posted 10-03-2002 10:03 PM            

lawyers for victims' families say. The experts who gathered the information are forbidden by confidential agreements from discussing their findings. except with federal investigators, said Gerald McKelvey, a spokesman for Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder of the trade center property involved in the lawsuit. Structural engineers and victims' families say they're concerned the confidential material may be sealed or destroyed if the lawsuit is settled before trial.
Navy sonar blamed for deaths of 15 beaked whales
The 15 beaked whales that beached themselves last week on the Canary Islands near Mrica during a multinational naval exercise suffered ear and brain trauma that may have been caused by high- intensity sonar, according to preliminary analysis. Dr. Michel Andre, a veterinarian leading the investigation, noted Monday that "necropsies showed the presence of unspecific lesions, including in the brain and the hearing system, consistent with acoustic impact." If final analysis confirms these findings; it would be the second time that scientists have direct evidence to link mass stranding of whales to bursts of powerful active sonar used by
U.S. warships and those of other nations.
a few refsz
take this http://www.hereinreality.com/carlyle.html
then read that http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002-cr/s092002.html

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posted 10-03-2002 10:24 PM            

"The Carlyle Group is a company of private investors, little known of general public, which manages nearly 13 billion dollars investments in various pharmaceutical laboratory and telecommunication, waterway transport companies. A tentacular financial complex. Among the four most significant companies held by this nebulous group, let us quote:

Empi, Inc (principal activity: medical drugs and products. A.C. for the year 2000: 73 million dollars)

Medpointe, Inc (principal activity: drugs and condoms. A.C. estimated for the year 2001: 223 million dollars)

United Defense Industries, Inc (principal activity: the manufacture of tanks and vehicles armoured for the American army or export. A.C. for the year 2000: 1,18 billion dollar)

United States Marine Repair, the largest American company of nonnuclear warships (A.C. for the year 2000: 400 million dollars) [ 1 ]."

Gee....do ya think this is why President George Bush wants to spend tax dollars to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the United States with the smallpox vaccine?

Les


Source: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.uzine.net/article1260.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3DBioPort%2BMedPointe%2BInc%2BCarlyle%2BGroup%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUT F-8%26sa%3DG
Thursday December 13, 2001
A Bitter Taste In Bush

Whereas the first quotas of Navy unload in Afghanistan within the framework of the operation "Immutable Freedom", with the blessing of the "free" world, George W Bush took care well not to detail the bonds which have linked its family with that of Oussama Bin Laden for thirty years. Far from the Manicheism of George W Bush, and crusade of the good against the evil, the financial arrangements of the American president resemble more one bad scenario in Dallas... Where it is a question of oil, of dollars, emirs of the Gulf, secret service and of national safety.

" I am impressed that there is such an incomprehension of what is our country and which people can hate us. I am... I am like the majority of the Americans, I cannot believe it, because I know how much we are good. "

George W Bush, press conference of October 11, 2001 at the White House.

The news fell on October 26, 2001, in the nearly general indifference, by a laconic dispatch of the agency Associated Press: the family Bin Laden withdrew her 2,02 million dollars of investments of the company Carlyle Group. The advertisement followed upon an article of a page, published on September 27, 2001 in Wall Street Journal, concerning a financial participation of the family Bin Laden in this group. But no other media were really interested in this information.

What Carlyle Group?

The Carlyle Group is a company of private investors, little known of general public, which manages nearly 13 billion dollars investments in various pharmaceutical laboratory and telecommunication, waterway transport companies. A tentacular financial complex. Among the four most significant companies held by this nebulous group, let us quote:

Empi, Inc (principal activity: medical drugs and products. A.C. for the year 2000: 73 million dollars)

Medpointe, Inc (principal activity: drugs and condoms. A.C. estimated for the year 2001: 223 million dollars)

United Defense Industries, Inc (principal activity: the manufacture of tanks and vehicles armoured for the American army or export. A.C. for the year 2000: 1,18 billion dollar)

United States Marine Repair, the largest American company of nonnuclear warships (A.C. for the year 2000: 400 million dollars) [ 1 ].

