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Israel Hayom | Washington is still dreaming.

Boaz Bismuth

Could it be that today, too, two years after waking up from the dream of the Arab Spring, the American administration is still struggling to see things clearly? Otherwise, how can one possibly explain Washington’s decision to withhold aid from Egypt or the upcoming renewal of negotiations with Iran, during which the removal of sanctions will be discussed — which is certainly a possibility in the Washington of today.

What else needs to happen for the Americans to finally understand what region we live in, and how there are places in the world where the values and rules that they hold so dearly — they really are positive values by the way — do not necessarily hold sway? Does some prime minister of some “democratic” country need to be kidnapped by his state security apparatus for the light bulb to go on? This too happened yesterday, in Libya, when an armed militia that supports terrorism, which is supposed to ensure the safety of the new democratic administration which is charged with building a strong and stable government, as well as help the U.S. combat terrorism, kidnaps the prime minister from his hotel room? Does it sound like the plot from a Monty Python movie? Well, the reality in our region is wilder than the imagination.

In Egypt, too, American logic has gone napping. The Muslim Brotherhood stole the Tahrir revolution from the liberal youths and from the military. Before all of the institutions in Egypt, including the justice system but primarily the legislature, could sprout beards, in came the army on July 3 to stymie political Islam.

Washington decided to punish, in the name of democracy, the army that protects the peace treaty with us. But this is the situation, and at the very least there is a little more freedom in Egypt even if it is not a democracy, which will continue to be the case just as long as the Muslim Brotherhood does not return to power.

And what shall we say about Iran? What else does Iranian President Hasan Rouhani need to write and say to his people for world in general and the United States in particular to understand that the Iranians are pulling a fast one over all of us? Next week, however, negotiations are scheduled to resume with great hope. It can be assumed that the world powers will exhibit enthusiasm because, after all, talking with the Iranians is in style. Had Rouhani’s U.N. speech been made earlier, today he could have already been named the grand winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, even if he is more interested in winning the prize for nuclear fission.

Aid suspension fuels anti-US sentiment in Egypt | The Times of Israel.

Military-backed regime, which receives billions from its Arab allies, is unlikely to back down in fight against Islamists

Egypt’s interim President Adly Mansour, center, Defense Minister Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi, front row, third left, and other officials pose for a photograph during a visit to the Secretariat of the Armed Forces, part of celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1973 (Yom Kippur) war in which Egyptian forces made initial gains against Israel, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

CAIRO (AP) — Washington’s decision to withhold millions of dollars in mostly military aid to Egypt is fueling anti-US sentiment and the perception that Washington supports Mohammed Morsi, the Islamist president the military ousted in a July coup.

That could boost the popularity of the military chief, Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, whom the US is trying to pressure to ensure a transition to democracy and ease the fierce crackdown on Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood.

The aid freeze could also embolden Morsi’s supporters to intensify their campaign of street protests in the belief that the military-backed government is losing the goodwill of its top foreign backer. The protests, met by a fierce response by security forces that has left hundreds dead, have kept the new government from tackling Egypt’s pressing problems after 2 ½ years of turmoil.

Still, Egypt’s military-backed government is unlikely to abandon the road map it announced when Morsi was removed in a July 3 coup — to amend the nation’s Islamist-tilted constitution and put the changes to a nationwide vote before the end of the year, and hold parliamentary and presidential ballots in early 2014.

“Egypt is not so desperate that it needs to compromise on its political agenda,” the US-based global intelligence firm, Stratfor, wrote this week.

“The United States will be the one to eventually readjust to the old reality of backing unpopular regimes that can preserve US influence in the Nile River Valley.”

Warnings that Washington might cut off aid were met with a defiant response in the Egyptian media.

“Let American aid go to hell,” screamed the banner headline of Thursday’s edition of Al-Tahrir, an independent daily that is a sworn critic of the Brotherhood and the United States.

Egyptian newspapers and television have for weeks taken a deeply hostile line toward the United States, portraying Washington as unhappy to see Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood lose power and lambasting it for allegedly meddling in Cairo’s affairs.

The US announced it was freezing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, most of it meant for the armed forces, as a show of displeasure over Morsi’s ouster and the subsequent crackdown on his Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist allies. Washington said the aid would be restored if “credible progress” was made toward setting up an inclusive, democratically elected government.

In its announcement Wednesday, the US State Department did not provide a dollar amount of what was being withheld, most of it linked to military aid, but officials in Washington said it included 10 Apache helicopters at a cost of more than $500 million, M1A1 tank kits and Harpoon anti-ship missiles.

The US also is withholding $260 million in cash assistance to the government. The US had already suspended the delivery of four F-16 fighter jets and canceled biennial US-Egyptian military exercises.

