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White House and Pentagon to get protective infrasound "overcoat"
USA Created: 2 Dec 2005
White House and Pentagon to get protective infrasound "overcoat"

Well-placed sources in Washington report that the U.S. Budget for 2006 will contain outlays of some USD 4,200 million for the protection of the nation's important strategic sites with infrasound fields.
The decision on infrasound protection was taken after the successful quelling of the Los Angeles AIDS riots during the summer.
L.A. police riot squads used portable infrasound generators on the rioters and looters, and brought the disturbance to a relatively peaceful end within
an hour. On the strength of these field-trials, such key sites as the White House complex, the Pentagon, the most important foreign legations, and the UN Headquarters in New York will all be equipped with a chain of generators.
Infrasound is known as a very powerful stunning and paralysing agent, and carries the added advantage of not being lethal in use.
The principle is based on very low sounds at frequencies well below the 20 hertz threshold of normal human hearing.
At high volumes, however, these sound waves cause the hearer to lose all sense of time and place, and also provoke intense nausea.
If the intensity of sound is sufficient, any person struck by the infrasound waves also loses control of his bowels, and will become completely incontinent. After the recent incident in Los Angeles, which was suffering a heatwave at the time, the L.A. Police Department noted that the device
was extremely effective in operation, but that the stench left behind was enough to turn one's stomach.
The aim in shielding important strategic buildings with an infrasound "overcoat" is to prevent - without bloodshed - possible attacks by terrorist
groups or crowds of rioters.
The United States Army began the development of battlefield infrasound equipment some ten years ago, and reportedly infrasound was also tested
in the seige of the headquarters of the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas in 1993. Installation of the first generator networks around buildings in
the capital and New York is expected to get under way next spring.
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