The whole of these activities related on the armament or Defense does of Carlyle Group one of the most significant suppliers of the Pentagon. Most of its orders thus depends on goodwill administration in place. But this discrete company does not stop with its only collaboration with the American armament. In 14 years of existence, it extended its financial capacity everywhere in the world, where the investments were most lucrative...

Today, the Carlyle conglomerate controls more than 160 companies, in 55 countries, and has even an office in France, located 112 Kléber Avenue, in Paris. Its French branch was in particular pointed out in June 2000, by taking shares in the holding financial of the Barber, with the nose and the beard of Serge Dassault, who coveted itself the title. On the other side of the Atlantic, the business leader of Carlyle Group is not other than Franck Carlucci, the former Secretary of State to Defense under Ronald Reagan, between 1987 and 1989. But this acointance political is not most astonishing.

The firm also employs, full-time or for operations of public relations temporary, George Bush (former president of the USA, and father of the current destroyer of the talibans), John Major (ex-first minister of Great Britain), Karl Otto Pohl (former president of Bundesbank), Fidel Ramos (former president of the Philippines), Arthur Levitt (former president of Security Exchange Commission = the American COB), and James Baker (former Secretary of State of Bush senior) [ 2 ]. In short, the world gratin of the large decision makers... And until October 26, 2001, the family of the most required man of planet, also formed part of this merry round table!

It goes without saying one could not show all the members to finance Islamic terrorism. It is on the other hand certain that all the members did not cut the bridges with Oussama. There is extremely to bet that if Carlyle Group employs all these sizes of the world geopolitics (of which the wages are obviously held secret), it is to benefit from their well furnished address book, and to ensure entregent it international necessary to its spheres of activity, for an vain sales turnover. Being based on this tormented time, the American army comes, for example, to request from the Congress a few 500 million dollars to order its new toy: the Crusader tank, which it needs for future terrestrial operations.

And which manufactures the Crusader tanks?

It will have been guessed: the company United Defense Industries, Inc, and thus Carlyle Group! American Congrés is discussing appropriateness of this heavy investment (paid by the taxpayers), and of the talks are in hand... In short, thanks to diversified and very juicy investments, the shareholders of Carlyle profit from a return on investment of 34 % per annum. Ever seen in this type of activity. With such a profitability, maintained since the creation of the group, one would expect to see all the financial analysts of planet advising the purchase of Carlyle titles. However it of it is nothing, and for a simple reason: Carlyle Group is not with dimensions out of purse. A party taken astounding for an entity of this size...

But only at first sight. Not question, indeed, for the large sizes of Carlyle, to let the average shareholder benefit from such an aubaine. Other favours, and not the least: while being placed out of the stock exchange circuit, the group is not held to reveal in Security Exchange Commission (American commission charged to check the regularity of the stock exchange operations) the name of its associates (and in particular the shareholders awkward, the such clan Bin Laden), not more than their respective shares. This attitude is also the best means of dissimulating the detail of the activities, which could in offusquer more one. Indeed, each time Bush Junior places order of a tank or of a boat at a company of the Carlyle group, in the name of American defense, it is Bush Senior which passes to the case, with another handle of happy few, of which Bin Laden, which accurately empoché their 34% of annual dividends until this year.

Carlyle Group thrived quietly in the shade, until two nongovernmental organizations, Judicial Watch and Center for Public Integrity, rise of the situation. These two associations, which peel the thousands of pages delivered by the Congress each year, as well as the déclassifiés documents of the CIA or the FBI, denounced this established fact [ 3 ], relayed by Wall Street Journal and the BBC. Such a new A of course makes leave Carlyle its dumbness. The family Bin Laden (with share malicious Oussama, of course), are sizeable people, let know, the hand about the heart, the leaders of Carlyle Group and Arabella Burton, secretary particular of John Major, as soon as the known news.

