Source: American Free Press
Richard Walker
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 Yoishi 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.