“Efficiency and progress is ours once more
Now that we have the Neutron bomb
It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done..."
Kill the Poor,
The Dead Kennedys
Analysis by Jeff Smith who is a nuclear physicist and former IAEA inspector:
A video received from Yemen, believed to be taken May 20, 2015, of an explosion, when analyzed by nuclear weapons experts is, by very high probability, a neutron bomb that could only have been an Israeli attack.
The analysis:
A. Its not a conventional 2k lb bomb. It’s much bigger.
B. Its either a very large MOAB bigger than 4,000 lbs. or; ???? Max weight for an F-15 / 16 is about 2,000 lb payload per bomb rack making the deployment of a MOAB impossible.
C. Lightning effect and duration of the fire ball being suspended in mid air and the very large mushroom cloud is the main give away, that is because it is being hit by neutrons from the nuclear fireball blast. It overloads the ccd’s electronic circuit producing white flashes. If the radiation is too high it will burn out the chip. They had big problems with this in Japan with the Fukushima robots cameras failing due to very high radiation counts.
D. Delivery is most likely by an IDF F-16 with a Saudi paint job on the plane. They are not even hiding their use anymore, they just don’t publicly admit it and the IAEA does nothing or says nothing. That is the true war crime. The UN just ignores it unless the US, France or GB complain…
Russia and China say nothing.
Post Script:
A. The range of the camera is calculated to be about 4 to 5 miles from ground zero based on shock wave timing.
B. Saudi has no F-16’s. The aircraft reported to be used to droop the bomb in Yemen were F-16’s. Photos and acoustic signature confirms that the jet engines noise is from a single engine jet fighter of the F-16 type.
"When Prime Minister Shimon Peres arrived from Israel for a one-day visit on the restoration of Israeli-Cameroon relations, he brought with him a 17-member medical team along with tons of medical supplies. The Israeli team went straight to the Nios area as soon as it arrived this morning. Other Aid Is Offered.”New York Times,August 26th 1986
"And, I think another thing we haven't looked at closely enough, is the situation in Cameroon, where all this gas supposedly came up off of a lake. It was waiting, somehow, in a bubble at the bottom of the lake, you know, against the laws of physics, for it's chance to come up. With poison gas. First they said volcanic gas. Then they admitted no volcano. Now the world scientific community meets by the hundreds, and they can't figure out what happened there. Supposedly this gas came up off of a lake naturally. People in the area heard explosions. And the gas came up and just kills everybody, literally, for a ten mile area, or radius around the area. It's just tremendous. Everybody's dead. It's not gas, like raises with the wind, or pockets some place else, or goes here, you know like gas will. And it's a gas that's not lethal by itself, carbon dioxide, unless you're in a situation where you can't get any oxygen. And yet they say that this gas came out and murdered all these people.
But I was suspicious from the beginning of it because it looked like yet another mass death situation involving People of Color. I looked into it a little further and the investigators were the same old crew that I always see: the Center for Disease Control went, with the US Army Pathology Division. They're over there in these planes; some doctors from Israel went, and they got on the plane with Peres before the incident was known to the government in Cameroon. If you take a look at the timing, they got on to go over there to look into an incident that, at least by all official accounts, the government didn't know anything of. They leave Thursday night, and Friday morning they get the report.
And, although they were coming there (Peres and the others from Israel) to reestablish diplomatic relations that had been broken off for two years, the situation in secret was that the Cameroon military was being trained by the Israeli troops.
And, what Mae Brussell suggests is that they tested a neutron bomb. One of the reasons Vannunu was put in prison, for speaking out about the nuclear capability in Israel, was that he mentioned the neutron capability. And he's been hushed up. He's in jail, no one can get to him, there's no public recourse. Because he spoke out about what was happening there.
Not to say they developed it on their own. Probably given it by US for that testing. But in any case it was those Israeli-trained troops that then went up into the area and got there first, and did what? They did a mass burial of all the bodies, with no autopsies. Also reminiscent of earlier situations. No one is allowed back in that area to this day by the government.
There were people living up there. It's right on the border of Chad. It would not surprise me if a major development corporation goes in there fairly soon, and that there's something there. But they felt they couldn't manipulate that indigenous population to labor to get out of there, and so they just wiped them out. So they think either you control them or you move them . . . relocate them like what Richard is talking about . . . or you kill them. That's the scenario when they're ready to go for broke. And so it's an expendable population.
