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No One Is Buying Iranian Terror Allegations
Iran Terror Plot: No Evidence
The day before Attorney General was subpoenaed about what he knew about the Department of Justice and Drug Enforcement Agency's "Fast and Furious" operation to get weapons to Mexico's largest drug cartel, the U.S. government announced that the Iranians planned to kill a Saudi ambassador on U.S. soil.
And they said - you guessed it - that it was DOJ and DEA who broke up the plot.
But no one is buying it ... not even the pro-war mainstream media.
The New York Times notes in a post entitled "U.S. Challenged to Explain Accusations of Iran Plot in the Face of Skepticism":
The Obama administration on Wednesday sought to reconcile what it said was solid evidence of an Iranian plot to murder Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States with a wave of puzzlement and skepticism from some foreign leaders and outside experts.
Senior American officials themselves were struggling to explain why the Quds Force, an elite international operations unit within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, would orchestrate such a risky attack in so amateurish a manner.
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American officials offered no specific evidence linking the plot to Iran’s most senior leaders.
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Mr. Zarate and senior American officials said the assassination plan did not have the hallmarks of a Quds operation. “It was very extreme and very odd, but it was also very sloppy,” Mr. Zarate said. “If you look at what they have done historically, they can put operatives on their targets and execute. They usually don’t outsource, but keep things inside a trusted network.”
One problem for President Obama and his administration is that since American intelligence claims about Iraq’s illicit weapons proved false in 2003, assertions by the United States about its adversaries have routinely faced skepticism from other countries.
“Of course, that is in people’s heads. Everyone is extremely skeptical about U.S. intelligence revelations,” said Volker Perthes, an Iran expert who is the director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin.
CNN notes the growing skepticism about the allegations.
Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer says that an FBI insider told him the dubious terror plot to assassinate a Saudi ambassador which has been blamed on Iran was likely manufactured by the Obama administration, because no information about the plot even exists within FBI channels:
Glenn Greenwald writes:
The most difficult challenge in writing about the Iranian Terror Plot unveiled yesterday is to take it seriously enough to analyze it.
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For brazen irony, how can this be beat?
Tom Kean, former chairman of the 9/11 Commission said the alleged plot “surprises me.” Speaking to CNN’s Erin Burnett, Kean said the plot is “pretty close to an act of war. You don’t go in somebody’s capital to blow somebody up.”
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So facially absurd are the claims here — why would Iran possibly wake up one day and decide that it wanted to engage in a Terrorist attack on U.S. soil when it could much more easily kill Saudi officials elsewhere? and if Iran and its Quds Force are really behind this inept, hapless, laughable plot, then nothing negates the claim that Iran is some Grave Threat like this does — that there is more skepticism expressed even in establishment media accounts than one normally finds about such things. Even the NYT noted — with great understatement — that the allegations “provoked puzzlement from specialists on Iran, who said it seemed unlikely that the government would back a brazen murder and bombing plan on American soil.” The Post noted that “the very rashness of the alleged assassination plot raised doubts about whether Iran’s normally cautious ruling clerics supported or even know about it.” The Atlantic‘s Max Fisher has more on why this would be so out of character for Iran.
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The Christian Science Monitor details the many reasons why “Iran specialists who have followed the Islamic Republic for years say that many details in the alleged plot just don’t add up.”
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After 24 hours of media hysteria — there’s this Reuters article, which — under the headline “Officials concede gaps in U.S. knowledge of Iran plot” — reports:
Iran’s supreme leader and the shadowy Quds Force covert operations unit were likely aware of an alleged plot to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, but hard evidence of that is scant, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
The United States does not have solid information about “exactly how high it goes,” one official said. . . .The U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said their confidence that at least some Iranian leaders were aware of the alleged plot was based largely on analyses and their understanding of how the Quds Force operates.
Greenwald notes in a separate post:
Here is a profile of the Lex Luthor super-villain behind the dastardly Iranian Plot, compiled based on interviews with those who have long known him. He’s described variously as a “scatterbrained, hapless businessman,” “absentminded and shifty.” “a joke” who “was pretty disorganized, always losing things like keys, titles, probably a thousand cellphones,” who “never spoke ill of the United States” and who wasn’t remotely religious — in other words, the pefect target for the FBI to transform into an “operative” by waving money and glory in front of his face, and exactly the kind of person the actual Quds Force would never use for a real plot.