Why did they withdraw their investments in Carlyle, in this case? George Bush father however went twice, in October 1998 and 2000, at least, in Jeddah, the family seat of Bin Laden, to Saudi Arabia. Their did require news of Oussama, or simply a cheque? After the revelations of Wall Street Newspaper, Jean Becker, word of Bush Senior carries, initially declared that Bush Sr had met the family Bin Laden once, then, the following day: "After having read the notes of the former president"... "the Bush former president does not have a relation with the family Bin Laden. He met them twice ". Only two? According to the Barber of October 31, 2001, Ossama Bin Laden was hospitalized at the American hospital of Dubai on July 14, 2001 for an operation of the kidney and received the visit of official of the CIA and several members of its family (of which it is, point out it, the black sheep and with which it is supposed to have cut the bridges).

Were these members with the number of those which had shares in Carlyle Group? Mystery, so much is complex the family Bin Laden. Lastly, November 7, 2001, The Guardian revealed that certain official FBI complained that "for political reasons, all their investigations on the family Bin Laden had been stopped, especially since George W Bush had become president". These investigations related to two brothers of Ossama Bin Laden, Omar and Abdullah, for their relation with World Assembly of Muslim Youth, which belongs to associations suspectées to finance terrorism. They were among the 24 members of the family Bin Laden residing at the United States, which flew away (under the supervision of the FBI!) airport of Washington on September 14, 2001, three days after the attacks [ 4 ]? Mystery, the complete list of the passengers was not published.

posted 10-05-2002 10:00 PM            

[Edited 1 times, lastly by mark sky on 10-10-2002]

posted 10-10-2002 09:12 PM            

been there~ done that
onward with my "pessimism complex"
and proudly posting this http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/calif2.htm
you just have to chuckle
once in awhile
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
are we ready?
yeah lets kick some BIO butt http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29204

[Edited 1 times, lastly by mark sky on 10-10-2002]

posted 10-10-2002 09:28 PM            

SHAYLERGATE:
British Press Gagged on Reporting MI6's £100,000 bin Laden Payoff

By Paul Joseph Watson
From: http://www.propagandamatrix.com/shayler_gate.html

Tony Blair has tonight ordered a D-Notice on British media reporting government officials signing court gag orders. This regards the case of former MI5 officer David Shayler, who has evidence to prove MI6 gave £100,000 to bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, arms to Iraq and had prior knowledge of several terrorist attacks on London in the 1990's.

The original articles stated that top Labour MP's had signed gag orders, whereby upon mention of this evidence in court, media have to immediately leave the trial. Newspapers all over the country, including the Guardian, the London Evening Standard and the Scotsman have either completely removed or amended their articles. This evidence is damning. The British government is trying to bury the story before it buries them.

I first noticed that the Guardian article I had earlier posted on my website had disappeared. Already aware that Blair may well have ordered a D-Notice to eliminate these reports, I immediately started searching on Google for some more. In Britain, a D-Notice is where the government order a gag on a particular breaking story.

I came across a very similar London Evening Standard report and immediately put it on my web site. Low and behold, five minutes later the link was dead! Amazingly, I still had the article up on my screen on a different browser window. I tried to archive the page to my desktop but to no avail. I did manage to print out a copy which I have scanned and linked below.

This story is massive because Shayler has them on the wracks on a number of different issues, from colluding with bin Laden, to arms deals with questionable characters. This could be particularly embarrasing for Jack Straw, who I, using mainstream reports, have identified as a key placeman in hawking arms to Pakistan, India and even Iran.

Bilderberg member Peter Mandelson is also trying to cover his dirt by gagging these reports. The London Times reported how his new 'think tank' was being bankrolled by the Rothschilds two weeks ago. The Rothschilds control the BBC, who haven't even mentioned that the trial has started, never mind the accusations Shayler raises.

