🚀 go-pugleaf

And if you have any doubt at all that Skull n' Bones, aka Haliburton,
CIA etc. have
a vested interest in extending these wars as long as possible, watch
the video
'Iraq For Sale'

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6621486727392146155&q=Iraq+for+sale

A Robert Greenwald film about corporations in Iraq. To watch more great
movies or to learn the truth about the 9/11 attacks, visit
WWW.TRUTH911.NET

This is Vietnam all over again, Its all about the Skull n' Bones clan
getting rich selling weaponry  n' drugs, nothing more.





gornk wrote:
> Fair enough,
>
> What is happening here is that the CIA special forces unit  is bombing
> American troops and Iraqi civilians in order to extend the war.  They
> are using stolen American and Canadian vehicles for these car-bomb
> attacks on allied targets.
> There are at least two incidents where Americans and Britons have been
> actually caught dressed as Arabs while carrying out these bombing
> operations, and this is the tip of the iceberg.
>
>
> The Hells Angels are obtaining (stealing)  the vehicles used in these
> attacks and shipping them overseas via west coast shipping ports. The
> Hells Angels are nothing more than an extension of George H. Bush's
> Skull n' Bones narcotics-smuggling cartel. The Hells Angels were
> originally formed by former WWII/Korean War and Vietnam War vets ( a
> high % CIA AIr America pilots/paratroopers/nternational drug and gun
> smugglers).
>
>
> They named themselves Hells Angels because it is a term that reaches
> all the way back to elite WWI mercenary paratroopers, the 'for hire'
> covert operations assassins and terrorists known as Hells Angels who
> carried out illegal kidnappings, interrogations, tortures,
> assassinations, and numerous terrorist atrocities on behalf of the U.S.
>
> government.  Howard Hughes made the film Hells Angels about WWI-era
> fighter squadrons and named it after them.  The Hells Angels have
> always been a conduit for the street drugs that the Skull n' Bones/CIA
> international narcotics trafficking
> network fly or ship into the United States and Canada.
>
>
>  Now we find that this same network is supplying the vehicles used by
> covert forces in car-bomb attacks against U.S. troops. Mercenary
> special forces units are attacking key American and allied strongholds
> in Iraq with car bombs while dressed as Arabs.  Hells Angels. The Iraq
> and Afghanistan wars are all about Bush and his narcotics cartel moving
>
> opium, cocaine, and weapons around the world and killing as many people
>
> as possible in the process.
>
>
> You have to understand one thing about Skull n' Bones/Hells Angels.
> They are occult Globalists. They hold no allegiance to any one nation.
> They are satanic elitists, and they feel that they are smarter than the
>
> rest of us, and that their evil is beneficial to the world, because the
>
> wealth that they accrue 'strengthens their superior genes as a gift to
> humanity' etc., and the large number of people that they kill are
> eliminated
> as a service to the ecology of the planet/gene pool blah blah blah.
> They are nothing but a bunch of murderous, greedy scumbags who have
> latched onto all sorts of occult new-age bullshit to make them feel
> good about what they are.
>
>
> http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/10/02/us_car_theft_rings_probed_for_ties_to_iraq_bombings/
>
> WASHINGTON -- The FBI's counterterrorism unit has launched a broad
> investigation of US-based theft rings after discovering that some of
> the vehicles used in deadly car bombings in Iraq, including attacks
> that killed US troops and Iraqi civilians, were probably stolen in the
> United States, according to senior government officials.
> John E. Lewis, deputy assistant director of the FBI for
> counterterrorism, told the Globe that the investigation hasn't yielded
> any evidence that the vehicles were stolen specifically for car
> bombings. But there is evidence, he said, that the cars were smuggled
> from the United States as part of a widespread criminal network that
> includes terrorists and insurgents.
> Cracking the car theft rings and tracing the cars could help identify
> the leaders of insurgent forces in Iraq and shut down at least one of
> the means they use to attack the US-led coalition and the Iraqi
> government, the officials said.
