Free Iraq

The staggering human cost - ALL AROUND - of imperialism.
 

Handy New Technology -
Mobile Labs to Target Iraqis for Death: U.S. forces in Iraq soon will be equipped with high-tech equipment that will let them process an Iraqi’s biometric data in minutes and help American soldiers decide whether they should execute the person or not, according to its inventor.
 

(Dealing with the Restless 'Natives' on the Homefront)
Daniel Estulin: Elitists Consider Assassinating Ron Paul: Best-selling author and Bilderberg sleuth says intelligence sources told him highest levels of U.S. government discussing what result would be if Congressman was killed
 

Video (3 min), New American Coins
 

Imad

Well, this is what happens when a country is conquered. If this sheik doesn't want to be caught in the middle he should resign his job as collaborator.
If his livelihood depends on receiving cash from the Baghdad "gov't" in return for his cooperation with the US military then he's really screwed.
If I were him I'd relocate to Syria or Jordan.
 

The source’s claim (in Arabic) that this was a “Secret recording” done by one of the “a’loo-cha” (i.e. U.S. military)...etc, is preposterous, and frankly verges on the comical.

This video/program was produced by PBS’ Frontline under the title “A Company of Soldiers”.

Filming began in November 2004, over three years ago, and well before so called “Awakening (Sahwa)” became a part of the lexicon.

Please see the attached link: A Company of Soldiers-Part 4

Please advance the time counter to about 8:45 to see the exact portion. To understand the context of the meeting, more of this clip (12:50 minutes) should be watched.

Here is also the Frontline link to the transcript, and all video portions of this 90 minutes program. The broadcast occurred in February 2005. Transcript

A highly dubious source got its message propagated, nonetheless.
 

MadAsHell -
While fully appreciating the moral truth of your comment (above) I have to acknowledge how glad I am never to have found myself in a position such as that of the sheik. The "choices" available to Iraqis - and many other similarly placed all over the world - are, too often, only among the "lesser of the evils". What each of us will do to survive, or to triumph over evil, remains a mystery until such time as we actually are tested. The truly terrible (and, in my opinion, unpardonable) evil is that committed by those who make others beg to survive.
 

Americans shouldn't be in Iraq, but you can't blame that soldier for trying to protect his men.
 

Iraq sees need for foreign troops for 10 years: The United States now has about 155,000 troops in Iraq, formally operating under a U.N. Security Council mandate enacted after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

Iraq has asked the Security Council to extend the mandate for what it says will be a final year to the end of 2008, and conditions for U.S. troops to stay on beyond that date are to be negotiated in the next few months.

Violence has subsided after the United States dispatched 30,000 additional troops to Iraq this year, and Washington now says it will bring about 20,000 home by mid-2008. Troop levels for the second half of the year are to be decided in March.
(All conveniently scripted for the 2008 US presidential show, script to be updated as required.)
 

Basra handover does not diminish Britain's Iraq role: Miliband
 

Iraq complains about Turkey bombing: Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said the Iraqi government thought Turkey would coordinate with it before striking the rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, inside Iraq on Sunday. He also indicated that the fact Iraqi civilians were killed showed Turkey had not hit the right target.
 

Henry the K's Noamian moment: ... All the books on Henry the K now need to be rewritten to reflect who he is really working for.
 

The message: The NIE on Iran is entirely political, and constitutes a statement by the Old American Establishment that it is not going to be tricked or cajoled into fighting another War for the Jews unless there is a compelling argument that such a war is in the real national interests of the United States. ...

There are indications that the wisest of the Jewish Billionaires are heeding the message, at least from a tactical point of view. The problem for American Zionism is to arrange to leave open its chances for future covert scheming. ...
 

Agenda-driven intelligence: Note the pattern. Feith, Perle, and Wurmser advocated tricking the Americans into supporting the Israeli attack on Syria by creating faulty intelligence on a mythological Syrian WMD program (that approach hasn’t ended, as witness the recent Israeli lies over the unprovoked Israeli attack on Syria in September), then Feith and Wurmser directly implemented the same deception by manipulating the American intelligence, with the help of Israeli intelligence sources, to create a phony threat from a mythological Iraqi WMD program. In the absence of having direct treason agents in the appropriate places in the American government, the Israelis are now having to do the deception themselves, returning to the ‘Clean Break’ model of attempting to fool the Americans by providing bogus intelligence on Iran. In each case, the intelligence lies are intended to lead to a war that fits Israeli Empire interests, all under the guise of following American national interests in stopping WMD programs. Three proposed wars (only one of which has occurred), three Israeli-Empire motives, three Israeli intelligence tricks, all involving mythological WMD programs in target states.
 