Steve Watson notes that the suspect is a semi-retarded sex-crazed druggie:
Local media in Austin and San Antonio spoke to several of Arbabsiar’s acquaintances in Round Rock and Corpus Christi, who described him in most unflattering terms, saying that they doubt Arbabsiar could have had any meaningful involvement in the supposed international ploy.
“He used to drink, smoke pot, go with the prostitutes,” Tom Hosseini, an Iranian who has known Arbabsiar since college, told reporters, adding “His first wife left him because he would lose his keys every other day. This guy is not a mastermind.”
Hosseini also told reporters that in college Arbabsiar earned the nickname ‘”Jack” for his affinity for whisky, confirming that he wasn’t in any way religious and that “he couldn’t even pray, doesn’t know how to fast.”
Describing Arbabsiar as rude, offensive and unfriendly, others noted that he was a “floundering” businessman who at various points had tried his hand in running a restaurant, a convenience store and a used car lot.
“He was pretty disorganised, always losing things like keys, titles, probably a thousand cell phones,” David Tomscha, who ran the small used-car yard with him, said. “He wasn’t meticulous with taking care of things.”
“He never spoke ill of the United States,” Mr Tomscha added. “I always thought he liked it here, because he could make money. He loved to make money.”
Arbabsiar, who has a history of run ins with the law and minor criminal offences, was described in other accounts as having a preoccupation with traveling to Iran in order to procure the services of cheap Persian prostitutes.
Another local acquaintance, Mitch Hamueen, scoffed at the DOJ suggestion that “Chevrolet” was a code word for the alleged terror operation.
“He probably wasn’t talking in code, he was probably talking about an actual Chevrolet,” he said.
“He’s the fall guy,” Hamueen said. “They’re looking for a fall guy.”
Reporters also spoke with Arbabsiar’s apparently estranged wife who told them “I know that his innocence is going to come out.”
The Obama administration contends that Arbabsiar tried to hire assassins from a Mexican drug gang to carry out the murder of ambassador Adel al-Jubeir during a visit to the United States.
However, the head of the drug gang turned out to be a DEA agent posing as a Mexican Los Zetas gangster. The story has all the hallmarks of classic FBI entrapment tactics that have characterized almost every major terror bust in recent times.
Indeed, a study published this year by the New York University School of Law found that the threat of homegrown terror in America has been “manufactured” by entrapping Muslim men into crimes they otherwise would not commit. And see this.
And Pepe Esobar writes:
As for the Washington mantra that "Iran has been insinuating itself into many of the struggles in the Middle East", that's undiluted Saudi propaganda. In fact it's the House of Saud who's been conducting the fierce counter-revolution that has smashed any possibility of an Arab Spring in the Persian Gulf - from the invasion and repression of Bahrain to the rash pre-emption of protests inside Saudi Arabia's Shia-dominated eastern provinces.
The whole thing smells like a flimsy pretext for a casus belli. The timing of the announcement couldn't be more suspicious. White House national security advisor Thomas E. Donilon briefed King Abdullah of the plot no less than two weeks ago, in a three-hour meeting in Riyadh. Meanwhile the US government has been carrying not plots, but targeted assassinations of US citizens, as in the Anwar al-Awlaki case.
So why now? Holder is caught in yet another scandal - on whether he told lies regarding Operation Fast and Furious (no, you can't make this stuff up), a federal gun sting through which scores of US weapons ended up in the hands of - here they come again - Mexican drug cartels.
So how to bury Fast and Furious, the economic abyss, the 10 years of war in Afghanistan, the increasing allure of Occupy Wall Street - not to mention the Saudi role in smashing the spirit of the Arab Spring? By uncovering a good ol' al-Qaeda style plot on US soil, on top of it conducted by "evil" Iran. Al-Qaeda and Tehran sharing top billing; not even Cheney and Rumsfeld in their heyday could come up with something like this. Long live GWOT (the global war on terror). And long live the neo-con spirit ....
Escobar says that the government keeps changing its story about the plot:
Of course, the decision to go to war against Iran (like most of our current policy) was made before 9/11 (and see this).
The Brookings Institution wrote in 2009:
It would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the United States would be.
Indeed, the U.S. has used fake intelligence to attempt to frame Iran.
And it is well-documented that the U.S. has repeatedly used terrorism against Iran:
- 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 president
- Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh says that the Bush administration (and especially Dick Cheney) helped to fund groups which the U.S. claims are terrorists against Iran (see confirming articles here and here).
