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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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Sending you a big apple that says: I LV NY.
You are welcome to shove it up your ass.
And say hello to Woody, c/o Manhattan NY pervert club.
Based on your nit-picky little post I assume you believe the official story? Am I wrong?
Manhattan is NYC. NYC is not a real City, it's just what people call Manhattan.
anyone else losing co-workers, employees or family to early unexpected deployments?
So, the summary is that the plans are made and in progress, already focussed, only the exact time needs to be announced. Damn.
That time is gone. Nowadays they deploy drones.
the 6 that informed us this morning of being recalled active this weekend were mostly not due for rotation until 2014.
btw, they are not drones.
World’s Largest Sponsor of ANTI TerrorismDon't you watch the news?
LOL good one
'War is a racket'....... got to keep the racket going, can't - god forbid - let PEACE take hold. Peace isn't profitable enough.
The Drug War is the biggest racket of all
http://classicalvalues.com/2012/08/terrorists-dealing-drugs/
War is the biggest drug of all
fixed it for ya
Government is the biggest con in mankind's history.
Nothing else comes close.
Say, George, your editor left a question mark for some reason at the end of the story line. He also transposed "America" and "Is."
I'd find another editor.
DUH...the U.S. is probably the most rapacious, murderous empire in the history of the world. Are we terrorists? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL....
The US government is incontrovertibly the most evil government in the world.
Any government that nukes twice a country that had surrendered and follows that up with sixty-odd years of terrorism throughout the world can't be topped.
Of course the savages will support its savagery.
Japan hadn't "surrendered". The militarists wanted to negotiate a ceasefire-in-place, preserving much of their Empire. Meanwhile, the Russians had already begun amphib landings on the northernmost Jap islands...while US invasion of the main islands wasn't scheduled until Spring 1946....when they would have been met on the beaches by Soviet troops. But for the bombs, US would have fought its way across the Pacific...for nothing. And here's something else: had nuclear weapons not been used to end WW II...they would long since have been used to start WW III. You likely wouldn't even be around to expose your ignorance, or I to correct you. The latter, certainly, would be a great tragedy which in and of itself justifies Truman's Command Decision.
You don't know shit about it, bold, italic, numbnuts.
If anyone saved the article from yesterday I'd appreciate you posting the link.
It was a "book review" on a book about grassroots revolution being the only way to take back our govt.
Here ya go booger: http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-08-05/days-destruction-days-revolt#comment-2681418
boogerbently
You don't get it.
When do you plan on taking back "government" from the populace?
It is ALWAYS the same cycle because PEOPLE are the problem.
“The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election”"Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.'"
"I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don't vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, 'If you don't vote, you have no right to complain,' but where's the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote -- who did not even leave the house on Election Day -- am in no way responsible for that these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you created."
George Carlin
Thank you for having the audacity to say the public sucks. It really does. Not just in the US but everywhere in the world, now that several little Americas have been recreated in every major economic zone.
"They don't pass through a membrane from another reality"
Damn - and I thought this was the most plausible theory so far.
I read what passes for literacy on these forums and the people on ZH represent the better end of the bell curve, yet I still see the results of improper education--everything from spelling and grammatical errors (to which I am sometimes prone) but more importantly, to errors in logic and reasoning. Our problem in the US is ignorance, even amongst the so-called educated.
Suck my dick, rocket man.
(Critical Thinking Skills) are supressed, schools teach memorization and obedience, to prepare them to join the United Terrorist States and kill people with guns and bombs for the Corporations
Yes.
George Wasnington, my ass....this guy really is the epitome of an ignoramus.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ignoramus
http://thespiritoftruth.blogspot.com/2010/09/russia-was-behind-911.html
Ignoramus > link pimp
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It is all here:
http://classicalvalues.com/2012/08/terrorists-dealing-drugs/
How the drug war props up the banks. Lame Cherry for the short version. CA Fitts for the whole megillah.
The United States Government doesn't just support the Terrorists, they are the Terrorists
These people control the minds of every single human being in the entire world
They also know everthing about YOU http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/in-a-seating-chart-silicon-valleys-pecking-order/
Also this is educational http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJHgoIRjlVo
I think i made an error
I heard somewhere that Chomsky is an agent for the NWO.
The US has been the biggest sponsor of World terrorism since the end of the second world war so what 67 years now? About the first to point this out was Chomsky back as early as the late 1960's.
This is like one of those questions you're asking, when you're really stating the very, very obvious, right?
shit ... think I just did it too ...
Metal Money is at the root of all GOOD
Paper money is at the root of all EVIL and all TERRORISM