American Terror By Chris Floyd Moscow Times 1-22-5 More than two years ago, we wrote here of a secret Pentagon plan to foment terrorism by sending covert agents to infiltrate terrorist groups and goad them into action -- in other words, committing acts of murder and destruction. The purpose was two-fold: first, to bring the terrorist groups into the open, where they could be counterattacked; and second, to justify U.S. military attacks on the countries where the terrorists were operating -- attacks which, in the Pentagon's words, would put those nations' "sovereignty at risk." It was a plan that countenanced -- indeed, encouraged -- the deliberate murder of innocent people and the imposition of U.S. military rule anywhere in the world that U.S. leaders desired. This plan is now being activated. In fact, it's being expanded, as The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh revealed last week. Not only will U.S.-directed agents infiltrate existing terrorist groups and provoke them into action, but the Pentagon itself will create its own terrorist groups and "death squads." After establishing their terrorist "credentials" through various atrocities and crimes, these American-run groups will then be able to ally with -- and ultimately undermine -- existing terrorist groups. Top-level officials in the Pentagon, the U.S. intelligence services and the Bush administration confirmed to Hersh that the plan is going forward, under the direction of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- just as we noted here in November 2002. Through a series of secret executive orders, George W. Bush has given Rumsfeld the authority to turn the entire world into "a global free-fire zone," a top Pentagon adviser says. These secret operations will be carried out with virtually no oversight; in many cases, even the top military commanders in the affected regions will not be told about them. The American people, of course, will never know what's being done in their name. The covert units -- including the Pentagon-funded terrorist groups and hit squads -- will be operating outside all constraints of law and morality. "We're going to be riding with the bad boys," one insider told Hersh. Another likened it to the palmy days of the Reagan-Bush years: "Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador? We founded them and we financed them. The objective now is to recruit locals in any area we want. And we aren't going to tell Congress about it." Indeed, we reported here last summer that Bush has already budgeted $500 million to fund local paramilitaries and guerrilla groups in the most volatile areas of the world, a measure guaranteed to produce needless bloodshed, destruction and suffering for innocent people already ravaged by conflict. The activation of the Pentagon terrorist operation is part of Bush's second-term expansion of the "war on terror." Despite some obfuscating rhetoric about "diplomacy," the Bush regime is pressing ahead with a hard-line strategy aimed at opening new military fronts in the "global free-fire zone." Any dissenting voices within the government are being ruthlessly purged. The Pentagon's secret forces are set for operations in at least 10 countries, and Bush insiders "repeatedly" told Hersh that "Iran is the next strategic target." Iran has long been a focus of the small clique of "global dominationists" -- led by Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney and their acolytes -- who engineered the invasion of Iraq. This group is determined to "whack Iran," as one insider put it, and they're not at all discouraged by the debacle in Iraq; indeed, to them it's a rousing success. Their first objective -- openly stated years ago, before Bush took office -- was the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime and the planting of a U.S. "military footprint" in Iraq. This has now been done. The fact that it has plunged the Iraqi people into a hell of violence, chaos, terror and extremism is of no real concern to the clique. Their lofty rhetoric about "freedom" and "liberation" is meaningless sham, shuck and jive for the rubes. By the admission of the clique's own publications, they seek strategic control over the world's energy resources in order to preserve and expand American geopolitical and economic hegemony in the new century. Everything else -- including the security of the American people, put at increasing risk by the clique's reckless policies -- is of secondary importance. U.S. forces are already conducting military reconnaissance inside Iran in preparation for strikes on alleged nuclear weapons facilities, Hersh reports. The Pentagon is feverishly updating war plans for a "maximum ground and air invasion of Iran," incorporating the new staging areas now available in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, while employing an Iranian terrorist group, MEK, to launch covert ops and terrorist acts against Tehran. MEK was once given sanctuary by Hussein, who used the group as a brutal enforcer against Kurd and Shiite insurgents. Now Bush, "riding with the bad boys," has embraced the MEK murderers as his own. In their ignorance and arrogance, the Bushists will almost certainly strike at Iran -- despite the fact that even Iranian dissidents support the effort to make their nation a nuclear power and would join the mullahs in retaliation. The result will be a conflict far surpassing the horror and magnitude of the Iraq disaster. In our original report on the Pentagon's terror scheme, we wrote: "Bush and his cohorts are plunging the world into an abyss, an endless night of murder and terror -- wholesale, retail, state-sponsored, privatized; of fear and degradation, servility, chaos, and the perversion of all that's best in us." Now the night has come. Now the United States stands openly -- even proudly -- for terrorism, torture and the Hitlerian principle of aggressive war. America has fallen into the pit -- and the hopes of the world go with it.
