Sick strategies
for senseless slaughter
The murderous fools are not trying to end the war;
they're trying to keep it going as long as they can
By John Kaminski
skylax@comcast.net
The cat is out of the bag now.
It happened quite by accident, as most revelations do. And it is seen by
most of the world as the most revolting of the American/Israeli atrocities
in the past few years, although it's hard to prioritize that claim because
of the level and frequency of barbaric acts that are committed on a regular
basis by those affluent automatons who call themselves the good guys.
Yet everyone but the comatose American populace — blinded by its Orwellian
media and stupefied by its demented diet of physical and mental poisons —
can see it.
So permit me to spell it out for those cowardly people who say they're
living in the freest country on Earth, but absolutely refuse in their silent
ignorance to see the blood they're spilling. No country that condones
deliberate torture for any reason can ever be trusted.
The first hint came in Imad Khadduri's "A warning to car drivers" written in
Arabic and posted on www.albasrah.net on May 11. The dispatch was quickly
picked up by two of the most realistic and reliable news sites on the Web,
www.uruknet.info, which I try to read every day, and www.globalresearch.ca,
which I try to read every week, since it offers less breaking and more
analytical news. I consider these two sites essential to keeping up with the
real news of the world, and highly recommend that you monitor them, too.
Khadduri recounted a scam that opens up a clear window to seeing who is
perpetrating all this inexplicable violence in Iraq. Beyond the American
attempt to pacify an outraged and abused nation through demonic destruction,
and beyond the Iraqi attempt to resist this totalitarian takeover by a
foreign conqueror, there are more than numerous acts of violence that simply
can't be understood by straightforward explanations.
I mean, when a mosque blows up and Americans blame Islamic terrorists,
whether Sunni or Shiite, it makes no sense. Muslims never blow up their own
houses of worship. Or when reporters sympathetic to either the Iraqi cause
of freedom, or even just general principles of international justice, are
suddenly assassinated and the blame is placed on often imaginary Islamic
extremists whose perspective is supported by these writers, how can anyone
believe that Muslims did it, even thought this is what the Zionist American
press and government continue to insist.
So who’s doing all these demented deeds? As if we didn’t know ....
Khadduri’s report went like this:
“A few days ago, an American manned check point confiscated the
driver license of a driver and told him to report to an American military
camp near Baghdad airport for interrogation and in order to retrieve his
license. The next day, the driver did visit the camp and he was allowed in
the camp with his car. He was admitted to a room for an interrogation that
lasted half an hour. At the end of the session, the American interrogator
told him: ‘OK, there is nothing against you, but you do know that Iraq is
now sovereign and is in charge of its own affairs. Hence, we have forwarded
your papers and license to al-Kadhimia police station for processing.
Therefore, go there with this clearance to reclaim your license. At the
police station, ask for Lt. Hussain Mohammed, who is waiting for you now. Go
there now quickly, before he leaves his shift work”.
The driver did leave in a hurry, but was soon alarmed with a feeling that
his car was driving as if carrying a heavy load, and he also became
suspicious of a low flying helicopter that kept hovering overhead, as if
trailing him. He stopped the car and inspected it carefully. He found nearly
100 kilograms of explosives hidden in the back seat and along the two back
doors.
The only feasible explanation for this incident is that the car was indeed
booby trapped by the Americans and intended for the al-Khadimiya Shiite
district of Baghdad. The helicopter was monitoring his movement and
witnessing the anticipated “hideous attack by foreign elements”.
The same scenario was repeated in Mosul, in the north of Iraq. A car was
confiscated along with the driver’s license. He did follow up on the matter
and finally reclaimed his car but was told to go to a police station to
reclaim his license. Fortunately for him, the car broke down on the way to
the police station. The inspecting car mechanic discovered that the spare
tire was fully laden with explosives."
If this were the only example of this type I heard, I might have
let it pass as just a story. But it wasn’t.
There was also the sorry tale of the Iraqi man who saw American soldiers
plant a bomb which shortly thereafter exploded, and when he said so out loud
for all to hear, he was hauled away, never to be seen again.
