An interview with Joe Trento about C-802 missiles and what they mean for the Persian Gulf.
In 2006, the U.S. Navy claimed it had a defense against the Iranian C-802 cruise missiles. But Iran, once again, put U.S. credibility to the test. During the war between Hezbollah and Israel, on July 14, 2006, Iranian-trained Hezbollah elite forces, operating with undercover Iranian commandos in Lebanon, fired two radar-guided C-802 missiles at the Israeli warship INS Hanit stationed 10 miles off the coast of Lebanon. The attack was timed to coincide with a speech being aired in the region by Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, who promised to deliver a series of “surprises” to Israel at the time the rocket was fired. In that missile attack, launched from Iranian-manned launchers smuggled into Beirut, four Israeli sailors died, and the Hanit suffered severe damage. The ship’s cruise missile detection system was not turned on. According to Israeli navy sources, these defensive systems are only turned on if the ship’s captain feels his ship is threatened by a cruise missile attack. If there is a small boat attack, that would be handled by the ship’s guns, a different system. Continue reading The Secret History Part II: The C-802 Cruise Missile: How the CIA left the Navy Defenseless against an Iranian Missile
Dubai is a very curious place. It is run by a very rich sheik who allows very bad things to happen in his glittering little Sheikdom and always gets away with it. It is the kind of place where they give expensive cars away at airport raffles, AQ Khan buys and sells nuclear weapons plans and components almost openly, and the Dubai authorities make few arrests. Continue reading Trento’s Take: Dubai Cops: “Round Up The Usual Suspect: Israel…”
Last month I appeared on Fox News Network’s morning show, Fox and Friends, to talk about airline security. Normally such appearances end up as clips on the Fox News Web site. Granted, the Steve Doocy interview was hardly groundbreaking, but that is seldom a criterion for feeding the beast that is a major cable network news Web site. Curiously, I was quoted in a written piece on the site that got a fair amount of pick-up, but no video.
It was not until a few days later that I learned what may have been behind the absence of a video clip on the Web site. I had said to Doocy that Saudi Arabian money was still financing Al Qaeda. Doocy did not react to my comment. But ten days later I learned that Fox’s parent company, News Corporation, was, at the time of my interview, negotiating with a Saudi prince to vastly increase his stake in the company. Continue reading Trento’s Take: Fox News Can’t Upset Murdoch’s Saudi Prince
John Brennan, assistant to the President for Homeland Security, in the Situation Room. Photo: Pete Souza / White House
Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan’s report to President Obama seemed the essence of candor. What was released to the public on January 7, 2010, seemed hard hitting and provided the illusion that Brennan had gotten to the bottom of what went wrong on Christmas Day with America’s intelligence apparatus. But like TSA and the rest of the airline security illusion, the Brennan report is another fairy tale told to make us feel better. Continue reading Trento’s Take: The CIA and Airline Security: The Dots No One Wants to Connect
Public Education Center President and DC Bureau Editor Joe Trento was interviewed by James Corbett from Tokyo about the recent National Security News Service investigation of US - Japanese nuclear history. Corbett discussion with Trento came in the wake of the renewal of political platitudes about nuclear arms reduction at the Nuclear Summit in earlier this year in Seoul. NSNS's painstaking decades–long investigation reveals how the United States broke its » read more
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Scientists first documented that PCBs had neurological effects in children in the mid 80s. Now new research suggests they may also play a role in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In late February, researchers published findings from their investigation into the prevalence of inattentive and impulsive behaviors in boys and girls in New Bedford, Mass. Although the children studied were born to mothers who lived near the contaminated harbor and dumpsites, » read more
Highly radioactive snakes, frogs and even a three-legged gator populate the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site. When you pour, for more than 50 years, radioactive material into a 300 square mile area of South Carolina that is a glorified swamp, strange things are going to happen. Now it appears SRS has a monster mystery on its radioactive hands.
Stumpy the SRS alligator has some serious competition – possibly » read more
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