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Secret US nuclear weapons: targets on bases in Europe
Por Foreign Press Foundation -
Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005 at 2:43 PM
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North Korean Leader: 'Rather an A-bomb in my backyard, than an American in my house!'
by Henk Ruyssenaars
Amsterdam - Feb. 12th 2005 - The French news agency 'Agence France Presse' yesterday published an underreported study by the Natural Resources Defense Council.* Based mainly on declassified official documents, the study proofs that nuclear warheads already have been and will further be transferred to US non-nuclear allies. Contrary again to international conventions.
The 'non-proliferation agreements' also have been signed and ratified by the US. The US is the only country having a part of it's nuclear weaponry stationed abroad. Israel (Dimona etc.) hasn't signed anything in that field and was never punished for the breach of at least seventy United Nation's resolutions.
“If China deployed nuclear bombs in North Korea, equipped North Korean aircraft with mechanical and electronic devices to deliver the weapons, and trained North Korean pilots to draw up nuclear strike plans, there would be hell to pay, and rightly so,” said Hans Kristensen, the author of the report.
“Yet that is precisely what the United States is doing in Europe.” The [US] Defense Department declined to comment on the report, citing its long-standing policy of not publicly discussing deployments of nuclear weapons.
We all are nuclear targets too...
The Netherlands' governments - meaning the Dutch multinationals and their media - have always been very pro-US, and avoid to talk about the fact that at the American/Dutch ''Volkel Air Base'' - in the south of this small feudal 'Queendom' - an unknown number of B61 nuclear weapons* and probably also WMD/CB weapons are stored.
Making the Netherlands and it's 16 million citizens one of the main targets in an armed conflict. The misery is because of creepy and warcriminal Bush-boothlickers - like one of the the worst of them all - the slimy cowardly traitor and 'NATO-stooge' Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. This Jerk de Hoop Scheffer is a shame for the Netherlands as a Nation to the rest of the thinking world, and seems to be born with cooked spaghetti on the place of his spine. (In Germany a.k.a. 'Jaap der Schiffer').
'STATE WITHIN A STATE'
It is supposed to be a secret: and unknowingly the Dutch taxpayers foot the billion$ bill and must pay. But they are not allowed to know what they pay for. They don't have a clue how many taxmoney-billions are wasted. Like on the national airport Schiphol too, where Israel's Mossad is very active running their own 'State within a State'. Again - and since 50 years - the paying Dutch know mostly not even what's written here. Critical journalism in Holland is for 90% in a commercialized coma. 'Presstitution' is the slogan of the day.
On January 29, 1999, Dutch Attorney General Vrakking testified that the El Al security detachment at Schiphol [airport] was a branch of the israeli secret service Mossad. A Dutch Air Guidance Organization employee told in a parliamentary hearing that the "policy" since 1973 was to keep quiet about all El Al activities. Schiphol workers testified that El Al planes were never inspected by customs or the Dutch Flight Safety Board. [See: Schiphol+Mossad - http://tinyurl.com/42ct3 ] - For all the Dutch know Schiphol airport is most possibly a turntable for nukes and other US and Israeli biological and chemical WMD's, the so called BC-weapons.
There is absolutely NO control.
But the nuke and/or BC-weapons storage is contrary to Dutch law and the signed non proliferation conventions. There have been permanent demonstrations, but the 'United States managers' have their Dutch Quislings and their armed and mostly uniformed ilk firmly in their grip.
By many observers the brutal American gun-ship-diplomacy is only further urging other countries to fabricate nuclear bombs in self-defense.
North Korea is thus the latest to announce that - to defend itself - 'it has the Bomb'. Whether this is true or not; it is a clear indication that threatening with nuclear bombs is the only way to keep the American war machine out of one's backyard.
That's why the - right wing - phrase: "Rather an A-bomb in my garden, than a Russian in my house'', is reborn out of the similar expression forty years ago, with the ''Russian'' now in some new nuke-states replaced by an ''American''.
But for the first time, (says AFP) the documents revealed on Wednesday a specific number of nuclear warheads, which under US and NATO war plans, will be transferred to US non nuclear allies to be delivered to targets by their warplanes.
If war were to break out in Europe, as many as 180 nuclear bombs would be earmarked for delivery by the air forces of Belgium, the Netherlands, Turkey, Germany and Italy, the report said. The weapons are part of a 480 warhead nuclear arsenal the United States kept in Europe in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The arsenal, according to the study, is being kept (sometimes secret) at eight air force bases* in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and Britain.
The arrangement, the council insists, “skirts international law” - meaning: it's a criminal act and punishable in normal times - because the 'Nonproliferation Treaty' prohibits a nuclear state from transferring nuclear weapons to a non-weapon state, and prohibits a non-nuclear state from receiving such weapons.''
Illegal is illegal, whether it is done by Saddam, Sharon or Bush.
HR
Some Footnotes/links:
* Study by the Natural Resources Defense Council
Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4djkl
* Schiphol + Mossad - http://tinyurl.com/42ct3
* FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY: MEMORANDUM FOR COMMANDER, 752nd MUNITIONS SUPPORT SQUADRON (752 MUNSS) - Volkel AB, The Netherlands - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4etty
* Bombs not only in the Dutch Backyard: Bases and Facilities with Significant Current or Historical U.S. Nuclear Weapons or Naval Nuclear Propulsion Missions: Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4aqfm
* The B61 nuclear weapons
Url.: http://www.avhub.net/b61.htm
* U.S. B61 bombs in Europe, 2004
Url.: http://tinyurl.com/3qjhc
* Dutch War Criminals in Court
Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6dfkv
* Google search: ''How to make a nuclear bomb'' -
take your pick - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5zy6f
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