In Egypt’s first official reaction, the Foreign Ministry said the US move raised questions about Washington’s commitment to supporting the Arab nation’s security goals at a time when it is facing terrorist challenges.

That was a reference to a burgeoning insurgency by Islamic militants, some with al-Qaida links, in the strategic Sinai Peninsula, as well as scattered attacks in other parts of the country.

In its statement, the Foreign Ministry said Cairo was keen to maintain good relations with Washington, but will independently decide its domestic policies. It also said Egypt will work to secure its “vital needs” on national security, a thinly veiled threat that it would shop elsewhere for arms and military hardware.

One official said the military was considering stripping US warships of preferential treatment in transiting the Suez Canal or curbing use of Egypt’s air space by US military aircraft. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue with the media.

Cairo has built close ties with Washington in the 34 years since Egypt became the first Arab nation to sign a peace treaty with Israel. The aid has long been seen as Washington’s reward for Egypt’s commitment to peace after it fought four wars against Israel between 1948 and 1973.

The Egyptian military may have gained the most from those close relations, using $1.3 billion annually to replace its aging Soviet-era arms and warplanes with high-tech American weapon systems, state of the art jet-fighters, Apache gunships and battlefield tanks. Over the years, thousands of Egyptian officers from all branches of the military traveled to the United States for training or to attend military schools.

The biennial war games, codenamed “Bright Star,” gave the two militaries large-scale human contact in a simulated battlefield and in 1991, Egyptian troops fought alongside the Americans as part of the US-led coalition that drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.

El-Sissi, a career infantry officer who attended the US War Academy, has credited the United States for its huge role in modernizing the Egyptian military over the past three decades.

In a three-part interview published this week in a Cairo daily, he said he appreciated the dilemma the Obama administration found itself in after Morsi’s ouster, having to carefully navigate between respect for US laws on aid to foreign nations where a democratically elected government is toppled and a reliable ally that has for decades safeguarded its interests in a volatile and strategic region.

But the suspension is unlikely to push him to back down.

The military-backed regime in Egypt enjoys the support of key Arab nations, including ones with deep pockets like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. These allies have poured billions of dollars into Egypt’s anemic coffers and are likely to continue to do so to win the common fight against Islamists.

The 58-year-old el-Sissi, who has not ruled out a presidential run in elections due next year, stands to gain more popularity at home. In a country where anti-US sentiment runs high, mostly over Washington’s perceived bias in support of Israel, anyone seen to be standing up to the United States gains in popularity.

Already el-Sissi is being widely compared to the late charismatic president Gamal Abdel-Nasser, whose socialist-leaning rule and tense relations with Washington earned him near divine status among Egyptians and fellow Arabs.

In contrast, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s toppled autocratic leader, jealously protected and maintained close ties with the US from the time he took office in 1981 and for the next 29 years. One goal of the revolution that toppled him was to end what many Egyptians see as Washington’s undue influence over Cairo’s policies under Mubarak.

“The popular mood does not seem to care” about the aid suspension, said Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a prominent Egyptian scholar who has a dual-Egyptian-US nationality. “As a matter of fact, most Egyptians who can speak out feel, ‘Just as well, we would like to end this Catholic marriage with the US,’” he told Associated Press Television in an interview.

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

Iran cancels annual anti-Zionism conference | The Times of Israel.

Latest gesture from regime intent on changing its public image garners criticism from hardliners, says report

Then-presidential candidate Hassan Rouhani waves from a campaign bus in the western city of Sanandaj, Iran, earlier this year (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian officials have reportedly ordered the cancellation of an annual anti-Zionism conference.

As part of an apparent effort to rebrand the Islamic Republic in post-Ahmadinejad times, the New Horizon Conference, scheduled to take place in November, was cancelled by the Foreign Ministry, reported The Telegraph.

Hardliners in Iran blasted the decision, which they see as another concession on the part of the new government. Iran’s recently elected president, Hassan Rouhani, has made a concerted effort to put a new face on the regime in Tehran. This after eight years of his Holocaust-denying predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Websites sympathetic to organizers of the conference displayed strings of angry comments, according to the British report: “Have our leaders given in so much to the world that are even afraid of a conference that might hurt Mr Obama’s feelings?” read one post. ”The latest piece from our government’s show of capitulation,” read another.

The event was supposed to feature a former US senator, as well as 63 “overseas contributors,” said the British daily.

In the US last week and in Israel this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been speaking repeatedly to US, European and even Farsi-language media outlets, warning of Iran’s and Rouhani’s duplicity regarding the nuclear issue, and urging the international community not to lift sanctions unless or until Iran is stripped of its “military nuclear” capabilities.

