The Phosphorous-Headed Missile and TWA Flight 800
        
                      by J. Orlin Grabbe

        In "Bill Clinton's Choo-Choo" I reported that TWA Flight 800 
had been taken down by a missile with a phosphorous head.
        
        The phosphorous head was originally designed to take out fuel
tanks.  An oil storage tank, for example.  The low-powered explosive
behind the phosphorous scatters it somewhat, and the glowing phosphorous
ignites the surrounding fuel in the target.  This type of missile is
well-known in the intelligence community.

        The exterior surface of the phosphorous warhead is covered with a 
substance that flakes off in the atmosphere.  The phosphorous will not be 
exposed until the missile travels a certain distance.  Then the exposed 
phosphorous will begin to incandesce.  The missile is laser-guided to a 
locked-in target from the body behind the head, and the glowing head does 
not interfere with the missile's guidance system. (This system differs from  
a normal Stinger, which has a passive infrared seeker.) 
        
        About six inches behind the missile's phosphorous head is a
small door that gives access to the missile's three or four computer 
boards. These boards guide the missile to its target, set the detonation
configuration, and so on.

        In this missile, the explosive behind the head and the missile 
propellant are one and the same.  It represents a more recent technological 
development than C-12.

        The sophistication of the missile suggests it was stolen from 
military inventory or purchased from a foreign power (one of the many to 
which the U.S. sells similar munitions).  

        The terrorist group involved, which gave advance warning of the 
attack to the New York office of the FBI, was trained in Syria's college 
devoted to terrorism (guerrilla warfare), and is additionally believed to be 
working on behalf of Syria. Basically speaking, Syria wants the U.S. and 
France to back off from the pressure they've been exerting on Syria to give 
up any claim to the Golan Heights.  Syria is sending out a "don't tread
on me" statement.

        The group, believed to have fired the missile from a small boat off 
the shore of Long Island (and to have used a stationary missile launcher),
targeted (and hit) the center fuel tank on TWA Flight 800.  The initial 
explosion spread from there to the nearest fuel tank in the right wing, and 
blew off engine number three.
        
        An intelligence analysis of the correlated satellite and radar
data, which pin-points both the flight path of the missile and of TWA Flight 
800, indicates that TWA Flight 800 was taken out at around 7600 feet. A
spectral analysis of the satellite data shows the missile was phosphorous-
headed.

        The FBI has persistently lied about its knowledge that a missile
was involved.  The FBI general consensus is "we can't let the public 
know".  The public would put pressure on the organization to do something 
about the terrorist threat--one they have no idea how to handle.  So, 
instead, the FBI lies about the real terrorist threat, continues to feed the 
media false details (including falsified radar data), and in the meantime 
asks the Congress for more authority to wiretap ordinary American citizens 
and to put limitations on their access to cryptology. 

August 26, 1996
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