sanctions with Libya.
The outcome, of Britain’s exchange for these two ( 2 ) Libya intelligence agents ( sacrificed by Gaddafi ), amounted to:
- In a Scottish court – located in The Netherlands - the two ( 2 ), Lamine Khalifa Fhimah and Abdel-Baset Ali Al-Megrahi, were tried;
- Abdel-Baset AliAl-Megrahi was sentenced to ‘life imprisonment’ ( now under appeal ) [ note: freed in 2010 ]; and,
- Lamine Khalifa was acquitted, freed on all criminal charges.
At the current time however, a British citizen is now actually putting together a “tourist program” with Libya, which probably won’t last if the SUDAN PEOPLE’S LIBERATION ARMY ( SPLA ) has anything to say about it to Gaddafi.
CIA WATCH
Pakistan Taliban Corruption U. S. Trap
PAKISTAN, Peshwar – September 14, 2001 – Pakistan money funneling via the Pakistan Ambassador to the Taliban government and its terrorist sponsors has gone on for years to the tune of millions of Rs. Some of the covert ruses used to launder terrorist monies out of Pakistan were earmarked for “road repairs in Kabul”.
Over 1,000 Sunni-Islamic religion extremist-type radical students known as the, Madressah are responsible for the majority of the uprisings within Pakistan. These specific students have Afghanistan’s Taliban, al-Qaeda-influenced government agents who have incited and nurtured these students into creating virtual hotbeds for anti-U.S. sentiment throughout Pakistan.
Only twenty-five ( 25 ) miles from Peshawar, Pakistan hundreds of student radicals amass on occasion at the Darul Uloom Haqania facility at Akora Khattak as a staging platform for violent student protests which serve to disrupt Pakistan societal norms along with disrupting the current U.S. cooperative dictatorship already in place.
PARALLEL GOVERNMENTS & TAKEOVERS
CENTRAL ASIA & SOUTHWEST ASIA
ISLAMIC MILITANTS IN AFGHANISTAN
Global Surrogate Warfare Training Center
Pakistan, Islamabad – September 12th, 2001 - Islam militant extremists with Pakistan government controllers supported and assisted for years in the creation of the current Afganistan government Taliban rule.
With the United States as the primary donor and some others, the U.S. has been pumping millions of dollars in supposed “aid” into Pakistan under the ruse of “refugee aid support” for those displaced Afghanis who migrated to Pakistan during the Soviet-Afghan War, years ago. Now, whether the refugees actually ever received all the aid sent them or, whether that aid was turned around and sold throughout the World for arms is anyone’s guess at this point.
Afghanistan’s Taliban government today, controls approximately 70% of its geographic territory. The Taliban’s opposing force today is another Islamic militant religious extremist group Hezb-i Wahdat.
The Hezb-i Wahdat happens to be a former ruling Islamic party occupant of Afghanistan which, continues to receive covert support from Iran and occupies the northern region of Afghanistan.
The Taliban government has been permitting the Usama bin Laden Islamic-extremist paramilitary terrorist group al Qaeda and other radical Islamic-extremist terrorist cells ‘free harbor’ and, continuing sanctuary for the sole purpose of furthering it’s own beliefs and those of its terrorists in training visitors. In short, Afghanistan is nothing more than “terrorist hot bed warfare training camps” now nestled in the hills above what used to be bustling cities and homes to millions of Afghani people.
Looking at Afganistan, a country rich in history and tradition, it was once the crossroads of the ancient and medieval worlds. Today however, Afghanistan is suffering a humanitarian crisis unprecedented in its history due to it having been riddled with so many Islamic militant extremist groups backed by so many foreign country’s covert support operations that one has to wonder who’s really in control of the country of Afghanistan. It’s not as simple as dropping a bob on Afganistan to truely rid the World of Islamic-based terrorist cells. One (1) bomb will not solve the problem for the United States and “that” is what the President Bush hinted at recently when he told the Nation that “we are fighting a new war where the enemy hides in the shadows”.
Approximately 2.5-million Afghan people are refugees now in Pakistan and Iran, ½-million others are internally displaced and, 1-million or more are at risk of famine. This catastrophe is the result of over twenty (20) years of war and the worst drought in memory. The ruling Taliban regime is doing little to alleviate the suffering of the Afghan people.
Developments in Afghanistan are spilling over into the states of Central Asia, which are still emerging from seventy (70) years of Soviet rule.
The five (5) Central Asian states, i.e. Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan, are threatened by a lucrative opium and heroin trade, financial crisis, refugee migration flows, and the potential rise of Islamic opposition movements. Above all else, these states fear internal economic collapse, which could send them begging to Moscow for economic and security assistance.
The Islamic Republic of Iran harbors three (3) especially deep suspicions of the Taliban:
1. Deep doctrinal differences divide the religious leaderships in the two countries.;
2. A Taliban-led Afghanistan adds to Iran’s sense of encirclement by hostile Sunni states following what appears to be their de facto or de jure Mesiah, Usama bin Laden.; and,
3. Taliban’s treatment of Shi’ite minorities in Afghanistan arouses alarm in Tehran, Iran.
There are divisional factions which, exist within Iran about whether to engage the Taliban directly in war or, to continue covert support for the Hezb-i-Wahdat (aka) Unity Party, a predominantly Shi’ite umbrella party fighting to overthrow the Taliban today.
Recent border skirmishes between Iran and Afghanistan and the Soviet concern focused at their Tajik-Afghan border, highlights the real potential for an expansion of tensions to a wider, interstate war.
Brief History of Hizb-i Wahdat (aka) Unity Party
In 1988, Iran united eight (8) Shi’a Islamic parties – except for the Harakat-i Islami – into the, Hizb-i Wahdat for Afghanistan.;
In 1993, Hizb-i Wahdat split into factions allied respectively with Jamiat and Hizb.;
In February 1995, Commander Massoud took over Kabul, Afghanistan in an offensive after its ally, Hizb-i Islam, had been defeated by the Taliban.
In January 1996, Iran announced it had once again re-united the same Islamic factions and reconciled them under the rule of President B. Rabbani for Afghanistan.;
Hizb-i Wahdat was use to effectively controlling Central Afghanistan and Hazarajat remained under the control of Hizb-i Wahdat, though initially the Jamiat government and later, the Taliban contested their power in the town of Bamiyan, Afghanistan.
In late August 1998, Hizb-i Wahdat continued its control over the Hazarajat which, was under the Taliban’s blockade from both the north and south. Hizb-i Wahdat was pushed northward by the Taliban and became the major military force in northern Afghanistan and also, became the backbone of the resistance force, opposing Taliban government control attempts to capture Mazar-i Sharif.
INTELL NEWS
Suspect Mix-Up WTC Disaster
USA, New York – September 14, 2001 - CNN issued a correction today for their having wrongfully reported and accused two (2) men of being the terrorist-pilot(s) who flew into New York’s World Trade Center (aka) WTC buildings on September 11, 2001.
CNN’s statement read in-part:
“We would like to correct a report that appeared on CNN. Based on information from multiple law enforcement sources, CNN reported that, Adnan Bukhari and Ameer Bukhari ( Vero Beach, Florida ) were suspected to being two ( 2 ) of the pilots who crashed planes into the World Trade Center. CNN later learned that Adnan Bukhari is still in Florida, where he was questioned by the FBI. We are sorry for the misinformation. A federal law enforcement source now tells CNN that Bukhari passed an FBI polygraph and is not considered a suspect. Through his attorney, Bukhari says that he is helping authorities. Ameer Bukhari died in a small plane crash last year.”
CNN reported information from ”multiple law enforcement agencies” was correct however, it was the “information from multiple law enforcement sources” that was “not correct” which, led them to post the false information that Adnan Bukhari was one of the hijacking pilots. And that he was dead after blowing up the World Trade Center. And that his brother Ameer was another hijacking pilot. And that he was dead after blowing up the World Trade Center, too.
The problems with law enforcement’s stories to CNN were that Adnan Bukhari is alive and well and lives in Florida, and Adnan Bukhari was ‘not’ on any hijacked plane. Adnan Bukhari’s brother Ameer Bukhari had already died in an unrelated small plane crash the previous year ( 2000 ), making it impossible for him to have hijacked and been piloting any aircraft into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Not that consideration for things like ‘facts’ have ever deterred the World of ‘multiple law enforcement sources’ from falsely accusing anyone.
These ‘multiple law enforcement sources who publicly proclaimed the guilt and deaths of two ( 2 ) people who had nothing whatsoever to do with the World Trade Center bombing and who were nowhere near the scene is the same law enforcement group who expects us to believe them when they claim that Usama bin Laden had something to do with it, too.
The fact that their are a plethora of higher level suspects than Usama bin Laden himself and better equipped terrorist organizations having a pattern for ‘suicide bombings’ lead one to believe the ‘true terrorists’ are not being publicized ‘yet’. This might very well be for U.S. Government security concerns.
Last year, the U. S. Department Of Justice claimed Usama bin Laden was involved with a man who snuck into Seattle, Washington from Canada to blow up ’millennium issue targets’. What was the proof? This same man, who crossed into Seattle happened to have lived somewhere in Afghanistan during the 1970s as did Usama bin Laden. That seemed to be the sum total of the ‘proof’. It’s an example of what ‘ties to Usama bin Laden meant in previous reports.
From the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen to the shores of New York, the Usama bin Laden name is on the headlines everywhere. What is not found, however are any media mentions linking the American attacks on any other terrorist leader or group.
Another group, Hezbollah (aka) Hizbullah (aka) Hizballa, exhibited a long-standing history of suicide boat bombers and their incredible global networking of terrorist strike sophistication.
Usama bin Laden worked shoulder-to-shoulder with U.S. persons long ago in Afghanistan. Today, he leads a significant group of individuals and influences see at least four ( 4 ) governments providing ‘turn the other way’ official attitudes when their own resident terrorist cells attack tourists and others abroad.
We needed someone to envision a picture of the enemy for us to focus on. Let’s hope we aren’t looking at the wrong picture.
CNN Issued Correction: [ http://web.archive.org/web/20020209205305/http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/13/america.attack/ ]
CIA WATCH
Satellite Links Usama Bin Laden Hideout
YEMEN, Aden - September 17, 2001 - Usama bin Laden left Sudan for Afghanistan in 1996. While in Sudan, though, he had actually been fighting in Afghanistan for most of those 5-years. But, he made plans to leave his former al-Qaeda headquarters within the Kandahar province of Afghanistan, long before mid-August of 2001.
Bin Laden newly eyed home, in Yemen, will probably be tucked away yet situated near a 350-meter tall cliff topped by a summit in the Yemen more mountainous regions. This area also happens to be riddled with man-made caves that are still controlled by, the Bani Dhabyan tribesmen out of Khawlan province near Shibam, Yemen. Germans built the road to the top of this mountain region many years ago.
The German influence is prevalent in Yemen. YEMENIA AIRWAYS caters to German citizen tourists, but, not all Yemeni’s are friendly toward most tourists and that, includes the Germans. See, e.g., “Foreign Briefs“, on this website.
CIA WATCH
[ photo ( above ) Sheikh Tariq Bin Nasir Bin Abdullah al-Fathli (aka) Sheikh Tariq Al-Fathli (aka) Sheikh Tariq Fadli ( circa: 1980 ) ]
Hostages Always Moved To Yemen Mountains
YEMEN, Aden - Terrorist tribesmen here, kidnapped Germany diplomat Commercial Attaché Rainer Burns who was moved to a mountainous region where Yemen government military forces – familiar with the region - could not reach. After pointing guns, at the head of German hostage Rainer Burns - threatening to kill him if Yemen government forces made any attempt to intervene - the terrorists fired five ( 5 ) Rocket Propelled Grenade ( RPG ) missiles at Yemen military soldiers.
According to a ‘source’ within the terrorist tribe camp, Rainer Burns - walked by his abductors up into the mountainous area -health condition had greatly deteriorated, and that his primary kidnap leaders Mohammed Ali Al-Zaidi, Ahmed Ali Al-Zaidi and a third ( 3rd) person - all belonging to the Al-Zaidi tribe - refused to turn over diplomat hostage Burns ( and / or themselves ) to Sheikh Rabish bin Ka’alan, Sheikh Sultan Al-Aradah, and Sheikh Tariq Bin Nasir Bin Abdullah al-Fathli (aka) Sheikh Tariq al-Fathli (aka) Sheikh Tariq Fadli.
Sheikh Tariq Bin Nasir Bin Abdullah al-Fathli, sent by the Yemen President along with the other two ( 2 ) aforementioned Sheikhs, is a well-known Commander of a Usama bin Laden led terrorist cell network.
Sheikh Tariq Bin Nasir Bin Abdullah al-Fathli background is unique because at an earlier time period Sheikh Tariq al-Fathli was - for committing terrorist crimes – wanted by Yemen government authority ‘interests’ whom saw him become a resident ‘house guest’ ( of an ‘official’ for the Yemen Interior Ministry’ ) rather than become imprisoned.
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Why Yemen?
Usama bin Laden’s Father was originally from these reaches. Besides, Usama “himself” went on record telling on himself and of his plan to return to Yemen in order to save Afghanistan from destruction should the United States come looking for him there. (see below)
Usama bin Laden billionaire tycoon father led a Saudi Arabia based firm The BinLaden Group. Today this international firm is a multi-billion dollar concrete cement building contractor that builds posh skyscraping hotels, including the FOUR SEASONS Hotel & Resort chain, amongst others.
The BinLaden Group also builds interstate roads and airport runways and has at its disposal a plethora of engineers familiar with construction and demolition techniques.
Even the U.S. based PORTLAND CEMENT organization looks in awe at The BinLaden Group accomplishments and contracts that rank high in cement construction technologies.
At the current time, Usama bin Laden has more problems than just the U.S. looking for him with his ailing kidney - possibly requiring special medication and/or, dialysis by now – and his satellite phone – one cannot call easily from remote regions with simple “cell phones” since, other issues prevail. Ghazni Afghanistan government’s commercial satellite telephone center no longer has him in their phone system by choice so, who, where and, how would Usama go to for even more secure communication link-ups?
Communications is a major priority in any war campaign’s security. Where else to hide Usama’s communications links but, right under the noses of the Country who expelled him, his homeland of Saudi Arabia.
With corporate espionage being what it is and corporate contracts and bids being worth literally billions of dollars to The BinLaden Group of Usama’s Father, has established its own privatized satellite links for communications. An ideal place to hide Usama’s terrorist network communication’s signals within.
There exists, a distinctly elaborate Saudi telecommunication satellite system besides ArabSat for not only cellular and satellite phones but, for internet use as well.
What with the terrorist business of Usama and his Supervisor being what it is today, pressing needs to issue holy war orders or, war theme fatwahs, might very well be communicated not by satellite phone alone or P-C computers. Instead, of using a laptop computer which requires expensive re-chargeable batteries with an A-C power current handy, what do you do when your no where near an electrical outlet while your hiding in an Usama bin Laden man-made cave in Yemen?
Palm-Top or Hand-held P-C only use small-size batteries to operate. They’re easier to send e-mail or even issue e-fatwahs, i.e. electronic and wirelessly sent, holy Jihad orders, that could provide a new high technology slant for communicating terrorist strike plans. The use of ancient Yemen tribesman symbolic codes would make interpretation of communications extremely difficult to identify, trace and, decipher by any intelligence agency’s listening posts worldwide and could easily serve Usama bin Laden terrorist cell networks, globally.
Sending e-mailed scripture fatwahs via Palm-Top hand-held devices to communicate globally with terrorist commanders and by using just a few of oh so many tapped-into family of The Bin Laden Group privatized satellite links, Usama and his Boss would no doubt profit in terrorism and world market online stock tradings. Just simple and very easy courtesies could be extended to Usama from his Father’s old family and friends in Yemen, however makes some sense. But, how do we put Usama in Yemen especially just after the U.S.S. Cole attack?
Usama bin Laden also has another close running mate and military subordinate, i.e., Dr. Ayman Zawahri (aka) Iman Zowaheri, resident of Switzerland who is also, the leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
Escaping from Afghanistan to Sri Lanka would not be too awfully difficult but, why would Usama go to Sri Lanka? Getting in to Yemen would be easy.
Around the middle of August 2001, Yemen seized two ( 2 ) boats which came into port for re-fueling. These boats were over-filled with supposed illegals, i.e. “smuggled laborers”, many of whom had absolutely “no identification”.
The Yemen Port Authority was simply told that nothing was out of the ordinary for they only had on-board “peasants” seeking Saudi jobs where everyone knows “the money is” and where it is rumored that even for peasant laborers become rich.
There was just one problem with that story though. The number of passengers at first, totalled one hundred and sixteen ( 116 ) passengers but, only 112 were actually detained. What happened to the other four ( 4 ) passengers?
More importantly, did the “same” four ( 4 ) passengers who were “not detained” amount to the same passengers who left Yemen in yet another boat?
Or, was the boat dropping off four ( 4 ) people in Yemen? If so, ‘who’ or ‘whom’ got dropped off? ‘Who’ got back on board? And, just ‘how many passengers actually “left” Yemen? Did people get off the boat and ‘hide’, while others boarded the boat to fill those vacancies?
Yemen is newsworthy. It also just received back, some of its former citizens. Persons whom were previously exiled to Iraq, including some high level military commanders, twenty four ( 24 ) of which included one ( 1 ) Yemen Chief Intelligence Commander, as well as others who recently ( September 2001 ) arrived back in Yemen from Damascus, Syria. Were ‘all’ really in ‘exile’ in “Iraq,” or were ‘some re-routed elsewhere’, like to one of those infamous Soviet managed Syria terrorist training centers or Russia GRU military war colleges?
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24 Exiled Yemeni Military Officers Back Home
A Yemen military returnee said that 24 Yemeni army officers and politicians returned Friday to Aden, Yemen, from Damascus, Syria after having been placed in exile for the past seven ( 7 ) years.
Lt. Col. Mahdi Shaush said that a group of twenty ( 20 ) officers, four ( 4 ) civilians, plus more than seventy five ( 75 ) family members whom were all returned from exile in Damascus, Syria.
The returnees were leaders in the abortive 1994 secession attempt by former South Yemen that had been unified with former Yemen Arab Republic in 1990.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh earlier issued a pardon and gave his directives to ease the return of the exiles.
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[ click photo ( above ) Yemen Socotra Island Mountains ]
Usama bin Laden (aka) Osama bin Laden is believed by a few to have left Afghanistan before mid-August of 2001 using a small contingent security force of perhaps, ten ( 10 ) of his closest and most trusted guards, possibly to have included suditives Mohammed Atef (aka) Abu Hafs and /or Mohamed Shawqi Islambouli ( leader of the Gama’at Al-Islamiyya ) as a means by which he ( Usama bin Laden / Osama bin Laden ) could either ‘maintain’ or ‘secure’ his safehaven safe harbor in Yemen.
How would Usama bin Laden and his men manipulate circumstances thereby providing a great escape from intelligence sources?
Most often a ‘diversion’ and / or ‘low profile’ is required while hiding and /or traveling, the latter seeking to avoid monitored transportation hubs where passengers board airlines, trains, and ships, however hiding amongst a ‘smaller group’ of ‘low-profile’ individuals in unlawful transportation means exist in ‘passenger smuggling’ rarely looking deeper into those huddled in ’small boats’. Take for instance, two ( 2 ) small boats – carrying a mix of Sri Lanka peasant laborers seeking better opportunities in Saudi Arabia where yet ‘another country’ serves as ‘entry point’ via the Arabian Pennisula - ’not’ being unusual at all – serving as a relatively undetected port of entry conclusion, the ’point of arrival’ from what ‘few knew’ was a ‘much earlier departure point’ because of a diversion from what was ‘originally believed by the contigent’ as only a ‘land journey’ to Afghanistan ‘mountains’, but not those in Yemen or on its Socotra island where no one looked for Usama bin Laden (aka) Osama bin Laden.
Could Usama bin Laden (aka) Osama bin Laden have been within the two ( 2 ) small boats detained recently by Aden, Yemen Port Authority during August 2001, or earlier, as one ( 1 ) of those Sri Lanka peasant laborer ‘passengers with no ‘identification’? See, e.g. “Foreign Briefs” on this website.
It was, afterall, the Usama bin Laden pattern to be conveniently “missing” from where he was always thought to be at, while in Afghanistan.
Usama bin Laden, in his own words even said, “Before the U.S. strikes out against Afghanistan to turn me over to U.S. authority, I will return to the birthplace of my Father. In essence Usama planned on, Yemen, years ago but, once again every Country’s intelligence service missed that piece of juicy foreign information.
A rather interesting and recent note should be attached to Usama bin Laden’s running mate now. Swiss resident, Dr. Ayman Zawahri, was recently made to be a part of a highly unusual “staged abduction” of himself. This odd act was sponsored by, Egyptian Intelligence Service agents in Cairo, Egypt. This was odd, for some individuals actually witnessed and reported it. Dr. Zawahri is wanted on serious charges in Cairo and around the World but, was secretly released shortly after his staged abduction by Egyptian authorities before he disappeared again.
Even stranger, was the fact that one ( 1 ) of the former attacks on the New York World Trade Center – years ago – [ 1993 ] had an interesting defendant who was recently convicted. This particular co-bomber was a U.S. Citizen, former member of the U.S. Special Forces and Egypt Army Sergeant, a 48-yr. old named Ali Mohamed who was also an ‘intelligence officer’ for the Usama bin Laden supreme terrorist cell al-Qaeda.
