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Non-Lethal Weapons: Part Two

By Hwaa Irfan

11/07/2002

Air force base families claim to be targets.

In part one, psychological operations  (PSYOP) and electromagnetic fields were been established as the backbone of the U.S. non-lethal weapons (NLW) arsenal. However, behind the scenes there is also a division within NLW units that deals exclusively with the application of NLW operations on U.S. citizens. This division includes Project Slammer, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) funded study managed by CIA and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) behavioral scientists. Project Slammer explores the “mental make-up” of alleged “whistleblowers” - including their families and involves the NSA, Army, Navy and Air Force Intelligence. This project leaves people who have filed complaints against the division few places to turn for help. With nowhere to turn, then, some Americans have presented their case to the Association of National Security- Electronic Surveillance Project (NSESP).

One extreme case presented to the NSESP was from a woman who was driven to extreme stress by ongoing electronic harassment focused on her children. She eventually killed one child with the intention of saving her from further pain. When the harassment intensified in the form of lasers she became desperate and called the Soviet Embassy to report what she believed the U.S. was behind. Showing further defiance she called an Iraqi government representative to express the U.S. governments war in the Middle East as “hypocritical”. Consequentially, she was hospitalized in the Midwest where many victims live situated near an USAF base that houses a secret research facility.

Many families of employees on the base claim to be research targets. Although their cases are not as extreme as the woman mentioned above, many have filed complaints on a number of issues from disturbing observations to direct harassment. One resident observed an officer move out of an apartment building holding a device, which resembled an oversize microwave oven 4'x2'x2½'. The subsequent examination revealed he had tapped lines into existing home telephone and TV cables via a concealed excavation into the adjoining wall to harass the occupants. It was later revealed that he was linked by modem into a computer network. Some of his electronic equipment was placed in a walk-in closet adjoining the harassee (Mckinley, p.13, 16, 18).

A woman in the apartment building had sought medical assistance to counter massive headaches and recurrent attacks of vomiting – effects that can be produced by infrasound. The referred physician was allegedly an Internal Medicine specialist. However, he prescribed her Compazine and Xanax, although the Physicians’ Desk Reference warns against these drugs. Compazine is an anti-emetic used also for psychotic disorders causing loss of physical control and Xanax enduces vomiting. Both cause dependence, deteriorate the condition and mutate under high energy-fields.  Eventually, she was referred to two other “specialists” who seemed to be engaged in a cooperative effort against her health. One of the physicians did not have a license to practice in the state.

Such events and paranoia pertaining to security have also been observed in the modern Israeli government.  Experts relate many of these events to the extent to which a state will go in order to maintain control of one’s territory. They feel that continued misinformation results stems from governments that feel that being informed would be a threat to their ideologies. As a result electoral systems are crippled resulting in fiascos like the U.S. election in the year 2000 where total votes were questioned.

Inside MIRACL laser facilities

In fact, although secrecy against its own people is unconstitutional, it appears to be happening quite often. The report by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) stated, “The Nairobi Convention to which the United States is a signatory prohibits the broadcast of electronic signals into a sovereign state without its consent in peacetime.” Yet it was also the CFR report that suggested secrecy so the victims are not aware where the attack is coming from or even if there is an attack (Begich #2, p.2). This year alone the U.S National Academy of Sciences refused to release documents that are listed. These documents pertain to 147 reports that were due for public release this June.

These reports include information on The High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility that operates the most powerful laser in the Western Hemisphere in support of DoD research with a budget of $800mn. The system includes a Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser  (MIRACL) and a Sea Lite Beam Director that when pointed tracks the target to be destroyed by MIRACL (Public, p.1). The research violates both U.S. and international law on chemical and biological weapons since it is highly dangerous to the surrounding public.

Other projects are still in the proposal phase, but also pose a risk to the public. One arising proposal was from the Oak Ridge National laboratory, Tennessee, who wanted to use electro-magnetic fields “ranging from the disruption of short-term memory to total loss of memory and the loss of control of voluntary bodily functions” using direct-energy weapons. When Ed Hammond of the Sunshine Project visited the Academy’s Public Access Records Office to see 77of those documents they initially agreed to hand them over. A week, and only 69 reports later, Hammond ascertained that the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Project intended to re-write the chemical and biological weapon treaties to allow themselves more freedom in the knowledge that it violated all treaties since 1990.

In fact, one 1998 application from the Office of Naval Research proposed genetically engineered micro-organisms that could corrode roads and runways and produce “targeted deterioration metal parts, coatings and lubricants of weapons, vehicles and support equipment as well as fuels”. After wreaking havoc, the organisms were to self-destruct. Naval research has patented a microorganism that would decompose polyurethane, a common component of paint for ships, aircraft and anti-radar coating. Unexplained air crashes have been investigated with this in mind.

Oak ridge labs has proposed more dangerous experiments. 

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Another 1998 proposal from a bio-laboratory, at the Brooks Air Force in Texas, wanted to refine anti-material biocatalysts and to breakdown organic molecules like fuel and plastics (Mackenzie, p.1-3). Shortly after the development of this substance, more Americans claiming to have been victimized contacted Electronic Surveillance Project. Two individuals reported finding their oil contaminated immediately after having the oil changed by reputable mechanics. The oil viscosified whilst driving through remote rural areas and the car naturally ground to a halt. The ordeal in removing the thickened sludge out of their engine was a costly affair.

Included in the Non-lethal Weapons scheme is a large three-dimensional VDU, which is a large curved screen that dramatizes data showing the impact of global warming on earth including the oceans. Currently it allows for scientists distant from each other to observe and analyze the same display together. However, Larry Smorr of Cal- (IT) 2 commented that the “analysis facilities for complex scientific data and sets can also serve as prototypes for real time analysis of the environment or the health of civil infrastructure during and after natural or man-made disasters, if they are engineered with this dual use in mind”. The system utilizes transmitters and liquid crystal displays and shutter glasses that allow for stereographic three-dimensional high-resolution images.

The Qur’an warns us against playing with the unseen. Everything is interdependent in the universe, and yet we are just beginning to learn the mistakes made by modern science and medicine about the human body. It takes more than man’s knowledge to know the limits that sustain us. It is our choice. “When the earth is shaken with her (violent) shaking, the earth brings forth her burdens, and man says: What had befallen her? On that day she shall tell her news, because your Lord has inspired her. On that day men shall come forth in sundry bodies that they may be shown their works. So, he who has done an atom’s weight of good shall see it. And he who has done an atom’s weight of evil shall see it” (Surat ul Zilzal 99:1-8).

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