- The New York Times, Washington Post, Raw Story and others are reporting that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, former national security adviser Fran Townsend and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey – who all said that the terrorists were going to get us if we didn’t jettison the liberties granted under the Bill of Rights – are now supporting terrorists in Iran.
- Jimmy Carter’s former National Security Adviser and Obama’s initial foreign policy adviser - Zbigniew Brzezinski - told the Senate that a terrorist act might be carried out in the U.S. and falsely blamed on Iran to justify war against that nation.
- Congressman Ron Paul told Congress: “I am concerned, however, that a contrived Gulf of Tonkin- type incident may occur to gain popular support for an attack on Iran”
- And a member of the British Parliament stated that “there is a very real danger” that the American government will stage a false flag terror attack in order to justify war against Iran and to gain complete control domestically
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Bankers can actually DO something? I thought they only helped generate contracts not execute them (pardon the pun).
More negroes as the president in the White house.
Who can believe that the US free press would take such a stance against a white president? Refer how they sucked it all for attacking Iraq.
It is clear that the prevailing racism in the US let the negro Obama abuse institutional power but strongly censor and thwart any attempt to abuse personal power.
It is a progress. Up to that point, with white presidents, personal power abuses were commonly accepted, justified and encouraged.
More negroes in the WH.
So, continued (illegal) wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and drone attacks (undeclared, unsanctioned) against/in Pakistan are being censored?
This comment, and the previous one, are all any normal person needs to see to determine the credibility and character of George "No Really! Here's ANOTHER CONSPIRACY in addition to the BP oil spill, the subprime housing crash, Fukushima, the Iraq War, 911, the Afghanistan campaign, the killing of Osama Bin Laden, ad infinatum, Washington" and those who read his nonsense My only question: Hey! Who knew the trailer park had high speed internet?
Denial comes from usual suspects. Jimmy Cartsr! That alone guarantees the story is true.
Freddie,
u r totally wrong if you think that the "shias are on a roll"! : have you ever been to Iran? If you visited in the 1980s, then 1990s and then in 2010, you would notice the increasing poverty and dissatisfaction of the people.....yes, some of the living standards impact is on account of the relentless sanctions imposed on Iran by the Western countries, spearheaded by the US but even before those started hitting the ordinary masses, people did question where they were headed under the shia theocracy.....corruption in govt. power circles, bribery, rich-poor divide, dysfunctional judiciary, etc. were all taking their toll. I guess you missed all the Iranian student protests against the election results? While Sunni countries also have their faults, by and large people have more economic freedom and opportunities there. Also notice how the Arab Spring is essentially Sunni countries standing up against their corrupt, often US-backed, autocratic rulers....
Regarding the sunni v/s shia struggle of 1200 years: the current chess game being played by the US (which doesn't have friends or enemies but only interests!) has nothing to do with the 1200 year friction centred in the Middle East. The US tolerated the excesses and injustices perpetrated by the US-allied shah of Iran against its own people - the poulace rose up and Iran ended up with a shia clergy ruling the country. When this was fresh in 1979, the shia zealots felt that they had a duty to "spread the revolution" around he Middle East from Pakistan to Palestine and in their over-excitement funded shia militias in Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan in the early 1980s: actual bombings took place, real innocent people did die, planes were hijacked in the name of "spreading the shia light", etc. This made a nervous region more nervous and Uncle Sam stepped in to find a better foothold and excuse to prowl around the region - overt bases and covet CIA operations - meanwhile the masses in these countries did feel exploited and victimized yet again but they couldn't do much to express their frustrations or demand a better course of action - what ended up happening is a horrific Iran v/s Iraq war which really was Iran v/s the world because the nervous governments in the region rushed to ally with the US as it sought to check the fundamentalist shias of Iran.
So in short: when middle easterners see an Americans website comment on things like Shias are on a roll, house of saud, etc. , they scoff! They know full well that the US is motivated by its own interests and nothing else.
I personally don't think much of the alleged plot either. Not Iranian style: to assassinate an Arab ambassdor in Washingtion DC where Iran doesn't even have an embassy or diplomatic representations! They usually prefer more sneaky avenues: people falling down open elevator shafts, mysterious cooking gas explosion as Aladin was enjoying a barbeque with his family, headshot during a football match, etc.!
But that doesn't mean the Iran doesn't have faults, US doesn't have faults, or indeed the Sunni countries of the Middle East have had atrocious leaders - the problem can only be solved by better governance no matter what form it comes in: witness how "Democracy" in Pakistan is misused with political gangs killing each other and innocent by-standers, in the name of political parties that floursih in "democracies", etc.
