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Air Force moving several MOAB bombs to Gulf region: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (AFP) Apr 10, 2003 The US Air Force is moving several 21,000-pound MOAB bombs, the largest US conventional bomb, to the Gulf region, a US defense official said Wednesday.
It was not clear what the air force intends to do with the bombs, which are most effective against troops or tanks in open areas.
"What we were told today is that they are on the way," said the defense official, who asked not to be identified.
He said several were being shipped to the Gulf region.
MOAB stands for Massive Ordnance Air Blast, but it is known informally as the "mother of all bombs."
Developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base in Florda, where it was tested last month, the bomb is a larger version of the 15,000 pound "daisy cutter."
The "daisy cutter" was used in Vietnam to clear jungle for helicopter landing pads, in the 1991 Gulf War to clear minefields and in Afghanistan to clear caves and strike fear into al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
The MOAB has a satellite guidance system and a tail kit to steer it to within about 13 meters (14 yards) of its target.
It is too big to be dropped normally. It is dragged out of the back of a C-130 cargo plane by a parachute.
These ethylene bombs work by taking advantage of the effect of exploding fuel in the air. When a mix of fuel and air ignites, it creates a fireball and a wave of explosions that spread quickly over a much greater area than traditional explosives. The after-effects of the explosion are very similar to those of small nuclear bombs but without the radiation.
The American cluster bombs carry ethylene gas, of the kind used in the Second Gulf War, in three barrels, each of which weighs 100 pounds. Each barrel contains 75 pounds of ethylene oxide, whose industrial usage is the production of other chemical compounds such glycol ethylene and other highly poisonous compounds.
As for the way in which these bombs work, a fuse ignites the barrel at a height of 30 feet which breaks and opens the barrel, and the fuel is expelled dispersing in the air to create a cloud with a 60-feet radius and 8-feet depth.
The airburst spreads to areas that are difficult to attack with more traditional bombs. The cloud is poisonous in itself, and exposure to ethylene oxide leads to lung decay, headaches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and shortness of breath and even cancer and birth defects. The gas is highly combustible and reactive.
After this, the main charge ignites the mix leading to an explosion that spreads at speeds of 3 km a second -- faster than the speed of sound, and the mix of fuel and air burns at 2,700 degrees Celsius. It is possible to increase the effect by using additional warheads.
Traditional explosives such as TNT pack greater explosive power, but the MOAB explodes over a longer period of time and is more destructive, especially in enclosed spaces.
The degree of pressure created by the airburst is twice that of traditional bombs, where the air pressure would only rise to just above 1kg per sq. cm. With the MOAB, the air pressure goes up to 30kg per sq. cm.
The danger doesn't end there. The explosive mix of fuel and air traveling at speeds exceeding the speed of sound leave behind a vacuum that sucks all air and other materials, creating a mushroom cloud. These explosions cause cerebral concussion or blindness, blockage of air passageways and collapse of lungs, tearing of eardrums, massive internal bleeding and displacement and tearing of internal organs, and injuries from flying objects. These are aside from the injuries mentioned above which result from inhalation of this poisonous ethylene oxide cloud.
It is for these reasons that human rights organizations consider these MOABs to be weapons of mass destruction. They don't differentiate between civilian and military targets and their use in populated areas contravenes international agreements relating
What has happened is an international organisation is being established that the United States cannot control. This is the real ideological offence that is being taken. Even though it's not going to be able to tell the US Government what to do, the fact that US citizens can be subject to international jurisdiction is unacceptable to the United States.
The White House is bowing to conservatives who have a kneejerk reaction to any international body that has even the most remote authority to tell the United States what to do.
In the wake of Britain's arrest of Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, the attempted legal action in Belgium against Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, and the renewed controversy over Henry Kissinger's role in the Vietnam War, Washington is also concerned that former ministers might be the targets of prosecution. Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, for instance, might be arrested while travelling abroad on charges stemming from atrocities committed during the War on Terror or the War In Iraq.
Fear of proscecution is what drives this administration.
(9) By fourteen votes to one, Finds that the United States of America, by producing in 1983 a manual entitled "Operaciones sicológicas en guerra de guerrillas", and disseminating it to contra forces, has encouraged the commission by them of acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law; but does not find a basis for concluding that any such acts which may have been committed are imputable to the United States of America as acts of the United States of America;
So, technically, you are correct. Under current U.S. law though (USA PATRIOT), all involved (including the politicians) would be roasting in Guantanamo right now.
So, by the letter of the law you are correct. By the spirit of the law? Greater hypocrisy man has rarely seen.
There should be an adult news channel where the full account resides
Never be afraid to expose your children to the truth of the society you live in. It will be theirs one day and you do them no favors by sheltering them.