A closer look: The Israeli origins of Bush II's war: "'Disappearing' the Arabs lay at the heart of the Zionist dream, and was also a necessary condition of its existence." - Tom Segev
 

Rice says Hamas to blame for Gaza conditions (Good girl! You've read the script.)
 

Russia delivers first nuclear fuel to Iran
 

Bill includes U.S.-Israel missile coordination: Under the proposal, the secretary of defense must within six months present a plan to Congress a plan "to improve the coordination, interoperability, and integration of the U.S. National Ballistic Missile Defense System with Israel’s missile defense architecture," ... .
 

( Look ! ! ! )
ART AS A COVER UP FOR OPPRESSION
 

Key Olmert ally vows to nullify Annapolis: Strategic-Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman threw down a clear challenge to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday when he said that his Yisrael Beiteinu party’s mission was to “make sure that nothing comes out of the Annapolis process”.
 

Israel, U.S. to meet to discuss differing assessments on Iran
 

Sealed off by Israel, Gaza reduced to beggary
 

Israeli Occupation kills new baby in Gaza Strip
 

Israeli team in US to counter new Iran assessment
 

Tossed from a car and shot in cold blood: IT WAS just after 11pm and the shopkeeper was closing up for the night when a van screeched to a halt outside. The back doors flew open. “Someone inside threw a woman onto the street,” he said. “She was lying on the road but she was still alive. A man lent out and shot a machine-gun into her body.”

Gordon Brown told the Commons last week that Iraq was now a democracy, that violence in Basra had fallen by 90% and that the Iraqis were “taking control over their own security”.
 

5 million Iraqi orphans, anti-corruption board reveals
 

Guantanamo “Living like an animal living in a cage”
 

Poisonous and dangerous: The constant regurgitation by the media of Muslim-baiting 'research' by right-wing think tanks misleads the public and is driven by a neocon political agenda
 

Fallacy of Terrorism
Role of Canadian Intelligence Agencies to Terrorize Citizens: The defense lawyer Mr. Greenspon argues to have access to secret files on terror suspect and clarifies that “MOMIN KHAWAJA IS AT RISK OF BEING WRONGLY CONVICTED…and “THAT HE COULD BE WRONGFULLY IMPRISONED FOR LIFE IF THE GOVERNMENT INSISTS ON WITHHOLDING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IT ADMITS IS RELEVANT TO HIS DEFENCE AGAINST TERRORISM CHARGES.”
 

Inside the CIA's notorious "black sites": A Yemeni man never charged by the U.S. details 19 months of brutality and psychological torture -- the first in-depth, first-person account from inside the secret U.S. prisons.
 

How the Anglo-American elite shares its 'values': The "values we share" are celebrated by a shadowy organisation that has just held its annual conference. This is the British-American Project for the Successor Generation (BAP), set up in 1985 with money from a Philadelphia trust with a long history of supporting right-wing causes. ...

The BAP's British "alumni" are drawn largely from new Labour and its court. No fewer than four BAP "fellows" and one advisory board member became ministers in the first Blair government. The new Labour names include Peter Mandelson, George Robertson, Baroness Symons, Jonathan Powell (Blair's chief of staff), Baroness Scotland, Douglas Alexander, Geoff Mulgan, Matthew Taylor and David Miliband. Some are Fabian Society members and describe themselves as being "on the left". Trevor Phillips, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, is another member. They object to whispers of "a conspiracy". The mutuality of class or aspiration is merely assured, unspoken, and the warm embrace of power flattering and often productive.

