More Research on Mushroom Cloud in Iraq
Eric Stewart | 27.10.2006 02:40 | Anti-militarism | World
All manner of attempts to discredit this bit of news have arised and why not? This has the potential to be far more damaging to the Bush administration than anything that has occured on his watch yet - yes anything. We are talking about storing nuclear devices in a foreign country, in a war zone. For what?
http://justanotherblowback.blogspot.com/2006/10/more-research-on-what-went-off-at-camp.html What follow are items that have been entered as comments and emailed to me, personally, in relation to this event:
At 3:23 PM, Eric Stewart said...
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:18:41 -0000, a member at a mailing list I am subscribed to said:
> I saw the Base Falcon Video at your blog first Eric, and when I went
> back the next night, it wasn't there. So I went looking around the net
> til I found it again.
> Google aquired Youtube, both upload sites are censoring. It's totally
> hit and miss as to how long something stays up.
> The video from the Marines is dated as having been uploaded in May of
> this year. I think they were viewing a seperate instance.
There could be several explanations for all of this. One is that the date was added or changed by GooTube to discredit, as was apparently done with the Pentagon images we got years ago (the date of September 12 was clearly visible on those images).
Another possible explanation is that there were two separate ammunitions dumps that caugh fire and were completely destroyed and these happened several months apart.
Still another is that it took FIVE MONTHS for news to reach us of the destruction of the Falcon base and in this case, as in the second, we see the efficiency and freedom of American news media.
Did I miss any possibilities?
Thanks for pointing this out. This information is key, somehow, I am sure. This post is getting attached to the video at my blog (as an added comment) which, at my end anyway, is still functioning.
Your name will be kept a secret.
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Blogger note: I have personally uploaded lots of videos to that site and none accidentally came up with the wrong date. Can you say GooTube?
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At 4:22 PM, Eric Stewart said...
Another Disastrous Coverup
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At 3:12 AM, Eric Stewart said...
Apparently there have been some efforts to discredit the existence of small scale tactical nukes. They aren't new folks:
"The M-388 Davy Crockett was a tactical nuclear recoilless rifle projectile that was deployed by the United States during the Cold War. It was named after American soldier, Congressman and folk hero Davy Crockett (1786-1836)."
There is more here.
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At 4:24 AM, Eric Stewart said...
Someone wrote to me:
It was suggested in a post that the explosion in question could not have been a tactical nuke because there was no electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) to 'knock-out' the cameras filming this event. Well it should be remembered that the Enola Gay, the B-29, that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki wasn't knocked out of the air by EMP! You can verify this by doing a search on "nuclear emp" in Wikipedia. For small nuclear detonations, such as tactical nukes, the resultant EMP in magnitude enough to do this would have a very short range, 1/4 mile or less. The explosion we witnessed at Camp Falcon is entirely consistent with that of a tactical nuclear device with a 10 to 20 kiloton capacity.
The DoD isn't saying much about the incident. They're zipped tight about the incident. When all of this is considered, it does not bode well. As I said before, I hope this was not a tactical nuke, but I have my nagging doubts almost to certainty that it was.
Thank-you Eric for the post. The implications are of a magnitude that boggles the mind. If this was a tactical nuke, what was it doing in Bagdhad? Was it designed for a 'false flag' event to initiate hostilities with Iran? I hope there are enough Commanders in the field in Iraq that possess the sense to recognize the lunacy of this and the courage to blow the whistle. I'm not sure we're getting enough information out of this area. I wish we could get more.
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At 8:37 PM, Eric Stewart said...
All manner of attempts to discredit this bit of news have arised and why not? This has the potential to be far more damaging to the Bush administration than anything that has occured on his watch yet - yes anything. We are talking about storing nuclear devices in a foreign country, in a war zone. For what?
There has been a steady campaign, as well, to paint this explosion as some other kind of very large bomb. Here I provide links to video evidence showing what happens when the largest non-nuclear bomb ever created goes off, the MOAB. You will notice that the MOAB, unlike the bomb that went off in Iraq, does not bathe the entire landscape in white light, which is a form of electromagnetic radiation (thermal radiation, or heat, is not the same color). As well, it does not mushroom, this the biggest non-nuclear device ever devised. The last link, below, shows the first ever H-bomb detonation, in which we see the brilliant flash first (clearly visible even in broad daylight), as in the Iraq videos.
The Iraqi video is useful in that it shows a much further angle, showing just how much of the city is bathed in light and the Marines' video is useful in that we see concern about fallout in regards to wind directions and that the sirens did not go off until the mushroom went off.
The Mother of All Bombs
http://justanotherblowback.blogspot.com/2006/10/moab-mother-of-all-bombs.html The Iraqi Video of a Mushroom Cloud
http://justanotherblowback.blogspot.com/2006/10/mushroom-cloud-erupts-at-u_18.html The U.S. Marines' View
http://justanotherblowback.blogspot.com/2006/10/us-marines-vid-of-ammo-dump-tactical.html First Ever H-bomb detonation
http://justanotherblowback.blogspot.com/2006/10/first-h-bomb-detonation.html
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Camp Falcon: What Really Happened?
27.10.2006 09:47
Index has had the following report from an Iraqi concerning the explosions at As Saqr / Camp Falcon:
"The resistance attacked Camp Falcon south of Baghdad. This camp is considered as the most important munition camp. The explosions in the camp continued for three hours and was transmitted in direct on Al Jazeera. The resistance filmed the explosions and diffused them on the internet.
