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From: "Blackout" <blackout@404infomagic.net>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Tue, Oct 9, 2001 10:20 AM
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Tactical Nuclear Weapons Deployed
6 October: DEBKAfile's military and intelligence sources report that
Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, in a single 70-minuted
conversation on September 23, eleven days after the terrorist assaults
in New York and Washington, agreed on the deployment of tactical
weapons. This is an epic shift in the global balance of strength.
Putin gave the nod for US forces poised in Central Asia to jump into
Afghanistan to be armed with tactical nuclear weapons, such as small
neutron bombs, which emit strong radiation, nuclear mines, shells, and
other nuclear ammunition suited to commando warfare in mountainous
terrain.
In return, Bush assented to Russia deploying tactical nuclear weapons
units around Chechnya after Moscow's ultimatum to the rebels, some of
whom are backed by Osama Bin Laden, to surrender, went by without
response. DEBKAfile's military sources place the US nuclear weapons in
four former Soviet Central Asian bases: the military air facility at
Tuzel, 15 km (10 miles) northwest of the Uzbek capital of Tashkent; at
Kagady in the Termez region; in Khandabad, near the city of Karshi; and
at the military air base in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan.
In addition to the nuclear weapons units, Russian bombers carrying small
neutron bombs were moved to Russian military air bases around the border
of the breakaway province, in Stavropol northwest of Chechnya, the
Godowta base in Georgia to the south, and Mozdok in northern Osetia,
northwest of Chechnya.
Russian and U.S. military sources refuse to take questions on these
startling events.
The US is far from eager to actively inject a nuclear element into the
war against terrorism and will not be the first to do so. According to
DEBKAfile's military sources, the US plans to hold those tactical
nuclear weapons in reserve, unleashing them in the campaign against bin
Laden only in certain extreme circumstances:
1. To counter a move by Bin Laden's men first bring out nuclear,
chemical or biological weapons against the US force fighting inside
Afghanistan.
2. If a chemical or biological assault by the Taliban against
Pakistan.
3. Should groups of bin Laden's Al Qaeda network - either in Central
Asia or the Balkans - wield these weapons of mass destruction against US
military targets or US nuclear arms in other parts of the world.
4. If using them is the only way to save heavy American combat
casualties.
Full accounts of impending war preparations appear in the latest issue
of DEBKA-Net-Weekly, the exclusive electronic intelligence letter put
out for subscribers by DEBKAfile.

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