Question... do you bitch when two people next to you have a conversation that you can hear? Why is that any different from someone talking on a cell phone?
Because generally in a public place there is a significant amount of ambient noise. The person on the cell therefore cannot hear that well. This gives them the impression that the person on the other end cannot hear that well either. They then raise their voice to compensate.
Now a set of earbuds and a good sub-voc mike? I have no problem with that.
No, I don't. I just refuse to justify evil actions with feel good rationalizations.
There is a difference between objecting to war as the solution to the worlds ills and agreeing or supporting the enemy. Just like their is a difference between nationalism and patriotism. If you cannot see that difference, I cannot help you.
Government has too many resources at its disposal.
Except the teeth it needs to deal with the corporations. The whole MS Anti-Trust was a good case in point. Politics over-ruled the law. S&L was another good one. The elite behind the corporations pulled the strings and the taxpayers barfed money to bail them out.
If government was seperated from the market, corporations would have to compete on merit alone
Problem is you are talking bottom line (merit). There is no profit in protecting the environment. There is no profit in moral behavior. There is no profit in customers, only in consumers.
Government holds the key to oppression, not the private sector.
But the private sector holds the keys to government. And that is the immediate problem.
That has been the case since the fall of the Soviet Union and will be true for at least another decade, when China gets its legs.
The point being, now everyone knows it. The gloves are off and the neo-cons will strike while the iron is hot. On the one hand, the U.S. denies that it intends to hit Syria and Iran next and on the other hand they're already setting up to do exactly that.
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Air Force moving several MOAB bombs to Gulf region: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (AFP) Apr 10, 2003
The US Air Force is moving several 21,000-pound MOAB bombs, the largest US conventional bomb, to the Gulf region, a US defense official said Wednesday.
It was not clear what the air force intends to do with the bombs, which are most effective against troops or tanks in open areas.
"What we were told today is that they are on the way," said the defense official, who asked not to be identified.
He said several were being shipped to the Gulf region.
MOAB stands for Massive Ordnance Air Blast, but it is known informally as the "mother of all bombs."
Developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base in Florda, where it was tested last month, the bomb is a larger version of the 15,000 pound "daisy cutter."
The "daisy cutter" was used in Vietnam to clear jungle for helicopter landing pads, in the 1991 Gulf War to clear minefields and in Afghanistan to clear caves and strike fear into al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
The MOAB has a satellite guidance system and a tail kit to steer it to within about 13 meters (14 yards) of its target.
It is too big to be dropped normally. It is dragged out of the back of a C-130 cargo plane by a parachute.
These ethylene bombs work by taking advantage of the effect of exploding fuel in the air. When a mix of fuel and air ignites, it creates a fireball and a wave of explosions that spread quickly over a much greater area than traditional explosives. The after-effects of the explosion are very similar to those of small nuclear bombs but without the radiation.
The American cluster bombs carry ethylene gas, of the kind used in the Second Gulf War, in three barrels, each of which weighs 100 pounds. Each barrel contains 75 pounds of ethylene oxide, whose industrial usage is the production of other chemical compounds such glycol ethylene and other highly poisonous compounds.
As for the way in which these bombs work, a fuse ignites the barrel at a height of 30 feet which breaks and opens the barrel, and the fuel is expelled dispersing in the air to create a cloud with a 60-feet radius and 8-feet depth.
The airburst spreads to areas that are difficult to attack with more traditional bombs. The cloud is poisonous in itself, and exposure to ethylene oxide leads to lung decay, headaches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and shortness of breath and even cancer and birth defects. The gas is highly combustible and reactive.
After this, the main charge ignites the mix leading to an explosion that spreads at speeds of 3 km a second -- faster than the speed of sound, and the mix of fuel and air burns at 2,700 degrees Celsius. It is possible to increase the effect by using additional warheads.
Traditional explosives such as TNT pack greater explosive power, but the MOAB explodes over a longer period of time and is more destructive, especially in enclosed spaces.
The degree of pressure created by the airburst is twice that of traditional bombs, where the air pressure would only rise to just above 1kg per sq. cm. With the MOAB, the air pressure goes up to 30kg per sq. cm.
The danger doesn't end there. The explosive mix of fuel and air traveling at speeds exceeding the speed of sound leave behind a vacuum that sucks all air and other materials, creating a mushroom cloud. These explosions cause cerebral concussion or blindness, blockage of air passageways and collapse of lungs, tearing of eardrums, massive internal bleeding and displacement and tearing of internal organs, and injuries from flying objects. These are aside from the injuries mentioned above which result from inhalation of this poisonous ethylene oxide cloud.