Iraq for ever of Fadhil Badrani translated the information on US Pentagon site which says that there were 5000 soldiers in this camp. But the Pentagon the same night declared that there were only 100 soldiers. This was evident is to hide the losses.
The resistance in Falluja and Habaniyah that there were 9 gros porteurs planes landed in Habaniyah the same night where there is a US military hospital.
Iraqis says that the attack costed US 1 million dollars, many hundred deaths and the conviction that controlling Baghdad plan is but a mirage."
[1]Iraqi Resistance rockets blast into biggest American arsenal in Iraq
10.10.06. Iraqi Resistance Report. "The source admitted that dozens of Americans had been killed or wounded in the blasts that were still ripping the American arsenal apart. The source said that the US forces were unable to do anything to stop the massive inferno of flame and explosions that was lighting up the Baghdad sky like fireworks. Reuters reported the puppet regime's "Iraqiyah" television network as showing pictures of a huge fire lighting up the night sky."
[2]Iraqi Resistance rockets blast into biggest American arsenal in Iraq setting off unprecedented explosions, illuminating Baghdad sky just before midnight Tuesday
11.10.06. Iraqi Resistance Report.
[3]Nine huge American transport planes unload casualties from devastating Resistance strike on US Falcon Base in Baghdad just before midnight Tuesday, indicating heavy American losses
11.10.06. Iraqi Resistance Report. "In a bulletin posted at 2am Makkah time before dawn Wednesday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported its correspondent in al-Habbaniyah as saying that the US military hospital at the massive American-occupied air base there had begun to receive dead and wounded personnel from the devastating Resistance rocket assault on the US Falcon arsenal in the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah. Just before midnight Tuesday, the Iraqi Resistance fired barrages of Katyusha and Grad rockets into the arsenal, the largest such facility in occupied Iraq, causing the ordnance to begin to explode."
[4]US ammo dump ablaze in Iraq
11.10.06. Al Jazeera.net
[5]Insurgents Hit U.S. Base in Baghdad
11.10.06. AP / Guardian.
[6]Video.
11.10.06. BBC
[7]Munitions dump blown in Baghdad. Nobody talking.
11.10.06. Daily Kos.
[8]Resistance mortars pound US troops working to clear out ruined Falcon Forward Base on Thursday night
12.10.06. Iraqi Resistance Report.
Also on 12.10: "Nine huge transport planes ferry American casualties to al-Habbaniyah airbase from devastating Tuesday night Resistance strike on US Falcon arsenal, indicating heavy American losses. US claims "no casualties," but Iraqi regime evacuates 90 injured puppet troops to ar-Ramadi hospital."
[9]Devastating Attack Destroys US Falcon Base
12.10.06. M. Abu Nasr, jihadunspun.
[10]Ammo Dump Explosions Investigation
15.10.06. Roads to Iraq. "The Iraqi source, who refused to reveal his identity, said that dozens of American soldiers were killed in those explosions. The source pointed out that six Iraqi translators were killed in those explosions. American forces refused to hand over the bodies of the dead Iraqis to their families without giving reasons."
[11]Falcon Ammo Dump Destruction Photos
17.10.06. Rense com.
[12]Devastating Attack Destroys US Falcon Base Striking A Severe Blow To US Forces
20.10.06. Free Arab Voice / Indymedia. "A source in the Iraqi puppet regime told Mafkarat al-Islam that the Resistance blasted the American arsenal, known as Camp Falcon, with Grad and Katyusha rockets. The source admitted that dozens of Americans had been killed or wounded in the blasts that were still ripping the American arsenal apart. Major General Bilal Ahmad al-Ithawi, an adviser to the Iraqi Defense Minister for transport and supply, visited ad-Durah on Wednesday morning and told Mafkarat al-Islam that the attack had inflicted enormous losses on the US military that could total more than US$1 billion."
[13]No reported casualties at Camp Falcon, eh?
22.10.06. abutamam.
[14]Video. Tactical nuke explodes in Iraq?
"On October 11, 2006, a Tactical Nuclear Device appears to have exploded when fire broke out in an ammunition dump at Camp Falcon inside Iraq. Video from live nightly newscast in Baghdad caught the detonation - miles away - with it's characteristic ENORMOUS blinding white flash, a rising core of fire then a small mushroom cloud!" 5.21 min. If this link is not available, please see: [15]
All the above information, as well as a detailed description of Camp Falcon / al Sarq (originally published 7 June '06) has been published at [16]US/UK BASES IN IRAQ, Part II. The South : Falcon-Al-Sarq, Tallil, Shaibah
Sarah Meyer is a researcher living in the U.K.
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27.10.2006 11:06
And the EuroNews video it links to, which cuts just before the mushroom cloud get's going, but it has the initial bright flash.
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fake rightwing fiction writers
27.10.2006 15:39
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27.10.2006 16:21
Another dodgy non-news story...
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27.10.2006 18:45
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27.10.2006 19:20
'mushroom' clouds, these are simply a mass of hot air rising, carrying
debris and smoke, and then at a level where air density equates to
the rarification caused by the heating of the explosion the smoke
cloud flattens and folds over on itself - it mushrooms. An ammonium
based explosion will be expected to do this, an ammonium based
explosion will have a blinding white flash; claims that this was a
'micro nuke' are simple crap by ignorant twits.
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