Journalist Accuses Israel of Fukushima Sabotage
By Richard Walker
A leading
Japanese journalist recently made two incredible claims about the
Fukushima power plant that suffered a nuclear meltdown in March 2011,
sending shockwaves around the world. First, the former editor of a
national newspaper in Japan says the U.S. and Israel knew Fukushima had
weapons-grade uranium and plutonium that were exposed to the atmosphere
after a massive tsunami wave hit the reactor. Second, he contends that
Israeli intelligence sabotaged the reactor in retaliation for Japan’s
support of an independent Palestinian state.
According to Yoichi Shimatsu, a former editor of Japan Times Weekly,
these nuclear materials were shipped to the plant in 2007 on the orders
of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, with the connivance of Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert. The shipment was in the form of warhead cores
secretly removed from the U.S. nuclear warheads facility BWXT Plantex
near Amarillo, Texas. While acting as the middleman, Israel transported
warheads from the port of Houston, and in the process kept the best ones
while giving the Japanese older warhead cores that had to be further
enriched at Fukushima.
Shimatsu
credits retired CIA agent and mercenary Roland Vincent Carnaby with
learning the warheads were being transported from Houston. In a strange
twist, Carnaby was mysteriously shot dead less than a year later by
Houston police at a traffic stop. He was shot once in the back and once
in the chest. He did not have a weapon in his hands. Intelligence
sources said he had been tracking a Mossad unit that was smuggling U.S.
plutonium out of Houston docks for an Israeli nuclear reactor.
In an even
more explosive charge, the journalist says that 20 minutes before the
Fukushima plant’s nuclear meltdown, Israel was so upset with Japanese
support for a Palestinian declaration of statehood that it
double-crossed Japan by unleashing the Stuxnet virus on the plant’s
computers. The virus hampered the shutdown, leading to fallout from a
section of the plant housing uranium and plutonium retrieved from the
warheads supplied in 2007.
While it
is impossible to verify some of Shimatsu’s claims, there was a massive
cover-up at the time of the Fukushima disaster in March. Explosions at
the site were immediately downplayed. While it was subsequently reported
that three reactors suffered meltdowns, Japanese authorities tried to
rate the disaster as a Level 4 on the International Nuclear and
Radiological Event Scale, although outside experts declared it a 7,
which is the highest level.
Something
worth noting is how in 2009, two years after Shimatsu says the warheads
were secretly moved to Japan, the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) issued a veiled warning to Japan not to abandon its anti-nuclear
weapons policy.
The IAEA
had to know, however, that Japan has long retained the potential to
build nuclear weapons. That was made clear as far back as 1996 when a
leaked Ministry of Foreign Affairs document exposed how Japan had been
promoting a dual strategy in respect to nuclear weapons since the
mid-1960s. It would often publicly profess a non-nuclear policy while
maintaining the ability to build a nuclear arsenal. The Liberal
Democratic Party, which has dominated Japanese politics, has always said
there is no constitutional impediment to nukes.
A factor
that undoubtedly would have encouraged the Bush-Cheney White House to
provide Japan with the means to secretly build nukes was the growing
power of China. Cheney and Bush sought to arm Japan and India with
nuclear weapons as a means of curbing China.
Richard Walker is the pen name of a former N.Y. news producer.
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