> The inquiry began after coalition troops raided a bomb-making factory
> in Fallujah last November and found a sport utility vehicle registered
> in Texas that was being prepared for a bombing mission.
> Investigators said they are comparing several other cases where
> vehicles evidently stolen in the United States wound up in Syria or
> other Middle East countries and ultimately into the hands of Iraqi
> insurgent groups -- including Al Qaeda in Iraq, led by Jordanian-born
> Abu Musab Al Zarqawi.
> Citing the sensitive nature of the ongoing inquiry, investigators
> wouldn't say how many specific cases they have found, and FBI spokesman
>
> Edwin Cogswell in Washington did not respond to repeated requests for
> comment.
> But Lewis said the origins of the vehicles in question were unearthed
> by tracing the vehicle identification numbers, or VINs -- a standard
> production marker stamped on during manufacture -- as well as through
> other forensic tools such as auto parts. Some of the automobiles can be
>
> easily identified, specialists said, while others have had their VINs
> ground down or have been fitted with fake ones.
> ----------------
> Reports of secret U.S. govt. operations featuring special forces
> operatives disguised as arabs
> carrying out bomb attacks in Iraq:
>
>
> http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/66432
> Iraqis apprehend two Americans disguised as Arabs trying to detonate a
> car bomb in a residential neighborhood of western Baghdad.
> A number of Iraqis apprehended two Americans disguised in Arab dress as
>
> they tried to blow up a booby-trapped car in the middle of a
> residential area in western Baghdad on Tuesday.
> Residents of western Baghdad's al-Ghazaliyah district told Quds Press
> that the people had apprehended the Americans as they left their
> Caprice car near a residential neighborhood in al-Ghazaliyah on Tuesday
>
> afternoon (11 October 2005). Local people found they looked suspicious
> so they detained the men before they could get away. That was when they
>
> discovered that they were Americans and called the Iraqi police.
> Five minutes after the arrival of the Iraqi police on the scene, a
> large force of US troops showed up and surrounded the area. They put
> the two Americans in one of their Humvees and drove away at high speed
> to the astonishment of the residents of the area.
> Quds Press spoke by telephone with a member of the al-Ghazaliyah puppet
>
> police who confirmed the incident, saying that the two men were
> non-Arab foreigners but declined to be more precise about their
> nationality.
> Quds Press pointed out that about a month ago, the Iraqi police in the
> southern Iraqi city of al-Basrah arrested two Britons whom they accused
>
> of attempting to cause an explosion in the city. The Britons were taken
>
> into custody by the Iraqi police only to be broken out of prison by an
> assault of British occupation troops. That incident has created a tense
>
> relationship between the British and the local authorities in
> al-Basrah, Quds Press noted.
> ----------------
> http://www.hells-angels.cz/hamc/images/main_logo.gif
>
>
> Hells Angels linked to international SUV theft/export ring:
>
> http://www.canada.com/cityguides/ottawa/story.html?id=13c12fce-50fc-4934-aeb7-f98466916013&k=51256
>
>
> These same bikers, once hunted down by the Hells Angels during the
> Quebec war, have since joined the rival gang, Hells Angels, doing
> business in Ottawa.
> Though the elite chapter's lucrative business is based in Ottawa's
> francophone community, with more than two dozen associates taking care
> of street-level dealings, its members are spread across the region.
> Police have accused them of drug trafficking, money laundering,
> prostitution, car-theft operations, and extortion.
> Some members of the Ottawa chapter, one of the most powerful units in
> the country, include:
> - Paul (Sasquatch) Porter. Born in 1963, the president of Ontario
> Nomads was an original member of Rock Machine, since absorbed by
> Bandidos. Intelligent and known for keeping a low profile, Mr. Porter
> has survived two attempts on his life. He is awaiting trial on charges
> of masterminding an international car-theft ring targeting luxury SUVs,
>
> which were later sold around the world, according to Quebec police.
> -------------------------
> So, looks like we have a situation where the CIA does not want an end
> to violence. They want things to escalate in Iraq, and they want more
> dead U.S. soldiers coming home. They know that if there are no American
>
> casualties in Iraq, the Americans will look like bullies, and
> furthermore, there will seem to be no reason to stay there. They are
> creating the illusion of fierce resistance by bombing their own troops.
