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CIA AGENT IDENTIFIED AS ABC BROADCASTER!!http://www.rumormillnews.net/members/cgi-bin/config.cgi?read=11483 Posted By: Esclarmonde Date: Thursday, 13 September 2001, 9:33 a.m. Some thoughts: 1) Osama ben Laden was our guy in the Afghanistan-Russian war during the 80's.We loved him, armed him, trained him, just as we did with Saddam Hussein when he was fighting Iran and we were taking sides. On one horrible level, this is chickens coming home to roost. 2)Many muslims in the world see this as a Christian vs. Muslim struggle. They noted how we did not allow the Muslims in Bosnia to arm themselves while they were being "ethnically cleansed"; noticed how we then bombed the area indiscriminately at 30,000 feet; noticed how we decimated Baghdad killing over200,000 adults (Pentagon estimates) and later 500,000 children due to disease( from the destruction of the water-system and infra-structure), cancer (from irradiated shells) and starvation; noticed how we've backed Israel despite its racist and oppressive behavior. Many of these people find us incredibly biased and are angered beyond measure. 3) The media itself has an agenda and is dangerously close to government's agenda. Yesterday on ABC-News a fellow named Canastero was speaking and identified as an ABC broadcaster. He was in fact a CIA agent who was in charge of the mujhadin once upon a time and worked with Biin Laden and his cohorts. The fact that he was not identified is extremely important (and dangerous to me.)Peter Jennings himself pointed out yesterday, that in that news footage of Palestinians "celebrating" yesterday you could see people standing on the sidewalks shocked and aghast. Nor did the footage show the Palestinians with relatives here who are worried sick about them. 4) You only have to look at Chechnya-Russia; Basque-Spain; Northern-Southern Ireland; India-Pakistan to see where this war of retaliation will go if we continue to strike-counter-strike as the Pentagon et al seem to be preparing to do. 5)A quote from Michael Moore's (Roger and Me) letter today:a first-year pilot on AmericanEagle (the commuter arm of American Airlines) receives around $15,000 a year in annual pay.That’s right -- $15,000 for the person who has your life in his hands.Until recently, Continental Express paid a little over $13,000 a year.There was one guy, an American Eagle pilot, who had four kids so he went down to the welfare office and applied for food stamps -- and he was eligible! Someone on welfare is flying my plane? Is this for real? Yes, it is.So spare me the talk about all the precautions the airlines and the FAA is taking. They, like all businesses, are concerned about one thing -- the bottom line and the profit margin.Four teams of 3-5 people were all able to penetrate airport security on the same morning at 3 different airports and pull off this heinous act? My only response is -- that’s all?Well, the pundits are in full diarrhea mode, gushing on about the“terrorist threat” and today’s scariest dude on planet earth -- Osama binLaden. Hey, who knows, maybe he did it. But, something just doesn’t add up.Am I being asked to believe that this guy who sleeps in a tent in a desert has been training pilots to fly our most modern, sophisticated jumbo jets with such pinpoint accuracy that they are able to hit these three targets without anyone wondering why these planes were so far off path?Or am I being asked to believe that there were four religious/political anatics who JUST HAPPENED to be skilled airline pilots who JUST HAPPENED to want to kill themselves today? 6) For years the airlines have told us that there were marshalls on board; that the pilot's cabins were secure; that airport security was developed and secure.In fact it appears that these things were the same kind of lie American Airlines told when they went to the pound and bought dogs some years ago and passsed them off to the public as dope and bomb-sniffing dogs as public relations. 7)Americans seem unable to comprehend that we often ask the Iraqi people or the German people to be "patriotic" (as opposed to jingoistic) and disobey their leader. Now we're being told to be jingoistic and "back our President" despite the fact that it is our foreign policy and short term national interests have created this polarized situation. Our language and thinking pre-supposes that we're "good" and the rest of these guys are "motivelessly evil" -- appearring out of some vague a-historical present, without antecedents. Where was the fuss and grieving for the Iraqi children? The Nicaraguan children? The Honduran children? The African children? The Chilean children in all these countries where either our army or our CIA intervened on the side of the fat against the hungry? Don't get me wrong, this is a tragedy and my heart is broken and I'm very worried about the way it will empower the most repressive elements of the society--militarize us and repress us. But this situation did not come out of nowhere, and we cannot avoid analysis and some degree of the blame. Without doing that, things are going to get much much worse. |
