Friends, In "The Real Regime Change", we saw Washington going public with a policy that had been standard procedure for centuries: changing regimes to suit US economic interests. Now we see them going public with something else that they've long been guilty of... rkm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Delivered-To: •••@••.••• Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 22:17:48 -0800 From: "Butler Crittenden, Ph.D." <•••@••.•••> Subject: Fw: Global Eye -- Into the Dark There will be another major terrorist attack, says Rummy, who should know. Butler http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2002/11/01/120.html Metropolis / Global Eye Friday, November 01, 2002 Global Eye -- Into the Dark By Chris Floyd This column stands foursquare with the Honorable Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defense Secretary, when he warns that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large. We know, as does the Honorable Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defense Secretary, that this statement is an incontrovertible fact, a matter of scientific certainty. And how can we and the Honorable Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defense Secretary, be so sure that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large? Because these attacks will be instigated at the order of the Honorable Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defense Secretary. This astonishing admission was buried deep in a story, which was itself submerged by mounds of gray newsprint and glossy underwear ads in last Sunday's Los Angeles Times. There -- in an article by military analyst William Arkin detailing the vast expansion of the secret armies being massed by the former Nixon bureaucrat now lording it over the Pentagon -- came the revelation of Rumsfeld's plan to create "a super-Intelligence Support Activity" that will "bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence and cover and deception." According to a classified document prepared for Rumsfeld by his Defense Science Board, the new organization -- the "Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG)" -- will carry out secret missions designed to "stimulate reactions" among terrorist groups, provoking them into committing violent acts which would then expose them to "counterattack" by U.S. forces. In other words -- and let's say this plainly, clearly and soberly, so that no one can mistake the intention of Rumsfeld's plan -- the United States government is planning to use "cover and deception" and secret military operations to provoke murderous terrorist attacks on innocent people. Let's say it again: Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and the other members of the unelected regime in Washington plan to deliberately foment the murder of innocent people -- your family, your friends, your lovers, you -- in order to further their geopolitical ambitions. For P2OG is not designed solely to flush out terrorists and bring them to justice -- a laudable goal in itself, although the Rumsfeld way of combating terrorism by causing it is pure moral lunacy. (Or should we use the Regime's own preferred terminology and just call it "evil"?) No, it seems the Pee-Twos have bigger fish to fry. Once they have sparked terrorists into action -- by killing their family members? luring them with loot? fueling them with drugs? plying them with jihad propaganda? messing with their mamas? or with agents provocateurs, perhaps, who infiltrate groups then plan and direct the attacks themselves? -- they can then take measures against the "states/sub-state actors accountable" for "harboring" the Rumsfeld-roused gangs. What kind of measures exactly? Well, the classified Pentagon program puts it this way: "Their sovereignty will be at risk." The Pee-Twos will thus come in handy whenever the Regime hankers to add a little oil-laden real estate or a new military base to the Empire's burgeoning portfolio. Just find a nest of violent malcontents, stir 'em with a stick, and presto: instant "justification" for whatever level of intervention/conquest/rapine you might desire. And what if the territory you fancy doesn't actually harbor any convenient marauders to use for fun and profit? Well, surely a God-like "super-Intelligence Support Activity" is capable of creation nihilo, yes? The Rumsfeld-Bush plan to employ murder and terrorism for political, financial and ideological gain does have historical roots (besides al-Qaida, the Stern Gang, the SA, the SS, the KGB, the IRA, the UDF, Eta, Hamas, Shining Path and countless other upholders of Bushian morality, decency and freedom). We refer of course to Operations Northwoods, oft mentioned in these pages: the plan that America's top military brass presented to President John Kennedy in 1963, calling for a phony terrorist campaign -- complete with bombings, hijackings, plane crashes and dead Americans -- to provide "justification" for an invasion of Cuba, the mafia/corporate fiefdom that had recently been lost to Castro. Kennedy rejected the plan, and was killed a few months later. Now Rumsfeld has resurrected Northwoods, but on a far grander scale, with resources at his disposal undreamed of by those brass of yore, with no counterbalancing global rival to restrain him -- and with an ignorant, corrupt president who has shown himself all too eager to embrace any means whatsoever that will augment the wealth and power of his own narrow, undemocratic, elitist clique. There is prestuplyeniye here, transgression, a stepping-over -- deliberately, with open eyes, with forethought, planning, and conscious will -- of lines that should never be crossed. Acting in deadly symbiosis with rage-maddened killers, God-crazed ranters and those supreme "sub-state actors," the mafias, Bush and his cohorts are plunging the world into an abyss, an endless night of black ops, retribution, blowback, deceit, of murder and terror -- wholesale, retail, state-sponsored, privatized; of fear and degradation, servility, chaos, and the perversion of all that's best in us, of all that we've won from the bestiality of our primal nature, all that we've raised above the mindless ravening urges and impulses still boiling in the mud of our monkey brains. It's not a fight for freedom; it's a retreat into darkness. And the day will be a long time coming. http://www.latimes.com/la-op-arkin27oct27001451,0,7355676.story The Secret War Los Angeles Times, Oct. 27, 2002 http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html Friendly Fire: Operation Northwoods ABCNews.com, May 1, 2001 http://www.publici.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=469&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0 Making a Killing: The Business of War: Overview Center for Public Integrity, Oct. 29, 2002 http://www.icij.org/dtaweb/icij_bow.asp?Section=Chapter&ChapNum=1 Making a Killing: The Business of War Center for Public Integrity, Oct. 29, 2002 http://www.icij.org/dtaweb/icij_bow.asp?Section=Chapter&ChapNum=2 Privatizing Combat: The New World Order Center for Public Integrity, Oct. 29, 2002 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2002/102702a.html Deeper Into the Big Muddy Consortiumnews.com, Oct. 27, 2002 http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/021104/usnews/4contractors.htm America's Secret Armies US News & World Report, Nov. 4, 2002 issue http://www.iht.com/articles/74614.html An American Invitation to Deter America International Herald Tribune, Oct. 24, 2002 http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,819932,00.html Vidal Claims 'Bush Junta' Complicit in 9-11 The Observer, Oct. 27, 2002 http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021021&s=hartung Operation Endless Deployment The Nation, Oct. 3, 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,821306,00.html U.S. Weapons Secrets Exposed The Guardian, Oct. 29, 2002 http://slate.msn.com/?id=2073238 The Rumsfeld Intelligence Agency Slate.com, Oct. 28, 2002 -- ============================================================================ cyberjournal home page: http://cyberjournal.org "Zen of Global Transformation" home page: http://www.QuayLargo.com/Transformation/ QuayLargo discussion forum: http://www.QuayLargo.com/Transformation/ShowChat/?ScreenName=ShowThreads cj list archives: http://cyberjournal.org/cj/show_archives/?lists='cj' newslog list archives: http://cyberjournal.org/cj/show_archives/?lists='newslog' cj_open list archives: http://cyberjournal.org/cj/show_archives/?lists='cj_open' subscribe addresses for cj list: •••@••.••• •••@••.••• subscribe addresses for cj_open list: •••@••.••• •••@••.••• ============================================================================