This story was reported on arguably the most authentic and riveting source
of news from Iraq, the heart-rending "Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq,"
which is compiled by someone known only as Riverbend or Iraqi Girl <http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/>.
Again, recommended reading.
She recounts, "the last two weeks have been violent ....
The number of explosions in Baghdad alone is frightening. There
have also been several assassinations — bodies being found here and there.
It's somewhat disturbing to know that corpses are turning up in the most
unexpected places. Many people will tell you it's not wise to eat river fish
anymore because they have been nourished on the human remains being dumped
into the river. That thought alone has given me more than one sleepless
night. It is almost as if Baghdad has turned into a giant graveyard.
The latest corpses were those of some Sunni and Shia clerics — several of
them well-known. People are being patient and there is a general consensus
that these killings are being done to provoke civil war. Also worrisome is
the fact that we are hearing of people being rounded up by security forces (Iraqi)
and then being found dead days later — apparently when the new Iraqi
government recently decided to reinstate the death penalty, they had
something else in mind.
But back to the explosions. One of the larger blasts was in an area called
Ma'moun, which is a middle class area located in west Baghdad. It’s a
relatively calm residential area with shops that provide the basics and a
bit more. It happened in the morning, as the shops were opening up for their
daily business and it occurred right in front of a butcher’s shop.
Immediately after, we heard that a man living in a house in front of the
blast site was hauled off by the Americans because it was said that after
the bomb went off, he sniped an Iraqi National Guardsman.
I didn’t think much about the story — nothing about it stood out: an
explosion and a sniper — hardly an anomaly. The interesting news started
circulating a couple of days later. People from the area claim that the man
was taken away not because he shot anyone, but because he knew too much
about the bomb. Rumor has it that he saw an American patrol passing through
the area and pausing at the bomb site minutes before the explosion. Soon
after they drove away, the bomb went off and chaos ensued. He ran out of his
house screaming to the neighbors and bystanders that the Americans had
either planted the bomb or seen the bomb and done nothing about it. He was
promptly taken away.
The bombs are mysterious. Some of them explode in the midst of National
Guard and near American troops or Iraqi Police and others explode near
mosques, churches, and shops or in the middle of sougs. One thing that
surprises us about the news reports of these bombs is that they are
inevitably linked to suicide bombers. The reality is that some of these
bombs are not suicide bombs — they are car bombs that are either being
remotely detonated or maybe time bombs. All we know is that the techniques
differ and apparently so do the intentions. Some will tell you they are
resistance. Some say Chalabi and his thugs are responsible for a number of
them. Others blame Iran and the SCIRI militia Badir.
In any case, they are terrifying. If you're close enough, the first sound is
a that of an earsplitting blast and the sounds that follow are of a rain of
glass, shrapnel and other sharp things. Then the wails begin — the shrill
mechanical wails of an occasional ambulance combined with the wail of car
alarms from neighboring vehicles… and finally the wail of people trying to
sort out their dead and dying from the debris.
Then there was this one.
On May 13, 2005, a 64 years old Iraqi farmer, Haj Haidar Abu
Sijjad, took his tomato load in his pickup truck from Hilla to Baghdad,
accompanied by Ali, his 11 years old grandson. They were stopped at an
American check point and were asked to dismount. An American soldier climbed
on the back of the pickup truck, followed by another a few minutes later,
and thoroughly inspected the tomato filled plastic containers for about 10
minutes. Haj Haidar and his grandson were then allowed to proceed to Baghdad.
A minute later, his grandson told him that he saw one of the American
soldiers putting a grey melon size object in the back among the tomato
containers. The Haj immediately slammed on the brakes and stopped the car at
the side of the road, at a relatively far distance from the check point. He
found a time bomb with the clock ticking tucked among his tomatoes. He
immediately recognized it, as he was an ex-army soldier. Panicking, he
grabbed his grandson and ran away from the car. Then, realizing that the car
was his only means of work, he went back, took the bomb and carried it in
fear. He threw it in a deep ditch by the side of the road that was dug by
Iraqi soldiers in preparation for the war, two years ago.
