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Wikileaks Latest: The USA As An Exporter Of Terrorism?
The latest release by Wikileaks, this time focusing on tha CIA, asks what happens if its understood that the US is an exporter of terrorism:
This CIA "Red Cell" report from February 2, 2010, looks at what will
happen if it is internationally understood that the United States is an
exporter of terrorism; 'Contrary to common belief, the American export
of terrorism or terrorists is not a recent phenomenon, nor has it been
associated only with Islamic radicals or people of Middle Eastern,
African or South Asian ethnic origin. This dynamic belies the American
belief that our free, open and integrated multicultural society lessens
the allure of radicalism and terrorism for US citizens.' The report
looks at a number cases of US exported terrorism, including attacks by
US based or financed Jewish, Muslim and Irish-nationalism terrorists. It
concludes that foreign perceptions of the US as an "Exporter of
Terrorism" together with US double standards in international law, may
lead to noncooperation in renditions (including the arrest of CIA
officers) and the decision to not share terrorism related intelligence
with the United States.
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Why would the CIA release the gunship video from Iraq where US troops fired on an ambulance? Not saying it isn't possible but I'd like to hear your theory on that.
Aren't you the fellow who also believes that the CIA is run by aliens, as in ET-type aliens, which would then make Wikileaks a front for Martians?
Hope you can find your long way back to the species.
*Poooffff*
What was that?
Oh, just the American Dream.....
Just wait till drones become ubiquitous technology! You can count on that practice coming back to bite us.
I assume this is an ironic post given today's call for more forceful action needed in Yemen today: lol
He left out "#1" before "Exporter of Terror"
Billions and billions served.
Tyler, on a scary note....you may want to check out the validity of this article
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599201315000
If we can have no expectation of privacy then they shall have no expectation of security.
Don't Tread on Me.
This is a setup. There's nothing there that would have been stamped Secret. Secret/ No Foreigners, big deal. For two years I had a "Secret" stamp in my desk and always meant to ask someone when I should use it, or even what it was doing there. Must have been tied into my "Secret" clearance I guess.
For two years I had a "Secret" stamp in my desk..
Dude, you weren't supposed to mention that. They even went to the trouble of emblazoning the thing with the word, "secret." You blew it.
Don't worry, a visit from Colonel Flagg will occur shortly!
How dumb are you people? Most lack the ability to understand what the document is stating, and immediately jump to the conclusion that it documents officially condoned US export of terrorism. Please read the document, and if need be, go back to First Grade and start over. Better yet, go back to pre-zygote stage of existence and find better parents.
From such ignorance is the Conspiracy Industry born. Never read anything that might get in the way of your preconceived notions.
Fucking bunch of clowns on this site. It appears that even the site administrator, whomever this Tyler is, equally missed the point, or else just knew his audience and what fun it would be to see the barking dogs jump to erroneous conclusions.
By the way, the really important implication of this piece, missed by most all of you dickheads, is how would the US like it if some other country, suffering after a US-born individual planned and executed a terror attack against this other country, then launched an invasion of the US to "ferret out the terrorists and their bases". If anyone really needs to find something about the US to criticize, one can find it there (i.e., what gives the US the right to engage in unilateral first strikes).
Wish I Did not Know
HistoryWas one of the original original Anonymous' (like the Original Original Ray's Pizza) a long time ago. Lurked after, but decided to get a moniker after seeing how far into the realm of the bizarre the site became after the seasonal migration from the Yahoo! Boards.
I guess that means you'll be meandering back to the Yahoo Boards and not wasting any more time here. Bu-bye.
I guess that means you did not actually read the article, and just jumped on board the latest opportunity to spout The Conspiracy Doctrine, which is based on quotes of quotes of conjectures of quotes of outright fabrications.
Dem eleetes sure musta dun a lotta schoolin' to be smart enough to control the other seven billion dumbo's walking around God's green Earth, eh? Yea, nothing is as it really seems, but only a couple of nobody, know-nothing hacks with too much time on their hands are un-naive enough to figure it all out.
