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> From: Skinny <theskinnyasise...@yahoo.com> > Date: August 11, 2010 11:19:43 AM PDT > To: air_america_ra...@yahoogroups.com, fra...@parallel-youniversity.com, > illusion_of_free...@yahoogroups.com, the_power_hour...@yahoogroups.com, > theneuschwabenlandti...@yahoogroups.com, > uncovering_the_tr...@yahoogroups.com, united-stands-amer...@yahoogroups.com, > wethepeople_uni...@yahoogroups.com, wheretheblacktope...@yahoogroups.com, > catapultthepropaga...@yahoogroups.com, libertarianme...@yahoogroups.com, > new_world_order_expo...@yahoogroups.com, openmindfi...@yahoogroups.com, > openmindopencoden...@yahoogroups.com, qui...@yahoogroups.com, > reality101_re...@yahoogroups.ca, apf...@yahoogroups.com, > armageddon-or-new...@yahoogroups.com, > catapultthenwopolicestatedepopulat...@yahoogroups.com, > coalitionforfreethoughtinme...@googlegroups.com, > conspiracy-the...@yahoogroups.com, conspiracybruthascor...@yahoogroups.com, > ctrl <c...@yahoogroups.com>, freedomsfo...@yahoogroups.com, > hal...@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [ctrl] Hidden Intel.Op.Behind Wiki.Release of > ''Secret''Documents?Engdahl > Reply-To: c...@yahoogroups.com > > > > > Hidden Intelligence Operation Behind the Wikileaks Release of "Secret" > Documents? > > by F. William Engdahl > > > > > > > Global Research, August 11, 2010 > > Email this article to a friend > Print this article > > 0diggsdigg > > Since the dramatic release of a US military film of a US airborne shooting of > unarmed journalists in Iraq, Wiki-Leaks has gained global notoreity and > credibility as a daring website that releases sensitive material to the > public from whistleblowers within various governments. Their latest “coup” > involved alleged leak of thousands of pages of supposedly sensitive documents > regarding US informers within the Taliban in Afghanistan and their ties to > senior people linked to Pakistan’s ISI military intelligence. The evidence > suggests however that far from an honest leak, it is a calculated > disinformation to the gain of the US and perhaps Israeli and Indian > intelligence and a coverup of theUS and Western role in drug trafficking out > of Afghanistan. > > Since the posting of the Afghan documents some days ago the Obama White House > has given the leaks credibility by claiming further leaks pose a threat to US > national security. Yet details of the papers reveals little that is > sensitive. The one figure most prominently mentioned, General (Retired) Hamid > Gul, former head of the Pakistani military intelligence agency, ISI, is the > man who during the 1980’s coordinated the CIA-financed Mujahideen guerilla > war inAfghanistan against the Soviet regime there. In the latest Wikileaks > documents, Gul is accused of regularly meeting Al Qaeda and Taliban leading > people and orchestrating suicide attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan. > > The leaked documents also claim that Osama bin Laden, who was reported dead > three years ago by the late Pakistan candidate Benazir Bhutto on BBC, was > still alive, conveniently keeping the myth alove for the Obama Administration > War on Terror at a point when most Americans had forgotten the original > reason the Bush Administration allegedly invaded Afghanistan to pursue the > Saudi Bin Laden for the 9/11 attacks. > > Demonizing Pakistan? > > The naming of Gul today as a key liaison to the Afghan “Taliban” forms part > of a larger pattern of US and British recent efforts to demonize the current > Pakistan regime as a key part of the problems in Afghanistan. Such a > demonization greatly boosts the position of recent US military ally, India. > Furthermore, Pakistan is the only muslim country possessing atomic weapons. > The Israeli Defense Forces and the Israeli Mossad intelligence agency > reportedly would very much like to change that. A phoney campaign against the > politically outspoken Gul via Wikileaks could be part of that geopolitical > effort. > > The London Financial Times says Gul’s name appears in about 10 of roughly 180 > classified US files that allegePakistan’s intelligence service supported > Afghan militants fighting Nato forces. Gul told the newspaper the US has lost > the war in Afghanistan, and that the leak of the documents would help the > Obama administration deflect blame by suggesting that Pakistan was > responsible. Gul told the paper, “I am a very favourite whipping boy of > America. They can’t imagine the Afghans can win wars on their own. It would > be an abiding shame that a 74-year-old general living a retired life > manipulating the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan results in the defeat of America.” > > Notable, in light of the latest Afghan Wikileaks documents, is the spotlight > on the 74-year-old Gul. As I wrote in a previous piece, Warum Afghanistan? > Teil VI:Washingtons Kriegsstrategie in Zentralasien, published this June on > this website, Gul has been outspoken about the role of the US military in > smuggling Afghan heroin out of the country via the top-security Manas Air > Base in Kyrgyzstan. > > As well, in a UPI interview