The original London Guardian report was entitled 'Ministers issue gag orders for MI5 trial' and was located at http://www.guardian.co.uk/shayler/article/0,2763,806009,00.html - as you will see if you click on the link, it's disappeared down the memory hole. The text I extracted from the report for my original link to it is as follows...

"Ministers issue gag orders for MI5 trial: They appear to be worried that he will make further allegations about MI5 and MI6 knowledge of a plot to assassinate the Libyan leader, Muammar Gadafy, in 1996. A book, Forbidden Truth, published this summer claims that British intelligence was in contact with "Osama bin Laden's main allies" who were opposed to Colonel Gadafy."

The London Evening Standard article was entitled 'Calls for secret Shayler trial' and was at http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/1488303 - again, it has now been removed. Luckily I saved the text to a Word file and printed the article:

Before you read this, it is important to understand the issue at hand. We're talking about MI6 cooperation with bin Laden, arms to Iraq and, as reported today in the Scotsman, claims that, 'secret services ignored warnings that might have prevented bombings in the London in 1993 and 1994.' Shayler has evidence that MI5 wilfully failed to stop the bomb attack on Israel's London embassy in 1994 and the IRA's 1993 Bishopsgate bombing, which killed one person.

Here it is in Shayler's own words plus the actual MI6 Gaddafi plot document - MI6 Plot to assassinate Colonel Gaddafi: Police enquiry confirms Plot is not "fantasy" - http://cryptome.org/shayler-gaddafi.htm

Here is the London Evening Standard report I managed to rescue.

Update! Take a look at the scans of the article I printed off - why was it removed? Judge for yourself...(click on the images for big versions)

This article has now been replaced with a shorter, watered down, version of this story. It does not mention MI5's £100,000 transfer to Al-Qaeda. Yet more evidence of a top down cover-up - read the new whitewashed piece here and compare it to my scanned original that was pulled along with all the others!

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The Scotsman also released a report which remains online but both the title and the article have been amended!!! The new article talks about new MI5 head Eliza Manningham-Buller, only mentioning the Shayler case in passing. It certainly does not include information concerning the Labour MP's involved and government prior knowledge of terrorist bombings in London.
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=1113312002 is the amended version - I archived the original at http://www.propagandamatrix.com/renegade_mi5_agent_to_face_jury.htm. The report was originally entitled 'Renegade MI5 agent ready to face jury' it is now called 'Has MI5 really emerged from shadows?' This is the report with the most damning information (the one they erased).

Here is the full text of the original Scotsman article.

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Renegade MI5 agent ready to face jury
KAREN MCVEIGH
DAVID Shayler, the former M15 officer branded a traitor by the government, is due to take on the legal establishment today, as his trial opens at the Old Bailey in London.

The renegade agent, who faces six years imprisonment for breaching the Official Secrets Act after making a number of sensational revelations about M15 to a national newspaper in 1997, will represent himself for part of the landmark case. The trial will centre around a number of allegations made by Shayler about M15 holding files on prominent politicians, including former cabinet minister Peter Mandelson and Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary. He also claimed the secret services ignored warnings that might have prevented bombings in the London in 1993 and 1994.

Shayler, 36, faces two charges under section one of the Official Secrets Act for disclosing documents and information about the work of M15 and another under section four, for disclosing information about telephone taps.

He has failed so far to win his argument that his revelations were in the public interest. The High Court, Court of Appeal and the House of Lords, have all ruled that he cannot claim he disclosed information in the public interest or out of necessity. They also ruled out the main plank of Shayler’s defence - that the Officials Secrets Act is incompatible with the Human Rights Act.

Shayler, who made other allegations for which he was not charged, including a claim that M16 was involved in a plot to assassinate the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, will argue that he is only guilty of "exposing wrongdoing".

"I aim to persist in my argument that the Official Secrets Act as it currently stands is totally incompatible with the Human Rights Act," he told a newspaper yesterday.

Some of the hearing is expected to be taken up by an application by newspapers objecting to plans to hold parts of the trial in secret.

