The truth is a coup...
Welcome to a new world,
ordered by...
money,
money,
money,...oh yeah and
death chaos and
fear...
[or : step 2 in US / coalition led geo-political
strategy of global dominance]
Co-incidence? First 9-11, then, Afghanistan... and then...IRAQ
"I went with a unit from Afghanistan to Iraq. We got there a good little bit before the official war started. Believe me when I tell you that there were some units already across the border doing scouting and intelligence gathering and other missions like bomb targeting and artillery plotting."
Two US Soldiers ask: "When will we stop dying so senselessly?"
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WAR IS CHILD ABUSE
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When another car arrived US troops riddled it with more bullets and it burst into flames. It is believed that two people were inside and both were burnt to death. "The Americans didn't try to help the civilians they had shot, not once," a witness said. "They let the car burn and left the bodies where they lay, even the children. It was we who had to take them to the hospitals."
Troops Turn Botched Saddam Raid Into A Massacre by Robert Fisk, Monday 28 July 2003 ....
Disposable Heroes?
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Unbelievable !!!!
As far back as Sun 22 Jun 2003
& the war
spin was started all over again...
[ $ ]
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Nov. 21, 2003
"Operations like this are conducted for the benefit of the Iraqi people. A lot of the insurgents that we are targeting are themselves targeting Iraqis and they are doing harm and causing damage to local people. And [ordinary Iraqis] realize this because a lot of our tips that we got in order to conduct these operations were given to us by the locals who realize that the coalition are here for their benefit," Abbot said.
However, Abbot declined to comment on why U.S. troops are relying on such heavy weaponry for Iron Hammer -- using satellite-guided weapons and 500-pound bombs.
Iraq: Operation Iron Hammer May Turn Many Iraqis Against U.S. Troops
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Airstrikes!
"F-16 fighter-bombers swooped over Tikrit, dropping bombs near the crash site. Troops backed by armour and attack helicopters destroyed several abandoned houses that the US military believed had been used by insurgents. Dropping bombs on an empty landscape [???] as a pure demonstration of power is an unusual tactic, underscoring the military's fury at the downing of three helicopters in a two-week period. In addition to the Fallujah and Tikrit crashes, a helicopter was brought down near Tikrit on October 25 without fatalities." -
Warplanes resume bombing in Iraq By Sasa Kavic, The Age.
"On the ground, US forces on Thursday pressed efforts to regain the offensive with 'Operation Iron Hammer'.
Dubbed 'Shock and Awe II' by US-based commercial intelligence firm Stratfor, it is an air and ground campaign targeting 'terrorists' said to be supporters of dictator Saddam Hussein.
They bombarded the Al-Jazeera dye factory on Baghdad's outskirts which had been targeted the night before by an AC-130 gunship.
The factory is believed to have been used by insurgents to store weapons and plan attacks."
Warplanes resume bombing in Iraq
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military's code name for a crackdown on resistance in Iraq was also used by the Nazis for an aborted operation to damage the Soviet power grid during World War II. - US's 'Iron Hammer' Code Name 1st Used by Nazis
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New Iraq? Hooded Protest and Masked Statistics
"Exactly a year after the Anglo-American armies invaded Iraq, I found five young men yesterday busy smashing up what was left of a Saddam statue in this little dusty border village. The torso and head of the dictator had long disappeared from his plinth at the frontier station but his legs and one arm and a battery of monumental missiles still lay on the ground in gleaming steel. Two American attack helicopters were racing up the border - still trying to find Donald Rumsfeld's al-Qa'ida hordes as they supposedly swarm into Iraq - but what caught my eye were the heads of the five young men, so assiduously hammering and sawing and hacking at the remains of the statue. Four of them were wearing black face masks, the fifth had a black hood over his head. A year after the fall of Saddam, Iraqis have to hide their identity when they attack his image. What does that tell us about "new Iraq?" -
Robert Fisk
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[hypocrisy
alert!!!]---- the encouraging of protests in
Iran and the stifling of protest in
Iraq!!!!
as the HUGE Iraq debt sell offcontinues...
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UK comedian Mark Thomas presents - Debt collector
"Iraqs debt comes from foreign loans, war reparations and broken business contracts. Saddam Husseins regime borrowed money to build palaces and monuments but it also got debts of $76 billion buying weapons and defence equipment. Marconi, Racal and Thorn EMI sold defence material, and some companies like Matrix Churchill, later at the centre of the Arms to Iraq scandal, were some of the regimes most cherished suppliers. "
Odious debt: lessons never learned because, Hey! Business is business...
"In Ethiopia lenders lent money to this absolutely terrible regime called the Mengistu regime, called the Red Terror, and now the government that overthrew him and set up an attempt to have a regime that is finally raising the living standards of the people in Ethiopia, they have to repay, pay effectively for the guns that killed them for 17 years. The question is should it have the moral obligation to repay when the lender in some sense had the moral obligation in the first place not to have given them money."