So it seems as though Usama bin Laden’s ability to recruit extremely talented mercenaries into his waged holy-war campaign against Americans is not such a difficult task for him to accomplish.
The United States had planned to try to cement a permanent U.S. military base facility on the Yemen island of Socotra which, is the ironic part of Usama’s move here but, it was also the birthplace of his Father too.
Usama bin Laden is the Son-in-Law of Afghanistan’s Taliban Supreme Leader, i.e. Mullah Mohammad Omar, who went on record as saying that, “Even if one-half of Afghanistan is destroyed by war, I wouldn’t give up the other half for turning over Usama bin Laden to the United States” and then went and noted that besides, “one-half of Afghanistan is ‘already’ destroyed by war.” Usama bin Laden , a couple of years ago, married his fourth ( 4th ) wife ( when she was just 14-years old ).
Usama bin Laden Arab volunteers are currently involved in Taliban military offensives throughout the northern regions of Afghanistan but, in particular opposition to the Northern Alliance (aka) United Front forces there near their neighboring other countries.
Usama bin Laden vowed long ago that before Afghanistan was targeted for destruction from United States efforts to secure him that, he would return to the homeland of his Father which, was Yemen but, in a mountainous region of northern Yemen.
Usama bin Laden’s father – originally from Yemen – was a non-royal family citizen of Saudi Arabia and a billionaire tycoon who headed up The Bin Laden Group that provides cement building contract services including construction efforts on international multi-billion dollar interstate roadways, airstrip runways and hotels such as the global expanse of the well known Four Seasons Hotel chain and other interests.
Usama bin Laden was to receive a portion of his Father’s inheritance wealth which was said to be valued around $300-million dollars when, Usama had his citizenship revoked by Saudi Arabia. Usama bin Laden never personally collected the $300-million inheritance however, he may have arranged for it to be held as security on loans for purchasing other revenue generating non-governmental organizations.
Today, Usama bin Laden is said to be worth in excess of $500-million dollars and hides the vast amount of his money in a Swiss-bordered bank probably under an alias provided by his best friend, Dr. Ayman Zawahri.
It’s been a long and arduous struggle for Usama in Afghanistan which, began with his U.S. backed war efforts ousting the Russia led Soviet Army in 1989, his work with the Mujahideen and now finally the Taliban.
CIA WATCH
Britain Bombs Iraq
IRAQ, Basra – September 18, 2001 - U.S. Air Force ( USAF ) Joint Task Force Southwest Asia ( JTFSA ) – based in Saudi Arabia – said United Kingdom ( UK ) military Tornado airplanes bombed – an anti-aircraft surface-to-air ( SAM ) missile site in southern Iraq on Tuesday - in retaliating against Iraq for “hostile activities” against airplanes patrolling a no-fly zone. The strike targeted a position ‘near’ Basra, 350-miles south of the Baghdad, Iraq capital.
The strikes were in response to past Iraq hostile activities also experienced today. No immediate report on damage or comment from Iraq.
Iraq, for months, improved its ability to fire missiles at both U. S. and UK aircraft patrolling a no fly zone in southern Iraq. No-fly zones in both ‘southern’ and ‘northern’ Iraq were established after the 1991 Persian Gulf War to protect Shiite Muslims and Kurdish minorities.
Iraq said, last week, it downed a second ( 2nd ) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ( UAV ), a ‘remote piloted’ airborne military ground surveillance vehicle. See, e.g. “Pegasus Program” ( below ).
United States authorities confirmed disappearance of a ‘drone’ but are still investigating its fate. No descriptive information was provided as to the UAV ’type’ believed downed.
Osama Bin Laden & Carlos The Jackal Sudan Links
SUDAN, Khartoum – September 19, 2001 – The world’s public enemy number one used to be, Carlos (aka) The Jackal, i.e. Ilyich Ramirez-Sanchez. Today, there exists a link between Carlos “The Jackal” and 43-year old Usama bin Laden. Both persons years ago, happened to be in Khartoum, Sudan at the same time.
It was Khartoum, Sudan where Usama bin Laden set up his own construction business called the, Bin Laden Company Of Khartoum.
Now there are many places in the world that breed terrorist groups, however Yemen is like the Club Med of terrorist camps.
Within Yemen there exists a group known as the Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan containing both Salafi and Islamic Jihad elements.
In 1995, the Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan established a terrorist training camp in the mountains at Hatat, Yemen – about 35-km north of Zinjibar – in Abyan Province [ Yemen ] with the help of instructors from various countries.
In May 1995, Yemen police and Yemen military troops used military heavy artillery and military helicopter gun ships to attack the Hatat mountain terrorist training camp after complaints from tribal and community leaders in Yafa’.
Hatat mountain terrorist training camp was described as ‘practically impregnable’. The results of those security force attack efforts are ‘unknown publicly’.
Arab Afghans, who fought in the Afghanistan War, later became known as Muslim volunteers who fought against the Soviet Union Red Army in Afghanistan. The Soviet military withdrawal left many of these volunteer fighters at loose ends although still filled with the spirit of Jihad (aka) Holy War; often made them unwelcome when they tried to return to their home countries. In some ways they were like U.S. Viet Nam War veterans – deprived of adrenaline and unable to adjust to a quiet life.
But unlike the Vietnam veterans, their efforts had not been futile. They had defeated a superpower and were flushed with success. Many – including Osama bin Laden himself – told of narrow escapes from death which led them to believe that Allah ( God ) had preserved them for a purpose.
Two ( 2 ) prominent figures have been named in connection as leaders of Islamic militant religious radical terrorist organizations:
FIRST – Usama bin Laden, who allegedly provided the group with funds and whose extradition from Sudan was sought during 1993 in Yemen where his family came originally from [ Aden, Yemen ] but a few family members moved north to Saudi Arabia where they prospered and were later joined by the rest of the bin Laden family following the UK withdrawal from Aden, Yemen and the consequential Marxist takeover there. Today there are about fifty ( 50 ) members of the bin Laden family – Saudia Arabia citizens – with primary interests in the construction industry. They are considered the wealthiest non-royal family in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
During the 1980s, during the Soviet – Afghanistan War, Usama bin Laden – in common with many other Saudi businessmen – saw a ‘religious duty to support Islamic rebels financially’ against the Soviet regime in Moscow. He ‘could afford to be more generous’, than most, and became more deeply involved than most. Not only did he pay for weapons and what, by his own account, were thousands of Muslim volunteers from the Middle East and North Africa to join the Mujahideen ( Soviet Afghanistan War veterans ), He went there himself and took part in the fighting. Osama bin Laden, using the resources of his construction business, blasted new guerrilla trails across the mountains and tunneled into the rock to create underground hospitals and armament depots in Afghanistan.
In 1989, Usama bin Laden relations became strained with Saudi Arabia authorities who confiscated his passport.
In 1991, when his passport was returned, Osama bin Laden moved to Sudan where he founded the BIN LADEN COMPANY ( Khartoum, Sudan ), a business specializing in construction and the export of sesame seeds. Many veterans of the Afghan war also joined him in Khartoum, Sudan.
Osama bin Laden, although not convicted of any crime, Egypt, Algeria, Jordan and, Yemen authorities named him as a ‘financial source’ where funds were expended for bombing and assassination campaigns.
Osama bin Laden, was an ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ in the U.S. list of those bombing the World Trade Center.
In 1994, Osama bin Laden was formally disowned by his Saudi Arabia relatives and stripped of his Saudi Arabia citizenship for “irresponsible activities” harming the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia international relations. With financial and human resources to mount attacks in the name of Islam almost anywhere in the world, Osama bin Laden and his associates directed their efforts not only against unbelievers of the Islamic faith but against other Muslims deemed strays from the Islamic “true path.”
Also in 1994, in Jordan he was named in court as having funded a plot to assassinate politicians and bomb cinemas, nightclubs, video shops and liquor outlets. The twenty-five ( 25 ) accused including Osama bin Laden son-in-law Muhammad Khalifa who was tried in absentia. Muhammad Khalifa has business interests in the Philippines where he was linked to the Abu Sayyaf (aka) Father of the Executioner, a group that attacked Christians, allegedly plotted to kill the Pope and blow-up U.S. airliners over the Pacific Ocean.
According to claims of intelligence services, Osama bin Laden and his associates funded armed Islamic struggles in Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, The Netherlands ( Holland ), Pakistan, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Syria, Tanzania, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States and Yemen.
SECOND – Sheikh Tariq Bin Nasir Bin Abdullah al-Fadli (aka) Tariq al-Fadli (aka) Sheikh Tariq Al-Fathli, an important figure in Yemen terrorism during the early 1990s – though a very different character tha Osama bin Laden. Tariq al-Fathli was a ‘sheikh’ from a prominent South Yemen family, the Fathli Family. Prior to the Marxist takeover of Yemen, the Sheikh Fathli Family controlled one ( 1 ) of the biggest cotton plantations outside Aden, Yemen where a huge share of all southern exports passed through Sheikh Tarik Family businesses. Perhaps more importantly still, is that the Sheikh Fathli Family also controlled the ‘water’ supply. Very soon after the establishment of Marxist rule the Fathli Family moved to Saudi Arabia. Following unification, Tariq al-Fathli returned to Yemen to claim his inheritance as heir to the ‘Sultan of Yemen’ who 25-years earlier was deposed from the Abyan province ( Yemen ).
Sheikh Tariq al-Fathli gathered around himself a number of Soviet-Afghanistan War veterans ( Mujahideen ), members of his own tribe, and religious opponents of the Yemen Socialist Party (aka) YSP.
Sheikh Tariq al-Fathli was said, at one point, to be seeking 12,000 “heroes” to help him “save Muslims in Bosnia, wage war on the authorities and bring down the regime which he considered outside Islam, intimate with unbelievers.” Whatever the motives of his helpers and backers, it seems that Shiekh Fathli had given his campaign a religious tinge merely to win support in pursuit of a far more personal and mundane goal: to take revenge on those who had dispossessed his family and to obtain restitution of their property.
In the aftermath of the Aden, Yemen hotel bombings at the end of 1992, hundreds of people were arrested and several caches of weapons discovered. NOTE: The southern Yemeni authorities, who were still controlled by the YSP, were generally more vigorous in their response to terrorism than their northern counterparts – though often no more successful in catching the culprits. The trail pointed to a group of “Afghans” led by, Sheikh Tariq al-Fathli who was eventually besieged at his home in the Maraqasha mountains, 20-km from coast of Abyan, Yemen.
Despite sending their Third Armoured Brigade having been sent to arrest Sheikh Tariq al-Fathli, southern authorities found themselves powerless to act. A military spokesman explained: “The forces could not reach the Sheikh’s stronghold which is protected by a large guard in a village in a chain of rugged mountains. We don’t want to use warplanes because that could injure the citizens in villages which are geographically integral with the sheikh’s stronghold.” The authorities then had to content themselves with sealing off all possible escape routes and urging the Maraqasha tribe to withdraw its confidence from the sheikh.
By this stage Sheikh Fathli was presenting himself as a supporter of the Yemeni Islah Party and a victim of South Yemen intrigue. He appealed directly to the party leader, Shaykh Abdullah al-Ahmar, for a guarantee of safe conduct to Sana’a. Shaykh Abdullah, who is Speaker of the Yemen Parliament, responded initially with a sharp rebuff, saying in a letter to Sheikh Fathli: “We do not protect criminals,” though in fact the appeal placed him in a difficult position. The affairs of Abyan were outside Sheikh Abdullah’s tribal purview and the Sheikh Fathli affair was not strictly a tribal matter. On the other hand, it might be politically unwise for Islah to refuse to deal with an important local opponent of the YSP.
By one means or another, however, Sheikh Tariq Al-Fathli (aka) Sheikh Tariq Fadli escaped the siege and arrived – accompanied by a delegation of Abyan tribal leaders guarded by a North Yemen army unit – at the house of Sheikh Abdullah ( Sana’a, Yemen ) with an appointment to meet the President next day.
The ‘official’ story, differed:
Sheikh Fadli (aka) Sheikh Tariq Al-Fathli had ‘peacefully surrendered to authorities’ and was ‘reported to the public prosecutor’ for ‘questioning in connection with the attempted assassination’ of Ali Salih Abbad Muqbil – a member of the YSP and secretary of the party’s organization in Abyan – plus, ‘various bombings’ in Aden.
In-fact Sheikh Tariq Al-Fathli (aka) Sheikh Tariq Fadli was never ‘imprisoned’ – though he spent some time at the Sana’a, Yemen house of Sheikh Abdullah.
In 1994, during the war between North Yemen and South Yemen, Sheikh Tariq Al-Fathli fought on the side of the President who in South Yemen saw him become the leading Sheikh ( Tariq Al-Fathli ).
Sheikh Tariq Al-Fathli appeared to have severed all links with Jama’at al-Jihad and urged his erstwhile followers to get regular jobs and work in the system.
Despite the religious connotations of the name “Jihad” it is still unclear what the organization primary aim was or whether it even had one.
At one level, Jihad could be regarded as part of a worldwide Islamic struggle with a marked anti-Soviet emphasis that found its Yemen parallel in waging war on the YSP. At another level, some of its supporters were concerned that the name merely provided a ‘moral cloak’ for essentially parochial interests and / or personal grievances.
Any or all of its diverse elements may well have considered themselves the “real” Jihad, each trying to make use of the others – through a tactical alliance much in the same way Usama bin Laden is doing today.
The confusion of purposes is nowhere more striking than in the case of the Aden, Yemen hotel bombings that were assumed connected with the use of the hotels by the U.S. military during their operations in Somalia, which would seem to imply an attack on the spread of Western culture and values in Yemen, however some of those involved also had links to an earlier terrorist campaign in South Yemen organized and funded by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) with assistance from Britain ( UK ) and Saudi Arabia.
Between 1977 and 1979, members of the Red Army Faction terrorist organization underwent weapons training at a Palestine terrorist training camp and then took refuge in South Yemen to evade authorities of Germany.
In 1979, the plot began – intent on weakening the Yemen PDRY government – and involved recruiting Yemen saboteurs, twelve ( 12 ) of whom were captured, tortured and later executed for ‘trying’ to blow up a bridge.
Between 1978 and 1986, Ilyich Ramirez-Sanchez (aka) Carlos the Jackal ‘frequently used’ a Diplomat passport issued in South Yemen.
There was a period – by chance or circumstance – when shortly before Ilyich Ramirez-Sanchez (aka) Carlos the Jackal was finally arrested – both he and Osama bin Laden (aka) Usama bin Laden lived in Khartoum, Sudan.
Prior to 1990, the Yemen unification year, South Yemen was controlled by the YSP political party ( Marxist ideology ) led government and black-listed – for state sponsored terrorism – by the United States ( U.S. ).
The 1992 Yemen hotel bombings may not so much have been directed against the United States as it may have been against the YSP in reprisal by relatives over the twelve ( 12 ) saboteurs executed for ‘attempting’ a crime.
In recent years Yemen ‘generally tries to cooperate’ with other countries ‘trying to combat terrorism’ netting limited success, the West believes because if Yemen was seen tightening control over its citizens, such actions would be viewed internationally as a behavior against democracy.
Factors Make Yemen An Attractive Haven For Terrorists
1. Yemen land and sea borders are virtually impossible to guard;
2. Yemen government-presence authority in many parts of the country is minimal;
3. Very rugged, sparsely populated terrain makes it easy to train guerrillas and construct well-defended hideouts; and,
4. Yemen religious diversity means that most varieties of Islamic militants can find someone, somewhere, to shelter them.
Reference
http://web.archive.org/web/20020601211014/communities.msn.com/AnExCIA/intelldata.msnw
INTELL NEWS
Website Names Linked To 9/11 Attacks 1-Yr. Ago
U.S.A., Washington, D.C. – September 19, 2001 - Terrorists who planned and executed the September 11, 2001 attack on America may have registered as many as twenty ( 20 ) internet domain names (aka) URL website addresses experts believe should have warned authorities of attacks on the World Trade Center ( New York ) and possibly elsewhere.
Names such as:
attackontwintowers.com and,
worldtradetowerattack.com
Officially registered website domain names registered more than 1-year ago. At this time, however it still is not publicly known ‘who’ actually registered the suspicious web domain names or ‘what purpose was being served’ for registering such.
A spokeswoman in the FBI press office would only say that the Bureau will not comment on its investigation into the attacks.
At least 17 domain names, including pearlharborinmanhattan.com and worldtradetowerstrike.com were registered as early as June 2000, 15-months prior to the attacks. Two ( 2 ) of the website domain names contained the dates of August 11 and September 29, which Livingstone said may have indicated ‘windows of opportunity’ during which the attackers planned to strike.
Dismissed is, speculation that the web domain names were referencing ‘bombing’ the World Trade Center 8-years ago. “You have two ( 2 ) other names containing ’2001′ so, there’s no confusion over the 1993 World Trade Center attack.”
A domain name search Tuesday indicated that hundreds of web addresses, containing references to the terrorist attacks, were registered during the past week plus four ( 4 ) older domain names had undergone re-registration.
Domain name registrants are required to use a ‘credit card’ for payment and must provide administrative, technical, and billing contact information. That information, except the credit card data, is available to the public - so long as the registration is kept current. The required use of a credit card should mean that authorities would at least have a starting point to investigate the registrant.
Network Solutions ( Fairfax, Virginia ) is the world’s largest website domain name registrar that includes a privacy statement indicative of industry standards regarding confidentiality: “We will not share such information with other third parties, except in response to formal requests ( e.g. subpoena or court order ) made in connection with litigation or arbitration proceedings directly relating to a domain name registration or other services we provide.”
CIA former Director of Central Intelligence ( DCI ) James Woolsey indicated current laws make it difficult for the FBI to get a warrant for electronic surveillance and wiretaps or to recruit informants based on actions such as registering threatening domain names. “There would not be enough material that is close enough to a specific crime for an investigation to be opened,” Woolsey said. “The attackers might have been planning a propaganda campaign following the attacks. Maybe their success was so overwhelming that they didn’t need to use this or they may have decided it was too dangerous to do.”
Domain names, on the list, also included:
attackamerica.com , attackonamerica.com , attackontwintowers.com , august11horror.com , august11terror.com , horrorinamerica.com , horrorinnewyork.com , nycterroriststrike.com , pearlharborinmanhattan.com , terrorattack2001.com , towerofhorror.com , tradetowerstrike.com , worldtradecenter929.com , worldtradecenterbombs.com , worldtradetowerattack.com , worldtradetowerstrike.com , wterroristattack2001.com
CIA WATCH
Global Jihad Jack In The Boxes
INDONESIA, Jakarta – September 29, 2001 - The U. S. Pacific Fleet Commander-In-Chief Admiral Thomas B. Fargo has busy hands here with ‘regional peacekeeping efforts’ while Islamic militant groups create havoc elsewhere too.
Ever since the Usama bin Laden “war cry” for a Jihad (aka) Holy War to commence, against all Westerners and ‘non-militant’ Islamic Muslim supporters, Jihad-fixated Islamic ‘militants’ are crawling out from under every rock and sandstone crevice to complete his orders.
In Jakarta, his message calls-up the Islam Defenders Front (aka) FPI leader Habib Riziq who’s whooping things up here with students at local area universities see local oil company American workers – here and in East Kalimantan – now running for cover.
Cities in the area, experiencing Islamic militant unrest, are: Jakarta, North Sumatra, Medan, Balikpapan, Benjarmasin, East Kalimantan, South Kalimantan and elsewhere throughout Indonesia.
Another Jihad Jack In The Box
ALGERIA, Larba – September 29, 2001 - In the Mitidja Plain area here, is a virtual hot-bed of Islamic militants where 150 people were just killed in the month of September alone.
Since 1992, over 100,000 people have been killed here as a result of Islamic militant groups fighting Algerian government forces and it’s no wonder why. This is also the former “home” of one of Usama bin Laden’s major financial contributors called the, Islamic Salvation Front.
CIA WATCH
TERRORISM – FINANCE
Long Time Money Trail To Usama bin Laden
Five ( 5 ) top Saudi Arabia businessmen, worth more than $5,000,000,000 billion, ordered NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK ( Saudi Arabia ) to bank wire transfer amounts in ‘personal funds’ in-addition to $3,000,000 million from a Saudi Arabia ‘pension fund’ to banks in New York, USA and London, UK where the money was deposited into accounts of Islamic charities, including the Islamic Relief and Blessed Relief that served as fronts for Usama bin Laden.
It was discovered that these businessmen were in-essence paying Usama bin Laden “protection money” for their Saudi Arabia businesses.
The money transfers were discovered in April 2000 after the royal family ordered an audit of NCB and its founder and former chairman, Khalid bin Mahfouz. Mahfouz was under “house arrest” at a military hospital in Taif, Saudia Arabia. His successor, Mohammad Hussein Al-Amoudi, also heads the Capitol Trust Bank in New York and London, which U.S. and British officials are investigating for allegedly transferring money to Usama bin Laden. Amoudi’s Washington, D.C. lawyer is, Vernon Jordan. Mahfouz’s son, Abdul Rahman Mahfouz, is on the board of Blessed Relief in Sudan in which, suspects in the attempted assassination of Egypt President Hosni Mubarak, are linked to this charity.
In August 1990, after the money bank wire transfers were discovered, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Royal Family ordered an audit of the NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK and its founder and former chairman Khalid bin Mahfouz who is now under ‘house arrest’ in Taif, Saudi Arabia.
Khalid bin Mahfouz successor Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi heads-up the CAPITOL TRUST BANK ( New York, USA ) and ( London, UK ) that is being investigated – for allegedly transferring money to Usama bin Laden – by American and British officials.
Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi attornies of the law firm AKIN, GUMP, STRAUSS, HAUER & FELD ( Washington, D.C. ) said, “He has no knowledge of the acts alleged and does not know Usama bin Laden,” continuing, “has never knowingly had dealings of any kind with Usama bin Laden,” and, “Sheik Mohammed H. Al-Amoudi does not have any knowledge of any money transfers by Saudi businesses to Usama bin Laden and is unalterably opposed to terrorism.”
Business executives in Saudi Arabia continue to transfer tens of millions of dollars to bank accounts linked to Usama bin Laden, with bank wire money transfers – having begun more than 5-years ago – used to finance several attacks by Usama bin Laden, including the 1995 assassination attempt against Egypt President Hosni Mubarak while in Ethiopia.
Usama Bin Laden Real Estate, Money And More
AFGHANISTAN, Farmada – October 6, 2001 – Usama bin Laden was last sighted at his nearby base called, the Darunta Camp Complex, but then left immediately to Kunar Province, in the Hindu Kush Mountain area of North Eastern Afghanistan. Usama bin Laden, travelled in a small convoy with his most loyal fighters to an unknown destination.
Usama Land Deal In Pachi Ragam District
In Jalalabad, Afghanistan many who did not want to be identified, said many Arab nationals are living in Pachi Ragam district of Nangarhar, on property purchased by Usama bin Laden before the Taliban took control of the area in 1996. Usama bin Laden, purchased the land from Younis Khalis, i.e. former leader of the Afghan resistance during the 1980s.
The fortified farmhouse in Farmada has about 600 Islamic-militants from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen and the Gulf states still based there. Several hundred more are serving with Taliban forces fighting in the north of the country. Between the two (2) training camps, i.e. one in Farmada, Afghanistan (with 600 Islamic-militants) and another one West of Farmada, i.e. the Darunta Camp Complex (with 400 Islamic-militants) nearly 1,000 men are at these two (2) camps alone. There are men from Yemen, Algeria, Egypt, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan.
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Afghanistan Taliban Consequential Breakdowns
Taliban Government Viewpoint -
“They [ Americans ] are really unspeakable. Many [ Afghanistan ] factories and companies will close down; some have already done that. Many businessmen face problems with their bankers. In other words, they do not have the necessary facilities. They are bankrupt. When such factories close down, the unemployment growth rate will ride high, the price of the U.S. Dollar will witness a free rise vis-a-vis the Yemeni Riyal, and we [ Afghanistan ] will witness many other economic problems that will plague our society.
Afghanistan Invasions
The recent problems in Afghanistan started in 1979. Afghanistan was a peaceful country. The Russians, along with their 140,000 troops attacked Afghanistan in the December of 1979, just twenty one ( 21 ) years ago, stayed there for a decade, killed 1,500,000 people, maimed 1,000,000 million more people, and 6,000,000 million out of the 18,000,000 million people migrated because of the Russia Soviet military brutalities. Even today, our children are dying because of the landmines that they planted for us. And nobody knows about this.
After the Russians left during the Russian occupation, on the other side, the American government, the British government, the French, the Chinese, and all of the rest, supported the counter-revolutionaries called the Mujahideen; There were seven [ Mujahideen ] ( 7 ) parties only in Pakistan and eight ( 8 ) parties in Iran who fought the Russian occupation. And after the Russians left, these parties went into Afghanistan.
All of them [Mujahideen] had different ideologies, and a lot of weapons. And instead of having a single administration, they fought in Afghanistan. The destruction that they brought was worse than the destruction the Russians brought. 63,000 people were only killed in the capitol, Kabul. Another million people migrated because of this lawlessness.
Taliban Origin
Seeing this destruction and lawlessness, a group of students called the Taliban. A group of students which, started a movement called the Movement of Students. It first started in a village in the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan. It happened when a warlord [ commander ] abducted two ( 2 ) minor girls and violated them. The parents of those girls went to a school and asked the teacher of the school to help them. The teacher of that school, along with his fifty-three ( 53 ) students, finding only sixteen ( 16 ) guns, went and attacked the base of that commander. After releasing those two girls, they hanged that commander and so many of his people were also hanged.
This story was told everywhere. The British Broadcast Corporation (aka) B.B.C. also quoted this story. Hearing this story, many other students joined this movement and started disarming the rest of the warlords. This same student’s movement now controls ninety-five percent (95%) of the country [ Afghanistan ] including its capital [ Kabu l]. Only a bunch of those warlords are remaining in the northern [ Northern Alliance ] corridor of Afghanistan.
Spoils Of War & Achievements
Afghanistan is called the Crossroads of Asia (aka) The Land Of Khursan. So, we are suffering because of our geo-strategic location. We have suffered in the 18th Century, 19th Century, and we are still suffering in this century. We have not [ ever ] attacked the British. We have not [ever] attacked the Russians. It was them who attacked us. So the problems in Afghanistan you see are not our creation.
Taliban Achievements In Afghanistan
We have been in government [ Taliban ] for only five ( 5 ) years, and the following things that we have done, and many of you may not know:
1. The first thing we have done is reunifying the fragmented country. Afghanistan was formerly fragmented into five parts. We unified it when nobody else could do it.;
2. Second thing we have done, which everybody failed to do, was disarming the population. After the [ Afghan ] war every Afghan got a Kalashnikov [ Russia military styled automatic rifle ], and even sophisticated weapons such as stinger missiles, and they even got fighter planes and fighter helicopters. Disarming these people seemed to be impossible. The United Nations in 1992 made an appeal asking for 3,000,000,000 billion dollars to re-purchase those arms. And because of its impracticality, that plan never materialized, and everybody forgot about Afghanistan. So the second thing we have done is to disarm 95% of that country.;
3. The third thing that we have done is to establish a single administration in Afghanistan, which did not exist for 10 years.;
4. The fourth achievement that we have that is surprising to everybody is that we have eradicated seventy-five percent (75%) of World’s opium cultivation [ i.e. white and red opium poppy plants ]. Afghanistan produced 75% of World’s opium. And last year we issued an edict asking the people to stop growing opium, and this year, the United Nations Drug Control Program (aka) UNDCP, and their head, Mr. Barnard F. proudly announced that there was zero percent (0%) of opium cultivation. Zero, zilch, none at all.; Incidentally this was not good news for the U.N. itself because many of them lost their jobs. In the UNDCP, seven hundred ( 700 ) so called experts were working there and they got their salaries and they never went into Afghanistan. So when we issued this edict, I know that they were not happy. And this year they lost their jobs.; and,
5. The fifth achievement that we have, is the restoration of Human rights. Now, you may think that we are involved in violation of Human Rights. The reality is exactly the opposite. Among the fundamental rights of a human being is the right to live. Before us, nobody could live peacefully in Afghanistan. The first thing we have done, is to give to the people a secure and peaceful life. The second major thing that we have restored is to give them free and fair justice; you don’t have to buy justice, unlike here. In Afghanistan justice is free and readily available.
Afghanistan Women Rights
We have been criticized for violating women’s rights. Do you know what happened before us? I can see some Afghans living here, and they will agree with me, that in the rural areas of Afghanistan, women were used as animals. They were sold actually. We stopped this abominable practice.
They didn’t use to have any say in the selection of their husbands. First thing we have done is to let them choose their future. Another thing that used to happen in Afghanistan was women were exchanged as gifts. Of course, this was not something religious; this was something cultural.
When two fighting tribes wanted reconciliation, they would exchange women. And this has been stopped.
Unlike what is generally said women do work in Afghanistan. True that until 1996 when we captured the capital Kabul, we did ask women to stay home. It didn’t mean that we wanted them to stay at home forever. We said that there is no law, and there is no order, and you have to stay at home.
We disarmed the people, and we established law and order, and now women are working. True, that women are not working in the ministry of defense, like here. We don’t want our women to be fighter pilots, or to be used as objects of decoration for advertisements. But they do work. They work in the Ministry of Health, Interior, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Social Affairs, and so on.
Similarly we don’t have any problem with women’s education. We have said that we want education, and we will have education whether or not we are under anybody’s pressure, because that is part of our belief. We are ordered to do that. When we say that there should be segregated schools, it does not mean that we don’t want our women to be educated. It is true that we are against co-education; but it is not true that we are against women’s education.
We do have schools even now, but the problem is the resources. We cannot expand these programs. Before, our government numerous curriculums were going on. There were curriculums that preached for the kings, curriculums that preached for the communists, and curriculums from all the seven parties. So, the students were confused as to what to study. We have started to unify the curriculum and that is going on.
Recently, we reopened the Faculty Of Medical Science in all major cities of Afghanistan and in Kandahar [ province ]. There are more girl students studying than boys are. But, they are segregated. And the Swedish committees have also established schools for girls. I know they are not enough, but that is what we have been able to do.
Usama bin Laden
We are also accused of sponsoring terrorism. And for Americans terrorism or terrorist means only [ Usama ] bin Laden. Now you will not know that Afghanistan, or bin Laden was in Afghanistan for 17 years before we even existed. Bin Laden was in Afghanistan, fought the Soviet Union, and Mr. Ronald Reagan, the President of America at that time, and Mr. Dick Cheney called such people “Freedom Fighters” or the “Heroes of Independence” because, they were fighting for their cause.
And now when the Soviet Union is fragmented, such people were not needed anymore, and they were transformed into terrorists. From heroes to terrorists. This is exactly like Mr. Yasser Arafat who was transformed from a terrorist to a hero.
What is the difference between those acts that Usama bin Laden is blamed for, and the 1998 cruise missile attacks on Afghanistan? Neither of the two ( 2 ) were declared and both of them killed civilians. If it means killing civilians blindly, both of them killed civilians blindly.
The United States Government tried to kill a man without even giving him a fair trial. In 1998, they just sent cruise missiles into Afghanistan and they announced that they were trying to kill Usama bin Laden. We didn’t know Usama bin Laden then. I didn’t know him; he was just a simple man.
So we were all shocked. I was one of those men who was sitting at home at night, I was called for an immediate council meeting and we all were told the United States had attacked Afghanistan.
With seventy five ( 75 ) cruise missiles they tried to kill one man. And they missed that man; killed nineteen ( 19 ) other students and never apologized for those killings.
What would you do if you were in our situation?
If we were to go and send 75 cruise missiles into the United States and say that we were going to kill a man that we thought was responsible for our Embassy [bombing], and we missed that man, and we killed 19 other Americans what would the United States do? An instant declaration of war. But we are polite. We did not declare war.
Proposals & Rejections
Rather we have been very open-minded on this issue. We have said, that if really this man is involved in the Kenya and Tanzania U. S. Embassy bombing acts, if anybody can give us proof or evidence about his involvement in these horrific acts, we will punish him. Nobody gave us evidence. We put him on trial for forty five ( 45 ) days and nobody gave us any kind of evidence.
The United States told us they did not believe in our judicial system. We were surprised as to what kind of judicial system they have? They just tried to kill a man without even giving him a fair trial. Even if one of us is a criminal here, the police are not going to blow his house; he must go to a court first.
So our first proposal was rejected. They [ U.S. ] said they do not believe in our judicial system, and we must extradite him to New York. After the rejection of this first proposal was, we said we were ready to accept an international monitoring group to come into Afghanistan and monitor this man’s activities in Afghanistan. So that he does nothing. Even that he has no telecommunications. That proposal was also rejected.
The third ( 3rd ) proposal we gave, six ( 6 ) months ago, was that we were ready to try or accept the trial of Osama bin Laden in a third ( 3rd ) Islamic country with the consent of Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. That was also rejected.
We are still very open minded. And for the fourth time, I am here, with a letter from my leadership that I m going to submit to the [U. S.] State Department hoping that they will resolve the problem. But I don’t think that they will.
Because we think, and I personally think now that maybe the United States is looking for a boogey man always.
Remember what Gorbachev said? He said, that he’s going to do the worst thing ever to the United States. And everybody thought that he’s going to blow the United States with nuclear weapons.
But he said, I’m going to remove their enemy. And then he fragmented Soviet Union. And he was right. After he fragmented Soviet Union, a lot of people lost their jobs in the Pentagon, in the CIA, and the FBI, because they were not needed anymore.
So we think that maybe these guys are looking for a boogey man now. Maybe they want to justify their annual budget, maybe they want to make their citizens feel that they are still needed to defend them.
Afghanistan is not a terrorist state; we cannot even make a needle. How are we going to be a terrorist state? How are we going to be a threat to the world? If the world terrorism is really derived from the word terror, then there are countries making weapons of mass destruction, countries making nuclear weapons, they are terrorist states; we are not.”
Why Afghanistan People Support Taliban – Statues vs. Starving
Sayyid Rahmatullah Hashemi is the roving Ambassador from Afghanistan who recently visited the U.S.. The following, is a foreign edited version of the transcription pertaining to his lecture given at the University Of Southern California in Los Angeles, California on March 10, 2001:
“I was just coming from a meeting with a group of scholars, and the first thing we started talking about there was the statues. And the first thing we started talking about here was also the statues. It is very unfortunate how little we see and how little we know. Nobody has seen the problems of Afghanistan; nobody saw their problems before. And the only thing that represents Afghanistan today are the statues.
Now, we are under sanctions. And the sanctions have caused a lot of problems. Despite that we already had been going through so many problems — the 23 years of continuous war, the total destruction of our infrastructure, and the problem of refugees, and the problem of [ Soviet Army Aghan War ] military landmines in our agricultural lands — all of a sudden the United Nations, with the provocation of Russia, is imposing sanctions on Afghanistan. And the sanctions have been approved; we are under sanctions. Several hundred ( 700 ) children died a month ago. Seven hundred ( 700 ) children died because of malnutrition and the severe cold weather. Nobody even talked about that. Everybody knows about the statues.
When the World is destroying our future with economic sanctions, then they have no right to worry about our past. I called my headquarters, I asked them, why are they [ Taliban ] going to blow [destroy] the statues, and I talked to the head of the [ Taliban Government ] Council of Scholars of People, who had actually decided this, he told me that UNESCO and, an unidentified Non-Governmental Organization (aka) NGO from one ( 1 ) of the Scandinavia countries possibly Norway, Sweden had actually come with a project to rebuild the face of Afghani statues, which were worn by weather elements. They [Taliban] told them to spend that [ UNESCO & NGO ] money in saving the lives of these children, instead of spending it to restore these statues. And these guys [ UNESCO & NGO ] said, “No, this money is only for the statues.” And the people were really pissed off. They said that, If you don t care about our children, we are going to blow those statues. If you were in such a situation what would you do? If your children are dying in front of your eyes, and you are under sanctions, and then the same people who have imposed sanctions and are coming and building statues here? What would you do?
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary General, went to Pakistan, and he said he is going to meet our representative there. This man never bothered to come, to talk about these children, he never bothered himself to talk about 6,000,000 million refugees, and he never talked about the poverty of Afghanistan. He only goes to that region because of these statues.
It is really, really ridiculous. These people do not care about children, about people who are dying there, about the foreign interference that still exists; they only care about the statues. And I am sure they don’t care about our heritage. They only care about their picnic site one time. Maybe they’ll have a good picnic site there, seeing those statues.
And I’m sure these sanctions which are imposed on our [ Taliban ] government will never change us, because for us, our ideology is everything. To try to change our ideology with economic sanctions will never work. It may work in the United States, where the economy is everything, but for us, our ideology is everything. And we believe that it is better to die for something than to live for nothing.”
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CIA WATCH
World War II Tactic In WTC Attacks
USA, Washington, DC - October 26, 2001 – During World War II, the GT-1 (aka) Glide Torpedo, was somewhat successful and saw some used in the Pacific theater of the War. The development of Glide Bomb series weapons later included radio-controlled steering servomechanisms and even television cameras during the 1940s.
Today, we’ve been tracking Usama bin Laden (aka) Osama bin Laden with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ( UAV ). See, e.g. “DIA Watch” in “Archives” for more on this website.
The UAV is designed to utilize both integrated onboard surveillance sensor systems to identify, track and destroy intended targets using a variety of weapons, and controlled via remote command centers carrying out originating directives from many miles further away.
Reviewing the method used by terrorists in the September 11, 2001 attacks may easily see the plan was taken from World War II U.S. military history books – demonstrating some shocking similarities.
In the early 1940s – as the air-war progressed at that time – B-17s and B-24s bomber aircrafts literally began to “wear out”. These surplus bombers occupied valuable ramp space and even more valuable maintenance time.
By late 1943, Brigadier General Harry H. Arnold (aka) “Hap” of the Army Air Corps (aka) A.A.C., directed Brigadier General Grandison Gardner engineers at Eglin Air Field, Florida to outfit these “Weary Willies” with ‘automatic piloting devices’ so the airplanes, i.e. B-17s and B-24s, could be filled with TNT or liquid petroleum ( fuel ) and remotely flown-to-impact on enemy targets.
Project Aphrodite, is where the whole idea was born from, targeting principles to crash orphan aircraft into large cities or industrial complexes causing instant chaos amongst the enemy.
General Carl A. Spaatz utilized several of these “guided missile aircrafts” during the fall of 1944 against German enemy targets in Europe. They were largely unsuccessful because they were easy to shoot down before they reached the target area. At Yalta, shortly after the first Weary Willies were used in combat, the British vetoed further Project Aphrodite missions because of possible German retaliation to the undeniable “terror” nature of the weapon. Weary Willies were eventually grounded after Yalta, much to General Arnold’s dismay.
Project Aphrodite’s, Weary Willie converted war-weary B-17s & B-24s – flown as explosive “area bomb aircraft-weapons” – were equipped with relatively simple radio-controlled transmitters and receivers, hooked through servomechanisms inside the planes.
B-17 / B-24, after conversion, were loaded with 20,000 pounds of TORPEX, a very high explosive. The B-17 / B-24 planes had various design configurations:
- Flown-to-impact ( impact fuse charges ) TORPEX explosives; and,
- Fuel ( e.g. petroleum, etc. ) optional explosives / systems.
Aircraft weapon delivery techniques for the bomb area blast were that a pilot would fly the aircraft up near its destined target areas, its pilot would bail out ( with a parachute ) after transferring radio frequency controls to an accompanying aircraft ( used for remote control sighting and steering and flying ) that would control the bomb-delivery aircraft over its target destination.
The different Weary Willie projects were supposed to be clarified at this point as being “supposedly” flown “up to the enemy battle lines” where its pilot was to set the “automatic pilot” and bail-out into friendly territory. The Weary Willie orphan aircraft were then totally radio-controlled and remotely guided into enemy territory from a mothership that followed it nearer to enemy territory.
Aphrodite was begun supposedly with totally radio-controlled aircraft, usually piloted from a ground station. The importance of Aphrodite was not its impact [ no pun intended ] on the outcome of the war. General Arnold had no great hopes for the ultimate decisiveness of these area bomb aircraft-weapons. Rather, Aphrodite demonstrated General Arnold’s willingness to supplement a precision-bombing doctrine in an effort to save the lives of American airmen, particularly since he was feeling confident that the war in Europe was essentially under control by late spring 1944.
In a staff memo, General Arnold explained that he didn’t care if the Weary Willies were actually radio-controlled or just pointed at the enemy and allowed to run into them loaded with just aircraft fuel.
Aphrodite did provide an opportunity to test new automated piloting technology in a combat situation. Additionally, and more importantly, destroying these already “weary” bombers made room for new airplanes that the prescient General Arnold knew the Army Air Corps would need after the war concluded. Although General Arnold was determined to rid the Armed Forces inventory of useless machines; in most combat situations, he preferred manned bombers to that of the Weary Willies.
In November 1944, General Arnold reminded General Spaatz of the salvage rules for damaged aircraft: “The accelerated activities of our fighting forces in all theaters makes it increasingly important that we utilize our material resources to the maximum, not only for the sake of the economy, but also in order that the greatest possible pressure be brought to bear against the enemy.”
The experienced General Arnold realized that to win the war, “One side must try and kill as many men and destroy as much property as you can. If you can get mechanical machines to do this, then you are saving lives at the outset.” [ NOTE: Brigadier General H. H. Arnold staff memo, 2 November 1944, "Arnold Papers", box 44; Arnold to Spaatz, letter, 22 November 1944, in MGC, roll 12. ] At this point though – willing to try non-precision methods on occasion – General Arnold realized that technology had not surpassed the abilities of manned bombers in accuracy or guile for accomplishing that mission
Interestingly, Project Aphrodite clearly involved the use of a non-precision weapon system and yet, General Arnold staunchly supported its development well before Germany launched its first V-1 at England in the early morning hours of June 13, 1944. Weary Willies capable of carrying large amounts of explosives to an eventual enemy’s homeland for destruction – using them as guided aircraft missiles – assured the United States that, none of these ailing elephants would clog up its moth-balled stockpiles.
One mission flown by the U. S. Army Air Corps began at a rendezvous point with a “pair of Weary Willie drones”, with an accompanying pair of directors – each controlling a drone – on four (4) B-17s. Their mission was to fly at very low-level altitudes just off the surface of the North Sea. They rendezvoused somewhere on the coast of England where, their eventual target was a group of distant submarine pens on an island called, Hellova Island, somewhere up in the Denmark or Norway area of the Baltic Sea.
The terminal guidance system on those drones were something that was never even heard of at that time which were television-type camera monitors. They had a television camera in the nose of the Weary Willie drone transmitting its picture back to each director. The director used this guidance system as its terminal to dive on targets. While keeping the television image of his target right in that screen, he’d flew it right into the target.