But I was suspicious from the beginning of it because it looked like yet another mass death situation involving People of Color. I looked into it a little further and the investigators were the same old crew that I always see: the Center for Disease Control went, with the US Army Pathology Division. They're over there in these planes; some doctors from Israel went, and they got on the plane with Peres before the incident was known to the government in Cameroon. If you take a look at the timing, they got on to go over there to look into an incident that, at least by all official accounts, the government didn't know anything of. They leave Thursday night, and Friday morning they get the report.
And, although they were coming there (Peres and the others from Israel) to reestablish diplomatic relations that had been broken off for two years, the situation in secret was that the Cameroon military was being trained by the Israeli troops.
And, what Mae Brussell suggests is that they tested a neutron bomb. One of the reasons Vannunu was put in prison, for speaking out about the nuclear capability in Israel, was that he mentioned the neutron capability. And he's been hushed up. He's in jail, no one can get to him, there's no public recourse. Because he spoke out about what was happening there.
Not to say they developed it on their own. Probably given it by US for that testing. But in any case it was those Israeli-trained troops that then went up into the area and got there first, and did what? They did a mass burial of all the bodies, with no autopsies. Also reminiscent of earlier situations. No one is allowed back in that area to this day by the government.
There were people living up there. It's right on the border of Chad. It would not surprise me if a major development corporation goes in there fairly soon, and that there's something there. But they felt they couldn't manipulate that indigenous population to labor to get out of there, and so they just wiped them out. So they think either you control them or you move them . . . relocate them like what Richard is talking about . . . or you kill them. That's the scenario when they're ready to go for broke. And so it's an expendable population.
They were outside the government control, they were living some distance off from communications. A lot of them lived communally. They had a little different society than what was down in the cities and the concentrated populations. I think they were just a group that they felt they couldn't control and so a good target population to do this.
Whether it was a chemical or biological weapon, or in fact, a neutron bomb, is hard to say without the evidence.
But it wasn't what the government says it is."
View of Cameroon Disaster : Gas Deaths Like 'a Neutron Bomb'
August 27, 1986|DAN FISHER | Times Staff Writer
SOUBOUM, Cameroon — A sign scrawled in English over the doorway of a two-room hut in this remote mountain village read, "Come in with Peace."
Inside were a few sticks of furniture, a couple of tattered suitcases, and, hanging from nails on one concrete wall, four little girls' dresses.
But there were no little girl sounds coming from the hut on Tuesday. The only noise came from a scrawny chicken clucking and scratching in an irregular plot of freshly turned earth in the yard.
"In this grave, I put eight yesterday," said Lt. Gen. James Tataw, head of the Cameroon army's disaster relief operation, nodding toward the plot. "The dresses that are there belong to no person now."
Only Chicken Survived
"The goats, the pigs, the cows, the men--they all died," Tataw said, almost as an afterthought. "Only that chicken survived. We don't know how."
Tataw was guiding the first group of journalists to reach this area since poisonous gas erupted from the bottom of nearby Lake Nios last Thursday night, enveloping neighboring farm villages in a cloud of toxic fumes now said to have claimed at least 1,500 and possibly as many as 2,000 lives in northwestern Cameroon.
The hillsides were still littered with the bloated carcasses of hundreds of long-horned cattle. The three villages hardest hit by the freak eruption--Nios, Cha and Souboum--were almost empty except for disaster relief workers and a handful of survivors and relatives there to bury their dead or reclaim a few belongings.
"It was as if a neutron bomb had exploded," Father Fred Horn, a Roman Catholic priest whose mission is in the town of Wum, 31 miles from the lake, said after visiting the stricken area. There was no apparent damage, he noted, to houses or machinery or the lush green hills and heavy forests--only to human beings and animals--much like the effect of the high-radiation, low-blast neutron bomb that kills with minimal damage to property.
The toxic but still unidentified gas has apparently evaporated, so relief workers are no longer wearing gas masks. But troops wearing kerchiefs over their mouths and plugs in their noses to ward off the lingering smell of decaying bodies were still finding and burying victims Tuesday.
