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Khamisiyah Demolition model falsehoods

Here is what everyone has been waiting to see, the actual 

CIA satellite image from March 1991 that shows a easterly 

flow rather than southerly as outlined in the OSAGWI 

model.

 

In this CIA image from the Khamisiyah pit, you see that smoke 

scarring on the ground is also easterly rather than just southerly. 

The CIA graphics are deliberately released in low resolution so 

that outside interpretation is limited. The bulk of the gray shadows 

are right of the dark blast pits, instead of all downward.

 

This is the PowerPoint presentation I gave to the RAC on September 

20th 2005, with attached satellite animation of Shamal trade winds in action. I explained this is all RAW data of my intended 3D rendering 

of the plume once I get the high altitude data for March 1991. http://www.gulflink.org/fallout/RACPresentation.ppt 

 

By shifting the OSAGWI model to match terrain and wind direction 

from point of origin, you see a subtle change in exposures. The goal 

had been to show that the winds carried the smoke over most of VII 

Corp, definitely 1st and 3rd Armored, and troops in Kuwait City. 

The first three military models carefully placed the plume between 

most of the troops rather than across them as the normal weather 

patterns would have showed.

 

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The DHSD 1991 Gulf War Khamisiyah demolition models 

contradicted the normal trade winds of the Iraqi southern 

terrain. I argued this profusely with DHSD, and with many 

to include GAO who still has my display. Now with the 

CHPPM's Oil Well Fire Super Plume data, the argument 

becomes more clear.

Well, I took the relief map from CHPPM'S Oil Well fires 

super plume and matched the overlay to the DHSD 

Khamisiyah model. The location of Kuwait border, 

Persian Gulf Beach line were my scale references for 

merging the two images. I then made the CHPPM'S map 

semi opaque, and applied to the DHSD map. Afterwards 

I then took the smoke outline and filled it in the super 

plume boundary.

http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/owf_ii/fig12.htm

As you see the from the super plume boundary, the 

DHSD model avoids natural wind flow for the region to 

take a artificial turn away the 1st and 3rd AD locations.

If the CHPPM'S plume is a accumulation of months of 

data, then this is a amalgamation of the trade winds of 

this region. Otherwise the smoke data would follow the 

other curvature at some point and covered more of 

Saudi Arabia.

This is why DHSD refused to provide satellite images 

in there Khamisiyah modeling report as it would conflict 

with its models. CHPPM's provides a brief image, and 

in it the wind patterns do not match DHSD wind weather 

models.

 

Well, turns out NASA would provide the helpful clues on 

the trade winds in Iraq. It only took 15 years to finally get 

satellite images in high resolution of Iraq, and the Modis

Iraq subset had 29 days of sequential images to pull from.

From August 10th to September 9th 2005.

 

So the main demolition days in question was around

March 10th 1991, keep in mind the terrain of Iraq guide

these trade winds - so the August images wont be radically

different from March. The winds are blocked by mountains

of Iran to the northeast, and Iraqi valley features that flow down

to the Persian Gulf. The video shows this is pretty constant.

http://www.gulflink.org/fallout/aug05wind.avi

Compressed version - 1.4mg

http://www.gulflink.org/fallout/aug1020005wind.avi

Full resolution version - 16.4 meg

 

March 10th 1990 OSAGWI Plume model

 

Proposed March 10th 1990 Plume Model

 

These images had another added bonus, smoke markers

in many locations above, and in Kuwait that showed wind

direction that day. Only one day in 29 did the wind follow

the path hinted at by DHSD in its models, and it didnt curve

hard back into Saudi Arabia. Which would be odd as the

area in the model flows up over a large valley shelf instead

of the gentle slope to the ocean.

 

If you follow the trade winds, it would put the fallout of the

demolition over the concentration of 1st and 3rd AD units

of 7th Corp in southern Iraq. As well as troops in Kuwait

City. Not narrowly missing them like in the DOD models.

 

Here are some more features of Iraq demonstrating the

curvature of the valley as it wraps around the Iranian

mountains. In the second image below this one you also

see that the irrigation lines around the valley flow toward

the rivers, which means a raised terrain feature that flows

down from Saudi Arabia to the Euphrates in Iraq. Which

further supports the time lapse satellite images of the winds

general direction.