If sanctions on Iran are removed without ensuring a guaranteed end to uranium enrichment, Europe and the rest of the world will face hundreds of nuclear weapons in the hands of a “murderous” regime, Netanyahu said in a series of interviews with European media outlets Thursday.

“When a murderous regime engages in soft diplomacy and uses calming words of peace, but nevertheless continues to acquire immense power — it must be stopped, immediately,” Netanyahu said, according to quotes provided by the Prime Minister’s Office.

“This is the central lesson of the 20th century. It’s also the central lesson of North Korea. If [the Iranian regime] is not stopped immediately, there won’t be just two bombs pointed toward you [the Europeans], but 200. Stop it now while you’re in a strong position to do so,” he exhorted.

The interviews, timed ahead of next week’s new round of talks in Geneva between the P5+1 powers and Iran over its rogue nuclear program, were conducted with Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and ARD TV, France’s Le Monde and France 24, and the UK’s Financial Times and Sky TV.

Haviv Rettig Gur contributed to this report.

Electromagnetic pulse weaponry: Boeing CHAMP video and jammer grenades – Army Technology.

Taking inspiration from science-fiction, the development of electromagnetic pulse-like weapons is about to jolt into life. Liam Stoker profiles Boeing’s recently tested CHAMP missile and finds out how an Israeli grenade has been engineered to obliterate all communications without causing any loss of life.

The Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project may “mark a new era in modern warfare”. Image courtesy of Boeing.

The rampant modernisation of armed forces across the globe has, unfortunately, also served to advance the technological capabilities of terrorists.

As the black market equips terrorist organisations with increasingly advanced means of destruction, the world’s armies have had to respond in kind.

While advances have obviously been made in the means of killing machines, armed forces have also seen the development of new and emerging methods of prevention, most notably in the manner of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons.

Once a cornerstone of futuristic science-fiction, the EMP proposes the ability knock out enemy systems over a large scale, without causing widespread destruction and the cost of civilian lives.

Although EMPs have been in various stages of production and testing for many years, the technology has now been refined to such an extent that targeted weaponry has now come to the fore. Promising to knock out enemy technology while saving that of nearby hospitals or friendly troops, the ability to direct EMPs, as demonstrated by devices like Boeing’s CHAMP, holds the potential to revolutionise modern warfare.

High-power, low collateral

On 16 October 2012, Boeing’s secretive Phantom Works, in association with the US Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate, conducted the first test launch of its experimental Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP).

While the involved technology may not be, the premise of the missile is relatively simple; to remotely disable enemy systems with minimal collateral damage. Devices such as electromagnetic pulse bombs threaten to affect a large area and remain indiscriminate in doing so, putting at risk hospitals and other buildings that offer crucial services to innocent civilians. The CHAMP works by directing a precise beam of high-energy microwaves at the target building, disabling the electronics inside within seconds.

Boeing reported the results of the successful test, in which the missile was fired before disabling computers in target buildings. The missile flew for an hour and targeted seven buildings, disrupting computers while limiting collateral damage. Upon completion, the missile was flown to an undisclosed location before returning to Earth.

A video released by Boeing to accompany the news of the successful test indicates the CHAMP’s potential use inside bustling cities with targets surrounded by costly collateral. With the US coming under increasing criticism regarding the impact of pre-emptive strikes on innocent civilians, CHAMP could represent a marked change of strategy, with Boeing Phantom Works’ CHAMP programme manager Keith Coleman stating its potential to “mark a new era in modern warfare”.

“In the near future, this technology may be used to render an enemy’s electronic and data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive,” added Coleman.

Making the jammer portable

On a much smaller scale, but bearing a similar ethos, comes Netline Communications Technologies’ Portable Jammer Packs. The Israel-based company has produced one of the smallest jammers ever made, roughly the size of a hand-thrown grenade, responding to a request for a portable jammer that could be used by elite units and Special Forces when carrying out an operation in urban spaces.

Weighing approximately 2.5lbs, the device can be thrown into an area or building to suppress IEDs and block specific channels before an intrusion, handing a battlefield advantage to its operator. Such an advantage is currently unmet, as contemporary devices are either too large to be manoeuvred into tight spaces, or are indiscriminate in the electronics they disrupt.

Electronic fratricide, or radar jamming friendly fire, has been recorded as a major problem in Afghanistan, with radar jammers used to prevent the remote detonation of bombs disrupting communication disrupting operations at the nation’s main air base.

The device is initiated by the operator pulling a safety catch, much the same as a hand grenade, before being thrown into the desired area. When deployed, the device uses electrons to disrupt nearby communications devices using channels, with the device capable of being pre-programmed to block any specific channels.