It is for these reasons that human rights organizations consider these MOABs to be weapons of mass destruction. They don't differentiate between civilian and military targets and their use in populated areas contravenes international agreements relating
it was not a threat but simply a warning.
Purely semantics. It's still a threat.
What has happened is an international organisation is being established that the United States cannot control. This is the real ideological offence that is being taken. Even though it's not going to be able to tell the US Government what to do, the fact that US citizens can be subject to international jurisdiction is unacceptable to the United States.
The White House is bowing to conservatives who have a kneejerk reaction to any international body that has even the most remote authority to tell the United States what to do.
In the wake of Britain's arrest of Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, the attempted legal action in Belgium against Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, and the renewed controversy over Henry Kissinger's role in the Vietnam War, Washington is also concerned that former ministers might be the targets of prosecution. Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, for instance, might be arrested while travelling abroad on charges stemming from atrocities committed during the War on Terror or the War In Iraq.
Fear of proscecution is what drives this administration.
1. Invest money in Raytheon, General Electric etc.
2. Bomb, kill maim and export weapons.
3. Profit!
The ones profiting from war are not on my side.
I am finger pointing?? Thou doth protest to loudly.
They were absolved of direct terrorism, but only because the law at the time was not what it is now.
If America is so lily white in it's international behavior, what did they have to fear from the International Criminal Court? Why the fear?
What an inconvenience.
Rummy hired him to write the copy for the Syria operation.
From the actual World Court documents:
(9) By fourteen votes to one,
Finds that the United States of America, by producing in 1983 a manual entitled "Operaciones sicológicas en guerra de guerrillas", and disseminating it to contra forces, has encouraged the commission by them of acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law; but does not find a basis for concluding that any such acts which may have been committed are imputable to the United States of America as acts of the United States of America;
So, technically, you are correct. Under current U.S. law though (USA PATRIOT), all involved (including the politicians) would be roasting in Guantanamo right now.
So, by the letter of the law you are correct. By the spirit of the law? Greater hypocrisy man has rarely seen.
There should be an adult news channel where the full account resides
Never be afraid to expose your children to the truth of the society you live in. It will be theirs one day and you do them no favors by sheltering them.
The whole truth of it should be shown regardless.
I couldn't agree more.
Let's roll the tanks into Canada while we're at it. And Mexico too. Ya.
Where does it end? PAX AMERICANA, with Emperor Bush in charge.
Ya, but where else can you be at work, get free drinks and watch all the scantily clad women walking by?
Oh, and you might make a little cash too.
Darwin Award?
Try a box of .22 calibre shells in an outdoor brick fireplace.
If the video phone rings while I'm in the shower, I'm not going to rush out and get it.
Ever heard of shower phones? This would just add a new dimension.
Waterproof towels anyone?
Question... do you bitch when two people next to you have a conversation that you can hear? Why is that any different from someone talking on a cell phone?
Because generally in a public place there is a significant amount of ambient noise. The person on the cell therefore cannot hear that well. This gives them the impression that the person on the other end cannot hear that well either. They then raise their voice to compensate.
Now a set of earbuds and a good sub-voc mike? I have no problem with that.
So what is the solution?
Well, considering that Canada switched from the old to the new in 1976, about 27 years I guess.
Humility is good. Baking $350 million dollar spacecraft into the Martian desert is not.
You act like those attrocities never happened.
No, I don't. I just refuse to justify evil actions with feel good rationalizations.
There is a difference between objecting to war as the solution to the worlds ills and agreeing or supporting the enemy. Just like their is a difference between nationalism and patriotism. If you cannot see that difference, I cannot help you.
Government has too many resources at its disposal.
Except the teeth it needs to deal with the corporations. The whole MS Anti-Trust was a good case in point. Politics over-ruled the law. S&L was another good one. The elite behind the corporations pulled the strings and the taxpayers barfed money to bail them out.
If government was seperated from the market, corporations would have to compete on merit alone
Problem is you are talking bottom line (merit). There is no profit in protecting the environment. There is no profit in moral behavior. There is no profit in customers, only in consumers.
Government holds the key to oppression, not the private sector.
But the private sector holds the keys to government. And that is the immediate problem.
A lot of people in Canada and the UK still use imperial units for many things
I know. I learned both. Imperial units until Grade 5 and then metric. In another 30 years you won't find many left who care about Imperial.
That has been the case since the fall of the Soviet Union and will be true for at least another decade, when China gets its legs.
The point being, now everyone knows it. The gloves are off and the neo-cons will strike while the iron is hot. On the one hand, the U.S. denies that it intends to hit Syria and Iran next and on the other hand they're already setting up to do exactly that.