Posted by andreas from dtm2-t9-1.mcbone.net (62.104.210.98) on Friday, March 14, 2003 at 3:57AM :
T Nagy on Swiss TV: Iraqi Genocide
Central excerpt from item 2 below:
" .... And then he [T. Nagy] went on saying , that the US Generals found
this method really convincing and working , and that the orders given to
the USAF for the coming war give precise information on the planned and
intentional destruction of the entire Iraqi water-supply-system .
He said , the USAF will therefore use their high-precision laser-guided
missiles again to bomb
the Iraqi water-systems definitely into the ground now , and that this will
be officially communicated as 'collateral damages' . And then he made a
kind of résumé of all these bitter facts and had to conclude , that there
is no other way to look at this than as a clear attempt to commit
intentional Genocide , because the USAF and the US Army knew and knows
today that this
strategy will kill literally Millions of innocent Iraqis . He said it will
be only a matter of months then until probably the great majority of Iraqis
will have died , the children first , for they are sick already now .....
."
Any hard and actionable evidence/proof for those USAF orders which "for the
coming war give precise information on the planned and intentional
destruction of the entire Iraqi water-supply-system" available?
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Contents:
1) Clear And Irrefutable Proof The US Government Planed And Executed
Genocidal Acts Against The Iraqi People
2) ==== >> Swiss reader to provide this further UPDATE
3) Swiss TV programme ad: "Zerstörte Trinkwasserversorgung: Genozid am
irakischen Volk?"
[with link to Real Audio file]
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1) Clear And Irrefutable Proof The US Government Planed And Executed
Genocidal Acts Against The Iraqi People
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2108.htm
Clear And Irrefutable Proof The US Government Planed And Executed
Genocidal Acts Against The Iraqi People.
03/13/03
Our Worst Fears Confirmed.
Washington professor Tom Nagy appeared tonight (March 13 , 2003) on the
national Swiss TV-channel SFDRS 1:
This Washington professor presented Pentagon papers [see below] providing
hard evidence on the past and present war-doctrines of the USAF and other
US troops .
These documents are hard evidence and proof of intentional genocide against
the entire Iraqi civilian population. These war crimes we committed by
destroying the water systems with precision bombing .
The bombing of the Iraqi water systems never was an obvious intentional
target ! It' worked well in 1991, so we can expect that they'll use it once
again. These US-War Criminals should be brought to justice.
A further US attack on Iraq's water purification systems will bring untold
deaths due to lack of clean drinkable water and will ultimately lead to the
deaths of million of Iraqi Civilians.
We really have to face this clearly.
The US-Government is prepared to commit intentionally an unimaginable
GENOCIDE.
We have the common duty to do whatever it takes to stop this war,
everything possible which fits the concept of Peace and avoids the concept
of War .
Our Swiss reader has been kind enough to provide this further update
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2109.htm
THIS MUST BECOME PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE ENTIRE USA !!!
DIA's Declassified: "IRAQ WATER TREATMMENT VULNERABILITIES (U)"
Original Document:
http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/declassdocs/dia/19950901/950901_511rept_91.html
Filename:511rept.91
DTG: 221900Z JAN 91
FM: DIA WASHINGTON DC
VIA: NMIST NET
TO: CENTCOM
INFO: CENTAF
UK STRIKE COMMAND
MARCENT
18 ABC
NAVCENT
SOCCENT
7TH CORPS
ANKARA
SUBJECT: IRAQ WATER TREATMMENT VULNERABILITIES (U)
AS OF 18 JAN 91 KEY JUDGMENTS.
1. IRAO DEPENDS ON IMPORTING-SPECIALIZED EQUIPMENT-AND SOME CHEMICALS
TO PURIFY ITS WATER SUPPLY, MOST OF WHICH IS HEAVILY MINERALIZED AND
FREQUENTLY BRACKISH TO SALINE.
2. WITH NO DOMESTIC SOURCES OF BOTH WATER TREATMENT REPLACEMENT PARTS
AND SOME ESSENTIAL CHEMICALS, IRAO WILL CONTINUE ATTEMPTS TO CIRCUMVENT
UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS TO IMPORT THESE VITAL COMMODITIES.
3. FAILING TO SECURE SUPPLIES WILL RESULT IN A SHORTAGE OF PURE
DRINKING WATER FOR MUCH OF THE POPULATION. THIS COULD LEAD TO INCREASED
INCIDENCES, IF NOT EPIDEMICS, OF DISEASE AND TO CERTAIN
PURE-WATER-DEPENDENT INDUSTRIES BECOMING INCAPACITATED, INCLUDING PETRO
CHEMICALS, FERTILIZERS, PETROLEUM REFINING, ELECTRONICS,PHARMACEUTICALS,
FOOD PROCESSING, TEXTILES, CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION,AND THERMAL POWERPLANTS.
