"Don't forget one thing about that day (9/11)," he said. "The U.S.
president and all the American leaders ran away and hid themselves."

Iran jubilant about Katrina

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WASHINGTON - Iran, which has experimented with missile
detonations that can create nuclear electromagnetic pulse attacks capable
of crippling U.S. electrical grids and computer technology, is taking
notice of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards conclude the deadly storm has
exposed America's strategic vulnerabilities, according to reports today on
the Ansa-e Hezbollah website.

"The mismanagement and the mishandling of the acute
psychological problems brought about by Hurricane Katrina clearly showed
that others can, at any given time, create a devastated war zone in any
part of the U.S.," said Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, the official
spokesman of the Revolutionary Guard.

The Revolutionary Guards' spokesman said the U.S.' inability to
end the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan showed the "weakness of
America's defense and state departments, as well as its intelligence and
security apparatus."

"If the U.S. attacks Iran, each of America's states will face a
crisis the size of Katrina," he said, referring to the massive hurricane
which hit the southern coast of the United States. "The smallest mistake
by America in this regard will result in every single state in that
country turning into a disaster zone."

The Iranian war planners believe the U.S. can be defeated in a
confrontation with Iran.

"How could the White House, which is impotent in the face of a
storm and a natural disaster, enter a military conflict with the powerful
Islamic Republic of Iran, particularly with the precious experience that
we gained in the eight-year war with Iraq?" said Jazayeri.

The hurricane shows that "contrary to public perception, the
strength of America's leadership is like a balloon, which can easily
burst."

"Precise information from inside America shows a lack of
coordination among military, security, and political agencies in that
country and brings to light the fact that others can cause many times the
amount of damage compared to the blows they may receive," he said.

Jazayeri predicted that under the right circusmtances the U.S.
could be made to "disintegrate into smaller independent states" - adding
this was "feasible from a scientific, logical, and political point of
view."

He also called attention to the anniversary of the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks, saying the response by the White House was weak.

"Don't forget one thing about that day," he said. "The U.S.
president and all the American leaders ran away and hid themselves."

Last April, WorldNetDaily and Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin first
reported Iran not only was covertly developing nuclear weapons, it was
testing ballistic missiles specifically designed to destroy America's
technical infrastructure, effectively neutralizing the world's lone
superpower, according to U.S. intelligence sources, top scientists and
western missile industry experts.

The radical Shiite regime conducted successful tests to
determine if its Shahab-3 ballistic missiles, capable of carrying a
nuclear warhead, can be detonated by a remote-control device while still
in high-altitude flight.

Scientists, including President Reagan's top science adviser,
William R. Graham, say there is no other explanation for such tests than
preparation for the deployment of electromagnetic pulse weapons - even one
of which could knock out America's critical electrical and technological
infrastructure, effectively sending the continental U.S. back to the 19th
century with a recovery time of months or years.

Iran will have that capability - at least theoretically - as
soon as it has one nuclear bomb ready to arm such a missile. North Korea,
a strategic ally of Iran, already boasts such capability.

In March, Congress heard testimony about the use of such
weapons and the threat they pose from rogue regimes.

Iran surprised intelligence analysts by describing the
mid-flight detonations of missiles fired from ships on the Caspian Sea as
"successful" tests. Even primitive Scud missiles could be used for this
purpose. And top U.S. intelligence officials reminded members of Congress
that there is a glut of these missiles on the world market. They are
currently being bought and sold for about $100,000 each.

Detonated at a height of 60 to 500 kilometers above the
continental U.S., one nuclear warhead could cripple the country - knocking
out electrical power and circuit boards and rendering the U.S. domestic
communications impotent.

While Iran still insists officially it is only developing
nuclear power for peaceful civilian purposes, the mid-flight detonation
missile tests have persuaded U.S. military planners and intelligence
agencies that Tehran can only be planning such an attack, which depends on
the availability of at least one nuclear warhead.

The Revolutionary Guards could only be thinking in terms of
nuclear or electromagnetic pulse attacks on the U.S. in their thinking
about creating havoc of the kind caused by Katrina.

In March, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism,
Technology and Homeland Security chaired by Sen. John Kyl, held a hearing
on the electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, threat.

"An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the American
homeland, said one of the distinguished scientists who testified at the
hearing, is one of only a few ways that the United States could be
defeated by its enemies - terrorist or otherwise," wrote Kyl "And it is
probably the easiest. A single Scud missile, carrying a single nuclear
weapon, detonated at the appropriate altitude, would interact with the
Earth's atmosphere, producing an electromagnetic pulse radiating down to
the surface at the speed of light. Depending on the location and size of
the blast, the effect would be to knock out already stressed power grids
and other electrical systems across much or even all of the continental
United States, for months if not years."