Joseph Stiglitz
"The City doesn't want to cancel the debt. In fact, it's quite the opposite you can buy and sell Iraqi debt on the market like stocks and shares ... the price of the debt will go up, the price of the debt will go down and after the invasion of Iraq by America, the price of Iraqi debt went up. " -
Mark Thomas Comedy Product
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Neocon emissory - Ahmed Chalabi - mercenary stooge
"Chalabi holds the ultimate weapons -- several dozen tons of documents and individual files seized by his Iraqi National Congress from Saddam Hussein's secret security apparatus. Coupled with his position as head of the de-Baathification commission, Chalabi, barely a year since he returned to his homeland after 45 years of exile, has emerged as the power behind a vacant throne. He also appears to have impressive amounts of cash at his disposal and a say in which companies get the nod for some of the $18.4 billion earmarked for reconstruction. One company executive who asked that both his and the company's name be withheld said, "The commission was steep even by Middle Eastern standards." -
BNN
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"If T.E. Lawrence ("of Arabia") had been a 21st-century neoconservative operative instead of a British imperial spy, he'd be Ahmed Chalabi's best friend. Chalabi, the London-based leader of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), is front man for the latest incarnation of a long-time neoconservative strategy to redraw the map of the oil-rich Middle East, put American troops -- and American oil companies -- in full control of the Persian Gulf's reserves and use the Gulf as a fulcrum for enhancing America's global strategic hegemony. Just as Lawrence's escapades in World War I-era Arabia helped Britain remake the disintegrating Ottoman Empire, the U.S. sponsors of Chalabi's INC hope to do their own nation building."
Tinker, Banker, NeoCon, Spy
[..."Chalabi, a secular Iraqi Shiite Muslim and mathematician by training, previously served as chairman of the Petra Bank in Jordan, where he engaged in various cloak-and-dagger operations that ended abruptly in August 1989 when he fled the country "under mysterious circumstances" and in 1992 was convicted in absentia for embezzlement, fraud and currency-trading irregularities, sentencing him to 22 years' hard labour"...]
[..."Chalabi even participated in a secret Defense Policy Board meeting just a few days after the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and the Pentagon in which the main topic of discussion, according to the 'Wall Street Journal', was how 9/11 could be used as a pretext for attacking Iraq."...]
disinfopedia
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Iraq issues warrants for Chalabis
An Iraqi judge says he has issued two arrest warrants for former Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi and his nephew, Salem.
Ahmed Chalabi is wanted on counterfeiting charges, Judge Zuhair al-Maliki said.
He said Salem Chalabi, the head of the tribunal trying Saddam Hussein, is sought on suspicion of murder.
Both men, who are out of the country, denied the charges and said they were politically motivated.
Ahmed Chalabi was once the Pentagon's favoured candidate to lead Iraq, but he fell from favour amid allegations of links to Iranian hardliners and concerns that he provided faulty intelligence in the run-up to the war.
He said he had not been informed directly, but had heard of the warrants through the media.
"I'm now mobilised on all fronts to rebuff all these charges," he told CNN from the Iranian capital, Tehran. -
BBC
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Iraqi judge drops Chalabi case
September 28, 2004
BAGHDAD -- Citing lack of evidence, an Iraqi judge dropped charges of counterfeiting against former exiled leader Ahmad Chalabi Monday.
Judge Zuhair al-Maliky told the New York Times in a telephone interview if more evidence emerges, the case will be reopened against Chalabi, a longtime rival of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi who leads the interim government.
The government announced the counterfeiting charge against Chalabi in August while he was on vacation in Iran, in what appeared to be a move by Allawi to keep Chalabi out of the country.
But Chalabi returned to Iraq and denounced the government and aligned himself with Shiite religious leaders.
Once favored by the Bush administration to be Iraq's first leader after Saddam Hussein's fall, he apparently fell from favor. U.S. and Iraqi forces raided his Baghdad house in May on suspicion he had leaked secrets to Iran. Then, Maliky issued arrest warrants for Chalabi in the counterfeiting case and for his nephew, Salem Chalabi, in a murder case.
- Insight
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Chalabi - Abul Huda Farouki: Cohen group - Carlyle group?
see: corporatism
Legacy of Apartheid?
Mercenaries are from dubious backgrounds
"South African Deon Gouws - the victim of a Baghdad suicide bombing - understands the effectiveness of terror attacks better than most. In the 1980s and 1990s he helped sow fear in South African townships with a campaign of bombings, arson and murder conducted at the behest of his police superiors."
Vlakplaas henchman injured in Iraq
"Francois Strydom and the four injured South Africans are all believed to be former police Security Branch members.
Erinys Africa's general manager, Johan Viljoen, confirmed that Erinys Iraq had subcontracted SAS International to do security work in Iraq and that several South Africans were working for SAS International."
