Some recent history for you,
I get a email (I'll not say who or where) that states small Airfreight company) and the anti virus scanner nabs a virus. Lowell Wood says Iran was ready to nuke America Douglas Wood of Australia is taken hostage in Iraq. Grant Wood, friend of mine sine 1997 in Australia tells me "Willie" Australia lets a person named Willie into France. President Bush states "I will not get involved, he is Australian" (regarding the Iraqi Hostage) Iran's Ayatollah states "America deserves a punch in the mouth" Tony Blair gets re-elected and the UK Consulate in New York gets planted the same day.
Do you and I and everyone else here read recipe for disaster? Yes, we do.
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NUCLEAR WAR-FEAR Ayatollah warns U.S. needs punch in mouth Iran's spiritual leader says nuke plan to continue no matter who is elected
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Posted: May 1, 2005 8:32 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
The spiritual leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is warning the U.S. to stay out of his country's business - and, in particular, its nuclear program, which is set to resume this week.
Speaking on a tour of southeast Iran, Khamenei called the U.S. "arrogant," "rude" and said the country "deserved a punch in the mouth."
He also said Iran's presidential elections in June would not make any difference to its nuclear policy.
Khamenei said it was not up to the U.S. to decide which countries needed nuclear technology.
Iran announced yesterday it is likely to resume uranium enrichment-related activities next week, following a breakdown in negotiations between the Shiite regime and the European Union.
Tehran's announcement after talks in London with European negotiators yielded no results. France, Britain and Germany, acting on behalf of the 25-nation European Union, were seeking guarantees from Iran that it will not use its nuclear program to make weapons.
Top Iranian nuclear negotiator Hasan Rowhani was quoted as saying Tehran expects to restart enrichment activities injecting uranium gas into centrifuges at its uranium-conversion facility in Isfahan.
"It's unlikely that uranium enrichment ... which takes place in Natanz, will be resumed, but it's likely that some activities at Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility will restart next week," Rowhani said today.
The central cities of Natanz and Isfahan house the heart of Iran's nuclear program. The Isfahan conversion facility reprocesses uranium ore concentrate into gas, which is then taken to Natanz and fed into the centrifuges for enrichment.
Washington agreed to support the EU effort but signaled that Iran, which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice last month labeled an "outpost of tyranny," should quickly accept it or face harsh Security Council sanctions.
The breakdown in talks between Iran and Europe puts Tehran's nuclear program back in the international spotlight and is likely to force Washington to react.
There is increasing concern within the administration and Congress over Iran's missile program, which has been determined by a commission of U.S. scientists to pose a serious threat to U.S. security.
A report first published in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, a weekly, online, premium, intelligence newsletter affiliated with WND, revealed last week that Iran has been seriously considering an unconventional pre-emptive nuclear strike against the U.S.
An Iranian military journal publicly floated the idea of launching an electromagnetic pulse attack as the key to defeating the U.S.
Congress was warned of Iran's plans last month by Peter Pry, a senior staffer with the Commission to buttess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack in a hearing of Sen. John Kyl's subcommittee on terrorism, technology and homeland security.
In an article breastled, "Electronics to Determine Fate of Future Wars," the journal explains how an EMP attack on America's electronic infrastructure, caused by the detonation of a nuclear weapon high above the U.S., would bring the country to its knees.
"Once you confuse the enemy communication network you can also disrupt the work of the enemy command- and decision-making center," the article states. "Even worse today when you disable a country's military high command through disruption of communications, you will, in effect, disrupt all the affairs of that country. If the world's industrial countries fail to devise effective ways to defend themselves against dangerous electronic buttaults then they will disintegrate within a few years. American soldiers would not be able to find food to eat nor would they be able to fire a single shot."
WND reported the Iranian threat last Monday, explaining Tehran is not only covertly developing nuclear weapons, it is already testing ballistic missiles specifically designed to destroy America's technical infrastructure.
Pry pointed out the Iranians have been testing mid-air detonations of their Shahab-3 medium-range missile over the Caspian Sea. The missiles were fired from ships.
"A nuclear missile concealed in the hold of a freighter would give Iran or persons the capability to perform an EMP attack against the United States homeland without developing an ICBM and with some prospect of remaining anonymous," explained Pry. "Iran's Shahab-3 medium range missile mentioned earlier is a mobile missile and small enough to be transported in the hold of a freighter. We cannot rule out that Iran, the world's leading sponsor of international terrorism might provide persons with the means to executive an EMP attack against the United States."
