It is 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in the morning in london, and 4 00am in the morning in mosul, in iraq, following a day where thousands of Iraqi Government forces have advanced on the city, the opening day of an offensive to recapture the western part from so called Islamic State. The first target appears to be mosuls airport. Is militants are fighting back. Our correspondent Quentin Sommerville is with the iraqi forces. This is his report. Just after sunrise, iraq began what it hopes is its last major battle against the so called Islamic State. Thousands of men, and hundreds of armoured vehicles, ina line of attack that spread for miles. The iraqi army are starting their assault on Western Mosul, theyve breached their own defences, armoured vehicles are lining up ready for the Islamic State. Theyre only a couple of kilometres over that way, and they know that these men are coming. Theyre dug in, and the assault on Western Mosul has started. Leading the attack, iraqs Emergency Respons
It is 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in the morning in london, and 4 00am in the morning in mosul, in iraq, following a day where thousands of Iraqi Government forces have advanced on the city, the opening day of an offensive to recapture the western part from so called Islamic State. The first target appears to be mosuls airport. Is militants are fighting back. Our correspondent Quentin Sommerville is with the iraqi forces. This is his report. Just after sunrise, iraq began what it hopes is its last major battle against the so called Islamic State. Thousands of men, and hundreds of armoured vehicles, ina line of attack that spread for miles. The iraqi army are starting their assault on Western Mosul, theyve breached their own defences, armoured vehicles are lining up ready for the Islamic State. Theyre only a couple of kilometres over that way, and they know that these men are coming. Theyre dug in, and the assault on Western Mosul has started. Leading the attack, iraqs Emergency Respons
100 nuclear react nors this country and need electricity in order to keep themselves cool. mark: what do you say to people who say this sounds like a grand conspiracy. this sounds like fearmongering. you probably get this all the time. of course. mark: you probably got it from the obama administration. yes, we did. mark: what did the obama administration do in response to these scenarios? well, the obama administration, to its credit, took solar emp seriously enough that they formed a task force to study the problem, but didn t want to hear about nuclear emp, and the chairman the nuclear em sp a nuclear event that wipes out the grid. that s right. mark: or a chunk of it. detonated at high altitude. if iran got the bomb, it could do it. north korea s got the bomb now and knows about emp and threatened to do it to us. that s exactly why the obama administration didn t want to
distance to our missile fields and bomber bases and so unfortunately we have left that flank unprotected. there are ideas and recommendations we ve made for trying to, in a hurry, close this gap in our defenses. they could also do it by launching a balloon or a short range missile off of a ship, off of a freighter. north korea had a freighter with a nuclear capable missile in the gulf of mexico back in 2013. we only found out about that because they tried getting back to the panama canal and found two of the missiles hidden under hundreds of pounds of bags on the freighter. they demonstrated there are ability to get a freighter with a nuclear capable missile into our backyard and we didn t know about it. those are some of the nuclear emp attacks and scenarios how we might do it. there are other ways of attacking the grid too, and now warfare that russia, china, north korea and iran have conceived.
novelty. this switch, this biode is the basis for the electronics, cell phones, computers, operate on the single switch. and they are millions of times more vulnerable to emp than the crude piece of instrumentation. and that would put our civilization at risk if we had a natural emp, if a nuclear emp attack that put all of north america on the . mark: i want to get to the nuclear scenarios, the terrorist scenarios, but first, you can describe what the electrical grid looks like in this country and who runs the electrical grid in this country? sure, we have 3,000 different utilities that run the electrical grid, privately owned. not run by the government. mark: the regional companies that all work with each other? yes, that s right. we have our north american grid is divided into three parts, an