Six Top Spy Satellites permanently focussing Saddam do not work !
Foreign Press Foundation - Henk Ruyssenaars | 15.02.2003 14:49
SINCE 1991:Billions Worth Of U.S. Satellites Spy On Iraq: more than twelve years, 24 Hrs a day, SEVEN days a week !So : why has nobody seen any 'real' proof ?
Where's the " Spook-Beef ", mr. Powell ?
Where's the " Spook-Beef ", mr. Powell ?
For reasons of 'objectivity' his article has also been published in Washington-DC and Moscow :
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=51122&group=webcast
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FPF/Iraq-item - by HENK RUYSSENAARS
Feb. 14-2003 - - What wonders many with any insight in U.S. satellite reconnaissance, is the fact that SIX U.S. satellites, controlling Iraq for over 12 years, 7 days a week and 24 hrs a day, have not turned up anything which this far could be accepted as some kind of real proof in relation to all the accusations by president Bush, Secr. of State Powell etc. etc. Every square inch of Iraq has been filmed and photographed hundreds of times, all and everything which moves, of anything bigger than 10 cm, over 12 years has been recorded and analyzed. With this technique there are no "windows", and pictures and film of - for instance Powell's 18 mobile "BioWar" or ABC-weapons-trucks should be available in abundance. Like questions about why they have not been "taken out" before ?
Since nearly the whole country is bombed apart...
The joke concerning the Keyhole satellites is quite old; it's about combing your hair before sitting down on a terrace, in a park or in a rice field - in full view of the U.S. satellites. And no hanky-panky because you're on camera all the time, day and night. It's started more or less - and is known from the time we correspondents often stood on the rooftop of hotel Caravelle in Saigon, watching ' The Fireworks ', as the Vietnam-genocide (shooting & gassing) was called.
Craig Covault at CAPE CANAVERAL, wrote an excellent article about this enormously expensive US/Iraq intelligence gathering operation, which has not turned up real evidence of illegal weaponry, while technicaly being able to see, hear, measure and even 'sniff' so much ! So, where is the ' Spook-Beef ' ?
SECRET NRO RECONS EYE IRAQI THREATS
"Each of the six spacecraft fly ground tracks, timed for the best viewing angles and to work in connection with the other five - all launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base between March 1991 and October 2001"
"As urgency mounts for better intelligence on Iraq to guide U.S. diplomatic and military policy, six secret National Reconnaissance Office high resolution imaging satellites, each costing $1 billion, are maintaining an almost hourly watch on specific Iraqi facilities.
Three Advanced KH-11s with optical and infrared sensors are teamed with three Lacrosse imaging radar spacecraft with night/all-weather capabilities to search for evidence of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons development, along with missile production.
RARELY 2-3 hrs. go by without at least one of the six current 15-ton spacecraft obtaining imagery somewhere over Iraq, although 12 specific overflights per day have viewing angles that provide the highest resolution pictures.
The slant-range capability of the advanced KH11s is also impressive, allowing it to take quality imagery 100 mi. to the left or right of its ground track on several other, less ideal Iraqi passes per day.
The spacecraft are helping to characterize the function of Iraqi sites possibly developing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, as well as helping NIMA, the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency assess the pace and concealment of such work.(end quote, see URL below)
And even with all this permanent spying and hundreds of UN-inspectors - including the CIA, Mossad, MI 5 & 6 - controlling, there was no real "proof" and Swedish Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix told the Security Council his teams have not uncovered any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Mohammed ElBaradei, IAEA's nuclear chief told the council that inspectors found no evidence Iraq had resumed its nuclear weapons program and said inspectors could do their job well, with or without Iraq's full co-operation.
The United States edited out more than 8000 crucial pages of Iraq's 11,800-page dossier on weapons
( http://www.sundayherald.com/30195 )
But the United Nations members can NOT be well informed concerning the 'Iraq weapon report' because : "The United States EDITED OUT more than 8000 crucial pages of Iraq's 11,800-page dossier on weapons, before passing on a sanitized version to the 10 non permanent members of the United Nations Security Council."
The full extent of Washington's complete control over who sees what in the crucial Iraqi dossier calls into question the allegations made by US Secretary of State Colin Powell that 'omissions' in the document constituted a 'material breach' of the latest UN resolution on Iraq. (URL below).
Which is also why everybody queries US 'evidence' on Iraq. And millions and millions of people - all over the world - demonstrate against the present United States " BUSH-DOCTRINE ", which is a kind of global genocidal policy for the sole profit of the U.S. Military-Industrial complex and it's 'United States Government'. (see URL - BBC & Mandela*).