The purpose of an EMP attack, unlike a nuclear attack on land,
is not to kill people, but "to kill electrons," as Graham explained. He
served as chairman of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United
States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack and was director of the White
House Office of Science and Technology Policy and science adviser to the
president during the Reagan administration.

Graham told G2B he could think of no other reason for Iran to
be experimenting with mid-air detonation of missiles than for the planning
of an EMP-style attack.

"EMP offers a bigger bang for the buck," he said. He also
suggested such an attack makes a U.S. nuclear response against a suspected
enemy less likely than would the detonation of a nuclear bomb in a major
U.S. city.

A 2004 report by the commission found "several potential
adversaries have or can acquire the capability to attack the United States
with a high-altitude nuclear weapons-generated electromagnetic pulse. A
determined adversary can achieve an EMP attack capability without having a
high level of sophistication."

"EMP is one of a small number of threats that can hold our
society at risk of catastrophic consequences," the report said. "EMP will
cover the wide geographic region within line of sight to the nuclear
weapon. It has the capability to produce significant damage to critical
infrastructures and thus to the very fabric of U.S. society, as well as to
the ability of the United States and Western nations to project influence
and military power."

The major impact of EMP weapons is on electronics, "so
pervasive in all aspects of our society and military, coupled through
critical infrastructures," explained the report.

"Their effects on systems and infrastructures dependent on
electricity and electronics could be sufficiently ruinous as to qualify as
catastrophic to the nation," Lowell Wood, acting chairman of the
commission, told members of Congress.

The commission report went so far as to suggest, in its opening
sentence, that an EMP attack "might result in the defeat of our military
forces."

"Briefly, a single nuclear weapon exploded at high altitude
above the United States will interact with the Earth's atmosphere,
ionosphere and magnetic field to produce an electromagnetic pulse (EMP)
radiation down to the Earth and additionally create electrical currents in
the Earth," said the report. "EMP effects are both direct and indirect.
The former are due to electrical systems, and the latter arise from the
damage that 'shocked' - upset, damaged and destroyed - electronics
controls then inflict on the systems in which they are embedded. The
indirect effects can be even more severe than the direct effects."

The EMP threat is not a new one considered by U.S. defense
planners. The Soviet Union had experimented with the idea as a kind of
super-weapon against the U.S.

"What is different now is that some potential sources of EMP
threats are difficult to deter - they can be terrorist groups that have no
state identity, have only one or a few weapons and are motivated to attack
the U.S. without regard for their own safety," explains the commission
report. "Rogue states, such as North Korea and Iran, may also be
developing the capability to pose an EMP threat to the United States and
may also be unpredictable and difficult to deter."

Graham describes the potential "cascading effect" of an EMP
attack. If electrical power is knocked out and circuit boards fried,
telecommunications are disrupted, energy deliveries are impeded, the
financial system breaks down, food, water and gasoline become scarce.

As Kyl put it: "Few if any people would die right away. But the
loss of power would have a cascading effect on all aspects of U.S.
society. Communication would be largely impossible. Lack of refrigeration
would leave food rotting in warehouses, exacerbated by a lack of
transportation as those vehicles still working simply ran out of gas
(which is pumped with electricity). The inability to sanitize and
distribute water would quickly threaten public health, not to mention the
safety of anyone in the path of the inevitable fires, which would rage
unchecked. And as we have seen in areas of natural and other disasters,
such circumstances often result in a fairly rapid breakdown of social
order."

"American society has grown so dependent on computer and other
electrical systems that we have created our own Achilles' heel of
vulnerability, ironically much greater than those of other, less developed
nations," the senator wrote. "When deprived of power, we are in many ways
helpless, as the New York City blackout made clear. In that case, power
was restored quickly because adjacent areas could provide help. But a
large-scale burnout caused by a broad EMP attack would create a much more
difficult situation. Not only would there be nobody nearby to help, it
could take years to replace destroyed equipment."

The commission said hardening key infrastructure systems and
procuring vital backup equipment such as transformers is both feasible
and - compared with the threat - relatively inexpensive.

"But it will take leadership by the Department of Homeland
Security, the Defense Department, and other federal agencies, along with
support from Congress, all of which have yet to materialize," wrote Kyl,
so far the only elected official blowing the whistle this alarming
development.

Kyl concluded in his report: "The Sept. 11 commission report
stated that our biggest failure was one of 'imagination.' No one imagined
that terrorists would do what they did on Sept. 11. Today few Americans
can conceive of the possibility that terrorists could bring our society to
its knees by destroying everything we rely on that runs on electricity.
But this time we've been warned, and we'd better be prepared to respond."