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By Patrick Robinson, co-author, Lone Survivor
There was a curious hiatus in the United States in 2009 when President Obama so swiftly announced he was getting rid of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp within just a few months.
The Liberals, with their usual depth of stupendous misunderstanding, stood up and cheered. While anyone who knew anything, especially the supreme professionals in the US security forces, stood there aghast – Huh ? You’re gonna do what !
I had already begun a new novel, which was designed to walk people through the pure impossibility of shutting the doors of Guantanamo and sending all the inmates home.
And the questions were basic, based on the new and somewhat chilling circumstances where US courts were about to start freeing the prisoners because they ought not be held indefinitely without trial.
Question One: What do you do with them once they are freed – put them on a bus and tell them to get on with their lives ?
Question Two: Put them on a US transatlantic aircraft and tell them not to come back ? (But what if the foreign country where the plane lands refuses to let them disembark?)
Question Three: How do you persuade a foreign airline to get them out of the US ?
Question Four: On the grounds that men are not incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay for shoplifting, what do you do about truly lethal terrorists who are sworn to attack, murder and maim US citizens, military and civilian, until the end of their days ?
Question Five: Can such killers be tracked, and then eliminated, by US anti-terrorist operators, for their known crimes against humanity ? Not hardly, since they were just found not guilty of anything by a United States Court.
Question Six: Would it be illegal for the CIA or the military to go after these characters in any way ? Plainly yes, because they could only do so in flagrant defiance of the Laws of the United States.
Question Seven: Well, what do we do after President Obama’s judges, anxious to please the new liberal Commander-in-Chief, sets them all free, and the military is forced to close down the great Cuban detention camp ? Presumably put on our hard-hats, and wait for these crazy bastards to blow up the Empire State Building, as they are surely sworn to do.
Question Eight: What if a US Court finds a group of these terrorists guilty of crimes against humanity ? What do we do with them ? Where do we put them ? For How long ?
The problems were plainly endless. And the entire US security network collectively shook its head. Because there was only one rock-solid solution : leave the Guantanamo Bay prison camp exactly where it is.
Because it’s not only a living deterrent to enemies of the United States, but also because it’s the most priceless source of Intelligence, gathered on a daily basis from incarcerated killers, whose determination to continue the fight against the West breaks down under US interrogation.
Anyway, with this seething unrest going on throughout Washington, I somewhat gleefully crafted a novel, centered around the mighty Lieutenant Commander Mackenzie Bedford, and titled it, Intercept. It’s an international thriller, with all-too-realistic consequences, concerning US liberal attitudes toward the most dangerous men on the planet.
The sting in this letter lies in the tail. I delivered the novel to my publishers, on time, and crackling with adventure, murder and mayhem. And, the very next day President Obama announced he would not be closing down Guantanamo Bay in quite such a hurry. It looked to me like he had re-thought the entire thing.
The coincidence was so great, I actually called my editor-in-chief to ask whether she had sent the manuscript immediately to the White House as a general guide to the President not to go soft on us!
“Intercept” comes out in May. Though I say it myself, it’s not just a page-turning yarn, it sails very close to the wind, and I think it might turn out to be quite important.
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Did Saddam Have An Atom Bomb?
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Did he have an atom bomb? Of course not.
Did he have a nuclear program? Very definitely.
By Patrick Robinson
In the broadest commonsense terms, there is only one reason on this earth to produce Uranium-235 – and that’s to make a nuclear weapon. Uranium-235 is the high-tech name for weapons-grade uranium, the principal component of an atomic bomb, or a guided-missile with a nuclear warhead.
Naturally, anyone trying to make a nuclear weapon would prefer to do so in secret. Which is why we are all obliged to listen to a plethora of rubbish about water-reactors and the possible use of uranium 235 in the production of electricity, and other facile excuses.
Essentially you can forget all about that. If anyone is using a ‘gyro’ to ‘spin’ uranium 238 (regular) into uranium 235 – that someone is trying to make a nuclear weapon. It takes around seven years to spin the 238. Which is a long time, fraught with problems.
The finished article, a deliverable weapon with a nuclear warhead, is probably the result of a 10-year program. And so, the question is, not did this character have an atom bomb ? But, did he have a program that would lead to an atom bomb or nuclear missile ?
Which brings us to Saddam Hussein, who was most certainly ‘spinning’ – cunningly placing his six gyros in the enclosed steel rear compartments of massive trucks running up and down the highway, unapproachable, and unseen by outsiders, especially Hans Blix, who was running around in the desert, under strict Iraqi supervision, trying to find an atom bomb on behalf of the United Nations.
The three giant silver colored trucks were nailed by the CIA’s anti-terrorist operators in Iraq. They were photographed by US satellites, pin-pointed and tracked back and forth along Iraq’s very few highways. Colin Powell made a major international presentation of their existence, with photographs, and great detail.
Inside the trucks, he proclaimed, were the totally incriminating gyros, spinning Saddam ever closer to the elusive uranium 235 and the nuclear weapon it would become.
The subsequent accepted mantra that there were no weapons of mass destruction is at best an absurd conclusion at which to arrive. But, much more importantly, a grotesque journey up the wrong path. Because the real question remains, did Saddam have a nuclear program ? Not the rather primitive query, did he have an atom bomb?
At the time, Donald Rumsfeld remarked, in obvious exasperation, What do you want to do ? Leave the sonofabitch there ‘till he has got one?
The truth is, Saddam did acquire uranium-238 from Niger, he did have gyros in those trucks, they were ‘spinning’ throughout their endless journey, and the Iraqis did get that uranium the hell out of the country before anyone found the spinners in the back.
But find them they did. And how do I know ? Because I was privileged to write the life story of one of the US Navy SEALs who discovered them, buried beneath the desert floor, with the obvious signs of the huge spinners having been ripped out and shipped out. The CIA think to Syria.
Try not to forget, the only reason anyone has to ‘spin’ uranium, is to make weapons grade 235, and that’s because they are trying to make an atom bomb or missile.
The word is program, not bomb. Saddam did not have a nuclear bomb. But he did have a very elaborate nuclear program. That’s why he had to go. Because that nuclear program leads only one way – toward the day its owner decides to launch it. Why else would he have it?
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