[wvns] Suicide Bombings or Counter-Insurgency Tactics?
Suicide Bombings - A Favourite US Counter-Insurgency Tactic
Aeneas
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_press&Number=295711999#Post295711999
Since 9-11 reports of "suicide bombings" have increased exponentially
in the news. We are led to believe by the experts that it is one of
the favorite weapons of the insurgency against the occupation forces,
since it is a cheap and simple way to create chaos. Hardly a day goes
by without at least one bombing in Iraq or Afghanistan being
immediately seized upon by the media as the work of Iraqi insurgents.
It is one thing for an insurgency to commit suicide bombings against
the occupation forces, it is another thing entirely to use them to
target and kill civilians. We have been brainwashed into believing
that the insurgents in Iraq are such brutal, uncivilized, fanatical
crazy extremists that they will anything to fight 'freedom' - even
kill their own people.
This picture presented to us by the US government and mainstream media
is so insane that Joe Quinn, in response to the massive 'suicide'
bombings in Mosul that killed 350+ people last week, felt confident to
say:
"The person who can present a convincing argument (i.e. logical and
backed up with reliable data) that explains why any anti-American Arab
or Islamic group, "terrorist" or otherwise, would kill hundreds of
thousands of Iraqis as a response to the US occupation of Iraq, will
receive a prize of 1 million USD."
Looking at this from a historical perspective, precedence for the type
of bombings in Iraq that are attributed to the insurgency or
"al-Qaeda" is virtually non existent. During world war II, a number of
countries were occupied by the Nazis. Countries such as France,
Denmark, Norway and many others all had resistance movements who used
various tactics to hamper the Nazi take over. Yet, there are no
records whatsoever that the resistance fighters resorted to the mass
murder of their fellow country men in an effort to evict the Nazis.
Sure there was factional infighting, but nothing on the massive scale
that we are seeing in Iraq. And of course, how could there be? It
defies all logic.
Fast forward to the Vietnam war and here too we find no evidence that
the Vietcong waged a campaign to kill their own fellow citizens as
part if the fight against American forces.
Of course, there are those who would suggest that Muslims are a
different breed, that they, like so many other ungrateful peoples who
attempted to throw-off the chains of empire, are little more than
uncivilised savages and we cannot therefore hope to understand their
mentality or actions. Such an ill-informed attitude however is in no
way backed up by any evidence and must therefore be dismissed for the
obvious racism that it is.
When the Iraqis first fought the British Empire in the 1920's, there
was no "suicide bombings" by insurgents against Iraqis. On the
contrary and according to good strategy, they united despite minor
cultural and religious differences to confront the common British enemy.
Likewise in Afghanistan during the 10 year war with the Soviet union
there were no instances of suicide bombings targeting Afghan
civilians. Here too, the Afghan tribes united despite previous
disagreements against the common aggressor.
Does no one find all of this even mildly odd? After 9-11, suddenly
this bizarre phenomenon of an insurgency using suicide bombings
against their own people rather than the invaders appears, as if to
provide supporting evidence for the reality of the crazed "suicide
bombing" hijackers that attacked America - or so the official story goes.
Could the answer be as simple as that what is being touted as suicide
bombings are in fact the work of US/British/Israeli counterinsurgency
teams? In Iraq, are we in fact dealing with the what are better know
as "false flag operations"?
This certainly would explain a lot of the confusion over why Iraqi
groups would kill their own people in response to a US invasion of
their country. After all, the people who are dying by the hundreds
every day in Iraq are the people who support the insurgency, and the
US, British and Israeli forces in Iraq are fighting that insurgency,
so who benefits from the daily mass murder of the supporters of the
insurgency?
Past counterinsurgency tactics involved such things as ethnic
cleansing ("draining the dam" as this tactic was known) and/or the
destruction of crops like with agent orange in the case of Vietnam.
But these methods had little success.
In recent years it seems that devious and deviant minds in the employ
of the military industrial complex came up with much more insidious
modern tactics.