The time-length of that mission, was more than seven (7) hours up there and back, escorting these Weary Willies on their one-way trip to impact.
The directors flew those drones directly into their targets which were right through the entrance of this “underground submarine pen installation” inside some “rocky area” and then right into the doors of the pens. There was a tremendous explosion from those results. Few saw the post-attack reports but, it had to have accomplished its objective for devastating that entire German submarine base.
[ SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTATION NOTE ON COLLISIONS: Target Size Effects and Resultant Velocity Distributions ( TSE&RVD ) have studied the dynamic fragmentation of impact collisions - using a 2 dimensional, continuum damage numerical hydrocode which, modeled 2 body impacts. This hydrocode monitored stress wave propagation and interaction within the target body, and included a physical model ( Grady and Kipp Fragmentation Theory ) for the formation and growth of cracks in rock like structures. With this algorithm, the study successfully reproduced 'fragment size distributions' and 'mean ejecta speeds' from laboratory impact experiments utilizing basalt, and weak and strong mortar as target materials. Using the hydrocode it was determined that the energy needed to fracture a body has a much stronger dependence on 'target size' than predicted from most model scaling theories'. In addition, velocity distributions previously obtained indicated that 'mean ejecta speeds', resulting from large-body collisions, did not exceed escape velocities. ]
NOTE: In World War II, the German Luftwaffe use to identify sections of the Autobahn (Interstate Highways), generally down in the southern part of Germany, in Bavaria and down towards Munich, and they’d carve out areas in the forest along the Autobahn where they built revetments and parking places for the airplanes. They would use the Autobahn then to take off and to land.
CIA WATCH
TERRORISM – TECHNOLOGY
World War II Tactic In WTC Attacks
USA, Washington, D. C. - October 26, 2001 – During World War II, the GT-1 (aka) Glide Torpedo, was somewhat successful and saw some used in the Pacific theater of the War. The development of Glide Bomb series weapons later included radio-controlled steering servomechanisms and even television cameras during the 1940s.
Today, we’ve been tracking Usama bin Laden (aka) Osama bin Laden with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ( UAV ). See, e.g. “DIA Watch” in “Archives” for more on this website.
The UAV is designed to utilize both integrated onboard surveillance sensor systems to identify, track and destroy intended targets using a variety of weapons, and controlled via remote command centers carrying out originating directives from many miles further away.
Reviewing the method used by terrorists in the September 11, 2001 attacks may easily see the plan was taken from World War II U.S. military history books – demonstrating some shocking similarities.
In the early 1940s – as the air-war progressed at that time – B-17s and B-24s bomber aircrafts literally began to “wear out”. These surplus bombers occupied valuable ramp space and even more valuable maintenance time.
By late 1943, Brigadier General Harry H. Arnold (aka) “Hap” of the Army Air Corps (aka) A.A.C., directed Brigadier General Grandison Gardner engineers at Eglin Air Field, Florida to outfit these “Weary Willies” with ‘automatic piloting devices’ so the airplanes, i.e. B-17s and B-24s, could be filled with TNT or liquid petroleum ( fuel ) and remotely flown-to-impact on enemy targets.
Project Aphrodite, is where the whole idea was born from, targeting principles to crash orphan aircraft into large cities or industrial complexes causing instant chaos amongst the enemy.
General Carl A. Spaatz utilized several of these “guided missile aircrafts” during the fall of 1944 against German enemy targets in Europe. They were largely unsuccessful because they were easy to shoot down before they reached the target area. At Yalta, shortly after the first Weary Willies were used in combat, the British vetoed further Project Aphrodite missions because of possible German retaliation to the undeniable “terror” nature of the weapon. Weary Willies were eventually grounded after Yalta, much to General Arnold’s dismay.
Project Aphrodite’s, Weary Willie converted war-weary B-17s & B-24s – flown as explosive “area bomb aircraft-weapons” – were equipped with relatively simple radio-controlled transmitters and receivers, hooked through servomechanisms inside the planes.
B-17 / B-24, after conversion, were loaded with 20,000 pounds of TORPEX, a very high explosive. The B-17 / B-24 planes had various design configurations:
- Flown-to-impact ( impact fuse charges ) TORPEX explosives; and,
- Fuel ( e.g. petroleum, etc. ) optional explosives / systems.
Aircraft weapon delivery techniques for the bomb area blast were that a pilot would fly the aircraft up near its destined target areas, its pilot would bail out ( with a parachute ) after transferring radio frequency controls to an accompanying aircraft ( used for remote control sighting and steering and flying ) that would control the bomb-delivery aircraft over its target destination.
The different Weary Willie projects were supposed to be clarified at this point as being “supposedly” flown “up to the enemy battle lines” where its pilot was to set the “automatic pilot” and bail-out into friendly territory. The Weary Willie orphan aircraft were then totally radio-controlled and remotely guided into enemy territory from a mothership that followed it nearer to enemy territory.
Aphrodite was begun supposedly with totally radio-controlled aircraft, usually piloted from a ground station. The importance of Aphrodite was not its impact [ no pun intended ] on the outcome of the war. General Arnold had no great hopes for the ultimate decisiveness of these area bomb aircraft-weapons. Rather, Aphrodite demonstrated General Arnold’s willingness to supplement a precision-bombing doctrine in an effort to save the lives of American airmen, particularly since he was feeling confident that the war in Europe was essentially under control by late spring 1944.
In a staff memo, General Arnold explained that he didn’t care if the Weary Willies were actually radio-controlled or just pointed at the enemy and allowed to run into them loaded with just aircraft fuel.
Aphrodite did provide an opportunity to test new automated piloting technology in a combat situation. Additionally, and more importantly, destroying these already “weary” bombers made room for new airplanes that the prescient General Arnold knew the Army Air Corps would need after the war concluded. Although General Arnold was determined to rid the Armed Forces inventory of useless machines; in most combat situations, he preferred manned bombers to that of the Weary Willies.
In November 1944, General Arnold reminded General Spaatz of the salvage rules for damaged aircraft: “The accelerated activities of our fighting forces in all theaters makes it increasingly important that we utilize our material resources to the maximum, not only for the sake of the economy, but also in order that the greatest possible pressure be brought to bear against the enemy.”
The experienced General Arnold realized that to win the war, “One side must try and kill as many men and destroy as much property as you can. If you can get mechanical machines to do this, then you are saving lives at the outset.” [ NOTE: Brigadier General H. H. Arnold staff memo, 2 November 1944, "Arnold Papers", box 44; Arnold to Spaatz, letter, 22 November 1944, in MGC, roll 12. ] At this point though – willing to try non-precision methods on occasion – General Arnold realized that technology had not surpassed the abilities of manned bombers in accuracy or guile for accomplishing that mission
Interestingly, Project Aphrodite clearly involved the use of a non-precision weapon system and yet, General Arnold staunchly supported its development well before Germany launched its first V-1 at England in the early morning hours of June 13th, 1944. Weary Willies capable of carrying large amounts of explosives to an eventual enemy’s homeland for destruction – using them as guided aircraft missiles – assured the United States that, none of these ailing elephants would clog up its moth-balled stockpiles.
One mission flown by the U. S. Army Air Corps began at a rendezvous point with a “pair of Weary Willie drones”, with an accompanying pair of directors – each controlling a drone – on four (4) B-17s. Their mission was to fly at very low-level altitudes just off the surface of the North Sea. They rendezvoused somewhere on the coast of England where, their eventual target was a group of distant submarine pens on an island called, Hellova Island, somewhere up in the Denmark or Norway area of the Baltic Sea.
The terminal guidance system on those drones were something that was never even heard of at that time which were television-type camera monitors. They had a television camera in the nose of the Weary Willie drone transmitting its picture back to each director. The director used this guidance system as its terminal to dive on targets. While keeping the television image of his target right in that screen, he’d flew it right into the target.
The time-length of that mission, was more than seven (7) hours up there and back, escorting these Weary Willies on their one-way trip to impact.
The directors flew those drones directly into their targets which were right through the entrance of this “underground submarine pen installation” inside some “rocky area” and then right into the doors of the pens. There was a tremendous explosion from those results. Few saw the post-attack reports but, it had to have accomplished its objective for devastating that entire German submarine base.
[ SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTATION NOTE ON COLLISIONS: Target Size Effects and Resultant Velocity Distributions (aka) TSE&RVD have studied the dynamic fragmentation of impact collisions - using a two-dimensional, continuum damage numerical hydrocode which, modeled two-body impacts. This hydrocode monitored stress wave propagation and interaction within the target body, and included a physical model (Grady and Kipp Fragmentation Theory) for the formation and growth of cracks in rock-like structures. With this algorithm, the study successfully reproduced "fragment size distributions" and "mean ejecta speeds" from laboratory impact experiments utilizing basalt, and weak and strong mortar as target materials. Using the hydrocode it was determined that the energy needed to fracture a body has a much stronger dependence on "target size" than predicted from most "scaling theories". In addition, velocity distributions previously obtained indicated that "mean ejecta speeds", resulting from large-body collisions, did not exceed escape velocities. ]
NOTE: In World War II, the German Luftwaffe use to identify sections of the Autobahn ( interstate highways ), generally down in the southern part of Germany, in Bavaria and down towards Munich, and they’d carve out areas in the forest along the Autobahn where they built revetments and parking places for the airplanes. They would use the Autobahn then to take off and to land.
CIA WATCH
TERRORISM – FINANCE
Usama Bin Laden Real Esate, Money & More
AFGHANISTAN, Farmada – October 6, 2001 – Usama bin Laden was last sighted at his nearby base called, the Darunta Camp Complex, but then left immediately to Kunar Province, in the Hindu Kush Mountain area of North Eastern Afghanistan. Usama bin Laden, travelled in a small convoy with his most loyal fighters to an unknown destination.
Usama bin Laden Real Estate Deal In Pachi Ragam District
Afghanistan, Jalalabad - Residents here, who did not want to be identified, said many Arab nationals in the Pachi Ragam district of Nangarhar are living on property purchased by Usama bin Laden before the Taliban took control of the area in 1996.
Usama bin Laden, purchased the land from Younis Khalis, former leader of the Afghanistan resistance during the 1980s.
The fortified farmhouse in Farmada, Adghanistan has about 600 militant Islam religion Muslims from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen and the Gulf states still based there where everal hundred more are serving with Taliban forces fighting in the Northern Afghanistan.
Between the two ( 2 ) training camps, one ( 1 ) in Farmada, Afghanistan ( with 600 Islamic militants ) and another one ( 1 ) west of Farmada on the Darunta Camp Complex ( with 400 Islamic militants ), nearly 1,000 men are at these two (2) camps alone where there are men from Yemen, Algeria, Egypt, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan.
Long Time Money Trail To Usama bin Laden
Five ( 5 ) top Saudi Arabia businessmen, worth more than $5,000,000,000 billion, ordered NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK ( Saudi Arabia ) to bank wire transfer amounts in ‘personal funds’ in-addition to $3,000,000 million from a Saudi Arabia ‘pension fund’ to banks in New York, USA and London, UK where the money was deposited into accounts of Islamic charities, including the Islamic Relief and Blessed Relief that served as fronts for Usama bin Laden.
It was discovered that these businessmen were in-essence paying Usama bin Laden “protection money” for their Saudi Arabia businesses.
The money transfers were discovered in April 2000 after the royal family ordered an audit of NCB and its founder and former chairman, Khalid bin Mahfouz. Mahfouz was under “house arrest” at a military hospital in the Saudi city of Taif. His successor, Mohammad Hussein Al-Amoudi, also heads the Capitol Trust Bank in New York and London, which U.S. and British officials are investigating for allegedly transferring money to Usama bin Laden. Amoudi’s Washington, D.C. lawyer is, Vernon Jordan. Mahfouz’s son, Abdul Rahman Mahfouz, is on the board of Blessed Relief in Sudan in which, suspects in the attempted assassination of Egypt President Hosni Mubarak, are linked to this charity.
In August 1990, after the money bank wire transfers were discovered, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Royal Family ordered an audit of the NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK and its founder and former chairman Khalid bin Mahfouz who is now under ‘house arrest’ in Taif, Saudi Arabia.
Khalid bin Mahfouz successor Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi heads-up the CAPITOL TRUST BANK ( New York, USA ) and ( London, UK ) that is being investigated – for allegedly transferring money to Usama bin Laden – by American and British officials.
Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi attornies of the law firm AKIN, GUMP, STRAUSS, HAUER & FELD ( Washington, D.C. ) said, “He has no knowledge of the acts alleged and does not know Usama bin Laden,” continuing, “has never knowingly had dealings of any kind with Usama bin Laden,” and, “Sheik Mohammed H. Al-Amoudi does not have any knowledge of any money transfers by Saudi businesses to Usama bin Laden and is unalterably opposed to terrorism.”
Business executives in Saudi Arabia continue to transfer tens of millions of dollars to bank accounts linked to Usama bin Laden, with bank wire money transfers – having begun more than 5-years ago – used to finance several attacks by Usama bin Laden, including the 1995 assassination attempt against Egypt President Hosni Mubarak while in Ethiopia.
Osama Bin Laden & Carlos The Jackal Links In Sudan & Yemen
SUDAN, Khartoum – September 19, 2001 - Global public enemy number one used to be Ilyich Ramirez-Sanches (aka) Carlos (aka) The Jackal. There exists an unusual link between Carlos “The Jackal” and Usama bin Laden (aka) Osama bin Laden ( 43 ), both lived in Khartoum, Sudan at the same time years ago. Coincidence? Perhaps, however another link places them both in Yemen, as was the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) as well.
It was Khartoum, Sudan where Usama bin Laden set up his construction business office, the BIN LADEN COMPANY of Khartoum.
Now while there are many places around the world that for decades have bred terrorist groups, Yemen is like the CLUB MED resort of all terrorist camps.
Within Yemen, amongst several terrorist groups, exists the Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan containing both Salafi and Islamic Jihad elements.
In 1995, the Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan established a terrorist training camp in the Hatat mountains ( Yemen ) – about 35 kilometers north of Zinjibar – in Abyan Province [ Yemen ] equipped with terrorism instructors from other countries.
In May 1995, Yemen police and Yemen military troops used military heavy artillery and military helicopter gun ships to attack the Hatat mountain terrorist training camp after complaints from tribal and community leaders in Yafa’, Yemen.
Hatat mountain terrorist training camps were described as ‘practically impregnable’, and the results of those Yemen security force attack efforts are ‘publicly unknown’.
Arab Afghans, who fought in the Afghanistan War, later became known as Muslim volunteers who fought against the Russia Soviet Union Army in Afghanistan where the Soviet military withdrawal left many of these Muslim volunteer fighters at loose ends but filled with the spirit of Jihad ( Holy War ), which often made them ‘unwelcome when they tried to return to their home countries’. In some ways they were like U.S. Viet Nam War veterans, deprived of adrenaline and unable to adjust to a quiet life, but unlike Vietnam veterans, their efforts had not been futile for they defeated a superpower ( Russia ) nation and were consequently flushed with success. Many, including Osama bin Laden himself, told of narrow escapes from death bolstering their belief that Allah ( God ) had preserved them for a purpose.
Two ( 2 ) prominent figures have been named in connection as leaders of Islamic militant religious radical terrorist organizations:
FIRST – Usama bin Laden, who allegedly provided the group with funds and whose extradition from Sudan was sought during 1993 in Yemen where his family came originally from [ Aden, Yemen ] but a few family members moved north to Saudi Arabia where they prospered and were later joined by the rest of the bin Laden family following the UK withdrawal from Aden, Yemen and the consequential Marxist takeover there. Today there are about fifty ( 50 ) members of the bin Laden family – Saudia Arabia citizens – with primary interests in the construction industry. They are considered the wealthiest non-royal family in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
During the 1980s, during the Soviet – Afghanistan War, Usama bin Laden – in common with many other Saudi businessmen – saw a ‘religious duty to support Islamic rebels financially’ against the Soviet regime in Moscow. He ‘could afford to be more generous’, than most, and became more deeply involved than most. Not only did he pay for weapons and what, by his own account, were thousands of Muslim volunteers from the Middle East and North Africa to join the Mujahideen ( Soviet Afghanistan War veterans ), He went there himself and took part in the fighting. Osama bin Laden, using the resources of his construction business, blasted new guerrilla trails across the mountains and tunneled into the rock to create underground hospitals and armament depots in Afghanistan.
In 1989, Usama bin Laden relations became strained with Saudi Arabia authorities who confiscated his passport.
In 1991, when his passport was returned, Osama bin Laden moved to Sudan where he founded the BIN LADEN COMPANY ( Khartoum, Sudan ), a business specializing in construction and the export of sesame seeds. Many veterans of the Afghan war also joined him in Khartoum, Sudan.
Osama bin Laden, although not convicted of any crime, Egypt, Algeria, Jordan and, Yemen authorities named him as a ‘financial source’ where funds were expended for bombing and assassination campaigns.
Osama bin Laden, was an ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ in the U.S. list of those bombing the World Trade Center.
In 1994, Osama bin Laden was formally disowned by his Saudi Arabia relatives and stripped of his Saudi Arabia citizenship for “irresponsible activities” harming the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia international relations. With financial and human resources to mount attacks in the name of Islam almost anywhere in the world, Osama bin Laden and his associates directed their efforts not only against unbelievers of the Islamic faith but against other Muslims deemed strays from the Islamic “true path.”
Also in 1994, in Jordan he was named in court as having funded a plot to assassinate politicians and bomb cinemas, nightclubs, video shops and liquor outlets. The twenty-five ( 25 ) accused including Osama bin Laden son-in-law Muhammad Khalifa who was tried in absentia. Muhammad Khalifa has business interests in the Philippines where he was linked to the Abu Sayyaf (aka) Father of the Executioner, a group that attacked Christians, allegedly plotted to kill the Pope and blow-up U.S. airliners over the Pacific Ocean.
According to claims of intelligence services, Osama bin Laden and his associates funded armed Islamic struggles in Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, The Netherlands ( Holland ), Pakistan, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Syria, Tanzania, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States and Yemen.
SECOND – Sheikh Tariq Bin Nasir Bin Abdullah al-Fadli (aka) Tariq al-Fadli (aka) Sheikh Tariq Al-Fathli, an important figure in Yemen terrorism during the early 1990s – though a very different character tha Osama bin Laden. Tariq al-Fathli was a ‘sheikh’ from a prominent South Yemen family, the Fathli Family. Prior to the Marxist takeover of Yemen, the Sheikh Fathli Family controlled one ( 1 ) of the biggest cotton plantations outside Aden, Yemen where a huge share of all southern exports passed through Sheikh Tarik Family businesses. Perhaps more importantly still, is that the Sheikh Fathli Family also controlled the ‘water’ supply. Very soon after the establishment of Marxist rule the Fathli Family moved to Saudi Arabia. Following unification, Tariq al-Fathli returned to Yemen to claim his inheritance as heir to the ‘Sultan of Yemen’ who 25-years earlier was deposed from the Abyan province ( Yemen ).
Sheikh Tariq al-Fathli gathered around himself a number of Soviet-Afghanistan War veterans ( Mujahideen ), members of his own tribe, and religious opponents of the Yemen Socialist Party (aka) YSP.
Sheikh Tariq al-Fathli was said, at one point, to be seeking 12,000 “heroes” to help him “save Muslims in Bosnia, wage war on the authorities and bring down the regime which he considered outside Islam, intimate with unbelievers.” Whatever the motives of his helpers and backers, it seems that Shiekh Fathli had given his campaign a religious tinge merely to win support in pursuit of a far more personal and mundane goal: to take revenge on those who had dispossessed his family and to obtain restitution of their property.
In the aftermath of the Aden, Yemen hotel bombings at the end of 1992, hundreds of people were arrested and several caches of weapons discovered. NOTE: The southern Yemeni authorities, who were still controlled by the YSP, were generally more vigorous in their response to terrorism than their northern counterparts – though often no more successful in catching the culprits. The trail pointed to a group of “Afghans” led by, Sheikh Tariq al-Fathli who was eventually besieged at his home in the Maraqasha mountains, 20-km from coast of Abyan, Yemen.
Despite sending their Third Armoured Brigade having been sent to arrest Sheikh Tariq al-Fathli, southern authorities found themselves powerless to act. A military spokesman explained: “The forces could not reach the Sheikh’s stronghold which is protected by a large guard in a village in a chain of rugged mountains. We don’t want to use warplanes because that could injure the citizens in villages which are geographically integral with the sheikh’s stronghold.” The authorities then had to content themselves with sealing off all possible escape routes and urging the Maraqasha tribe to withdraw its confidence from the sheikh.
By this stage Sheikh Fathli was presenting himself as a supporter of the Yemeni Islah Party and a victim of South Yemen intrigue. He appealed directly to the party leader, Shaykh Abdullah al-Ahmar, for a guarantee of safe conduct to Sana’a. Shaykh Abdullah, who is Speaker of the Yemen Parliament, responded initially with a sharp rebuff, saying in a letter to Sheikh Fathli: “We do not protect criminals,” though in fact the appeal placed him in a difficult position. The affairs of Abyan were outside Sheikh Abdullah’s tribal purview and the Sheikh Fathli affair was not strictly a tribal matter. On the other hand, it might be politically unwise for Islah to refuse to deal with an important local opponent of the YSP.
By one means or another, however, Sheikh Tariq Al-Fathli (aka) Sheikh Tariq Fadli escaped the siege and arrived – accompanied by a delegation of Abyan tribal leaders guarded by a North Yemen army unit – at the house of Sheikh Abdullah ( Sana’a, Yemen ) with an appointment to meet the President next day.