4. IRAQ'S OVERALL WATER TREATMENT CAPABILITY WILL SUFFER A SLOW
DECLINE, RATHER THAN A PRECIPITOUS HALT, AS DWINDLING SUPPLIES AND
CANNIBALIZED PARTS ARE CONCENTRATED AT HIGHER PRIORITY LOCATIONS. ALTHOUGH
IRAQ IS ALREADY EXPERIENCING A LOSS OF WATERTREATMENT CAPABILITY, IT
PROBABLY WILL TAKE AT LEAST SIX MONTHS (TO JUNE 1991) BEFORE THE SYSTEM IS
FULLY DEGRADED.
5. UNLESS WATER TREATMENT SUPPLIES ARE EXEMPTED FROM THE UNSANCTIONS
FOR HUMANITARIAN REASONS, NO ADEQUATE SOLUTION EXISTS FOR IRAQ'S WATER
PURIFICATION DILEMMA, SINCE NO SUITABLE ALTERNATIVES,INCLUDING LOOTING
SUPPLIES FROM KUWAIT, SUFFICIENTLY MEET IRAQI NEEDS.)
6. IRAQI WATER QUALITY. SURFACE WATER FROM THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES
RIVER SYSTEM SUPPLIES ABOUT HALF OF IRAQ'S LAND AREA,INCLUDING URBAN AREAS
AND THEIR ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES. IRAQ'S REMAINING AREA, PRIMARILY RURAL,
RELIES ON GROUND WATER FROM WELLS.THE QUALITY OF UNTREATED WATER THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY VARIES WIDELY BUT GENERALLY IS POOR. HEAVY MINERALIZATION,
SUSPENDED SOLIDS AND,FREQUENTLY, HIGH SALINITY CHARACTERIZE IRAQ'S WATER
SUPPLY.ALTHoUGH IRAQ HAS MADE A CONSIDERABLE EFFORT TO SUPPLY PURE WATER TO
ITS POPULATION, THE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WAS UNRELIABLE EVEN BEFORE THE
UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS SALINITY CHARACTERIZE IRAO'S WATER SUPPLY.ALTHOUGH
IRAQ HAS MADE A CONSIDERABLE EFFORT TO SUPPLY PURE WATER TO ITS POPULATION,
THE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WAS UNRELIABLE EVEN BEFORE THE UNITED NATIONS
SANCTIONS WERE IMPOSED. MOST IRAOIS PREFER TO DRINK IMPORTED BOTTLED WATER.
7. THE MINERALS IN THE WATER INCLUDE CONCENTRATIONS OF CARBONATES,
SULPHATES, CHLORIDES, AND, IN SOME LOCATIONS, NITRATES.DRINKING HEAVILY
MINERALIZED WATER COULD RESULT IN DIARRHEA AND,OVER THE LONG TERM, STONES
FORMING WITHIN THE BODY. FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS, PIPES AND OTHER
EOUIPMENT WOULD SCALE (BECOME ENCRUSTED), EVENTUALLY CAUSING PLANTS TO SHUT
DOWN. SCALING IN BOILERS WOULD CAUSE EXPLOSIONS IF NOT PREVENTED OR
REMOVED.
8. MUCH OF IRAO'S GROUND WATER SUPPLIES ARE BRACKISH TO SALINE.
THE,LARGE RESERVOIRS NEAR BAGHDAD--THE THARTHAR, -. HABBANIYAH, AND AL MILH
LAKES--ARE SALINE. SINCE THESE LAKES SERVE AS CATCH BASINS FOR FLOODS ON
THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS, THE IRAOIS MUST REDUCE THE WATER VOLUME
IN-THE LAKES DURING THE LOW-WATER SEASON. EVAPARATlON DURING THE
SUMMER -ACCOMPLISHES THIS IMPART. SINCE REDUCING THE WATER VOLUME IN THE
LAKES ONLY INCREASES SALINITY, THE IRAQIS FLUSH THE LAKES BY DIVERTING
FRESH WATER FROM UP STREAM ON THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES. THE FLOW IS
DISCHARGED FURTHER DOWNSTREAM TO AVOID FILLING THE BASINS. SINCE THE
DISCHARGE OCCURS WHERE THE RIVERS ENTER THE MESOPOTAMIAN PLAIN, THE
DISCHARGE INCREASES THE NATURAL SALINITY OF THE WATERS DOWNSTREAM,
AFFECTING IRRIGATED AGRICULTURAL LANDS IRAQ SPECIALIZES IN-
SALINE-RESISTANT CROPS SUCH AS BARLEr AND DATES) AND URBAN AREAS, INCLUDING
BAGHDAD.THE KARKH WATER TREATMENT PROJECT FOR WESTERN BAGHDAD HAS AN IN
TAKE POINT ABOUT 40 KILOMETERS NORTH OF BAGHDAD, UPSTREAM FROM WHERE LAKE
THARTHAR DISCHARGES INTO THE TIGRIS. WATER BELOW THE DISCHARGE POINT
REQUIRES DESALINIZATION.
