Jul 31, 2006 2:11 PM

HELL-ON-EARTH HAS JUST ARRIVED... AND IS COMING TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR
YOU...SIMILAR EM WEAPONS ARE BEING SILENTLY IMPLEMENTED IN THE USA NOW.

US beam weapon cruelty
author: theresa mitchell
Following on Amy Goodman's US exclusive report on laser/infrared/microwave
weapons in Iraq, a bit of supportive research
from democracynow.org Tuesday:

[Iraq:]....SAAD AL FALLUJI: Twenty-six in the bus. About twenty of them, some
of them have no head. They had been cut. Some of them, the arms, the legs.
The only one who didn't injure was the driver, and really I don't know how he
reached our hospital, because one hand, one arm was in his lap, one head
beside
him. It was a very, very strange, horrible thing. In the roof of the car
there
was parts of the bodies: omentum, intestines, brains, all parts of the body.
It was miserable. Very, very, very, very miserable.
GEERT VAN MOORTER: Do you have idea with what kind of weapons they attacked
that bus?
SAAD AL FALLUJI: This bus, we didn't know what kind of weapon hit. Really
what we saw cut arms, cut legs, cut head, abdomen, open abdomen, viscera
outside.
DOCTOR NO. 2: It seems to be a new weapon.
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Democracy Now reported various incidents of apparent energy weapon attacks,
all on civilians. There seem to be several ways of murdering Iraqis with beam
weapons. This is from William Thomas' website:

MICROWAVING IRAQ
" Pacifying" Rays Pose New Hazards To Iraqis
By William Thomas 01/24/05 ( World Exclusive )
Preface
Desperate to improve images of civilian carnage, US commanders are using
portable electromagnetic-frequency weapons in Fallujah and other "hot
spots" in
the Sunni Triangle to pacify restive neighborhoods with invisible EM
radiation.
"Active Denial" antenna arrays mounted on Humvees are also being deployed
to pa
nic and disperse hostile crowds by flash-burning exposed flesh with
microwaves. But unintended side effects from the hidden rooftop
transmitters are
reportedly triggering violent attacks by exposed insurgents?while leading
to AWOL
rates of up to 15% among US forces disoriented by these same weapons, as well
as the electromagnetic emanations from high-power radars, radios and
"jammers".
On the rooftop of a shrapnel-pocked building in the ruins of Fallujah, a team
of GI's stealthily sets up a gray plastic dome about two-feet in diameter.
Keeping well back from the sight lines of the street and nearby buildings,
they
plug the cable connectors on the side of the "popper" into a power unit. The
grunts have no clue what the device does. They are just following orders.

" Most of the worker-bees that are placing these do not even know what is
inside the 'domes', just that they were told where to place them by Intel
weenies
with usually no nametag," reports my source, a very well informed combat
veteran I will call "Hank".

" Intel" stands for "intelligence" officers who target the most restive
neighborhoods in a country gripped by anarchy and chaos. The lack of nametags
indicates membership in a spooky "alphabet agency", either within or
outside the
military chain of command. Similar "black: teams removed "Made In The USA"
chemical weapons from Iraqi trenches after Desert Storm. [Bringing The War
Home by
William Thomas]

The grunts call the plastic devices "poppers" or "domes". Once activated,
each hidden transmitter emits a widening circle of invisible energy
capable of
passing through metal, concrete and human skulls up to half a mile away.
"They
are saturating the area with ULF, VLF and UHF freqs," Hanks says, with
equipment derived from US Navy undersea sonar and communications.

But it's not being used to locate and talk to submarines under Baghdad.

After powering up the unit, the grunts quickly exit the area. It is their
commanders' fervent hope that any male survivors enraged by brutal American
bombardments that damaged virtually every building in this once thriving
"City of
Mosques", displacing a quarter-million residents while murdering thousands of
children, women and elders in their homes?will lose all incentive for
further
resistance and revenge.
... . Hank stays in close touch with his unit serving "in theater" in Iraq.
When I asked how many "poppers" are being used to irradiate Iraqi
neighborhoods, he checked and got back to me. There are "at least 25 of
these that have
been deployed to theater, and used. Some have conked out and been removed,
so I
do not know how many are currently active and broadcasting."

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Then there's this report from Aviation Week, four years ago:

USAF Acknowledges Beam Weapon Readiness
By David A. Fulghum/Aviation Week & Space Technology
04-Oct-2002 5:20 PM U.S. EDT

... .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.
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[Note that the size of the weapons has decreased to ground-deployable size.]

By Jonathan Skillings
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Published: April 11, 2006, 1:16 PM PDT
Interview with Doug Beason, Los Alamos labs

Beason: Right, the Advanced Tactical Laser is actually a smaller laser than
the ABL that is being put on a smaller tactical platform. Right now, they're
looking at a C-130, but it could possibly be put on a helicopter. That's a
laser
that is in a class that is greater than 50 kilowatts, so it's a few orders of
magnitude less powerful than the Airborne Laser. Its missions are designed to
supplement what the Airborne Laser is doing, that is, to help with special
operations and antiterrorism and that, but at very close distances, that is,
kilometer range versus the many hundreds of kilometers range that the
Airborne
Laser is working on.
The Zeus is actually a solid-state laser developed by the Army to heat up
mines, to be able to clear minefields at a distance. In fact, the Zeus was
deployed to Afghanistan, and several hundred mines were cleared by the use
of this
tactical weapon. There is another one called the THEL, or the Tactical High
Energy Laser, that was developed for the Army, and this laser had actually
shot
down Katyusha rockets in White Sands Missile Range, and after over 30
Katyusha
rockets were shot down, they decided to see if they could also shoot down
mortars and artillery shells, and they were successful on that.
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If, as Beason says, lasers are available that can blow up mines, they're just
a casually cruel thought away from being used to attack humans. The THEL as
described seems effective until you realize that the rockets or artillery
shells have to be coming directly at the weapon in order to be in range of
its
rays. It might make some spook think: What else can I do with this thing?

Checking on industrial lasers, I found that a 240 watt welding-strength laser
is available that weighs 84 pounds, plus 29 pounds for the RF supply, 52
inches long; a laser that size could be easily mounted on a vehicle, and
its enormo
us power needs could be supplied with a generator attached to a battery of
quick-discharge capacitors. If the thing can weld metal, it can cut limbs and
explode heads... It would seem that laser warfare is here now, and it is
making
its debut in secret, murderous, and immoral anticivilian warfare in Iraq.

And we pay the bill, and take the blame.

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Airborne Lasers 27.Jul.2006 10:36
>From Seattle link

For most of the 90's, There was a modified commercial airliner with an
elongated bubble thing on top of it which housed a military laser, parked
on the
very south end of Boeing field in Seattle (The field that runs along I-5 just
south of downtown Seattle).

It's not there anymore, I wonder where it went.

I think it's the weapons like these, which give people little opportunity to
fight back directly with their oppressors, that will ensure a continuum of
terrorism against civilians who support oppressors.

Lasers and microwave weapons 27.Jul.2006 13:25
Jody Paulson link

Not very many people are aware of these new "exotic" weapons, but they need
to be. Here are some links to get you started:

Microwaves, Lasers, Retired Generals For Sale
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/10/327405.shtml

Non Lethal Directed Energy Weapons
http://www.defense-update.com/features/du-1-05/NLW-DEW.htm

I'm convinced that certain criminal factions have already used "non lethal"
(actually they *are* lethal in the same way depleted uranium particles are
lethal...) weapons on American citizens, particularly dissidents.