Israel's Blitzkrieg on Middle East
Oil
"Operation
Shekhinah"

Copyright
Joe Vialls, January - December
2002

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In early March 2001, a leading European intelligence agency received
disturbing news from its most senior and trusted agent in Tel Aviv. Aware
of growing international resistance to its ruthless and murderous
suppression of the Palestinians, the Israeli Cabinet had met to discuss
the limited ways in which it could proceed with its plans to annex the
rest of Palestine, with or without the support of principal ally America,
or the “International Community”. At the time, the Israeli Cabinet had no
idea that the subject matter of its March meeting would later become one
of the prime reasons for the September attack on the World Trade
Center.

The Israeli Cabinet was seriously worried. Despite effective control of
the western media by the Jewish-American lobby, risk assessment conducted
in Tel Aviv showed there was still a high probability that continued
ruthless Israeli activity in Palestine, would lead in turn to increased
sanctions by the western nations. Initially the sanctions would take the
form of decreased arms shipments to Israel, followed later by increasingly
large cuts in overseas financial “aid”, still provided in the main by
unwitting American taxpayers. Sooner or later financial aid might dry up
completely, but this was not the worst case
scenario.

Eventually, if western public opinion became strident enough, America and
Europe might feel compelled to impose a complete oil embargo on Israel.
With no natural resources of its own, and only limited strategic oil
reserves in the country, Israel’s armed forces would grind to a complete
standstill in only a few weeks. Aircraft and battle tanks have an almost
insatiable thirst for petroleum products, and when those products run out,
the aircraft and tanks are no more use to their owners than chunks of
aluminum and steel waiting for the recycling
smelters.

Clearly then, the Israeli Cabinet had to find an alternate source of oil,
and find it quickly. Moreover, bearing in mind they would no longer be
able to pay for the oil because of financial sanctions, the new source
would have to be “free”. Back in the sixties, ambitious Israelis had made
detailed plans to acquire just such an alternate source of oil by force,
but the plans had to be shelved for geopolitical reasons. Those
geopolitical restrictions no longer existed in 2001, so the old plans were
taken out of storage, dusted off, and renamed Operation
Shekhinah.

Stealing oil reserves from another nation is certainly not an original
idea. The closest historical precedent for Operation Shekhinah was
probably back in 1941, when Roosevelt imposed a total oil embargo on Japan
during the first American “War on Terror”. Seeing conflict as inevitable
and recognizing its desperate need for an alternate source of oil, the
Japanese responded accordingly, acutely aware that in order to reach and
utilize the oil reserves in the Dutch East Indies, it would first have to
overwhelm the [then] vastly superior US
Navy.

It was in this context that Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief
of the Japanese Combined Fleet, suggested an air attack on the US Pacific
Fleet, which had moved from its usual base at San Diego on the American
west coast, to a mid-Pacific location at Pearl Harbor in May 1940.
Yamamoto's plan was a development of the traditional Japanese defensive
strategy. He gambled on a surprise attack to destroy the American naval
capability in the Pacific, including its all-important aircraft carriers,
and create enough time, perhaps six months, to enable Japan to complete
its territorial
conquests.

Simultaneous attacks by the Japanese army on Hong Kong, Malaya, the
Philippines, Guam and the Dutch East Indies would capture the
strategically important bases and areas rich in raw materials Japan felt
was vital for its national survival and would also now be needed to
sustain its war with America. The rest, as they say, is history.
Along
much the same lines, and for similar strategic reasons in 2001, Israel
intended to launch a surprise attack against southern Iraq, capture its
southern oil fields, then use the old existing Trans Arabian Pipeline
[“Tapline”], to pump the oil back to its own refineries at Haifa.
Technical details of the operation will be provided later in this report,
and in part two to follow, but first we need to examine the chances of the
operation succeeding, and the subsequent reaction of the western nations
and
Russia.

Back in the sixties, when the operation was first planned by Israel, the
British, Russians and Europeans had huge investments in the middle east,
so an outraged backlash against Israel would have been immediate, and
probably terminal for any ongoing “Jewish State” in Palestine. It was on
this basis that the Iraqi plan was shelved and left to gather dust.
However, during the years that followed, the entire geopolitical landscape
changed. By March 2001, the Israeli Cabinet considered the risks to be
minimal, and probably non-existent if Operation Shekhinah was handled
correctly. What had changed the odds was the new status of
Iraq.

