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20, 2008
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= The Tsunami disaster of Dec. 26, 2004: Was the massacre avoidable? =
The horrific tsunami calamity Dec. 26, 2004:
a natural inevitable catastrophe
or a man-made disaster?
This astounding article,
printed two weeks after the disaster
in a regional German newspaper
Wiesbadener Kurier,
may supply the answer.
We want to publish it in the portal of WikiLeaks in our English translation as a document. *) Everybody can draw their own conclusions.
We are, of course, in no position to prove that any of the allegations made in this article are valid nor have we been able to elicit a confirmation or even the least response from the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department or the NOAA.
We emailed this text in its German version to the Pentagon and its intelligence agencies on October 18, 2006 and have so far remained without a response.
However, everything contained in this article fits in well with the general picture that we’ve been able to establish over the years after accumulating solid information and garnering countless mosaics, facts and little items from a great variety of sources.
Jerzy Chojnowski
Chairman-GTVRG e.V.
*
Wiesbadener Kurier
Tel: 0611/355-5380
Fax: 0611/355-5407
e-mail: kurier-lokales@vrm.de
http://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/
***
WIESBADENER KURIER
of January 8, 2005
By the Kurier’s Correspondent Peter W. Schroeder
(in Washington)
Only the United States is entitled to hear the cough of a herring.
America’s secret services had registered the tsunami,
but did not warn the threatened countries.
WASHINGTON - Several US experts have to live with a heavy burden. They could have warned of the great tsunami wave in Asia and thus saved perhaps tens of thousands of lives. But instead they remained silent and watched the mass fatalities sitting on their hands doing nothing. "National security" obviously had a higher value than the lives of so many victims.
This sounds unbelievable but it has meanwhile been officially confirmed: Both the National Weather Authority NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) as well as several military and non-military intelligence agencies of the United States registered the big quake in Asia and the resulting tsunami wave the moment they started. In many places more than two hours elapsed before the water masses struck with a destructive force on the various coasts. "We received the data almost without delay," said a spokesman for NOAA.
The evaluators of the secret NSA (National Security Agency), and several military intelligence services in the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) became even eyewitnesses of the tsunami waves raging along Asia’s coasts: spy satellites provided satellite images of the quality of live TV: first of the flood, and then the unimaginable destruction. "Outsiders won’t get access to the stored data,” says the Pentagon. "The recorded data were promptly classified
and locked away in a safe." **)
The NOAA experts immediately read the incoming flood of data correctly. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration operates its own “Tsunami Early Warning Center” on Hawaii and, according to a spokesman, did in fact issue an alarm message: Only one. The recipient was the Hawaii Headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Command (HQ USPACOM) of the United States Navy. And they in turn alerted the U.S. Navy base on the British possession of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. However, the Americans kept this warning secret even from the British military on the island.
As it happened, the tsunami wave at Diego Garcia would only be a ripple and it caused no damage. ***) When asked why the American tsunami early warning station did not warn the authorities of the imminently threatened countries in Asia that a disaster was about to happen, the NOAA spokesman flatly replied, "We had no list of contacts in these countries." That statement provoked the following comment on the part of the astonished people present, "They only had to place an alert on their internet website, and everybody would have been informed."
The U.S. military, however, have another explanation for their silence: "We couldn’t shout it from the housetops because it would have given away too much of our intelligence capabilities." America’s skills, though, are no longer a secret: The U.S. Navy’s reconnaissance experts have studded the bottom of the seas with sensors that continuously transmit signals via satellite: currents, water temperatures, the sounds of submarines, and also seismic data. "If somewhere in the water a herring coughs," said a Pentagon official proudly, "we we’ll hear it." ****)
At Christmas 2004 the U.S. reconnaissance heard and saw something else.
The result was one of the most devastating disasters of modern times.
And the question must be asked: Was that silence really necessary?
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Translator’s notes:
*) This is our translation of the German original, which initially was available on the Internet under:
http://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/politik...ikel_id=1745726
and can now be found under:
http://www.genios.de/?START=A50&DBN=wk&S...en+des+Herings&
**) What the author apparently had in mind was high-resolution geospatial imagery and other geomonitoring information including hydroacustical data. However, in order to gain a full insight into what really happened, the public should have unrestricted access to a much wider range of data. Everything that would help to determine the exact sequence of events, and who exactly was responsible at which stage, must be put at the public’s disposal. There is another important point that baffle us: the still withhold American total death toll and the so far unreleased victims’ list. Why hasn’t the official and final American tsunami victims’ list been publisched till now? Names and pictures of 9/11 victims are well known to us all. And every time a mad shooter goes on a gun rampage, nothing stands in the way to publish immediately victims’ names, photos and potted biographies, if no more - they can be found on the web and in the press the following day. But in the case of the Tsunami disaster everything is hushed up and covered up wherever one looks. This is the ultimate insult to the victims.