All those millions of fellow human beings - and all over the world - are absolutely NOT demonstrating against the American people.
They want NO war, but Justice !
Foreign Press Foundation
Henk Ruyssenaars
The Netherlands
* U.S. Eyes in the Iraqi sky :
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=3e38bde3_2%40news.tm.net.my
* The U.S. tore out 8000 pages :
http://www.sundayherald.com/30195
* Blix queries US 'evidence' on Iraq :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,895722,00.html
* Satellites, and why war is good for some...
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=2851
BBC : the United States threatens world peace, says world famous humanist and ex-president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/africa/2251067.stm
* The Dutch author worked globally for 40 years as an independent journalist/foreign correspondent for many international printed and A/V-media. From Scandinavia to Vietnam, as correspondent in Latin America, (Chile '71-'74), and 10 years in North/South Africa and the Middle East. While being accredited as N-Africa & M-East correspondent - based in Tunisia for ten years, sometimes reporting for CBS, NPR and the BBC too... Because of journalistic research declared "Persona non Grata* " five times by different governments in East and West.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST AND READING THIS FAR !
HR
**COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this FPF- message is distributed under fair use, without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information".
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http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=51122&group=webcast *****************************************************************************************************
FPF/Iraq-item - by HENK RUYSSENAARS
Feb. 14-2003 - - What wonders many with any insight in U.S. satellite reconnaissance, is the fact that SIX U.S. satellites, controlling Iraq for over 12 years, 7 days a week and 24 hrs a day, have not turned up anything which this far could be accepted as some kind of real proof in relation to all the accusations by president Bush, Secr. of State Powell etc. etc. Every square inch of Iraq has been filmed and photographed hundreds of times, all and everything which moves, of anything bigger than 10 cm, over 12 years has been recorded and analyzed. With this technique there are no "windows", and pictures and film of - for instance Powell's 18 mobile "BioWar" or ABC-weapons-trucks should be available in abundance. Like questions about why they have not been "taken out" before ?
Since nearly the whole country is bombed apart...
The joke concerning the Keyhole satellites is quite old; it's about combing your hair before sitting down on a terrace, in a park or in a rice field - in full view of the U.S. satellites. And no hanky-panky because you're on camera all the time, day and night. It's started more or less - and is known from the time we correspondents often stood on the rooftop of hotel Caravelle in Saigon, watching ' The Fireworks ', as the Vietnam-genocide (shooting & gassing) was called.
Craig Covault at CAPE CANAVERAL, wrote an excellent article about this enormously expensive US/Iraq intelligence gathering operation, which has not turned up real evidence of illegal weaponry, while technicaly being able to see, hear, measure and even 'sniff' so much ! So, where is the ' Spook-Beef ' ?
SECRET NRO RECONS EYE IRAQI THREATS
"Each of the six spacecraft fly ground tracks, timed for the best viewing angles and to work in connection with the other five - all launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base between March 1991 and October 2001"
"As urgency mounts for better intelligence on Iraq to guide U.S. diplomatic and military policy, six secret National Reconnaissance Office high resolution imaging satellites, each costing $1 billion, are maintaining an almost hourly watch on specific Iraqi facilities.
Three Advanced KH-11s with optical and infrared sensors are teamed with three Lacrosse imaging radar spacecraft with night/all-weather capabilities to search for evidence of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons development, along with missile production.
RARELY 2-3 hrs. go by without at least one of the six current 15-ton spacecraft obtaining imagery somewhere over Iraq, although 12 specific overflights per day have viewing angles that provide the highest resolution pictures.
The slant-range capability of the advanced KH11s is also impressive, allowing it to take quality imagery 100 mi. to the left or right of its ground track on several other, less ideal Iraqi passes per day.
The spacecraft are helping to characterize the function of Iraqi sites possibly developing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, as well as helping NIMA, the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency assess the pace and concealment of such work.(end quote, see URL below)
And even with all this permanent spying and hundreds of UN-inspectors - including the CIA, Mossad, MI 5 & 6 - controlling, there was no real "proof" and Swedish Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix told the Security Council his teams have not uncovered any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Mohammed ElBaradei, IAEA's nuclear chief told the council that inspectors found no evidence Iraq had resumed its nuclear weapons program and said inspectors could do their job well, with or without Iraq's full co-operation.