BAP conferences are held alternately in the US and Britain. This year's was in Newcastle, with the theme "Faith and Justice". On the US board is Diana Negroponte, the wife of John Negroponte, Bush's former national security chief notorious for his associations with death-squad politics in central America. He follows another leading neocon, Paul Wolfowitz, architect of the invasion of Iraq and discredited head of the World Bank. Since 1985, BAP "alumni" and "fellows" have been brought together courtesy of Coca-Cola, Monsanto, Saatchi & Saatchi, Philip Morris and British Airways, among other multinationals. Nick Butler, formerly a top dog at BP, has been a leading light.
 

LOBOTOMY
 

Bush administration moves to block inquiries into CIA’s destruction of torture tapes: Whatever conflicts may develop between Congress and the White House over the destruction of the tapes, both the Democrats and the Republicans are agreed on the need to obscure the fundamental issue involved: that the CIA, with the sanction of both parties and under the direction of the White House, engaged in torture in violation of international and domestic law.
 

Bush Nears a Victory Over Spying Powers
 

US Army loses another 12,000 guns and trucks
 

British & Australian Troop pullouts to leave only US in Iraq
 

(Just say who you want us to invade/kill/terrorize/starve/bomb. Ready, willing & able.)
Israel unveils new strategy on Iran : Now it is clear to the decision-makers that Israel has to be a lot more energetic in convincing the international community and public opinion that Iran is still intent on building a bomb.
 

The Shocking Stories of the Aid Workers Just Released From Gitmo: If the administration was hoping to lie low for a while and weather the recent torrent of criticism over its post-9/11 detention policies – in the Supreme Court, in connection with the destruction of CIA videotapes chronicling the torture of detainees, and through its generally inept attempts to pursue war crimes trials at Guantánamo itself – the release of these men will provide no comfort whatsoever, as their stories highlight some of the most egregious flaws in the whole of Guantánamo's sordid history.
 

House speaker undermines Democrats' fight against torture: Few serious observers of Congress would deny that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been a disappointing leader for House Democrats. But now she appears to be something more troubling: a serious hindrance to the fight against the use of crude and objectionable torture techniques.
 

Olmert gov't gives green light for targeting Hamas leaders, institutions
 

Who Owns the Vietnam War? Whatever the differences or similarities between Vietnam and Iraq, or between Vietnam and our global war with Islamic radicalism, the real analogy between then and now may lie in this tenacious refusal of self-examination by the liberal Left—especially when the facts utterly contravene its reflexive indictment of the motives, purposes, and actions of the American government.
 

The President’s Coming-Out Party: This has been an important week in the torture debate in America. It has been the week of the President’s coming-out party. Up until this point, torture has been something that “a few rotten apples” do. When evidence of it erupted in the media, a few grunts were quickly rounded up and scapegoated. Never officers, mind you—after all, they generally knew where the orders came from, and if you prosecuted them, they might just tell.

But this week, a CIA agent, John Kiriakou, appeared, first on ABC News and then in an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer, and explained just how the system works. When we want to torture someone (and it is torture he said, no one involved with these techniques would ever think anything different), we have to write it up. The team leader of the torture team proposes what torture techniques will be used and when. He sends it to the Deputy Chief of Operations at the CIA. And there it is reviewed by the hierarchy of the Company. Then the proposal is passed to the Justice Department to be reviewed, blessed, and it is passed to the National Security Council in the White House, to be reviewed and approved. The NSC is chaired, of course, by George W. Bush, whose personal authority is invoked for each and every instance of torture authorized. And, according to Kiriakou as well as others, Bush’s answer is never “no.” He has never found a case where he didn’t find torture was appropriate. Here’s a key piece of the Kiriakou statement:

LAUER: Was the White House involved in that decision?

KIRIAKOU: Absolutely, this isn’t something done willy nilly. It’s not something that an agency officer just wakes up in the morning and decides he’s going to carry out an enhanced technique on a prisoner. This was a policy made at the White House, with concurrence from the National Security Council and Justice Department.

He then goes into the process in considerable detail. Watch the video here.

He then goes into the process in considerable detail. Watch the video here.

So now the process can be fully diagrammed, and the cast of characters is stunning.

