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Triggering Doomsday

1. Transferring collaborative warfare to Waziristan

Apparently, ’the war of drones’ would be an adequate designation for
the ongoing campaign against al Qaeda and Taleban forces in
Waziristan.

After all, that which the inhabitants of Waziristan can see with the
naked eye are US missile-carrying drones hovering in the sky in
increasing numbers while spreading death and destruction during the
past few weeks.

A statement by senior US military and intelligence sources published
by The Long War Journal on September 19th (1) gives us a glimpse of a
far more composite, not to say ominous scenario, however.

“Getting bin Laden would be nice”, but “we need to take down the (al
Qaeda) network to stop the next attack on US soil. Al Qaeda is more
than bin Laden.”

That said, the intelligence spokesmen have at the same time revealed
what is actually going on in Waziristan: a transfer from Iraq to
Waziristan of the type of electronic warfare dubbed ‘collaborative’
being strung together by six innovative programs (2) that allow US
intelligence to locate, target and kill key individuals such as al
Qaeda leaders.

Systems similar to the American configuration in Iraq which include
powerful satellite subsurface radars and killing electromagnetic field
technology have already proved their lethal efficiency in the Iaraeli-
Palestinian conflict and, probably, in the second Russian war against
the small, ill-treated Chechen nation poorly understood and even
worsely published by the so-called ‘fourth power’.

What we are witnessing in Waziristan right now at the end of September
2008, after the decimation of al Qaeda in Iraq, is a one-item American
agenda: the total destruction of the leading echelons of al Qaeda
including bin Laden.

The decisive issue at stake is then if al Qaeda will have to accept
this long envisaged unidirectional US item on the agenda or whether al
Qaeda’s planning departments on their own ground in Waziristan – and
in Pakistan - possess sufficient foresight and resilience to
introduce their own item, a counterblast going beyond the battleground
of the Middle East while taking the conflict to a new and
unprecedented level.

Actually, this has been the latent issue since 11 September 2001 and
the leaders of al Qaeda have been perfectly aware of this all the
time. (3) Meanwhile, the islamization of the armed forces of Pakistan
has received a fresh impetus and the officers that control Pakistan’s
nuclear weapons cannot any longer be considered reliable. (4, 5)

Steen Hjortsoe

References:

1. Roggio, Bill: US strikes in Pakistan aimed at stopping the next
Sept. 11 attack.
In: The Long War Journal: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/09/us_strikes_in_pakist.php

2. Fulghum, David A.: We know Bob Woodward’s Iraq Technology Secret.
In: Ares. A Defense technology blog.
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A4f690db0-b07f-4569-825f-e23596dbfa9e

3. Levy, Adrian & Scott-Clark, Catherine: Deception: Pakistan, the
United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy.
London: Atlantic Books, 2007.
Particularly pp. 321-322.

4. Hoodbhoy, Pervez: Bin Laden and Hiroshima.
http://www.chowk.com/articles/9503

5. Matzen, Jeppe: De forkerte hænder (Interview with Pervez Hoodbhoy).
In: Weekend-Avisen, Copenhagen, 4 July 2008.