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US and Israel did create Stuxnet attack code

Mehr News Agency | July 9, 2013

TEHRAN – NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has confirmed that the Stuxnet malware used to attack Iranian nuclear facilities was created as part of a joint operation between the Israelis and the NSA’s Foreign Affairs Directorate (FAD).

“The NSA and Israel cowrote it,” he told Der Spiegel in an email interview conducted before he publicly outed himself as the NSA mole. Snowden is currently in Russia and a “free man” according to Vladimir Putin – as long as there are no further NSA leaks.

The Stuxnet code, which has been deployed since 2005, is thought to be the first malware aimed specifically at damaging specific physical infrastructure*, and was inserted into the computer networks of the Iranian nuclear fuel factory in Natanz shortly after it opened.

Early variants attempted to contaminate uranium supplies by interfering with the flow of gas to the fuel being processed, potentially causing explosive results in the processing factory. Later a more advanced variant attacked the centrifuges themselves, burning out motors by rapidly starting and stopping the units and contaminating fuel production, although it may actually have encouraged the Iranians.

Last year an unnamed US official said that Stuxnet was part of a program called Operation Olympic Games, started under President Bush and continued under the current administration, aimed at slowing down the Iranian nuclear effort without having to resort to risky airstrikes. General James Cartwright, a former vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is currently under investigation by the US government for allegedly leaking details of Operation Olympic Games.

July 9, 2013 - Posted by | Militarism, Timeless or most popular, War Crimes, Wars for Israel | , , , , , , , , , , ,

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  1. Does Fukushima come to mind in reading this article? Well, there was a wide suspicion that Stuxnet either accidentally or deliberately infected the nuclear power plant complex.

    And to the best of my memory, Japan had voted in an unfavorable way to Israeli interest in the UN or something. Making it a vengeful act, which is turn has brought on the worse disaster in human history, and portends much worse to come as further meltdowns seems absolutely inevitable.

    Our collective Nemesis that has no bounds other than the extinction of life on this planet as one failed nuclear reactor after another melts down. There are approximately 450 worldwide, and none are safe, the waste material secured for the millenniums required.

    So, it is the sociopaths at NSA and in Israel, who have instigated what Robert Oppenheimer said upon the creation of the atomic bomb, ‘”I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”‘ So we will all die with a wimpier, not a boom! The “peaceful atom” and the crazy Zionist have sealed our fate in a radioactive biosphere.

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    Bill Mitchell's avatar Comment by Bill Mitchell | July 10, 2013 | Reply


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