US Used Neutron Bomb to Take Baghdad
Posted: Tuesday, April 24, 2007
by Stephen John Morgan
"The biggest story of the war became a non-event when the truth of the matter was that it was simply too bloody an event to report." Captain Eric H. May, former intelligence officer.
Ever more reports are emerging on the likelihood that the US experimented with tactical nuclear weapons against the Iraqi armed forces four years ago during the last days of the invasion.
In a recent interview with The Iconoclast entitled "Battle of Baghdad Cover-up — Four Years Later," Captain Eric H. May, a former intelligence and public affairs officer in the military, stated "The truth is that the battle started April 5, the night that Baghdad Bob said that they had counterattacked us at the Baghdad Airport and there was a sustained fight that went on for several hours. The best evidence that I have from international sources, scientific sources, is that our position was becoming untenable at the Baghdad Airport and we used a neutron warhead, at least one. That is the big secret of Baghdad Airport."
On the eve of the 4th anniversary , April 8th , Al-Jazeera news also carried an interview with the former head of the Iraqi Republican Guard, Saifeddin al-Rawi, in which he claimed that the US used both neutron and phosphorous bombs to take Baghdad airport four years ago. The incredible claim may go some way to explaining the sudden and unexpected collapse of the Republican Guard Elite Corps, who now make up some of the most tenacious and dangerous elements of the insurgency.
In the interview al-Rawi recounted how the bombs dropped “annihilated soldiers, but left the buildings and the infrastructure of the airport intact." Neutron bombs are thermonuclear weapons, which detonate with a minimal explosion, but release radiation that penetrates buildings and armour and is immediately deadly for human beings.
Al-Rawi’s accusation is not without credibility, since the US and Brits have certainly been using depleted uranium (DU) shells and chemical weapons such as napalm since the first Gulf War. DU is the by product of uranium which has been enriched in nuclear weapons or nuclear reactors. The US now fits it to the tips of missiles because its radioactive nature means it can burn through targets. On Znet, Simon Helweg- Larsen explained that “On March 28th 2003 a tank unit fired two 120mm DU rounds down the main road of urban Kifi, creating a vacuum effect that ‘literally sucked guerrillas from their hideaways into the streets, where they were shot down by small arms fire or run over by tanks."
Again the reports are highly plausible given that during the first Gulf War the US is known to have fired 14,000 depleted uranium shells and 940,000 rounds from airplanes targeting tanks. Helweg- Larsen calculates that a massive 564,000 pounds of depleted uranium vaporized or was left unexploded. “70% of the shell is vaporized into tiny particles and can be carried down wind for many miles……. “Iraqis have since extremely abnormal rates of cancer, birth defects, and miscarriages….particularly around Basra."
Furthermore, despite claims by the US military that it has stopped using napalm and destroyed its stocks in 2001, there is good evidence that it has been used in Iraq. Embedded with the 7th Marines 1st Battalion near Basra reporters from CNN and the Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, reported its use against resistance fighters. Lyndsay Murdoch reported in Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age that “ (Marine artillery) were supported by US Navy aircraft which dropped 40,000 pounds of explosives and napalm." CNN reporter, Martin Savidge recounted one assault where “It is now estimated the hill was hit so badly by missiles, artillery and by the Air Force that they shaved a couple of feet off it. And anything that was up there was then hit napalm. And that pretty much put an end to any Iraqi operations on that hill."
These suggestions would also fit in with the fact that the Bush Administration has a policy of pre-emptive nuclear strike. Given the fact that the US Armed Forces were led to believe that Saddam Hussein possessed chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction, Washington and the Pentagon probably gave the go-ahead to experiment with the neutron bomb and the use of chemical weapons against Saddam’s troops. After all it was the British who first used the Iraqi people to experiment on with mustard nerve gas in the 1920’s and 30’s. Why not try out the latest toys?
The author clearly doesn't know what he is talking about, especially when discussing depleted uranium. "...its radioactive nature means it can burn through targets"????? That statement is completely wrong and anybody who knew the first thing about depleted uranium would know that right away. You might as well say, "its radioactive nature means it has all the same super powers as all of the members of the Fantastic Four. I find that people who have a weak education in chemistry and physics tend to attribute amazing powers to radioactivity. Since they don't understand it, it must be magic and can do ANYTHING!Denver Jake, You know that DU bullets penetrate any kind of armour since it is such a dense metal. When penetrating it self sharpens and releases tiny DU particles to the surroundings and generates an extreme temperature which causes the fuel tanks of the targets to explode. The heat it generates upon hitting a targetis what the author refers to.
The legacy for generations to come, is the DU dust which is known to cause extreme birth deformities.
NebHey Jake; Well it's a couple years later and now we are bring tons of contaminated DU soil back to the US and burying it in Idaho! So many talk that with they know not! I was a Nuke in the Navy and Artillery Specialist in the Army . War is hell but people who speak of things they know nothing about are more dangerous then the enemy many times.
One of the silliest of all the conspiracy articles I've read in a while -- and that covers a lot of territory. To anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of physics or chemistry, these claims about neutron weapons and depleted uranium (DU) are laughable and paint their advocates as either uneducated nitwits or flaming loonies with a few screws loose. Or both. The key word in "depleted uranium" is, by the way, "depleted." This should give you your first clue that this is balderdash.erm... phyhsics major from virginia, you need to go back to school...The use of the term DEPLETED is classic Orwellian NewspeakThe amounts of u-238 in battlefield 'DU' are still over 99%DU is a WMD designed to de-populate a given areaIn 1991 14,000 DU shells and 940,000 DU rounds were fired in Iraq (US army figures)We then augmented this by denying the population cancer medicine under the guise of sanctionsresults???genocide...but then, whats new?Sir; obviously you know nothing of military weaponry. Du has a half life of 2.3 million years. And yes I believe they dropped a Neutron bomb on Bagdad airport. My sources say the Royal Guard was incinnerated in seconds.Just as Clinton dropped one in Europe.Many people I know have come home with strange ailments that are incurable. My friend died of stomach cancer 6 month's after returning home.I see many veterans at theVA hospital dieing of various types of dieseases all related to DU. As I've said for awhile now. This is how they will destroy America's military.
SJM, This was an excellent Science Fiction piece. I particularly liked how the tank round "literally sucked guerrillas from their hideaways into the streets, where they were shot down by small arms fire or run over by tanks". Amazing! I look forward to you book on President Bush. I assume it will be under the fiction category?
Interesting quote from the former intelligence officer, the fact that the last neutron bomb was officially dismantled in 2003 supports his claim. As there are different versions and types of such weapons it's a possibility. DU shells have created massive problems in Iraq, even for american soldiers returning home with health related issues due to exposure. CNN did a rather long piece about it a couple of years ago
Stephon,I need say nothing about the scientific - chemical inanity of your idea because those before me have said it better than I could; however, do you honestly believe that the liberal media, who stop at nothing in their one-sided views of the war and of Bush and of conservatism, would NOT have reported this had it occurred? Where have you been?