Otherwise, nothing changes for the Middle East: same crap, different day!
no. We didn't miss much...certainly not this... http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2008/10/was-khomeini-agent-of-us-and-uk.html
The work of the Secret Guvernment against the peoples of the USA & REST OF WORLD is untiring and unforgiveable. Yu will soon be tired of being unforgiven, shill.
What, is this international Sunni defame Shiites Day? Is the supply of hired Saudi voices here on ZH endless? Banksters hate Persians and Merikans equally...guess that makes them 'fair & balanced' huh?
corruption in govt. power circles, bribery, rich-poor divide, dysfunctional judiciary,
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Reads like the usual you can expect in a US driven world.
http://bible.cc/luke/21-11.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFsVnL5ueyQ&feature=related
ezra pound....
these fought in any case..
dissent at its finest........
The only way Barry & Associates (including the Zionist warmongers) can justify a war against the Islamic Republic of Iran is by staging another false flag attack on continental United States: most likely a controlled nuclear explosion (dirty bomb) targeting a major urban concentration that may kill dozens of thousands of civilians. This operation will be carried out by the CIA in partnership with Mossad and MI6 to subsequently be blamed on AlQaeda working in conjunction with elements of Iran's IRGC and Pakistan's ISI. Besides that, Americans are a bunch of stupid animals easy to manipulate and subdue. The psychological impact of this event will elicit the brute and ignorant populace to demand a massive retaliation against the alleged perpetrators (explicitly Iran); the Obama administration will need the unconditional support of these mules in order to further their agenda.
Don't forget the oh so important timing. It should happen, by pure coincidence, somewhere between 37% approval and a re-election bid.
Unfortunately, since 9-11, very few people can't see through the scheisse.
Well,
Someone knows something.
It was just reported on the rense radio show tonight that someone has placed a one billion dollar put option in the futures market again. Buffet?
You can hear the repeat in about two hours on the rense radio network or connect with this guy who reported it. His name is Paul Drokton and this is his web page:
http://www.moneyteachers.org/Silver.Store.html
Here is a story about the last time this happened.:
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article29477.html
And this?
http://themarketsareopen.blogspot.com/2011/03/black-scholes-model-nyse-b...
And once again here at Zerohedge, if anyone else on the planet does something evil, it can only be blamed on jews zionists and usa. Do you remember when the pilot of the Egypt Air flight took his plane down. People were insisting it wasn't a suicide terror mission because it's against Islam. Most of you have the same blinders where only Jews can do evil things and everyone else is just a victim (See US prisons full of Jewish victims as an example).
That being said, this same assclown who George Washington showed was completely incompetent and sloppy got $100k from somebody to pay the DEA agent. Oh yeah, GW overlooking that is a typical example of how you everything is a jew conspiracy folks always ignore or overlook the most obvious and clear facts in order to justify ranting.
I for one stand with frost. The global jew banking cartel deserves a little more understanding and a little less blame.
As for the zionists, I am bloody certain that the wellfare of the US citizen is their primary concern.
And please, the official US government line is always honest, accurate, and presented without pretense.
except that frost wasn't being sarcastic.
Not just jews, khazarian jews.
Some years back my Shephardic Jew girlfriend explained to me in simple terms that there are "good Jews", (Shephardic) and "bad Jews" (Ashkenazi), then she said the Ashkenazi are evil Jews and create a lot of trouble and can not be trusted. She was obviously proud to be Shephardic and considered herself to be a good Jew and a real Jew, and she was a very good and warm hearted person ... that was clear ... who also happened to be a rabidly one-eyed Zionist, who was more than happy to see other countries bombed and invaded and polulations murdered, especially Syria, Lebanon and Iran.
She saw absolutely zero contradiction in that, because she was TOTALLY blind to it. I mean, unable to grasp or process it, so deep is the conservative brainwashing she received - they all received.
But those are the very words she still used. Some Jews are good and some Jews are very bad. She said the bad ones are the majority but wanted me to be aware of it, and to know I had a good one, from a good family.
I had no clue why she was telling me any of that, at the time.
Now I understand that it's not just a case that some are good and some bad, but that they are equally blind to the murderous genocidal thieving warmongering nature of the Zionist ideology, which they all actually avidly support, to the death.
It's just that the Ashkenazi are also deliberately sicko criminal murderous racist bastards on top - regardless and irrespective of zionism.