The ‘official’ story, differed:
Sheikh Fadli (aka) Sheikh Tariq Al-Fathli had ‘peacefully surrendered to authorities’ and was ‘reported to the public prosecutor’ for ‘questioning in connection with the attempted assassination’ of Ali Salih Abbad Muqbil – a member of the YSP and secretary of the party’s organization in Abyan – plus, ‘various bombings’ in Aden.
In-fact Sheikh Tariq Al-Fathli (aka) Sheikh Tariq Fadli was never ‘imprisoned’ – though he spent some time at the Sana’a, Yemen house of Sheikh Abdullah.
In 1994, during the war between North Yemen and South Yemen, Sheikh Tariq Al-Fathli fought on the side of the President who in South Yemen saw him become the leading Sheikh ( Tariq Al-Fathli ).
Sheikh Tariq Al-Fathli appeared to have severed all links with Jama’at al-Jihad and urged his erstwhile followers to get regular jobs and work in the system.
Despite the religious connotations of the name “Jihad” it is still unclear what the organization primary aim was or whether it even had one.
At one level, Jihad could be regarded as part of a worldwide Islamic struggle with a marked anti-Soviet emphasis that found its Yemen parallel in waging war on the YSP. At another level, some of its supporters were concerned that the name merely provided a ‘moral cloak’ for essentially parochial interests and / or personal grievances.
Any or all of its diverse elements may well have considered themselves the “real” Jihad, each trying to make use of the others – through a tactical alliance much in the same way Usama bin Laden is doing today.
The confusion of purposes is nowhere more striking than in the case of the Aden, Yemen hotel bombings that were assumed connected with the use of the hotels by the U.S. military during their operations in Somalia, which would seem to imply an attack on the spread of Western culture and values in Yemen, however some of those involved also had links to an earlier terrorist campaign in South Yemen organized and funded by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) with assistance from Britain ( UK ) and Saudi Arabia.
Between 1977 and 1979, members of the Red Army Faction terrorist organization underwent weapons training at a Palestine terrorist training camp and then took refuge in South Yemen to evade authorities of Germany.
In 1979, the plot began – intent on weakening the Yemen PDRY government – and involved recruiting Yemen saboteurs, twelve ( 12 ) of whom were captured, tortured and later executed for ‘trying’ to blow up a bridge.
Between 1978 and 1986, Ilyich Ramirez-Sanchez (aka) Carlos the Jackal ‘frequently used’ a Diplomat passport issued in South Yemen.
There was a period – by chance or circumstance – when shortly before Ilyich Ramirez-Sanchez (aka) Carlos the Jackal was finally arrested – both he and Osama bin Laden (aka) Usama bin Laden lived in Khartoum, Sudan.
Prior to 1990, the Yemen unification year, South Yemen was controlled by the YSP political party ( Marxist ideology ) led government and black-listed – for state sponsored terrorism – by the United States ( U.S. ).
The 1992 Yemen hotel bombings may not so much have been directed against the United States as it may have been against the YSP in reprisal by relatives over the twelve ( 12 ) saboteurs executed for ‘attempting’ a crime.
In recent years Yemen ‘generally tries to cooperate’ with other countries ‘trying to combat terrorism’ netting limited success, the West believes because if Yemen was seen tightening control over its citizens, such actions would be viewed internationally as a behavior against democracy.
Factors Yemen Haven For Terrorists
1. Yemen land and sea borders are virtually impossible to guard;
2. Yemen government-presence authority in many parts of the country is minimal;
3. Very rugged, sparsely populated terrain makes it easy to train guerrillas and construct well-defended hideouts; and,
4. Yemen religious diversity means that most varieties of Islamic militants can find someone, somewhere, to shelter them.
Reference
http://web.archive.org/web/20020601211014/communities.msn.com/AnExCIA/intelldata.msnw
INTELL SYSTEMS
Carnivore and Other Systems
What Carnivore Is and How Carnivore Works
CARNIVORE, is just one ( 1 ) rudimentary form of domestic data collection used by federal authorities of the United States.
CARNIVORE fanciful advertising mentions and logo ( see above ) falsely represent CARNIVORE as being a ”Diagnostic Tool” but CARNIVORE does ‘not’ perform any “diagnostics” and does ‘not’ provide any ‘diagnosis’.
CARNIVORE, is a ‘system’ controlled by a standard telephone wire connection modem controller or DSL type connection designed to work in conjunction with a Commercial Off The Shelf ( COTS ) personal computer ( PC ) system installed with a specialized application software program operated specifically to ‘identify’ and ‘record’ data from a Internet Service Provider ( ISP ) telephone line providing virtual e-mail messagings and other forms of communication data sent from any type of ISP client computer ( desk-top, laptop, palm-top, hand-held cell phone, satellite phone and/or any other communication device utilizing transmitters and receivers via land-lines, satellite or other manipulators of recordable data onto a standard comercial off the shelf ( COTS ) electronic or optical storage mechanism.
According to the United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigations ( FBI ), “CARNIVORE is a computer-based system designed to allow the FBI, in-cooperation with an Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), to comply with Court Orders requiring collection of certain information about e-mails or other electronic communications to or from a specific user targeted in an investigation.”
FBI explains Codename: “CARNIVORE chews all the data on the network, but it only actually eats the information authorized by a court order.”
[ photo ( above ): CARNIVORE - DCS-1000 - Flow Chart ]
Carnivore Intercepts
Carnivore is used in two ( 2 ) ways: as a ‘content wiretap’ and a ‘trap and trace and pen-register’.
A telephone “content wiretap” is where law enforcement eavesdrops on the suspect’s telephone calls, recording the oral communications on tape. Carnivore can do similar things for Internet communication:
A. Captures all e-mail messages to and from a specific account.; and,
B. Captures all the network traffic to and from a specific user or IP address.
A less invasive style of wiretapping is the telephone “trap-and-trace,” where police tracks all the caller IDs of inbound telephone calls. For example, if your child has been kidnapped, the FBI will put a trap and trace on your phone in hopes of discovering the telephone number of the kidnappers.
There is a similar feature known as a “pen-register” that tracks all outbound telephone numbers dialed. If you are a suspected drug dealer, the FBI might perform a virtual stake out where they put a trap-and-trace plus pen-register on your phone in order to discover everyone you call, and everyone who calls you. Similar functionality for the Internet consists of:
A. Captures all the e-mail headers (including e-mail addresses) going to and from an e-mail account, but not the actual contents (or Subject: line).;
B. Lists all the servers (web servers, FTP servers) that the suspect accesses, but don’t capture the content of this communication.;
C. Tracks everyone who accesses a specific web page or FTP file.; and,
D. Tracks all web pages or FTP files that a suspect accesses.
One will notice that the trap-and-trace/pen-register functionality is mostly a subset of the content-wiretap interception. This is because the legal standards are more relaxed. A full content-wiretap can only be authorized by a federal district court judge, and only in cases of clear probable cause when certain crimes have been committed. The purpose of a full content-wiretap is to gather evidence to use during prosecution. In contrast, a trap-and-trace/pen-register can be authorized by lower judges. It is often used during the course of a criminal investigation in order to find out background information. This information is not considered “hard evidence” and may not standard up in court. Instead, it is often simply part of the background investigation.
If the FBI suspects you of a crime for which you are using e-mail, they will do their best to get a court order to grab the full contents. If they cannot do that, they will back off and try to get a court order for all the e-mail addresses of people you correspond with.
Carnivore Internet Communication Interception Ability
Carnivore acts like a “packet sniffer“. All Internet traffic is broken down into bundles called “packets”. Carnivore eavesdrops on these packets watching them go by, then saves a copy of the packets it is interested in.
It is important to note that Carnivore is a passive wiretap. It does not interfere with communication. Some news reports falsely claim that Carnivore interposes itself into the stream, first grabbing data, then passing it along.
Carnivore Frequency of Use
The FBI claims that Carnivore has been used roughly 25 times leading up to August, 2000. The FBI claims that they used Carnivore only 10% of the time for such court orders: most of the time the ISP complies with the court order using their own facilities. The FBI claims that the majority of cases have been for counter terrorism, though they also mention hacking and drug trafficking.
Carnivore P-C Computer & Configurations
Each Carnivore P-C is likely to vary somewhat. The FBI however, claims that the standard Carnivore P-C configuration looks like this:
One (1) standard – commercial-off-the-shelf ( COTS ) – personal computer ( P-C ).; MICROSOFT Windows NT, Windows 2000 or, Windows XP Pro type Operating System software package.; 128-MB ( megabyte ) RAM memory module.; INTEL Pentium III CPU ( central processing unit ) chip.; Minimum of between 4 to 18-GB ( gigabytes ) hard-disk drive free-space available.; An IOMEGA Jazz ( 2-GB ) removable storage media disk drive where the seized evidence will be written to.; Software written in C++.; P-C operating system software set up with no TCP/IP stack ( an anti-hacking web measure ).; Hardware authentication device used to control access to the P-C’s operating system software ( prevents ISP personnel from accessing the P-C without leaving visible signs of damage ).; A “network isolation device”, which is probably a Shomiti or NetOptics tap ( prevents the P-C from transmitting even if a web hacker were able to break in somehow ).; Another commercially available off-the-shelf type communications software ( perhaps the Carnivore P-C is written with C++ plug-ins to the EtherPeek program ).; Optionally available dial-in modem ports.
NOTE: Typical FBI procedure is to have their agent come in on a daily basis to exchange the removable Jazz disk with a fresh replacement.
Carnivore Controversy
People are worried about the privacy implications of Carnivore. There are three (3) main concerns:
1. How (exactly) Carnivore works, and whether there are bugs that lead to privacy violations.;
2. How Carnivore can be misused.; and,
3. The privacy debate of wiretaps in general, and the changing rules of the Internet in particular.
Carnivore vs. 4th Amendment
The Fourth (4th) Amendment of the United States Constitution states:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Carnivore requires a warrant to be issued given “probable cause” clearly specifying who the suspect is (e.g. e-mail address), what lines will be tapped, and what kind of information is being seized (e.g. e-mails). Furthermore, wiretaps like Carnivore are usually held to a higher standard. A warrant for the contents of your e-mail can only be issued by a Federal District judge or higher, whereas normal search warrants can be authorized by any judge.
For The Paranoid
At least for now, the government considers tapping your e-mail a serious thing and curtails most of the FBI ability to read it. The U.S. National Security Agenncy ( NSA ) may coordinate with the United Kingdom ( UK ) to monitor your e-mail ( ECHELON project ) but during peacetime the FBI probably doesn’t. That is not to say other domestic intelligence collection servicees for the U.S. government, or from a foreign nation, could not.
Does Carnivore retrieve e-mail from unintended targets?
There is a huge controversy over this issue because the FBI refuses to disclose how Carnivore works (see below). It is technically possible to write a system in a robust manner that won’t capture data from innocent people. However, industry practice has been to take short-cuts in sniffing devices. If the FBI follows industry practice, then there are several cases whereby they may capture unintended data a small percentage of the time.
A spokesman from the EFF has made the claim that Carnivore cannot sniff e-mail for only one person out of a network stream containing thousands of e-mail. There claim is that even experts in AI (Artificial Intelligence) would not be able to build such a system. This spokesman was thinking of the program from the wrong perspective. Carnivore isn’t a dumb pattern matcher, but a protocol decoder. This means that instead of blinding searching the entire e-mail content for a specific e-mail address, Carnivore carefully follows the e-mail transfer protocols and only examine specific fields. The blind content searching would indeed be impossible. See the explanation below on SMTP for more info.
Does Carnivore do “content-searching” to sniff e-mails that contain trigger-words like “plutonium”, etc.?
No, content-search type technology systems may typically be controlled by, other government agencies. Carnivore only looks at e-mail addresses within the “FROM:” or “TO:” fields. See the next question for a more complete answer.
Is Carnivore a network of black-boxes deployed throughout the Internet?
Or, Is Carnivore an unrestrained wiretap of the entire Internet?
No. This type of widespread monitoring is not allowed by law.
To install a Carnivore box, the FBI must have a court order specifying exactly what is to be monitored (e.g. email contents), for exactly whom monitoring will take place (e.g. email address), and is limited for how long the box may be in place. Furthermore, the ISP does not have to accept a Carnivore box if they can satisfy the search warrant using their own means. Carnivore is only used when the ISP cannot satisfy the search warrant.
As of August 2000, the FBI currently had roughly only twenty (20) Carnivore boxes stored in Quantico, Virginia from where they are only used in specific cases under court order.
The courts don’t allow any one ( 1 ) box to be in place for more than 1-month or 2-months.
Furthermore, these boxes are rarely placed on ISP backbones, but ‘usually close to the servers’ they are ‘designed to monitor’.
More For The Paranoid
Carnivore’s answer is not a satisfactory answer for paranoids who believe that government does not follow its own laws, so let me phrase it another way:
If the government is doing widespread monitoring ( ECHELON program ), it isn’t doing it with Carnivore. Carnivore is not made for widespread monitoring, but instead designed for only “surgical” wiretaps. Carnivore is widely publicized and many ISP engineers have direct experience with Carnivore (and know where the boxes are placed; ECHELON is much more secretive. In other words, the government may have black-boxes deployed throughout the network, but that may not necessarily be Carnivore black-boxes.
E-Mail Corruptions & Misrepresentations
A problem with Carnivore is that it doesn’t see the original email, but a copy as it flows by on the wire. Email is fragmented into packets. It is possible that Carnivore will miss packets, or accidentally collected unrelated packets as being part of an e-mail message.
However, Carnivore can detect these problems and clearly mark them. Rather than capturing the email messages itself, it instead captures the raw packets that transported the email. These packets have “checksums” and “sequence numbers” to guard against corruption. Therefore, if Carnivore misses a packet that was in the middle of an email message, this hole is clearly marked within the packet.
Therefore, while Carnivore can certainly miss packets or capture too many packets, it will clearly indicate these problems and not misrepresent the e-mail.
Is Carnivore permanently located at the ISP ?
No. It is unlikely to be in place for more than a month. There are strict government regulations on the use of wiretaps; they most be renewed every month. If they are making forward progress, then they stop because the evidence is sufficient to convict. If they aren’t discovering anything, they are removed as being useless. Either way, they don’t last long.
The FBI claims that they longest a Carnivore unit has been in place was 45-days.
FBI Source Code Not Released
The FBI makes the following justifications as to why they don’t release source code:
They say that hackers will find ways around it.
They claim that part of the code is from commercially licensed ( i.e. they are contractually forbidden from releasing it ).
United States Code, Title 18, Section 2512, prohibits possession and/or distribution of devices designed to surreptitiously eavesdrop on other people’s communications.
FBI Arguements Not Bought By Industry Experts
Hackers already know how to find ways around Carnivore (e.g. PGP, anonymous remailers, anonymizing services, etc.). Experts think the real reason is that the code has not gone through a security audit and that hackers can easily attack Carnivore and bring it down. Experts believe that the only way to harden code against hacker attacks is to open it up to peer review.
The fact that key portions are licensed from commercial vendors rather than created by the FBI demonstrates that the FBI does not know how to create such code in the first place. This hints at severe weaknesses within the program that can lead to privacy violations (such as using the same short-cuts prevalent in network sniffers).
Sniffers and network monitoring products are pervasive throughout the industry. Carnivore is less capable than many programs people already have installed on their desktops. Carnivore would indeed be a useful email backup tool.
FBI made the statement in their RFP:
“The Department recognizes that the Carnivore system is subject to certain inherent design limitations that preclude its use in certain situations. Those limitations will be identified to the Contractor [ reviewing the system ], but for obvious reasons will not be made public.”
Experts don’t understand ‘what obvious reasons’ the FBI could be talking about.
CARNIVORE Performance Disclosures
FBI claims it has been forthcoming on basic details of the program. Many experts disagree, blaming the FBI for creating an environment of fear and mistrust.
Even though the FBI cannot disclose the source code for Carnivore, it could disclose through the National Testing Standards Laboratory ( NTSL ) test running Carnivore through a series of tests at their independent labs but, more specifically through all permutations (e-mail content, e-mail headers, IP packets, RADIUS logon, etc.) and disclose the evidence gathered along with original tracefiles. This would clearly demonstrate the capabilities of Carnivore without exposing the advanced details that they want to keep secret.
Carnivore’s False-Positive Arrests
Yes, easily (you can do this yourself). You can simply reconfigure your own email system to use somebody else’s email address. This won’t allow you to read their email, but will certainly allow you to impersonate them when sending email out.
Another common problem is through the use of “Trojan Horses“. This technique, allows for a hacker to not only forge an e-mail, but to make it come from that person’s IP address as well. Currently, this fools the FBI as well as courts ( in a pending legal case, a defendant is accused of posting fraudulent information about a public company to Yahoo message boards; he claims that somebody else controlled his P-C to post that information ).
One may never be able to prove that somebody was actually at the console. A neighbor could be walking over every day while the suspect is at work in order to send/receive e-mails from the computer.
None of this is really important for Carnivore, however. “Probable Cause” must be shown before Carnivore is used to monitor the suspect. Remember that the FBI normally just has the ISP copy the e-mail for them rather than having Carnivore do it. Whatever the source of the e-mails, the defense can still call into question that the e-mails are in fact legitimate for the above reasons.
CARNIVORE Ice Breaker Laws
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, Title III – 1968
Commonly known simply as, Title III, law making ‘wiretapping legal’.
Electronic Communications Privacy Act ( ECPA ) – 1986
ECPA (pronounced: ek-pah). This law was designed to clarify how existing wiretap laws apply to cyberspace, but at the same time sets boundaries on how much the government can invade our on-line privacy.
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act – 1986
Makes breaking into federal computers and trafficking in stolen passwords felonies.
CALEA – 1994
Requires ‘telephone carriers’ ( including Internet Srvice Providers – ISP ) to help with investigations. A court order usually comes in two (2) parts:
1. Authorizing FBI to ‘sniff’; and,
2. Obligation of ISP to ‘assist’ Government.
Roving Wiretap – 1998
Allows the FBI to tap lots of people’s communication as long as it only keeps records of the suspect’s communications. In other words, Carnivore can be placed on a backbone that listens to thousands of people’s e-mails as long as it only remembers e-mails for the specific suspect.
Pen Registers and Trap & Trace
A pen-register is a device the FBI might put on your phone line that records every telephone number you dial.
A trap-and-trace is a different kind of device that records the caller-ID of everyone who dials you. In movies, when the suspect calls in and the FBI says, “Keep him on the line” so they can conduct a trace, that is in-essence a ‘trap and trace’.
These two ( 2 ) items are frequently used as a sort of ‘electronic stake-out’. Because they only reveal calling numbers, called, date, time, and potentially the length of the call ( ’not’ as intrusive into privacy as a ‘full wiretap’ ) legal standards necessary to obtain a court order are significantly reduced.
According to the FBI, Carnivore is usually used more often as a pen-register/trap-and-trace style device rather than a full wiretap.
Court Order – Specifics
FBI agents must go to a judge and get them to authorize use of CARNIVORE, the court order specifies:
1. Name of suspect(s).;
2. Specific account information, i.e. exact e-mail address(es).;
3. Nature of crime commission-type suspected.; and,
4. What is going to be tapped (i.e. which wire, etc.).; and,
5. Duration requested for the tap/trap, i.e. time limit example: 1 or 2-month(s).
The judge then authorizes the search warrant. At the same time, the judge will create a court order demanding that the ISP comply with the FBI.
Full content wiretaps may only be used for certain felonies ( e.g. terrorism, drug trafficking, kidnapping ). They may only be issued by a Federal District Judge, not any old judge. They may only be granted to FBI agents. They may only be used to gather hard evidence, ‘not for background reconnaissance’.
Computer Records & Legal Hearsay Rules
According to U.S. Federal Rules of Evidence, business records ( including computer records ) are considered “hearsay” ( and not admissible in court ) because there is no first-hand proof that they are accurate, reliable, or trustworthy. There are exceptions to this rule when you can demonstrate accuracy, reliability, and trustworthiness.
First, the FBI cannot simply capture a single e-mail and claim it as evidence. Instead, Carnivore must be running all the time (for a week, month, etc.). All of the e-mails captured during that time must be maintained. The FBI cannot simply take one e-mail from this set and use it as evidence, they must instead present to the court all e-mails captured during this time. If one e-mail says “let’s bomb the World Trade Center”, but the next e-mail says “I was only joking”, then the FBI must present both to the defense team.
Second, the captured data must be “authenticated” according to Rule 901 of the Federal Rules of Evidence. The FBI agents that put Carnivore into the ISP and locks it down will need to document everything they did. The FBI cannot simply give Carnivore to an ISP engineer and have them install it, because the ISP engineer is not considered a qualified witness.
Third, Carnivore must meet the “best evidence” rule. ISPs are usually able to create copies of e-mail directly from their servers. These copies have a higher integrity than e-mails sniffed from the wire (Carnivore might miss a packet, and therefore leave a gaping hole in the e-mail). Therefore, the FBI can only use Carnivore when the ISP is not willing or is unable to copy the e-mail from their servers.
CARNIVORE Evidence Chain of Possession
As part of the Rules of Evidence, all evidence must be “sealed” in a tamper-proof manner. Carnivore uses a Jaz drive for this. As soon as the Jazz disk is removed from the machine, it is immediately sealed in a bag, then written on the outside who ( the FBI agent ) sealed it and what date/time. From then on, anybody who opens that seal must likewise sign the form and clearly document what they did with the evidence. The evidence must not be altered ( except in certain cases ).
