- Washington Post goes from elitist paper to neo-con propaganda
rag. Two editorials in yesterday's Washington Post point to the slide of
that paper into the realm of neo-con propaganda spinning. Although this
web site has studiously avoided commenting on the Don Imus matter, the
Post equated the radio host's disparaging racist remarks about the Rutgers
University Women's Basketball team to his previous calling of Vice President
Dick Cheney a "war criminal." Message to the Post: using racist
and chauvinistic language in one case is not the same as referring to Cheney
for what he and his ilk are -- war criminals. This editor has called Cheney
and Bush war criminals. To suggest that such a reference is the same as
using racist comments is pure and utter nonsense, which is now the order
of the day from the Post.
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- Nevertheless, Imus's career and relevance has been over
for some time. It should be remembered that the 66 year old deejay started
out on radio in 1968. To put things in perspective, Imus's radio contemporaries
at that time included Arthur Godfrey, Wolfman Jack, Joe Pyne, Howard W.
Morgan, Long John Nebel, Gene Burns, Jean Shepherd, Bill Ballance, Barry
Farber, Barry Gray, and Morton Downey, Jr. Imus's radio colleague at WNBC
in New York was Soupy Sales. In other words, Imus should be stuffed and
put into a radio museum.
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- The Post also lashes out at Eritrea for supporting Islamist
"terrorists" in Somalia and lauds the efforts of Assistant Secretary
of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer in threatening Eritrea with
sanctions. What the Post will not tell its readers is that Frazer is a
known supporter of American dictator clients from Rwanda's Paul Kagame,
to Uganda's Yoweri Museveni, and Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi. The Post will
not report that Frazer's close colleague in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian
capital, is U.S. Army Col. Richard Orth, the U.S. Defense Attache, whose
resume includes logistics support for Kagame in the shoot down of the Rwandan
presidential aircraft in 1994 (which has now earned top Rwandan government
officials a criminal indictment from France) and subsequent U.S. military
aid for his multiple invasions of Zaire/Congo. Genocide resulted from these
covert operations.
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- Orth was the Defense Attache in Rwanda during the onset
of the Kagame regime and then he moved to Kampala, Uganda where he provided
similar services for Museveni, including the destabilization of Sudan through
support for the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), which is now part
of the coalition government in Khartoum under attack by U.S.-supported
guerrillas operating from Ethiopia and Chad. This is largely Orth's and
Frazer's handiwork. Although Frazer was officially with the Kennedy School
of Government at Harvard during most of the Clinton administration, she
worked closely with Orth and the Pentagon's and Defense Intelligence Agency's
Africa bureaus.
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- So too are the three U.S. secret concentration camps
now in Ethiopia. According to our Ethiopian opposition sources, the main
camp is located at the Ethiopian airbase at Debre Zeit, near Addis Ababa.
The two others are in the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia and in Tigre
Province, which borders Eritrea in the north. Tigre is the home of the
Ethiopian dictator Meles. The camps are housing detainees from 19 countries,
including Sweden, France, and Canada and a number of Ethiopian opposition
members, including ethnic Oromos, Ogadenis, and other minority groups.
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- On November 17-19, 2006, WMR reported the following on
U.S. arming of Somali Islamists and Ethiopia: "The arming by the U.S.
of both the Ethiopians and Somalis in preparation for war is nothing new.
In fact, WMR and this editor has reported extensively on the past and current
covert intelligence activities of the U.S. Defense Attache in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, U.S. Army Colonel Richard Orth. Described as the 'Oliver North
of Africa' by a high-ranking French military intelligence officer who has
served in Africa, Orth has coddled a number of U.S. dictators in Africa.
He was present in Rwanda the day after U.S.-supplied surface-to-air missiles
struck the Rwandan presidential aircraft on April 6, 1994, assassinating
the Hutu presidents of Rwanda and Burundi and triggering Rwandan and Zairian/Congolese
civil wars that took the lives of over 5 million Africans. Orth, as Defense
Attache in Kigali, Rwanda, lorded over the transformation of that country
from a French-speaking nation to a U.S. client state with English-speaking
refugees from Uganda put in charge. Orth then proceeded to take over as
U.S. Defense Attache in Uganda where he cemented the U.S. military presence
in that nation. He then moved on to Addis Ababa where, as Defense Attache,
he coddled the Meles dictatorship and helped prepare Ethiopia's incursion
into Somalia, bolstered the U.S. military positions in Djibouti and Somaliland,
tilted U.S. policy to favor Ethiopia in its border war with Eritrea, coordinated
Horn of Africa intelligence activities with his Israeli counterpart in
Addis Ababa, and helped plan past Ugandan military forays into the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, and the Central African Republic.
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- The Post's deputy foreign editor Peter Eisner has just
co-written a book, "The Italian Letter," about the forged Niger
documents that were used to lead the U.S. to war in Iraq. In the book,
Eisner gives a virtual free pass to arch-neocon Michael Ledeen and his
dealings with Iranian con man Manucher Ghorbanifar in helping to cook up
the scheme. Eisner also suggests that the U.S. ambassador to Italy at the
time, Mel Sembler, was out of the loop on the Ledeen-Ghorbanifar meetings.
In fact, Sembler, as much a neocon as Ledeen, was not only aware of the
meetings, according to our sources, but helped set them up. Eisner quotes
an unnamed U.S. embassy source in Rome as stating that Sembler "blew
a gasket" when he found out about Ledeen's meetings in Rome. Sembler
more likely blew a gasket when the details of the Niger forgeries and the
role played by the neocon cabal in the Bush administration, a grouping
that includes Ledeen, the Pentagon's Harold Rhode, and Sembler as charter
members, became public.
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