I see. On the other hand, YOU have it all figured out. Welcome aboard the crazy train.
I gotta wonder when will Wikileaks start releasing documents on a government other than the US?
I hear ya! Plenty of skeletons and skulduggery all around the World ("It's a free-for-all!").
I gotta wonder when will Wikileaks start releasing documents on a government other than the US?
It's right there in the wikileaks menu:
Category:CountriesEach country includes details of media coverage, details of leaks, details of journalists & whistleblowers, and more.
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Countries
This dynamic belies the American belief that our free, open and integrated multicultural society lessens the allure of radicalism and terrorism for US citizens.
We don't have an integrated multicultural society, in fact the two terms are antonymous. What we do have ever increasingly more of is un-integrated multiculturalism which is the only kind of multiculturalism there is - by definition. That is why radicalism and terrorism is alluring to US citizens and non-citizens.
read an article in the The Guardian...might be of interest to someone , anyone.
A WAR OF TERROR
Posted February 4, 2003The men who claim to be fighting “evil” on behalf of “good” are also funding one of the world’s dirtiest wars
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 4th February 2003
Last week, on the day George Bush delivered his State of the Union address, the Pentagon received a visitor. A few hours before the president told the American people that “we will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men”, General Carlos Ospina, head of the Colombian army, was shaking hands with his American counterpart. He had come to discuss the latest installment of US military aid.
General Ospina has done well. Just four years ago, he was a lieutenant-colonel in command of the army’s Fourth Brigade. He was promoted first to divisional commander, then, in August last year, to chief of the army. But let us dwell for a moment on his career as a brigadier, and his impressive contribution to the war against terror.
According to Human Rights Watch, the Fourth Brigade, under Ospina’s command, worked alongside the death squads controlled by the paramilitary leader Carlos Castano. In a report published three years ago, it summarises the results of an investigation carried out by the Attorney General’s office in Colombia. On October 25th 1997, a force composed of Ospina’s regulars and Castano’s paramilitaries surrounded a village called El Aro, in a region considered sympathetic to the country’s left-wing guerillas. The soldiers cordoned off the village while Castano’s men moved in. They captured a shopkeeper, tied him to a tree, gouged out his eyes, cut off his tongue and castrated him. The other residents tried to flee, but were turned back by Ospina’s troops. The paramilitaries then mutilated and beheaded eleven of the villagers, including three children, burned the church, the pharmacy and most of the houses and smashed the water pipes. When they left, they took 30 people with them, who are now listed among Colombia’s disappeared.
This operation was unusual only in that it has been so well-documented: among other sources, the investigators interviewed one Francisco Enrique Villalba, who was a member of the death squad which carried out the massacre, and who had witnessed the prior coordination of the raid between the army and Castano’s lieutenants. The attack on El Aro was one of dozens of atrocities which Human Rights Watch alleges were assisted by the Fourth Brigade. Villalba testified that the brigade would “legalise” the killings his squad carried out: the paramilitaries would hand the corpses of the civilians they had murdered to the soldiers, and in return the soldiers would give them grenades and munitions. The brigade would then dress the corpses in army uniforms and claim them as the bodies of rebels it had shot.
A separate investigation by the Colombian internal affairs agency documented hundreds of mobile phone and pager communications between the death squads and the officers of the Fourth Brigade, among them Lieutenant-Colonel Ospina. On Tuesday, Ospina fiercely denied the allegations, claiming that they were politically-motivated and that “honest people around the world know that we are serving our people well.”
In same press conference, however, he also revealed that this month the Colombian government will start to deploy a new kind of “self-defence force”, composed of armed civilians backed by the army. Human rights groups allege that the government has simply legalised the death squads.
