"Secret' US neclear weapons: tagets on bases in Europe

North Korean Leader:'Rather a Nuke in my
backyard, than an American in my kitchen!'

by Henk Ruyssenaars

Amsterdam - Feb. 12th 2005- The French news agency 'Agence France Presse' yesterday published an underreported study by the Natural Resources Defense
Council.* Based mainly on declassified official documents, the study proofs that nuclear warheads will be transferred to US non-nuclear allies. Contrary again to international conventions.

The 'non-proliferation agreements' also have been signed and ratified by the US. The US is the only country having a part of it's nuclear weaponry stationed abroad. Israel (Dimona etc.) hasn't signed anything in that field and was never punished for the breach of at least seventy United Nation's resolutions.

“If China deployed nuclear bombs in North Korea, equipped North Korean aircraft with mechanical and electronic devices to deliver the weapons, and trained North Korean pilots to draw up nuclear strike plans, there would be hell to pay, and rightly so,” said Hans Kristensen, the author of the report.

“Yet that is precisely what the United States is doing in Europe.” The [US] Defense Department declined to comment on the report, citing its long-standing policy of not publicly discussing deployments of nuclear weapons.

We all are nuclear targets too...

The Netherlands' governments - meaning the Dutch multinationals and their media - have always been very pro-US, and avoid to talk about the fact that at the American-Dutch ''Volkel Air Base'' - in the south of this small feudal Queendom - an unknown number of B61 nuclear weapons* and maybe CB-weapons are stored.

Making the Netherlands one of the main targets in an armed conflict, because bootlickers like - the worst of them all - the slimy traitor and 'NATO-stooge' Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. (In Germany a.k.a. 'Jaap der Schiffer').

It is supposed to be a secret: the dutch taxpayers foot the billion$ bill and have to pay, but are not allowed to know what they pay for. They don't have a clue how many taxmoney billions are wasted, like on the national airport Schiphol too, where Israel's Mossad is very active, and the Dutch know nothing.

On January 29, 1999, Dutch Attorney General Vrakking testified that the El Al security detachment at Schiphol [airport] was a branch of the israeli secret service Mossad. A Dutch Air Guidance Organization employee told in a parliamentary hearing that the "policy" since 1973 was to keep quiet about all El Al activities. Schiphol workers testified that El Al planes were never inspected by customs or the Dutch Flight Safety Board. [See: Schiphol+Mossad - http://tinyurl.com/42ct3{ For all the Dutch know Schiphol is a turntable for nukes too, not only US and Israeli biological and chemical WMD's, the so called BC-weapons.

But the nuke and/or BC-weapons storage is contrary to the dutch law, and the signed non proliferation conventions. There have been permanent demonstrations, but the 'United States managers' have their Dutch Quislings and their ilk firmly in their grip.

By many observers the brutal American gun-ship-diplomacy is only further urging other countries to fabricate nuclear bombs in self-defense.

North Korea is the latest to announce that 'it has the Bomb'. Whether this is true or not; it is a clear indication that threatening with nuclear bombs is the only way to keep the American war machine out of one's backyard.

That's why the - right wing - phrase: "Rather an A-bomb in my garden, than a Russian in my kitchen'', is reborn out of the similar expression forty years ago, with the ''Russian'' now replaced by an ''American''.

But for the first time, the document revealed on Wednesday a specific number of nuclear warheads which, under US and NATO war plans, will be transferred to US non nuclear allies to be delivered to targets by their warplanes.

If war were to break out in Europe, as many as 180 nuclear bombs would be earmarked for delivery by the air forces of Belgium, the Netherlands, Turkey, Germany and Italy, the report said. The weapons are part of a 480 warhead nuclear arsenal the United States kept in Europe in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The arsenal, according to the study, is being kept (sometimes secret) at eight air force bases* in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and Britain.

The arrangement, the council insists, “skirts international law” - (meaning: it's a criminal act and punishable in normal times) - because the 'Nonproliferation Treaty' prohibits a nuclear state from transferring nuclear weapons to a non-weapon state, and prohibits a non-nuclear state from receiving such weapons.''

Illegal is illegal, whether it is done by Saddam or Bush.

HR

Some Footnotes/links:

* Study by the Natural Resources Defense Council
Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4djkl

* FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY: MEMORANDUM FOR COMMANDER, 752nd MUNITIONS SUPPORT SQUADRON (752 MUNSS) - Volkel AB, The Netherlands - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4etty

* Bombs not only in the Dutch Backyard: Bases and Facilities with Significant Current or Historical U.S. Nuclear Weapons or Naval Nuclear Propulsion Missions: Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4aqfm

* The B61 nuclear weapons - Url.: http://www.avhub.net/b61.htm

* U.S. B61 bombs in Europe, 2004 - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/3qjhc

* Dutch War Criminals in Court - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6dfkv

* Google search: ''How to make a nuclear bomb'' -
take your pick - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5zy6f

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The Dutch author this far has worked abroad 4 decades for international media as a foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the 'Arab World' and the Middle East. At present 'Persona non Grata' in Holland. :-)

HR