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Subject: !*"The Forgotten Terrorists" by Mumia Abu-Jamal
"THE FORGOTTEN TERRORISTS"
[col. writ. 9/24/01] *01 Mumia Abu-Jamal
For far too many Americans, the word 'terrorism' has acquired a
whole new meaning in the dusty aftermath of 11 September 2001.
The word now instantly refers to the mental imagery of the shattered
twin towers of the World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan, or
the broken edifice of the Pentagon building in Washington, or even
the smouldering mound of earth in southwestern Pennsylvania.
They refer to the thousands of people, from dozens of countries,
who lost their lives when the buildings were shattered, broken and
leveled into dust. But, if truth be told, they refer mostly to
Americans.
When an airliner in the far-off South China Sea area develops engine
trouble, and plummets into the ocean depths, reporters always rush
to inform us, "Flight 502 of a PanAm to Hong Kong went down over
the South China Sea today: 15 Americans were onboard." In such a
common report, it is implicitly assumed that those of other
nationalities are of lesser importance. They don't *really* matter.
It is indeed possible to look at the events of 11 September in a
somewhat similar light. For, if it is indeed found that the acts
of that day may be traced to terrorists, working out of Middle
Eastern organizations, what most will ignore is another kind of
terrorism. It is waged against the poor and powerless of many
nations. It kills, maims, tortures, and destroys many thousands of
people every year.
It is the spectre of State Terrorism.
Don't expect to find eye-catching exposes in the Daily Blah, or to
hear about it on your favorite network news program in the evening
on the tube. You have to look hard for this stuff. Consider the
views of John Stockwell, a former CIA station chief (Angola), who
considers the work that he was doing overseas, on behalf of the US
government, to be supporting terrorism. He looks at the time when
a man named Bush headed the CIA:
CIA Director George Bush allegedly worked to convince the former
OPMONGOOSE operators to reorganize outside the United States. In
June 1976, they went to the Dominican Republic and founded CORU,
a counter-revolutionary group. On October 26, 1976, they blew up
an airplane that was taking off from Barbados, killing 73 passengers
on board in a raw act of terrorism. Luis Posada Carrilles and
Orlando Bosch were jailed in Venezuela for that bombing. There is
evidence that members of this same CIA/Cuban exile community
participated in the killing of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
We also know that the CIA's 1980 contra program later managed to
get Luis Posada Carilles out of prison in Venezuela. They put him
to work for Felix Rodriguez, who was reporting directly to then
Vice- President Bush's Office. As Felix Rodriguez told the press,
"We needed him."
He was referring to Carilles, the terrorist airplane bomber (See
The Praetorian Guard: The U.S. Role in the New World Order (Boston:
South End Press, 1991).
These are the words of a man who spent over a decade in the CIA,
and even served briefly on a subcommittee of the National Security
Council, during the Kissinger era. Even though his work had to be
cleared by CIA censors to be published, his view of how the United
States government has functioned, through its CIA, is telling:
To summarize, the CIA has overthrown functioning constitutional
democracies in over 20 countries. It has manipulated elections in
dozens of countries. It has created standing armies and directed
them to fight. It has organized ethnic minorities and encouraged
them to revolt in numerous volatile areas. (p. 73)
Looking at CIA activities abroad, in Asia, Africa, and Latin America,
this former station chief offers a conservative estimate of how
many people, all over the world, "...would not have died if U.S.
tax dollars had not been spent by the CIA to inflame tensions,
finance covert political and military activity, and destabilize
societies," and comes up with a figure of:
6,000,000. Six million people, he says, "and this is a minimum
figure" (p.
81).
Are Afghan-trained rebels, from various Middle Eastern states,
responsible for the carnage of 11 September, 2001? Who armed them?
Who trained them? Who loosed them upon the world? Their very deadly
expertise are your tax dollars at work.
Americans mean one thing, when they think of terrorism.
Americans from the South, in Peru, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay,
Brazil, Cuba, El Salvador, Chile, etc., think of something else.
People from Indonesia, South Africa, Angola, Egypt, the Occupied
Territories of Palestine, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and the like,
think of something else.
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