Friday, April 06, 2007

Did Cheney Cover Up Losing Three Nukes?

Wayne Madsen is telling a head spinning tale of lies, lost nukes, black market smuggling and international intrigue worthy of James Bond. Nukes being clandestinely sold isn't such a far fetched idea, after all there was plenty of stuff from the Soviet arsenal that went missing, but this story seems to tie in to a lot other goings on:

"WMR has been told by a well-placed intelligence source in Britain that in early February 1991, the Pentagon sent out an emergency message rarely seen: three "Broken Arrows," or lost nuclear weapons in U.S. possession, were jettisoned in the Indian Ocean by a U.S. Air Force B-52, which had caught fire en route from Diego Garcia with three weapons of mass destruction being transported from South Africa after that nation began dismantling its nuclear weapons program. On a return emergency route back to the U.S. base on Diego Garcia, the crew of the aircraft disposed of the bombs to avoid a cook off of their heat-triggered fuses. The B-52 later crashed. The three bombs landed in shallow waters off the Somali coast. Rather than retrieve the weapons, Cheney and the Bush I administration sat on their hands."

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

What're the chances those "lost nukes" will turn up somewhere in Iraq, just in time to save the Bushies and repugs b4 the next election?

Reminds me of the story just after the 03 invasion about the CIA trying to smuggle WMD into Iraq, to fake the justification for that first pretext for the war.

It begs the question, "Is the US still looking to smuggle WMD into Iraq?" That might make a good story. If the US does control the Iraqi borders, what's to stop them from doing it anytime now?

8/4/07 10:29 AM  

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