Lowell Wood, acting chairman of the commission, said yesterday that such an attack - by Iran or some other actor - could cripple the U.S. by knocking out electrical power, computers, circuit boards controlling most automobiles and trucks, banking systems, communications and food and water supplies.
"No one can say just how long systems would be down," he said. "It could be weeks, months or even years."
EMP attacks are generated when a nuclear weapon is detonated at albreastudes above a few dozen kilometers above the Earth's surface. The explosion, of even a small nuclear warhead, would produce a set of electromagnetic pulses that interact with the Earth's atmosphere and the Earth's magnetic field.
"These electromagnetic pulses propagate from the burst point of the nuclear weapon to the line of sight on the Earth's horizon, potentially covering a vast geographic region in doing so simultaneously, moreover, at the speed of light," said Wood. "For example, a nuclear weapon detonated at an albreastude of 400 kilometers over the central United States would cover, with its primary electromagnetic pulse, the entire continent of the United States and parts of Canada and Mexico."
The commission, in its work over a period of several years, found that EMP is one of a small number of threats that has the potential to hold American society seriously at risk and that might also result in the defeat of U.S. military forces.
"The electromagnetic field pulses produced by weapons designed and deployed with the intent to produce EMP have a high likelihood of damaging electrical power systems, electronics and information systems upon which any reasonably advanced society, most specifically including our own, depend vitally," Wood said. "Their effects on systems and infrastructures dependent on electricity and electronics could be sufficiently ruinous as to qualify as catastrophic to the American nation."
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Family offers release donation By Sandra O'Malley May 09, 2005
THE family of Australian hostage Douglas Wood has offered a "generous" charitable donation to the Iraqi people in an eleventh hour bid to save his life.
The family acted ahead of the expiry tomorrow of a 0500am (AEST) deadline set by his captors demanding the withdrawal of Australian troops from Iraq. Australia's Islamic spiritual leader, Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali, is on his way to Iraq, carrying with him a statement from the Wood family, including the donation offer.
Sheik Alhilali, the Mufti of Australia, is hoping for a two-day extension of a 72-hour deadline set at the weekend by Mr Wood's captors.
In footage released on Saturday, the 63-year-old engineer was shown shaven, beaten and pleading for government help as he relayed his captors' demands.
Announcing the family's offer in Canberra today, Malcolm Wood, Mr Wood's brother, denied the donation amounted to a ransom.
"This is not a ransom, there has been no demand for a ransom," he said.
He would not say how much money was being offered.
Malcolm Wood said the family's situation had forced them to reflect on the difficulties, sorrows and humiliations suffered by the Iraqi people, whom they described as their fellow brothers and sisters.
"We empathise with those who have lost loved ones, lost jobs and lost hope," the family said in the statement.
"We are moved, therefore, to help and to share the burden.
"To this end, out of a sense of moral obligation and solidarity, the family of Douglas Wood will be making a generous charitable donation to help the people of Iraq."
The family has urged Mr Wood's captors to express, through intermediaries, how they wished the donation to be used.
Malcolm Wood would not divulge whether the Government had been consulted about the offer, but did say the Government had not been asked to make a monetary contribution.
He said Prime Minister John Howard had personally contacted the family, and he backed the Government's efforts to secure his brother's release.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer repeated the Government's position that it would not bend to the demands of the hostage-takers.
"We've made our position very clear," he said.
Mr Downer told Southern Cross Broadcasting that Australia's troop commitment in Iraq had the support of the democratically elected Iraqi Government.
"We're not intending to keep troops in Iraq forever," he said.
The foreign minister said a task force trying to secure Mr Wood's release was still working despite the looming deadline.
He was unsure what would happen when the deadline pbutted, noting that in other cases such deadlines were often pushed back, sometimes more than once.
"In some cases the deadlines have been set and reset and reset for a long period of time, for weeks on end, I think in one or cases, for months," Mr Downer said.
Sheik Alhilali, who like the group believed to have taken Mr Wood is a Sunni Muslim, is hoping to organise a meeting with the captors through his Middle East contacts.
"We will meet with the contacts and try and meet with the captors," he said.
Malcolm Wood told reporters the family was hoping and praying the mufti would have some influence.
"There may be others in Iraq at present that will have influence," he said.
"As you understand, the mufti cannot be in Iraq for some little while (due to the long trip) and this is the principal reason why we are making this statement public, so that any possible intermediaries in Iraq can help release Douglas."
The mufti will arrive in Dubai tomorrow morning - after the deadline has pbutted and will then make his way to Jordan before heading for Baghdad by road.
Mr Wood has been held hostage for more than a week. It is believed he was abducted from his Baghdad apartment on April 30 or May 1.