The prosecution applied for hearings to be held in camera after its concerns that Shayler will make fresh allegations to the jury to back up his public interest defence.

Shayler’s decision to defend himself, against the advice of his legal team, for part of the trial was prompted by the belief that he will be freer to argue his case than his barrister, Geoffrey Robertson, QC, whose hands are tied by earlier court rulings.

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Even local papers such as the Leicestershire Mail and the Derby Evening Telegraph have removed the story from their websites! The original stories were here and here respectively. They were entiled ''SHAYLER AT OLD BAILEY FOR TRIAL' and 'SHAYLER ARRIVES FOR TRIAL.' As you can see by clicking the links, they are gone. As is a London Independent article that was entitled 'MI5 faces accountability test as new chief takes reins.'

***************
UPDATE: It is now confirmed that all details relating to the Shayler case cannot be reported. The UK government have successfully gagged the cowardly pathetic mainstream media, but I will continue to track this story.

The Guardian reports - 'Shayler hearing'

'An Old Bailey court yesterday heard legal arguments relating to the trial of David Shayler, the former MI5 officer charged with breaking the Official Secrets Act. The judge ruled that they cannot be reported. Mr Shayler's trial is now expected to be heard before a jury next week.'
- Richard Norton-Taylor
Read this tiny blurb at http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,806640,00.html (until they remove that too)
http://www.propagandamatrix.com

posted 10-11-2002 08:30 PM            

have you ever considered
where your oil is coming from?
WHO gets it here and what might have been done to it?
so when you heat your home or drive your car
or use rapid transit
or enjoy streetlights or modern con vienious con trapsions to make going easier





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auch to lieberman
they really had all the bases covered

they thought

that we may have alittle "something extra"
in the mix

posted 10-11-2002 08:49 PM            

now the "sky" is repleat with evil intent
to "finish" the "job"
is this as clear as mud?
\GOD i hope so

posted 10-14-2002 10:41 AM            

11010101010100100110010110001001010100111010110

well i tried so very hard
to walk the tightrope of lifes facade
its not easy with so few friends
the journey to truth never ends
i raise my eyes to a starry sky
life was easy we asked why
didnt have a problem then

machines battle through the ages
constantly we turn the pages
hotel roach rat infested
where the old and infirm are rested
cracked walkways drains put resent
old brains sit well it aint pleasant

flashing billboards of hairstyle sleaze
production people tinted streets
ratface replicas full of aids
neon lights filtered haze

slurry rivers polluted seas
bringing us down to our knees
burning forests chemtrail rain
looks to me the worlds insane
ive seen them in the eastern sands
with geiger counters in their hands

we didnt have a problem then......

we've got a problem now....

posted 10-15-2002 10:01 PM            

i got a cylinder of CO2
lets turn the planet
inside out
I got a nuttsie naZi facade
dressed in red white and blew
shall i show you
the pat riot behind
door numero ono
perhapz the NWO would prefer
door number two where
and i am not kidding here at all
several otterz swim
yet otter options are freely
behind
door number three
yet another color they can't consieve
so they get you to
and slime into your progenies place
EaRth~ the place where it is NOW happenning
focus of the Universe in this time and place
revelation upon revelation
they seeke to keep more quieter tude
butt dis abled minorities (like me here)
say no friggin waze
you don't get to be a miNORITY
you don't get DiS ABLED
stuff~ i should be the head of EPA
ARF oh teature
could i have some "corrective goggleZ"
as the sky appearZ plaid
and i am getting seasick
from the retorick


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posted 10-16-2002 03:58 PM            

The secret's only for a few
Superpower looks down on you
Someone's watching every move
You can break the lock and turn on the light
You know your danger feelings are right
Try to run or put up a fight
You'll be shot down in the night
Shot down like an animal

See them run like rats from the factory
Push them out to the twilight zone
Let them feed on their needs 'til they're overthrown
Take them up to a place in the gallery
Show them God with an angel face
Curtain call for the fall Of the Human race

posted 10-16-2002 06:51 PM            

Listen to the sound you heard
Learn to fight against their word
Vocabularies of death
Destruction in their breath
They use the lie
They use the myth
Seek only to confuse
And liberty abuse