The torture system involves the operations division of the CIA on the implementation side. They rely heavily on contractors, it seems, in torturing people. And a special role is apparently played by a couple of psychologists. (Time used to be that healthcare professionals had an oath. It started “first, do no harm.” But, just like the Bible and the Constitution, that’s so pre-9/11. And with the American Psychological Association providing full cover, what’s the worry.)
[ . . . ]

... David Addington, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and Stephen Hadley—these are all name we can now link directly to the torture system. Not just as a matter of theory. As a matter of practical application. They decided who would be tortured and how. ...
 

UK has left behind murder and chaos, says Basra police chief
 

Rice flies to Iraq as Turkish troops cross border


Top Iraqi Kurd refuses to meet Rice


White House won't condemn Turkish incursion in Iraq
 

A daily exercise in humiliation: Under the supervision of an Israeli soldier clutching an M-16 assault rifle, Qassem Saleh begins his daily disrobing.

First, he lifts his bright orange shirt so the soldier can see there's no bomb strapped to his torso. Then, after passing through a metal floor-to-ceiling turnstile, he undoes his belt and hands it over for examination to a second soldier, along with his wallet, mobile phone and cigarettes.

The second soldier peruses his documents and asks his reason for travel. The answer is a simple one: Mr. Saleh goes through all this, not to board a plane or visit a prison, but so that he can go home to his family after a day's studies at An-Najah University in Nablus. It's a process Israel says is necessary for security, but one that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians consider their daily humiliation.
 

Another Milestone on the Road to Serfdom: "And the object of this partnership—which emerges as a criminal conspiracy, quite literally, between telecom companies and the Bush Administration—is to watch and listen to you and everything you do."
 

Israel to allow construction in existing W. Bank settlements: A senior Israeli official said "We don't need American approval if we are doing something that we think, as a sovereign state, we should do."
 

Death Ray Replaced By The Voice of God: ... It appears that some of the troops in Iraq are using "spoken" (as opposed to "screeching") LRAD to mess with enemy fighters. Islamic terrorists tend to be superstitious and, of course, very religious. LRAD can put the "word of God" into their heads. If God, in the form of a voice that only you can hear, tells you to surrender, or run away, what are you gonna do?
 

(Thoughtfully accurate)
It's not the Zionists I'm worried about
 

Wayne Madsen Report (in full) -
December 19, 2007 -- The neocon citadel, University of Chicago, and the CIA: Although the CIA today has its share of problems with neoconservatives over issues like Iraq, Iran, Russia, and other topics, the record would indicate that the CIA once had a cozy relationship with the citadel of neocon ideology, the University of Chicago. The university was long the hotbed of neocon activity surrounding Professor Leo Strauss and his star pupils: Paul Wolfowitz, Alan Bloom, Abram Shulsky, and Zalmay Khalilzad. Iraqi con man Ahmad Chalabi, John Ashcroft, and a number of Federalist Society and other neocons are also graduates of the school. Milton Friedman's capitalist marauder economic philosophy germinated at the University of Chicago.

In 1973, a year after Wolfowitz got his PhD from Chicago, the CIA was accused of using the University of Chicago as a nesting ground for some of its foreign operatives.

Declassified CIA files contain an article from the Nov. 27, 1973, Daily World that the Prime Minister installed in a 1973 military coup, Adadandios Androutsopopoulos, who studied and taught economics at the University of Chicago, was also paid by the CIA during his time at the school. The previous dictator, George Papadapoulos, who overthrew the democratic Greek government and monarchy in 1967 with CIA support, was ousted in 1973 after he and his Prime Minister, Spyros Markezinis, refused to let Greek airports and seaports to be used by the United States military airlift to Israel during the 1973 Middle East war. Papadopoulos and Markezinis were also opposed to Athens being used by the US Sixth Fleet as a home port.

Enter the scene the CIA and its University of Chicago paid agent, Androutsopopoulos. Greece would no longer pose a problem for the US military supply route to Israel. It appears that the early CIA support for the neocon citadel in Chicago came back to burn the agency in a horrendous way. The CIA's first Greek-American director, George Tenet, would later claim that the case for war with Iraq, a case largely written by Israel's cabal in Washington, was a "slam dunk." The CIA continues to suffer from Tenet's disastrous collusion with the neocons. (emphases added)
 

Evidence of extremism in mosques 'fabricated': A rightwing thinktank which claimed to have uncovered extremist literature on sale at dozens of British mosques was last night accused of basing a report on fabricated evidence.