>
>
>
> Pathetic , the Americans even have to supply the vehicles used in these
>
> attacks.
> more on this in the Terrorstorm video by Alex Jones. (google video)
> ------------------
>
>
>
> > Zero evidence. None of the HA are Yale or even Harvard or Stanford men
> > not even UBC or Queens University.
>
>
> ------
> I said they were an extension, ie: closely associated. I  have  never
> said the HA are direct Skull n' Bones members.  I have said that they
> are closely associated
> via their history of involvement in covert CIA war and drug
> operations.  If you
> have any doubts about CIA involvement in drugs watch the Clinton
> Chronicles or
> watch this:
>
> http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=5758127109364967697&q=CIA+drugs
> and this:
> http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-8681225708920427234&q=CIA+drugs
>
>
>
>
>
> > > They named themselves Hells Angels because it is a term that reaches
> > > all the way back to elite WWI  mercenary paratroopers,
> -----------
> > Paratroopers in WW1?? Wrong. They took the name from the WW2 bomber
> > group of the same name and the Howard Hughes movie of the same name.
>
>
> wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Angels_%28film%29
> the film Hells Angels was made before WWII, in 1929-30
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hells_Angels
> So, the term Hells Angels has been around a lot longer than you think
> and prior to  WWII.  It is from WWI.
> Hughes named his  1929 film 'Hells Angels' after the term for covert
> mercenary soldiers and paratroopers known as Hells Angels,  operatives
> who would do anything for money, including torture, murder,
> assassinations, and terrorism.  These WWI-era Hells Angels preceded the
>
> creation of the CIA , which was created after WWII.  The predecessor
> organization which created the CIA was the Skull n' Bones  society,
> founded by the wealthy Russel international opium syndicate family.
>
> *
> http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=KEE20
>
>
> http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=KEE20...
>
>
>
> Were British Special Forces Soldiers Planting Bombs in Basra?
> Suspicions Strengthened by Earlier Reports
>
>
> by Michael Keefer
>
>
> Global Research, September 25, 2005
>
>
> Email this article to a friend
> Print this article
>
>
> Does anyone remember the shock with which the British public greeted
> the revelation four years ago that one of the members of the Real IRA
> unit whose bombing attack in Omagh on August 15, 1998 killed
> twenty-nine civilians had been a double agent, a British army soldier?
>
>
> That soldier was not Britain's only terrorist double agent. A second
> British soldier planted within the IRA claimed he had given forty-eight
>
>
>
> hours advance notice of the Omagh car-bomb attack to his handlers
> within the Royal Ulster Constabulary, including "details of one of the
> bombing team and the man's car registration." Although the agent had
> made an audio tape of his tip-off call, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, chief
> constable of the RUC, declared that "no such information was received"
> (http://www.sundayherald.com/17827).
>
>
> This second double agent went public in June 2002 with the claim that
> from 1981 to 1994, while on full British army pay, he had worked for
> "the Force Research Unit, an ultra-secret wing of British military
> intelligence," as an IRA mole. With the full knowledge and consent of
> his FRU and MI5 handlers, he became a bombing specialist who "mixed
> explosive and ... helped to develop new types of bombs," including
> "light-sensitive bombs, activated by photographic flashes, to overcome
> the problem of IRA remote-control devices having their signal jammed by
>
>
>
> army radio units." He went on to become "a member of the Provisional
> IRA's 'internal security squad'-also known as the 'torture
> unit'-which interrogated and executed suspected informers"
> (http://www.sundayherald.com/print25646).
>
>
> The much-feared commander of that same "torture unit" was likewise a
> mole, who had previously served in the Royal Marines' Special Boat
> Squadron (an elite special forces unit, the Marines' equivalent to
> the better-known SAS). A fourth mole, a soldier code-named "Stakeknife"
>
>
>
> whose military handlers "allowed him to carry out large numbers of
> terrorist murders in order to protect his cover within the IRA," was
> still active in December 2002 as "one of Belfast's leading
> Provisionals" (http://www.sundayherald.com/29997).