"They are being buried near the houses because there is no question of transportation and the state of some of the corpses makes them difficult to touch," said Tataw. "We are using military equipment . . . and the grave is dug as near as possible to where the corpses are found so that I push them into the grave."
No Formal Death Count
Tataw said the casualty toll is imprecise because relatives buried some of the dead, even before the relief workers arrived, while the army has buried others, with no actual count being kept. The latest estimate of more than 1,500 dead was reached by subtracting known survivors from the number of people believed to have lived in the villages before the disaster.
Moreover, the officer said, many homes away from the few dirt roads lacing the area have not been searched yet, even though he said it is virtually certain there are victims in many of them.
"My estimation is that there are well over 2,000 dead," said Ngwang Gumne, provincial chief of service for the government's Community Development Department.
Tataw admitted he is also worried about the danger of leaving rotting animal carcasses exposed. However, he shrugged, "We can only do the best we can. The cows have no relatives, so their burial will be the last thing."
The waters of Lake Nios, usually a brilliant blue, have turned reddish-brown, apparently the color of the clay that was churned up from the bottom. Disaster investigator Francois Leguern of the French National Center for Scientific Research said that the red lake water was caused by particles of laterite mud, indicating that underwater volcanic activity may be continuing.
Leguern speculated that the disaster was caused by volcanic gas long trapped in the lake and released by an explosion deep down in the waters of the long-dormant crater. "The gas was heavier than the air, so those on low ground were the first victims," he said.
Survivors in Souboum, five miles from the lake, and provincial government officials said that the gas eruption occurred last Thursday night rather than Friday as originally reported.
Gas Wafted Out
The toxic cloud wafted over the northern lip of Lake Nios--which fills the entire mouth of a volcano's crater--and then spilled like the foam over the edge of a glass of beer, finally enveloping an area of about six square miles and killing with what sometimes seemed extraordinary caprice.
In the village of Nios, the settlement closest to the volcanic lake, the entire population of more than 1,000 was killed with the exception of one woman and a child. In the separate village of Upper Nios, on higher ground, there were no casualties.
In Souboum, according to a relief worker, "There may have been two people standing next to each other--one standing in the wind current was killed almost immediately while another a couple of feet away survived."
Awoke, Gasped for Air
Dennis Chin, a 32-year-old Souboum tradesman, said he awoke from his sleep Thursday night and had trouble breathing. "I sat on my bed and breathed like this," he said, pretending to gasp for air.
He said he went outside and, only partially conscious, crossed to an unventilated cooking room in the back of his neighbor's house. He broke down the door of the room, which is normally locked at night to keep out animals, and crawled inside where he passed out. The tightly sealed room may have saved his life, he indicated.
Another Souboum survivor, Chia David Wambong, said, "The smell was like cooking with kitchen gas. Everyone seemed like they were drunk. Everybody started to cough and some people vomited blood."
Wambong said he felt unusually warm, and when he heard his neighbors screaming and saw them falling to the ground, he ran back inside his home. He said he drank palm oil and credits that for his survival.
No Electricity, Phones
There are no electricity or telephones in these remote hills, and hundreds of thatched huts dot the landscape along with concrete and adobe structures. Word of the disaster was slow to reach more populous nearby centers because so many of the people here died.
Gideon Paka, provincial delegate for information and culture, said he first heard about it through a government worker who had been returning by motorcycle to his home in Nios from Wum, about 30 miles away.
The government employee found the body of a dead antelope along the road, thinking at first that "it was his lucky day," said Paka. But farther on, he found human bodies, and he started coughing and feeling dizzy himself. He turned around and brought out word that something was desperately wrong.
Paka was one of the first outsiders to reach the affected villages, last Saturday. Arriving in Cha, about three miles west of Nios, "We met people who were freshly dying, and some who were dead," he recalled. "Those who survived were coughing up blood," and some of the corpses had blood stains around their mouths and noses.
Tore Off Their Clothes
"People were lying all over their yards," Paka added. "Most were naked or half naked--they had torn their clothing off because of the heat."
John Bangsi, who lives outside of Souboum, said he walked to the village last Friday morning and found "dead bodies lying all over." At the home of an uncle, he said, only one out of 28 family members survived. "Some were lying outside, some under the bed, some on the bed," he recalled.