The researchers were unavailable for comment because they were all on a religious retreat in Mauritania, Policy Exchange told Newsnight.
 

Israeli official: “We don't need American approval” to expand settlements
 

Deadliest Israeli attack kills 13 fighters in Gaza
 

(Something to look forward to)
Bush to visit Mideast in January: He will leave Washington on January 8 and return on January 16.
 

French journalist investigated over intelligence leaks regarding 9/11 attacks: The probe against Dasquié stems from his April 16 article in Le Monde, titled “September 11: the French had long known,” ... .
 

Mirage of Improvement in Iraq: Yet Another Facelift for the Failed Occupation: Half the population of Iraq are either refugees, in need of emergency aid, wounded, or dead
 

Torture and torment in 2007 AD: ... [T]he symbol of the hooded Iraqi man standing on a plinth with electrodes will be a more potent symbol of US of A than the statue – '"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free''. A succession of pseudo-legal excuses for torture in the name of “terror” gave way to every abomination under Lucifer. Surrogates were recruited in this war of liberation of the tongues. A Syrian born Canadian citizen was “rendered” from JFK to his home country and into a six-by-two foot cell for nine months. Almost all the Arab dictatorships jumped to attention. And devout Muslims everywhere were being fingered for Uncle Sam. In Uzbekistan they were being tortured by gradual immersion in boiling water. When Her Majesty's ambassador, Craig Murray, reported this he was put under the heat as well.

The “only democracy in the Middle East” has imprisoned at least 600,000 Palestinians since the ethnic cleansing of those native people started in 1948 en masse. ...

What befell one of the victims, Luwaai Ashqar, is described by the courageous Gideon Levy. “‘Now you are paralyzed as we promised': a glimpse into the world of torture in Israel". Fundamentalists worldwide will be pleased perhaps that Luwaai spent time in Meggido Military Prison.
 

Video (6 min), How to create an Angry American
 

Wayne Madsen Report (in full) -
December 19, 2007 -- BREAKING -- Fire breaks out in Eisenhower Old Executive Office Building: A fire broke out this morning on the second or third floor of the Eisenhower Old Executive Office Building. White House sources claimed it was an electrical fire but televised scenes clearly showed Washington DC firefighters spraying water on the fire well after the White House reported that the cause was electrical. Water is not used on electrical fires because it increases the danger of electrical shock. Electrical fires are normally extinguished by CO2.

The fire broke out in the area of Vice President Dick Cheney's ceremonial office and the offices of the National Security Council, in an area below the historical Indian Treaty signing room on the fourth floor. The area contains a number of priceless paintings and artifacts on loan from other art collections.

The offices of the National Security Council possibly contain documents regarding the CIA torture tapes that Congress is now trying to obtain.

The Secret Service says it has no evidence that the fire was deliberately set. President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were in the White House Situation Room in the basement of the White House when the fire broke out. While the 1700 employees in the Eisenhower Building were evacuated, it was business as usual in the adjacent White House.
 

Hearsay, secrecy were fair game at Hamdan 'free-for-all' - Amnesty observer: Bush tribunal law allows countless ways to launder evidence
 

Constitutional scholar: 'At least six identifiable crimes' possible in CIA tape affair
 

Bush Lawyers Discussed Destroying C.I.A.Tapes
 

Palestinian laborers in South have little choice but to brave Israeli cluster bombs
 

NSA Gets Real Time Access to Your Email: Moreover . . . if you own “security” software produced by Zone Alarm, Symantec, and MacAfee, you are in essence throwing out a welcome mat for the NSA and its bevy of underwear drawer sniffing goons. “All facilitate Microsoft’s NSA-controlled remote admin access via IP/TCP ports 1024 through 1030,” and without a “security flag,” that it to say you will be none the wiser.
 

MSNBC reporting that fire was IN Cheney's offices. They're now talking about doc destruction


Fire controlled at White House compound: The vice president was not in the building at the time ... .
 

More Than
250 Iraqi Torture Victims
Come Forward to Sue CACI
for Participating in
Conspiracy to Torture,
According to Legal Team

(And I wish them every success.)
 

