Horrifying US Secret
Weapon Unleashed In Baghdad
Exclusive By Bill Dash
c. 2003 All Rights Reserved
8-25-03
A nightmarish US super weapon reportedly was employed by American ground
forces during chaotic street fighting in Baghdad. The secret
tank-mounted weapon was witnessed in all its frightening power by Majid
al-Ghazali, a seasoned Iraqi infantryman who described the device and
its gruesome effects as unlike anything he had ever encountered in his
lengthy military service. The disturbing revelation is yet another piece
of cinematic evidence brought back from postwar Iraq by intrepid
filmmaker Patrick Dillon.
 
In the film, al-Ghazali, whose english is less than fluent, describes
the weapon as reminiscent of a flame thrower, only immensely more
powerful. It is unclear what principle the weapon is based on. Searching
for a description, al-Ghazali said it appeared to be shooting
concentrated lightning bolts rather than just ordinary flames. Drawing
on his many years as a professional engineer, al-Ghazali speculates that
radiation of some kind probably figures into the weapon's hideous
capabilities. Like all men in Saddam's Iraq, al-Ghazali was compelled to
serve in the Iraqi equivalent of the Army National Guard and fought in
three wars over the past thirty-odd years. Via email, he told me he has
seen virtually every type of conventional weapon employed in battle, and
is well acquainted with their effects on people and machines, but
nothing in his extensive combat experience prepared him for the shock of
what he saw in Baghdad on April 12th.
 
On that date, al-Ghazali and his family sheltered in their house as a
fierce street battle erupted in his neighborhood. In the midst of the
fighting, he noticed that the Americans had called up an oddly
configured tank. Then to his amazement the tank suddenly let loose a
blinding stream of what seemed like fire and lightning, engulfing a
large passenger bus and three automobiles. Within seconds the bus had
become semi-molten, sagging "like a wet rag" as he put it. He said the
bus rapidly melted under this withering blast, shrinking until it was a
twisted blob about the dimensions of a VW bug. As if that were not
bizarre enough, al-Ghazali explicitly describes seeing numerous human
bodies shriveled to the size of newborn babies. By the time local street
fighting ended that day, he estimates between 500 and 600 soldiers and
civilians had been cooked alive as a result of the mysterious
tank-mounted device.
 
In a city littered everywhere with burned-out civilian and military
vehicles, US forces were abnormally scrupulous about immediately
detailing bulldozers and shovel crews to the job of burying the grim
wreckage. Nevertheless, telltale remnants remained as Dillon found when
al-Ghazali later took him to the site. Dillon said they easily uncovered
large puddles of resolidified metal and mounds of weird fibrous material
that, al-Ghazali explained, were all that remained of the vehicles'
tires. Dillon, who accumulated plenty of battlefield experience as a
medic in Viet-Nam, and has since covered a number of wars from Somalia
to Kosovo, told me that he has witnessed every kind of conventional
ordnance that can be used on humans and vehicles. " I've seen a freaking
smorgasbord of destruction in my life," he said, "flame-throwers,
napalm, white phosphorous, thermite, you name it. I know of nothing
short of an H-bomb that conceivably might cause a bus to instantly
liquefy or that can flash broil a human body down to the size of an
infant. God pity humanity if that thing is a preview of what's in store
for the 21st century."
 
For Majid al-Ghazali, images of the terrifying weapon and its victims
haunt his every day. In addition to his work as an engineer, he is also
a highly accomplished classical violinist, occupying the first chair in
the Baghdad Symphony. He is widely acknowledged as one of the preeminent
violinists in the Middle East. Besides his family, one of his greatest
joys is teaching at Baghdad's premier music conservatory. Unfortunately,
the conservatory was utterly destroyed. Yet somehow, despite the war's
horrors and its seemingly endless privations, he manages to maintain a
remarkably hopeful outlook. He recently informed me that the Baghdad
Symphony continues to exist and has been invited to perform in the
United States in December.
 
Copyright ©2003 - Bill Dash
 
Horrifying US Secret Weapon Unleashed In Baghdad
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Monday, August 25, 2003

Marines' weapon loaded with 'scream'
by WILLIAM LOWTHER, Daily Mail
11th March 2004

US troops are to be armed with a stun gun that uses a baby's high-pitched scream to bring the enemy to its knees.
The gun, which will be issued to marines in Iraq this month, fires "sonic bullets" that can be targeted like a torch beam.
Anyone hit with a full blast would suffer excruciating pain, permanent deafness and some form of cellular damage. A prolonged blast could kill.The "Secret Scream" gun as it is called, could revolutionise the way US troops deal with snipers, suicide bombers and riots in the turmoil of post-war Iraq.The actual sound used is a recording of a baby's scream played backwards."For most people, even if they plug their ears, it will produce the equivalent of an instant migraine," said Woody Norris, chairman of American Technology Corporation, the Californian company that has produced the weapon.

"It will knock some people to their knees."

Near human pain threshold

While the sound gun will normally be fired at just 110 decibels - a level that causes the human skull to vibrate - it can travel as far as 300 yards at 145 decibels.

The human threshold of pain is usually between 120 and 130 decibels.

Pentagon sources said it would be used in Iraq as an alternative to bullets to break up riots or protests, to stop suspects approaching check points and force snipers from buildings or caves.

The manufacturer tested the gun on volunteers last month.

No one could stand a 110 decibel blast for more than a few seconds.

Previous attempts to use acoustic weapons have failed because the sound travelled in every direction, affecting the operator as well as the enemy.

Individuals can be targeted

But the Secret Scream's ultrasound wave allows the operator to target one or two key individuals in a crowd.
"Tear gas lingers long after you've fired the canisters. This, you switch it off and it's gone," Mr Norris said.The weapon consists of two parts, a megaphone the size of a commercial satellite dish mounted on an armoured vehicle, and a computerised operating system that aims and controls the sound waves.There is a smaller version that can be held in the hand, similar to the soundwave gun used by Tom Cruise in the movie Minority Report.The Secret Scream sends out two ultrasonic waves at different frequencies.Each set of waves is too high to hear, but they generate audible sound when they overlap. The effect is called "acoustical heterodyning".

Secret Pentagon research

A secret division in the Pentagon has been financing research on futuristic weapons for more than 15 years.
This is the first to go into operation. Retired US marine Colonel Peter Dotto, a weapons consultant, said the gun would be "terrific for repelling suicide bombers and for rousting terrorists from their hideouts"."Because the sound ricochets in tight, enclosed areas, it would make it very uncomfortable for Al Qaeda terrorists to stay in caves," he said.

"They would have to come out, and they probably would come out with their hands over their ears."

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