>
>
> Reliable evidence also emerged in late 2002 that the British army had
> been using its double agents in terrorist organizations "to carry out
> proxy assassinations for the British state"-most notoriously in the
> case of Belfast solicitor and human rights activist Pat Finucane, who
> was murdered in 1989 by the Protestant Ulster Defence Association. It
> appears that the FRU passed on details about Finucane to a British
> soldier who had infiltrated the UDA; he in turn "supplied UDA murder
> teams with the information" (http://www.sundayherald.com/29997).
>
>
> Recent events in Basra have raised suspicions that the British army may
>
>
>
> have reactivated these same tactics in Iraq.
>
>
> Articles published by Michel Chossudovsky, Larry Chin and Mike Whitney
> at the Centre for Research on Globalization's website on September
> 20, 2005 have offered preliminary assessments of the claims of Iraqi
> authorities that two British soldiers in civilian clothes who were
> arrested by Iraqi police in Basra on September 19-and in short order
> released by a British tank and helicopter assault on the prison where
> they were being held-had been engaged in planting bombs in the city
>
>
> See:
> http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20050...
>
>
>
> http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHI20...
>
>
>
> http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=WHI20...
>
>
>
> A further article by Kurt Nimmo points to false-flag operations carried
>
>
>
> out by British special forces troops in Northern Ireland and elsewhere,
>
>
>
> and to Donald Rumsfeld's formation of the P2OG, or Proactive
> Preemptive Operations Group, as directly relevant to Iraqi charges of
> possible false-flag terror operations by the occupying powers in Iraq
> (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20050...).
>
>
>
> These accusations by Iraqi officials echo insistent but unsubstantiated
>
>
>
> claims, going back at least to the spring of 2004, to the effect that
> many of the terror bombings carried out against civilian targets in
> Iraq have actually been perpetrated by U.S. and British forces rather
> than by Iraqi insurgents.
>
>
> Some such claims can be briskly dismissed. In mid-May 2005, for
> example, a group calling itself "Al Qaeda in Iraq" accused U.S. troops
> "of detonating car bombs and falsely accusing militants"
> (http://siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications45605&Catego...).
>
>
>
> For even the most credulous, this could at best be a case of the pot
> calling the kettle soot-stained. But it's not clear why anyone would
> want to believe this claim, coming as it does from a group or
> groupuscule purportedly led by the wholly mythical al-Zarqawi-and one
> whose very name affiliates it with terror bombers. These people, if
> they exist, might themselves have good reason to blame their own crimes
>
>
>
> on others.
>
>
> Other claims, however, are cumulatively more troubling.
>
>
> The American journalist Dahr Jamail wrote in April 20, 2004 that the
> recent spate of car bombings in Baghdad was widely rumoured to have
> been the work of the CIA:
>
>
> "The word on the street in Baghdad is that the cessation of suicide car
>
>
>
> bombings is proof that the CIA was behind them. Why? Because as one man
>
>
>
> states, '[CIA agents are] too busy fighting now, and the unrest they
> wanted to cause by the bombings is now upon them.' True or not, it
> doesn't bode well for the occupiers' image in Iraq."
> (http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-jamail200404.htm)
>
>
> Two days later, on April 22, 2004, Agence France-Presse reported that
> five car-bombings in Basra-three near-simultaneous attacks outside
> police stations in Basra that killed sixty-eight people, including
> twenty children, and two follow-up bombings-were being blamed by
> supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on the British. While eight
>
>
>
> hundred supporters demonstrated outside Sadr's offices, a Sadr
> spokesman claimed to have "evidence that the British were involved in
> these attacks" (http://www.inq7.net/wnw/2004/apr/23/wnw_3_1.htm).
>
>
> An anonymous senior military officer said on April 22, 2004 of these
> Basra attacks that "It looks like Al-Qaeda. It's got all the
> hallmarks: it was suicidal, it was spectacular and it was symbolic."