This is one of the reasons that the FBI cannot put a TCP/IP stack on the box. They cannot risk the defense team using this as an excuse as to why the evidence might be tainted.
CARNIVORE Rules Law Of Minimization
The laws state that the FBI must be very careful to minimize how much it inadvertently eavesdrops on. Agents must be very careful to monitor only the information authorized by the court order, and nothing more. For example, if they are wiretapping the telephone of the father of a family, then if a kid dials-out, they must immediately turn off the recording machines. For telephones, this requires an FBI agent who constantly listens on the line monitoring for such things.
This means that the FBI is not allowed to listen for any e-mails containing the word “plutonium”, because it would inadvertently capture messages from innocent people. Instead, they must prove to a judge that they can tap into only the traffic for the specific suspect; i.e. they must give the judge the exact e-mail address they are going to monitor.
FBI agents are very paranoid about this. If extra stuff leaks into their recordings, they must carefully discard it. Also, if a lot of stuff has leaked in, then the defense attorneys will “move to suppress” the evidence claiming proper procedure was not followed. Remember, the FBI has to prove a legitimate reason to the judge in order to get a court order, but also must be careful when they get the evidence that it won’t be thrown out of court. This is especially important because full content-wiretaps are only obtained in order to get hard evidence that will indeed be used in court.
Note that full content-wiretaps have been used in this discussion; trap-and-trace style wiretaps are a little more lenient because they do not record the full contents of a conversation, only the parties doing the conversing.
CARNIVORE IN-DEPTH TECHNICALS
CARNIVORE Old Technology New Technologies
Carnivore is often portrayed in the press as something extremely technologically sophisticated and clever. It isn’t. For example, one news article claims that when the FBI unveiled Carnivore, it “astonished industry specialists”. It certainly did NOT. It is a well-known fact from even within the computer industrial circles of the lowly technicians at BestBuy and other computer superstore service centers that, there are numerous other products on the commercial off-the-shelf ( COTS ) market which are significantly more advanced than the F.B.I.’s Carnivore program.
There’s an author who wrote an e-mail sniffing program identical to Carnivore, nine (9) years ago. Carnivore has a couple of things that are unique to it ( capturing e-mail packets rather than messages, RADIUS monitoring ), but these aren’t necessarily sophisticated.
CARNIVORE & OMNIVORE – Stuffy Nose Issue
The FBI has used Carnivore in a ‘mode’ they call OMNIVORE capturing ‘all traffic to’ and ‘all traffic from’ specified IP addresses. ( Remember, a court order has to specify exactly who is being monitored, the FBI ‘was’ outlawed from monitoring everybody ).
AG GROUP EtherPeek was reportedly used for OMNIVORE, one of only a few ‘packet sniffers’ that can accept an IP address as a ‘capture filter’ then write in real-time (with ‘no lost packets’ ) directly to the disk.
There are numerous products which fulfill these types of requirements. The easiest is the freeware program known as TCPDUMP, which is available for both Windows and UNIX. If the court order specifies a full capture for the IP address of 192.0.2.189. An EXAMPLE of the command would simply be: tcpdump –w tracefile.tcp host 192.0.2.189
CARNIVORE Stumped – Defending Against
CARNIVORE – Make Your Own
The popular personal firewall from NetworkICE’s, BlackICE Defender, has a feature called “Packet Logging”. It will monitor all traffic to and from your own machine and save it directly to disk just like Carnivore. You can use this feature if you think you are under attack ( though there are limits to its admissibility in court ). The popular freeware utility known as “Ethereal” can then be used to display the contents of this data. A great “defense” against any FBI bungled message screw-ups between an ISP’s backbone and you or, the IOMEGA Jazz disks.
IP sniffing may also be done in a pen-register/ trap-and-trace mode. Many packet sniffer could be used for this capability. The desired IP address would be specified in a “capture filter”, then the “slice/snap” length would be set to 54 bytes. This would capture all the TCP/IP “headers”, but not the content. The raw data would be saved live to a file. Again, using TCPDUMP as an EXAMPLE: tcpdump –w tracefile.tcp host 192.0.2.189 –s 54.
However, this may very well be over-stepping the bounds of the law collecting more information than the warrant or court order allows. In order to align it more closely with a traditional pen-register/trap-and-trace, it would need to capture a lot less information. It would monitor the wire and create a record that would appear to contain, the following:
IP address of initiator
IP address of the receiver
Time when conversation started
Duration of conversation
This would require a more complex programming within the system.
RADIUS Triggering
In the case of dial-up connections, the suspect has no fixed IP address. Therefore, CARNIVORE has to sniff the RADIUS log-on / authentication packets in order to discover the IP address in use. This is the probably the only feature unique to Carnivore: the ability to track dialup users.
CARNIVORE E-mail Sniffing Methodology
SMTP protocol ( the system for exchanging e-mail ) might look something like the following:
–220 mx.altivore.com SMTP server.
>>>HELO mx.example.com
–250 mx.altivore.com Hello [192.0.2.183], pleased to meet you
>>MAIL FROM: <alice@example.com>
–250 <alice@example.com> … Sender ok
>>>RCPT TO: <bob@altivore.com>
–250 <bob@altivore.com>
>>>DATA
–354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
>>>(e-mail message)
>>>\r\n.\r\n
<–250 Queued mail for delivery
>>>QUIT
–221 mx.altivore.com closing connection
What you are seeing here is an exchange of data between two mail exchangers. One exchanger contacts the other in order to forward e-mail to it. Carnivore listens in on them surreptitiously. They start with a few greetings, and then get down to business. The exchanger that initiated the connection first transmits the “envelope” containing the MAIL FROM and RCPT TO fields, then sends the “message”. The message is terminated by a blank line containing a single dot.
The message itself contains “headers” and a “body”. These aren’t shown in the diagram. One of the big questions about Carnivore is whether it tracks just the SMTP “envelope”, or whether is looks within the RFC822 “body”. The following is a sample e-mail message that would be transferred over this connection:
From: “Alice Cooper”
To: “Bob D Graham”
Subject: Shipment
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 15:51:24 -0700
Message-ID:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=”iso-8859-1″
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
Importance: Normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600
How is the plutonium shipment coming? I need it by Friday.
–Alice
The logic is quite simple. If the court order specifies the suspect’s e-mail account as alice@example.com“. Carnivore triggers when it sees that address in the SMTP envelope, and starts capturing the e-mail message until it sees the end. Some court orders might limit this to only the headers rather than the content. In this case, Carnivore has to stop capturing at the first blank line. Furthermore, Carnivore has to remove the “Subject:” header because that is also considered “content” by the courts.
There are several products on the market that can capture e-mails in a similar fashion. One of the important differences with Carnivore is that it doesn’t record the e-mail messages themselves, but instead captures the raw packets that carry the e-mails. In this fashion, it has a solid history of checksums and TCP sequence numbers that clearly show missing fragments are inadvertently captured fragments. This is extremely important in order to validate the authenticity of the data.
A pen-register/trap-and-trace mode can also be used. The MAIL FROM and RCPT TO addresses can be logged to a file whenever either of them matches the suspect’s address. The log entry would look like:
time
MAIL FROM address
RCPT TO address
Email message length
HTTP & FTP
In the sample scenarios described by the FBI, the describe cases where they want to track all the websites accessed by the suspect. The way they do that is filter for any packet from the suspect to port 80 ( meaning HTTP ), and record the IP address. This may be complicated by having to parse RADIUS described above.
HTTP - FTP - NTTP
One of the claims read in the news is that Carnivore does something with HTTP more than monitoring IP addresses of the sites. I think the news reporters were confused, but there are some things the FBI could do with sniffing technology.
One technique would be to do a “trap-and-trace” on a webpage. For example, the FBI could put a sniffing device next to the server hosting this webpage, then monitor everyone who access just this one page on the site. Similar techniques could be used for monitoring users of certain FTP files.
NTTP ( UseNet news groups ) can be a little more interesting. The FBI can do trap-and-trace on specific newsgroups. Webpages are actually well controlled ( little bad stuff ) and innocent people often find themselves unintentionally at the wrong webpages due to search engine details, however UseNet is ‘less regulated’ where some are frequented by persistent cyber criminals; various hacking news groups come to mind.
IRC
There are rumors that Carnivore was used to capture IRC traffic. If the FBI wanted to tune into IRC chatrooms, the could simply use any number of programs that simply log onto the chatrooms and record all the contents. Indeed, the FBI probably records the full contents of the most popular hacker IRC chatrooms. The reason is that this isn’t “wiretapping”, it is simply recording data that is publicly visible. You don’t need to be at the ISP to do this, but can monitor chatrooms from anywhere on the net, remotely.
Note that IRC supports generic handles rather than fixed account names. People can ( and often do ) masquerade as others. When the FBI monitors IRC, they want to track it back to the IP address that originated the content.
CARNIVORE Dropped Packet Problems
This is a frequent question for sniffers: How much traffic may they suck up before they get overloaded?
This is an important question especially if Carnivore is placed upon an ISP backbone, which often approaches 100-Mbps ( megabytes per second ). The Windows platform which Carnivore is based upon may certainly keep up with this traffic in theory hopwever, Network ICE sells Windows-based gigabit solutions which finds that most Windows-based sniffing software is quite slow. Therefore, for many people that Carnivore is after, the FBI may find itself too slow to be placed on ISP backbones for just everyone.
However, Carnivore is frequently used in a “surgical” manner. This means that if possible, it will only tap into the wire used by the e-mail server (for example). This means that the traffic loads in real-world deployments are extremely small.
CARNIVORE EtherPeek Connection AG Group ( Germany )
EtherPeek was certainly used originally for investigative work by the FBI. It probably is what the FBI called, OMNIVORE. They would obtain court orders for all traffic to/from IP addresses and save it directly to evidence files. EtherPeek supports this feature well whereas other commercial sniffers don’t do this as well.
The FBI could be making-up Carnivore as just simple plug-ins or, modifications for EtherPeek. The FBI persistently claims that Carnivore is based upon a commercial sniffer, so this is just suposition. Also, looking at EtherPeek plug-ins, they are remarkably similar to Carnivore described capabilities ( though not exactly ).
The FBI may have picked EtherPeek to grab IP information, then after seeing the new plug-ins appear in their latest version, licensed those plug-in codes from a Germany based firm ( AG GROUP ) direct exclusive FBI use after having them make simple minor modifications.
Anti CARNIVORE Defenses
There are several ways. The first is to simply encrypt your data and use anonymizing services. If you are sending e-mail that you don’t want other people to read, you should certainly encrypt it.
The second, is via a direct attack on Carnivore. Carnivore is probably susceptible to typical buffer overflow attacks by just sending very large e-mails. Also, one may always change the format of their e-mail address without changing the meaning. This will prevent Carnivore from correctly matching your email address. If you think your dial-up connecting is being sniffed by Carnivore, you can probably forge RADIUS packets in order to convince Carnivore that somebody else is using your IP address, which will cause it to stop monitoring.
FBI Request For Proposal & SPRINT Earthlink
On August 24, 2000, the FBI issued a “Request For Proposal” (aka) R.F.P. for “experts” to come in to evaluate Carnivore. Many experts have shied away from this because of the handcuffs placed on them, feeling that the FBI is just looking for a rubber stamp to alleviate the public’s fears that than submitting their system to a full review.
“Questions that have been raised include concern that the FBI’s temporary use of the Carnivore system could interfere with the proper functioning of an ISP’s network; concern that the system might, when used properly, provide investigators with more information than is authorized by a given court order; and concern that even if the system functions appropriately when properly used, its capabilities give rise to a risk of misuse, leading to improper invasions of privacy.”
What this may mean is that, bungling on the FBI’s part caused problems for a major Internet Service Provider, SPRINT and their Earthlink internet software, who is now suing to keep Carnivore off their networks. The government wants to prove that under proper usage, Carnivore won’t cause such problems in the future.
People are worried that Carnivore will capture more information that allowed by the court order. For example, a spokesman for EFF says that even experts in AI ( Artificial Intelligence ) would not be able to figure out how to make Carnivore work properly. The FBI wants to prove their case in face of this criticism.
People are worried that the “powerful” capabilities can be misused in order to invade privacy. Some academics refuse to participate. They believe that the FBI is simply trying to allay the public’s fears without addressing the real concerns. The RFP gives strict limitations on how the product is to be evaluated, and has full control over what the evaluator is allowed to publish as results. The FBI may certainly create a “technical evaluation” which could give Carnivore a clean bill of health while still failing to address any of the major concerns.
ECHELON & CARNIVORE Relatives
CARNIVORE
Carnivore is often compared to other systems, however a brief list ( below ) describes a few other data collection systems:
CARNIVORE ( U.S. Domestic ) vs. ( UK Domestic )
R.I.P. ( Regulatory Investigative Powers ) for the United Kingdom will mandate ‘black-boxes’ at all Internet Service Providers ( ISP ), unlike Carnivore where boxes have to be brought on site for each investigation, however like Carnivore a ‘court order’ is required, first. The UK, however are pushing hard for encryption key recovery as well.
CARNIVORE ( U.S. ) vs. SORM ( Russia – CIS )
Russia’s S.O.R.M. requires an ISP to forward all traffic to the Russia FSB ( formerly known as KGB ).
There is no issue with this because the vast majority of ISPs are ‘run by the Russia CIS Sgovernment directorates’.
FSB does ‘not’ need a ‘warrant’ for ‘its citizenry’ and can use the information for whatever reason it wants.
FSB outlaws encryption ( unless key recovery is used ).
CARNIVORE ( U.S. ) vs. ( Japan )
Japan law requires that “all ISPs keep a trap-and-trace / pen-register style log of all Internet communications” that their law enforcement can subpoena at any time.
[ photo ( above ) ECHELON Global Ground Base Location Map ( click to enlarge ) ]
CARNIVORE ( USA ) vs. ECHELON ( UK-USA )
ECHELON, while being a global ELINT [ Electronic Intelligence ] and SIGINT [ Signals Intelligence ] monitoring network, without boundaries, used primarily by both USA and UK government shared with only a few more foreign country based satellite downlink receiver stations.
One ( 1 ) United States federal government authority operating ECHELON is the U.S. National Security Agency ( NSA ) in cooperation with the United Kingdom ( UK ) MI-6 intelligence service. See, e.g. “INTELL Photos” and “COSMIC Photos“, for more information on this website.
ECHELON is ‘not’ totally related to Carnivore, however a satellite interface or other remote communication link might.
FBI and NSA have been successful through disinformation campaigns to give foreigners the impression they are somehow engaged in ‘official intra-organizational turf wars’ of not exactly like each other very much to seamlessly communicate, however with some lower-end personnell bureaucratic run-ins this may be true. Some individuals have been led to believe these federal agencies are somehow stumble-bums unlikely to share technologies, howeverthat’s not exactly true.
ELINT priority interface establishes order for ‘measured data distribution’ at lower-level enforcement levels – eliminating some inter-agency boundary disputes when it comes to ‘identifying’ critical or priority data requests.
Lower-level government communication echelons do not possess ‘sophisticated mapping abilities’ approaching anywhere near ECHELON processing technologies for tasking ‘problem set’ assignment(s), per se.
ECHELON operates as a de facto or de jure senior level government executive command control and communication intelligence authority whereas others possess no dedicated say over their own specific operational taskings or specific durational usages.
There is no proverbial ‘request’ that can be simply submitted from any country’s lower level federal security agency authorities to priortize the ECHELON World Region Chief Of Station.
Another decision-making substrate controls ECHELON and “some” of the data may be filtered even more before it is even reaches another country’s lower-level federal security agency authority for use.
While some of this technology is similar in theory, the application of collection technology is different enough so much so that, it may appear to have been easier to write or formulate such systems separately than to try to share the more sensitive information technology base itself.
Future interfacing may actually gain federal security agencies much easier acess to collate and mix additional data relevant to what it’s needs are, without other lower level federal security agency authorities becoming privy to higher-level security business production needs.
It may also be a new political way to expand budget definitions without having to reveal classified detail justifications to Congress and its accompanying oversight security detail boards of authority.
Carnivore has nothing to do with ECHELON.
ECHELON – CARNIVORE interfacing may provide a more expanded meshing of data collection which might realize a greater database control over monitoring communications overall. An interface between the two - if coupled with a common-link database - might serve to provide for rapid deployment response instituted by lower-level federal security agency authorities however, the direction of information trafficking then becomes an even more burdensome task for both high and low federal security agency levels alike.
The release of certain data might threaten the secure nature by which ECHELON now operates and could most certainly undermine other security interests of its users worldwide.
ECHELON usage is somewhat governed as an intelligence collection actuarial system by its operators setting data priority level requests to determine the relevancy of data importance along with priority of need in sequestering electronic communication information via e-mail, telephone. facsimile transmission, TELEX and a few other forms, worldwide. That’s why it is called, “ECHELON“. See, e.g. “INTELL Systems“, “INTELL Photos” and “COSMIC Photos“, for more information on this website.
CARNIVORE Internet, E-Mail And CellPhone Surveillance
USA, Washington, D.C. – August 28, 2001 - Federal law enforcement officials may be ready to use a controversial surveillance technology to monitor E-Mail and other text messages delivered via wireless devices, such as Cell Phones and Palm-top P-Cs is a fact that has one telecommunications group concerned.
In a letter to Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) Chairman Michael Powell, the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association ( CTIA ) warned the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) may start using its DCS-1000 surveillance system, originally known as CARNIVORE, to eavesdrop on wireless communications as early as October 2001.
The CTIA fears the FBI might start using the DCS-1000 system because the wireless industry has so far been unable to develop a standard for law enforcement agencies to monitor e-mails sent between handheld devices.
The FCC has set a September 30, 2001 deadline for the wireless industry to submit guideline proposals for use of the DCS-1000 system.
Although agency officials would not comment on the CTIA letter, a representative said the FCC intends to decide soon whether to extend the deadline.
In the August 15, 2001 letter, CTIA association vice president and general counsel Michael Altschul wrote: “If the industry is not provided the guidance and time to develop solutions for packet surveillance that intercept only the target’s communications, it seems probable that Carnivore, which intercepts all communications in the pathway without the affirmative intervention of the carrier, will be widely implemented.”
Privacy advocates, civil libertarians and some lawmakers have criticized Carnivore because they fear the system may be used to snoop on innocent citizens without their knowledge.
The FBI has been using the controversial technology for two years. The Carnivore system, which is installed at Internet service providers, captures “packets” of Internet traffic as they travel through ISP networks. The program monitors millions of mail messages, searching for notes sent by people under investigation.
An FBI representative would not say whether Carnivore has been, or will ever be, used to monitor wireless communications.
Keith Waryas, a wireless analyst with market watcher I.D.C., said that even if federal officials do snoop on wireless e-mails, they’re going to be disappointed with what they find.
Although businesses are starting to use wireless networks to send sensitive e-mails, it’s still a small audience. Wireless consumers such as cell phone users are even less apt right now to use such modern services as sending wireless e-mails, he said.
Though there has been some movement by criminal enterprises to use the Internet, that same push hasn’t happened yet on wireless, Waryas believes.
“I don’t think the world will come to a standstill,” he said. “I don’t think guys running a drug operation on the corner will have a WAP interface (a type of wireless network) for their distributors.”
He also pointed out that hackers already have broken into some wireless networks. This week marked the release of a product called AirSnort, which lets hackers intercept some wireless data transmissions.
“When it comes to wireless, you’re talking about broadcasting something. My guess is it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to intercept those transmissions,” Waryas said.
There is a bill before Congress that would require the attorney general and the FBI director to submit a detailed report on the use of surveillance systems, including Carnivore.
CIA WATCH
Egypt Air Crash Secrets Or Propaganda?
USA, Massachusetts, Nantucket – October 31, 1999 - Ground observers, ordinary American citizens thought they saw a ground-launched rocket or missile flying off the U.S. east coast hitting an Egypt Air ( Boeing 767 ) passenger airline flight number 990 (aka) MSR990 that exploded and went down into the Atlantic Ocean about 60 nautical miles ( 112 kilometers ) off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts where 217 people were killed.
Some speculated the Egypt Air passenger airline was blown up by an onboard explosion, however some wondered if it may have been shot down by some sort of surface-to-air missile ( SAM ) fired off from somewhere on the America eastcoast.
Many questions came to mind about the cause of the airplane ‘sudden fall’ right after its explosion at an 11,000 feet elevation 40-minutes into its flight from Kennedy International Airport ( New York, USA ).
The tragedy, was the worst in Egypt aviation history of the entire 19th century, has been shrouded with great mystery more-so than any other similar tragedy. What made it even more mysterious was the confusing and strange conclusions reached by U.S. authorities surrounding ‘details’ - in this incident - that puzzle the intellect of many other professionals besides investigators and law enforcement.
Neutral investigators are practically definite the tragedy was a result of ‘sabotage’, asking ” What ‘hit’ the airplane’ in its ‘tail section’ that left absolutely ‘no trace’ or ‘no evidence’ as to the ’cause’?”
Also asked was, what the nature of the ‘sabotage’ was. ”If ‘external’, ’what’ brought the plane down?” “If ’internal’, ‘what’ brought the plane down’?” “Was something ‘planted’ onboard?” Was something fired at it?”
Whatever the cause, there has to be someone who caused the incident.
Some investigators, used the ‘know who would benefit from the act to know who did it’ principle in their research.
Others searched closely in a series of events that came before, during and after the bodies of all 217 victims ended up in the bottom of the ocean or eaten by its sharks and whales.
