Hugo Chavez Mouthpiece Says U.S. Hit Haiti With 'Earthquake Weapon'
Thursday , January 21, 2010
TheUnited States apparently possesses an "earthquake weapon" that set offthe catastrophic quake in Haiti and killed 200,000 innocents. Don'tbelieve it's true? Just ask Hugo Chavez.
Citing an alleged report from Russia's Northern Fleet, theVenezuelan strongman's state mouthpiece ViVe TV shot out a pressrelease saying the 7.0 magnitude Haiti quake was caused by a U.S. testof an experimental shockwave system that can also create "weatheranomalies to cause floods, droughts and hurricanes."
The station's Web site added that the U.S. government's HAARP program,an atmospheric research facility in Alaska (and frequent subject ofconspiracy theories), was also to blame for a Jan. 9 quake in Eureka,Calif., and may have been behind the 7.8-magnitude quake in China thatkilled nearly 90,000 people in 2008.
What's more, the site says, the cataclysmic ruin in Haiti was only atest run for much bigger game: the coming showdown with Iran.
The ultimate goal of the test attack in Haiti, the report reads, isthe United States' "planned destruction of Iran through a series ofearthquakes designed to topple the current Islamic regime."
The story has since been taken down from the Venezuelan Web site, but a Google cache of the charges remains intact.
The publication of the story came just days after Chavez himselfaccused the U.S. of using the earthquake as an excuse to "invade andmilitarily occupy Haiti," a nation so poor that its entire economy isbased on foreign aid — particularly from the U.S.
"The empire (the U.S.) is taking Haiti over the bodies and tears of its people," he said at a press conference.
"I read that 3,000 soldiers are arriving, Marines armed as if they were going to war. They are occupying Haiti undercover."
By week's end, some 16,000 U.S. troops are expected to be providinghumanitarian assistance in Haiti, where they have taken control of theonly working airport and are coordinating relief efforts on the ground.
