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Is America the World’s Largest Sponsor of Terrorism?
The director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan – Lt. General William Odom - noted:
Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today’s war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.
Odom also said:
By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In ‘78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism – in every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation.
(audio here).
The Washington Post reported in 2010:
The United States has long been an exporter of terrorism, according to a secret CIA analysis released Wednesday by the Web site WikiLeaks.
The head and special agent in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office said that most terror attacks are committed by our CIA and FBI.
Wikipedia notes:
Chomsky and Herman observed that terror was concentrated in the U.S. sphere of influence in the Third World, and documented terror carried out by U.S. client states in Latin America. They observed that of ten Latin American countries that had death squads, all were U.S. client states.
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They concluded that the global rise in state terror was a result of U.S. foreign policy.
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In 1991, a book edited by Alexander L. George [the Graham H. Stuart Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Stanford University] also argued that other Western powers sponsored terror in Third World countries. It concluded that the U.S. and its allies were the main supporters of terrorism throughout the world.
Some in the American military have intentionally tried to “out-terrorize the terrorists”.
As Truthout notes:
Both [specialists Ethan McCord and Josh Stieber] say they saw their mission as a plan to “out-terrorize the terrorists,” in order to make the general populace more afraid of the Americans than they were of insurgent groups.
In the interview with [Scott] Horton, Horton pressed Stieber:
“… a fellow veteran of yours from the same battalion has said that you guys had a standard operating procedure, SOP, that said – and I guess this is a reaction to some EFP attacks on y’all’s Humvees and stuff that killed some guys – that from now on if a roadside bomb goes off, IED goes off, everyone who survives the attack get out and fire in all directions at anybody who happens to be nearby … that this was actually an order from above. Is that correct? Can you, you know, verify that?
Stieber answered:
“Yeah, it was an order that came from Kauzlarich himself, and it had the philosophy that, you know, as Finkel does describe in the book, that we were under pretty constant threat, and what he leaves out is the response to that threat. But the philosophy was that if each time one of these roadside bombs went off where you don’t know who set it … the way we were told to respond was to open fire on anyone in the area, with the philosophy that that would intimidate them, to be proactive in stopping people from making these bombs …”
Terrorism is defined as:
The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
So McCord and Stieber are correct: this constitutes terrorism by American forces in Iraq.
The U.S. has been supporting Al Qaeda and other terrorists in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Libya, Syria and Iran.
(The U.S. has also directly inserted itself into a sectarian war between the two main Islamic sects, backing the Sunnis and attacking the Shiites. See this, this and this. Because Saudi Arabia is the seat of the most radical sect of Islam – Wahhabism- the U.S. unquestioning support of the Saudis is indirectly supporting terrorism.)
Torture – which the U.S. has liberally used during the last 10 years – has long been recognized as a form of terrorism.
Wikipedia notes:
Worldwide, 74% of countries that used torture on an administrative basis were U.S. client states, receiving military and other support to retain power.
Of course, some would say that the American policy of assassination – especially using drone strikes on people whose identity isn’t even known – is a form of terrorism. And see this and this.
Some Specific Examples …
The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister.
The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism.
As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security” (and see this)(Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred).
As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents show that in the 1960′s, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the following ABC news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
Nine months earlier, a false flag attack was discussed in order to justify an invasion of the Dominican Republic. Specifically, according to official State Department records, Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles wrote on June 3, 1961:
The Vice President [Lyndon Johnson], [Attorney General] Bob Kennedy, Secretary [of Defense Robert] McNamara, Dick Goodwin [who was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs], [head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] General Lemnitzer, Wyn Coerr, and Ted Achilles were here. Bob McNamara and Lemnitzer stated that under the terms of the contingency paper, they were required to be prepared to move into the island on short order if required to do so, and this, in their opinion, called for substantially more troops that we had in the area. After some discussion we considered two more aircraft carriers, some destroyers, and 12,000 marines should be moved into a position some one hundred miles off the Dominican Republic shore…
The tone of the meeting was deeply disturbing. Bob Kennedy was clearly looking for an excuse to move in on the island. At one point he suggested, apparently seriously, that we might have to blow up the Consulate to provide the rationale.