9. AT BASRAH, THE SHATT AL ARAB TENDS TO BE SALINE UNDER CONDITIONS OF
LOW-RIVER WATER VOLUMES AND DEPENDING ON TIDE AND WIND DIRECTIONS.
NORMALLY, THE SHATT AL ARAB AT BASRAH HAS A SALINITY OF 1,500 TO 2,000
PARTS PER MILLION (PPM). SALINITY HAS BEEN INCREASING OVER THE LAST 5
YEARS, AND IN THE FALL 1989, THE SALINITY HAD REACHED 6,000 TO 7,000 PPM,
HIGHER THAN EXISTING DESALINIZATION SYSTEMS COULD HANDLE. (OCEAN SEAWATER
IS ABOUT 36,000 PPM OF DISSOLVED SALTS; THE PERSIAN GULF IS APPROXIMATELY
42,000 PPM.BRACKISH WATER IS A MINIMUM OF 1,000 PPM. THE WORLD HEALTH
ORGANIZATION STANDARD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION IS 500 PPM OR LESS.GROUND WATER
IN IRAO'S LOWER MESOPOTAMIAN BASIN RANGES FROM 5,000 TO 60,000 PPM, WITH
SOME LOCATIONS REACHING 80,000). SALINE WATER IS UNFIT FOR DRINKING AND
CORRODES INDUSTRIAL PIPES OR OTHER EXPOSED EQUIPMENT.
10. (U) SUSPENDED SOLIDS, PRIMARILY SILT, IN THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVER
SYSTEM INCREASE WITH WATER VOLUME. UNLESS REMOVED FROM THE WATER, THESE
PARTICLES WOULD CLOG PIPES AND FILTERS AND WOULD REQUIRE STRAINING BEFORE
CONSUMPTION BY END USERS.
11. IRAQ'S RIVERS ALSO CONTAIN BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS,POLLUTANTS, AND ARE
LADEN WITH BACTERIA. UNLESS THE WATER IS PURIFIED WITH CHLORINE EPIDEMICS
OF SUCH DISEASES AS CHOLERA,HEPATITIS, AND TYPHOID COULD OCCUR.)
12. WATER TREATMENT REGIMES. WATER TREATMENT IS SPECIFIC TO THE
IMPURITIES OF THE WATER TREATED AND TO THE APPLICATION FOR WHICH THE WATER
WILL BE USED. THE BASIC PROCESS REQUIRES CLARIFICATION (REMOVING SUSPENDED
SOLIDS), FILTRATION, AND, FOR DRINKING AND SOME INDUSTRIAL USES,
PURIFICATION. IN IRAQ, THE PROCESS ALSO INCLUDES DESALINATING AND WATER
SOFTENING.
13. CLARIFICATION REQUIRES ADDING FLOCCULANTS AND COAGULANTS TO THE
WATER. THE IRAOIS USE ALUMINUM SULPHATE ALTHOUGH IRON SULPHATES ARE
ACCEPTABLE TO BIND THE SUSPENDED SOLIDS INTO CLUMPS FOR SETTLING. IF NOT
REMOVED, THE SEDIMENTS, OR SLUDGE, WOULD CLOG THE FILTRATION SYSTEM
(PROBABLY SAND) AND SHUT DOWN THE WATER PURIFICATION PLANT UNTIL THE CLOGS
WERE REMOVED. ALUMINUM SULPHATE SUPPLY LEVELS ARE KNOWN TO BE CRITICALLY
LOW, SINCE IRAQ TRIED AND FAILED TO OBTAIN PRECURSOR CHEMICALS FROM JORDAN
FOR ITS MANUFACTURE.