The lies they tell are pretty
And blow up another city
They steal away your freedom
And your love
Their sentimental calling signs
Are calculatingly designed
To rob you of your mind and time

posted 10-18-2002 01:55 PM            

Spying, lying, there's no denying
You can't escape, just be discreet
Computers are abused, school records are fed
Police are checking on what you've said
The number of your car's fed into a box
Your journey's being checked, it's a paradox
Duplicate forms and ID cards, are next in line to disregard

Future generations are relying on us
It's a world we've made - incubus
You're processed, we're processed.
They got your number, they got your name
You are the one they will blame
Accused of being the leader of the pack
You are the one who wouldn't turn his back

They try everything, but it's all turned out the same
"They lied" you said, but you know that you will still be framed
Do you not now see what their problem is
They can't accept your solution
Though we all see that you pay the price
The rest of your days will be spent in seclusion

They got your number.

posted 10-18-2002 09:13 PM            

part i cal be am wea po nz
USAF Acknowledges Beam Weapon Readiness

By David A. Fulghum/Awiation Week & Space Technology

04-Oct-2002 5:20 PM U.S. EDT

Directed-energy technology is ready to be used as weaponry and, in a mature state, one device carried by an unmanned aircraft could attack each of 100 targets with 1,000 pulses of energy in a single sortie, says a former director of the U.S. Air Force's high-power microwave program.

"Except for the standard rifle, gun, knife or grenade, virtually all military equipment contains some electronics" that are vulnerable to a large pulse of energy, wrote Air Force Col. Eileen M. Walling. "Military commanders are in a state of virtually total dependence on radios, telephones, satellite communications, computers and faxes for communication with military units." Other targets include artillery targeting devices, guidance and control on precision munitions, and even locomotive engines. She also suggests HPM could be used to protect U.S. satellites and attack those of a foe without creating clouds of debris that could damage other spacecraft.

Having spent most of her career working on directed-energy technology issues, she wrote a research paper on what she considers an underrated weapons technology. Entitled "High Power Microwaves: Strategic and Operational Implications for Warfare," it was published by the Air University's center for strategy and technology in early 2000. Walling is now a division chief in Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.

"The projected maximum capability for a microwave [armed] UCAV is approximately 100,000 pulses of microwave energy (or shots) per mission," Walling wrote. "If one assumes 1,000 pulses per target, it is conceivable that a microwave UCAV could attack on the order of 100 targets per mission. In addition, a microwave system could be used to protect the UCAV from enemy missiles [even] if the enemy has the ability to detect low-observable aircraft."

HPM also affects a larger area than a bomb, but without harming physical structures or people. A 1-ton bomb creates damage in a radius of about 120 ft. "The footprint of a microwave munition is at least 100 times greater than that of a conventional munition," the report states. That may be a bloated number if applied to developmental weapons currently available for use against Iraq, according to other U.S. officials. They usually describe effects in terms of a few thousand feet or less. In fact, the primary stumbling block for directed-energy weapons is achieving sufficient range and power levels to be effective.

U.S. MILITARY RESEARCH laboratories have demonstrated HPM effects ranging from upsetting to destroying the electronics within military and commercial systems, Walling noted. The paper's conclusion, made more than two years ago, is that "high-power

microwave technology is ready for the transition to active weapons in the U.S. military." Both Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the chief of U.S. Air Forces, Europe, Gen. Gregory Martin, have said publicly that unspecified new developmental weapons technology could be used in an attack on Iraq. Facilities that manufacture, store or dispense chemical, biological and nuclear weapons are a "target set" particularly earmarked for energy weapons, according to statements made this summer and fall by U.S. aerospace industry officials. Conventional attacks could leave plumes of lethal agents adrift.