These can include remote IED triggers like rigged cellular phones, a common ploy used in urban warzones such as Iraq and Afghanistan. After use, the device can simply be picked up, recharged and reprogrammed for use in other combat missions.

Miniaturised, but just as effective

The developers did, however, have to work around some critical issues in order to ensure the device remained combat-able. In order to keep the device small enough to be hand-held, existing jamming modules have been miniaturised and antennas printed upon circuit boards inside the grenade.

The system was also cushioned with rubber in order to stop the impact dislodging any important circuitry, and heat-absorbing elements were added to the internal battery compartment to prevent overheating during extended use.

The Israel-based company has produced one of the smallest jammers ever made. Image courtesy of Netline.

Both Boeing’s CHAMP and Netline’s JMPs are, perhaps regrettably for soldiers currently in action, still in the developmental stage, but represent a change in the attitude of research and development engineers.

The ‘kill at all cost’ attitude that led to the development of indiscriminate ammunitions such as the cluster bomb has gone, replaced with a need to hone the targeting capabilities to reduce collateral damage. With weaponry like CHAMP and JMPs in the development pipeline, the risk of conducting missions in the direct vicinity of civilians could be about to fall.

The 100% Fatwa-Compliant Iranian EMP Nuclear Weapon – Op-Eds – Israel National News.

When Iran says “Nuclear weapons are a grave sin” it sounds almost as good to pundits as “Peace in our time” sounded to the useless idiot pundits in 1938 – but this article shows how Iran can keep its word and destroy the West. Read carefully.

Mark Langfan

Iran’s Supreme Religious leader has repeated his fatwa against nuclear weapons and the country’s foreign minister made much of it for foreign media.

Much has been, and will be, said about that Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei’s February 2012 informal speech to a group of Iranian nuclear scientist’s wherein he is translated in English to have said:

“There is no doubt that the decision makers in the countries opposing us know well that Iran is not after nuclear weapons because the Islamic Republic, logically, religiously and theoretically, considers the possession of nuclear weapons a grave sin and believes the proliferation of such weapons is senseless, destructive and dangerous,” the Leader said.

(4/8/12 PressTV, “Iran never seeks to produce, maintain, use nuclear weapons: Lawmaker” http://www.presstv.ir/detail/235155.html)

Most importantly, the United States apparently gave great gravitas and optimistic meaning to Khamenei’s informal talk in 2012.

In direct response, in the run-up to the latest round of P5+1 talks in Istanbul, the US Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton characterized the “grave sin” statement as the very basis of the P5+1 Talks by stating, “We are meeting with the Iranians to discuss how to translate what is stated belief into a plan of action.”

Consequently, in the follow-up it continues to appear that the recent Istanbul P5+1 Nuclear Talks and its progeny, if not the very P5+1-Iranian Nuclear “Plan of Action” itself, are elementally based on Khamenei’s “grave sin” informal comment.

Well, before one gets too rapt in the Iranian religious untouchable that “Nuclear weapons are a “grave sin”” , 1938 Munichesque euphoria, one should remember that back in 2006, Mullah Mohsen Gharavian, a disciple of the ultra-conservative Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, widely regarded as the cleric closest to Iran’s new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, issued an actual religious fatwa that it is “only natural” to have nuclear bombs as a “countermeasure” against other nuclear powers. (2/16/06 The Telegraph, “Iranian fatwa approves use of nuclear weapons” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/1510900/Iranian-fatwa-approves-use-of-nuclear-weapons.html)

So at a minimum, there seems to be some “religious” disagreement in Shiite theological circles over how many angels can dance on the head of a Uranium 235 nucleus.

However, even taking Ayatollah Khamenei’s words at full face value, and believing them to be the “final word of Iranian law” to mean that having a “destructive” nuclear weapon like the one dropped on Hiroshima is a “great sin,” a totally new type of game-changer modern nuclear bomb has been invented that doesn’t kill any human beings or animals or destroy buildings.

Instead of killing people, the new nuclear bomb burns out all the electronic equipment and the modern defense systems that rely on electronics through the nuclear generation of Electromagnetic Pulse (“EMP Nuclear Weapon”).

This EMP Nuclear Weapon is detonated at a technically easily reachable high-altitude of about 50 kilometers above a given targeted battlefield area, doesn’t harm a fly, destroys all the electronics within about 750 kilometers of the blast radius, and leaves non-electronic World War II-vintage weapons like regular guns like Kalashnikovs and Katyushas totally unaffected.