Roger Trinquier, an immensely influential French counter-insurgency
expert, suggested in his book Modern Warfare: A French View of
Counterinsurgency (1961) (Available online here) three simple
principles of Counter Insurgency:
• separate the guerrilla from the population that supports him;
• occupy the zones that the guerrillas previously operated from,
making them dangerous for him and turning the people against the
guerrilla movement;
• coordinate actions over a wide area and for a long enough time that
the guerrilla is denied access to the population centres that could
support him.
Remote controlled bombings masquerading as "suicide bombings" that are
carried out by the US, British and Israeli occupation forces fit these
principles very neatly. By detonating bombs on a daily basis across
Iraq and Afghanistan and via the propaganda organs touting them as
being the work of Iraqi/Afghani "suicide bombers" belonging to the
insurgency, the occupying military hopes to achieve several goals:
cut off the widespread support base that the insurgency have amongst
the Iraqis
create tensions between religious lines, especially by ascribing the
faked "suicide attacks" to either Shias or Sunnis.
In other words divide and conquer.
The sheer carnage shown on TV back in the West only supports the idea
that the Iraqis/Afghans can't take care of their own country without
help from the occupation forces or that they are uncivilised savages.
This propaganda reinforces the US government's persistent claim that
it would be dangerous to pull US troops out of Iraq and for the
American military grunts on the streets of Iraq it helps them to
rationalise their continued presence. Either they are trying to show a
lesser class of human how to become civilised, or they are doing god's
work in wiping them out.
There is ample evidence for the inquiring reader to discover that
so-called suicide bombings against civilians are not the product of
the insurgency. Some will say that it is the product of "al-Qaeda",
which is true if you first clarify that "al-Qaeda" is simply a tool of
the very same counterinsurgency, namely CIA/MI6/Mossad. Always ask
yourself, "who benefits?", and in this case it is pretty obvious who
doesn't benefit.
For years Israel has very effectively used 'suicide' bombings as a
tool in the perpetration of its slow genocide of the Palestinian
people, with the effect that, today, the world's sympathy lies with
the perpetrator (Israel). As a result, all peace initiatives have been
stalled and the world has provided tacit if not outright approval of
Israel's covert genocidal policies.
The knowledge gained by the Israelis has certainly been passed on to
the their counterparts in MI6 and the CIA as this SOTT editorial from
September 2005 illustrates:
"Today in Basra, Southern Iraq, two members of the British SAS
(Special Ops) were caught, 'in flagrante' as it were, dressed in full
"Arab garb", driving a car full of explosives and shooting and killing
two official Iraqi policemen.
This fact, finally reported by the mainstream press, goes to the very
heart and proves accurate much of what we have been saying on the
Signs of the Times page for several years.
The following are facts, indisputable by all but the most self-deluded:
• Number 1:
• The US and British invasion of Iraq was NOT for the purpose of
bringing "freedom and democracy" to the Iraqi people, but rather for
the purpose of securing Iraq's oil resources for the US and British
governments and expanding their control over the greater Middle East.
• Number 2:
• Both the Bush and Blair governments deliberately fabricated evidence
(lied) about the threat the Saddam posed to the west and his links to
the mythical 'al-Qaeda' in order to justify their invasion.
• Number 3:
• Dressed as Arabs, British (and CIA and Israeli) 'special forces'
have been carrying out fake "insurgent" attacks, including 'car
suicide bombings' against Iraqi policemen and Iraqi civilians (both
Sunni and Shia) for the past two years. Evidence would suggest that
these tactics are designed to provide continued justification for a US
and British military presence in Iraq and to ultimately embroil the
country in a civil war that will lead to the breakup of Iraq into more
manageable statelets, much to the joy of the Israeli right and their
long-held desire for the establishment of biblical 'greater Israel'
Coming not long after the botched London bombings carried out by
British MI5 where an eyewitness reported that the floor of one of the
trains had been blown inwards (how can a bomb in a backpack or on a
"suicide bomber" INSIDE the train ever produce such an effect), more
than anything else today's event in Basra highlights the desperation
that is driving the policy-makers in the British government.