Some of us old timers, the ones of us who were not dropping acid or skipping baths in the 70's, remember this. http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/documents/hostages.phtml an excerpt - "The exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Tehran in February 1979 and whipped popular discontent into rabid anti-Americanism. When the Shah came to America for cancer treatment in October, the Ayatollah incited Iranian militants to attack the U.S. On November 4, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun and its employees taken captive. The hostage crisis had begun." I hope Nursey's post is true, and Iran is just next in line. Finish the job with North Korea while we are at it. Being nice certainly doesn't work. http://home.earthlink.net/~woll/Bills-Page.htm I think that most of the people who post here are too young to remember the Korean War and The Iran Hostage Crisis. They see Desert Storm and The current war in Iraq as two separate wars. They think that the only thing that justifies a war is what happened while they were alive. World history goes backward well past the 70's. Take a look at history, and at the big picture before you bash America. Barry
oh and i think that what happens NOW justifies a war... (if ever).. not something that happened 30-40-50-1000 odd years ago... PS the ayatollah khomeini died in '89... sorry bazza.. you can't use ousting him as the bullshit excuse like you did with saddam
I was born in 1959. My Father and Uncle fought in Korea. My wifes Father fought in Korea. My cousins fought in the Vietnam War, and I remember it well. Both my Grandfathers fought in the second World War. Although I was not a child of the Korean Conflict or WWII, I certainly am well informed of both. Don't make the mistake of thinking that "then and now" is not connected. Also, do not think that Russia is a harmless has been, or that they are any freedom loving nation's friend. "Then and Now" applies to them too. Barry
no i do not think that mother russia is a has been... and i think our chinese brothers would have something to say about you fucking with korea (again)... care to make it 3 strikes?
That is what you do not understand. Saddam was never "the excuse." You do not need an excuse to do what is prudent and necessary. Barry
WMD's were not the only issue involved. It was a fact that he did have them at one time, and it was fact that he was resisting inspections. To conclude logically that he was harboring WMD's is not a stretch. The fact remains that he did have them before, and he did resist diplomatic efforts at inspection to ensure that he did not have them again. People that want to split hairs will look for any mistake or miscalculation to point fingers. WMD's are the poster child of the liberal pacifist pansies. WMD's are not the only justification for the War. Barry
The more I read and hear about everything, the more I think that US World Domination is a good idea. Natures way is survival of the fittest, right? Why go against the laws of nature? (yes, I am joking, but that is logical isn't it?) Barry
this war has gone on long enough for the American public to figure out that there was no appropriate reason to go over there, and the "elections" are merely a cover for W's mistake. They don't want our democracy, and when we leave they aren't going to uphold any new laws we made for them. He did it for his daddy, world domination and money. WMD's got us in the door, but it just doesn't cut it anymore. Here's a little sidebar that demonstrates what living in a Bush run state is like (FL)- Two special ed kids between ages 6 and 9 drew stickfigures of themselves stabbing another kid they didnt like. Not very nice, I admit, but here's the kicker; they were arrested, handcuffed by the police, taken to jail and charged with felonies. THAT IS IN THE US! what kind of fucked up place do we live in? ugh. It's all nice and sweet to be patriotic, but even without Nursey's posts and links an average person can figure out whats really happening.
You should have gone to Canada You could have run away But you couldn't shame your parents You say you had to stay So you get yourself drafted So you went ahead and went And you thought you'd be a hero And not a dissident War Crime... War Crime You used to be a good boy You used to be the best Then you tried the drug Ad you dreamt about the west Everyone's your enemy Everyone's your friend Your world was upside down To kill was not to sin So you shot the wrong woman Or you shot the wrong kid Now Sam will make you regret That you ever did But you had no choice You were told what to do Orders from the helicopter crew War Crime... War Crime Back home they wanted blood For the atrocities For the innocent who died On they're TVs They demanded justice They demanded you They wanted to watch you hang Till you turned blue War Crime... War Crime And the president said that that's OK Because it takes they're attention away From the real crime, the war There are no war crimes War is the crime
i see no reason for us now or then invade Iraq, givin the fact that they did have a horrid leader, it isnt really up to other nations to decide what government for a nation to ingest. the people of that nation have to do it, revolution. we may help, but full heartedly unlike the failed 1991 gulf war with the uprising of the Kurds, and we must want to. ask any one how their life has changed over the recent invasion of Iraq, and most would prolly answer none other than those with family in Iraq. the same goes for NKorea, the people are the ones who have to over thrown the dominating government. the idea that US as a current super power has the ability to instil its beliefs on a county and it being a dominating force doesnt always go on par with the american public or the people of the nation we are placing our beliefs on. a tendency we seem to have consistantly done and never seem to learn from.
