[indymediapr] Satellite Shoot Down is an Anti-Satellite Test

[Carmelo Ruiz]

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SATELLITE SHOOT DOWN NOTHING MORE 

THAN ANTI-SATELLITE 
TEST
 
 
 
 
 
For Immediate 
Release
 
 
Contact:  Bruce Gagnon 207-443-9502
 
 
 
 
The planned 
Pentagon shoot down of the wayward U.S. military satellite is nothing more than 
an opportunity to test new Star Wars anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) technology 
says the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.  

 
 
“The Bush 
administration is magnifying the risk to justify the testing of new dangerous 
and provocative offensive space warfare technologies,” says Bruce Gagnon, 
Coordinator of the Global Network, which is based in Maine.

 
 
“At the 
time when we need to be constraining space debris-creating ASAT testing, this 
test will throw open the door to a new arms race in space.”

 
 
The 
Strategic Command’s (StratCom) high-tech Global Operations Center, buried 
beneath Offutt AFB in Omaha, Nebraska, will play the lead role in coordinating 
the ASAT test.  StratCom now heads 
all military space operations since merging with the U.S. Space Command in 
2002.

 
 
"The decision to destroy the 
American satellite does not look harmless as they try to claim, especially at a 
time when the U.S. has been evading negotiations on the limitation of an arms 
race in outer space," a Russian Defense Ministry statement has concluded.

 
 
For many years 
Russia and China have gone to the United Nations General Assembly with a 
resolution calling for a treaty to ban all weapons in space.  The U.S. and Israel have annually voted 
against the treaty while every other nation in the world supports such a new 
legal ban on space weapons.  The 
U.S. aerospace industry says that Star Wars will be the largest industrial 
project in the history of the planet Earth.

 
 
Global Network 
board member Stacey Fritz, Coordinator of No Nukes North in Alaska where 
so-called missile defense interceptors have been deployed says, “A culmination 
of events this month reveals the true direction of space weapons 
technology.  China and Russia have formally proposed a new ban on space 
weapons on the heels of polls showing widespread public support for such a 
treaty in both the U.S. and Russia. Not only does the U.S. refuse to consider 
the ban, but also after denying for years that these systems have offensive 
capabilities, the rogue Bush administration proposes to demonstrate missile 
defense's anti-satellite technology.  
The doors of the Trojan horse are spilling open and the new arms race is 
on."

 
 
Three U.S. 
Navy Aegis destroyers, outfitted with missile interceptors, will fire at the 
satellite as it falls back to Earth from positions just off Hawaii.  These same Aegis ships are now being home 
ported by the Navy throughout the Asian-Pacific region giving the U.S. the 
ability to encircle China’s coast.  
These Aegis ships could give the U.S. the ability to intercept China’s 
twenty nuclear missiles that today are capable of reaching the west coast of the 
continental U.S.  The Pentagon has 
been war-gaming a U.S. first-strike attack on China, set in 2016, for the 
past several years.  In that 
attack the Aegis ships would negate China’s nuclear retaliatory force by 
intercepting their missiles in the boost phase.

 
 
The Global 
Network is made up of more than 140-affiliated peace groups around the world 
working to halt the nuclearization and weaponization of space.

 
 
For 
more information see www.space4peace.org 

 
 
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Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 
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Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
http://www.space4peace.org
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