14. CHLORINATION NORMALY IS ACCOMPLISHED DURING SEVERAL STAGES OF
PURIFICATION, INCLUDING THE INITAL TREATMENT STAGE TO PREVENT THE EQUIPMENT
FROM LIMING AND TO KILL PATHOGENS JUST PRIOR TO STORING THE FULLY TREATED
WATER. THE CHLORINE USED IN MOST PLANTS IS EITHER SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE, A
LIOUID, OR CALCIUM HYPOCHLORITE, A POWDER. IF THEY ARE EQUIPPED WITH
INJECTORS, LOW-CAPACITY PLANTS CAN USE CHLORINE GAS DIRECTLY. IRAO'S PLANT
IN FALLUJA AND THE PC-I PETROCHEMICAL PLANT AT BASRAH PRODUCE SODIUM
HYPOCHLORITE AND, AS A BY-PRODUCT, CAUSTIC SODA, WHICH IS USED TO ADJUST
THE PH OF WATER SUPPLIES. NORMALLY, BOTH LOCATIONS PRODUCE RELATIVELY SMALL
QUANTITIES OF CHLORINE FOR INDUSTRIAL AND SOME MUNICIPAL USE; CHLORINE FOR
MUNICIPAL SUPPLIES ALSO IS IMPORTED.RECENT REPORTS INDICATE THE CHLORINE
SUPPLY IS CRITICALLY LOW. ITS IMPORTATION HAS BEEN EMBARGOED, AND BOTH MAIN
PRODUCTION PLANTS EITHER HAD BEEN SHUT DOWN FOR A TIME OR HAVE BEEN
PRODUCING MINIMAL OUTPUTS BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF IMPORTED CHEMICALS AND THE
INABILITY TO REPLACE PARTS. PREVIOUSLY WHEN SUPPLIES WERE LOW, THE IRAQI
SHAVE STOPPED CHLORINATING THE DRINKING WATER, BUT ONLY FOR SHORT PERIODS.
TO RETARD ALGAE GROWTH, WHICH COULD CLOG PIPES, COPPER SULPHATE NORMALLY IS
ADDED TO THE WATER. BUT THIS PRACTICE HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED IN IRAO, AND
SUPPLIES OF COPPER SULPHATE ARE UNKNOWN.SULFURIC ACID TYPICALLY IS ADDED AS
WELL, BUT IRAQ PROBABLY CAN PRODUCE SUFFICIENT SUPPLIES.
15. IRAQ APPARENTLY USES LIME, AT LEAST AT THE NEW KARKH TREATMENT
PLANT, TO SOFTEN WATER. THE LIME PRECIPITATES COLLOIDAL CARBONATE
IMPURITIES FROM THE WATER. SODA ASH AND ZEOLITES ALSO NORMALLY ARE USED TO
REMOVE NONCARBONATE MINERAL IMPURITIES, BUT THEIR USE IN IRAO HAS NOT BEEN
DETERMINED. LOCAL COMPANIES SELL BOTTLED SOFT WATER IN IRAO, SUGGESTING
THAT MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEMS DO NOT NORMALLY SOFTEN WATER. IRAQ SHOULD HAVE
NO SHORTAGES OF LIME. HOWEVER, THE LACK OF SOFTENING CHEMICALS REPORTEDLY
HAS INCAPACITATED THE BOTTLED SOFT-WATER INDUSTRY.
16. BETWEEN 1982 AND 1990, SOME IRAOI INDUSTRIES INSTALLED REVERSIBLE
ION EXCHANGE ELECTRODIALYSIS MEMBRANE SYSTEMS, OBTAINED FROM AN AMERICAN
SOURCE, TO SOFTEN AND DESALINATE WATER. THE MEMBRANES LAST 5 TO 7 YEARS AND
DO NOT REQUIRE CHEMICAL PRETREATMENT OF THE WATER. THEY NORMALLY SERVE
SMALLER VOLUME REQUIREMENTS.HOWEVER, A MAJOR OIL REFINERY, AL DAURA IN
BAGHDAD, INSTALLED THIS SYSTEM IN 1985, AND IT PRODUCES 24,000 CUBIC METERS
OF PURIFIED WATER PER DAY.
17. ABOUT ONE QUARTER OF ALL IRAOI WATER SUPPLIED FOR INDUSTRIAL AND
HUMAN CONSUMPTION REQUIRES DESALINIZATION. IRAO RELIES ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY
ON ION EXCHANGE OR REVERSE OSMOSIS SYSTEMS RATHER THAN MULTISTAGE FLASH
UNITS. ION EXCHANGE AND REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANES ARE SPECIFIC TO THE TYPE
OF EQUIPMENT OF WHICH THEY ARE A COMPONENT, AS ARE THE CHEMICALS REOUIRED.