During the late eighties and nineties, the fledgling “New World Order” and
the media had spent millions of dollars demonizing President Saddam
Hussein, to the point where he was eventually regarded by 95% of the
western public as “The Butcher of Baghdad”. Not only was this Iraqi demon
allegedly manufacturing weapons of mass destruction almost identical to
those stored in America, he was also the tyrant who “gassed his own Kurds
at
Halabja”.

President Hussein did no such thing. In February 1990 the US Army War
College published a report titled “Iraqi Power & US Security in the
Middle East”, which proved the Kurds of Halabja died as the direct result
of an Iranian Phosgene gas attack. But the western media, firmly in the
grip of the Jewish-American lobby, wasn’t going to let the hard truth get
in the way of its frantic vilification
campaign.

In light of Saddam Hussein’s new demonic status, the Israeli Cabinet
reasoned in March 2001 that no one would now object to Israel taking
strenuous action against this “known war criminal and killer of babies”.
Instead, it was calculated that the action would be seen by the western
public as daring. Once again the brave Jews would have taken a stand
against a dictator in the sacred name of democracy; and hopefully the
western public would not notice the millions of barrels of stolen Iraqi
oil flowing back to its refineries in Haifa. And even if they did notice,
what could they do about it with Israel already in
occupation?

Before Operation Shekhinah could be launched, Israel needed its own “tame”
Arabs on the ground in both northern Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq.
Detailed plans of the area had to be drawn up or updated, and airfields
and assembly points for incoming Israeli aircraft and ground troops
arranged. In order to avoid suspicion or unwanted prying eyes, Israeli
agents infiltrated the areas and started offering certain Shi’ite Muslims
in the area “free passage” to other countries away from their enemy Saddam
Hussein, plus spending money to take with them, in exchange for their
ramshackle homes in the
area.

Predictably there was no shortage of takers, and by mid April 2001 the
preliminary operation was in full swing. Droves of Shi’ite Muslims quietly
started departing the area for America, Europe and Australasia at enormous
cost to the Israelis. Buying entire people smuggling operations was an
incredibly expensive business, to which had to be added the ad hoc
payments to the migrants and other significant expenses. Once again
America unwittingly came to the rescue, with certain financial
institutions in the World Trade Center laundering most of the massive
funds
needed.

This activity was conducted with alacrity, because Israel had offered a
dazzling quid pro quo to its financial juggernaut in New York City. Once
firmly established in southern Iraq, the new Israel would be at the
crossroads of middle east oil, not only with direct control of the giant
southern Iraqi fields, but also within easy striking distance of Kuwait,
northern Iran, and the northern Iraqi pipeline
routes.

From this position of enormous strength, Israel would be able to either
control or blackmail the local states into marketing their oil in an
“organized way”, rather than allowing any old Tom Dick or Harry to buy the
stuff on the Rotterdam Spot Market. Using sophisticated insider trading
techniques, OPEC would be neutered, and world oil supplies would come
under the exclusive de facto control of NYMEX and the New York Stock
Exchange in the World Trade
Center.

Concurrent with this activity, the Jewish-American Lobby was frantically
urging the White House and US Department of State to step up its
enforcement of the illegal “no fly” zones over northern and southern Iraq.
The records show that attacks did indeed increase during this period,
though the American and British pilots could not have known they were
being deliberately used to “blind” the Iraqi air defenses, and ensure they
stayed blinded in the run up to Israel’s Operation Shekhinah. When the
Israeli surprise attack was finally launched, there would be not the
slightest chance of detection by Baghdad until it was too
late.

The possibility of military intervention by the United States seemed to
trouble the Israeli Foreign Minister, but risk assessment came to the
rescue and calmed his fears. Though a few US military aircraft based in
Kuwait would probably have to be destroyed, either on the ground or in the
air, it was calculated that this would not be a problem in technical or
public relations
terms.

