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Excerpted from an article from UFO Info on last September's hurricanes in the U.S.

"Weather experts said unusually warm waters and a huge high-pressure system hovering over the Atlantic (sometimes called a "Bermuda high"--J.T.) have helped create and steer hurricanes directly at the U.S. coast. The Florida coastline was lashed with wind and surf for hours before Ivan hit land, causing major beach erosion and destroying waterfront homes."

"A buoy in the Gulf of Mexico 75 miles (120 kilometers) from Dauphin Island, Alabama registered waves 50 feet (15 meters) high. Televised reports from Alabama showed Dauphin already flooded."

"The band of high pressure in the Atlantic stretches from Cabo Verde all the way to Florida, which is really unusual," UFO Roundup editor Joseph Trainor commented. "Strange, too, that the Bermuda high has lasted so long. Rainstorms coming out of Africa grow to tropical storm strength just offshore from Nigeria. But the Bermuda high prevents them from heading north into the mid-Atlantic. Instead, it creates a kind of 'conveyor belt' carrying the storms all the way across and then shooting them up into the Caribbean Sea. Now a new tropical storm has formed west of Cabo Verde--Hurricane Karl."

UFO Roundup received three emails from readers who claimed to have heard HAARP broadcasting from Alaska on Tuesday, September 14, 2004. The signal was heard on frequency 3.390 MHz.

"Personally I don't think HAARP has the power to 'steer' a hurricane," Trainor added, "But the Tuesday burst might have deflected Ivan away from its original projected landfall around Tampa."

"Other than aliens, I can think of only one source able to create and sustain that unusual Bermuda High over the Atlantic--Shambhala, the hidden city of mystics in Afghanistan. Shambhala is reputed to have access to the weather-modification technology of ancient Atlantis."

"There have also been reports of Osama Bin Laden hiding out occasionally in Shambhala. Osama might have persuaded the Shambhalans to use 'weather warfare' against the USA."

"Is it just a coincidence that the 'hurricane blitz' began on August 3, the same date Allied forces stepped up their offensive in Afghanistan?" Trainor asked. "The 6th Marines have been running long-range patrols out of Bagram air base and Camp Ripley, just south of Tarin Kowt. Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines has a firebase in the Hindu Kush mountains. That's practically on Shambhala's doorstep. The Sages are above politics, but maybe some of the residents might be listening to Osama."

Last week there was a heavy firefight in Zabu, northeast of Kandahar, between coalition forces and Al- Qaeda fighters, in which 20 guerrillas were killed.

"I just find it extremely interesting that Hurricane Ivan's worst fury descended upon the old Jewish synagogue in Pensacola, Fla., as if Osama planned it that way," Trainor added, "Hopefully, Shambhala won't uncork the big stuff. Otherwise, Condi Rice will have to wake up Dubya at 4 a.m. some morning and explain that Lake Michigan now extends all the way to Lafayette, Indiana."