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04/01/05
- Tsunami -
Pourquoi la base américaine de Diego Garcia a t-elle reçu
une alerte au tsunami et pas les nations de l'Océan Indien ?
- Why America’s Naval base of Diego Garcia had been notified
with tsunami warning and not all the Indian Ocean nations ?...
Foreknowledge
of A Natural Disaster:
Washington was aware that a deadly Tidal Wave was building up in the
Indian Ocean
by Michel Chossudovsky, Centre for Research on Globalisation
"The US Military and the State Department were given advanced
warning. America's Navy base on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian
Ocean was notified.
Why were fishermen in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand not provided with the
same warnings as the US Navy and the US State Department?
Why did the US State Department remain mum on the existence of an
impending catastrophe?..."
"...As confirmed by several reports, US scientists in Hawaii, had
advanced knowledge regarding an impending catastrophe, but failed to
contact their Asian counterparts.
Charles McCreery of the Pacific Warning Center in Hawaii confirmed that
his team tried to get in touch with his counterparts in Asia.
According to McCreery, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's center in Honolulu, the team did its utmost to contact
the countries.
"We started thinking about who we could call. We talked to the
State Department Operations Center and to the military. We called
embassies. We talked to the navy in Sri Lanka, any local government
official we could get hold of," Hirshorn said. "We were fairly
careful about who we called. We wanted to call people who could
help."..."
"...It is worth noting that the US Navy was fully aware of the
deadly seismic wave, because the Navy was on the Pacific Warning Center's
list of contacts. The Military also has its own advanced systems including
satellite images, which enables it to monitor in a very precise way the
movement of the seismic wave in real time. In other words, in all
likelihood the US Military had information on an impending catastrophe.
Moreover, America's strategic Naval base on the island of Diego Garcia had
also been notified. Although directly in the path of the tidal wave , the
Diego Garcia military base reported "no damage".
"One of the few places in the Indian Ocean that got the message of
the quake was Diego Garcia, a speck of an island with a United States Navy
base, because the Pacific warning center's contact list includes the Navy.
Finding the appropriate people in Sri Lanka or India was harder." (NYT,
28 Dec 2004, emphasis added)
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Now how hard is it to pick up the phone and call Sri Lanka?
According to Charles McCreery, director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning
Center.
"We don't have contacts in our address book for anybody in that
part of the world."
Only after the first waves hit Sri Lanka did workers at National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre
[PTWC] and others in Hawaii start making phone calls to US diplomats in
Madagascar and Mauritius in an attempt to head off further disaster.
"We didn't have a contact in place where you could just pick up the
phone," Dolores Clark, spokeswoman for the International Tsunami
Information Centre in Hawaii said. "We were starting from
scratch."
These statements on the surface are ambiguous, since several Indian Ocean
Asian countries are in fact members of the Tsunami Warning System.
There are 26 member countries of the
International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System ,
including Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia. All these countries would
normally be in the address book of the PTWC, which works in close
coordination with its sister organization the
ICGTWS , which has its offices at the headquarters of the National
Weather Service Pacific Region Headquarters in downtown Honolulu.
The mandate of the ICGTWS is to "assist member states in establishing
national warning systems, and makes information available on current
technologies for tsunami warning systems." Australia and Indonesia
were notified.
The US Congress is to investigate why the US government did not notify all
the Indian Ocean nations in the affected area:
"Only two countries in the affected region, Indonesia and
Australia, received the warning.. Yet the tsunami took as long as two
hours to reach some countries, and NOAA's critics say timely even
unofficial warnings might have allowed people in coastal areas to
flee."
Maine Senator Olympia Snowe is "exploring and looking into why NOAA
was not able to provide this valuable, life-saving information to the 11
affected nations," (quoted in Boston Globe, 29 Dec 2004)..."
"...Why is the US military Calling the Shots on Humanitarian Relief.
Why in the wake of the disaster, is the US military (rather than
civilian humanitarian/aid organizations operating under UN auspices)
taking a lead role?
The US Pacific Command has been designated to coordinate the channeling of
emergency relief? Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Rusty Blackman, commander of the
3rd Marine Expeditionary Force based in Okinawa, has been designated to
lead the emergency relief program.
Lieutenant General Blackman was previously Chief of Staff for Coalition
Forces Land Component Command, responsible for leading the Marines into
Baghdad during "Operation Iraqi Freedom."
Three "Marine disaster relief assessment teams" under Blackman's
command have been sent to Thailand, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
US military aircraft are conducting observation missions.
In a bitter irony, part of this operation is being coordinated out of
America's Naval base in Diego Garcia, which was not struck by the tidal
wave. Meanwhile, "USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group, which was
in Hong Kong when the earthquake and tsunamis struck, has been diverted to
the Gulf of Thailand to support recovery operations" (Press
Conference of Pacific Command).
Two Aircraft Carriers have been sent to the region.
Why is it necessary for the US to mobilize so much military equipment?
The pattern is unprecedented..."
"...Why has a senior commander involved in the invasion of Iraq been
assigned to lead the US emergency relief program?..."
US
had advance warning of tsunami: Canadian professor
Daily Times 04/01/05
"A Canadian expert has claimed that the US Military and the State
Department were given advance tsunami warning and America’s Navy base on
the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean was notified but the
information was not passed on to the countries that bore the brunt of the
disaster..."
Lire également, Read also :
The
Asian tsunami: why there were no warnings
WSWS 03/01/05
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