Such an Iranian EMP Nuclear Weapon wouldn’t kill even a bird, but with the element of surprise would allow the Iranians to follow on such a high-altitude nuclear EMP burst with a conventional blitzkrieg overwhelming type of ground attack on a “localized area.”

In fact, such an EMP nuclear bomb that didn’t kill a single person, but enabled Iran to then conventionally attack and conquer Eastern Saudi Arabia and liberate 5 million Shiite Muslims from the heretical yolk of Sunni rule, couldn’t possibly be described as “destructive” and “pointless,” and therefore, even under the strictest interpretation of Khamenei’s words would be 100% Sharia-compliant.

(For more historical and analytic EMP nuclear information, please see my first draft monograph at www.marklangfan.com/fizzlekriegfirstdraft.pdf.)

An Iranian EMP Nuclear Weapon that doesn’t kill even a single bird, but destroys all our high-tech weapons and satellites US and Saudi Arabia depend on to maintain their military edge over Iran enabling Iran to hostage 30,000 living US soldiers as POWs??? “Crazy” you scoff!! “Lang-sanity,” you guffaw!!??!!

Well, before one gets oneself too much into stitches, one should read what the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency and USSTRATCOM website has to say about this new type of nuclear weapon:

On the DTRA website as of March 30, 2011, the DTRA stated:

“One of the dangers of a nuclear weapon – even one too small or too far away to kill or harm anyone – is the electromagnetic pulse, or EMP. While a blast of radiation might not do anything to properly protected troops, it would “fry” anything electronic: laptops, sensors, our highly computerized planes, even a simple cell phone. A weapon that doesn’t kill a single person could still destroy our technology.” [Bold added]

http://dtra.mil/Missions/NuclearDeterrenceDefense/RadiationHardenedTechnology.aspx

If that doesn’t put a crimp in your guffawing, try reading the super-secret 2005 report (recently declassified in 2011) by the US Army Intelligence branch called the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) reported that China actually might successfully use such a High Altitude EMP Nuclear Weapon (“HEMP”)to attack Taiwan and US Aircraft Carrier Battle Groups (“U.S. CVBG”) as a winning “Trump Card” against the US, and state

NGIC Assessment, 8/17/05, Page 1
http://media.washtimes.com/media/misc/2011/07/22/ngic-emp.pdf

NGIC Assessment, 8/17/05, Page 6
http://media.washtimes.com/media/misc/2011/07/22/ngic-emp.pdf

But the 2005 NGIC 2011declassified Report didn’t really break new ground in 2011 because on June 12, 2009, Kim Myong Chol, the unofficial spokesman of the Late Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il, wrote a definitive, explicit, and precise essay on North Korea’s nuclear strategy which was published by the Asia Times in June 2009 entitled “Nuclear war is Kim Jong-il’s game plan” and stated that:

Nuclear war is Kim Jong-il’s game plan

By Kim Myong Chol

The third possible attack, a high-altitude detonation of hydrogen bombs that would create a powerful electromagnetic pulse (EMP), would disrupt the communications and electrical infrastructure of the US, the whole of Japan, and South Korea.

Many of the essential systems needed to survive war would be knocked out, as computers are instantly rendered malfunctioning or unusable.

Military and communications systems such as radars, antennas, and missiles, government offices, would be put out of use, as would energy sources such as nuclear power stations and transport and communications systems including airports, airplanes, railways, cars and cell phones.

Ironically the ubiquity of high-tech computing gadgets in the US, Japan and South Korea has made them most vulnerable to EMP attacks. (Bold added for emphasis.).

Kim Myong Chol is author of a number of books and papers in Korean, Japanese and English on North Korea, including Kim Jong-il’s Strategy for Reunification. He has a PhD from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s Academy of Social Sciences and is often called an “unofficial” spokesman of Kim Jong-il and North Korea. [Bold added]

(See 6/12/09 Asia Times, Nuclear war is Kim Jong-il’s game plan, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/KF12Dg01.html)

These authorized public North Korean EMP nuclear weapon statements only followed and confirmed the North Korean nuclear tests of 2006 and 2009, where the world’s pre-eminent former CIA nuclear weapons EMP expert, Dr. Peter Vincent Pry has called the 2006 and 2009 nuclear tests likely successful new “Super EMP nuclear weapon tests.” (See 6/16/11 Newsmax article, North Korea Tests ‘Super-EMP’ Nuke, http://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/super-emp-emp-northkorea-nuke/2011/06/16/id/400260)

But again a declared North Korean EMP Nuclear weapon in 2009 was really no surprise, because in 2005, a bright, prescient young major in the US Air Force wrote and published an open-source thesis for his Air War College degree exactly outlining that in 2010, US and South Korea forces would face an offensive first-use EMP nuclear weapon attack by North Korea entitled “Scenario #2: North Korea Levels the Playing Field.” EMP 2010 Threats (Col. Miller is now the current Commander of the 46th Test Wing, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.) where he stated that:

Even a small, relatively crude nuclear device detonated above the Korean peninsula would generate an EMP with field strength well above 10 kV/m, ensuring wholesale destruction of unprotected electronic systems. [Bold added]

(November 2005 Report, Electromagnetic Pulse Threats in 2010,

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cst/bugs_ch12.pdf

Critically, through the lens of North Korean and Iranian development of a deliverable EMP nuclear weapon, alleged Iranian and North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile test “failures” actually become EMP nuclear weapon’s “successes.”

