- 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.
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- This plan is now being activated.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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."
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Comment
- From Doug
- 1-23-5
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- (This is was sent to one of our readers and forwarded
to us to be added to the American Terror article by Chris Floyd)
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- I knew this was coming when they sent John Negroponte
(el Salvador death squads) to Iraq.
- And as for Iran there is no way the U.S. can win a conventional
war in Iran which has at least a 400,000 man army, is very well armed including
a superb air force and no long supply lines. Iran also controls the Straits
of Hormuz from U.S. built military bases and can close the Persian Gulf
at will, choking off U.S. and world oil supplies. It will have to go nuclear
for the U.S. to win a contest with Iran. And I suspect that Iran already
has nukes. And I expect the Russians to get involved in support of Iran.
China will sit smugly and safely on the sidelines except for an invasion
of Taiwan. North Korea will be a wild card, but if he has a nuke and a
missle, Kim Il Jong may just take a potshot at a U.S. west coast city.
Tens of thousands of U.S. troops will die in Iraq and Iran. Israel will
be nuked and will return nukes. Once the A-Bombs begin falling all bets
are off.
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- I thought all of this was over oil but now I realize
how wrong I've been. A couple hundred billion invested in alternative energies
would have made the U.S. energy independent decades ago. It is not about
oil. It is all about raw power pure and simple. And I want no part of it.
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- So, what can we do? I know... you say find your own bliss
and follow it until they end it for us all. But I don't know if thats enough.
I would like to think I'm ready to give my own life for a well-placed assassin's
bullet, hoping that my action will inspire others. But then that would
just bring down martial law and the total police state, so that is really
not a viable option at this time.
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- The only way to really end it is for the U.S. to get
a goddam good ass-kicking but we have just too many nukes for that. The
goddam Bushistas would rather destroy the world than feed the 24,000 people
each day who are dying of hunger. They constitute without any doubt Satan's
minions. Bush literally thinks he is communing with God, doing God's work.
Unfortunately it is Satan who has successfully deluded the poor stupid
bastard. Remember his Dad's thousand points of light. I wondered what the
hell he was talking about. Well of course it was LUCIFER, (from the Latin)
Bringer of Light.
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- I'm just non-plussed. I feel helpless. I think maybe
drugs are the answer. Just numb out and play power chords all day. Angry
power chords.
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- How can so many people in our country be so blind? It
is enormously infuriating.
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- Doug
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- PS - Of course, since the article is from the Moscow
Times it can't possibly have any credibility. Only war profiteer G.E. owned
NBC and war profiteer Westinghouse-owned ABC have credibility...
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