US Army uses Tesla Tanks in Iraq

Lonestar · December 9, 2003, 20:51

http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?...&group=webcast

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Horrifying US Secret
Weapon Unleashed In Baghdad
Exclusive By Bill Dash
c. 2003 All Rights Reserved
8-25-03

A nightmarish US super weapon reportedly was employed by American ground forces during chaotic street fighting in Baghdad. The secret tank-mounted weapon was witnessed in all its frightening power by Majid al-Ghazali, a seasoned Iraqi infantryman who described the device and its gruesome effects as unlike anything he had ever encountered in his lengthy military service. The disturbing revelation is yet another piece of cinematic evidence brought back from postwar Iraq by intrepid filmmaker Patrick Dillon.

In the film, al-Ghazali, whose english is less than fluent, describes the weapon as reminiscent of a flame thrower, only immensely more powerful. It is unclear what principle the weapon is based on. Searching for a description, al-Ghazali said it appeared to be shooting concentrated lightning bolts rather than just ordinary flames. Drawing on his many years as a professional engineer, al-Ghazali speculates that radiation of some kind probably figures into the weapon's hideous capabilities. Like all men in Saddam's Iraq, al-Ghazali was compelled to serve in the Iraqi equivalent of the Army National Guard and fought in three wars over the past thirty-odd years. Via email, he told me he has seen virtually every type of conventional weapon employed in battle, and is well acquainted with their effects on people and machines, but nothing in his extensive combat experience prepared him for the shock of what he saw in Baghdad on April 12th.

On that date, al-Ghazali and his family sheltered in their house as a fierce street battle erupted in his neighborhood. In the midst of the fighting, he noticed that the Americans had called up an oddly configured tank. Then to his amazement the tank suddenly let loose a blinding stream of what seemed like fire and lightning, engulfing a large passenger bus and three automobiles. Within seconds the bus had become semi-molten, sagging "like a wet rag" as he put it. He said the bus rapidly melted under this withering blast, shrinking until it was a twisted blob about the dimensions of a VW bug. As if that were not bizarre enough, al-Ghazali explicitly describes seeing numerous human bodies shriveled to the size of newborn babies. By the time local street fighting ended that day, he estimates between 500 and 600 soldiers and civilians had been cooked alive as a result of the mysterious tank-mounted device.

In a city littered everywhere with burned-out civilian and military vehicles, US forces were abnormally scrupulous about immediately detailing bulldozers and shovel crews to the job of burying the grim wreckage. Nevertheless, telltale remnants remained as Dillon found when al-Ghazali later took him to the site. Dillon said they easily uncovered large puddles of resolidified metal and mounds of weird fibrous material that, al-Ghazali explained, were all that remained of the vehicles' tires. Dillon, who accumulated plenty of battlefield experience as a medic in Viet-Nam, and has since covered a number of wars from Somalia to Kosovo, told me that he has witnessed every kind of conventional ordnance that can be used on humans and vehicles. " I've seen a freaking smorgasbord of destruction in my life," he said, "flame-throwers, napalm, white phosphorous, thermite, you name it. I know of nothing short of an H-bomb that conceivably might cause a bus to instantly liquefy or that can flash broil a human body down to the size of an infant. God pity humanity if that thing is a preview of what's in store for the 21st century."

For Majid al-Ghazali, images of the terrifying weapon and its victims haunt his every day. In addition to his work as an engineer, he is also a highly accomplished classical violinist, occupying the first chair in the Baghdad Symphony. He is widely acknowledged as one of the preeminent violinists in the Middle East. Besides his family, one of his greatest joys is teaching at Baghdad's premier music conservatory. Unfortunately, the conservatory was utterly destroyed. Yet somehow, despite the war's horrors and its seemingly endless privations, he manages to maintain a remarkably hopeful outlook. He recently informed me that the Baghdad Symphony continues to exist and has been invited to perform in the United States in December.

Copyright Â©2003 - Bill Dash

Impressive, to be sure. But not nearly impressive as the new American Infantry weapon that fires angry Housecats at people.

Zylka · December 9, 2003, 20:53

This is a joke?

BeBro · December 9, 2003, 20:59

What, you don´t believe evil Americans use tanks that can shoot concentrated lightning bolts? Ha!

