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USJFCOM gears up for Noble Resolve

Working closely with U.S. Northern Command to support its mission of homeland defense, U.S. Joint Forces Command will soon begin the Noble Resolve experimentation series which will examine ways to enhance homeland defense and improve military support to civil authorities in advance of and following natural and man-made disasters.

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KEARNEY

at 08:51 on April 21st, 2007

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationw...1&cset=true

Cheney: Threat of nuclear attack in U.S. city 'very real'

By Mark Silva
Washington Bureau
Published April 16, 2007

WASHINGTON
-- Vice President Dick Cheney, often called upon to deliver the
administration's toughest talk about the wars abroad, now says this
about the threat of terrorists detonating a nuclear bomb in an American
city: "It's a very real threat. ... Something that we have to worry
about and defeat every single day."

Cheney's warning about
what's at stake for the U.S. in withdrawing from Iraq, delivered in a
TV interview Sunday and coupled with a speech in Chicago on Friday and
a war statement that President Bush plans to make Monday, is part of an
escalating chorus of pressure that the White House hopes to exert on
Democrats to approve a new war-spending bill.

Vowing to veto any
spending bill that includes a timeline for withdrawal of U.S. forces
from Iraq, which the Senate and House have approved in varying forms,
the Bush administration believes it ultimately will win a "clean" bill
-- predicting that Democratic leaders will buckle after Bush vetoes
their bill.

"I'm willing to bet" the Democrats eventually will
concede, Cheney said in an interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation"
recorded the day before.

"If they don't have the votes to
override the president's veto ... they will not leave the troops in the
field without the resources they need to be able to carry out their
mission," Cheney said. "There may be some people who are so
irresponsible that they wouldn't support that, but I think the fact of
the matter is that the majority of Democrats ... will in fact give us
the bill that's absolutely essential."

Cheney, who accused
Democratic leaders of reverting to an "early 1970s" sense of
"abandonment and retreat" in his speech Friday, said in his CBS
interview that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has taken an
"irresponsible" stance in insisting upon attaching an autumn 2008
timeline for withdrawal to the war spending bill.

"He's done a
complete 180 from where he was, in five months," Cheney said of Reid.
"He cannot make the basic, fundamental decisions that have to be made,
with respect to the nation's security, given everything that's at stake
in the war on terror and what we're doing in Iraq and with 140,000
American troops in the field in Iraq, in combat, every day, and call
that kind of rapid change in position anything other than
irresponsible."

Reid hits back

Reid rejected the criticism.

"Vice
President Cheney has long since lost credibility, so it should be no
surprise that he would spend time this morning continuing to mislead us
about the war in Iraq," Reid said in a statement released Sunday. "The
American people know that the height of irresponsibility is to put this
country at risk by mismanaging a war from day one, drawing our troops
further into a civil war.

"Democrats are determined to make sure
the troops have the funds they need," Reid said, maintaining that a
timeline for withdrawal would force the Iraqis to take responsibility
for the fight.

The administration's underlying argument for the
combat in Iraq is that it is central to a global war against terrorism.
And Bush has repeatedly attempted to attach the Iraq conflict to a
threat of terrorism at home.

"I have told the American people
often it is best to defeat them there, so we don't have to face them
here," Bush said this month.

And it is an argument that Cheney
made in the interview aired Sunday, a conversation between Cheney and
host Bob Schieffer, who asked the vice president if he has changed in
some fundamental way since taking office. What has happened, Cheney
said, is "9/11."

Sept. 11 "did have, I think, a remarkable
impact on the threat to the United States on what we were required to
deal with as an administration," Cheney said.

'Greatest threat we face'

"The
fact is that the threat to the United States now of a 9/11 occurring
with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box
cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own
cities, is the greatest threat we face," he said. "It's a very real
threat. It's something that we have to worry about and defeat every
single day."

The administration has confronted questions about
Bush's warnings about terrorists "following us home" if not defeated in
Iraq, despite his assertion that security tactics have made the nation
safer.

Asked about that, the president downplayed a specific
threat. "I'm not going to predict to you the methodology they'll use,"
Bush said. "Just you need to know they want to hit us again.

"We
spend a lot of time trying to protect this country," he said. "But if
they were ever to have safe haven, it would make the efforts much
harder. That's my point. We cannot let them have safe haven again."

Iraq
will become that haven, Cheney said in the interview aired Sunday, if
the U.S. withdraws without leaving an Iraqi government capable of
sustaining and defending itself.

"There's a fundamental debate
going on here, in terms of whether or not our objective in Iraq is to
withdraw, or whether our objective in Iraq is to complete the mission,"
Cheney said. "And I think a majority of Americans would prefer the
latter, if we can get it done."

Pressed about the suicide
bombing in the Green Zone last week and death tolls across Iraq, Cheney
insisted that the U.S. is making progress there.