For instance, the recent North Korean “failed” ballistic missile was a perfect EMP nuclear weapon-type of due south trajectory over South Korea which reached at least 50 kilometers altitude and therefore was a total success for a test EMP nuclear delivery launch.

Given Kim Myong Chol’s explicit 2009 EMP nuclear weapon plank of North Korea’s nuke plan, it is certain that Iran is equally attuned to the EMP nuclear weapon’s battlefield capabilities, and delivery requirements. Again, open source EMP nuclear expert Dr. Pry has, in fact, explicitly cited Iran’s ballistic missile tests as perfect EMP nuclear bomb missile trajectories as well. (See Jane’s Missiles and Rockets, May 2005)

Practically, if Iran attacked Saudi and US forces in the Persian Gulf with an EMP nuclear weapon, Iran would have two easy military objectives:

1) occupying the Saudi Easternmost Shiite-majority provinces that hold 99% of all of Saudi Arabia’s oil which are all located within 100 kilometers of the western shore of the Persian Gulf, and

2) capturing 30,000 living US soldiers as POWs that are now defending the Persian Gulf who will have all there modern high-tech weapons and communications equipment electronically burnt to a crisp at H-Hour plus 3 nanoseconds.

Iran’s military task will be greatly aided by the fact that there are now thousands of Iranian “sleeper” cells among the five (5) million Shiites that form the majority in the very Easternmost Saudi Persian Gulf provinces and other Sunni Kingdoms. Armed with the element of surprise, with an EMP nuclear weapon, Iran could militarily very well hand the US a fait accompli on the battlefield before Washington even knew what happened.

This is because an Iranian detonated EMP over the Saudi Peninsula would not only blind all of the US military spy satellites, but would likely burn out all the US CENTCOM Saudi Theater communications back to the Pentagon.

The White House would not even know Iran’s EMP attack had begun, before it was all over.

Plus, who, in their right mind, is brave enough in this White House to disturb President Obama’s weekend golf outings.

With 30,000 living US soldiers as POWs by Iran, the US ability to launch an unconventional counterattack would be checkmated. With the Iranians armed with an EMP nuclear weapon, any ability of the US to mount a conventional counterattack would impossible.

No US President could possibly mass offensive formations of US troops anywhere close to the Persian Gulf if those offensive force concentrations could be attacked by another EMP nuclear weapon, or a Hiroshima type nuclear weapon. Think: Saddam with “one nuclear weapon” when he invaded Kuwait. There never could have been a deploying Desert Shield which enabled the attacking Desert Storm, and Kuwait would still be called the Kadhima, the 19th Province of Iraq.

On the diplomatic UN front, Iran with its nuclear umbrella lock-grip of the entire supply of Persian Gulf Oil would be guaranteed a veto from China at the Security Council in return for a “guaranteed” 25 year supply of oil at a fixed price. China now gets most of its oil from the Persian Gulf and Iran anyway, so for the Chinese they couldn’t care whether they buy their oil from a Sunni King, or an Iranian Shiite Mullah. “Oil is oil is business is business” to the Chinese.

And the Iranians know that if they cross the Chinese, the Chinese will have no qualms with nuking them with “grave sin” types of nuclear-tipped missiles.

Also, in the wake of an Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia, Oil would soar to $700 a barrel breaking the backs of the Europeans who would do anything to buy the Iranian controlled oil, now that the Saudi oil was “no longer available” to flood the market.

In short, with an EMP nuclear device-armed Iran, practically overnight and “on any given Sunday,” the world could wake up with Iran in total and irreversible control over 56% of the world’s oil reserves. With Chinese-total UN backing, the Saudi Peninsula will be called Khomeini, the 32nd Province of Iran.

And as for Iran’s using an EMP nuclear weapon as a “grave sin,” Iran would be “liberating” five million of its Shiite “brothers and sisters” from the gross “tyranny” of Sunni Muslim heretical rule in strict keeping with Obama’s world “Democracy” drive.