It should be of everlasting global concern that the Ashkenazi scum run the Israeli Jewish-State, and possess a nuclear arsenal.
I have an Italian friend who says the same thing about "the Napoli." He calls them "rock farmers" all the time. For some reason they become very agitated when he says this....and keeps repeating it. I don't know why really....
That was really interesting, thanks for sharing.
http://www.youtube.com/user/zedgehero
Frost,
It's over. Time to go home.
impressive how these zio-psy-op trolls appear out of nowhere! I read this site and most articles daily -- where the hell did Thurifer, zerohenge, new-american-revolution and alien-IQ come from? boys, if you want to have any credibility, at least post some banal comments about bonds/QEx/PMs on other articles to gain a little credibility... what, you don't have enough time? have to hit all the blogs posting anything on MENA before sarg lets you play Call of Duty?
I wonder if the have a Nobel Prize for hypocrisy.
Or a Nobel Prize for best war monger. Maybe we could rename the CIA to CDSA, central dumb spook agency. :)
This has nothing to do with the CIA. It is the tail wagging the dog. Obama numbers are down and Holder is in trouble for lying under oath. They need to rally the PuffHo troops.
Participating in a false flag attack or something akin to the Bin laden Operation means termination or the participant like the recent Navy Seals elimination.
I guess there are still dumb people or those who are blackmailed who end up carrying it out.
I guess we may next hear about some assasination attempt by Iran against a bigger figure. Some pretext is very necessary to launch the war soon in the face of the financial clamity the world is facing now. Then the controlled media will lay claim to one's partriotism and sacrifice as a diversion.
well...you wanted more transparency in your govrnment. NOW YOU GOT IT! The problem of course is that this attack does seem so contrived. It really is an insult to our conspiratorial intelligence! We expect these missions to be so well done they keep us guessing right up to the point where we "blow country so and so right off the map." I therefore agree with the author and give this operation a full blown "F" for "failure to pass the laugh test." On the other hand if at this point you don't believe "you really can fool all the people all the time" then I have a trillion in euro-denominated debt that YOU GOTTA HAVE brother! Of course wouldn't it be simpler just to have Saudi Arabia and Iran just go to war without us? Besides ever since the name "David Geffen" appeared "as part of the conspiracy" people have started having doubts about how deep this movie really goes...or even is for that matter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCsFZ9oc0Qk&feature=player_detailpage
Osama bin lyin' and Biden = Osama bin Laden
This is the flimsiest False Flag ever flown.
The plot of Logjammin' is more compelling:
Maude: The story is ludicrous.
Dieter: Mein nommen iss Karl. Is hard to verk in zese close.
Maude: Lord. You can imagine where it goes from here.
Dude: He fixes the cable?
I think this is just laying the ground for the real false flag. They may be corrupt and inept, but they know that it takes a 9/11 ('a new Pearl Harbor') to really get the people to support a protracted war. Heck: most Americans dislike the Saudis, so why would they care about this feeble plot?
Did ya notice how the 9/11/11 national security warnings announced how Al Qaeda is now supposedly known to believe in numerology and are expected to time their attacks with 'important' dates? (I didn't know Al Qaeda was Jewish / luciferian!). I expect the false flag will happen on 11/11/11 and that this current event is just minor disinfo being planted into our minds to reinforce the idea that Iran is a clear and present danger to us, that they are ready and willing to commit attacks on our own soil...
Indeed...anyone else noticed how AU/USD has hovered tightly around the mid 1660's for like, the last 72 hours!?!?....been trying to get a screen shot off of goldprice.org with all the 6's lined up, but it's been more elusive than a US politician who doesn't take allexpensespaid holidays to the ME...
closest call yesterday was when I was listening to Joe Farrell talking on Rense about Babylons' Banksters...$1666.00...then today while reading this piece, $1666.00, then the price down sign, followed by 16.60...surely anyone who nails the whole string deserves a ZH mug or somethin?
It's kinda fun, but ominous at the same time, the cabbalists just luv their numbers....as Capt May and the GhostTroop Cav have pointed out many times in many ways....something evil cometh...
it's even more fun believing religious fairy tales spun from ancient astronomy are real.
umm, cabbalists don't do religion bud....they do majic...
no, not the Doug Henning kind.
As for fairy tales...well, just consult Eric Holder and the rest of the cast of 'WE NEED A MIRACLE - NOW!'...that should fix yu right up!
