February 2005
MICROWAVING
IRAQ
"Pacifying" Rays Pose
New Hazards In Iraqi
By William Thomas
On the rooftop of a shrapnel-pocked building in the ruins
of Fallujah, a team of GI's stealthily sets up a gray
plastic dome about two-feet in diameter. Keeping well
back from the sight lines of the street and nearby
buildings, they plug the cable connectors on the side of
the "popper" into a power unit. The grunts have
no clue what the device does. They are just following
orders.
"Most of the worker-bees that are placing these do
not even know what is inside the 'domes', just that they
were told where to place them by Intel weenies with
usually no nametag," reports my source, a very well
informed combat veteran I will call "Hank".
The grunts call the plastic devices "poppers"
or "domes". Once activated, each hidden
transmitter emits a widening circle of invisible energy
capable of passing through metal, concrete and human
skulls up to half a mile away. "They are saturating
the area with ULF, VLF and UHF > freqs," Hanks
says, with equipment derived from US Navy undersea sonar
and communications.
But its not being used to locate and talk to submarines
under Baghdad.
After powering up the unit, the grunts quickly exit the
area. It is their commanders' fervent hope that any male
survivors enraged by brutal American bombardments that
damaged virtually every building in this once thriving
"City of Mosques", displacing a quarter-million
residents while murdering thousands of children, women
and elders in their homes—will lose all incentive
for further resistance and revenge.
A dedicated former soldier, whose experiences during and
after Desert Storm are chronicled in my book, Bringing
The War Home, Hank stays in close touch with his unit
serving "in theater" in Iraq. When I asked how
many "poppers" are being used to irradiate
Iraqi neighborhoods, he checked and got back to me. There
are "at least 25 of these that have been deployed to
theater, and used. Some have conked out and been removed,
so I do not know how many are currently active and
broadcasting."
Hank is still losing friends in Iraq, where front-line
soldiers put their current casualty figures from all
causes—combat, accidents, psychological crackups and
suicides—at 5,000 dead and 22,000 to 30,000 injured.
Hank also blames those at the top for hospital counts of
upwards of 65,000 children killed since the 2003
invasion. He is concerned that innocent Iraqi families
and unsuspecting GIs alike are being used as test
subjects for a new generation of "psychotronic"
weapons using invisible beams across the entire
electromagnetic spectrum to selectively alter moods,
behavior and bodily processes.
"The 'poppers' are capable of using a combo of ULF,
VLF, UHF and EHF wavelengths in any combination at the
same time, sometimes using one as a carrier wave for the
others," Hank explains, in a process called
superheterodyning. The silent frequencies daily sweeping
Fallujah and other trouble spots are the same Navy
"freqs that drove whales nuts and made them go
astray onto beaches."
MICROWAVING IRAQ
The Gulf War veteran observes that occupied Iraq has
become a "saturation environment" of
electromagnetic radiation. Potentially lethal
electromagnetic smog from high-power US military
electronics and experimental beam weapons is placing
already hard-hit local populations–-particularly
children—at even higher risk of experiencing serious
illness, suicidal depression, impaired cognitive ability,
even death.
American troops constantly exposed "up
close" to their own microwave transmitters,
battlefield radars and RF weapons are also seeing their
health eroded by electromagnetic sickness. It's common,
Hank recalls, for GIs to warm themselves on cold desert
nights by basking in the microwaves radiating from their
QUEEMS communications and RATT radar rigs.
Constant microwave emissions from ground-sweeping RATT
rigs and SINGARS mobile microwave networks are much more
powerful than civilian microwave cell phone nets linked
in many clinical studies to maladies ranging from asthma,
cataracts, headaches, memory loss, early Alzheimer's, bad
dreams
and cancer.
Even more powerful US military radars, radios and
"jammers" blasting from ground bases and
overflying aircraft add to this electromagnetic din.
This is bad enough. But this is also Iraq, Hank
says, where ever-present sand acts as miniature quartz
reflectors, unpredictably amplifying the ricocheting
electronic smog so thick that if it were visible, every
vehicle in Baghdad and the surrounding Sunni Triangle
would be driving blind with their headlights on.
THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING This is grim news to friend
and foe alike—already overloaded by constant adrenal
stress, waterborne pollutants, infectious sand fleas,
dehydration, pharmaceutical drugs and exposure to
radioactive Uranium-238 fired in "hose 'em
down" exuberance by US ground and air cannons and
cruise missiles.
As Hank puts it, DU is "the gift that keeps on
giving." For the next four billion years, medical
investigators say, large populated expanses of Kosovo,
Afghanistan, Puerto Rico and Iraq will remain lethally
radioactive from Made In America depleted uranium dust.
What kind of people would do this?