PREVIOUS IRAQI USE OF SUBSTITUTES HAS NOT BEEN SATISFACTORY. IRAO
REPORTEDLY DEPENDS ON IMPORTED MEMBRANES AND IMPORTS CHEMICALS FROM SEVERAL
SOURCES. IRAQ HAD NOT COMPLETED THE MAJOR PURCHASE AND DELIVERY OF SPARE
MEMBRANES BEFORE INVADING KUWAIT. ATTEMPTS TO PROCURE MEMBRANES SINCE THE
UN SANCTIONS WERE IMPOSED HAVE FAILED. SINCE THE ATTEMPT TO IMPORT
MEMBRANES CORRESPONED TO THEIR NORMAL REPLACEMENT PERIOD, IRAQ APPARENTLY
DID NOT STOCKPILE ABUNDANT SPACE MEMBRANES OR CHEMICALS AND PROBABLY HAD
NO MORE THAN A 2-MONTH SUPPLY PRIOR TO THE INVASION.
18. POLYAMIDE MEMBRANES WHICH IRAO USES IN SOME DESALINIZATION
EOUIPMENT, DETERIORATE WHEN EXPOSED TO CHLORINE IONS.PRIOR TO PASSING
THROUGH THE MEMBRANE, WAT-ER IS TREATED WITH SODIUM METABISULPHITE TO
REMOVE THE CHLORINE USED IN PRETREATMENT. THE CHLORINE THEN IS RE-STORED
FOR LATER PURIFICATION. THE STATUS OF SODIUM METABISULPHITE SUPPLIES IS NOT
KNOWN, BUT SUPPLIES PROBABLY ARE DWINDLING, WHICH WILL ESCALATE FAILURES OF
THIS MEMBRANE TYPE.IRAO ALSO USES CELLULOSE ACETATE MEMBRANES (AN OLD
TECHNOLOGY),WHICH HAVE AN EXCEPTIONALLY SHORT LIFE AND ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO
BIOLOGICAL CONTAMINATION. IRAO REPORTEDLY CAN MANUFACTURE CELLULOSE
MEMBRANES, BUT THE AVAILABILITY OF PRECURSOR STOCKS IS PROBABLY LOW.IRAQ
HAD BEEN ACOUIRING REVERSE ELECTRODIALYSIS ION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES PRIOR TO
THE UN SANCTIONS. HOWEVER, MOST SYSTEMS USE REVERSE OSMOSIS OR
UNIDIRECTIONAL ELECTRODIALYSIS, WHICH, UNLIKE REVERSE ELECTRODIALYSIS
MEMBRANES, REOUIRE CHEMICALS TO MAKE THEM WORK.)
19. INDUSTRIAL WATER TREATMENT. INDUSTRIES REQUIRE TREATED WATER, AND
THE TYPE OF TREATMENT DEPENDS ON THE APPLICATION. NORMALLY, SOFTENING AND
DESALINIZATION ARE REOUIRED TO PREVENT PIPE SAND EOUIPMENT FROM CORRODING
OR SCALING. IN THE PETRO CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, WATER USED FOR COOLING IS
PARTIALLY TREATED TO PREVENT SCALING. WATER USED IN THERMAL POWERPLANTS OR
REFINERIES TO PRODUCE STEAM MUST BE PURE TO PREVENT BOTH CORROSION AND
SCALING.OTHERWISE, LOSS OF CAPABILITY COULD OCCUR WITHIN 2 MONTHS. IN
ADDITION, FOOD PROCESSING, ELECTRONIC, AND, PARTICULARLY,PHARMACEUTICAL
PLANTS REOUIRE EXTREMELY PURE WATER THAT IS FREE FROM BIOLOGICAL
CONTAMINANTS. LARGE INDUSTRIAL PLANTS, INCLUDING PETROCHEMICAL, REFINING,
AND FERTILIZER PLANTS, COLLOCATE THEIR WATER TREATMENT FACILITIES. TURNKEY
CONTRACTORS BUILT THESE FACILITIES, AND THE PARTS ARE SPECIFIC TO EACH
SYSTEM, WHICH COMPLICATES THEIR REPLACEMENT. THE IRAOIS COULD NOT
MANUFACTURE DUPLICATES AND THEIR IMPORTATION IS EMBARGOED.)
20. IRAQI ALTERNATIVES. IRAQ COULD TRY CONVINCING THE UNITED NATIONS OR
INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES TO EXEMPT WATER TREATMENT SUPPLIES FROM SANCTIONS FOR
HUMANITARIAN REASONS. IT PROBABLY ALSO IS ATTEMPTING TO PURCHASE SUPPLIES
BY USING SOME SYMPATHETIC COUNTRIES AS FRONTS. IF SUCH ATTEMPTS FAIL, IRAQI
ALTERNATIVES ARE NOT ADEOUATE FOR THEIR NATIONAL REOUIREMENTS.