His general approach, vigorously supported by Dick Goodwin, was that this was a bad government, that there was a strong chance that it might team up with Castro, and that it should be destroyed–with an excuse if possible, without one if necessary.
Rather to my surprise, Bob McNamara seemed to support this view …
The entire spirit of this meeting was profoundly distressing and worrisome, and I left at 8:00 p.m. with a feeling that this spirit which I had seen demonstrated on this occasion and others at the White House by those so close to the President constitutes a further danger of half-cocked action by people with almost no foreign policy experience, who are interested in action for action’s sake, and the devil take the highmost …
[At a subsequent meeting], Bob McNamara went along with their general view that our problem was not to prepare against an overt act by the Dominican Republic but rather to find an excuse for going into the country and upsetting it.
Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo suggested in 2005 that the US should go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having “our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps, and fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within al-Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others’ identities and to question the validity of communications.”
As Chris Floyd and many others have noted, this plan has gone live.
United Press International reported in June 2005:
U.S. intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem to have had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come off a production line without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as U.S. authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of the illegitimacy of the resistance.
There is substantial additional evidence of hanky panky in Iraq.
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"Terror" is what it feels like to be born on this Prison Labor Death Planet. The United States Government with their Paper Dollar Driven Military Spending Spree. Brainwashed citizenry willing to kill anyone, even fellow citizens, for a paycheck. "Google" molding the mindset of practically every person on the planet with their MSM propaganda and brainwashing. We're definately approaching PEAK EVIL, that is if we're not already there...
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And the military budget keeps swelling...but wait, there is more! Don't forget the domestic market. 2 massacres in the the last 17 days, everyone sees enemies everywhere, and look at all those armored vehicles and kevlared swat teams right there in your own cities! NYPD gets missiles to shoot planes out of the sky. They have ways getting around Posse Comitatus to achieve their aims. Wait till even the volunteer fire department looks like Iron Man III. They ain't quite done yet.
Did you see lil ole Oak Creek? They had all the toys, it was a military operation. Since I was born a Sikh, the absurdity and the ignorance they have cultivated really hit home. Gurdwaras are a gathering place for the community, not just for worship. I'm not religious, but someone had to get mom there on Sundays. When it's my turn, I hand over my offerings, and go straight to the Langar Hall, where I get to listen to all my aged aunts tut tut over my wild life choices over spiced chai, fritters and sweets, to be followed by lunch where I get hugs and admonishments to change my evil ways. That's love. It's my tribe. How do you think I feel? I have nothing but admiration and respect for the police that put themselves in harm's way to end it, but I am mad as hell at the fools that indoctrinate their followers to commit these atrocities. My anger is at the "leaders" who foment this hate, not the dumb people who listen to them.
msjimmied
you may find this article of interest
Neo-NAZIs joining the US Army?
http://www.salon.com/2009/06/15/neo_nazis_army/
(Of course, there is also the possibility of working for Blackwater/XE )
The sad truth, my friend, is that people are nurtured into fear through the physical medium - external appearance and the like. They are led astray because it is engrained far in our minds that the tribe's leader knows what is good for us and bad for us, and the leader sets the code. In finality it is our natural position in this ecosystem that defines the code; nature's code, not man's code. The human inside can look past all physicalities, for that is the gift of sentience. Someone operating on the sentient realm will act human; someone operating on the animal realm will act animal. The animal is always afraid - the human need not be. It is a choice you make, every second, to be human.
"fear is the mind killer"
Everybody cut off those tv's and quit playing those violent video games.... they are Programming You To Kill.
Get OUT of the Matrix.
