there seems to be a degree of corroboration by Wayne Madsen ...
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Sept. 27, 2007 -- Bush administration seeking to tamp down interest in B-52 incident
publication date: Sep 27, 2007
Sept. 27, 2007 -- Bush administration seeking to tamp down interest in B-52 incident
Although the media that covers the Pentagon is hungry for more details about the August 30 B-52 incident, in which six nuclear weapons-laden stealth cruise missiles were supposedly flown by "mistake" from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, a Middle East deployment staging base, the incident is being shrouded in an official investigation and an outside investigation ordered by Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne and Air Force Chief of Staff General Michael Mosely are doing their best to string out the investigation as long as they can until media interest wanes. According to Gannett, Major General Douglas Raaberg, director of air and space operations of the Air Combat Command and the chief of the official investigation team, has already visited Minot and Barksdale. To highlight the cover-up of the incident, Wynne, Mosely, and Raaberg are still not using the word "nuclear" in references to the B-52 incident, keeping with a strict policy of neither confirming nor denying information about nuclear weapons operations.
WMR has been contacted by a retired Air Force officer with nuclear weapons experience who has verified our account of the story about the B-52 and the nuclear cruise missiles being destined for the Middle East until Air Force elements aborted the operation and then leaked the matter to two trusted military-oriented newspapers, Military Times and Air Force Times.
We have also been informed that the B-52H is designed to carry two types of nuclear-capable missiles that are designed to be fired during flight: the AGM-129 cruise missile with a W80, mod 1 nuclear warhead that is mounted on pylons under the wings of the aircraft, and the AGM-69 short range attack missile (SRAM), which can be mounted either on the pylons or deploy-able from the rear bomb bay of the fuselage. The AGM-69 missiles are armed with W69M nuclear warheads.
Do not expect any insightful official pronouncements on this incident any time soon as the entire investigation has gone into major "cover up" mode.