Technically, the Israeli aircraft had home-grown fire control systems
vastly superior to their American equivalents, and could be relied on to
shoot down the US jets swiftly and with the minimum of fuss. In public
relations terms the Israelis would later claim it was a case of “mistaken
identity”, twist a few arms and grease a few palms in Washington, and the
whole affair would be swept under the carpet. Once again the Israeli
Cabinet had a sound precedent for this, in the form of the USS
Liberty.

On 8 June 1967, during the Six Day War between Israel and the Arab States,
the unarmed American intelligence ship USS Liberty was attacked for 75
minutes by Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats. Thirty-four men died
and 172 were wounded. Despite the proven fact that the USS Liberty was far
offshore in international waters, and flying a bright, clean American
flag, Israel insisted it was all a terrible case of mistaken identity,
which it most certainly was not. Israel attacked the USS Liberty in an
attempt to “blind” the American intelligence ship and prevent it
forwarding details of Israel’s pre-emptive strikes to the
Pentagon.

The Jewish-American Lobby went to work with a vengeance in Washington,
twisting arms and handing out pieces of silver. So effective was the
lobbying that the murder of thirty four American sailors on the unarmed
USS Liberty went largely unnoticed by the public, and the media was
predictably silent on the matter. Though the Liberty’s Captain William
Loren McGonagle was later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for
conspicuous gallantry and intrepedity at the risk of his life above and
beyond the call of duty, it was presented to him quietly at the Washington
Navy Yard, rather than the White House as is
customary.

American politicians had bent over backwards to avoid embarrassing the
murderers of the thirty-four American sailors. The Israeli Cabinet thus
knew full well that any American “collateral damage” during Operation
Shekhinah could be swept under the carpet in exactly the same
way.

By early June 2001 the trickle of Shi’ite “migrants” out of northern Saudi
and southern Iraq had swelled to a flood, which came to the attention of
at least two more European intelligence agencies. For reasons unknown but
presumably acting on orders, the Shi’ites were all woodenly claiming they
were Afghans, which was not a good move. Afghans speak Farsi but these
people couldn’t speak a word of it, which is hardly surprising. The native
language in both northern Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq is
Arabic.

Around this time Russia also became aware of the pending Israeli
operation, though it is not yet known whether the information was leaked
by a European agency, or provided direct by one of its own agents in Tel
Aviv. But what was known by all by this time, was the actual start date
for Operation Shekhinah: 2 October 2001, the first day of a seven-day
Jewish holiday, and thus a most unlikely period in which expect an attack
by
Israel.

Things then went very quiet for a few weeks until 12 July, when Pravda,
still considered by many as the establishment voice of Russia's old guard
communists who control the military and intelligence agencies, printed a
story on its page one entitled “Will the Dollar and America Fall Down on
August 19? That's the Opinion of Dr. Tatyana Koryagina”. Was Mother Russia
using this expert, and deliberately citing the wrong date, in order to
distance herself from involvement in the upcoming 11 September attack on
the World Trade Center?

Photo courtesy of
http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/300/380/388/tapline/

In order to get a true feel for the importance of oil to Israel, it is
necessary to take a stroll back through history, to a time when the sky
was continually lit by the flashes of heavy artillery shells and exploding
bombs, as nations around the globe struggled with World War Two. But as
the two sides struggled with the other, an entirely separate third battle
was being fought behind the scenes. While the Americans, the British and
their allies fought savagely and died in their thousands for secular
democracy, others were fighting a covert quasi-religious
war.

Zionists worldwide were actively plotting to overthrow Palestine in order
to provide a “haven” for poor dispossessed Jews from around the globe,
especially those who had suffered at the hands of the Nazis in Germany.
Naturally the Zionists insisted that they had no territorial ambitions,
confirmed by Ben Gurion, who stated the easternmost Israeli border would
be “the Syrian Desert, including the furthest edge of Transjordan.” So no
real problem. Just relocate a few thousand Palestinians to make way for
the Jews, and everyone would be
happy.

As historical documents show, and modern Zionists freely admit, this was
propaganda intended only for the gullible masses. The true intent of the
Zionist elite was a smash and grab raid of staggering proportions,
securing territory from the Mediterranean coast and the River Nile in the
west, to the River Euphrates in the east, together forming the new Greater
Israel.