SA widow tells of hubby's last call from Iraq
"Francois Strydom , who died in the Iraq blast was a former member of Koevoet, a South African counter insurgency unit in Namibia (the name means crowbar in Afrikaans) with a reputation for murder & torture."
Paul Foot - Private Eye...issue 1104
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The origins of the revolt
American 'civilians' killed, mutilated in Falluja were mercenaries
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"The four dead people worked for Blackwater Security Consulting, a firm based in North Carolina, USA that 'has its roots in the Special Operations Community'. Blackwater will deploy "with little notice in support of US national security objectives, private or foreign interests". So what were privatised American Special Forces doing in Falluja? Officially, they were "providing convoy security for food deliveries in the Falluja area". This obviously begs the question 'who is dependant on food deliveries and why?', but even if we assume the absolute truth of the official explanation, mercenaries in Iraq are known to be carrying out far less benign deeds. In February the Ecologist reported that 'private security consultants' in Iraq were testing special bullets that penetrate steel but 'explode' on contact with human flesh causing horrific injuries. They were testing them on real life Iraqis. Moscow Times Journalist Chris Floyd comments "these mercenaries are not always bound by the laws, regulations and codes of honour that govern regular military forces, so they're free to do any dirty work the [US] administration wants kept off the books"
Tom Gittoes[see: corporatism]
photo gallery of FALLUJAH AS
4 US CITIZENS [black ops] ARE AMBUSHED
Soldiers of good fortune
Privatizing War: Blackwater Mercs Die for Profit by URI DOWBENKO
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The US is hiring mercenaries in Chile to replace its soldiers on security duty in Iraq. A Pentagon contractor has begun recruiting former commandos, other soldiers and seamen, paying them up to $4,000 (2,193) a month to guard oil wells against attack by insurgents.
Last month Blackwater USA flew a first group of about 60 former commandos, many of who had trained under the military government of Augusto Pinochet, from Santiago to a 2,400-acre (970-hectare) training camp in North Carolina.
US contractor recruits guards for Iraq in Chile
"John Negroponte worked closely with General Alvarez, Chief of the Armed Forces in Honduras, to enable the training of Honduran soldiers in psychological warfare, sabotage, and many types of human rights violations, including torture and kidnapping. Honduran and Salvadoran military were sent to the School of the Americas to receive training in counter-insurgency directed against people of their own country. The CIA created the infamous Honduran Intelligence Battalion 3-16 that was responsible for the murder of many Sandinistas. General Luis Alonso Discua Elvir, a graduate of the School of the Americas, was a founder and commander of Battalion 3-16. In 1982, the US negotiated access to airfields in Honduras and established a regional military training center for Central American forces, principally directed at improving fighting forces of the Salvadoran military.
In 1994, the Honduran Rights Commission outlined the torture and disappearance of at least 184 political opponents."
NEW RIPPLES IN AN EVIL STORY, 7/01
El Salvador-style 'death squads' to be deployed by US against Iraq militants
THE Pentagon is considering forming hit squads of Kurdish and Shia fighters to target leaders of the Iraqi insurgency in a strategic shift borrowed from the American struggle against left-wing guerrillas in Central America 20 years ago.
Under the so-called El Salvador option, Iraqi and American forces would be sent to kill or kidnap insurgency leaders, even in Syria, where some are thought to shelter.
The plans are reported in this weeks Newsweek magazine as part of Pentagon efforts to get US forces in Iraq on to the front foot against an enemy that is apparently getting the better of them.
Iyad Allawi, the interim Iraqi Prime Minister, was said to be one of the most vigorous supporters of the plan.
Times Online
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Peacekeepers or mercenaries?
U.S. President George Bush has committed $660 million to train international peacekeeping forces outside United Nations control.
Bush has an eye primarily on African countries, where he hopes to see 75,000 troops trained as peacekeepers, the Washington Post said Monday.
Most of the world's peacekeeping missions operate under the auspices of the United Nations, which now has more than 50,000 troops in 14 places. That number is due to grow by about 20,000 as four other planned operations take shape in Haiti, Burundi, Sudan and Cyprus.
Report Says Bush Forging Shadow U.N. Force
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War is Good for Black Market Business
Every war zone or destabilized country spawns a black market. Although there was an active black market in Iraq -especially for weapons of all types- before the ousting of Saddam, that activity has paled in comparison to the black market that has exploded since the US invasion. Everything from gas, cigarettes, videos, and food, to sophisticated military electronics and weaponry and museum loot is now traded on the Iraqi black market. Some dealers are smalltime operators -many are just people trying to survive. But others are part of highly organized, multi-million dollar networks. And, if recent history is any indication, at least a few western corporations are already involved in the action in some way or another.
Iraq's Black Market Cheryl Seal
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