21. VARIOUS IRAOI INDUSTRIES HAVE WATER TREATMENT CHEMICAL SAND
EQUIPMENT ON HAND, IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY BEEN CONSUMED OR BROKEN. IRAO
POSSIBLY COULD CANNIBALIZE PARTS OR ENTIRE SYSTEMS FROM LOWER TO HIGHER
PRIORITY PLANTS, AS WELL AS DIVERT CHEMICALS,SUCH AS CHLORINE. HOWEVER,
THIS CAPABILITY WOULD BE LIMITED AND TEMPORARY. IRAQ PREVIOUSLY HAD
ACQUIRED SEVERAL HUNDRED CONTAINERIZED REVERSE OSMOSIS MODULES FOR
LOCALIZED USE THAT COULD BE RELOCATED. WITHOUT CHEMICALS AND REPLACEMENT
MEMBRANES, THESE UNITS WHERE EVENTUALLY WOULD BECOME USELESS. HOWEVER,
CONSOLIDATING CHEMICALS OR CANNIBALIZING PARTS AND MOVING UNITS WHERE
NECESSARY COULD SUSTAIN SOME PURIFICATION OPERATIONS INDUSTRIAL PLANTS THAT
ARE INOPERABLE FOR REASONS-OTHER THAN THE LACK OF WATER TREATMENT SUPPLIES
COULD PROCESS WATER FOR MUNICIPAL NEEDS OR POSSIBLY RELOCATE THEIR
PURIFICATION EOUIPMENT.
22. THE DIFFERENCE IN WATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS LIMITS THE BENEFITS TO
IRAQ OF PLUNDERING KUWAIT'S WATER TREATMENT CHEMICALS. THE KUWAITIS RELY
PRIMARILY ON DESALINATING SEAWATER, AND THEIR WATER NEEDS ARE CONSIDERABLY
SMALLER THAN IRAQ'S. IRAQ COULD NOT USE CHEMICALS INTENDED FOR KUWAITI
WATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS, EXCEPT FOR LIMITED QUANTITIES OF CHLORINE.
ATTEMPTS TO CIRCUMVENT THE SANCTIONS TO OBTAIN WATER TREATMENT CHEMICALS
SUGGEST THAT ANY USEFUL SUPPLIES FROM KUWAIT ALREADY HAVE BEEN LOOTED AND
USED.
23. IRAO HAS INSTALLED A PIPELINE FROM THE DOHA DESALINIZATION PLANT IN
KUWAIT THAT CONNECTS WITH DISTRIBUTION PIPES AT A WATERTREATMENT PLANT NEAR
BASRAH. THIS SOURCE OF PURE WATER APPARENTLY HAS ENABLED THE PC-I
PETROCHEMICAL PLANT TO OPERATE AND TO PRODUCE CHLORINE BY ELECTROLYSIS OF
KUWAITI WATER MIXED WITH PURE SODIUM CHLORIDE. AT LEAST SOME OF THIS
CHLORINE PROBABLY IS USED FOR MUNICIPAL WATER PURIFICATION, BUT THE
OUANTITY PRODUCED WOULD BE INADEOUATE FOR NATIONAL REOUIREMENTS. MOREOVER,
SOME OF THE CHLORINE PROBABLY IS USED AT THE PC-I PLANT TO MAKE POLYVINYL
CHLORIDES TO CREATE THE PLASTIC SHEETS USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION. THE
USE OF KUWAITI WATER PROBABLY WILL NOT LAST LONG SINCE THE DOHA PLANT USES
THE MULTISTAGE FLASH DESALINIZATION PROCESS, WHICH REOUIRES ACID DOSING OR
THE ADDITION OF POLYMERS TO PREVENT SCALING OF THE HEAT EXCHANGES. THE UN
SANCTIONS MAY PREVENT RESUPPLY OF THESE CHEMICALS. INTENSIVE MAINTENANCE
ALSO IS REOUIRED TO KEEP THE UNITS OPERATING, AND THAT PROBABLY WOULD
REOUIRE THE SERVICES OF TRAINED KUWAITI EMPLOYEES SINCE IRAQ HAS LITTLE
EXPERIENCE WITH MULTISTAGE FLASH UNITS.