The United States edited out more than 8000 crucial pages of Iraq's 11,800-page dossier on weapons
(
http://www.sundayherald.com/30195 ) But the United Nations members can NOT be well informed concerning the 'Iraq weapon report' because : "The United States EDITED OUT more than 8000 crucial pages of Iraq's 11,800-page dossier on weapons, before passing on a sanitized version to the 10 non permanent members of the United Nations Security Council."
The full extent of Washington's complete control over who sees what in the crucial Iraqi dossier calls into question the allegations made by US Secretary of State Colin Powell that 'omissions' in the document constituted a 'material breach' of the latest UN resolution on Iraq. (URL below).
Which is also why everybody queries US 'evidence' on Iraq. And millions and millions of people - all over the world - demonstrate against the present United States " BUSH-DOCTRINE ", which is a kind of global genocidal policy for the sole profit of the U.S. Military-Industrial complex and it's 'United States Government'. (see URL - BBC & Mandela*).
All those millions of fellow human beings - and all over the world - are absolutely NOT demonstrating against the American people.
They want NO war, but Justice !
Foreign Press Foundation
Henk Ruyssenaars
The Netherlands
* U.S. Eyes in the Iraqi sky :
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=3e38bde3_2%40news.tm.net.my * The U.S. tore out 8000 pages :
http://www.sundayherald.com/30195 * Blix queries US 'evidence' on Iraq :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,895722,00.html * Satellites, and why war is good for some...
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=2851 BBC : the United States threatens world peace, says world famous humanist and ex-president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/africa/2251067.stm * The Dutch author worked globally for 40 years as an independent journalist/foreign correspondent for many international printed and A/V-media. From Scandinavia to Vietnam, as correspondent in Latin America, (Chile '71-'74), and 10 years in North/South Africa and the Middle East. While being accredited as N-Africa & M-East correspondent - based in Tunisia for ten years, sometimes reporting for CBS, NPR and the BBC too... Because of journalistic research declared "Persona non Grata* " five times by different governments in East and West.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST AND READING THIS FAR !
HR
**COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this FPF- message is distributed under fair use, without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information".
HR
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spy satellies
15.02.2003 15:13
secondly, the satellites are in low earth orbit. they are not in geosynchronous orbit because they would be far too high to take worthwhile pictures. this means that they will be over the horizon for perhaps 10-15 minutes per orbit - and each orbit takes 90 minutes. you will lose more of your 15 minutes when the satellite is low over the horizon and there is any significant haze, due to the low viewing angle.
furthermore, if it is cloudy, the satellites are useless. it does rain even in Iraq. similarly dust storms etc will conceal the ground.
if you want to build chemical/biological/nuclear facilities, you build the structure and ship the material in covered lorries. the satellites cannot see what is in the lorries.
India deliberately carried out preparations for its nuclear tests when it knew no satellites were around.
sceptic
Satellites see too much ?
15.02.2003 15:43
Of course it is correct to say that "seeing in the dark" is more difficult, but night vision has come a long way : remember the Gulf War when Iraqi and "Allied US-Forces" where watching each other with special night vision binoculars from a factory called "Oude Delft" in Holland ? They paid dearly by the way for selling to both sides. But believe me, they have come a long way since, but have certainly no interest in telling exactly what one is capable of concerning 'imaging' and night vision.
But, with all this state of the art the US warmachine can muster the question still remains :
Couldn't Powell c.q. the U.S. have done better than this strange Powell-show in the United Nations Security Council ?
Quote from other source : "One of the most interesting uses for these satellites is in law enforcement. Polluters have had their pollution traced to them and documented by these satellites. Their use by the DEA and FBI have just about made it impossible to hide marijuana plants form these eyes in the sky. There is no location too remote to be found and observed. The use of infrared photography, and other imaging makes even the job of finding a fugitive in a remote area much easier.
The problem with these satellites and their technology is that they probably see too much! There are a number of satellites in space taking a number of pictures often “see” things that are of no significance to the satellite’s user at the time. For an example, a satellite making observations of local weather in Texas may also be seeing a number of airplanes crossing the border, the polluting of a river by a local company, and a number of illegal marijuana fields. The data may be there for all those things, but unless you were specially looking for any one of them, you would see nothing. As these satellites are used more for specific jobs, and more satellites are applied to law enforcement, certain crimes and criminal activities will become more difficult.
Weather, mapping, crime, search and rescue, all are affected by the technology of what once were called spy satellites. Their ability to combine modern technology with the ancient idea of making observations from the highest ground has transformed the way we observe what is going on." end quote from URL :
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