HPM devices have great potential both as offensive and defensive weapons, Walling said. She cited a 1998 Air Force survey--"Directed-Energy Applications for Tacti cal Airborne Combat"--that found the top four priorities were for microwave weapons (instead of lasers) in the areas of precision-guided munitions, large aircraft self-protection shields, small aircraft self-protection shields and as weapons for unmanned combat air vehicles. As a munition, some developmental systems are believed to be ready for combat in Iraq. Boeing plans to build an HPM weapon into the Block 30 version of its X-45 UCAV.

These weapons also could be built into a pod for carriage on a helicopter or packaged as artillery shells, scatterable mines and 1-ton bombs, the report said. As a defensive system, it contends HPM devices could ward off infrared- and radar-guided missiles. A phased-array antenna allows for rapid retargeting.

The report quickly ticks off the advantages of HPM weapons: They don't rely on exact knowledge of the enemy system. They leave persisting effects in enemy targets that may take weeks to find and repair. Even if enemy systems are turned off, they are still affected. And to counter HPM, the entire system must be hardened, which is a very expensive process.

An energy pulse can get into an enemy system by the "front door," which means its own antenna, dome or other sensor opening; or through the "back door," which includes cracks, seams, trailing wires, metal conduits of seals. Once inside, the emissions can destroy or disrupt integrated circuits, circuit cards and relay switches. The system's own electronic circuitry transmits the pulse, and resulting damage, even deeper into the system.

In the microwave technical community, the ability to scale or increase the effects is often described as "dial a hurt," Walling said. Results depend on the distance between the HPM weapon and the target, the vulnerability of the target, the power generated, and the characteristics of the microwave emission including frequency, burst rate and pulse duration. A rough scale describes four levels of effects:

* Deny, which involves electronic upset or jamming. It might cause malfunctions within relay and processing circuits.

* Degrade, which involves locking up a system or limiting its capabilities enough to require rebooting. It can include signal override or turning power on and off at irregular intervals.

* Damage, which includes permanent effects that "latch up" a system. This can mean damage to components, circuit cards or mother boards, as wells as weeks to diagnose and repair the problems. Because microwaves can enter through multiple entry points, it is likely numerous circuits and components will be damaged.

* Destroy, which means catastrophic and permanent injury to the system, requiring total replacement.

ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY is crucial for HPM weapons. Field of view for the phased-array emitter is expected to vary from several to tens of degrees. The multi-element design allows it to be built conformally into a pod or UCAV. Because it doesn't require precise aiming, there are far fewer stringent pointing and tracking requirements, Walling said. The microwaves' cone could offer a means to attack multiple targets at once; for example, all of the equipment in an antiaircraft missile site.

The range of HPM weapons has always been a concern. Tests have shown effects at tens to "more than" hundreds of feet. Walling seemed more optimistic. "With current technology, the range for a tactical microwave weapon could be in the tens of kilometers, and future advances . . . should permit the development of even longer ranges," the report said.

Other advantages cited for HPM weapons are that they would be immune to the weather and could produce multiple shots on a single mission. However, the report also alludes to single-shot designs. These latter seem to address concerns that side and back lobes from the generation of an HPM pulse could affect the carrying aircraft's own electronics.

Power levels for HPM weapons are increasing. The report said one microwave source weighing less that 45 lb. radiated 1 gigawatt of power within a few nanoseconds. A 400-lb. system radiated 20 gigawatts. The report noted that Hoover Dam generates 2 gigawatts per day. The HPM weapon would draw power from the air vehicle's engines, which would let it make a number of attacks during a mission.

posted 10-20-2002 08:13 PM            

into the "hazard zone" the publik knot allowed
came across an operation
that can not being harpenning
say Jay ReynoldZ
can you say cheeZE?
big smile
"you can fool some of the sheeple
between 4PM and 5
you can fool most of the peop,le
after midnight
(except in daylight saving tyme)
but if your SS# endz in 2
you cant fool anyone anytime
[does the cabinate even have a SS#?]
let this one fly