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AL-JAZEERA CLAIMS U.S. MAY HAVE CAUSED TSUNAMI
Taking “Blame America” First to a Whole New Level:
Former Senior Editor/Translator in the Israeli Prime Minister's office, Victor Mordecai, is available for interviews on the recent bizarre reporting by Al-Jazeera that the U.S., Israel and India may have created the recent deadly tsunami.
ABOUT VICTOR MORDECI
Mordecai is the author of three books on the Middle East (www.vicmord.com) and is cofounder of Israel Today Magazine. He has been a guest on Sean Hannity, Fox and Friends, Dayside with Linda Vester and other popular radio and television programs, as well as in person in hundreds of churches and synagogues across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, France, Greece, Norway, Finland, Russia, Germany and Israel. Mordecai was an Israeli Army reserves spokesman 14 years, serving 16 years as an artillery crewman. He also was Senior Editor and Translator in the news department of Yitzhak Shamir's government press office from 1989-1990. Lipkin speaks six languages and has received his B. A. from Hebrew University, 1973, majoring in Sovietology/Russian Studies and East European Studies. He is well versed in the centuries of Islamic wars. He was born in the U.S. but immigrated (made Aliyah) to Israel in 1968. He commutes frequently between the U.S. and his home in Jerusalem.
The following are two articles for show prep:
Al-Jazeera's tsunami conspiracy theories
Arab news service reports chatter about plots, India-Israel nuke test implicated
January 6, 2005
Everyone knows a magnitude 9.0 earthquake triggered the massive tsunamis that have killed more than 150,000 in South Asia, right?
Wrong, reports Al-Jazeera, the popular Arab news service.
Some think the U.S. and Indian militaries deliberately caused the tsunamis with electromagnetic pulse technology.
Some of the theories reported on seriously by Al-Jazeera include:
• The U.S. government knew of the disaster ahead of time and failed to warn Asians in affected countries, as evidenced by the American Navy base situated on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia that was alerted and escaped unscathed from the effects of the tsunamis;
• Indian and U.S. military testing of weapons using electromagnetic waves triggered the earthquake;
• Aliens caused the disaster as a way to correct the planet's "wobbly" rotation;
• The Australian and Thai governments deliberately failed to respond to warning of the impending earthquake.
Dr. Bart Bautisda, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology's chief science research specialist, categorically rejects any claim of foul play having been the reason behind the disaster.
The weapons-testing theory holds no water, he says, because of the amount of energy needed to cause such a quake.
"You would need a very huge amount of energy. It's impossible. A billion tons could not do it," he told Al-Jazeera.
Bautisda admits that wave activity might be triggered very close to the scene of a giant explosion, but the effect would only be a tiny fraction of the tsunamis that hit the Asian coastline on Dec. 26.
"It's possible to cause vibration, but not sufficient to cause disruption," he said. "We can tell the difference between an artificial explosion and an earthquake. The mechanisms are different."
But what about a nuclear explosion?
An Egyptian magazine today claimed the tsunami "was possibly" caused by a secret Indian nuclear experiment in which "Israeli and American nuclear experts participated," the Jerusalem Post reported.
According to Al-Osboa', India, in its heated nuclear race with Pakistan, has received sophisticated nuclear know-how from the U.S. and Israel, both of which "showed readiness to cooperate with India in experiments to exterminate humankind."
The magazine claimed geologists have warned about holding nuke tests "in the region of the Indian Ocean known as 'the Fire Belt,' in which the epicenter of the earthquake lies."
The Fire Belt includes dangerous terrain that can move at anytime, without human intervention, Al-Osboa' reported.
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Egyptian Paper: Israel-India Nuke Test Caused Tsunami
Jan. 6, 2005
Joseph Nasr
THE JERUSALEM POST
The earthquake that struck the Indian Ocean on December 26, triggering a series of huge waves called tsunami, "was possibly" caused by an Indian nuclear experiment in which "Israeli and American nuclear experts participated," an Egyptian weekly magazine reported Thursday.
According to Al-Osboa', India, in its heated nuclear race with Pakistan, has lately received sophisticated nuclear know-how from the United States and Israel, both of which "showed readiness to cooperate with India in experiments to exterminate humankind."
Since 1992, the magazine argued, leading geological centers in Britain, Turkey and other countries, warned of the need "not to hold nuclear experiments in the region of the Indian Ocean known as 'the Fire Belt,' in which the epicenter of the earthquake lies.
Geologists labeled that region 'The Fire Belt' for being "a dangerous terrain that can move at anytime, without human intervention," Al-Osboa' wrote.
Despite warnings not to carry out nuclear experiments in and around the 'Fire Belt', "Israel and India continue to conduct nuclear tests in the Indian Ocean, and the United States has recently decided to carry out similar tests in the Australian deserts, which is included in the 'Fire Belt', the Egyptian weekly magazine wrote.
"Last year only, Arab and Islamic states have asked the United States to stop its nuclear activities in that region, and to urge Israel and India to follow suite," Al-Osboa' reported.
Although Al-Osboa' does not rule out the possibility that the tsunami could have been caused by a natural earthquake it speculates however that, "while it has not been proved yet, there has been a joint Israeli-Indian secret nuclear experiment [conducted on December 26] that caused the earthquake."
The Egyptian weekly magazine concludes in its report that "the exchange of nuclear experts between Israel and India, and US pressure on Pakistan which is exerted by supplying India with state-of-the-art nuclear technology and preventing Islamabad from cooperating with Asian and Islamic states in the nuclear field, pose a big question mark on the causes behind the violent Asian earthquake."
Incitement against Israel and Jews in Egyptian media is usually limited to the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict yet exceptions are known to occur.
In August 2002, the Paris Supreme Court summoned Ibrahim Naafi', editor of the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, for having authorized the publication of a controversial article entitled 'Jewish matza is made from Arab blood' in the October 28, 2000 edition of the paper.
Naafi' was charged with incitement to anti-Semitism and racist violence.
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