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Pubdate: Nov, 2002 Source: Ecologist, The (U.K.) Copyright: 2001, The Ecologist Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.theecologist.org/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/998 Author: Eduardo Goncalves CALL ME PARANOID, BUT... Eduardo Goncalves reveals a secret US plot to assassinate key European politicians. For those who say politics should be about the little guy I say you don't get littler than George W Bush. He has become so brazen of late that he has given real credence to those - usually mocked as conspiracy theory cranks - who say modern democracy simply serves the interests of the rich, and that international relations are rigged so as to satisfy their appetite for natural resources (especially oil) however barbaric the consequences for people and the planet. The problem is that once you start down this road you can end up getting very paranoid. As it is, I'm feeling rather paranoid right now. You see, the last time 1 broached the subject of this month's column 1 had armed paramilitary police with dogs at my door, and an unmarked military helicopter circling my home. See what 1 mean? 1 sound like a crank already. The subject is the mysterious death of a fellow Portuguese a few years ago. An official investigation ruled that his death was an accident. What raised the ire of the authorities was my suggestion that the dead man, Sa Carneiro, was the victim of an assassination plot linked to the murky history of the US's secret arms dealings with Iran. Trouble was that when the light aircraft he was travelling in crashed shortly after take- off, Carneiro was no ordinary citizen. He was Portugal's Prime Minister. I did not make my suggestion lightly. My conclusion was based on evidence of a bomb explosion on board the plane, testimony from experts who examined X-rays of the bodies, information from Scotland Yard detectives and statements made by persons confessing their involvement in the plot to a special commission of investigation set up by Portuguese MPs. The latter said that the intended victim was not in fact Carneiro but the country's defence minister, Amaro da Costa, who had uncovered a secret slush fund used by senior military figures in Portugal to process the supply of US weapons (labelled as 'farm equipment') via the country's ports to Iran. Da Costa had gathered enough evidence to blow the whistle on the scam. This would have been a teensy bit embarrassing - not least for George Bush Sr, the retiring head of the CIA who had just been elected US vicepresident following the supposed 'October Surprise' scandal. (The 'surprise' was that Dubya's Dad is said to have met secretly with Iran's ayatollahs so as to deliberately delay the release of US hostages held in Tehran and deny incumbent President Jimmy Carter any political advantage and thus ensure Ronnie Reagan's victory.) Far-fetched? Not according to Ricardo Sa Fernandes, a lawyer representing the families of the victims of the Carneiro 'crash', and who also happens to have been Portugal's finance minister until recently. He has published an explosive book on the subject, in which he tears the official 'accident' verdict to shreds and catalogues the perpetrators' method, their motive and the extraordinary cover-up of the evidence. What is more, Fernandes reveals how Henry Kissinger (funny how he always crops up at times like these) visited Portugal shortly before the crash - supposedly to discuss the ongoing crisis in Zambia, but in reality to seek authorisation for the use of Portuguese ports as a bridging station for the arms transactions. When the government refused, the US co-opted senior Portuguese military officers to help them operate in covert defiance of Portugal's elected administration. Now, a former CIA chief has revealed that Da Costa planned to fly to New York to publicly denounce the flagrant violation of Portuguese sovereignty at the UN. Oswald LeWinter (who has been startling his former employers with revelations about the Lockerbie bombing, among other things) has even suggested that US agencies were involved in plots to kill other elected European leaders. All to ensure 'political stability' - or, in plain language, to protect US economic privileges. LeWinter plans to reveal all in a new book. So could stories like these explain why the US is so worried about the international war crimes tribunal? The US Congress has voted itself the 'right' to take military action against any country, friend or foe, that arrests a US citizen on supposed war crimes charges. Might not the Bush clan (or their friends, like Kissinger) be concerned that its next foreign excursion could end in a trip to The Hague? Well, I guess if I'm not here next month, you'll know the answer to that question... Or am I just being paranoid? Eduardo Goncalves is a Portuguese investigative journalist <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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