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world about Iraqi soldiers ripping newbom Kuwaiti babies out of request out of hand. their incubators and throwing them on the floor. As with the When the Iraqis retreated from Kuwait, American forces violat- Kurds of Halabja the story was proved totally false, though not ed mutually agreed cease-fire terms, shooting more people in the before US tanks had buried 8,000 Iraqi soldiers alive in their back with radioactive 30 mm Depleted Uranium (DU) shells than bunkers and destroyed half the ground installations in Kuwait and Adolf Hitler could have imagined in his most vivid dream. southern Iraq. Disinformation is critically important to the CIA, —_ Unluckily for its human targets, the CIA was out to prove Adolf for without it the Agency would be unable to whip up sufficient —_ Hitler a mere simpleton with a strictly limited imagination. public outrage to justify its savage attacks. American Fairchild A10 "Thunderbolt II" ground-attack jets For an alert Wester public there were other indications that — criss-crossed the highways of death in Kuwait, spitting radioactive neither President Hussein nor Colonel Al Qadhafi were dictators 30 mm shells at the rate of 4,200 per minute per aircraft. Anyone who habitually murdered their own citizens. If that were the case, __left alive after the strafing runs, the CIA reasoned, would probably there would be no point in both of them training huge numbers of die a terrible death much later from the effects of toxic uranium doctors, for doctors cure people—they do not kill. While Saudi poisoning. Over time, the same highly toxic radioactive waste Arabia and Great Britain (two of the coalition partners) have only —_ would slowly kill large numbers of the civilian population in both one doctor for every 4,321 and 4,632 people respectively, Iraq has Iraq and Kuwait. Though larger one doctor for every 3 303. Colonel AL [Ss 190) mm DU siclis were used by Qadhafi has trained a stunning one doc- battle tanks, the US administration tor for every 757 people. Facts like claims ‘only’ 5,000 of the 120.mm these were considered counter-produc- version were fired. the ig the CA's sins ond were mth. Someone somewhere had done a teres ore oe eet ot lessly suppressed. vast amount of covert advance firing the special high-velocity Boosted by CIA lies and disinforma- * . radioactive 30 mm DU shells: the tion, the Bush Administration pushed planning and purchasing for the GAU-8A seven-barrel “Avenger” suanet Presiden Hse Aferauc, _ desert campaign, because no Gatling cannon, specially designed hs - u . Evenata cessfully applying pressure to the nation on Earth keeps a quarter range of two miles, the 30 mm DU United Nations Security Council, the : Whi H shells are known to be travelling at Bush Administration ordered its stealth million uniforms on hand for every almost one mile per second, hittag bombers to attack the capital of Iraq different climate zone in the each target with almost half a mil- instead of the forces occupying Kuwait. lion foot-pounds of energy. With Under cover of darkness during the world. impact forces that high, very few 30 night of 16-17 January 1991, the first mm DUs ricocheted and stayed in F117As flew out of Khamis Mushait in one piece, most exploding into ura- southern Saudi Arabia to start the nium dust which was strewn far and killing in Baghdad. The ‘black’ stealth wide across the land. bombers were to fly a total of 1,271 missions in less than six The awesome Avenger Gatling is capable of firing depleted ura- weeks, dropping more than five million pounds of bombs on pop- nium at the rate of nearly 12 tonnes per minute per gun. Small ulated areas. wonder the US adininistration remains acutely anxious that the The total bombardment was awesome and sickening: 88,000 total number of 30 mm DU shells fired should remain tons of bombs, 97% of which flew wide of their targets, ripping "Classified". more than 70,000 innocent women and children to bloody shreds and maiming countless thousands more. Sadly, the Iraqi dead THE OIL MEN TAKE CONTROL were merely a sideshow for the primary CIA objective of control- Shortly after driving the Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, the ling world oil reserves on a permanent basis. American government handed total control of Kuwaiti oil opera- Around 16 February 1991, American AV8B Harrier ground- tions to Bechtel Corporation—an American multinational giant attack