Events became givens leading them to draw a sketch of the culprit, or at least show fingerprints therefrom.
Here is a series of events or coincidences as in the language of investigators:
Sixteen ( 16 ) Hidden Coincidences
1. “There were thirty four ( 34 ) Generals of different ranks from the Egyptian Armed Forces on board the plane. Among them was a General who has a Doctorate degree in atomic sciences, and more than twenty ( 20 ) pilots who successfully completed training in operating Apache helicopters that were sold recently to Egypt. Also on board were other generals who successfully completed training in launching the famous American Patriot anti-missile missiles. The training of all those generals lasted three (3) years and has cost Egypt $3-Billion, which Egypt paid in full.;
2. Israel vehemently denounced the training program of those Generals upon their arrival in the U.S. three ( 3 ) years ago, and Israel called the training program “a threat to Israel’s security”.;
3. Cairo started a big campaign to rid the region of weapons of mass destruction. The campaign has targeted mainly Israel since it is the only country in the region that possesses such dangerous weapons.;
4. Israel started a campaign accusing Egypt of seeking to modernize its armed forces, and of possessing missiles that threaten the security of Israel, especially so because the Army’s Generals who came to train in the U.S. will be exposed to the secrets of the joint American-Israeli missiles and jet fighter’s technology.;
5. Egypt Defense Minister, Muhammed Hassan Tantawi, announced last October ( 2000 ) that war with Israel is not ruled out. He also announced that Egypt therefore is continuously building its armed forces to be in a state of readiness.;
6. One day before the tragedy, the American authorities provided hotel accommodation in a 3-star hotel for the airplane crew, which constitutes a violation of the simplest norms of international aviation, where the crew is usually accommodated in the airport hotel or, in a 5-star hotel.;
7. On the same day, a crew of pilots and flight attendants of Israel airline EL AL checked into the same hotel occupied by a General from the Israel intelligence service ( Mossad ) who was put in-charge of crew luggage and personal belongings;
8. A few hours prior to the incident, one Egypt Air flight crew member complained to hotel security that someone snuck into his room when he noticed signs of tampering to open his suitcase by breaking its locks, however hotel security assured him of no foul play as long as nothing was missing;
9. The day of the incident, Israeli-American Edward McLaughlin, vice-president of an U.S. civilian agency was one of the passengers aboard [ the first travel route leg of ] Egypt Air from Los Angeles, California to New York City, New York enroute onto Cairo, Egypt, however when the plane landed in New York City, McLaughlin refused to continue his onward journey to his final destination ( Cairo, Egypt ) fearing the possible “planting of a bomb by one of the passengers” during his initial layover in New York City, New York, USA;
10. The same day of the incident, the American authorities opted to take the flight crew’s luggage from the hotel through the halls to the plane itself. Meanwhile the Mossad General opted to take the luggage of the crew of the EL AL flight to the Israeli plane himself. But the luggage of the crews of both Egypt Air and EL AL ended up being taken from the hotel to the airport in the same car that took the Mossad General to the Israeli airline plane.;
11. Prior to the Egypt Air flight departure, the American authorities had inspected the plane for three (3) hours which, is a very unusually long time in aviation norms. Also it has been reported that airport security had not given similar attention to any other plane that day.;
12. After forty ( 40 ) minutes of the flight’s departure, contact with the plane was lost over the Edward American naval base [ ? ], which is known to have anti-aircraft missiles, some of which are ready to be launched automatically by the mere sensing of an object passing over at a certain elevation.;
13. After the incident, three (3) eyewitnesses testified to the investigators that they saw the plane on fire as it was falling down. Fox News also has confirmed in its own investigation of the incident that the plane had exploded in mid-air before its fall according to what was seen on the radar screens.;
14. The American investigation team reported that the plane fell down from 33,000 feet to 19,000 feet in 40 seconds, ‘which, according to aviation experts, is a speed equal to a free fall due to earth gravity, which makes it evident that the plane has fallen down in pieces and not as one body. Because the body of the plane is designed in such a way that makes it impossible for the body of the plane to descend at a speed in access of 7,000 feet per second’. Aviation experts also add that ‘even if the engines of the plane stopped working, it would still be possible to land the plane at the nearest airport.’;
15. After 10-hours of the incident, a member of the American investigation team announced that they have found the black box that records details of events in the last moments just before the plane’s fall. However, the next day, the American official spokesman denied finding the box and said that the investigation team is still searching for it.;
16. There were 34 Generals from the Egypt Army on board ‘the plane’, which is a violation of Egypt Army rules that ‘prohibit’ more than three ( 3 ) Generals to be aboard the same flight ( domestic or international ) for ‘security’ of the Army. This decision was reached in 1978 after the Western Sahara flight crash with Ahmad Badawi aboard that also killed twelve ( 12 ) Generals. At that time the fingers pointed to “the Israel enemy” and U.S. intelligence.
INTELL STORIES
Iran – Contra Islamic Terrorist Enterprise
Years ago and during the Soviet Afghanistan War – Russia’s version of our Viet Nam War – the United States sought to undermine Soviet efforts to back the Islamic party they wanted to rule Afghanistan.
The U.S. continued covert support through Iran where splinter groups covertly supported the Islamic Party, or as some Americans knew them as Afghan Rebels (aka) Mujahideen. The U.S. heralded these radical Islamic extremeist militants.
Years ago and during the Soviet Afghanistan War – Russia’s version of our Viet Nam War – the United States sought to undermine Soviet efforts to back the Islamic party they wanted to rule Afghanistan. The U.S. continued their covert support through Iran. And, Iran’s splinter groups covertly supported the Islamic Party or, as we knew them by their buzz-word, i.e. Afghan Rebels (aka) the Mujahideen. The U.S. heralded these radial extremist Islamic militants across Amercan televison sets as, “Freedom Fighters”. But, remember, the age old adage of “One man’s ‘freedom fighter’ is another man’s ‘terrorist’,” and ‘who’ were we actually referring to? Today it is well documented that it was none other than Usama bin Laden (aka) Osama bin Laden.
There ‘is’ also the distinct possibility that it was the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) may have actually created and / or fostered the Usama bin Laden following of Islam militant terror extremists.
Not too far-fetched an idea as much as the little known about CIA, Hari Krishna, Domino Pizza connection of long ago that saw an unidentified female named “Barbara” ( last name unknown ) – with excellent ties to Cpaitol Hill ( Washington, D.C. ) – assisted the United States in a covert domestic and covert foreign CIA operation. Barbara ( LNU ) was not just involved in the fetal stage of the Domino’s Pizza organization, but it was also ‘she’ who handled the start-up for the Hari Krishna movement in America for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ).
Iran – and elsewhere – usually never see highly secret groups of its people in-place being provided indirect funding from within U.S. sources supporting covert CIA war efforts on behalf of United States secret-sensitive interests where ‘those partnering in those efforts’ knew or not. Primarily, and for the most part, those involved ‘never actually knew’ what real purpose they were ‘becoming involved’ with, but only saw what what had mattered most that drew them in.
[ NOTE: In 2005, a 'secret' but 'prime example of this' saw a Portland, Oregon ( USA ) international businessman - suspected of considerable offshore fraud - using the alias Van Arthur Brink who was called to several meetings with the chief and senior commanders of the SPLA secretly designed to operate from partially funded CIA sources for the destabilization of Libya for U.S. oil interests, and in Yemen for other interests. Did Van Brink know this? No, 'he only knew' what he was led to believe, which was by going to those secret SPLA meetings in Africa, Brink believed he was going to make considerable sums of money on several planned projects ( New Sudan developments and new currency manufacturing ). In 2005, Brink died ( Wilsonville, Oregon, USA ) under what some believe were 'mysterious circumstances'. ]
Domino’s Pizza connection to the CIA had sources involved in ‘liquid white’ heroin trade manufacturing from an Afghanistan underground location the size of a small city, and those were dealing with members of the Brotherhood Of Eternal Love ( BEL ), young neuvo-riche American businessmen that appeared as nothing more than a group of young jet-setting millionaires operating out of the Newport Beach, California area who wanted to spend their millions on Afghanistan ‘liquid white’, and in-exchange they would deliver small arms and more to Usama bin Laden company affiliate warehouses to support “Afghan Freedom Fighters” against the Russia Soviet military advisors in Afghanistan and the Marxist led and funded Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. In short, a remote control war between the United States and Russia whom were both utilizing ‘surrogates’, whom for the most-part, had absolutely no clues as to ‘how-far their support was coming from’. All these surrogates knew was only ‘what mattered to them’.
Other more prominent persons like H. Ross Perot and other ancilliary companies were also involved with funneling millions upon millions of dollars into U. S. Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) interests with remote efforts to overthrow Soviet Red Army occupations of the Afghanistan government and others.
In short, the United States of America made it extremely difficult for the Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics military to win their war in Afghanistan, much in the same way the CCCP made it difficult for the U.S. to win its war in Viet Nam. Tit for tat perhaps, but at ‘what price’ do ‘others come to pay’ for ‘serious but small intercontinental war games’? Is it still best to ‘sacrifice the few for the many’?
In the process of making it economically no longer feasible for Russia to ‘sustain food supplies to its Soviet military soldiers’ [ see: the business financial commodity trading and currency exchange frauds conducted by Robert Earl Palm in Russia, Ukraine, Finland, and China ] unable to ever take full control over Afghanistan and its natural resources, the U.S. intelligence directorate created a new type of military strategist monster, Usama bin Laden (aka) Osama bin Laden and others worldwide using the religious movement of Islam as its war cry.
We established great allies back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the likes of whom Usama bin Laden was only one ( 1 ) of several whom were virtually – and in some cases indirectly hand-picked by the CIA. A Yemeni billionaire whose Saudi Arabia business interest family member was – at one time – our Usama bin Laden financial “Afghan Freedom Fighter” who showed us how to float around other places, i.e. Southwest Asia, Central Asia, Africa, plus twenty-two ( 22 ) other Middle East and Arabian Pennisula territorial nations.
The U.S. Presidential George W. Bush Sr. Administration was in U.S. Gongress Senate Hearings surrounding the infamous Iran – Contra” scandal directed by U.S. National Security Agency ( NSA ) U.S. Navy Support Group ( NSG ) front-man U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Oliver North and others whom were involved with one ( 1 ) particular ‘dangerous undertaking’ named “Enterprise,” that was mistaken for being a secret parallel government to re-write the United States Constitution, when in-fact “Enterprise” was actually something diffeent but more familiar to U.S. Department of Defense ( DOD ) advanced technology program personnel whom are involved with reshaping how the United States defends itself in an entirelynew defense mechanism for 21st Century warfaring.
Enterprise is an intertesting ‘tool’ where overall it is a de facto or de jure bloodless scalpel to prevent Western coups for what was perceived in defense intelligence predictive analysis briefings as what would eventually take place, but could be used elsewhere to ‘control’ other country governments. Usama bin Laden (aka) Osama bin Laden, and others, are only ‘Human Inteligence’ ( HUMINT ) level ends of Enterprise, which in its ‘sanitized state’ is very much still an ongoing Program.
Enterprise, while being an absolute horror for some, can now be seen by others as very much a technological and socio-economic wonder when reading more about it.
Enterprise, was going on ‘before it was ever mentioned’ during the former U.S. Presidential George Bush Sr. Administration, years ago.
One may wonder – in-lieu of monumental proportion disasters – whether Enterprise is contuing forward with ‘radical changes’ sociological supported by ‘fear factoring’ yet ‘other launch pad platforms’.
Enterprise, said by then Colonel Oliver North, was to be a ‘secret parallel government’ – already operating within the U. S. government – specifically designed to be able to ‘suspend the U.S. Constitution’ and take over control of the United States and its citizenry.
Enterprise, a ‘bloodless coup defense technology tool program’ spanning several continents involving many foreign countries and their unwitting citizenry geniouses, that the vast majority of the rest of the worldwide public would never knew anything about until they pried themselves away from television screen distractions
Most people couldn’t or didn’t understand what it was occuring right in their own county a few years ago.
In fact, most people today, don’t recall anything about the Iran-Contra hearings or even what former U.S. Marine Colonel Oliver North was alluding to when he gave the name “Enterprise.”
While former American television news anchor Sam Donaldson remembers only what he was allowed to hear, his viewers could only hear and perhaps fathom what they were led to believe, however most were actually placed by U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Oliver North’s U.S. Senate hearing ‘sworn testimony’ that ‘served to deliver the populace with enough distraction to deliver them outside the real power curve’ of what Enterprise actually ‘was’ and ‘is’.
When information about the mere existence of the Enterprise and its associates were revealed to the American public over national televison networks, U.S. Congressional hearings were somewhat immediately ‘publicly suspended’ while Col. Ollie North went into ‘secret hearing sessions’. What happened? Not much, really. North just explained what “Enterprise” ‘really was’ and ‘conveyed his official authority to testify in ‘more simpler terms’ what would have otherwise been the ‘more complex version’ explanatory of what “Enterprise” really was / is – in the “interest of national security” of course – that served to fear factor another distraction away from ‘details’ of ‘what was really going on’, ‘how much’ Enterprise ‘encompassed, and ‘how far’ Enterprise had already spread – but only in ‘general terms’ of only ‘some’ of Enterprise ‘technological advancements’ the ‘private sector’ was handling for U.S. Department of Defense National Security.
Enterprise, according to the public testimony of former U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Oliver North, basically entailed re-writing of the United States of America ‘Constitution’ – to be suspended during United States national security measures requiring such – and implementation of a New World Order ‘defense control group’ of emergency management ( FEMA ) leadership operating in conjunction with Office of Central Intelligence White House ( OCIWH ) administration, however all those ‘details’ were not revealed as precisely nor succinctly by Colonel North’s testimony.
Let’s hope that what we’re seeing with these terrorist stikes and the many changes taking place from the White House directorate, leading U.S. President executive orders, U.S. Congress legislative measures, and U.S. Supreme Court rulings for U.S. government powers of authority are not just ‘operating legacies’ of Enterprise.
American housewives and others who paid particularly close attention to the U.S. Congressional Committee’s televised trials of Oliver North, years ago, should be able to distinctly remember what was revealed at those trials in addition to the “Enterprise”.
The least revealing story was, the funneling of Iran weapons shipments through the funneling conduit ability of the CIA, for our covert support of the Contra rebels in Central America. Central America’s “Contra Rebels” was the “diversion storyline” fed to the World while the “real” story remained over in America and Afghanistan with our continued efforts to beef-up our new Islamic monster terrorists to fight the Soviets but, something went haywire. Something went terribly wrong.
Unlike the U.S.-fostered monstrocity creations of Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeni and Panama’s General Noreiga, the United States was unable to make a pre-emptive strike in an effort to control Usama bin Laden terrorist cell boy’s blowback which, is said to have resulted in the recent attack on America.
There exists today, a “self-said” former member of Usama bin Laden’s “al-Qaede”, a Morrocan man by the name of, L’Houssaine Kherchtou. Kherchtou was supposedly sent to Nairobi, Kenya in order to be trained as a pilot. The true degree and sophistication ( if any ) of his pilot training skills are not totally revealed except that it was said he, “only performed some crop-dusting on fields”. Today, Kherchtou and his family are safe within the U.S. Government’s, Witness Protection Program subsequent to his aid of information and cooperation with the U.S. Government. That specific aid and more, led to the arrest and conviction of the New York World Trade Center bombers which, happened years ago but just recently resulted in the conviction of those caught.
Domino’s Pizza connection to the CIA had sources involved in ‘liquid white’ heroin trade manufacturing from an Afghanistan underground location the size of a small city, and those were dealing with members of the Brotherhood Of Eternal Love ( BEL ), young neuvo-riche American businessmen that appeared as nothing more than a group of young jet-setting millionaires operating out of the Newport Beach, California area who wanted to spend their millions on Afghanistan ‘liquid white’, and in-exchange they would deliver small arms and more to Usama bin Laden company affiliate warehouses to support “Afghan Freedom Fighters” against the Russia Soviet military advisors in Afghanistan and the Marxist led and funded Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. In short, a remote control war between the United States and Russia whom were both utilizing ‘surrogates’, whom for the most-part, had absolutely no clues as to ‘how-far their support was coming from’. All these surrogates knew was only ‘what mattered to them’.
Other more prominent persons like H. Ross Perot and other ancilliary companies were also involved with funneling millions upon millions of dollars into U. S. Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) interests with remote efforts to overthrow Soviet Red Army occupations of the Afghanistan government and others.
In short, the United States of America made it extremely difficult for the Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics military to win their war in Afghanistan, much in the same way the CCCP made it difficult for the U.S. to win its war in Viet Nam. Tit for tat perhaps, but at ‘what price’ do ‘others come to pay’ for ‘serious but small intercontinental war games’? Is it still best to ‘sacrifice the few for the many’?
In the process of making it economically no longer feasible for Russia to ‘sustain food supplies to its Soviet military soldiers’ [ see: the business financial commodity trading and currency exchange frauds conducted by Robert Earl Palm in Russia, Ukraine, Finland, and China ] unable to ever take full control over Afghanistan and its natural resources, the U.S. intelligence directorate created a new type of military strategist monster, Usama bin Laden (aka) Osama bin Laden and others worldwide using the religious movement of Islam as its war cry.
We established great allies back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the likes of whom Usama bin Laden was only one ( 1 ) of several whom were virtually – and in some cases indirectly hand-picked by the CIA. A Yemeni billionaire whose Saudi Arabia business interest family member was – at one time – our Usama bin Laden financial “Afghan Freedom Fighter” who showed us how to float around other places, i.e. Southwest Asia, Central Asia, Africa, plus twenty-two ( 22 ) other Middle East and Arabian Pennisula territorial nations.
The U.S. Presidential George W. Bush Sr. Administration was in U.S. Gongress Senate Hearings surrounding the infamous Iran – Contra” scandal directed by U.S. National Security Agency ( NSA ) U.S. Navy Support Group ( NSG ) front-man U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Oliver North and others whom were involved with one ( 1 ) particular ‘dangerous undertaking’ named “Enterprise,” that was mistaken for being a secret parallel government to re-write the United States Constitution, when in-fact “Enterprise” was actually something diffeent but more familiar to U.S. Department of Defense ( DOD ) advanced technology program personnel whom are involved with reshaping how the United States defends itself in an entirelynew defense mechanism for 21st Century warfaring.
Enterprise is an intertesting ‘tool’ where overall it is a de facto or de jure bloodless scalpel to prevent Western coups for what was perceived in defense intelligence predictive analysis briefings as what would eventually take place, but could be used elsewhere to ‘control’ other country governments. Usama bin Laden (aka) Osama bin Laden, and others, are only ‘Human Inteligence’ ( HUMINT ) level ends of Enterprise, which in its ‘sanitized state’ is very much still an ongoing Program.
Enterprise, while being an absolute horror for some, can now be seen by others as very much a technological and socio-economic wonder when reading more about it.
Enterprise, was going on ‘before it was ever mentioned’ during the former U.S. Presidential George Bush Sr. Administration, years ago.
One may wonder – in-lieu of monumental proportion disasters – whether Enterprise is contuing forward with ‘radical changes’ sociological supported by ‘fear factoring’ yet ‘other launch pad platforms’.
Enterprise, said by then Colonel Oliver North, was to be a ‘secret parallel government’ – already operating within the U. S. government – specifically designed to be able to ‘suspend the U.S. Constitution’ and take over control of the United States and its citizenry.
Enterprise, a ‘bloodless coup defense technology tool program’ spanning several continents involving many foreign countries and their unwitting citizenry geniouses, that the vast majority of the rest of the worldwide public would never knew anything about until they pried themselves away from television screen distractions
Most people couldn’t or didn’t understand what it was occuring right in their own county a few years ago.
In fact, most people today, don’t recall anything about the Iran-Contra hearings or even what former U.S. Marine Colonel Oliver North was alluding to when he gave the name “Enterprise.”
While former American television news anchor Sam Donaldson remembers only what he was allowed to hear, his viewers could only hear and perhaps fathom what they were led to believe, however most were actually placed by U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Oliver North’s U.S. Senate hearing ‘sworn testimony’ that ‘served to deliver the populace with enough distraction to deliver them outside the real power curve’ of what Enterprise actually ‘was’ and ‘is’.
When information about the mere existence of the Enterprise and its associates were revealed to the American public over national televison networks, U.S. Congressional hearings were somewhat immediately ‘publicly suspended’ while Col. Ollie North went into ‘secret hearing sessions’. What happened? Not much, really. North just explained what “Enterprise” ‘really was’ and ‘conveyed his official authority to testify in ‘more simpler terms’ what would have otherwise been the ‘more complex version’ explanatory of what “Enterprise” really was / is – in the “interest of national security” of course – that served to fear factor another distraction away from ‘details’ of ‘what was really going on’, ‘how much’ Enterprise ‘encompassed, and ‘how far’ Enterprise had already spread – but only in ‘general terms’ of only ‘some’ of Enterprise ‘technological advancements’ the ‘private sector’ was handling for U.S. Department of Defense National Security.
Enterprise, according to the public testimony of former U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Oliver North, basically entailed re-writing of the United States of America ‘Constitution’ – to be suspended during United States national security measures requiring such – and implementation of a New World Order ‘defense control group’ of emergency management ( FEMA ) leadership operating in conjunction with Office of Central Intelligence White House ( OCIWH ) administration, however all those ‘details’ were not revealed as precisely nor succinctly by Colonel North’s testimony.