Yeah. I admit I had a bit of a tussel with the martial side of my spirit. It's in my DNA, the old borders of the Punjab abutted the end of the Khyber Pass where hordes have entered India for centuries, they had to get past us first. It's the same spirit that got Udham Singh to execute the commanders of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, even if he had to wait 20 years after the fact. Or Indira Gandhi for the Golden Temple massacre. It's a legendary trait. The Sikhs go for the head of the snake. Honeybadgers ain't got nothing on us. Jihadis would be scared. I had that quizzical look on my face reading all the stuff about us being peace loving, true...we're your best friend, or your worst enemy. What would be truly scary is if the skin head knew exactly what he was doing. No, but the shit stirrers on the hill surely did. The rednecks burnt down a mosque in Joplin today. They are determined to let loose the dogs of war, one way or the other.
Government’s Greatest Trick - Making you a slave to your fears.
Slave to your own morality, perhaps.
Moral spheres: harm, fairness, community, authority, and purity, can be hijacked to do great evil.
Governments greatest trick - making you a slave to their paper, and not giving you a printing press
I'm left wondering if Israel/Zionist interests are in fact the world's largest "sponsor" of terrorism and as their bitch, the U.S. is simply the world's largest terrorist?
Throw in the Rockefellers and the Queen of England and you might have something.
Fail. They're already "thrown in" as you say. They're Zionists. Rockefellers and the Queen of England are Zionists. Yes? / No?
Of course,
The US, and their British and Israeli allies have employed "terror tactics" for years, if not centuries.
And historically, the leaders have admitted so, usually with approval
against the Native Americans, against the slaves,
in India, throughout Latin America, in WW2,
in Vietnam, Iraq, Palestine, and Ireland
covertly with the Phoenix program, the Contras, the School of the Americas,
renditions, bombings, assassinations, drones, poisons.
with the help of despicable allies, with Somoza, the Saudis, the Mafia, AlQaeda et al
used false flag attacks aimed to divide and conquer
Done it all. Never stopped.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9447
Let us start with some facts in this in the dope trade is hundreds of years old, and governments, merchants and bankers have been making profits off of this thee entire time.
This started in America with the Yankee traders being drop ships for opium into China and the rum runners and is still a government sanctioned commerce from the Indian Reservations being federal meth labs run by elements of the federal government and the coke pipeline into America is run by the shadow elements of DEA, Customs and the Directorate.
Based on 2003 figures, drug trafficking constitutes "the third biggest global commodity in cash terms after oil and the arms trade." (The Independent, 29 February 2004).
The IMF estimated global money laundering to be between 590 billion and 1.5 trillion dollars a year, representing 2-5 percent of global GDP. (Asian Banker, 15 August 2003).
Prohibition II fuels expenditures for the huge prison and security industries, generates gangs, lawlessness, and greatly contributes to the deterioration of cities.
Afghanistan and Colombia are the two largest drug producing economies in the world, which feed a global criminal economy. These countries have heavily militarized authoritarian governments propped up by the U.S. The drug trade is protected. The CIA has played a central role in the development of both the Latin American and Asian drug triangles.
The drug traders and trade routes (e.g. Kosovo, Turkey, and Israel are also allied with and supported by the U.S.)
and as the above ground "economy" falls apart, this underground version becomes ever more powerful and supported
You say that like it's a Bad thing
This is a well-intentioned and decent blog posting, except for...
Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles wrote on June 3, 1961..
Be very careful on placing too much validity with regard to what Bowles wrote, and much of what was later written about the Kennedy administration regarding Jack and Bobby's actions, which have gone through endless revisionism. Otherwise, am in full agreement.
Recommended reading (which add and extend this blog post):
Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy presidency, by Donald Gibson
Thy Will Be Done, by Gerard Colby with Charlotte Dennett
Its all good if it keeps terrorism off US soil....oh wait
Oy vey, Goyim! You MUST support the War on Terror! If you don't, 596 Trillion of G-d's Chosen will die! --and don't forget to keep sending us aid, even though we have nuclear weapons and advanced military technology, but Iran is the treat (hehehe stupid goyim)
The broke US tax payer borrows billions from China to give to the war provoking Israeli Zionists because our politicians have been bought. Who bought Washington? The same people who own the Fed banks.
