Who did USA warn about tsunami?
On the heels of my post of January 3, 'The generosity of the Bush government', in which I expressed the view that the USA administration must have known about the Indian Ocean tsunami right from the initial undersea earthquake event, comes this snippet from the end of Friday's fascinating Guardian article, 'US island base given warning':
"Professor Michel Chossudovsky of Ottawa University said the argument put forward by other experts that countries hit by the tsunami could not have been warned of the approaching waves because they had no sensors or special buoys in the Indian Ocean was a 'red herring'.
"Prof Chossudovsky, who helps run the centre for research on globalisation, added: 'We are not dealing with information based on ocean sensors. The emergency warning was transmitted in the immediate wake of the earthquake based on seismic data.' With modern communications, 'the information of an impending disaster could have been sent round the world in a matter of minutes, by email, by telephone, by fax, not to mention by satellite television', he said.
"He said the US military had advanced systems 'which enables [sic] it to monitor in a very precise way the movement of the seismic wave in real time'."
Source: The Guardian
[Thanks, J-9.]
On the heels of my post of January 3, 'The generosity of the Bush government', in which I expressed the view that the USA administration must have known about the Indian Ocean tsunami right from the initial undersea earthquake event, comes this snippet from the end of Friday's fascinating Guardian article, 'US island base given warning':
"Professor Michel Chossudovsky of Ottawa University said the argument put forward by other experts that countries hit by the tsunami could not have been warned of the approaching waves because they had no sensors or special buoys in the Indian Ocean was a 'red herring'.
"Prof Chossudovsky, who helps run the centre for research on globalisation, added: 'We are not dealing with information based on ocean sensors. The emergency warning was transmitted in the immediate wake of the earthquake based on seismic data.' With modern communications, 'the information of an impending disaster could have been sent round the world in a matter of minutes, by email, by telephone, by fax, not to mention by satellite television', he said.
"He said the US military had advanced systems 'which enables [sic] it to monitor in a very precise way the movement of the seismic wave in real time'."
Source: The Guardian
[Thanks, J-9.]
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