By the end of the Second World War, the “new” Israel was shaping up as the
biggest and most exciting game in town. Control of this vast block of
territory would allow its new owners to completely dominate the crossroads
of traditional world trading routes, regulate world oil shipping routes
including the Suez Canal, and [effectively] control the Persian
Gulf.

In common with all 20th Century engagements, the battle for Greater Israel
would require vast quantities of oil to drive the machines of war: Oil
which the British and Iraqis had already piped into the port city of Haifa
to serve the British naval and military bases in the Eastern
Mediterranean. By 1946 two pipelines fed the refineries and loading
terminals at Haifa: the first a ten-inch line running direct from Iraq to
Palestine, and the second a sixteen-inch line running from Iraq to
Palestine via Jordan. Also on the drawing board that year was a new
mammoth thirty-inch line from Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to Palestine,
nicknamed the
“Tapline”.

Thus if the Zionists planned their attacks swiftly and efficiently, they
would be able to sweep through Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq, using the
existing refineries and pipelines to meet the needs of their war machine.
Once the territory had been conquered, the newly created Greater Israel
could and would charge the Saudi’s and Bahraini’s vast Tapline royalties,
and massive fees for the use of “its” refineries in Haifa. It was heady
stuff, but by the time the Jews had finished slashing and burning their
way though western Palestine in 1948, unwisely killing British as well as
Palestinian citizens on the way, someone somewhere had already blown the
whistle on their overall strategic
ambitions.

As if by magic, the ten-inch and sixteen-inch lines oil were cut at
source, and the Arabs started to fight back. Because the Jews were not
exactly the darlings of the western world in 1948, and were strapped for
both cash and oil, they had to call a temporary halt in what was to become
Israel up until the next aggressive expansionist attempt during 1967. But
significantly, in 1948 the Zionists had established a firm “beachhead” for
Greater
Israel.

The need to sever the pipelines had dealt a severe blow to the Arabs, who
were now faced with transporting most of their oil out through the Persian
Gulf, a extra distance of more than 5,000 nautical miles on the way to
market. True a small pipeline still ran from Iraq through Syria to the
northern Lebanese port of Tripoli, but it carried only a tiny fraction of
the oil. So in the end the thirty-inch Trans Arabian Pipeline (Tapline)
was built, though not without significant
difficulty.

Syrian parliamentary objections necessitated the CIA-aided 1949 coup in
Damascus to secure "right of way" over the Golan Heights. Two CIA agents,
one of them Miles Copeland, simply installed a Syrian Government prepared
to sign the new right of way agreement, and Tapline was re-routed around
the northern tip of Israel to the southern Lebanese port of
Sidon.

The psychological impact of Tapline on the Israelis from its opening
during 1950, should not be underestimated. Robbed of what they believed to
be their historical birthright, by a lack of oil to drive their war
machine on to a Greater Israel, they were now forced to watch impotently
as that very oil flowed by, tantalizingly close to their border on the
Golan Heights. On any single day, when the wind was not blowing and the
air was still, they could hear the muted hum and swishing as nearly
500,000 barrels of sweet black crude oil flowed straight past, on its way
to Sidon and the export markets

Then in 1967 the Israelis launched their “Pearl Harbor” surprise attack on
the Arab nations, blitzing the latter’s air forces on the ground, and
expanding their own territory to include the Sinai in the south, and the
extended Golan Heights in the north. The Israeli’s would have taken more
if they thought they could get away with it, but once again international
public opinion and limited pressure from America forced a halt. What went
almost unnoticed was that for the first time since its opening back in
1950, the Tapline now ran through the Israeli-occupied part of the Golan
Heights, rather than through
Syria.

This incredibly important new strategic reality seemed to escape the
attention of everyone, including the premier American Military Academy at
West Point. Nowadays the maps in the West Point Reference Library show
lots of interesting tidbits about Israeli advances, roads and other
mundane geographical features in and around the Golan, but not a glimpse
of Tapline. For sample map, click here. Clearly where American military
strategy is concerned, a pair of cleverly-sited Israeli machine gun nests
on a hill in the Golan facing Syria, are more important that an oil
pipeline large enough to fuel Israel’s entire army on its journey to the
River Euphrates in
Iraq.

