Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- UNITE! Info #153en: People is target; an "inside job" [Posted: 20.09.01] Note / Anmerkung / Note / Nota / Anmärkning: On the UNITE! / VEREINIGT EUCH! / UNISSEZ-VOUS! / ¡UNIOS! / FÖRENA ER! Info en/de/fr/es/se series: See information on the last page / Siehe Information auf der letzten Seite / Verrez information à la dernière page / Ver información en la última página / Se information på sista sidan The target of the reactionary attack in New York and Washington on 11.09, which killed over 6,000, mainly civilians, and caused enormous destruction, clearly above all was the people: The people in the USA quite directly, indirectly that in the other "rich" countries too. And not least were the masses of people in the many oppressed and internationally exploited countries a target. The circumstances of this attack, even those which are publicly known so far, make it highly unlikely that it was carried out without the involvement of some circles within the imperialist "establishment" of the USA itself. One line of reactionary propaganda now, the crudest and most primitive one and a main theme of practically all the interna- tional mass media, is that the "democratic" or "free" world was hit by some evil forces or other, based in locations "not yet precisely known" but "most probably" "mainly in the Middle East". One "main suspect" even was pointed to, by some media, within hours, indeed minutes, after the attack began, with US officials including the president later "confirming" this pur- ported suspicion, as a preparation for an attack "in retalia- tion" possibly against Afghanistan, possibly against other countries (too) in the same region - "this must have been in- stigated and led by Osama bin Laden or by some forces under his command". This is a completely mendacious "theory". Nothing resembling proof for it has been presented either. The "conclusions" drawn from it, that a military action by the rulers of the USA and by various allies of theirs against any such country would be "justified" or "could contribute towards ending" such atroci- ties as those in the USA on 11 September, are completely false. Such actions must be opposed everywhere and if possible preven- ted. Also is the theory, advanced by some others who may be well- meaning, that this attack was planned and carried out in order somehow to counter the equally vile and much bigger terror by US imperialism and its allies against the oppressed peoples in the world, a false one. No organization or group of people which in any way whatsoever is striving to represent the interests of the oppressed peoples and nations could possibly believe that such an attack, such an atrocity against thousands of ordinary people in the USA, might serve these interests. Nor is there any organization whose claim to be fighting for the liberation of a nation could be taken seriously in any way which has such big resources as there obviously were behind the co-ordinated attacks in the USA on 11 September. Religiously fanatical persons probably were used, for the hi- jackings and the kamikaze attacks themselves. They may have been persuaded that they were "serving a good cause". But the organizers of these atrocities clearly had extremely reactio- nary aims. The precisely wanted to create, in the USA and worldwidely, such a climate of terror as that which is reigning now. SOME VOICES OF VARIOUS OBSERVERS WHO ARE DOUBTING THE "OFFICIAL" STORY In a message sent to many addresses on Tue, 11 Sep 2001 17:59:29 +0100, from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and <news @psyopnews.com>, subject "World Trade Center Analysis by PsyOpNews.com", it was stated i.a.: [QUOTE:] PsyOp: Psych-war operation staged to alter perceptions more ... TERROR-4-RENT PSYOP MEANS WAR, MARKET CRASH 11th September, 2001 ... Anyone daring to make this type of attack has the highest level of political cover. Cover from an external ememy of the USA or indeed, cover from indside the Anglo-American-Israeli NWO set. Lately, you can buy terror on the open market at bargain base- ment rates. Either way, this is a massive terror PsyOp - a psychological operation. ... Already, a released-then-denied Palestinian claim of responsi- bility has ensured that everyone is looking in the 'right' direction for the culpits. An old trick, that. A signature, even. Phones are down too - ensuring that 'event' controlers have things running on course. Another signature. ... Our condolences to the families of the victims. More coverage soon. PsyOpNews.com [END OF QUOTE] So far, the writer of this Info has been unable to access the site referred to here, http://www.psyopsnews.com. An article at http://www.emperors-clothes.com posted on 15.09, "Criminal Negligence or Treason - Commentary on a NY Times ar- ticle by Jared Israel", argued i.a.: [QUOTE:] We cannot say with certainty what happened Sept.11 - that is, what really happened, behind the scenes. But the following report from the semi-official 'N.Y. Times' makes it clear that either Americans are being lied to by the those in the highest places - which if true has the gravest implications - or Washington's New World Order is ruled by criminally negligent morons. In an analysis of the 9-11 nightmare, which we have been pre- paring, one of the things we asked is: how could the so-called third plane stay in the air, hijacked, for almost an hour after two other hijacked planes had struck the WTC Towers, and not be seen and intercepted by U.S. air defense forces? How could it fly to the Midwest, turn around and fly back to Washington, to the Pentagon, undisturbed? .... [END OF QUOTE] One openly-bourgeois and openly-pro-US-imperialist person in the USA itself, Lyndon LaRouche, who is leading a "non-main- stream" group opposing certain policies of the US "establish- ment" while very much agreeing with the main rulers of the USA in opposing proletarian revolution in the world, said in a statement on 18.09 (after a previous similar one on 15.09) i.a.: [QUOTE:] First of all, what has happened to the United States on last Tuesday, the 11th, it came under attack by a mysterious force, which I know is some kind of rogue operation {inside} the se- curity screen of the United States. This did not come from the Middle East. It didn't come from Europe. It didn't come from South America. There may be people who are nationals from other parts of the world who were involved in this, but the operation is very sophisticated, and no one could do an operation like this, from {outside} the United States at present; there's no one who could do what was done here then. So, we know it's a very high-level rogue operation inside our own country. [END OF QUOTE] Some other political forces, including other openly-bourgeois ones, in various other countries have made statements in simi- lar directions, with conclusions about the origins and motives of the attackers, statements which are noteworthy because they probably in one way or another contain parts of the truth. SOME DETAILS NOTED BY VARIOUS OBSERVERS Writing for the newsletter "CounterPunch" on 12.09, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair stated i.a.: [QUOTE:] CounterPunch has learned from two sources that a) three weeks before the attack of September 11 security at the World Trade Center was abruptly heightened and that b) six weeks before the attack a US army base in New Jersey was placed on top security alert. [END OF QUOTE] Some writers have discussed the possibility of involvement of the intelligence agency of the Israeli zionists, not advancing any proof of such involvement. But one statement in this con- nexion is of interest; it should be investigated whether it in fact is true: "Eman A. Hassaballa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 17.09 in a mail sent to the AntiNATO mailing list i.a.: [QUOTE:] With the announcement of the attacks at the World Trade Center in New York, the international media, particularly the Israeli one, hurried to take advantage of the incident and started mourning 4000 Israelis who work at the two towers. Then sud- denly, no one ever mentioned anything about those Israelis and later it became clear that they remarkably did not show up in their jobs the day the incident took place. No one talked about any Israeli being killed or wounded in the attacks. Arab diplomatic sources revealed to the Jordanian al-Watan newspaper that those Israelis remained absent that day based on hints from the Israeli General Security Apparatus, the Sha- bak, the fact which evoked unannounced suspicions on American officials who wanted to know how the Israeli government learned about the incident before it occurred, and the reasons why it refrained from informing the U.S. authorities of the informa- tion it had. Suspicions had increased further after Israeli newspaper Yadiot Ahranot revealed that the Shabak prevented Israeli premier Ariel Sharon from traveling to New York and particularly to the city's eastern coast to participate in a festival organized by the Zionist organizations in support of the "Israel". Aharon Bernie, the commentator at the newspaper, brought up the issue and came up with a negative conclusion, saying "no answer". He then asked about the clue behind the Shabak's position in pre- venting Sharon's participation, and again without giving an answer. Bernie added that Sharon, who was delighted for having his speech on top of the festival agenda, asked the head of the organization to mediate and convince the Shabak to change its position, but his attempts were in vein. The next day after Sharon's secretary officially announced that Sharon would not participate the incident took place. [END OF QUOTE] To the same mailing list, "Heather" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 19.09, subject "Re israeli connection", i.a.: [QUOTE:] Please look into this. Is this true? This is too big a thing to have "out there." Who can reliably check this out? There are other strange things: 1. The passport of one hijacker miraculously made it through the crash, conflagration, and building collapse to float con- veniently down intact to be picked up by a passer-by. 2. One of the bags allegedly not loaded on the Boston plane had a Koran and a fuel calculator and "how to fly" instructions. How convenient. The only piece of baggage that didn't get loaded was this incriminating evidence pointing to an Islamic perpetrator. [END OF QUOTE] BRIEFLY ON THE SITUATION IN THE WORLD, ON SOME RAGING CONFLICTS IN IT, AND ON EARLIER EXPERIENCE OF "PSY-OPS" AND SO-CALLED "TERRORIST" ATTACKS As pointed out in several earlier Infos, the situation in the world today above all is characterized by a putrefaction of the entire reigning international system of capitalism and im- perialism. The conflict between the ruling imperialist bour- geoisie, on the one hand, and the workers and the oppressed peoples in the world, on the other, has become extremely acute. With a number of desperate, extremely reactionary actions and campaigns in the political, economic and cultural fields, in- cluding such which intend to beat back the very development of industry, science and technology in the world, the imperia- lists, led by the US imperialists, since several decades back have been hitting out at the people in all countries, striving to prolong that long-since outdated system of society of theirs which more and more needs to be overthrown. But these campaigns more and more have met with resistance by the people in many countries, despite the fact that there are practically no ge- nuinely communist, genuinely Marxist-Leninist organized forces in the world any more, which could provide guidance for and lead this resistance; the formerly existing such have been sub- verted and crushed to a large extent. The imperialist aggressions against oppressed peoples and na- tions, the largest one against the DR Congo in Africa in order to "punish" that nation for its starting to set up a genuinely democratic, anti-imperialist regime, and the likewise