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GLOBAL NEWS they appeared; where the press was so con- | ed bombs had an accuracy rating of only What is a bit more of a surprise is the dis- strained by legal injunctions and fear of lit- | about 25% closure that Noriega supported American igation that they were frightened to pursue Of these, 62,137 missed their targets. | interests by supplying missiles to important public issues; and where parlia- | The real, and dangerous, point is that the | Argentina during the Falkland Islands war. mentarians are frustrated in their attempts | Bush administration and the military were Although the United States ultimately to use their parliamentary privilege to place | so successful in controlling information | backed Britain in the 1982 war, the CIA got key evidence before the Parliament and the | about the war that they were able to tell the | Noriega to ship Exocet missiles to the people, I would have said Chile or | public just about what they wanted the pub- | Argentine military, according to Noriega's Nicaragua. lic to know. lawyers. Sadly, the answer today, in March 1991, From an article in the New York Times (New York Times, May 16 1991) is Australia! (March 20,1991) on the Op-Ed Page by Tom Senator. Paul McLean - Australian | Wicker USA PLANNED FOR WAR Democrat Senator for New South Wales. WHO LIT THE OIL WELL WITH THE UK US BOMBS MISSED FIRES? In case you were wondering about who's MOST TARGETS! side the USA is on, this item may confuse ; : : Several reports have filtered out of the you even further. With the Persian Gulf War over and won, | middle-east saying that the allied bombers In 1930, the US drew up plans for a war the Air Force has chosen to disclose a fact | set the oil wells on fire. I recently down- | with Britain, in which Canada would have that few television viewers or newspaper | loaded this item off the computer networks. | een the main battle ground. readers could have suspected while the A story was carried in The Guardian, Joint Plan Red, as it was known, aimed fighting was going on: The famous “smart | May 22, 1991, in which J. Viallis, an oil | , inate oF 55 "aire as bombs” made up only 7 % of all the US | consultant on the U.S. Black List because at the eliminaon or the British Empire up explosives dropped on Iraq and Kuwait. In | he “spoke out,” believes that the allies set by the Joint Board of the ARmy and Navy fact, despite all those TV scenes of preci- | all of the wells afire. He presents a rea- in May 1930, a year after the stock market sion-guided bombs going down the chim- | soned discussion to support the idea that crash , : neys or in the doors of Iraqi targets, **70% | there is a 50/50 chance that these wells It identified Britain as Red, Canada as of the 85,500 tons of bombs dropped on | were ignited by allied air power. In part, he Crimson. Australia and New Zealand as Iraq and Kuwait in 43 days of war missed | claims the Iraqis did not have the technolo- Scarlet and the US as Blue : their targets.** gy nor the coordination to do the job. It dan z sti A eae strat The point is not that military officials Viallis says this is the worst environmen- y remained an acre Zamerican s ma ey lied: they said the war was being won, and | tal emergency that the world has ever until 19 39, when Joint Plan Orange super- it was. It is not even that they impermissi- | faced. He says, and correctly so, that the seded it. bly distorted the facts; smart bombs were | response was to hire four firefighting teams Orange was Japan. about 90% successful - though the nation | was not appropriately strong. He also was *not* told that 81,980 tons of unguid- | claims approximately 90% of the fires are PEACE PROTESTER within Iraqi terri- SUMMONS HAWKE tory, and says this crucial informa- The Tasmanian peace activist who tion has yet to be allegedly spurted fake blood onto the vehi- mentioned in the | Cle carrying the Prime Minister has sum- media. moned Bob Hawke to appear as a material witness to his hearing. NORIEGA Mr Barry Jessup delivered the summons at the ALP Conference in Hobart after WORKED avoiding security officials. FOR THE Mr Jessup told Nexus that he had intend- CIA ed to do some street theatre depicting the dead and injured Iraqi civilians killed in the Not a surprise to Gulf War as a protest to Australia's most people is the involvement, but when the Hawke public revelation | entourage tried to elude the protesters, Mr that former | Jessup said the only thing he could think of Panamanian ruler, | in the few moments left, was to spurt the General Manual | fake blood onto the car as it sped past. Noriega "worked" Mr. Jessup was charged with committing for the CIA. a public nuisance. USA PLANNED FOR WAR WITH THE UK FIRES? FOR THE CIA NEXUS - 8 US BOMBS MISSED MOST TARGETS! PEACE PROTESTER SUMMONS HAWKE YEAR BOOK - JULY/AUGUST 1991