PEACE THROUGH EXTERMINATION . . . .
 

Continued from previous (immediately above) headline -
Israeli Prime Minister: Airstrikes on Gaza will continue
 

Iraq set to slash food rations
 

Catholic leader rejects Israel's Jewish identity: Top Roman Catholic clergyman in Jerusalem slams definition of Israel as Jewish nation, says land must be shared by all religions. Latin Patriarch says Israeli-Palestinian conflict has unleashed 'forces of evil' across Middle East, conflict perpetuates because of Israel's 'unwillingness' to make peace
 

Bush chuckles when asked how Mr. Cheney managed to be in the president’s office at the time of the fire
 

Wayne Madsen Report -
December 20, 2007 -- Old EOB fire explanation does not satisfy those who've worked in building: Yesterday's fire in the Vice President's ceremonial office, which is also known as the Presentation Room, in the Eisenhower Old Executive Office Building, represents yet more disinformation emanating from the Bush administration, this time on the subject of a fire literally yards from the West Wing of the White House.

Questions are being asked on how what is being described as an electrical or telecommunications switch fire that broke out in a utility closet off the ceremonial office could have developed into a two-alarm blaze that likely destroyed priceless paintings, historical artifacts, rugs, and, more seriously, National Security Council papers and materials that have been requested by federal judges and congressional committees. ...

The White House and the adjacent Old EOB have one of the most sensitive fire detection systems on the planet. The Old EOB is also under constant surveillance by security cameras and uniformed Secret Service personnel. The area where the fire broke out and was permitted to get out of control also houses the offices of the National Security Council and Homeland Security Council, whose personnel are well-versed in fire fighting procedures designed to safeguard sensitive equipment and documents.

"12/19" represented a mini-version of the security breakdown that occurred on "9/11." ...

Bush's sickening chortle and the corporate media's ignoring of the Old EOB blaze are even more startling when considering that the last time the White House lost important papers in a fire was in 1814 when the British burned down the White House during the administration of James Madison. MS-NBC actually broke away from the blaze story yesterday to cover the teen pregnancy of Britney Spears' sister.
 

Nuclear bunker being built at Israeli PM's residence
 

'Paper' Iraqi police just don't do the job: In a country with no security and no jobs, just about anyone can work as a policeman. "To survive in Iraq under US occupation, there are only two jobs; police and garbage collection," Baghdad journalist Mohammad al-Dulaymi told Inter Press Service. "Unemployment is leading many Iraqis to join the security forces despite the risk involved."

"Why does everybody blame the bad security on the police?" Colonel Fadhi al-Rubai of the Russafa Police in Baghdad asked IPS. "The whole country is being robbed. A look at any ministry would reveal the catastrophe Iraq is going through. We, the police, are only one part of huge corruption."

"There are 1.4 million policemen in Iraq," Abbas al-Bayaty, a member of the security committee in the Iraqi Parliament and senior member of the major Shi'ite bloc, the Iraqi Coalition, told IPS. "That brings the percentage of policemen to people to one policeman for 27 residents, while the usual standard should be one to 300. This militarization of Iraq is a big mistake."

The recent Awakening Forces formed by US forces from Arab tribes is believed now to be at least 76,000 strong, with plans to add another 10,000. These men are also referred to by the US military as "concerned citizens". Most of them are said to be former resistance fighters who used to attack occupation forces but have now switched support to the US. Men said to be among these forces are paid $300 a month.
 

Film Review, Iraq's heart of darkness: Redacted by writer-director Brian De Palma
 

All Iraqi Groups Blame U.S. Invasion for Discord, Study Shows
 

Bush Approves Army Reorganization: The Army had been given presidential approval to expand its forces by 74,000 over all by 2010, including the reserve component, to meet the stress of Iraq and Afghanistan and to prepare for future threats.
 

Secret Air War Confirmed: [T]he US has drastically escalated its aerial assault on Iraq and Afghanistan, below the radar of the corporate media. (See table & graph)
 

The truth behind the Surge: The so-called 'Surge', and its alleged success, are based on two fundamental tactics: the first one is the so-called 'Redirection' which consists of buying off the Sunni resistance, including all those groups who only yesterday were called 'terrorists'; the second new tactic is massive increasing in the use of airpower.
 

