Re The Nerve Agent Attack that Did Not Occur: Analysis of the Times and Locations of Critical Events in the Alleged Nerve Agent Attack at 7 AM on April 4, 2017 in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Jonathan Levine <jonathan.canuck.levine () gmail com>
> Date: April 21, 2017 at 7:41:53 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re The Nerve Agent Attack that Did Not Occur: Analysis of the Times and Locations of Critical 
> Events in the Alleged Nerve Agent Attack at 7 AM on April 4, 2017 in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria
>
> > > From: Ralph Hitchens <rmhitchens45 () gmail com>
> > >
> > > Dave,
> > >
> > > My recollection from the briefings I saw after Desert Storm (I was a
> > > reservist on the Air Staff at the Pentagon) made the point that the video
> > > footage Ted Postol saw as "commercial" video with a slower frame rate than
> > > the video footage used by DOD analysts.  A fellow reservist in my unit --
> > > also a SAIC scientist -- who was mobilized at the end of the war and
> > > analyzed the DOD footage told me that in his opinion the Patriot was a
> > > superb interceptor with a "sub-lethal" warhead.  Also, a major
> > > complicating factor was that the extended-range SCUDs, apparently designed
> > > and manufactured by the Iraqis, had inadequate structural integrity and
> > > usually came apart in-flight, which naturally confused the Patriot
> > > interceptor missile, now confronted with multiple radar returns with
> > > different trajectories.
>
> ...or confused analysts who interpreted the auto-disintegrating SCUD as a
> positive Patriot hit.  I'd have to go back to my prior readings, but iIrc, the
> Patriot relied on proximity explosion rather than physical contact with the
> target.
>
> > > DOD and Raytheon analysts dismissed Postol's analysis
>
> Well, they would, wouldn't they?
>
> Jonathan



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