> Brigadier General Nick Carter, commander of the British garrison in
> Basra, stated more ambiguously that Al Qaeda was not necessarily to
> blame for the five bombings, but that those responsible came from
> outside Basra and "quite possibly" from outside Iraq: "'All that we
> can be certain of is that this is something that came from outside,'
> Carter said" (http://www.inq7.net/wnw/2004/apr/23/wnw_4_1.htm). Moqtada
>
>
>
> al-Sadr's supporters of course believed exactly the same
> thing-differing only in their identification of the criminal
> outsiders as British agents rather than as Islamist mujaheddin from
> other Arab countries.
>
>
> In May 2005 'Riverbend', the Baghdad author of the widely-read blog
> Baghdad Burning, reported that what the international press was
> reporting as suicide bombings were often in fact "car bombs that are
> either being remotely detonated or maybe time bombs." After one of the
> larger recent blasts, which occurred in the middle-class Ma'moun area
> of west Baghdad, a man living in a house in front of the blast site was
>
>
>
> reportedly arrested for having sniped an Iraqi National Guardsman. But
> according to 'Riverbend', his neighbours had a different story:
>
>
> "People from the area claim that the man was taken away not because he
> shot anyone, but because he knew too much about the bomb. Rumor has it
> that he saw an American patrol passing through the area and pausing at
> the bomb site minutes before the explosion. Soon after they drove away,
>
>
>
> the bomb went off and chaos ensued. He ran out of his house screaming
> to the neighbors and bystanders that the Americans had either planted
> the bomb or seen the bomb and done nothing about it. He was promptly
> taken away."
>
>
> (http://riverbendblog.blogspit.com/2005_05_01_riverbendblog_archive.ht...)
>
>
>
> Also in May 2005, Imad Khadduri, the Iraqi-exile physicist whose
> writings helped to discredit American and British fabrications about
> weapons of mass destruction, reported a story that in Baghdad a driver
> whose license had been confiscated at an American check-point was told
> "to report to an American military camp near Baghdad airport for
> interrogation and in order to retrieve his license." After being
> questioned for half an hour, he was informed that there was nothing
> against him, but that his license had been forwarded to the Iraqi
> police at the al-Khadimiya station "for processing"-and that he
> should get there quickly before the lieutenant whose name he was given
> went off his shift.
>
>
> "The driver did leave in a hurry, but was soon alarmed with a feeling
> that his car was driving as if carrying a heavy load, and he also
> became suspicious of a low flying helicopter that kept hovering
> overhead, as if trailing him. He stopped the car and inspected it
> carefully. He found nearly 100 kilograms of explosives hidden in the
> back seat and along the two back doors. The only feasible explanation
> for this incident is that the car was indeed booby trapped by the
> Americans and intended for the al-Khadimiya Shiite district of Baghdad.
>
>
>
> The helicopter was monitoring his movement and witnessing the
> anticipated 'hideous attack by foreign elements'."
>
>
> (http://www.albasrah.net/maqalat/english/0505/Combat-terrorism_160505.htm)
>
>
>
> According to Khadduri, "The same scenario was repeated in Mosul, in the
>
>
>
> north of Iraq." On this occasion, the driver's life was saved when
> his car broke down on the way to the police station where he was
> supposed to reclaim his license, and when the mechanic to whom he had
> recourse "discovered that the spare tire was fully laden with
> explosives."
>
>
> Khadduri mentions, as deserving of investigation, a "perhaps unrelated
> incident" in Baghdad on April 28, 2005 in which a Canadian truck-driver
>
>
>
> with dual Canadian-Iraqi citizenship was killed. He quotes a CBC report
>
>
>
> according to which "Some media cited unidentified sources who said he
> may have died after U.S. forces 'tracked' a target, using a
> helicopter gunship, but Foreign Affairs said it's still investigating
> conflicting reports of the death. U. S. officials have denied any
> involvement."