Due to the failed Syrian attempt to take back the Golan Heights in 1973,
and a host of other destabilizing factors including Israeli pipeline
sabotage and problems in the Lebanon, all oil transportation in the
western [Syrian and Lebanese] portions of the line ceased in 1976. That
portion of the line was evacuated of all crude oil and the installations
in Lebanon were handed over to the Lebanese government in 1983, after the
Israeli invasion of that
country.

The western section of the Tapline was not destroyed, and currently sits
idle, still capable of transporting up to 500,000 barrels of oil per day.
Until 1991 the eastern section of the Tapline was used to supply Jordan,
but Saudi Arabia terminated this arrangement to display displeasure with
Jordanian support for Iraq during the Gulf War. Tapline was and remains a
central feature of Israel’s strategic plans to take Greater Israel by
force, despite western objections, and despite threatened western
sanctions designed to moderate its
behavior.

Much of the detailed current planning for Operation Shekhinah will be
covered in Part Three of this report, because we first need to look at new
geopolitical alliances in the area. After all, logic dictates that if the
Israelis reasoned they could use Tapline back in 1967, why did they not do
so then? The simple answer is that on top of the lethal problem of Iraq,
they would have faced fierce resistance from just about every Arab nation
in the Middle East, and from Iran. A spectacular defeat would have been
inevitable.

But then along came the very convenient Gulf War and everything changed.
Though the demonization of Saddam Hussein is known to every western
television viewer, the more subtle aspects of Middle East politics are
not. Because they felt threatened, three Arab states in particular were
forced embrace America and American troops. Kuwait was obviously the first
because its territory was occupied by Iraq, but was followed swiftly by
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, who rapidly found themselves overwhelmed by
thousands of disrespectful British and American soldiers dropping empty
Coco Cola cans and other assorted trash all over the sacred religious
routes to
Mecca.

The soldiers were supposed to go home after the Gulf War of course, but as
we all know, the Americans and Brits like to “hang out” in their colonies
for a little while after hostilities cease, normally for about fifty
years. This quaint Anglo Saxon tradition swiftly led to tensions in the
area so great, that by the mid 1990s the two smaller partners, Kuwait and
Bahrain, were seriously worried about being left out in the
cold.

If, as seemed likely, the Saudi’s were eventually obliged to remove the
American soldiers from their sovereign territory, Kuwait and Bahrain might
be forced to do the same under sustained pressure from their local
populations. Huge problem: If you send the Americans and Brits home, then
who will protect you from big bad Saddam Hussein? Certainly not Saudi
Arabia, which has barely enough weapons to protect
itself.

On hearing about this delicate problem, Israel held a series of secret
talks with senior officials from Kuwait and Bahrain during late 1997,
aimed at finding a mutually agreeable solution. It was agreed that both
Emirates would be prepared to pump oil to Israel, provided the Israelis
provided a defensive barrier between them and Iraq. Discreetly of course,
because neither Emirate could possibly allow Israelis on its own
territory.

Limited tactical requirements were discussed, including the expensive
relocation of Shi’ite Muslims out of northern Saudi Arabia and southern
Iraq, a process which as we already know continued to accelerate until a
few days before the destruction of the World Trade Center in New
York.

A year after the secret tripartite meetings, in what seemed at first to be
an unconnected incident, the Jordanian Government found to its horror that
a corrupt official had quietly dug up and sold more than fifty kilometers
of disused sixteen-inch oil pipeline, originally used to pump oil between
Iraq and Palestine. It transpired that this pipe was in perfect order, and
carefully inspected as such by the mystery cash buyer. When interrogated,
the official admitted his guilt but had no idea who the end user might be.
Checks established the buyer was not Syrian, Saudi, Egyptian or
Palestinian. So
who?

Now this is a difficult one. Let me see… The buyer was secretive, meaning
he did not wish to attract attention or arouse suspicion on the open
market. In order to arouse suspicion on the open market in the first
place, the buyer must have come from a country with no oil reserves of its
own. Somebody jog my memory here: How far is it from the Golan Heights
down to the refinery at Haifa?

