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JK: Winds has run articles about nuclear terrorism and proliferation before from Amitai Etzioni and others. Reader Tom Holsinger forwarded this to me today right after our Winds of War hit these topics, and it’s featured in here on Winds by permission. “This is the real threat from 3rd World nukes - North Korea’s, Iran’s, etc.,” he writes. “Defense is not possible - only pre-emptive regime change can stop such threats.”
The Congressional Panel’s warning is certainly serious, and Mr. Gaffney’s points re: Iran’s recent tests of ship-launched ballistic missiles in EMP trajectories adds a chilling dimenson. See also Gary Farber’s The Threat from the Sea.
EMP: America’s Achilles’ Heel
by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
President, Center for Security Policy
If Osama bin Laden - or the dictators of North Korea or Iran - could destroy America as a twenty-first century society and superpower, would they be tempted to try? Given their track records and stated hostility to the United States, we have to operate on the assumption that they would. That assumption would be especially frightening if this destruction could be accomplished with a single attack involving just one relatively small-yield nuclear weapon - and if the nature of the attack would mean that its perpetrator might not be immediately or easily identified.
Unfortunately, such a scenario is not far-fetched. According to a report issued last summer by a blue-ribbon, Congressionally-mandated commission, a single specialized nuclear weapon delivered to an altitude of a few hundred miles over the United States by a ballistic missile would be “capable of causing catastrophe for the nation.” The source of such a cataclysm might be considered the ultimate “weapon of mass destruction” (WMD) - yet it is hardly ever mentioned in the litany of dangerous WMDs we face today. It is known as electromagnetic pulse (EMP).
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This is just out of control and the Mexican government better do something. I don't think the American people are going to put up with this much longer. They may sit idly by with the war on drugs and this illegal alien mess and just bitch about it, but when our agents are being sniped at across the border there will be serious action, not just bitching.
Snipers working as "lookouts" for drug traffickers and illegal-alien smugglers are targeting U.S. Border Patrol agents from vantage points across the U.S.-Mexico border.Within the past week, agents assigned to the Douglas station in Arizona's southeastern corner — one of the nation's busiest illegal-entry points — have been fired at on at least six occasions, according to federal authorities, and although none of the officers was injured, several reported near-misses.
One agent's vehicle was hit twice as he moved to avoid gunfire. Another sniper fired both at an agent and at a surveillance camera, which was hit by four bullets but was not seriously damaged.
Since Oct. 1, agents assigned to the Tucson sector, which includes the border stations at Douglas, Naco and Nogales in the highest alien- and drug-trafficking corridor in the country, have been assaulted 80 times, nine involving shootings. Responsible for a 260-mile section of the Arizona-Mexico border, the Tucson agents are being assaulted at a rate of two every three days in that period, more than doubling last year's total.
Tipped by: Lonewacko
Originally posted at Diggers Realm
The New York Times is reporting that U.S. scientists now believe that North Korea was the source of enriched uranium recovered from Libya, a state long suspected of links to numerous terrorist groups:
Scientific tests have led American intelligence agencies and government scientists to conclude with near certainty that North Korea sold processed uranium to Libya, bolstering earlier indications that the reclusive state exported sensitive fuel for atomic weapons, according to officials with access to the intelligence. The determination, which has circulated among senior government officials in recent weeks, has touched off a hunt to determine if North Korea has also sold uranium to other countries, including Iran and Syria.
The sales would have pre-dated Libya’s December 2003 agreement to sever its links to terrorism and abandon its WMD development programs. The report closely follows a sudden and unexplained recall of the U.S. Ambassador to South Korea from Seoul to Washington for consultations with Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. Meanwhile, top officials of the National Security Council have flown to Asia to brief U.S. allies in the region.
The new findings appear to confirm earlier reports of North Korean nuclear transfers to Libya. Information from Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan’s exposed nuclear network also suggests that North Korea had a highly enriched uranium program since at least 1997, and that it had since sold Pakistan an unknown amount of highly enriched uranium hexafluoride.
President Bush is expected to discuss North Korea during tonight’s State of the Union address. The latest report may add urgency to the administration’s search for a solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis. The administration’s publicly stated policy is to pursue six-nation disarmament talks, but diplomacy has produced no significant progress thus far, and North Korea has refused to participate in the talks since June 2004. Others, reportedly including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, are believed to hold little hope that talks with resolve the crisis and privately favor regime change through a combination of economic pressure and political subversion. A new law, the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, appropriates $2 million for “such actions as may be necessary to increase the availability . . . of sources of information not controlled by the Government of North Korea, including . . . radios capable of receiving broadcasts from outside of North Korea.” Congress is working with other government agencies on ways to carry out this provision.