Upon returning from Baghdad, he found out that the bomb had indeed exploded,
killing three sheep and injuring their shepherd in his head. He thanked God
for giving him the courage to go back and remove the bomb, and for the luck
in that the American soldiers did not notice his sudden stop at a distance
and his getting rid of the bomb.
"They intended it to explode in Baghdad and claim that it is the work of the
'terrorists', or 'insurgents' or who call themselves the 'Resistance'.
I decided to expose them and asked your reporter to take me to Baghdad to
tell you the story. They are to be exposed as they now want to sow strife in
Iraq and taint the Resistance after failing to defeat it militarily.
Do not forget to mention my name. I fear nobody but God, as I am a follower
of Muqtada al-Sadir."
The background and admission of guilt for such satanic shenanigans was
clearly outlined in Frank Morales' piece on globalresearch.ca: "The
Provocateur State: Is the CIA Behind the Iraqi 'Insurgents' — and Global
Terrorism," by Frank Morales <http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MOR505A.html>
clearly demonstrates how Donald Rumsfeld said he was going to do exactly
what these three sorry episodes show he actually did.
Morales writes:
Back in 2002, following the trauma of 9-11, Secretary of Defense
Donald H. Rumsfeld predicted there would be more terrorist attacks against
the American people and civilization at large. How could he be so sure of
that? Perhaps because these attacks would be instigated on the order of the
Honorable Mr. Rumsfeld. According to Los Angeles Times military analyst
William Arkin, writing Oct. 27, 2002, Rumsfeld set out to create a secret
army, "a super-Intelligence Support Activity" network that would "bring
together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence,
and cover and deception," to stir the pot of spiraling global violence.
We never got the full story on those ghastly beheadings of Nick Berg and
others. Nor have we ever understood who killed the American mercenaries in
Fallujah that eventually precipitated one of the great slaughters in
history. Nor have we ever been able to discern if Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is
actually a real person or just another bin Ladenesque boogeyman. Nor if the
al-Qaeda website which claims responsibility for various atrocities is not
really run by the CIA.
Provoking this type of violence also further conceals the sinister genocide
the Israelis continue to perpetrate on the hapless Palestinians, which is
exactly its point, as is the entire Iraq invasion and destruction, and as
was the inside job mass murder on 9/11 in New York City. The purpose of all
these despicable acts is to conceal what the Israelis and the Americans have
been doing all along to the entire Arab world, namely enslaving and
destroying it.
There is not now nor ever was an Arab terror threat. That was all invented
by Rothschild, Rockefeller, Kissinger, Brzezinski, Bush, Cheney, Sharon,
Zakheim, Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, Abrams and Warren Buffett. These people
are all traitors to not only their countries but to humanity in general, and
should all be slammed and RICOed into Guantanamo immediately.
And so should the government officials, media lackeys, and ordinary citizens
who, by their complicity or their ignorance, support them.
The main point in understanding these deliberate provocations to prevent
peace is to understand how the American capitalist system, now hijacked by
billionaires with no trace of conscience, thrives on war and profits from
the misery of others.
The neocon murder menace has been for months ratcheting up the hyperbole
about why we need to invade Iran — which some predict will happen in June —
and just this week, rumors of troop movements in the Caribbean and lockdowns
at Florida military bases appear to augur an imminent invasion of
oil-producing Venezuela.
The overall plan is to create hell on Earth, and we are succeeding. By our
silent complicity and cowardly reluctance to oppose and stop this homicidal
behavior in the name of profit, we are all accessories to mass murder and
the destruction of human society, not to even mention the extinction of
individual human freedom and the God-given right to be safe and secure in
the homes of our choice.
So now that you know, what are you going to do about it? You know if you do
nothing, these same things will one day happen to you.
John Kaminski is a writer whose Internet essays are seen on hundreds of
websites around the world. These stories have been compiled into two
anthologies, “America’s Autopsy Report” and “The Perfect Enemy.” In
addition, he has written “The Day America Died: Why You Shouldn’t Believe
the Official Story of What Happened on September 11, 2001,” a booklet
written for those who still believe the government’s cynical lies about that
tragic day. All three books are available at http://www.johnkaminski.com/
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