Large copies of these two maps are shown at the
bottom of this page

Before we start wallowing around in crude oil and pipelines, we need to
briefly revisit the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center. Though
it is obvious to most readers that the attack was driven at least in part
by concern over control of the Middle East, it is not yet entirely clear
whether this was the primary motivation, and if we reasonably exclude
Arabs living in Afghan caves, we do not yet have the real villain. The
coordination and precision of the attacks on New York and Washington,
point to the direct involvement of one or more first-world government
agencies. The resulting chaos was unquestionably as strategic as it was
deadly.

The global impact of Operation Shekhinah cannot be overstated. Allowing
Israel to position itself in southern Iraq, steal the oil and thereby
place itself beyond sanction, would be grossly irresponsible. Not only
would the “new” Israel directly threaten the remaining Arab States, it
would indirectly also threaten Britain, Europe, Russia, Japan and China.
We know that information about Operation Shekhinah was received by at
least some of these countries by late March 2001, but we do not know how
many. Operation Shekhinah could easily turn the global strategic balance
upside down, a reality that one or more of the countries listed above
might not be prepared to
allow.

As noted earlier, the only visible peripheral clue we have to the
possibility of direct first-world involvement is the outspoken Dr. Tatyana
Koryagina, who Pravda quoted on 12 July in its page-one article “Will the
Dollar and America Fall Down on August 19?”. In fact this article was
based on aa earlier meeting at the Russian Duma on 29 June, attended by
leading figures including American presidential hopeful Lyndon Larouche, a
self-styled economic “expert” who for years has advocated a complete
change in the global economic
structure.

All the participants at the Duma that day, agreed America was a huge
financial pyramid due to crash soon, but some vigorously challenged Dr
Koryagina on the method, i.e. how could this be done without a war,
without missiles, or bomb
strikes?

Tatyana Koryagina, known to be close to President Vladimir Putin,
responded in a cryptic manner: “Besides bombs and missiles, there are
other kinds of weaponry, much more destructive ones”. She went on to
explain further: “The U.S. has been chosen as the object of financial
attack because the financial center of the planet is located there. The
effect will be maximal. The strike waves of economic crisis will spread
over the planet instantly and will remind us of the blast of a huge
nuclear bomb.” End quote. The US has been “chosen”? What an interesting
Freudian choice of words,
Tatyana!

Conspiracy or coincidence? Despite the curiosity value, on balance we are
forced to settle for coincidence because we have no hard proof of guilt.
Certainly in the aftermath of 9/11 Dr Koryagina has been proved unerringly
correct, because massive economic shock waves are still spreading outwards
across the planet, five months later. But direct involvement? To use this
minimal information to claim the Russians were directly involved in the
WTC attack, is as ridiculous as pointing the finger at Great Britain on
the flimsy grounds that British-owned Barclays Capital, was the only
company known to have closed its office in 1 WTC and moved its employees
to 222 Broadway, shortly before the attack took
place.

Stirring stuff, but it was all part of larger relocation plan. On 5
September 2001, Barclays plc announced it would be moving all of its staff
from the City and the West End of London, to Canary Wharf in Docklands,
many miles to the
east.

Put simply, we cannot really tell from pointing fingers at different
people and different companies whether there is any tangible connection
between the WTC attack and Shekhinah. . All we know for sure is that the
resulting chaos slowed the operation down drastically. Quite apart from
funding the huge bill for moving vast numbers of Shi’ite Arabs out of
northern Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq, sympathetic financiers located in
the World Trade Center were also funding and coordinating another critical
part of the project, massive quantities of specialist lightweight
pipeline.
By looking at the Tapline maps shown at the bottom of this
page, it is easy to see that the main prize of Operation Shekhinah, the
30/31 inch Aramco Tapline, runs primarily over Saudi territory, and
obviously does not touch either Iraq in the east or Israel in the
west.