If the U.S goverment knew for a fact that Iraq had wmd's they would never have sent troops in. They're not dumb enough to send a good chunk of the military to a certain death. Now we do know that Korea(I forgot if it's north or south, d'oh!) has wmd's and if we invaded them that they said they would "burn us in a rain of fire" or something to that effect. Are we invading Korea? Fuck no, we're tramping across the middle east.
UCICARE wrote: "The more I read and hear about everything, the more I think that US World Domination is a good idea. Natures way is survival of the fittest, right? Why go against the laws of nature?" There's some sense to that. Nursey & Pimples 'ave gone right off the deep end, they 'ave, with their paranoid rants againt America. Why don't you guys write about Prime Minister Blair for a change? 'e must be in on the evil scheme, eh?
ZEIG HAIL you pair of unhinged nuts! And Blair isn't worthy of much comment. He's just a simpering little jumped up nazi turd...much like yourself infact Fag!
From the Red Cross website - Warnings: Drowning people are often full of panic and can drag rescuers down with them. Do everything in your power to avoid this danger. They will eventually drown each other as those who can't swim are known to do. :cry: Barry
UK leadership? Why would Blair be considered a dumbass dufus NOW? He was highly regarded by Bill Clinton and actor Kevin Spacey. Did his intelligence and good judgment immediately decline when George W. Bush was elected? Nurzi and Pimple should guide PM Tony Blair and Her Majesty's government instead of criticizing America, which is wasted energy since it is led by a chimpanzee who is being manipulated by the Zionists.
Get over your goddamn pride. You take this all so personally. I'm not against you, i'm actually for you, only you can't see it. Who is it that frequently exhibits prejudice here? Is it the likes of me, Pimp, smiles etc or is it more a trait we see occurring in people like Barry, Fagaroni that super-patriot 'ianbo' etc? And it's prejudices which align you with a corrupt movement / ideology which depends on such ignorance to further its malevolent, self-serving aims. But once those aims are achieved, the very masses whose power was harnessed will be discarded, like the fuel tank that is shed once the space shuttle reaches 'escape velocity' and can wave goodbye to the lowly stampeding herds which i think i should add includes all of us. How quaint of Fagaroni to entertain the notion that it's only 'backwards', 'overbreeding' 'useless' 'undeveloped' people of foreign complexion who are to be...shed...for the priviledge of a select few of 'master beings', of which he considers himself to be...but who are in fact that miniscule percentage of super elite who are now walking across the golden threshhold into the magnificent, shining New Age (or as we know it 'PNAC')...where there will be no wars because they will no longer need to start any...having finally accomplished what has been quietly worked towards for possibley near a thousand years. No, there will be no war or famine because there will be no 'lowlife' masses to control and eradicate. The advances in technology now render us minions useless and obsolete...or perhaps a vermin of which the earth must now be cleansed. Law of the jungle (like those passengers of burning planes who are most likely to scramble up and run over other peoples heads as they attempt to escape)...winning over the very thing which elevates us from the level of wild animals (who are fulfilling their role in creation)...the ability to transcend the limitations that we each as an individual experience in our mortal, physical existence and experience our humanity as one with the whole of humankind, in order to fulfill our real potential. Once you realise that harming another is a crime to yourself, that clinging to selfish egotistical needs in order to get one up on anyone else you encounter is an attitude which makes you the biggest, most profound loser in every sense, that it's a happier existence down in the village amongst colourful, cheery peasants making do and sharing what they've got than alone in a pristine ivory tower with the most refined, exquisit treats (image of Wolfowitz jumping to mind) ...then sacrificing you own selfish desires for the greater good becomes not only easier, but deep, deep down...the most supreme joy. And will enable our soul to evolve to a higher frequency that is not restricted by the constraints of the dimension we are currently experiencing. As the power in our spirit will have succeeded in disentangling itself from the binds that keep us attached to our current mode of being, enabling expansion - birth - into a whole new dimension.