British intelligence would do well to think twice about carrying out
any more 'false flag' operations until they can achieve the
'professionalism' of the Israeli Mossad - they always make it look
convincing and rarely suffer the ignominy of being caught in the act
and having the faces of their erstwhile "terrorists" plastered across
the pages of the mainstream media. "
As in Israel, 'suicide' bombings in Iraq and Afghanistan often occur
at a time that most benefits the occupiers. A recent 'suicide' bombing
in Afghanistan illustrates this aspect well:
Seventeen civilians, a dozen of them schoolboys, were killed and 30
others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a NATO
convoy in southern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.
The timing just couldn't have been better. NATO had been under a lot
of international pressure due to their random use of Aerial bombings
with very large numbers of civilian casualties. This incident (as in
most cases) harmed no troops, most victims were children. The desired
effect of the bombing was described in the article:
The UN representative in Afghanistan, Tom Koenigs, was shocked.
"I am especially concerned by the reports I am seeing of a large
number of children being among the dead from todays bomb," he said in
a statement." Such utter disregard for innocent lives is staggering
and those behind this must be held responsible."
You see? The enemy is uncivilised, crazy, half human in contrast to
the civilised benevolent white crusaders who sacrifice so much in the
fight against evil. The article concludes:
"There have been more than 70 suicide attacks in Afghanistan this
year, as compared with about 140 in all of 2006. Most are aimed at the
security forces but civilians are usually the primary victims."
It should be pointed out that these so-called suicide bombings seem to
be a speciality of Western intelligence agencies and their client
regimes. In recent months we have also heard a lot about suspicious
suicide bombings targeting civilians in Pakistan, whose intelligence
agency, ISI, has close ties to the CIA.
In Chechnya there have been 28 acts of suicide bombings from June 2000
until 2006. The difference is that these attacks were against Russian
civilians and not their own people. Perhaps the defining point is that
Western (US/British/Israeli) counterinsurgency teams are not involved
in these attacks because they do not wish to hand the Russians a
victory. Certainly suicide bombings would demonise the Chechnyan
rebels and provide propaganda value to the Russians. This is not to
say that Russia does not engage in its own counter-insurgency, it is
just that faked suicide bombings do not appear to form a core part of
their strategy.
As mentioned before, during the 10 years of Russian occupation of
Afghanistan, no suicide attacks were carried out by the insurgency
against the Afghan population. Why? It certainly didn't benefit the
Americans to kill Afghans who were engaged in killing Russians, the
key enemy of the Americans at the time. The Americans were heavily
involved in recruiting and supplying the insurgency with all kinds of
military hardware. Now however, the situation is different. In
Afghanistan it serves the American agenda to murder as many Afghani
civilians as possible under the cloak of Taliban "suicide bombings"
because it provides the justification for the troops to stay there to
fight this manufactured "evil". In Iraq, the goal is the same, with
the added element of the Neocons' desire to destroy the real Iraqi
resistance by dividing and alienating them from the ordinary people
that support their fight against a brutal occupier. It seems that the
American, Israel and British tactic in Iraq is that if the ordinary
Iraqi people will not be intimidated into accepting occupation and
rejecting the real insurgency, then they will be murdered. Plain and
simple.
Despite Joe Quinn's offer of 1 million dollars then, he can rest
assured that it is unlikely that he will have to go and talk to the
bank anytime soon.
*********************************************************************
WORLD VIEW NEWS SERVICE
To subscribe to this group, send an email to:
wvns-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
NEWS ARCHIVE IS OPEN TO PUBLIC VIEW
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/wvns/
Need some good karma? Appreciate the service?
Please consider donating to WVNS today.
Email ummyakoub@yahoo.com for instructions.
To leave this list, send an email to:
wvns-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wvns/
<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional
<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wvns/join
(Yahoo! ID required)
<*> To change settings via email:
mailto:wvns-digest@yahoogroups.com
mailto:wvns-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
wvns-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
No comments:
Post a Comment