In the long term after the invasion, it will obviously be possible to
construct proper 30/31” extensions of this large pipeline, but not in the
short term with half the world likely calling for economic and oil
sanctions against the Jewish State. Though Israel had significant
stockpiles of smaller bore pipe, it was of the variety than has to be laid
manually, and was extremely heavy. What was needed for use during the
first few weeks or months after the pre-emptive strike on Iraq, was
lightweight pipeline that could be laid in
days.

At the time of the attack on the World Trade Center, financiers within
were in the final phases of ordering this special lightweight pipeline,
needed in the short term to “link” with the existing big-bore Aramco
Tapline in Jordan, and pump a limited quantity of oil across the Israeli
border to the refinery at Haifa. The lightweight pipeline was also needed
for the eastern end, to connect pipelines in southern Iraq to the Tapline
in northern Saudi
Arabia..

Israel needed [and still needs] a total of more than 250 MILES of this
special lightweight pipeline, carefully ordered in small lots through
front companies from a variety of manufacturers, to avoid obvious
questions being asked. The cost was so incredibly high that discreet major
banking involvement was deemed essential. Moving the Shi’ites Muslims out
of the immediate area was desirable though not essential to the operation,
but the high pressure pipeline certainly was. Without the special pipeline
Shekhinah might be terminally compromised, a problem the Israelis were
desperately trying to rectify as recently as last
week.

Selecting the correct type of pipe had been a long and difficult process.
After much research into pipelines of every type, the Israeli planners
settled on a modern, lighter, and larger bore version of “Pluto”, a top
secret continuous pipeline laid across the English Channel by the Allies
in the closing stages of World War II. Because the Allied planners knew
nothing about the oil industry, they approached Mr. AC Hartley, a born
problem-solver and Anglo-Iranian Oil’s chief Engineer. Hartley’s
innovative proposal was, since you can’t assemble the pipe at sea, why not
manufacture it in one continuous length, and deploy it rapidly off the
back of a ship, in the way submarine telegraph cables had been
laid.

The pipeline had to be of small diameter, to keep size and weight
manageable. Hartley remembered that a difficult pumping problem in Iran’s
hills had been solved using a three-inch diameter pipe carrying fluid at
1,500 psi, which brought 100,000 gallons per day 40 miles between pumping
stations. Finally, under Hartley’s direction, the British company Siemens
developed the Hais (short for Hartley-Anglo-Iranian-Siemens) cable: a lead
pipe swathed in insulation, reinforced by steel wire, and coated in tar
and yarn. Before the war was over, several pipelines were laid across the
English Channel, pumping a combined total of 1.35 million gallons per day.
Though little known to members of the public, “Pluto” played a critical
part in oiling the Allied war machine in western
Europe.

Continuous pipe technology has come a very long way since World War II, so
the pipe ordered by the Israelis is quite different to that used by the
Allies. Remember also that there is no requirement for sub sea work in the
eastern and western “extensions” of the Tapline. The Israeli pipe can be
laid straight onto the ground, supported where necessary by special air
bags originally designed for underwater work in the North Sea. To generate
the required high pressure in the western pipeline, three prefabricated
diesel-powered pumping stations have been ordered, with a fourth as
backup. Planners are confident that pumping equipment for the eastern
extension of the Tapline can be “borrowed” or “requisitioned” from the
Iraqis.

With Kuwait and Bahrain tacitly in tow, and the Saudis sidelined, the main
threats to Operation Shekhinah should theoretically be Jordan and Syria.
After all, this plan calls for a large chunk of Jordanian territory to be
“annexed”, a favorite Jewish pastime, but not one likely to meet with the
approval of the Jordanian people. Obviously the main threat to Israel on
Jordanian territory will come from the Jordanian military, which has been
given some very strange orders these past few months after spending
decades fiercely guarding its border with Israel. King Abdullah has now
quietly confirmed he no longer regards Israel as a threat, and is ordering
major units of the Jordanian Army to relocate south, in order to face
possible threats from the largely fictional “Al Qaeda
Network”.