Let’s hope that what we’re seeing with these terrorist stikes and the many changes taking place from the White House directorate, leading U.S. President executive orders, U.S. Congress legislative measures, and U.S. Supreme Court rulings for U.S. government powers of authority are not just ‘operating legacies’ of Enterprise.
American housewives and others who paid particularly close attention to the U.S. Congressional Committee’s televised trials of Oliver North, years ago, should be able to distinctly remember what was revealed at those trials in addition to the “Enterprise”.
The least revealing story was, the funneling of Iran weapons shipments through the funneling conduit ability of the CIA, for our covert support of the Contra rebels in Central America. Central America’s “Contra Rebels” was the “diversion storyline” fed to the World while the “real” story remained over in America and Afghanistan with our continued efforts to beef-up our new Islamic monster terrorists to fight the Soviets but, something went haywire. Something went terribly wrong.
Unlike the U.S.-fostered monstrocity creations of Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeni and Panama’s General Noreiga, the United States was unable to make a pre-emptive strike in an effort to control Usama bin Laden terrorist blowback which, is said to have resulted in the recent attack on America.
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Magnetic North Energy Anomaly Parallel: Siberia vs. Yukon
Tunguska Meteor, Fireball, Or?
RUSSIA, Siberia, Tunguska – April 1, 2002 – The mystery described on the former American television program series X-FILES was indeed an actual Earth impact event that took place on June 30, 1908 at 7:17 a.m. near Tunguska, Siberia ( GEOREF: 101 degrees East, 62 degrees North, 92 kilometers north of the old Vanavara outpost used by fur traders and Tungus tribe people ).
The 1908 Tunguska, Siberia extraordinary magnitude of force energetics somehow did ‘not’ consist of a meteor explosion or impact on the ground surface of the Earth, but another type of explosive surface wave force ‘did’ occur.
Some explain the 1908 Tunguska, Siberia energy explosion anomaly attributable to an unavoidable natural underground build up of sulfur gas within the ever changing tundra heavily compacted by a surface of ice because no evidence of rock impact from a meteor existed.
The 1908 explosive force of the Tunguska event was estimated to have released about 40-megatons of energy, about 2,000 times even more powerful than the Hydrogen bomb ( H bomb ) dropped by the United States military on the civilian population of Nagasaki, Japan.
The 1908 Tunguska blast leveled and scorched huge tree timbers for approximately 2,150 square kilometers where thousands of miles of trees were quickly incinerated in a 9-mile ( 14.4 kilometer ) radius – out from the center ( ground zero ) of the 25-mile ( 40 kilometer ) energy blast radius deploying a ‘surface wave explosion’ – much in the same as military superpower nations today deploy an atmospheric ( 150-mile high ) nuclear bomb detonation.
Other speculations, on the 1908 Tunguska event, consider a huge extraterrestrial spacecraft experiencing skip off the Earth atmosphere with a consequential focus of high-energy directed downward onto the ground surface of the Earth causing a magnetic reactive energy force consequentiallyserving to buffet the large alien spacecraft back into and / or out into space.
This giant 1908 Tunguska, Siberia Russia fireball was said to have raced across the night sky, also killed herds of reindeer.
Night skies - as far away as West Europe - held evidence the Tunguska energy event did emit an orange color glow.
The only proof something happened during 1908 in Tunguska, Siberia was a quiver on a seismograph about 1,000 miles away in the city of Irkutusk where it was claimed heavily felt by seismic shockwaves, strong heat sensations, and black rain. Missing, however was harmful radiation, and although radiation readings were able to be collected by a few exploratory teams of geoscientists and others – equally credentialed – none obtained any significant or remarkable radiation readings or levels that might otherwise have evidenced an extraterrestrial rock ( meteor ) impact.
To this very day, strangely enough, there has been no evidence of any meteoric impact residual materials found in the area of Tunguska, Siberia.
Most scientists believed the 1908 Tunguska, Siberia event was a fireball – comet or meteor – from outer space, one ( 1 ) item is missing from that theory – namely the fact there was no impact crater.
Scientists believe the meteor measured about 5 meters across, weighing about 200 metric tons, when it detonated about 7.6 kilometers above the Earth, a theory supported by the fact trees in the center were not overturned, although trees found hundred of meters away from the center were.
Scientists did not visit that particular area of Tunguska, Siberia for another 19-years, but when they did they saw a place in utter devastation. They searched for a crater, a piece of an asteroid or meteorite, but found nothing. They did find eyewitnesses, in neighboring villages, whom recalled there had been a fireball streaking through the sky, a horrifying noise, and an enormous blast.
[ photo ( above ) Russia Dr. Leonid A. Kulik expeditionary team at Tunguska Lake in Siberia ( click to enlarge ) ]
From the camp, of Russia scientific explorer Leonid A. Kulik, daily trips were made out across this dead forest area of Tunguska, Siberia until he circled the entire area of ground zero where his observations saw that on every side of the swamp, fallen tree tops were laid down pointing outward indicating the center of the swamp was the initial drop zone point of the meteorite impact he was searching for, instead of finding a giant crater. Kulik saw a standing forest of what looked like telephone poles – trees scrapped bare of their branches and leaves – although tree trunks stood straight and tall but charred and stripped of branches.
In the very center of this forest, Dr. Leonid Kulik found a ‘peat marsh’ blasted and tortured into a fantastic landscape. “The solid ground,” wrote Leonid Kulik, “heaved outward from the spot in giant waves, like waves in water.”
Leonid Kulik also found dozens of “peculiar flat holes” ranging in size from 10-feet to 50-feet in diameter where each were discovered several yards in depth.
Had this 1908 Tunguska, Siberia meteor impacted, over a populated area, it would have been perhaps labeled as the greatest disaster in the history of mankind, but this event occurred long ago – until the incident over the Canada Yukon Territory in the year 2000, a 21st Century event that somehow went totally unnoticed, unreported, unannounced to the majority of the people on Earth.
[ motion picture color video photo ( above ) Tagish Lake Yukon Canada Meteor / Energy Event ]
Tagish Lake Meteor, Fireball, Or?
CANADA, British Columbia, Atlin – January 18, 2000 – One of the largest extraterrestrial events impacting Earth in the past 92 years occurred today at approximately 8:45 a.m. ( PST ) when a meteor exploded 15.6 miles ( 25 kilometers ) over a primarily unpopulated area of the Taku Arm of Tagish Lake region between the towns of Carcross, Yukon Territory ( Canada ) and Atlin, British Columbia ( Canada ) where a meteor detonated energy of between 2 kilotons to 3 kilotons of TNT displaying an extremely brilliant fireball first detected by U.S. Department of Defense ( DOD ) controlled Tracking Data and Relay Satellites ( TDRS ).
The meteor explosion effect on seismic ground monitoring instruments recorded two ( 2 ) types of sonic booms, plus an audible sizzling sound heard overhead by Alaska and northwest Canada residents.
The unexpected meteor, believed to have ionized itself on atmospheric entry, left a glowing vapor trail seen for 1-1/2 hours even after the event took place.
Two ( 2 ) bright green flashes were additionally observed, plus a foul odor was detected – perhaps, sulfur – in the region for hours after the event.
No major meteor showers were reported on January 18, 2000 except for this Yukon Territory ( Canada ) particular fireball believed by some astronomers to be a ‘sporadic meteor’ explained as what comes from inner solar system tiny dust particles that are bubbled off-of numerous comets passing close by the Sun causing these particles – known as ‘meteoroids’ – hitting the Earth from overhead random directions that usually produce two ( 2 ) or three ( 3 ) ‘sporadic meteors’ per hour every night.
On January 21, 2000 the U.S. government and others – wanting to study upper atmospheric ( stratosphere ) residuals of meteor trail dust and / or shattered rock particles – learned that NASA Dryden Flight Research Center launched from Edwards Air Force Base ( southern California ) a modified U-2 ( DragonLady ) surveillance aircraft ‘environmental reconnaissance version’ ER-2 that was tasked for a “data recovery mission,” however no specifics were publicly released.
The ER-2 reached altitudes, including 65,000 feet ( + / – ), used an Aerosol Particulate Sampler ( APS ) system instrument consisting of two ( 2 ) small 5-inch by 4-inch paddles – containing an adhesive silicone oil on them – deployed simultaneously from the ER-2 left wing tip so, during exposure for a sufficient time to a particular airstream area, particles can be collected from the stratosphere.
ER-2 paddles are then withdrawn – into hermetically sealed enclosures – to avoid contamination from other atmospheric levels on ER-2 reentry and return to Dryden ( Edwards AFB, California ) where paddles are removed and sent to NASA Johnson Space Center ( Houston, Texas ) for analysis by U.S. Department of Defense ( DOD ) contract specialists determining the composition of the meteor, and provide space based surveillance sensor calibration for detecting other incoming objects from space.
ER-2 takes 8-mile wide panoramic photo swaths of regions that can interpret impact craters and other possible scarring on the ground, e.g. flattened forest trees or whatever else may have been affected by an explosive impact or impacts where multiple objects may have become separated.
Scientists are very interested in discovering the composition of the meteor in an effort to learn more about its origins and makeup.
[ photo ( above ) Jim Brook holds a piece of the Tagish Lake meteor ( click photo to enlarge ) ]
[ photo ( above ) Tagish Lake Yukon Canada meteor specimen found by discoverer Jim Brook ( click photo to enlarge ) ]
“I have never seen anything quite like this before,” said Joe Clarke ( Marsh Lake, Yukon ) who saw the meteor at 08:45 PST ( 16:45 UT ) on January 18, 2000. “When it started, the flash lit up the mountains 15-km away as bright as daylight, then it just drifted across the sky. The contrail looked to me like the ones left by shuttle launches. It just hung there for at least 30-minutes. [ It's the ] wildest thing I could ever imagine seeing.”
The fact remains that not all of the collected evidence has ever been released to the general public and no one has been willing to come forward and say with any true certainty, why. This time, however the theory of alien spaceships was dispelled as no witnesses at the Tagish Lake event saw anything skip back off the ground and up out into the atmosphere.
In layman terms, one ( 1 ) final theory is that the extraterrestrial rock material mineralogy composite – on approaching Earth core mineralogy magnetics and polar field strength could be creating an anomaly resembling a force experienced in super-collider experiments found by U.S. Department Of Energy ( DOE ) experiments. An explosive force where the extraterrestrial rock – may be emitting unchanneled energy at specific distances – when approaching the ground surface of the Earth causing it to be repelled away from the surface and thereby creating an incredible explosive force of energy causing the rock to shatter – like a glass marble being heated over an open flame and then placed in cold water causing many cracks in the glass marble. The U. S. Department of Defense does utilize channeled forms of energy technologies for some of its new variety of pulse weapons, electron-beam guns, and pulse-type energy engine propulsion systems under experiment wraps today.
The extremely brief video clip loop ( above ) is color film footage taken of the actual Tagish Lake ( Canada ) meteor event filmed by an eyewitness from ATLIN REALTY ( Canada ).
Large specimens of the Tagish Lake meteor was first discovered and collected by James Brook who turned some over to Canada and U.S. NASA scientists for analysis believed to be a carbonaceous chondrite, a rare extraterrestrial rock containing various forms of carbon and organics – basic building blocks of life – that later identified forty-five ( 45 ) element materials having traveled from when the solar system began.
The Jim Brook meteor discovery was potentially the single most important terrestrial recovery of an extraterrestrial rock on Earth from in less than 10-years.
The 1990 era secret discovery of self-heating continious energy rocks – found only in a certain region of Australia where the self-heating rocks were used for hundreds of years by Australia native Aboriginee tribes people – was ‘confirmed’, ‘verified’ and later ‘classified’ by the U.S. National Laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico ( LANL ) where it was already conducting unrelated experiments on a different type of hot rock project, hydrothermal liquid rock energy transmission tapped into from near the core of the Earth.
To-date, the Australia self-heating continious energy hot rocks have remained a classified secret with no photographs or stories released to the public except what the X-CIA FILES website obtained through independent sources.
For information on spacecraft, satellites, and unusual planetary circumstances and events, see: NEWS ALERTS! and COSMIC Photos at this X-CIA FILES website.
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PEC ( PLANETARY EVENT CIRCUMSTANCE ) REPORTS
SURVEILLANCE SPACECRAFT MISSIONS
Space missions and explorations are a business venture which, goes hand-in-hand since, we do not travel to outer-space on leisure activities, to date but, some of us view for pleasure the most outer reaches of the universe. We are watching, listening and, hoping for some wild breakthrough which, will provide us all with an answer to our long-time submitted question of, “Are We Alone?”. Whether the eventual answer comes to us – as what we wanted to hear or not – we nevertheless want to continue our search for that answer.
In our efforts to discover that answer, we have manned missions for close-range “outer-space” travel, to and from Earth and we have un-manned missions for distant travel ventures into what we refer to as “deep-space”. And, we’re still charting other galaxies which we don’t seem to be able to even reach today and so far, we haven’t found an end to that job. So, the universe continues to remain fully “un-charted”, to date by us and will probably remain so for some time to come.
Deep Space 1 & Borrelly Comet
MILKY WAY GALAXY, USA, Texas, Houston - September 21, 2001 - NASA Deep Space 1 ( DS-1- ) – unlike standard rocket-fueled engines – sees this spacecraft with an ‘ion engine’ or ‘electric engine’ ( also known as ‘nuclear power hydrazine propulsion’ ) accelerating nearly continuously, giving each ion a tremendous burst of speed.
Deep Space 1 ( DS1 ) ion engine provides about 10-times the specific impulse ( ratio of thrust to propellant used ) of chemical propulsion. DS-1 also has on-board a, Miniature Ion and Electron Spectrometer. The mass of this instrument that is considered a “space physics package” and is less than 25% that of currently used comparable instruments. It also requires about 50% less power than conventional instruments.
Deep Space 1′s risky encounter with the Borrelly Comet on September 22, 2001 has gone extremely well when the aging spacecraft successfully passed within 2,200 kilometers (about 1,400 miles) of the comet at 22:30 Universal Time (3:30 p.m. PDT), on this date. See, e.g., “COSMIC Photos” on this website for more.
The images and other data collected from the Borrelly Comet so far will help scientists learn a great deal about other intriguing members of the solar system family. DS-1 now has provided us with glimpses of the secrets that this comet has held since before the planets were formed.
Signals confirming the successful encounter were received on Earth at 3:43 p.m. PDT, and data containing the first clues to the composition of the comet came a few hours after the close brush with the comet.
Mission managers confirmed that the spacecraft was able to use all four of its instruments aimed at the Borrelly Comet. Data will be returned over the next few days as DS-1 sends to Earth black-and-white pictures, infrared spectrometer measurements, ion and electron data, and measurements of the magnetic field and plasma waves around the comet. Pictures of the comet will be released after they are all sent to Earth in the next few days.
Several hours before the encounter, the ion and electron monitors began observing the comet’s environment. The action increased about an hour and a half before the closest approach; when for two minutes the infrared spectrometer collected data that will help scientists understand the overall composition of the surface of the comet’s nucleus. Deep Space 1 began taking its black-and-white images of the comet 32-minutes before the spacecraft’s closest pass to the comet, and the best picture of comet Borrelly was taken just a few minutes before closest approach, as the team had planned. Two minutes before the spacecraft whizzed by the comet, its camera was turned away so that the ion and electron monitors could make a careful examination of the comet’s inner coma the cloud of dust and gas that envelops the comet.
Scientists on Deep Space 1 hope to find out the nature of the comet’s surface, measure and identify the gases coming from the comet, and measure the interaction of solar wind with the comet.
Deep Space 1 completed its primary mission testing ion propulsion and 11 other advanced, high-risk technologies in September 1999. NASA extended the mission, taking advantage of the ion propulsion and other systems to undertake this chancy but exciting encounter with the comet.
Deep Space 1 was launched in October 1998 as part of NASA’s New Millennium Program, which is managed by JPL for NASA’s, Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C.. The California Institute of Technology manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (aka) J.P.L. in Pasadena, California for the National Aeronautic & Space Administration (aka) N.A.S.A.. See, e.g., “COSMIC Photos” for more.
Deep Space 1 & Borrelly Comet ( UPDATE )
MILKY WAY GALAXY, Earth, USA, Texas, Houston - September 24, 2001 - In a risky fly-by, the NASA Deep Space 1 ( DS1 ) ailing spacecraft successfully navigated past the Borrelly Comet, giving researchers the best look ever inside the glowing core of icy dust and gas. The space probe’s close-capture and encounter occured successfully on, September 22, 2001.
Today, Deep Space 1 is nearly 1.5-times as far away as the Earth is to the Sun or, about 575-times as far away from the Earth to the Moon. At this distance, i.e. 220-million kilometers (137-million miles), radio signals – traveling at the universal speed limit for today’s deep-space communication transfers, i.e. the speed of light – takes about 24-1/2 minutes to make the round-trip from Deep Space 1 to Earth and back. See, e.g., “COSMIC Photos“, on this website for a better photo view.
Nibbling Away Our Milky Way
MILKY WAY GALAXY, Earth, USA, Texas, Houston - September 5, 2001 - Chandra deep-space surveillance spacecraft for NASA, has been busy looking around our galaxy and finally found something ‘huge’ in October of 2001. It wasn’t until astronomers interpreted Chandra image transmissions that they were able to finally figure it out that we ‘do in-fact have our very own’ “Black Hole.”
Now although we were just recently informed in September 2001 that, some monumental news awaited us, right here in our Milky Way galaxy. Our recent discovery was that our own galaxy, is shrinking to a much “smaller” size. Why? Because, we just discovered that we are all being sucked into our very own Black Hole. The final event won’t come for us, anytime soon though.
Our Milky Way galaxy’s Black Hole however, is having an effect on all many other stars in our galaxy though. Perhaps, even our own Sun. Some anomalies we are able to observe while others we haven’t even a clue about yet as to “why” some anomalies are occurring. The quick answer is, “Just blame it all on the Black Hole!”
The fact remains that, our Black Hole is extremely hungry and gobbling up stars and galaxies en masse. See, e.g., “COSMIC Photos“, on this website for more.
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EDITORIAL
White House & GovBot Changed
USA, Washington, D.C. – July 11, 2001 - The United States White House website was completely revamped from its formerly attractive and informative original format, shortly after the Bush Presidency took over. Gone instantly under The Presidential Administration of George Bush, went the Whitehouse’s “Virtual Library” and other advanced website-design features.
The Center For intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) - after eight (8) years of its hosting, suppling information to the general public on government issues of information and reserach - the search engine formerly known as GovBot ( an incredibly U.S. Government Search Engine source) all of a sudden dismantled, disbanded and/or, switch-modified into oblivion or, at least away from public viewing.
The newly revised and sanitized version replacement today for the U.S. Government Search Engine is now a different U.S. Government Search Engine designed for typical sanitized general public information dissemination. The site’s webpage is now at: FirstGov.
What exactly occured seemed to be uncertain at first however, the Whitehouse webpage underwent a total and major “downgrade”. The Whitehouse’s former webpage is no more. It use to have NO notification or broad publicized mention regarding the name of the President, etc.
An interesting note is, under the William Jefferson Clinton U.S. Presidential Administration, the Clinton Presidency ‘had its own webpage’ – completely separate from that of the U.S. government’s White House webpage – viewed, at: U.S. Presidential Administration – Whitehouse Website.
But, under the George W. Bush Jr. Presidential Administration, George W. Bush Jr. has ‘his name’, etc. plastered and publicized throughout the U. S. government “White House” webpage, the ’downgraded’ website can be viewed, at: United States of America Government – Whitehouse Website.
What happened and what’s going on with the CIIR / GovBot Search Engine though?
It seemssomeone’s mistake created a reaction warranting prohibition public access to what used to be a substantial government-based information database search engine accessing a plethora of research material that happened to be mistakingly combined with ‘private sector’ webpage or website information proposed as a possible ‘threat to U.S. National Security’, however now being made available to certain ‘private sector’ professionals ( scientists, etc. ).
Was there ‘really’ a potential ‘threat to U.S. National Security’? Unfortunately, yes, apparently someone riddled the previous CIIR search engine database with what appeared to be mistakenly unguarded information that would otherwise perhaps, have been considered Sensitive Compartmented Information ( SCI ) consisting of back-channel shore-to-ship, ship-to-shore ( via satellite ) traffic messages the CIIR internet webpage database was able to produce, but it didn’t stop there because CIIR publicly provided an Optical Character Recognition ( OCR ) online internet translator handling not-so-legacy CIA, National Security Agency, SPACOM, SPAWARS, DOD and other U.S. government agency image document material automatically converted into text also publicly available.
The task to weed-out ( censor ) specific information considered critical – albeit special-sensitive, secret-sensitive or otherwise – was unable to be performed by ‘any private group or U.S. government agency so, the CIIR search engine database was taken offline for general public use.
Through an acquaintance, who at the time ( mid-1997 ) was employed with the U.S. National Security Agency ( NSA ), the U.S. government intelligence community was informed. Unfortunately, it took nearly 4-years for the U.S. Government to do something about all the information leaks. Bottomline? Closures, to U.S. government information public resources, but ‘at what price at such a late date as this?
EDITORIAL ( UPDATE )
Since the editorial ( above ) was posted on this website, the U.S. government finally responded to e-mails directed to both the Executive Branch and White House Web Administrator requesting they ‘upgrade their sloppy re-do job of the United States White House ‘website’, and that response was that they upgraded the U.S. White House webpage ”somewhat,” correcting all but one ( 1 ) other error – they left the U.S. President’s name in the upper-left hand corner on the Main Page, i.e. the White House Home Page.
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