>
>
> Another incident, also from April 2005, calls more urgently for
> investigation, since one of its victims remains alive. Abdul Amir
> Younes, a CBS cameraman, was lightly wounded by U.S. forces on April 5
> "while filming the aftermath of a car bombing in Mosul." American
> military authorities were initially apologetic about his injuries, but
> three days later arrested him on the grounds that he had been "engaged
> in anti-coalition activity"
> (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/Kafka-does-iraq-the-...).
>
>
>
> Arianna Huffington, in her detailed account of this case, quite rightly
>
>
>
> emphasizes its Kafkaesque qualities: Younes has now been detained, in
> Abu Graib and elsewhere, for more than five months-without charges,
> without any hint of what evidence the Pentagon may hold against him,
> and without any indication that he will ever be permitted to stand
> trial, challenge that evidence, and disprove the charges that might at
> some future moment be laid. But in addition to confirming, yet again,
> the Pentagon's willingness to violate the most fundamental principles
> of humane and democratic jurisprudence, this case also raises a further
>
>
>
> question. Was Younes perhaps arrested, like the Iraqi whose rumoured
> fate was mentioned by 'Riverbend', because he had seen-and in
> Younes' case photographed-more than was good for him?
>
>
> Agents provocateurs?
>
>
> Spokesmen for the American and British occupation of Iraq, together
> with newspapers like the Daily Telegraph, have of course rejected with
> indignation any suggestion that their forces could have been involved
> in false-flag terrorist operations in Iraq.
>
>
> It may be remembered that during the 1980s spokesmen for the government
>
>
>
> of Ronald Reagan likewise heaped ridicule on Nicaraguan accusations
> that the U.S. was illegally supplying weapons to the
> 'Contras'-until, that is, a CIA-operated C-123 cargo aircraft
> full of weaponry was shot down over Nicaragua, and Eugene Hasenfus, a
> cargo handler who survived the crash, testified that his supervisors
> (one of whom was Luis Posada Carriles, the CIA agent responsible for
> the 1976 bombing of a Cuban civilian airliner) were working for
> then-Vice-President George H. W. Bush.
>
>
> The arrest-and the urgent liberation-of the two undercover British
> soldiers in Iraq might in a similar manner be interpreted as casting a
> retrospective light on previously unsubstantiated claims about the
> involvement of members of the occupying armies in terrorist bombing
> attacks on civilians.
>
>
> The parallel is far from exact: in this case there has been no dramatic
>
>
>
> confession like that of Hasenfus, and there are no directly
> incriminating documents like the pilot's log of the downed C-123.
> There is, moreover, a marked lack of consensus as to what actually
> happened in Basra. Should we therefore, with Juan Cole, dismiss the
> possibility British soldiers were acting as agents provocateurs as a
> "theory [that] has almost no facts behind it"
> (http://www.juancole.com)?
>
>
> Members of Britain's Elite SAS Forces
>
>
> It appears that when on September 19 suspicious Iraqi police stopped
> the Toyota Cressida the undercover British soldiers were driving, the
> two men opened fire, killing one policeman and wounding another. But
> the soldiers, identified by the BBC as "members of the SAS elite
> special forces" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4264614.stm),
> were subdued by the police and arrested. A report published by The
> Guardian on September 24 adds the further detail that the SAS men "are
> thought to have been on a surveillance mission outside a police station
>
>
>
> in Basra when they were challenged by an Iraqi police patrol"
> (http://www.guardian.co.uk/iraq/Story/0,2763,1577575,00.html).
>
>
> As Justin Raimondo has observed in an article published on September 23
>
>
>
> at Antiwar.com, nearly every other aspect of this episode is disputed.
>
>
> The Washington Post dismissively remarked, in the eighteenth paragraph
> of its report on these events, that "Iraqi security officials variously
>
>
>
> accused the two Britons they detained of shooting at Iraqi forces or
> trying to plant explosives"
> (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/20/MNGSSE...).
>
>
>
> Iraqi officials in fact accused them not of one or the other act, but
> of both.