on September 26, 2001, two weeks after the 9-11 > attacks, Gul stated, in reply to the question who did Black Sept. 11?, > “Mossad and its accomplices. The US spends $40 billion a year on its 11 > intelligence agencies. That’s $400 billion in 10 years. Yet the Bush > Administration says it was taken by surprise. I don’t believe it. Within 10 > minutes of the second twin tower being hit in the World Trade Center CNN said > Osama bin Laden had done it. That was a planned piece of disinformation by > the real perpetrators…” [1] Gul is clearly not well liked in Washington. He > claims his request for travel visas to the UK and to the USA have repeatedly > been denied. Making Gul into the arch enemy would suit some in Washington > nicely. > > Who is Julian Assange? > > Wikileaks founder and “Editor-in-chief”, Julian Assange, is a mysterious > 29-year-old Australian about whom little is known. He has suddenly become a > prominent public figure offering to mediate with the White House over the > leaks. Following the latest leaks, Assange told Der Spiegel, one of three > outlets with which he shared material from the most recent leak, that the > documents he had unearthed would “change our perspective on not only the war > in Afghanistan, but on all modern wars.” He stated in the same interview that > ‘”I enjoy crushing bastards.” Wikileaks, founded in 2006 by Assange, has no > fixed home and Assange claims he “lives in airports these days.” > > Yet a closer examination of the public position of Assange on one of the most > controversial issues of recent decades, the forces behind the September 11, > 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center shows him to be curiously > establishment. When the Belfast Telegraph interviewed him on July 19, he > stated, > "Any time people with power plan in secret, they are conducting a conspiracy. > So there are conspiracies everywhere. There are also crazed conspiracy > theories. It's important not to confuse these two...." What about 9/11?: "I'm > constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as > 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or > mass financial fraud." What about the Bilderberg Conference?: "That is > vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their > meeting notes."[2] > That statement from a person who has built a reputation of being > anti-establishment is more than notable. First, as thousands of physicists, > engineers, military professionals and airline pilots have testified, the idea > that 19 barely-trained Arabs armed with box-cutters could divert four US > commercial jets and execute the near-impossible strikes on the Twin Towers > and Pentagon over a time period of 93 minutes with not one Air Force NORAD > military interception, is beyond belief. Precisely who executed the > professional attack is a matter for genuine unbiased international inquiry. > > Notable for Mr Assange’s blunt denial of any sinister 9/11 conspiracy is the > statement in a BBC interview by former US Senator, Bob Graham, who chaired > the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence when it performed > its Joint Inquiry into 9/11. Graham told BBC, "I can just state that within > 9/11 there are too many secrets, that is information that has not been made > available to the public for which there are specific tangible credible > answers and that that withholding of those secrets has eroded public > confidence in their government as it relates to their own security." BBC > narrator: "Senator Graham found that the cover-up led to the heart of the > administration." Bob Graham: "I called the White House and talked with Ms. > Rice and said, ‘Look, we've been told we're gonna get cooperation in this > inquiry, and she said she'd look into it, and nothing happened.’” > > Of course, the Bush Administration was able to use the 9/11 attacks to launch > its War on Terrorism in Afghanistanand then Iraq, a point Assange > conveniently omits. > > For his part, General Gul claims that US intelligence orchestrated the > Wikileaks on Afghanistan to find a scapegoat, Gul, to blame. Conveniently, as > if on cue, British Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, on a state > visit to India, lashed out at the alleged role of Pakistan in supporting > Taliban in Afghanistan, conveniently lending further credibility to the > Wikileaks story. The real story of Wikileaks has clearly not yet been told. > > > Notes > > [1] General Hamid Gul, Arnaud de Borchgrave 2001 Interview with Hamid Gul, > Former ISI Chief, UPI, reprinted July 2010 on > http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/07/28/arnaud-de-borchgrave-2001-interview-with-hamid-gul-former-isi-chief/ > [2] Julian Assange, Interview in Belfast Telegraph, July 19, 2010. > > F. William Engdahl is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global > Research Articles by F. William Engdahl > > Please support Global Research > Global Research relies on the financial support of its readers. > > > Your endorsement is greatly appreciated > > Subscribe to the Global Research E-Newsletter > > Spread the word! Forward to a friend! > > > > > >