jets started flying with wing-mounted napalm pods. Less originally founded by CIA Deputy Director John McMahone. than a week later, on 22 February President Bush accused Iragi Former Bechtel corporate presidents and vice presidents include forces of lighting 140-plus oil wells in Kuwait. If the Iraqi forces George Schultz and Caspar Weinberger. It was an odd choice. had done so, they managed it while under continual attack by Bechtel excels chiefly in the area of civil construction. about 2,500 coalition aircraft—an act of crass stupidity or out- Unfortunately the problem it faced was ‘upstream’ oil technology standing bravery in the face of stupefying American firepower. involving oil well blowouts raging at up to 11,000 p.s.i. Somehow the Western media missed the point that napalm By June 1991 the coordinator of the well-control teams, T.B. bums at a temperature high enough to melt the side-pipes on oi] O'Brien of Midland, Texas, complained of Bechtel slowing down well-heads and is capable of setting fire to the crude oil which _ the rate of damage control by going through a long slow bidding then blasts out under high pressure. Most of the public also Process for equipment that could be had ‘off the shelf in Dubai, a remained unaware that CIA pilots are cross-trained to fly a large Short distance away down the Persian Gulf. variety of both military and civilian aircraft. During this precise "In the meantime, about US$40 million to U5$50 million in oil period Kuwaiti Air Force pilots were grounded in Saudi Arabiaon _ burns a day, but nobody looks at that,” Mr O'Brien said. "These the orders of the American Commander in Chief. things are not an emergency to them." It is left to the reader to speculate why the US High Command After months of increasing pressure from world environmental- ensured that no native Kuwaiti pilot be allowed to fly over hisown __ ists about the smoke then circling the globe at high altitude, there oil fields during this specific phase of the operation. was an apparent acceleration in well control efforts. On 6 Within 24 hours of the Bush accusation, the Iraqi government November 1991, Sheikh Jabir-al'Ahmad al-Jabir al Sabah was denied setting fire to the oil wells and urgently called on the Shown on television throwing a lever that put out the last of the United Nations Security Council to send a team to "investigate the fires which had raged since February. It was a public relations destruction of non-military installations in Kuwait"—a curious Masterpiece and most world environmentalists immediately response from the Iraqi government if it was guilty of the alleged © stopped worrying about possible global environmental effects. crime. The American-dominated Security Council dismissed the They were wrong to stop worrying, for their worst nightmares are Shortly after driving the Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, the American government handed total control of Kuwaiti oil opera- tions to Bechtel Corporation—an American multinational giant originally founded by CIA Deputy Director John McMahone. Former Bechtel corporate presidents and vice presidents include George Schultz and Caspar Weinberger. It was an odd choice. Bechtel excels chiefly in the area of civil construction. Unfortunately the problem it faced was ‘upstream’ oil technology involving oil well blowouts raging at up to 11,000 p.s.i. By June 1991 the coordinator of the well-control teams, T.B. OBrien of Midland, Texas, complained of Bechtel slowing down the rate of damage control by going through a long slow bidding process for equipment that could be had ‘off the shelf in Dubai, a short distance away down the Persian Gulf. "In the meantime, about US$40 million to U5$50 million in oil burns a day, but nobody looks at that," Mr O'Brien said. "These things are not an emergency to them." After months of increasing pressure from world environmental- ists about the smoke then circling the globe at high altitude, there was an apparent acceleration in well control efforts. On 6 November 1991, Sheikh Jabir-al'Ahmad al-Jabir al Sabah was shown on television throwing a lever that put out the last of the fires which had raged since February. It was a public relations masterpiece and most world environmentalists immediately stopped worrying about possible global environmental effects. They were wrong to stop worrying, for their worst nightmares are 14¢NEXUS THE OIL MEN TAKE CONTROL DECEMBER 1993 - JANUARY 1994