A 1994 disarmament agreement with North Korea collapsed after the United States accused North Korea of violating the agreement, known as the Agreed Framework. The Clinton Administration, which signed the agreement with North Korea, had also suspected North Korea of violating it since at least 1999. In 2001, the new Bush Administration ordered a policy review, concluded that North Korea had violated the agreement, and halted deliveries of fuel oil to North Korea. North Korea then expelled all IAEA inspectors and unilaterally withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). U.S. negotiators say that their North Korean counterparts later admitted that Pyongyang had an undeclared uranium enrichment program, which would violate the North’s NPT obligations—obligations it had reaffirmed in the 1994 agreement. Pyongyang has since denied making the admission.
The latest report conflicts with the beliefs of some North Korea experts that North Korea is unlikely to supply nuclear materials to terrorists or their sponsors. Former Clinton (and later, Bush) administration negotiator Jack Pritchard, who strongly favors offering Pyongyang expanded trade and diplomatic relations in exchange for North Korea’s agreement to halt its nuclear programs, recently told Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun that a North Korean sale of nuclear material to terrorists would cross a “red line” for the Bush Administration. Another strong Bush Administration critic, Selig Harrison, has questioned the administration’s evidence of a North Korean uranium enrichment program and downplayed fears that North Korean transfers of nuclear material pose a proliferation risk: “The North Koreans said they would never allow such a transfer to al-Qaida or anyone else.”
In December 2003, Libya agreed to turn its nuclear materials over to the United States, which maintains them at a Department of Energy facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. That agreement closely followed an interception of Libyan-bound centrifuge parts by member states of the Proliferation Security Initiative, a U.S.-led coalition created to combat WMD proliferation. It also followed Libya’s 2002 acceptance of responsibility for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and its agreement to compensate the families of those killed in the attack.
Before the December 2003 agreement, and at the time North Korea allegedly sold the materials to Libya, Colonel Moammar Khadaffy’s regime was considered a generous state sponsor of terrorism. According to this Heritage Foundation report:
Libya is one of seven regimes listed by the State Department as state sponsors of terrorism. The country has a long history of support for terrorist groups in the Middle East and more than thirty terrorist groups worldwide. Libya provided arms, funding, and training for a wide variety of Palestinian terrorist groups (Fatah, the Palestine Liberation Front, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, and the Abu Nidal group), as well as the Kurdistan Workers Party, the Colombian terrorist group M19, the Red Brigades in Italy, and assorted other terrorist groups in Japan, Turkey, Northern Ireland, Thailand and elsewhere.Libya was caught red-handed sponsoring a terrorist attack against Americans in 1986, when it bombed a German discotheque frequented by American servicemen, killing two Americans. The Reagan Administration retaliated by bombing Libyan targets on April 15, 1986, narrowly missing Qadhafi himself. Although Libya has not been caught red-handed in launching terrorist attacks in recent years, it has not closed down all of its terrorist training camps and could resume its terrorist activities as soon as it finds it convenient to do so.
In addition to its involvement in the Lockerbie bombing, Libya is also responsible for the 1989 bombing of a French passenger jet in Niger, which killed 170 people. A French court convicted in absentia six Libyans, including the brother in law of Colonel Qadhafi, for carrying out the bombing. Libya offered to pay a paltry $33 million in compensation to the families.
Of more recent and greater concern is Libya’s recent $12 million payment to the Filipino terror group abu-Sayyaf, described by Libya as a “ransom” payment for several foreign hostages. Abu Sayyaf is closely tied to al-Qaeda, although it has since been virtually destroyed by the Filipino Army, working with soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group, operating from Torii Station, Okinawa, Japan.
UPDATE: The story went unmentioned in the SOTU. More updates, including IAEA skepticism and my own comments, here.
An outrageous plot by a drug cartel in Mexico to kidnap and murder FBI agents along the Texas-Mexico border was exposed and brought out in a bulletin released by the FBI on Friday.
This is just on more example of the outright war we are in against Mexico. They refuse to patrol the border, actively encourage illegal aliens to go to America and do nothing against drug cartels operating near our borders.
Why would the Mexican Government do such a thing? Because they can. Because we allow them to get away with it. Economically money sent back from illegal aliens is their second highest source of revenue and the drug cartels sell to people in America and bring work and money into their country. Until we stand up and say enough is enough this outrageous behavior is going to worsen.
A plot to kidnap and kill two FBI agents on the Texas-Mexico border was announced Friday in a bulletin issued by the agency’s San Antonio office.250 armed men along our border who intend to do us harm and we do nothing.According to a copy of the FBI bulletin obtained by The Brownsville Herald, officials said they had received credible information that members of the Gulf Cartel plan to kidnap two agents, take them into Mexico and murder them.
The cartel allegedly has 250 armed men posted near Matamoros, across from Brownsville, according to the bulletin.
And, it further states that several members of the group have valid visas and passports that would allow them to enter the United States quietly and legally.
Tipped by: Michelle Malkin who has this to say:
Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security has dispatched U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers along with Border Patrol agents to provide help at the border...in Iraq.
I also covered the dangerous border in my latest Illegal Aliens And Immigration Reform Report
Originally posted at Diggers Realm