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Darkness Visible: The Pentagon Plan to Foment Terrorism is Now in
Operation (2005)
From the Moscow Times, Jan. 25, 2005. This is the follow-up to "Into
the Dark."
More than two years ago, we wrote here of a secret Pentagon plan to
foment terrorism: sending covert agents to infiltrate terrorist
groups and goad them into action – i.e., committing acts of murder
and destruction. The purpose was two-fold: first, to bring the
terrorist groups into the open, where they could be counterattacked;
and second, to justify U.S. military attacks on the countries where
the terrorists were operating – attacks which, in the Pentagon's
words, would put those nations' "sovereignty at risk." It was a plan
that countenanced – indeed, encouraged – the deliberate murder of
innocent people and the imposition of U.S. military rule anywhere in
the world that American leaders desired.
This plan is now being activated.
In fact, it's being expanded, as the New Yorker's Seymour Hersh
revealed last week. Not only will U.S.-directed agents infiltrate
existing terrorist groups and provoke them into action; the Pentagon
itself will create its own terrorist groups and "death squads." After
establishing their terrorist "credentials" through various atrocities
and crimes, these American-run groups will then be able to ally with
– and ultimately undermine – existing terrorist groups.
Top-level officials in the Pentagon, the U.S. intelligence services
and the Bush administration confirmed to Hersh that the plan is going
forward, under the direction of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld –
just as we noted here in November 2002. Through a series of secret
executive orders, George W. Bush has given Rumsfeld the authority to
turn the entire world into "a global free-fire zone," a top Pentagon
adviser says. These secret operations will be carried out with
virtually no oversight; in many cases, even the top military
commanders in the affected regions will not be told about them. The
American people, of course, will never know what's being done in
their name.
The covert units – including the Pentagon-funded terrorist groups and
hit squads – will be operating outside all constraints of law and
morality. "We're going to be riding with the bad boys," one insider
told Hersh. Another likened it to the palmy days of the Reagan-Bush
years: "Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El
Salvador? We founded them and we financed them. The objective now is
to recruit locals in any area we want. And we aren't going to tell
Congress about it." Indeed, we reported here last summer that Bush
has already budgeted $500 million to fund local paramilitaries and
guerrilla groups in the most volatile areas of the world, a measure
guaranteed to produce needless bloodshed, destruction and suffering
for innocent people already ravaged by conflict.
Incredibly, as Hersh notes, the Bushists are now openly citing a
sinister role model for their campaign: Britain's brutal repression
of the Mau Mau in Kenya during the 1950s, when British forces set up
concentration camps, created their own terrorist groups and killed
thousands of innocent civilians in putting down an "insurgency"
against their colonial rule. And in fact, Rumsfeld and other Bush
officials increasingly talk of combating not just terrorism but a
"global insurgency" – as if the whole world is now an American
colony, filled with recalcitrant "natives" rising up against their
rightful masters.
The activation of the Pentagon terrorist operation is part of Bush's
second-term expansion of the "war on terror." Despite some
obfuscating rhetoric about "diplomacy," the Bush regime is pressing
ahead with a hard-line strategy aimed at opening new military fronts
in the "global free-fire zone." Any dissenting voices within the
government are being ruthlessly purged. The Pentagon's secret forces
are set for operations in at least 10 countries, and Bush insiders
"repeatedly" told Hersh that "Iran is the next strategic target."
Iran has long been a focus of the small clique of "global
dominationists" – led by Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney and
their acolytes – who engineered the invasion of Iraq. This group is
determined to "whack Iran," as one insider put it, and they're not at
all discouraged by the debacle in Iraq; indeed, to them it's a
rousing success. Their first objective – openly stated years ago,
before Bush took office – was the overthrow of Saddam's regime and
the planting of a U.S. "military footprint" in Iraq. This has now
been done. The fact that it has plunged the Iraqi people into a hell
of violence, chaos, terror and extremism is of no real concern to the
clique. Their lofty rhetoric about "freedom" and "liberation" is
meaningless sham, shuck and jive for the rubes. By the admission of
the clique's own publications, they seek strategic control over the
world's energy resources in order to preserve and expand American
geopolitical and economic hegemony in the new century. Everything
else – including the security of the American people, put at
increasing risk by the clique's reckless policies – is of secondary
importance.
U.S. forces are already conducting military reconnaissance inside
Iran in preparation for strikes on alleged nuclear weapons
facilities, Hersh reports. The Pentagon is feverishly updating war
plans for a "maximum ground and air invasion of Iran," incorporating
the new staging areas now available in Iraq, Afghanistan and
Pakistan, while employing an Iranian terrorist group, MEK, to launch
covert ops and terrorist acts against Tehran. MEK was once given
sanctuary by Saddam Hussein, who used the group as a brutal enforcer
against Kurd and Shiite insurgents. Now Bush, "riding with the bad
boys," has embraced the MEK murderers as his own.
In their ignorance and arrogance, the Bushists will almost certainly
strike at Iran – despite the fact that even Iranian dissidents
support the effort to make their nation a nuclear power and would
join the mullahs in retaliation. The result will be a conflict far
surpassing the horror and magnitude of the Iraq disaster.
In our original report on the Pentagon's terror scheme, we wrote:
"Bush and his cohorts are plunging the world into an abyss, an
endless night 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." Now the night has come. Now
the United States stands openly – even proudly – for terrorism,
torture and the Hitlerian principle of aggressive war. America has
fallen into the pit – and the hopes of the world go with it.
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