24. IRAQ'S BEST SOURCES OF QUALITY WATER ARE IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THE
NORTH AND NORTHEAST, WHERE MINERALIZATION AND SALINITY ARE WITHIN
ACCEPTABLE LIMITS. FOR THE SHORT TERM, IRAO CONCEIVABLY COULD TRUCK WATER
FROM THE MOUNTAIN RESERVOIRS TO URBAN AREAS. BUT THE CAPABILITY TO GAIN
SIGNIFICANT QUANTITIES IS EXTREMELY LIMITED. THE AMOUNT OF PIPE ON HAND AND
THE LACK OF PUMPING STATIONS WOULD LIMIT LAYING PIPELINES TO THESE
RESERVOIRS. MOREOVER, WITHOUT CHLORINE PURIFICATION, THE WATER STILL WOULD
CONTAIN BIOLOGICAL POLLUTANTS. SOME AFFLUENT IRAQIS COULD OBTAIN THEIR OWN
MINIMALLY ADEQUATE SUPPLY OF GOOD OUALITY WATER FROM NORTHERN IRAOI
SOURCES.IF BOILED, THE WATER COULD BE SAFELY CONSUMED. POORER IRAQIS AND
INDUSTRIES REQUIRING LARGE OUANTITIES OF PURE WATER WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO
MEET THEIR NEEDS.
25. PRECIPITATION OCCURS IN IRAQ DURING THE WINTER AND SPRING,BUT IT
FALLS PRIMARILY IN THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS. SPORADIC RAINS,SOMETIMES HEAVY ,
FALL OVER THE LOWER PLAINS. BUT IRAQ COULD NOT RELY ON RAIN TO PROVIDE
ADEQUATE PURE WATER.
26. THE SALINE OR ALKALINE CONTENT-OF GROUND WATER IN MOST LOCATIONS
WOULD CONSTRAIN DRILLING WELLS IN THE MESOPOTAMIAN PLAIN TO OBTAIN PURER
WATER MOREOVER, MUCH OF THE POPULATION USES SEPTIC TANKS, AND THE
UNDERLYING GEOLOGY AND TOPOGRAPHY WOULD CONTAMINATE WELLS IN MANY
LOCATIONS.))OUTLOOK)
27. IRAQ WILL SUFFER INCREASING SHORTAGES OF PURIFIED WATER BECAUSE OF
THE LACK OF REOUIRED CHEMICALS AND DESALINIZATION MEMBRANES. INCIDENCES OF
DISEASE, INCLUDING POSSIBLE EPIDEMICS,WILL BECOME PROBABLE UNLESS THE
POPULATION WERE CAREFUL TO BOIL WATER BEFORE CONSUMPTION, PARTICULARLY
SINCE THE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEVER A HIGH PRIORITY, WILL SUFFER THE
SAME LOSS OF CAPABILITY WITH THE LACK OF CHLORINE. LOCALLY PRODUCED FOOD
AND MEDICINE COULD BE CONTAMINATED. LACK OF COAGULATION CHEMICALS WILL
CAUSE PERIODIC SHUTDOWNS OF TREATMENT PLANTS FOR UNCLOGGING AND CLEANING
FILTERS, CAUSING INTERRUPTIONS OF WATER SUPPLIES. AS DESALINIZATION
EQUIPMENT BECOMES INOPERABLE, SALINE WATER SOURCES WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY
UNUSABLE. TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT SHUT DOWNS OF INDUSTRIAL PLANTS THAT RELY
ON TREATED WATER WILL MULTIPLY.CANNIBALIZING LOWER PRIORITY OPERATIONS WILL
ACCELERATE THE TREND.
28. THE ENTIRE IRAOI WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WILL NOT COLLAPSE
PRECIPITOUSLY, BUT ITS CAPABILITIES WILL DECLINE STEADILY AS DWINDLING
SUPPLIES INCREASINGLY ARE DIVERTED TO HIGHER PRIORITY SITES WITH COMPATIBLE
EQUIPMENT. KARKH, IRAO'S LARGEST WATERTREATMENT PLANT (AND ONE OF THE
WORLD'S LARGEST), WAS DESIGNED TO STORE 30 DAYS OF SUPPLIES ON SITE. THE
QUANTITY OF SUPPLIES, IF ANY, NORMALLY STOCKPILED IN CENTRALIZED WAREHOUSES
BEFORE SHIPMENT TO TREATMENT PLANTS IS UNKNOWN, BUT A 6 MONTH TO I YEAR
SUPPLY OF CHEMICALS IS THE NORMAL INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE. HOWEVER, CURRENT
IRAQI EFFORTS TO OBTAIN CHEMICALS AND MEMBRANES AND THE INSTALLATION OF A
PIPELINE TO OBTAIN PURE KUWAITI WATER SUGGEST THAT THERE WAS NOT ADEOUATE
STOCKPILING PRIOR TO THE INVASION OF KUWAIT. SOME CHEMICALS ARE DEPLETED OR
ARE NEARING DEPLETION, AND OLDER MEMBRANES ARE NOT BEING REPLACED ON
SCHEDULE. CONSEOUENTLY, IRAQ PROBABLY IS USING UNTREATED OR PARTIALLY
TREATED WATER IN SOME LOCATIONS. FULL DEGRADATION OF THE WATER TREATMENT
SYSTEM
PROBABLY WILL TAKE AT LEAST ANOTHER 6 MONTHS.