The few survivors were evacuated after the leak, and Radio Cameroon said the government was trying to find homes for them. But many were close to despair.
"It makes no difference where I live," mourned Wambong, whose two children were killed by the lethal cloud. "All my family is dead, and my wife is in the hospital. Where can I go?"
Meanwhile, outside aid began to reach the provincial capital at Bamenda on Tuesday. A U.S.-made C-130 aircraft of the Cameroon army arrived with 16 tons of canned rations for displaced villagers. In a local version of a bucket brigade, scores of school-age children lined up behind the huge plane and unloaded the rations, one tin at a time.
Another shipment contained hundreds of five-gallon plastic containers of lime for contaminated animal carcasses.
Some Injuries Minor
The head of an Israeli army medical team that arrived here Monday morning to aid in relief efforts said that those people injured in the disaster are apparently not hurt as seriously as feared.
"It appears that those who did survive were minimally affected, at least up to now," said Dr. Michael Wiener, an army colonel. "We know of some burns, some lung problems, and various minor trauma."
Community development official Gumne said the injured are being treated at two hospitals, in Nkambe and Wum. Of 300 people originally hospitalized at Nkambe, he added, 120 have already been released. About 100 more are being treated at Wum.
However, said Wiener, in addition to the danger of epidemic from the rotting animal carcasses still exposed in the area, there is another health concern.
He said that some people who ingested too small an amount of poisonous gas to show immediate symptoms remain in danger of what he called "a chemical inflammation of the lungs which can lead to pneumonia." He said some such cases are "already appearing," and added, "I suppose this is what we will be confronted with, mainly."
Wiener said that the toxic fumes released from the bottom of the volcanic lake Thursday night apparently consisted of a number of acid gases as well as carbon dioxide, though the precise nature of the mixture is unclear. He said that when ingested in large amounts, the gases would cause asphyxiation. For most victims, loss of consciousness came in seconds, death within a few minutes, he said.
View of Cameroon Disaster : Gas Deaths Like 'a Neutron Bomb'
In Souboum, according to a relief worker, "There may have been two people standing next to each other--one standing in the wind current was killed almost immediately while another a couple of feet away survived."
Awoke, Gasped for Air
Dennis Chin, a 32-year-old Souboum tradesman, said he awoke from his sleep Thursday night and had trouble breathing. "I sat on my bed and breathed like this," he said, pretending to gasp for air.
He said he went outside and, only partially conscious, crossed to an unventilated cooking room in the back of his neighbor's house. He broke down the door of the room, which is normally locked at night to keep out animals, and crawled inside where he passed out. The tightly sealed room may have saved his life, he indicated.
Another Souboum survivor, Chia David Wambong, said, "The smell was like cooking with kitchen gas. Everyone seemed like they were drunk. Everybody started to cough and some people vomited blood."
Wambong said he felt unusually warm, and when he heard his neighbors screaming and saw them falling to the ground, he ran back inside his home. He said he drank palm oil and credits that for his survival.
No Electricity, Phones
There are no electricity or telephones in these remote hills, and hundreds of thatched huts dot the landscape along with concrete and adobe structures. Word of the disaster was slow to reach more populous nearby centers because so many of the people here died.
Gideon Paka, provincial delegate for information and culture, said he first heard about it through a government worker who had been returning by motorcycle to his home in Nios from Wum, about 30 miles away.
The government employee found the body of a dead antelope along the road, thinking at first that "it was his lucky day," said Paka. But farther on, he found human bodies, and he started coughing and feeling dizzy himself. He turned around and brought out word that something was desperately wrong.
Paka was one of the first outsiders to reach the affected villages, last Saturday. Arriving in Cha, about three miles west of Nios, "We met people who were freshly dying, and some who were dead," he recalled. "Those who survived were coughing up blood," and some of the corpses had blood stains around their mouths and noses.
Tore Off Their Clothes
"People were lying all over their yards," Paka added. "Most were naked or half naked--they had torn their clothing off because of the heat."
John Bangsi, who lives outside of Souboum, said he walked to the village last Friday morning and found "dead bodies lying all over." At the home of an uncle, he said, only one out of 28 family members survived. "Some were lying outside, some under the bed, some on the bed," he recalled.