Clinical tests have repeatedly shown how microwaves
"rev up" incipient cancer cells several hundred
times. Triggered by nuclear radiation, and turned rogue
by electromagnetic warfare unleashed by US forces, human
cancer cells have been found to continue proliferating
wildly—even after the power source is turned off
MICROWAVING WOMBS AT GREENHAM COMMON While the mobile
microwave weapons currently deployed in Iraq may or may
not lead to lasting harm, rooftop "poppers" and
"domes" left to radiate for days at a time are
irradiating unsuspecting families already coping with
illness, wounds, hunger and the stress of losing homes
and loved ones, whose rotting corpses cannot be buried
under the sights of marine snipers. A
preview of what lies in store for long-suffering families
in Iraq can be gleaned from Greenham Common, where the British Army
reportedly used an electromagnetic weapon against 30,000
women who had camped for nearly two decades around that
UK military base to
protest the deployment of nuclear-tipped US cruise
missiles. One day in the summer of 1984, more than
2,000 British troops suddenly pulled back, leaving the
fence unguarded. Peace mom Kim Besley recalls that as
curious women approached the gate, they "started
experiencing odd health effects: swollen tongues, changed
heartbeats, immobility, feelings of terror, pains in the
upper body." Besley found her 30-year-old
daughter too ill to stand. Other symptoms typical of
electromagnetic exposure included skin burns, severe
headaches, drowsiness, post-menopausal menstrual bleeding
and menstruation at abnormal times. Besley's daughter's
cycle changed to 14 days and took a year to return to
normal. Two late-term spontaneous miscarriages,
impaired speech, and an apparent circulatory failure
prompted the women to begin monitoring for a
directed-energy beam, Using an EMR meter, they measured
beams sweeping their camp at 100-times normal background
levels.
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Another harrowing example involves the sudden illness and
cancer deaths of US embassy staff in Moscow after being
deliberately targeted with very weak pulsed microwaves by
Soviet experimenters and fascinated CIA onlookers running
"Project Phoenix" in 1962.
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Very Low Frequency (VLF) weapons include the dozens of
"poppers" currently deployed in Iraq, which can
be dialed to or "long wave" frequencies capable
of traveling great distances through the ground or
intervening structures. As air force Lt Col. Peter L.
Hays, Director of the Institute for National Security
Studies reveals, "Transmission of long
wavelength sound creates biophysical effects; nausea,
loss of bowels, disorientation, vomiting, potential
internal organ damage or death may occur."
Hays calls VLF weapons
"superior" because their directed energy beams
do not lose their hurtful properties when traveling
through air to tissue. A French weapon radiating at 7
hertz "made the people in range sick for
hours."
GI's "DRIVEN NUTS" BY ELECTROMAGENTICS
IN IRAQ Like so many other American blunders
among the ruins of Babylon, the intended
microwave "pacification" of rebellious
neighborhoods is having unintended effects. In
actual "field-testing" in the Sunni
Triangle, Hank has learned that the
hidden, dome-shaped devices "are removing
inhibitions". Armed individuals, already
highly motivated to kill American forces are reportedly
"losing all restraint" when exposed to
the electromagnetic beams.
According to Hank's buddies in Baghdad, the frequency-shifting
"poppers" "are having
some remarkable effects on the locals as well as our own
people." But these effects differ.
Possibly, Hank surmises, because Americans come from
daily domestic and military environments saturated with
electromagnetic frequencies, while many Iraqis still live
without reliable electricity in places largely free from
electromagnetics before the American invasion.
According to members of Hank's former unit, constant
exposure to invisible emissions from radar and radio
rigs—as well as to their own microwave
weapons—is backfiring. "Our people are driven
nuts," Hank says. "It makes them stupid for two
or three days."
The Desert Storm veteran compared the emotional effects
of constant exposure to
military microwaves to a
lingering low-pressure weather system that never goes
away. "You feel way down for days at a time,"
he emphasizes As a consequence, AWOL rates among "spaced
out" US troops are as high as
15%, Hank reports. For many deserters, it is not
cowardice or conscience that is causing them to absent
themselves from duty. "They are feeling so
depressed," Hank explains. "They don't feel
good. So they leave."
According to Hank's front-line buddies, Iraqis exposed to secret beam weapons "get laid back,
confused and mellow, and then blast out in a rage, as
opposed to our folks going on what could only be called a
'bender', and turning into a mean drunk for a
while." Once they wander away from direct
electromagnetic-fire, startled GIs come to their senses.
They return to their units, Hank explains, saying,
"What was I thinking?" The recovery rate
among US troops "seems to be about a day or so,
where the locals are not getting over it in less than a
week or more on average," Hank has learned.
It is Hank's hope that his revelations will prompt
public debate over the secret use of electromagnetic
weapons in Iraq. But lost in the arguments over these
supposedly "non-lethal" weapons is a much
bigger question: What are Americans doing there?
Whether soldier or civilian at home, it is our imperative
duty to stop supporting those responsible for ongoing
"weapons tests" in Iraq. As
electrochemical "beings of light," the
strongest electromagnetic force on Earth is human
conscience, acted upon.
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Author's Bio:
After resigning his US Navy Reserve commission and
refusing to
participate in the Vietnam slaughter, William Thomas
subsequently served
five months with a three-man environmental emergency
response team in
the Gulf during and immediately after Desert Storm. He
has written about
military electromagnetics in Scorched Earth and
Bringing The War Home,
and has documented other microwave hazards in
huis new ebook,
"Dialing Our Cells."
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