Though no details are to hand, it is understood that a secret meeting has
already taken place between Israeli and Jordanian government officials,
intended to discreetly force King Abdullah’s hand in return for a
“consideration”, namely oil. He may have little choice in the matter.
Jordan is an exceedingly poor country with about $6 billion in external
debt, and about half a million Palestinian refugees to care for. Until
1990 Saudi Arabia provided “grace and favor” oil to Jordan along the
Aramco Tapline, but swiftly shut down the pumps in 1991 when King Hussein
voiced support for President Hussein of Iraq. They were never turned back
on.

After the Gulf War, Iraq started supplying Jordan with its critical oil,
but what will happen post-Shekhinah when Israel has control of southern
Iraq? It is understood that Israel has offered to continue Jordan’s oil
supply provided it agrees not to “interfere” with Israeli operations in
the north of the country. Because of recent inexplicable Jordanian
military movements to the south, this information is considered
reliable.

Syria will not be so easy to hold in check, because it has a history of
fighting Israel at every twist and turn, and furthermore has a border in
close proximity to the “hijacked” western end of the Tapline. To beef up
this particular border and minimize the risk, Israel intends to extend
some existing border minefields far to the east, in a bid to keep out the
Syrian armor. Beyond that, Israeli air superiority will have to
suffice.

It should be noted very carefully though, that in every sense Syria is the
wild card in the pack. If Israel seriously underestimates Syrian military
equipment, skill and determination, that country can and will terminate
not only Operation Shekhinah, but also the Jewish State. The same will
apply if Israel sends too large an occupation force to southern Iraq,
thereby leaving itself wide open to an attack on what it fondly regards as
its “Home Land”, i.e.
Palestine.

Saudi Arabia, the unwitting and unwilling host to Operation Shekhinah, is
steadily being publicly and very deliberately undermined. By the time the
Israeli strike aircraft hit their first targets in southern Iraq, Saudi
Arabia will be so frightened of losing control of all its oilfields, no
defensive action will be taken in the north of the country. The discreet
threats always use the fictional Saudi “Al Qaeda” connection as an excuse,
illustrated in this instance by the Wall Street Journal, the most powerful
newspaper in New York, and possibly the world. On Friday 4 January 2002,
Ralph Peters
wrote:-

“Since Sept. 11, the Saudis have mounted a well-funded campaign to
convince Americans that they bear no blame for anything. But they're
worried. It long has been a Saudi assumption that they could buy whatever
influence they needed in America, and they have, indeed, had many an
influential American on their payroll, from lawyers and lobbyists to
businessmen and out-of-work politicians. They joke about us as they would
about prostitutes, and regard us as no better, if more enduringly useful.
Their strategy worked as long as the rest of America slept. But the Saudis
learned, after the attacks on New York and Washington, that the American
people as a whole cannot be bought. Not even with cheap
oil.

“The same voices that cautioned us to do nothing meaningful against
terrorism now warn that any alternative to the current Saudi regime might
be even worse. That is a coward's argument. The Saudi cancer will continue
to metastasize if we shy away from treating it, and any new government on
the Arabian peninsula is likelier to be scrutinized and contained than the
checkbook terrorists of the royal family. Why not give change a chance,
instead of supporting the most repressive and vicious monarchy remaining
on this
earth?

“We must begin by confronting the Saudis and giving them the clear choice
President Bush offered the rest of the world: Either you are with us in
the fight against terror, or you are against us. There can be no middle
ground--especially not for terrorism's most enduring sponsors. We must
work against the Saudis' campaign of religious hatred and subversion
around the world. And we must begin looking for other regional partners,
from a liberated Iraq to a future
Iran.

“Finally, we must be prepared to
seize the Saudi oil fields and administer them for the greater good.
Imagine if, instead of funding corruption and intolerance, those oil
revenues built clinics, secular schools and sewage systems throughout the
Middle East. Far from being indispensable to our security, the Saudis are
a greater menace to it than any other state, including
China.

“Terrorism is not going to disappear, no matter how successful our
military, diplomatic and economic efforts. Those efforts can, however,
greatly reduce the appeal of terrorism to prospective acolytes and
diminish dramatically its power and reach, while denying hard-core
terrorists safe havens. Our efforts are off to a superb beginning, and
there is much reason for optimism, so long as the strength of will of this
and future administrations does not waver. ... “ End
quote

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