The few survivors were evacuated after the leak, and Radio Cameroon said the government was trying to find homes for them. But many were close to despair.
"It makes no difference where I live," mourned Wambong, whose two children were killed by the lethal cloud. "All my family is dead, and my wife is in the hospital. Where can I go?"
Meanwhile, outside aid began to reach the provincial capital at Bamenda on Tuesday. A U.S.-made C-130 aircraft of the Cameroon army arrived with 16 tons of canned rations for displaced villagers. In a local version of a bucket brigade, scores of school-age children lined up behind the huge plane and unloaded the rations, one tin at a time.
Another shipment contained hundreds of five-gallon plastic containers of lime for contaminated animal carcasses.
Some Injuries Minor
The head of an Israeli army medical team that arrived here Monday morning to aid in relief efforts said that those people injured in the disaster are apparently not hurt as seriously as feared.
"It appears that those who did survive were minimally affected, at least up to now," said Dr. Michael Wiener, an army colonel. "We know of some burns, some lung problems, and various minor trauma."
Community development official Gumne said the injured are being treated at two hospitals, in Nkambe and Wum. Of 300 people originally hospitalized at Nkambe, he added, 120 have already been released. About 100 more are being treated at Wum.
However, said Wiener, in addition to the danger of epidemic from the rotting animal carcasses still exposed in the area, there is another health concern.
He said that some people who ingested too small an amount of poisonous gas to show immediate symptoms remain in danger of what he called "a chemical inflammation of the lungs which can lead to pneumonia." He said some such cases are "already appearing," and added, "I suppose this is what we will be confronted with, mainly."
Wiener said that the toxic fumes released from the bottom of the volcanic lake Thursday night apparently consisted of a number of acid gases as well as carbon dioxide, though the precise nature of the mixture is unclear. He said that when ingested in large amounts, the gases would cause asphyxiation. For most victims, loss of consciousness came in seconds, death within a few minutes, he said.
The Lake Nyos Disaster 20 Years After (I): Revisiting Israeli Connection
On August 16, 1984, a gas eruption in Lake Monoun in the Western province of Cameroon killed 37 people. Reports revealed that "victims suffered vomiting, paralysis, and very rapid death; some lost the outer layer of their skin."
Two years later on August 21, 1986, a similar but more deadly incident occurred in Lake Nyos in the Northwest province. Toxic gas emanating from the lake killed some 1834 people along with 3500 livestock within a 12-mile radius.
Two years later on August 21, 1986, a similar but more deadly incident occurred in Lake Nyos in the Northwest province. Toxic gas emanating from the lake killed some 1834 people along with 3500 livestock within a 12-mile radius.
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According to D’Amato & Engel,
According to D’Amato & Engel,
"The 'Dead Land' is a perfect allegory to describe the affected areas in the aftermath of this incident. The once fertile lands in the Camerounian villages of Sobum, Chah, Koshing, and Nyos lay barren and defoliated, with charred remains of burnt crops and carcasses of rotting animals. Survivors of the disaster who were evacuated complained of heartburn, eye lesions, and neurological problems such as monoplegia, a condition that affects one muscle or group of muscles, one limb or one part of the body, and paraplegia, paralysis of the lower part of the body and limbs."
One survivor, Pa Ful Jeremiah, describes the scene thus:
“We thought the lake had overflowed its banks. Many people were so confused especially women and children. In Panic and fright they ran out of houses to escape from unknown and dropped dead like chickens during a plague. Some of us managed to keep our heads straight and only survived through the will of God. The next day we discovered that hundreds of people had died. They had burns on their bodies. It was only after another day that the first people arrived and decided that we should arrange to bury the dead.” (Cited Times & Life Vol. 1, no. 4. Sept. 1991, p. 7).
From the beginning, scientists were confounded by the disaster. As George Kling, an ecologist at the University of Michigan recalls, "It was one of the most baffling disasters scientists have ever investigated. Lakes just don't rise up and wipe out thousands of people."