What could be more politically correct and glatt kosher to an Obama White House? And Iran would be liberating her Shiite brothers at a cost of almost no US military deaths since an Iranian EMP nuclear weapon wouldn’t kill anybody, only the halal Iranian follow-on conventional blitzkrieg would kill people and US troops.

Did the United States nuke Vietnam when North Vietnam violated the Paris Peace Accords and overran South Vietnam? Of course not!!! If Iran didn’t think it was a “grave sin,” and was strictly halal to murder 3,000 US soldiers and maim 10,000 with the IEDs Iran sent in to blow up US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, then how can it be a “grave sin,” and not perfectly glatt kosher halal to religiously liberate millions of Iran’s Shiite brothers where almost no US soldiers will be killed.

Iran will also more than happily return their 30,000 living US POWs upon the US explicitly agreeing that the US will not retaliate, attempt to reinvade the formally recognized and renamed “Iranian Peninsula,” formally agreeing that the Islamic Republic of Iran is the rightful and actual Custodian of the Two Holy Places, and also to add a “freebie” to round things out, Obama will agree to send Iran a bucket of dirt from the White House Rose Garden, and barrel of water from the Potomac River.

As for the EMP-ignorant nuclear “experts” who have “omnisciently” advocated that Iran will never use a nuclear weapon because of the Cold War Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) theory, an Iranian modern-type EMP nuclear weapon renders any possible deterrent to Iran’s EMP nuclear weapon first-use meaningless.

Critically, as the Defense Committee of the House of Commons recently concluded, once any state gets any nuclear weapon, they can easily make an EMP nuclear weapon.

On February 8, 2012, the United Kingdom House of Commons Defence Committee issued a report, Developing Threats: Electro-Magnetic Pulses (EMP) that stated:

42. On the basis of the evidence received, it seems likely that at present only those states with a known nuclear capability would be able to utilize an HEMP weapon. However, certain states such as Iran could potentially pose a realistic threat in the future, even if it does not currently do so, if nuclear non-proliferation efforts are not successful. (pg. 18, Bold in original)

(See House of Commons Defence Committee, Developing Threats: Electro-Magnetic Pulses (EMP)
www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmdfence/1552/1552.pdf) In fact, once Iran gets an EMP nuke, as the NGIC report concludes, Iran has an incentive and a window of opportunity, not a deterrent, to using an EMP weapon against Saudi Arabia and the US to conquer the Saudi Peninsula before Saudi Arabia acquires an EMP resilient hardened second-strike nuclear weapon. In effect, an Iranian EMP nuclear weapon renders any Iranian MAD deterrent theory INSANE!

So Iran’s possessing even “one nuclear weapon” means Iran could launch an EMP nuclear attack on the Saudi Peninsula at a moment’s notice. This will not create “stability” as the mad MAD advocates claim, but a hysterical compounding vortex of instability.

In conclusion, before pundits go out, and write inane, fatuous articles about nuclear “life and death” matters, and interpret make-believe contradictory Iranian fatwas, they should have, at least, done a touch of research, and read the open source US Government military declassified reports on what an Iranian EMP nuclear weapon could irreversibly do to the free world.

“Nuclear weapons are a grave sin” in 2012 sounds almost as good to those pundits as “Peace in our time” sounded to the useless idiot pundits in 1938. This time, let’s hope with NGIC’s forward-thinking “Intelligence today,” the world doesn’t get suckered into a losing “Tomorrow’s fight” against an unstoppable Iranian EMP nuclear weapon attack.

Mark Langfan is an attorney and writer, whose opeds have been posted on Arutz Sheva and who has created an original educational 3d Topographic Map System of Israel to facilitate clear understanding of the dangers facing Israel and its water supply. It has been studied by US lawmakers and can be seen at www.marklangfan.com.

Syria Has Non-nuke EMP Bombs – Op-Eds – Israel National News.

Mark Langfan

On 3 March 1917, German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmerman blurted out, “I cannot deny it.  It is true.” Zimmerman had just admitted that as a German gambit to keep America “busy,” Germany had secretly offered Mexico funding to attack America, and regain Texas and virtually America’s entire Southwest.

In no small part due to Zimmerman’s admission, America entered the war against Germany the next month, April 1917.

On 26 September 2013, Syrian president Bashar Assad said that Syria possesses “more advanced weaponry, which can serve as a deterrent, and blindside Israel within seconds.”  Loose lips sink ships.

Sometimes you need to spend billions to unearth supreme strategic military secrets.  Other times, self-intoxicated leaders like Zimmerman articulate a casus belli of Germany against America in World War I.