Lonestar · December 9, 2003, 21:00

Well, seeing as other articles have subjects such as "Iraqi Commander Swears He Saw US Evacuate Saddam" and "Microwave weapons in Iraq" then, Jeez I hope so.

Zylka · December 9, 2003, 21:06

but.. isn't this group what young Chegitz bases his international knowledge upon?

Imran Siddiqui · December 9, 2003, 21:17

OMG! It's Red Alert!

BeBro · December 9, 2003, 21:20

Yeah, those disruptors will do the job

Q Classic · December 9, 2003, 21:34

dammit, who was the wiseass who edited the .game files?

The diplomat · December 9, 2003, 21:40

I guess next we will learn that the US really does have a super-uber-mega-giga orbital death ray hiding behind the moon.

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Verto · December 9, 2003, 21:45

Thanks for blowing it, diplomat! We were saving that surprise for Tehran!

Commie Chocobo · December 10, 2003, 00:02

I thought we were sposed to have tesla, not the allies

Nubclear · December 10, 2003, 00:08

That's OK, because the bulk of the US troops are infantry.
And we have Taneta or whatever her name is.

Lonestar · December 10, 2003, 13:48

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Originally posted by Zylka
but.. isn't this group what young Chegitz bases his international knowledge upon?

Seems so.

Zylka · December 10, 2003, 13:51

Can we all respond link to Indynews whenever he speaks from now on, then?

VetLegion · December 10, 2003, 14:11

Tesla was a brilliant man. A bit of trivia - he offered Tesla Tanks to Yugoslavian government waaay back, some time around WW I. They refused him.

The rumour is US still did not lift the seal of secrecy from his numerous inventions of which they hold patents.

chequita guevara · December 10, 2003, 14:15

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Originally posted by Lonestar
Seems so.

Actually, no. Indymedia has a problem with fact checking, like Zylka.

chequita guevara · December 10, 2003, 14:17

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Originally posted by VetLegion
Tesla was a brilliant man. A bit of trivia - he offered Tesla Tanks to Yugoslavian government waaay back, some time around WW I. They refused him.

Yugoslavia didn't exist until after WWI.

Theben · December 10, 2003, 14:23

Oh, I thought they were going to be like the tanks used in Panama, blasting Tesla glam metal at unsuspecting Iraqis.

That truly would have been horrible.

Lonestar · December 10, 2003, 14:41

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Originally posted by VetLegion
Tesla was a brilliant man. A bit of trivia - he offered Tesla Tanks to Yugoslavian government waaay back, some time around WW I. They refused him.

The rumour is US still did not lift the seal of secrecy from his numerous inventions of which they hold patents.

Didn't he also have a long range Deathray?

I thought he went nuts because Westinghouse and Edison were consistantly recognized as smarter than him.

chequita guevara · December 10, 2003, 14:47

Genius and madness are not too far from each other.

Sava · December 10, 2003, 15:02

Edison stole the light bulb from Tesla...

VetLegion · December 10, 2003, 15:05

Ahm che, my english is not perfect but doesn't the 'around WW I' encompass the period shortly after it?

Anyway I think he died in poverty. He never knew how to cash in his genius, but at least he got a measurement unit named after him! Edison didn't, did he?

chequita guevara · December 10, 2003, 15:07

Didn't it have a different name at first?

Sava · December 10, 2003, 15:07

Tesla was Serbian

VetLegion · December 10, 2003, 15:12

He used to say he is proud of his "Serbian kin and Croatian homeland". He was a Serb from Croatia.

Since both countries nowadys have institutions carrying his name, put him on currency and such, you could even say he is somewhat contested between the two.

AFAIK, Nikola Tesla is his only name.

Sava · December 10, 2003, 15:13

that's fine, my grandmother was Croatian... I just like giving you guys ****...

VetLegion · December 10, 2003, 15:14

I hope that isn't her in your avatar

Sava · December 10, 2003, 15:15

that's TIMMAY foo!

do they have South Park in Croatia?

VetLegion · December 10, 2003, 15:18

Sure we do. That must be a girlfriend of the boy in the wheelchair then? I haven't seen that episode.

Sava · December 10, 2003, 15:21

no that's gangster timmay from the "Krazy Krips" episode...