In his 2003 award-winning article on the Lake Nyos and Monoun disasters, Kevin Krajick writes that “Conspiracy theories abound in Cameroon, where unexplained events are often attributed to political intrigues”. And that was exactly what happened immediately after the Nyos disaster. With the scientists unable to pinpoint the cause of this unprecedented event, the Cameroonian public quickly concluded that this was a man-made disaster. This belief was reinforced by numerous stories of alleged suspicious happenings in the Nyos area in the months preceding the explosion. According to one version which appeared in an article on the Ambazonia Indymedia website,
“…the most conspicuous incident prior to the explosion was the fact that the traditional ruler of Nyos and the Royal family moved out of the village a few days before the explosion... Did the Traditional ruler of Nyos know of a timed explosion, too? Other reports, even from the Cameroun radio stations, said many months earlier "a strange white man" or ‘a geologist’ had visited the Lake and warned that people should evacuate the village before a certain date.”
The most prevalent theory was that the gas emission was due to the detonation of a neutron bomb in a secret military test. This theory obviously originated from national and international news reports which constantly compared the effects of the gas emission to that of a neutron bomb. For example, according to an August 26, 1986 article in the Washington Post,
“Reporters in the area described it as looking like the aftermath of a neutron bomb, with damage only to living things, and no visible effect on the village huts and other buildings. A few chickens seemed to be the only animals to have survived in the three hardest-hit villages."
This theory got a boost a few months later when the 4-14-1987 issue of the National Examiner, an American tabloid noted for its questionable and sensationalistic stories claimed that the gas emission,
“was really a magnetic bomb perfected at secret hollow earth bunkers beneath Las Vegas, Nevada. The so-called underground nuclear tests there were actually strategic bombing of hollow earth forward attack lines using similar magnetic weapons. The nuclear blasts were merely side-effects of the device." [Cited here]
The Prime Suspects
Depending on which version catches your fancy, the neutron bomb was exploded in Lake Nyos, either by the Americans, the French or the Israelis. However, the most notable, most persistent and most widespread theory is that it was the handiwork of the Israelis. 20 years later this theory is still firmly rooted in the Cameroonian psyche as comments on a recent story on the PostNewsline website about planned Israeli development projects in the Northwest province indicate.
Depending on which version catches your fancy, the neutron bomb was exploded in Lake Nyos, either by the Americans, the French or the Israelis. However, the most notable, most persistent and most widespread theory is that it was the handiwork of the Israelis. 20 years later this theory is still firmly rooted in the Cameroonian psyche as comments on a recent story on the PostNewsline website about planned Israeli development projects in the Northwest province indicate.
Proponents of the Israeli theory point to the fact that barely days (some say hours) after the incident, the Israeli Prime Minister arrived in Cameroon with a planeload of medical doctors and scientists. As the New York Times reported on August 26, 1986,
“When Prime Minister Shimon Peres arrived from Israel for a one-day visit on the restoration of Israeli-Cameroon relations, he brought with him a 17-member medical team along with tons of medical supplies. The Israeli team went straight to the Nios area as soon as it arrived this morning. Other Aid Is Offered.”
Conspiracy theorists wonder how the Israelis were able assemble the scientific team and be in Cameroon barely a few hours after, or within 48 hours of the incident, even though news of the incident filtered out to the world some 72 hours after it occurred. They argue that this could not have been possible without any prior knowledge of the event.
In an article on his blog, veteran Cameroonian Journalist Ntemfac Ofege writes that
“The arrival in Cameroon of the then Israeli Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, with a fully-equipped hospital plane, on a so-called State visit less than 48 hours after the Lake Nyos explosion, is very suspicious."Actually, the Israelis remain Mr. Biya’s guardian angels. They not only train and equip his close guards (the presidential guard) but they also monitor events in Cameroon from their Mont Febe hideout and other locations in Yaounde.”
Ofege adds that:
“Mr. Biya has also not reacted to a Denis Sassou Nguessou interview published in a San Francisco newspaper suggesting that the Lake Nyos gas explosion was an Israeli thermonuclear device. Mr. Sassou Nguessou said in that interview that he was approached by the Israeli to test the device in his country and he said no. Mr. Biya apparently accepted the indecent proposition.”