I TOLD you Boss, I told YOU : WE knew they were Mexicans all along...
DISCLOSURE: edited for typographical effect
Who are there evil forces that get our leaders to wage wars against innocent people?
What do they hope to gain sacrificing so many lives and causing so much misery?
It is hard to believe that wealthy, powerful individuals would influence our government
to deceive the populace into supporting an unjust attack on other sovereign nations to
attain more wealth or more power. Is it all about oil and sustaining the supremacy of the
Western World with cheap energy? It's no wonder so many people hate the U.S.A.
"What do they hope to gain sacrificing so many lives and causing so much misery?"
[Staying in] POWER? Not difficult to figure out. When things start shaking they need to rattle the Great Oz threats...
But wait , i thought the US had no enemies. They have to stage fake attacks to create fake enemies to start fake wars to get at all of that oil in Afganistan.
The US has plenty of enemies. Most of them are domestic
You mean heroine. Iraq has the oil. Don't you know anything about which brown folks we're slaughtering and for which natural resource? Jeeeeez.
We ? are you aware of UN resolution 1441? That granted Iraq under Saddam Hussain a final oppertunity to comply with its disarmerment obligations"
It passed with a 15-0 vote giving the war more support then the first gulf war.
We ? are you aware of UN resolution 1441? That granted Iraq under Saddam Hussain a final oppertunity to comply with its disarmerment obligations"
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Ah, another remark showing how US citizenism has taken over Europe.
Non US citizens admit it is hard to grab at a final opportunity to comply with a disarmement obligation when the obligation had already been met.
The mad man from the desert, Saddam Hussein, had already disarmed before the war against Iraq, the invasion and the occupation going with it.
But indeed, US citizens see a valid reason in requesting an obligation already done to be done.
US citizens often require to prove negatives. It is how the US inspired judicial system work: prove you are not guilty.
US world order.
We make the best enemies that money can buy. ie Al CIAda.
Here is that brief that I mentioned in my lower post.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/International_War_Crimes/Taking_Down_7_Countries.html
Most poinient part:
Soon we may be told that Iran by ignoring a Security Council resolution demanding it suspend its nuclear enrichment program leaves the U.S., as the world's leader, no option but to use force. Both Rice and her deputy Stephen Hadley have refused to say whether or not they believe an attack would require congressional approval. Prospects for a strike would improve if there is a terrorist attack in the very near future on U.S. soil. As former CIA officer Philip Giraldi reported in the American Conservative in August 2005, Cheney has asked STRATCOM to draw up a plan for a large-scale air assault on Iran, employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons, to be immediately implemented in the wake of a terrorist attack on the U.S. -- whether or not it had any connection to Iran! He must suppose such an attack would help change the political atmosphere and reduce dissent.
III
I know the child of a (late) high ranking CIAgent; they have been unloved, and have seen terrible things. What thou seekest shalt thou find; paranoia confirms itself: fear breeds and projects hate, which is returned as hate bred of fear.
No no, its the opium they want from afganistan. It has always been protected by US troops and the harvest is,,,, right about now.
just track the opium production numbers before and after we "saved democracy"
Not only that, there is a rare earth called Lithium, as needed in future batteries for electric cars etc. China needs it.. Been there, done that.
III
Lithium isn't rare at all
http://www.bnet.com/blog/electric-cars/forget-lithium-8212-its-rare-earth-minerals-that-are-in-short-supply-for-evs/1814
I'm just saying it's being extracted from Afghanistan also.
poinient part of article:
The U.S. has some rare earth reserves, and a rare earth mine is expected to open in California in 2012, but some 95 percent of the supply is believed to be in China. One bright spot in this picture is the new major metals find in Afghanistan, which the Pentagon says could be “the Saudi Arabia of lithium.”
Rare earth supplies are crucial, because more than 30 companies have hybrid electric, plug-in hybrid and battery EV programs underway, and 18 million vehicles will use nickel-metal-hydride and lithium batteries by 2025.
Most lithium is produced from salt lake brines. The hard rock sources aren't economic.
Does Afghanistan have large salt lakes with lithium brines?
If not, this story is distracting from the true strategic reason Afghanistan was attacked.
two countries - *bolivia +/+ & **peru -/-
just-in-time free trade pack with n. korea, panama and viva via columbia no doubt
some geopolitical problems with bolivia but we know the outcome
just saying
ps. doesn't get much better - afghanistans opium, and columbia's cocaine