When the banking oligarchy captures Washington, they don't just own the financial regulatory apparatus and the police state apparatus. They also own the foreign policy of the nation.
It is way beyond your puny conception:
http://classicalvalues.com/2012/08/terrorists-dealing-drugs/
Rockefellers and Rothchilds. It is not just the Jews.
In your mind is Israel a zionist state or a jewish state?
Yeah, those cocksuckers.
They print money out of thin air and then when they steal it from us, they want us to believe that it vanishes in to thin air.
TOO CONVENIENT
Of course the US is the largest country responsible for world terrorism. What site do you think you're posting on.
If only Gore/Lieberman had been elected instead, then the USA would also be in Iran now, thanks to that neocon Joe Lieberman.
FEAR is appropriate for this thread...
[Growling]
There's so many of us
There's so many of us
There's so many
There's so many of us
There's so many of us
There's so many [x2]
[Sung]
Let's have a war
So you can go and die!
Let's have a war!
We could all use the money!
Let's have a war!
We need the space!
Let's have a war!
Clean out this place!
It already started in the city!
Suburbia will be just as easy!
[Chorus]
Let's have a war!
Jack up the Dow Jones!
Let's have a war!
It can start in New Jersey!
Let's have a war!
Blame it on the middle-class!
Let's have a war!
We're like rats in a cage!
It already started in the city!
Suburbia will be just as easy!
[Chorus]
Let's have a war!
Sell the rights to the networks!
Let's have a war!
General Motors get fat like last time!
Let's have a war!
Give guns to the queers!
Let's have a war!
The enemy's within!
It already started in the city!
Suburbia will be just as easy!
[Chorus x2]
What a bunch of crap. Iran supports Hezbollah and Hamas. The real terrorists and their supports are all muslim.
Oh for crying the fuck out loud. Seriously?
exactly, we constantly cry the fuck out loud trying to convince everyone we're the victim
Where do you buy your history books? Get a refund.
Just keep glued to that MSM Brainwashing Propaganda, let us know how that works out for you...
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You made a slight error at the beginning of your otherwise articulate and on point rebutal;
TROLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO !!!!!
Big terrorist calls little terrorist a terrorist ....
It's our Number 1 export.....
But that's a part of "doing God's work." No?
The UN wants a global small arms traffic treaty? I think the people of the world need a LARGE ARMS TRAFFIC TREATY. It's not the puny armed citizens who are the threat. It's the people with the ICBMs, destroyers, carriers, drones, jets, nukes, tanks, and whatever else GOVERNMENTS BUY for 2 trillion a year.
That's why we need to starve the beast. With a $700 billion annual war budget, we have no choice but to attack, invade, and overthrow governments around the world.
Afghanistan
Iraq
Libya
Syria
All of Africa to find some non-existent guy named Koni or whatever
everywhere and anywhere there isn't a Red Shield bank
Must...
keep...
the...
Ponzi...
going...
SunT is correct; we engage in conflict because we have the means to engage in conflict. When you have hammer, all the world is a nail.
When you are a sociopath, all the world is expendable.
PASHLEY
I see you have been reading, I believe it was Doug Casey, (When you have a hammer, all the world is a nail.)
nice second sentence - history in 10 words
In the short term they have proved they dont need taxpayers - they can just print for war. Still, if nobody is interested in picking up their tab - they will be out of busniess eventually.
Tax = slavery, at home and wherever rich bastards want to drop some bombs.
Replying to sun tzu's comment above:
Yeah and don't forget Manhattan, New York Sept. 11, 2001.
Manhattan is a borough of NYC, nobody calls it "Manhattan, NY" except idiots who are not qualified to express an opinion.