Ambazonian activist Justice Mbuh who has written extensively about the Lake Nyos disaster on numerous Cameroonian Internet forums has also pointed to “the very perfect coincidence of the Israeli Prime Minister's visit to Cameroun with the explosion,” and insists that the Cameroonian government “accepted monies to test weapons of mass destruction in our country's beautiful lake Nyos…” In his most recent posting on the Nyos disaster, he writes that:
“… suspected gas was used to test mass killing in the name of natural disaster at Lake Nyos. It was published in Cameroun newspapers that Paul Biya took Ten Billion Dollars to allow the testing of a neutron Bomb-like weapon. The effects of the devastation are now very similar to what we are seeing from Lebanon. Now it seems Israel has modified it twenty years after, making it a target-specific weapon with same but more deadly effects than did the Nyos mass killings!"
Wrong Timeline
Evidently, if the timeline as presented by the conspiracy theorists is correct, then the presence of the Israeli team is hard to explain and merits closer scrutiny. But is this timeline correct? In an attempt to answer this key question, I spent some time looking at news reports from 20 years ago about the disaster and the visit of the Israeli Prime Minister to Cameroon.
Evidently, if the timeline as presented by the conspiracy theorists is correct, then the presence of the Israeli team is hard to explain and merits closer scrutiny. But is this timeline correct? In an attempt to answer this key question, I spent some time looking at news reports from 20 years ago about the disaster and the visit of the Israeli Prime Minister to Cameroon.
According to news reports and stories from survivors, the explosion happened around on the night of Thursday August 21, 1986, around 9:00 p.m. It wasn’t until Saturday August 23rd that the first group of outsiders, led by Reverend Father Tenhorn, arrived on the scene and began burying the victims. And it would be another 24 hours before the national and international community became aware of what had occurred in Nyos. And as soon as news of the disaster broke, the international mobilization began. According to a BBC reportat the time,
“Scientists from the United States and France are on their way to investigate the lake. They will bring with them rescue teams and emergency aid to help the survivors. The US has pledged $25,000 in immediate aid, while France, Britain and other Western European countries have promised logistical support. The Israeli Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, has said he will not cancel his state visit to Cameroon, due to start on Monday ... He said he would be bringing a medical team and equipment for treating the victims.”
Prime Minister Shimon Peres did arrive in Cameroon on Monday August 25 with the Israeli medical and scientific team as planned exactly four days after the explosion – enough time for the Israelis to put together a complete medical and scientific team. And the Medical team was still holed up in Bamenda 24 hours after it arrived in Cameroon. A Washington Post report filed from Yaounde on August 26, 1986 was categorical on this point:
“No foreign disaster team has yet reached the lakeside area.
An Israeli medical team, which arrived here yesterday with Prime Minister Shimon Peres, was waiting this morning in the provincial capital of Bamenda, about 40 miles from the lake. Although the team plans to set a field hospital closer to the site, officials acknowledged that the fatality rate was so high that there was little they could do beyond treating a relatively small number of injured survivors.”
Conclusion
So what really happened at Lake Nyos? The scientific community seems to have concluded that it was a natural disaster caused by toxic gases trapped beneath the lake which rose to the surface – a Limnic eruption – hence ongoing attempts to degas the lake. [Click here to view a webcam on Lake Nyos].
I am in no position to confirm or refute this scientific conclusion. However, I believe there is ample evidence showing that the “perfect coincidence theory” regarding the Israelis is based on a false premise and wrong timeline. While this does not in itself eliminate the military test theory, it definitely knocks down one of the pillars on which the Israeli military test theory hinges, and gives us reason to pause.
So what really happened at Lake Nyos? The scientific community seems to have concluded that it was a natural disaster caused by toxic gases trapped beneath the lake which rose to the surface – a Limnic eruption – hence ongoing attempts to degas the lake. [Click here to view a webcam on Lake Nyos].
I am in no position to confirm or refute this scientific conclusion. However, I believe there is ample evidence showing that the “perfect coincidence theory” regarding the Israelis is based on a false premise and wrong timeline. While this does not in itself eliminate the military test theory, it definitely knocks down one of the pillars on which the Israeli military test theory hinges, and gives us reason to pause.
So what do you think? Was the Lake Nyos disaster a natural disaster or man-made one? Was the killer a neutron bomb or Carbon-dioxide? And, do you believe the Israelis are responsible?
In Part Two of the series on Lake Nyos, we will present the story of two survivors along with an attempt at a layman's explanation of what happened on that fateful August night.
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