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VERIFICATION

Unable as a professional journalist to go to press without verification, I turned for confirmation to a second highly placed source within the U.S. power structure. The following questions were placed by an intermediary well-known to me, to a source who does not know Hank, but like him, cannot be identified:


Was the target Iran?
Yes.

Was it a nuclear power plant in Iran?
Yes.

Was the power plant the Bushehr nuclear power plant on the coast?
No. Let me rephrase that. A nuclear power plant, but not that one.

Were Bush and Cheney involved?
No.

Was the flight crew involved?
The crew did not know what was going on.


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Was it the Americans?
No.

Was it the Russians?
No.

Was it the Japanese?
Yes.

Was it Japanese technology?
Yes.

Do the Japanese know what it was being used for?
No.

Was it related to the June incident?
Yes. It is the same technology.

Was the order placed like a Trojan Horse?
It's tied into something else. It's not a simple answer.

Was it like a microchip virus?
Kind of. It's in that category. But not exactly it. It's a technology that's not widely known.

Was it electromagnetic or a microchip?
A technology not widely understood. You already asked me that.

What technology did Japan have that China did not have?
It is a highly secretive thing that only China knows about and U.S. does not know about.

Is it technology that they had found in Japan and immigrated into technology they have?
China has gone as far as they could figure out to go. And there were some pieces that the Japanese had. Like if you were doing some kind of experiment and not being able to complete it.

Is the technology the Japanese had not normally used?
Yes.

Is it military technology?
It can be applied to military. It can be applied to other things.

Was this done to prevent war or to be used to make war happen?
Can't answer that question that way. The technology can be applied to anything that you want to apply it to. The Chinese purchased the technology from the Japanese and they told the Japanese that 'you don't need to know what we're doing with it.'

Was it purchased from a private company?
Yes. It's not from the government. It's from an individual group, a group of people who developed the technology.

Would it be possible to get the name of the Japanese group?
No.

What would the term for such a Japanese group be?
It's a group of techies, like woodbangers, young people playing around seeing what they could do with the technology. It's not a group with an agenda developing the technology, saying 'Now we're going to do this.' They were playing around, seeing what they could do with the technology and somebody found out that they had been able to do this and said, 'we'll pay you.' The ones with the agenda were the Chinese.

What was the purpose of the operation?
The operation was made to look like America is the aggressor.

What was the stated destination and ETA of the official flight plan?
The original flight plan was changed while they were in flight. When the pilot got on the plane, he thought he was going one place. And then he was told to change course.

Is it true that the base commander could not issue a recall order?
Right. The military officer did not have that authority. He had to get it from someplace else.

Was the plane diverted back?
Yes. It got called back for some reason past Barksdale because somebody in the government realized something was not normal. The Chinese are showing they can break the code, and 'You're not as big a power as you think you are.'

Did the recall originate in the U.S. or China?
U.S.

Who issued the recall order?
Someone in the military. This person issued the recall, but was under the orders of someone else.

Was this a demonstration of China's capabilities, or an actual attack on Iran?
It was China saying 'Wake up for America. You haven't seen nothin' yet.' 

Did they intend to go all the way?
No. It wasn't set. It was a demonstration of power.

What happened when the plane landed at Barksdale? Was the crew detained?
No.

Was the crew debriefed?
No. They did not know what was going on.

After this incident, how can the U.S. military command be certain their orders are genuine?
They can't.

PHOTO CAPTIONS/CREDITS

1. B-52 in flight                              Karen Doerr, Advertiser/AP
2. Loadout - Stalney Kubrick           www.sfgate.com
3. International Space Station         iss_images.twiet.nl
4. Bush not in the loop                   www.hermes-press.com
5. PLA poster                                www.iisg.nl
6.Dr. Strangelove rides again          www.ixbt.com
7.uranium converst facility, Isfahan  Romar Sipa Press
8.hacker at work                            Klein