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2) Swiss reader to provide this further update
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2109.htm
Our Swiss reader has been kind enough to provide this further update.
Hi Tom ,
Yes , your right , it's already late-night here in Switzerland , but this
incredible war-craze merits every effort at any time to be stopped .
So this is what happened on Swiss-TV tonight :
Tonight , March 13., 2003 , approx. 21:15 Swiss Time , the Swiss National
TV-Channel SFDRS 1 broadcasted it's regular weekly show MTV (stands in
German for Menschen , Technik , Wissenschaft = Humans , Technology ,
Science) . In the prime-news at 20:00 they gave already a short info on
this
coming issue , that an interview with US Professor Tom Nagy on the
Water-War
and Genocide on the Iraqi population will be broadcast in the MTW-show .
Professor Nagy works at the George Washington University , Washington DC,
20052 USA , in the Department of Management Science .
His email address is
nagy@gwu.edu ,
his website-url is :
http://home.gwu.edu/~nagy/
both of these links were provided on the Swiss-TV homepage
http://www.sfdrs.ch
and there under programs(Sendungen)/MTV , and there was also the link to
the
declassified Pentagon papers he cited and explained in the interview :
http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/declassdocs/dia/19950901/950901_511rept_91.html
During his interview (about 15 minutes altogether) , Mr. Nagy presented
several Pentagon-files from 1991 to 1998 .
He said these documents were strictly classified until they succeeded in
their struggle to get them
declassified not so long ago . He showed a Pentagon paper from 1991 and
explained , that it contains the USAF's strategy to intentionally destroy
the Iraqi water-systems , which is a very hard breach of the
Geneva-conventions and therefore a warcrime to be prosecuted under
international law .
When asked by the interviewer , if he shares this view , Mr. Nagy was sad
because he had to agree completely . He showed then further Pentagon papers
from 1998 which made the following statements and comments necessary from
his part : the USAF concluded , that this method used in the first Gulf-war
was very effective , even more in combination with the fact , that the US
and the UK abused the embargo to prevent Iraq from the import of chlorine
for water-desinfection .
This drama caused already the death of more than 500'000 Iraqi children ,
Mr. Nagy said , and currently are 6000 Iraqi children dying in a week due
to nothing else than the lack of clean water ... .
And then he went on saying , that the US Generals found this method really
convincing and working , and that the orders given to the USAF for the
coming war give precise information on the planned and intentional
destruction of the entire Iraqi water-supply-system .
He said , the USAF will therefore use their high-precision laser-guided
missiles again to bomb
the Iraqi water-systems definitely into the ground now , and that this will
be officially communicated as 'collateral damages' . And then he made a
kind of résumé of all these bitter facts and had to conclude , that there
is no other way to look at this than as a clear attempt to commit
intentional
Genocide , because the USAF and the US Army knew and knows today that this
strategy will kill literally Millions of innocent Iraqis . He said it will
be only a matter of months then until probably the great majority of
Iraqis will have died , the children first , for they are sick already now
..... .
This is in brief the essential message which was given in this interview .
Well Tom , this is what I can do for the moment . I have no idea if this
serves your request , but I hope so for now . If you need further details
or information , please contact me at any time , your welcome , and I will
try to do my level best , ok ?
Thanks for your good work , it's much appreciated here !
Readers Name Withheld
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3) Zerstörte Trinkwasserversorgung: Genozid am irakischen Volk?
Sendung vom 13.03.2003
Wiederholungen:
Freitag, 14. März, 14:10 Uhr SF1
Samstag, 15. März, 11:00 Uhr SF1
Sonntag, 16. März, 05:00 Uhr SF1
Freitag, 14. März, 06:00 - 13:00 Uhr SFinfo
Freitag, 21. März, 06:00 - 13:00 Uhr SFinfo
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Zerstörte Trinkwasserversorgung: Genozid am irakischen Volk?
Professor Tom Nagy von der Washington University hat ein Pentagon-Dokument
entdeckt, das belegt, dass die von den USA angeführten alliierten Kräfte im
ersten Golfkrieg bewusst Iraks Wasserversorgung zerstört und durch die
Sanktionen den Wiederaufbau verhindert haben. Die vorsätzliche Zerstörung
des Trinkwassersystems ist ein klarer Verstoss gegen die Genfer
Konventionen - der US Forscher und andere Experten sprechen sogar von einem
kontinuierlichen, geplanten Genozid am irakischen Volk. Unabhängige
Schweizer Wasser- und Strategieexperten nehmen zu der brisanten Aussage
Stellung.
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