- According to U.S. News & World Report,
the slaughter of worshippers at a mosque in the Ur neighborhood of Baghdad
was intended to serve as a message "to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada
al-Sadr," an influential force in post-Saddam politics. Earlier in
the week deputy US commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, "dismissed
reports that a mosque had been hit, or that the 50 Iraqi Special Operations
forces, backed up by 25 US advisers, had chosen the wrong target. Besides
capturing some weaponry, they released an Iraqi dental technician who had
been kidnapped 12 hours earlier," according to the Christian Science
Monitor.
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- It would appear the life of one dental
technician is more important than the lives of nearly 20 Shia worshippers.
Of course, this explanation is nothing more than a flimsy excuse. In fact,
the mosque was attacked and the worshippers massacred for a simple reason-it
was part of a continuing effort to foment "civil war" in Iraq,
as planned by the Straussian neocons. It should be noted that "U.S.
officials had been quietly praising Sadr's group in recent weeks because
of its calls for calm in the wake of the bombing of a Sunni mosque in Samarra
that sparked a wave of sectarian violence," praise at odds with the
plan to divide Iraq into at least three Bantustans based along ethnic and
religious lines.
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- If the attack on the mosque accomplished
anything, it increased support for Moqtada al-Sadr. "They came and
killed the young people, and we want the Imam Mahdi Army to protect us,
because they are from us, they are Iraqi people," Souad Mohammad,
a school director, told the Monitor. "When the Mahdi Army is here,
it's very quiet, no one is assassinated in this area, there are no car
bombs, and at night there are checkpoints to protect us." Naturally,
if Iraq is to be dissolved and ethnic and religious animosity brought to
the boiling point, a strong and bloody message will need be sent to the
Mahdi Army and al-Sadr and this appears to be what happened earlier in
the week. As expected, the corporate media characterized the victims as
"insurgents" and the grisly aftermath of the attack as a scene
set-up by deceitful al-Sadr loyalists.
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- Indeed, a message was sent to al-Sadr
and the Shia majority in Iraq and the result is feeding the Shia opposition
to the occupation and presence of "coalition of the killing"
soldiers. As Robert Dreyfuss notes, not only has a "Shiite insurgency"
emerged but "the two insurgencies [Sunni-Shia] are also battling each
other, in what can only be called Iraq's civil war" and there is "little
chance that they will unite against their common foe, the United States,"
as planned by the neocons. Zalmay Khalilzad, the neocon ambassador to Iraq,
"declared war on the second insurgency" last week and fit the
situation into the neocon game plan. "Our judgment is that training
and supplying, direct or indirect, takes place, and that there is also
provision of financial resources to people, to militias, and that there
is presence of people associated with [Iran's] Revolutionary Guard and
with [Iran's] MOIS [Ministry of Intelligence and Security]," said
Khalilzad. "More Iraqis in Baghdad are dying-if you look at the recent
period of two, three weeks-from the [Shiite] militia attacks than from
the terrorist car bombings."
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- Never mind that last September two SAS
operatives were discovered, dressed as members of the al-Sadr's Badr Brigade,
readying a terrorist bombing in Basra and Iraqi officials have arrested
in Tikrit a "security contractor working for a private company"
in possession of explosives, likely for the same reason. One need look
no further than Rumsfeld's neocon infested Pentagon to find affirmation
of this covert approach, as documented by Seymour Hersh. "In some
cases, according to the Pentagon advisers, local citizens could be recruited
and asked to join up with guerrillas or terrorists. This could potentially
involve organizing and carrying out combat operations, or even terrorist
activities," Hersh writes for the New Yorker. Of course, in the absence
of reliable Iraqi traitors and murderous thugs, it is conceivable Special
Forces, British SAS, and "security contractor" operatives would
pull off such terrorism. In fact, I believe we can count on it.
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- As I have noted for months now-to the
distress of some folks who are irritated by my redundancy-the Straussian
neocon plan for the Muslim Middle East is ever-escalating violence and
misery resulting in a map replete with small and malleable Bantustans ruled
by brutal proxies controlled by the neoliberal banksters and their neocon
allies.
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- "No stages," John Pilger reported
Richard Perle declaring. "This is total war. We are fighting a variety
of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first
we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq this is entirely the
wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth,
and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy,
but just wage a total war our children will sing great songs about us years
from now." Perle's children may "sing great songs," but
for the rest of us the coming conflict will portend misery and sacrifice,
a societal condition long dreamed of by the Straussian neocons who fancy
themselves Platoian princes, the heirs to Machiavelli's grim vision.
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