"Of course it's
hard," he said. "But it's absolutely essential that we get it right.
There's an awful lot riding on it, not only in Iraq, but in terms of
the efforts we're making in that part of the world to deal with this
global war on terror."

mdsilva@tribune.com
Copyright © 2007, Chicago Tribune

KEARNEY

at 08:54 on April 21st, 2007

Noble Resolve 07, a four-day marathon of “simulated” terror attacks across the US and Europe, is scheduled for April 23 to April 27;
this includes a simulated detonation of a “loose” ten-kiloton nuclear
weapon Virginia harbor, smuggled in by a “foreign nation.” See http://www.jfcom.mil/newslink/storyarchive...7/pa033007.html .

“Navy
Capt. John M. Kersh, Jr., who heads J9's Joint Context and Homeland
Defense Department, said the command established Noble Resolve to
answer questions raised during the USJFCOM/U.S. Army Unified Quest 2006
wargame, which explored a DHS scenario for an unaccounted-for, "loose,"
ten kiloton nuclear weapon.’

“Later this year, USJFCOM will work
with city officials in Portland, Ore., and the Oregon National Guard as
they prepare for DHS's Top Officials (TOPOFF) exercise in October,
which is designed to strengthen the nation's capacity to prevent,
prepare for, respond to, and recover from large-scale terrorist attacks
involving weapons of mass destruction.”

Dick Cheney warned us last week of the “very real” threat of a nuclear attack on an American city. See
CIA agent Philip Giraldi warned the American Conservative magazine that STRATCOM would launch a nuclear attack on Iran in the wake of a new WMD-style attack on American soil.

The
drills are being run by Joint Task Force Command (JTFCOM), Northern
Command (NORTHCOM), J9 Joint Innovation and Experimentation
Directorate, FEMA’s command bunker at Mount Weather, the Department of
Homeland Security, and Virginia police.

Some key quotes from the article:

“He
said the scenario of the experiment's first phase starts with
multinational partners and goes down to individual municipalities. It
begins with a threat that originates in Europe and travels toward the
United States.”

“Kersh said that as the scenario progresses, other agencies and other layers of government become involved.”

"The
problem eventually arrives at the commonwealth of Virginia with that
threat making it into port and then blowing up. This will cause us to
work the consequence management part of the problem”

“The
fusion center is in a state police headquarters and it's collocated
with Virginia's emergency operations center.” (ed: Mount Weather)

“coordinated with DHS, possibly to coincide with one of that department's major exercises.”

The
“Nobel Resolve” drills involve b]NORTHCOM[/b], the branch of “homeland
defense” based in Colorado and responsible for shutting down the United
States under martial law.

For a past look at NORTHCOM, see this Washington Post article from 2005: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...0700843_pf.html

Nobel
Resolve 07, with its “realistic” scenarios, comes at a time of
increased geopolitical tension. It is reminiscent of the drills in
2005, where a ten-kiloton nuclear weapon was “simulated” to explode in
South Carolina.

“Further revelations were imparted
by journalist Leland Lehrman who appeared today on The Alex Jones Show.
Lehrman's army sources, including a former Captain in intelligence,
became outraged when they learned that the official story behind 9/11
was impossible. They told Lehrman that the imminent Northcom nuclear
terror exercise based in Charleston, S.C, where a nuclear warhead is
smuggled off a ship and detonated, was originally intended to 'go live'
- as in the drill would be used as the cover for a real false flag
staged attack…. Northcom officials also admitted to Lehrman that CNN
had been using its situation room as a studio.” [See http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/augus...stargeneral.htm ]

Nobel Resolve 07 comes at a time when the DoD has made “red teaming” a high priority; see http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,118196,00.html ..

"The J9 Directorate,
formulates various terror scenarios and uses advanced computer modeling
to run drills and predict human reactions; Recent articles highlight
how they are using virtual environments to create and manage realistic
war scenarios with millions of 'people'.”

“JFCOM
will soon begin using its highly advanced modeling and simulation
environment for homeland security scenarios…. UR2015 brought together
dozens of military simulations in a federated architecture. The Army’s
Omni Fusion simulation, which models their Future Combat System, was
part of UR2015. Northern Command will follow the same inclusive, open
approach.

Under the architecture, new simulations can be added
to increase the system’s overall power. For example, the system could
also predict damage from floods and hurricanes using the Defense Threat
Reduction Agency’s blast effects model, officials said.

“We’re
associating all of these modeling and simulating [techniques] for
homeland defense… we’re building a confederation,” Kersh said.

Key
to Urban Resolve and Noble Resolve is a technology called the Synthetic
Environment for Analysis and Simulation that was developed by a team at
Purdue University. SEAS attempts to model nonkinetic effects of
military operations in a civilian setting, or PMESII factors. The
acronym stands for political, military, economic, social,
infrastructure and information effects…. The goal is a fully
functioning virtual model of the entire world, known as the Sentient
Worldwide Simulation. The simulation, still in the conceptual stage, is
envisioned as a “synthetic mirror of the real world” that will
automatically follow real events in real time, according to the concept
paper.”

See http://www.fcw.com/article98147-04-04-07-Web

And the DOD has created an extensive test-bed for the simulation of civilian behavior based on data mining and information awareness:

“DOD
creates hundreds of similar scenarios in the largest modeling and
simulation environment that the department has ever built. DOD uses the
simulated environment for a set of experiments, known as Urban Resolve
2015. Those experiments are redefining the way the military operates in
urban environments….