conti- nuing ones against Iraq and Yugoslavia, taking the also reac- tionary traits of the regimes in these countries as pretexts, are meeting with massiove resistance too. And so are the ef- forts by the ruling bourgeoisie massively to increase interna- tional exploitation under the hypocritical watchword of "glo- balization", by which is meant, not actual international co- operation, in the interests of the many, but the imposing of conditions favouring only the even bigger enrichment of a tiny minority. Certainly in this situation all sorts of arch-reactionaries in the world have seen a "great need" to go over from covert war against the masses of people to open such, with such atrocities as those in the USA on 11.09 and with such "conclusions" as they themselves now are drawing from these attacks. In Europe, there since the early 1970s is a long experience with so-called "terrorism", reactionary provocations by groups such as the "RAF" or "Baader-Meinhof gang" in Germany, the "Red Brigades" in Italy etc, whose various purported "actions against imperialism" again and again have occurred at such points in time and under such circumstances that it has been very clear that they could only favour either US imperialism, the former Soviet social-imperialism or sometimes (also) Isra- eli zionism, groups which have eventually clearly been demon- strated to have direct connections to, indeed to be muppets of, various intelligence services of reactionary powers. Their ac- tions can be characterized as "PsyOps", a term used by one writer quoted above. On the American continent too, the phenomenon of planned or actually undertaken "PsyOps" is not a new one. The conspiracy to murder the US president Kennedy in 1963 is one infamous example, considerable details of which were disclosed in the 1987 book by Jim Garrison, "On the Trail of the Assassins" and the 1992 film based on it, "JFK" - despite this, the "official" story still is that the carefully "groomed" patsy Oswald was the actual murderer. In connection with the atrocities on 11.09 now, some writers who have read some only recently published documents have directed attention to the so-called "Operation Northwoods" which some "highly placed" persons in the then US administration were planning in 1962. In a mail to the list "CubaNews" on 17.09 for instance, N Y Transfer News wrote i.a.: [QUOTE:] The following excerpt from James Bamford's "Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency" (Double- day, 2001) provides very disturbing information that is direct- ly relevant to the events of September 11, 2001. Indeed, we must wonder if the inexplicable intelligence and de- fense failures claimed by US Government agencies are simply part of some elaborate cover story. Even worse, we must con- sider the possibility that the September 11th attacks on New York and Washington were simply a bigger, badder version of the Gulf of Tonkin "incident," which was successfully foisted upon a gullible US public to push them into supporting the war against Vietnam. Bamford begins Chapter Four of his book by describing the bi- zarre cold-war atmosphere in the US in 1960, with the witch- hunts of McCarthyism a recent event, and US military leadership full of paranoid arch-reactionary attitudes. ...... According to secret and long-hidden documents obtained for Body of Secrets, the Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government. In the name of anticommunism, they proposed launching a secret and bloody war of terrorism against their own country in order to trick the American public into suppor- ting an ill-conceived war they intended to launch against Cuba. Codenamed Operation Northwoods, the plan, which had the written approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., Miami, and elsewhere. People would be framed for bombings they did not commit; planes would be hi- jacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Cas- tro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they needed to launch their war. [END OF QUOTE] That "particularly corrupt" plan in the end was not carried out. Among similar plans that - most probably - was, the hos- tage-taking incident at the Japanese embassy in Lima, Peru, between December 1996 and April 1997 is worth mentioning. In Peru, a people's war against the reactionary government of Fujimori had been going on since 1980, led by the PCP, a party of genuinely revolutionary character, as far as can be ascer- tained, though also with serious faults in its line. In a much- publicized action, a so-called "competing guerilla organiza- tion" the "MRTA", rather clearly a puppet of US imperialism, attacked the Japanese embassy in Lima in December 1996 on the occasion of a gathering of many ambassadors, and took everyone present hostage; the US ambassador to Peru "happened to" have left the building half an hour before. Eventually the embassy was stormed in April 1997 by the forces of Fujimori, who kil- led several of the hostage-takers. Several things pointed to this being a "PsyOp" of the US impe- rialists: Their obvious interest in combating the actual peop- le's war and creating a false impression concerning it, their likewise obvious "concern about" the considerable influence of the Japanese bourgeoisie in Peru and some other South American countries at the time and their "dissatisfaction" (already) then with their muppet at that time in Peru, Fujimori, who was eventually replaced some years later. In connection with the recent events, this "mode of operation" of some forces within US imperialism (as it most likely was) not so long ago also merits attention. UNITE! / VEREINIGT EUCH! / UNISSEZ-VOUS! / ¡UNIOS! / FÖRENA ER! Info en/de/fr/es/se series: Advocates the political line of Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong. Each item # will be posted in one or more language(s). Leaflets in the INFORMATIONSBLAD series published by me, mainly in Swedish, since 1975 are available on request. 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