Today, Assad gives a game-changing military secret to Israel more valuable than rubies.  By letting slip that Syria could “blindside” Israel, Assad admitted Syria likely possesses non-nuclear, conventional Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapons. The ramifications of a conventional EMP attack on Israel apply not only from Syria, but also, most critically, from any Palestinian Arab “demilitarized” state.

(I have previously discussed nuclear EMP weapons in my article, “The 100% Fatwa-Compliant Iranian EMP NuclearWeapon.” (/Articles/Article.aspx/11551#.Uk4umDK9KK0))

As explained in previous articles, a nuclear EMP bomb is merely a regular nuclear weapon which is ignited 50 kilometers above the earth where they don’t kill people but kill electronics, instead of 1-5 kilometers above the ground where it would kill many people.  Non-nuclear EMP bombs are microwave-emitting weapons which electronically fry a much smaller electronic kill radius than a nuclear EMP bomb would.

But, a conventional EMP bomb has the same end result in that it totally destroys any electronics in a given target zone.  The reason I hadn’t raised this issue previously is because it is the likeliest critical element to any possible strike on Iran.  But since Assad let the cat out of the bag, it must now be discussed openly.

No one can describe non-nuclear conventional EMPs better than its maker the Boeing Company.   On 22 October 2012, Boeing released a press release http://www.boeing.com/Features/2012/10/bds_champ_10_22_12.html, and video that explained conventional EMP weapons as follows:

“A recent weapons flight test in the Utah desert may change future warfare after the missile successfully defeated electronic targets with little to no collateral damage.

Boeing and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Directed Energy Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., successfully tested the Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) during a flight over the Utah Test and Training Range.

CHAMP, which renders electronic targets useless, is a non-kinetic alternative to traditional explosive weapons that use the energy of motion to defeat a target.

During the test, the CHAMP missile navigated a pre-programmed flight plan and emitted bursts of high-powered energy, effectively knocking out the target’s data and electronic subsystems. CHAMP allows for selective high-frequency radio wave strikes against numerous targets during a single mission.

‘This technology marks a new era in modern-day warfare,’ said Keith Coleman, CHAMP program manager for Boeing Phantom Works. ‘In the near future, this technology may be used to render an enemy’s electronic and data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive.’”

It is entirely feasible, if not highly probable, that Syria possesses such a conventional EMP weapon.  How Syria could deliver the weapon to Israel’s electronic soft-underbelly is another question.  But leaving the question of delivery aside for the moment, the real question is: how does this effect Israel’s strategic equation?

Apart from other aspects, the most worrisome effect would be if Israel attempted to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.  Such a sophisticated weapon in Syria is likely under the control of Iran’s al Quds forces in Syria.  And, it would likely be used as a second-strike against Israel if Israel attacked. A non-nuclear counter strike against Israel when Israel is in the midst of attacking Iran could bring Israel a grievous military catastrophe.

Therefore, it now becomes a military necessity that Assad is liquidated before any Israeli attack on Iran proceeds.  By Israel’s supplying the rebels with critical real-time intelligence of the locations of Assad’s weapons’ depots, and an unlimited amount of untraceable small caliber bullets (preferably 7.62x39mm Kalash rounds), Assad will crumble and crumble fast.

But the most dramatic threat posed by a non-nuclear conventional EMP bomb is not from Syria, it’s from the “demilitarized” Palestinian Arab State that Tzipi Livni is concocting for Israel’s future.  The reason being, with absolute Israeli military control of all goods coming into that area and absolute military control over the Samarian mountains facing Tel Aviv, it will be impossible to keep out the electronic parts necessary for the Palestinian Arabs to make such a conventional EMP bomb.

They wouldn’t need a “delivery system” because the EMP bomb would have already been “delivered” to striking range of Israel’s electronic soft-underbelly, Tel Aviv.  The Palestinian Arabs could then conventionally first-strike decapitate Israel’s entire military force structure and electronic system as a prelude to a second wave attack by Iranian or Arab missiles or armies.  The Kirya (Israel’s “Pentagon” in Tel Aviv) would be electronically toasted from the word “go.”  All of Israel’s anti-missile, air defense and mobilization systems would be paralyzed from the very first second of a Muslim war of decimation.  It would be lights-out, game-over for Israel before the war against Israel even began.

A Palestinian Arab state no longer threatens Israel with chemical Katyushas, it now threatens Israel with annihilation by EMP bombs.  Unless Israel short-circuits its suicidal “peace” process, a Palestinian CHAMP EMP bomb could instantly turn Israel’s electronic defense into a clump of burning wiring.

American capitulation to Iran? | JPost | Israel News.

Finally, could all this be a prelude to implementation of Obama’s grand vision of nuclear thinning-out and global disarmament?