With modeling and simulation of civilian
behavior still in its infancy, the most controversial aspect of Urban
Resolve is its model of human behavior, which includes political, military, economic, social, infrastructure and information factors. DOD uses the acronym PMESII for those factors….

Based
on maps provided by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and two
Linux-based supercomputers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio,
and the Maui High Performance Computing Center, Urban Resolve simulated
every building in Baghdad, including its exact size and location.

“We’ve created the most complex simulated environment in history,” Burns said.

The
simulation includes 2 million individual entities, such as people and
cars. In that environment, people wake up in their homes in the
morning, go to work and create morning traffic jams....

The most
ambitious and controversial aspects of Urban Resolve are the ways it
models political, economic and social factors. “The security problems
we are facing are so complex that they can’t be solved with military
power alone,” Ozolek said.

Those nonmilitary factors are part of the Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation,
which a team of researchers at Purdue University developed. SEAS uses
data from a military incident and models reactions of the population,
media, leaders and other organizations throughout Baghdad.

The
program can then model effects on regional politics, the world economy
and global public opinion, said Alok Chaturvedi, director of Purdue
University’s Homeland Security Institute and founder of Simulex, a
company that markets SEAS. “If anything happens inside Baghdad, you are
able to see the reaction around the world,” Chaturvedi said.

Purdue’s
SEAS team mined data from Web sites, public opinion surveys, policy
research organizations and economic data sites to create best-estimate
assumptions.

Urban Resolve
represents the first time DOD has used a full complement of military,
political, economic, social and other human factors in modeling and
simulation, Chaturvedi said. “It’s all about behavior anticipation and shaping….”

“In
order to simulate a large, modern urban area so that you have realistic
constraints on how you can operate…you need to model that civilian
population,” said Robert Lucas, director of computational sciences at
the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute.

The models will improve, Lucas said. “We’re at the early period of time when we try and model the civilian population.”

http://www.fcw.com/article96689-11-06-06-Print

KEARNEY

at 13:35 on April 21st, 2007

Noble Resolve 07: Four days of “simulated” nuclear terrorist scenarios in the US & Europe by DL Abrahamson
Global Research, April 20, 2007
False Flag News
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From April, 23 to April 27, the elite echelon of the military are running Noble Resolve 07, a four-day marathon of “simulated” terror attacks across the US and Europe. This includes a simulated detonation of a “loose” ten-kiloton nuclear weapon Virginia harbor, smuggled in by a “foreign nation.” This week Dick Cheney has also been warning of the “very real” threat of a nuclear attack on an American city. Could the Nobel Resolve drills be used as a screen for a false-flag attack to be blamed on Iran, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, or sheep-dipped Americans like Adam Gadahn? The drills are being run by Joint Task Force Command (JTFCOM), Northern Command (NORTHCOM), J9 Joint Innovation and Experimentation Directorate, FEMA’s command bunker, the Department of Homeland Security, and Virginia police. The US Marines are also running “Emerald Express 07” in Virginia on April 24 as part of their Urban Warrior 07 drill package. It is important to note the “Nobel Resolve” drills are dominated by NORTHCOM, the branch of “homeland defense” based in Colorado and responsible for shutting down the United States under martial law, as well as ushering in the merger of the US, Canada, and Mexico via the SPP. Meanwhile the J9 Directorate, formulates various terror scenarios and uses advanced computer modeling to run drills and predict human reactions; Recent articles highlight how they are using virtual environments to create and manage realistic war scenarios with millions of “people.” Some key quotes from the article: “He said the scenario of the experiment's first phase starts with multinational partners and goes down to individual municipalities. It begins with a threat that originates in Europe and travels toward the United States.” “Kersh said that as the scenario progresses, other agencies and other layers of government become involved.” "The problem eventually arrives at the commonwealth of Virginia with that threat making it into port and then blowing up. This will cause us to work the consequence management part of the problem” “The fusion center is in a state police headquarters and it's collocated with Virginia's emergency operations center.” (ed: Mount Weather) “coordinated with DHS, possibly to coincide with one of that department's major exercises.” We must remember that CIA agent Philip Giraldi warned the American Conservative magazine that STRATCOM would launch a nuclear attack on Iran in the wake of a new WMD-style attack on American soil. And the Russian media and former Russian military members continue to warn that an American and Israeli strike on Iran is imminent. While many drills are run every month, Nobel Resolve 07, with it’s “realistic” scenarios, comes at a time of increased geopolitical tension. It is reminiscent of the drills in 2005, where a ten-kiloton nuclear weapon was “simulated” to explode in South Carolina. Some speculated that four-star Gen. Kevin Byrnes, of the Fort Meade TRADOC command, was fired due to his exposure of the drill. We should not live in a constant state of panic and fear, or make any irresponsible predictions about Noble Resolve 07. But in the coming days, we can email this information to blogs, media outlets, friends and family. Congressmen, and others to help inoculate against any possibility that rogue “red teams” inside the drills may be activated.
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