>
>
> Fattah al-Shaykh, a member of the Iraqi National Assembly, told
> Al-Jazeera TV on September 19 that the soldiers opened fire when the
> police sought to arrest them, and that their car was booby-trapped "and
>
>
>
> was meant to explode in the centre of the city of Basra in the popular
> market" (quoted by Chossudovsky). A deliberately inflammatory press
> release sent out on the same day by the office of Moqtada al-Sadr (and
> posted in English translation at Juan Cole's Informed Comment blog on
> September 20) states that the soldiers' arrest was prompted by their
> having "opened fire on passers-by" near a Basra mosque, and that they
> were found to have "in their possession explosives and remote-control
> devices, as well as light and medium weapons and other accessories"
> (http://www.juancole.com).
>
>
> What credence can be given to the claim about explosives? Justin
> Raimondo writes that while initial BBC Radio reports acknowledged that
> the two men indeed had explosives in their car, subsequent reports from
>
>
>
> the same source indicated that the Iraqi police found nothing beyond
> "assault rifles, a light machine gun, an anti-tank weapon, radio gear,
> and medical kit. This is thought to be standard kit for the SAS
> operating in such a theater of operations"
> (http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7366).
>
>
> One might well wonder, with Raimondo, whether an anti-tank weapon is
> "standard operating equipment"-or what use SAS men on "a surveillance
> mission outside a police station" intended to make of it. But more
> importantly, a photograph published by the Iraqi police and distributed
>
>
>
> by Reuters  shows that-unless the equipment is a plant-the SAS men
> were carrying a good deal more than just the items acknowledged by the
> BBC.
> (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20050...)
>
>
>
> I would want the opinion of an arms expert before risking a definitive
> judgment about the objects shown, which could easily have filled the
> trunk and much of the back seat of a Cressida. But this photograph
> makes plausible the statement of Sheik Hassan al-Zarqani, a spokesman
> for Al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia:
>
>
> "What our police found in their car was very disturbing-weapons,
> explosives, and a remote control detonator. These are the weapons of
> terrorists. We believe these soldiers were planning an attack on a
> market or other civilian targets..." (quoted by Raimondo)
>
>
> The fierce determination of the British army to remove these men from
> any danger of interrogation by their own supposed allies in the
> government the British are propping up-even when their rescue
> entailed the destruction of an Iraqi prison and the release of a large
> number of prisoners, gun-battles with Iraqi police and with Al-Sadr's
> Mahdi Army militia, a large popular mobilization against the British
> occupying force, and a subsequent withdrawal of any cooperation on the
> part of the regional government-tends, if anything, to support the
> view that this episode involved something much darker and more serious
> than a mere flare-up of bad tempers at a check-point.
>
>
> US-UK Sponsored Civil War
>
>
> There is reason to believe, moreover, that the open civil war which
> car-bomb attacks on civilians seem intended to produce would not be an
> unwelcome development in the eyes of the occupation forces.
>
>
> Writers in the English-language corporate media have repeatedly noted
> that recent terror-bomb attacks which have caused massive casualties
> among civilians appear to be pushing Iraq towards a civil war of Sunnis
>
>
>
> against Shiites, and of Kurds against both. For example, on September
> 18, 2005 Peter Beaumont proposed in The Observer that the slaughter of
> civilians, which he ascribes to Al Qaeda alone, "has one aim: civil
> war"
> (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1572936,00.html).
> But H. D. S. Greenway had already suggested on June 17, 2005 in the
> Boston Globe that "Given the large number of Sunni-led attacks against
> Shia targets, the emerging Shia-led attacks against Sunnis, and the
> extralegal abductions of Arabs by Kurdish authorities in Kirkut, one
> has to wonder whether the long-feared Iraqi civil war hasn't already
> begun"
> (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005...).
>
>
>
> And on September 21, 2005 Nancy Youssef and Mohammed al Dulaimy of the
> Knight Ridder Washington Bureau wrote that the ethnic cleansing of
> Shiites in predominantly Sunni Baghdad neighbourhoods "is proceeding at
>
>
>
> an alarming and potentially destabilizing pace," and quoted the
> despairing view of an Iraqi expert:
>
>
> "'Civil war today is closer than any time before,' said Hazim Abdel
> Hamid al Nuaimi, a professor of politics at al-Mustansiriya University
> in Baghdad. 'All of these explosions, the efforts by police and
> purging of neighbourhoods is a battle to control Baghdad.'"