***) For further details concerning the Tsunami’s effects on Diego Garcia see e.g. Charles C. Sheppard:
“Effects of the tsunami in the Chagos Archipelago”
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/arb/544/07.pdf
This treatise is also available as part of the tsunami documentation on our website.
****) The Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) is a multibillion-dollar network of hydrophone arrays mounted on the seafloor; the system is used as a security tool to monitor naval fighting ships especially submarines, shipping and any human or environmental activity in the ocean.
– © Jerzy Chojnowski, Chairman GTVRG e.V., www.gtvrg.de –
Wiesbadener Kurier
Tel: 0611/355-5380
Fax: 0611/355-5407
e-mail: kurier-lokales@vrm.de
http://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/
***
WIESBADENER KURIER
of January 8, 2005
By the Kurier’s Correspondent Peter W. Schroeder
(in Washington)
Only the United States is entitled to hear the cough of a herring.
America’s secret services had registered the tsunami,
but did not warn the threatened countries.
WASHINGTON - Several US experts have to live with a heavy burden. They could have warned of the great tsunami wave in Asia and thus saved perhaps tens of thousands of lives. But instead they remained silent and watched the mass fatalities sitting on their hands doing nothing. "National security" obviously had a higher value than the lives of so many victims.
This sounds unbelievable but it has meanwhile been officially confirmed: Both the National Weather Authority NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) as well as several military and non-military intelligence agencies of the United States registered the big quake in Asia and the resulting tsunami wave the moment they started. In many places more than two hours elapsed before the water masses struck with a destructive force on the various coasts. "We received the data almost without delay," said a spokesman for NOAA.
The evaluators of the secret NSA (National Security Agency), and several military intelligence services in the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) became even eyewitnesses of the tsunami waves raging along Asia’s coasts: spy satellites provided satellite images of the quality of live TV: first of the flood, and then the unimaginable destruction. "Outsiders won’t get access to the stored data,” says the Pentagon. "The recorded data were promptly classified
and locked away in a safe." **)
The NOAA experts immediately read the incoming flood of data correctly. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration operates its own “Tsunami Early Warning Center” on Hawaii and, according to a spokesman, did in fact issue an alarm message: Only one. The recipient was the Hawaii Headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Command (HQ USPACOM) of the United States Navy. And they in turn alerted the U.S. Navy base on the British possession of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. However, the Americans kept this warning secret even from the British military on the island.
As it happened, the tsunami wave at Diego Garcia would only be a ripple and it caused no damage. ***) When asked why the American tsunami early warning station did not warn the authorities of the imminently threatened countries in Asia that a disaster was about to happen, the NOAA spokesman flatly replied, "We had no list of contacts in these countries." That statement provoked the following comment on the part of the astonished people present, "They only had to place an alert on their internet website, and everybody would have been informed."
The U.S. military, however, have another explanation for their silence: "We couldn’t shout it from the housetops because it would have given away too much of our intelligence capabilities." America’s skills, though, are no longer a secret: The U.S. Navy’s reconnaissance experts have studded the bottom of the seas with sensors that continuously transmit signals via satellite: currents, water temperatures, the sounds of submarines, and also seismic data. "If somewhere in the water a herring coughs," said a Pentagon official proudly, "we we’ll hear it." ****)
At Christmas 2004 the U.S. reconnaissance heard and saw something else.
The result was one of the most devastating disasters of modern times.
And the question must be asked: Was that silence really necessary?
-------
Translator’s notes:
*) This is our translation of the German original, which initially was available on the Internet under:
http://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/politik...ikel_id=1745726
and can now be found under:
http://www.genios.de/?START=A50&DBN=wk&S...en+des+Herings&
**) What the author apparently had in mind was high-resolution geospatial imagery and other geomonitoring information including hydroacustical data. However, in order to gain a full insight into what really happened, the public should have unrestricted access to a much wider range of data. Everything that would help to determine the exact sequence of events, and who exactly was responsible at which stage, must be put at the public’s disposal. There is another important point that baffle us: the still withhold American total death toll and the so far unreleased victims’ list. Why hasn’t the official and final American tsunami victims’ list been publisched till now? Names and pictures of 9/11 victims are well known to us all. And every time a mad shooter goes on a gun rampage, nothing stands in the way to publish immediately victims’ names, photos and potted biographies, if no more - they can be found on the web and in the press the following day. But in the case of the Tsunami disaster everything is hushed up and covered up wherever one looks. This is the ultimate insult to the victims.
***) For further details concerning the Tsunami’s effects on Diego Garcia see e.g. Charles C. Sheppard:
“Effects of the tsunami in the Chagos Archipelago”
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/arb/544/07.pdf
This treatise is also available as part of the tsunami documentation on our website.
****) The Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) is a multibillion-dollar network of hydrophone arrays mounted on the seafloor; the system is used as a security tool to monitor naval fighting ships especially submarines, shipping and any human or environmental activity in the ocean.
– © Jerzy Chojnowski, Chairman GTVRG e.V., www.gtvrg.de –
***
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