Official paramilitary forces of this kind were first mobilised by the current president, Alvaro Uribe, when he was governor of the state of Antioquia in the mid-1990s. The civilian forces he established there, like all the paramilitaries working with the army, carried out massacres, the assassination of peasant and trade union leaders and what Colombians call “social cleansing”: the killing of homeless people, drug addicts and petty criminals. They joined forces with the unofficial death squads and began to profit from drugs trafficking. They were banned after Uribe ceased to be governor. One of his first acts when he became President in August last year was to promote General Ospina, and instruct him to develop similar networks throughout the contested regions of Colombia.
Uribe, a landowner with major business interests, was the US government’s favoured candidate. After he was elected, but before he assumed the presidency, it granted Colombia a special package of military aid worth $80 million. Its military funding, through the programmes it calls Plan Colombia and the Andean Regional Initiative, now amounts to $2 billion over the past four years. At the beginning of last month, US Special Forces arrived in Colombia to help train General Ospina’s troops. One of the two brigades they are assisting - the 5th - has also been named by Human Rights Watch for alleged involvement in paramilitary killings. It has been equipped with helicopters by the US army.
The United States has been at war in Colombia for over 50 years. It has, however, hesitated to explain precisely whom it is fighting. Officially, it is now involved there in a “war on terror”. Before September 2001, it was a “war on drugs”; before that, a “war on communism”. In essence, however, US intervention in Colombia is unchanged: this remains, as it has always been, a war on the poor.
There is little doubt that the FARC, the main left-wing rebel group, has been diverted from its original revolutionary purpose by power politics and the struggle for the control of drugs money. It finances itself partly through extortion and kidnap. Whether it could fairly be described as a terrorist network, though, is open to question. What is unequivocal is that the great majority of the country’s political killings are committed not by FARC or the other rebels but by the right-wing paramilitaries working with the army. Their task is to terrorise the population into acquiesence with the government’s programmes.
The purpose of this unending war is to secure those parts of the country which are rich in natural resources for Colombian landowners and foreign multinationals. Colombia has one of the most unequal economies in the world - the top 10% of the population earns 60 times as much as the bottom 10% - and there is no room in that country for both the aspirations of the poor and the aspirations of the super-rich. One faction has to be suppressed. The Colombian army is making the country safe for business. This is why, over the past ten years, the paramilitaries it works with have killed some 15,000 trades unionists, peasant and indigenous leaders, human rights workers, land reform activists, leftwing politicians and their sympathisers. This is why it is the world’s third largest recipient (after Israel and Egypt) of US military aid.
The people funding this programme are Britain’s allies in the war against terror. They are the people who have awarded themselves the power to arbitrate between good and evil. They are the people who will, within the next few weeks, attack Iraq on behalf of civilisation. “Throughout the 20th century,” Bush told the United States last week, “small groups of men seized control of great nations, built armies and arsenals, and set out to dominate the weak and intimidate the world. In each case, their ambitions of cruelty and murder had no limit.” America’s continuing adventure in Colombia suggests that little has changed.
Violent revolution or riots are not necessary, they are counterproductive. Before the invasion of Iraq what did we do? We had a nice big day out in London with our sandwiches and lashings of lemonade, sing songs and waving of banners and a good time was had by all, the numbers were there to make a difference but in the evening we all went home in time to watch our favourite soaps and perhaps see ourselves on the TV. Pathetic really considering that In 2000 we as a people brought the country to a non-violent standstill after our govt dared to raise the cost of petrol and diesel by another penny or two. Well! How outrageous! They raised our damn gas prices again! – time to do something by jiminy! But send our boys off to die in Iraq, and condemn untold Iraqi civilians to death, injury and poverty – well lets all have a nice old middle class knees-up shall we? Destroy our economy, export all our jobs, give taxpayers money to the already rich gamblers in the banks and on wall street and we’ll do even less. Tony Blair actually apologized to the public at large at the next party conference for gas pricing the mistake! Why don’t more people realize we are all just one day away from getting our govt to truly represent us? all we need do is follow the successful example of 2000.
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