>
>
> (http://www.realcities.com/mid/krwashington/12704935.htm)
>
>
> Whether or not it has already begun or will occur, the eruption of a
> full-blown civil war, leading to the fragmentation of the country,
> would clearly be welcomed in some circles. Israeli strategists and
> journalists proposed as long ago as 1982 that one of their country's
> strategic goals should be the partitioning of Iraq into a Shiite state,
>
>
>
> a Sunni state, and a separate Kurdish part. (See foreign ministry
> official Oded Yinon's "A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s," Kivunim
> 14 [February 1982]; a similar proposal put forward by Ze'ev Schiff in
> Ha'aretz in the same month is noted by Noam Chomsky in Fateful
> Triangle [2nd ed., Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1999], p. 457).
>
>
> A partitioning of Iraq into sections defined by ethnicity and by
> Sunni-Shia differences would entail, obviously enough, both civil war
> and ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. But these considerations did
> not deter Leslie H. Gelb from advocating in the New York Times, on
> November 25, 2003, what he called "The Three-State Solution".
> (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/iraq/three.htm).
>
>
> Gelb, a former senior State Department and Pentagon official, a former
> editor and columnist for the New York Times, and president emeritus of
> the Council on Foreign Relations, is an insider's insider. And if the
> essays of Yinon and Schiff are nasty stuff, especially in the context
> of Israel's 1981 bombing attack on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor,
> there is still some difference between speculatively proposing the
> dismemberment of a powerful neighbouring country, and actively
> advocating the dismemberment of a country that one's own nation has
> conquered in a war of unprovoked aggression. The former might be
> described as a diseased imagining of war and criminality; the latter
> belongs very clearly to the category of war crimes.
>
>
> Gelb's essay proposes punishing the Sunni-led insurgency by
> separating the largely Sunni centre of present-day Iraq from the
> oil-rich Kurdish north and the oil-rich Shia south. It holds out the
> dismembering of the Yugoslav federation in the 1990s (with the
> appalling slaughters that ensued) as a "hopeful precedent."
>
>
> Gelb's essay has been widely interpreted as signaling the intentions
> of a dominant faction in the U.S. government. It has also, very
> appropriately, been denounced by Bill Vann as openly promoting "a war
> crime of world-historic proportions"
> (http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/nov2003/gelb-n26.shtml).
>
>
> Given the increasing desperation of the American and British
> governments in the face of an insurgency that their tactics of mass
> arbitrary arrest and torture, Phoenix-Program or "Salvadoran-option"
> death squads, unrestrained use of overwhelming military force, and
> murderous collective punishment have failed to suppress, it comes as no
>
>
>
> surprise that in recent military actions such as the assault on Tal
> Afar the U.S. army has been deploying Kurdish peshmerga troops and
> Shiite militias in a manner that seems designed to inflame ethnic
> hatreds.
>
>
> No one, I should hope, is surprised any longer by the fact that Abu
> Musab al-Zarqawi-that fictional construct of the Pentagon's serried
> ranks of little Tom Clancies, that one-legged Dalek, that Scarlet
> Pimpernel of terrorism, who manages to be here, there, and everywhere
> at once-should be so ferociously devoted to the terrorizing and
> extermination of his Shiite co-religionists.
>
>
> Should we be any more surprised, then, to see evidence emerging in Iraq
>
>
>
> of false-flag terrorist bombings conducted by the major occupying
> powers? The secret services and special forces of both the U.S. and
> Britain have, after all, had some experience in these matters.
>
>
> Global Research Contributing Editor Michael Keefer is Associate
> Professor of  English at the University of Guelph. He is a former
> President of the Association of Canadian College and University
> Teachers of English. His most recent writings include a series of
> articles on electoral fraud in the 2004 US presidential election
> published by the Centre for Research on Globalization