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Wayne Madsen Report -
December 21-25, 2007 -- CIA terror training revisited: [ . . . ]
Declassified CIA files contain an obscure article from the December 12, 1973 issue of the National Guardian. The article describes the CIA's "bomb school" operated by the US Agency for International Development's (USAID) Office of Public Safety at the US Border Patrol Academy in Los Fresnos, Texas.

The program was actually a CIA front for training foreign police officers in the art of setting off bombs in terrorist attacks. As of the date of the article, 165 policemen from several Third World nations had been trained since 1969 in the design, manufacture, and uses of powerful homemade bombs and incendiary devices by CIA instructors operating through the auspices of CIA front organizations, including the International Police Academy (IPA) in Washington, DC, as well as the USAID cut-out.

Dubbed a "technical investigations course," the four-week CIA training through the IPA in Washington included such modules as electricity as applied to explosives, basic bombs and explosives, incendiaries, and assassination weapons.

After classroom training, the students were sent to Los Fresnos for field sessions taught by CIA instructors. Subjects taught included explosives characteristics, electric priming, electric firing devices, explosive charges, homemade weapons, fabrication of devices, functioning of devices, incendiaries, and the placing of bombs in cars, buildings, and public plazas.

The Department of Defense found the instruction so disturbing and out-of-bounds, it refused to provide instructors for the course. South Dakota Democratic Senator James Abourezk launched an investigation of the school.

Many of the trainees came from Uruguay where some of the policemen were working as terrorists for the death squads. Similarly, graduates of the bomb school went on to work for death squads in Brazil, Dominican Republic (La Banda), and Guatemala (La Mano Blanca and Ojo por Ojo).

Uruguay and Argentina are currently investigating Henry Kissinger's role in an alliance of Latin American death squads code-named "Operation Condor." Policemen from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Chile, Brazil, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Thailand, the Philippines, Iran, South Korea, Colombia, Indonesia, Peru, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, Paraguay, Argentina, Costa Rica, Burma, Cambodia, South Vietnam, Guam, Cambodia, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Upper Volta, Chad, Dahomey, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Libya, Malagasy Republic, Kenya, and Zaire received bomb making and use training.

Although the CIA Bomb School at Los Fresnos was closed in 1974, there is a belief it moved to the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia. There is also a distinct possibility that some of the bomb training has been outsourced to private military contractors, such as Blackwater.
 

عزيزي عماد , أن هذة المواقع الاسلامية ( الجهادية ) التي تعتمد عليها في سرد الوقائع أنما هي مواقع لمجموعات مريضة ترى في القتل هو الاسلوب الامثل لحل مشاكل العراق كانما قتل موظفي الدولة و أفراد الشرطة و الحرس الوطني و كل من يشغل مركز في الدولة بغض النظر عن نوع المركز سواء كان سياسي او علمي او اداري كانما هذة هي الحلول الوحيدة للخروج من ضيم الاحتلال و التخلص منه . كن على ثقة بان هؤلاء المرضى النفسيين المعتوهين يحللون قتلك و قتل أي مسيحي لانه كافر في نظرهم ولانهم يكرهون الجميع ولا يسلم من أذاهم أو حقدهم أحد ..أنت كعالم و أبن عائلة خدوري العريقة في العلم و لثقافة لا يناسبك الاعتماد على هكذا مصادر هدفها الوحيد نشر الدمار و القتل و الرعب في بلدنا . ما نحتاجه هو حملة تعتمد في تشخيصها و تحليلها للوقائع على فكر علمي و سجال يشارك فيه أبناء العراق المثقفين القادرين على طرح حلول تؤدي الى نتائج مفيدة الوطن و المواطن و ليس دعوة للقتل الجماعي التي تتبناها هذة المجموعات الشاذة فكريا والمعوّقة نفسيا أخيرا تحياتي لك و للعائلة
 

يبدو أن الأخ أعلاه لم يقراء (أو يستوعب) التصحيح الذي يشير الى عدم مصداقية هذا (الموقع الإسلامي)ـ