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The Mohammed Cartoons: Recruiting Europe for Bush=E2=80=99s Attack on Iran |
Autor(a): Webster Tarpley Fecha: 6:44pm Martes 14 Febrero 2006
Categor=C3=ADa: Not=C3=ADcias Generales / General News
The scurrilous Mohammed cartoons printed in Denmark were a carefully
staged provocation involving neo-con disciple of Daniel Pipes from the
US, Bilderberger and monarchist elements in Europe, and hired mobs in
the Middle East. The aim: to create a war mood in Europe and pre-empt a
Eurasian coalition against the Anglo-American world order.
Washington DC. The NATO intelligence provocation appearing in the guise
of the scurrilous Mohammed cartoons published by the reactionary
newspaper Jyllands Posten of Denmark, and then by a series of other
European publications, has already done much to mobilize the armies,
bases, and treasuries of Europe in support of the lunatic plan to the
Bush-neocon clique for a nuclear sneak attack and punitive expedition
against Iran over the coming weeks or months. As I warned in a red
alert for synthetic terrorism issued on total411.info and other sites
in the late afternoon of Feb. 3, this entire affair has been cynically
orchestrated by NATO intelligence agencies to set the stage for a new
world war.
In recent years, Moslem and Arab resentment for the various crimes of
imperialism has been directed primarily against the United States, the
United Kingdom, and Israel. What is new about the present crisis is
that Denmark, Norway, France, and Germany are the main targets this
time, while the usual suspects in London and Washington can remain in
the background and hypocritically condemn the inflammatory cartoons.
The result has been a massive degeneration of the ideological climate
of Europe in favor of militant racism in the form of the Samuel
Huntington War of Civilizations. The Europeans are now far more likely
than previously to go to war against Iran as the tail on the
Anglo-American kite. The genocidal demand that the European Union cut
off all aid to the Hamas-led government of Palestine has become far
more likely to succeed.
BILDERGERGERS AND NEOCONS
The evidence strongly suggests that the cartoon provocation was
presented to Atlanticist oligarchs at the meeting of the Bilderberger
group held from May 5 to May 8, 2005 at the Dorint Sofitel Seehotel
=C3=9Cberfahrt in Rottach-Egern, on the shores of the Tegernsee lake in the
south German federal state of Bavaria. (See
http://www.bilderberg.org/2006.htm#Fountainhead for a partial
attendance list) The first publication of the cartoons in Denmark
followed in September 2005. This meeting was attended by the certified
neocon fascist madmen Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, and William Luti
=E2=80=93 all desperadoes haunted by the prospect of criminal indictment for
their roles in the Iraq aggression, the Plame case, the Niger
yellowcake forgeries, and the Lord Conrad Black embezzlement case. All
three are fanatic proponents of the wider war against Iran, also in the
hope of staying out of jail. Others in attendance included Dutch,
Belgian, and Spanish royalty, top Eurocrats and NATO bigwigs (including
NATO Secretary General Jaap Hoop de Scheffer himself) from Brussels,
Rockefeller and Rothschild international bankers, and such all-purpose
villains as Henry Kissinger. Another prominent participant in the
Bavarian Bilderberger group was Anders Eldrep of Denmark, a
Bilderberger regular over the last five years. This Anders Eldrep (or
Eldrup),the chairman of DONG (Danish Oil and Natural Gas), is the
husband of Merete Eldrep, the managing director of JP/Politikens Hus
(JP for Jyllands-Posten), the Danish publishing firm which owns the
newspaper which first published the Mohammed cartoons.
The Bilderberger group, founded after World War II by Britain=E2=80=99s
genocidal Prince Philip and the Nazi SS Prince Bernard of the
Netherlands, represents one of the key nodal points where the
international finance oligarchs meet under US-UK leadership to ratify
consensus on larger strategic initiatives. It was for example the
Bilderberger meeting held near Stockholm in Saltsj=C3=B8baden, Sweden in
the spring of 1973 which secured the final consensus for the Royal
Dutch Shell plans for the October 1973 Middle East War and the
attendant =E2=80=9CArab=E2=80=9D oil boycott, which looted Japan and Europe=
and
imposed global austerity to stabilize the US dollar and the Atlanticist
banking system. That financiers=E2=80=99 staged oil boycott was the 1973
version of today=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cpeak oil=E2=80=9D hoax.
SOMETHING ROTTEN: POLITIETS EFTERRETNINGSTJENESTE
As for the repeated canard about freedom of the press, all the
countries of the Nordic Council have long maintained press control
through psychological warfare boards with the power to suppress and
plant news stories for propaganda purposes. Sweden is the best-known
example, but Denmark, a NATO member state, is no slouch either. Having
directed political organizing in Denmark for a number of years, the
present writer can also personally attest to the pervasive surveillance
of publishing, political meetings, and public speech (as of the
mid-1980s) maintained by the PET (Politiets Efterretningstjeneste), the
Danish Security Intelligence Service. The PET is a sinister and
stealthy organization staffed by devotees of the Danish monarchy, and
its mandate is unchecked. (See http://www.pet.dk/English.aspx for a
chilling self-presentation, including the ominous news that =E2=80=9Cthe new
Danish legislation on terrorism expands the scope of the Intelligence
Service so that PET=E2=80=99s investigations, to a higher degree than
previously, may provide the basis of actual criminal cases or other
more offensive initiatives.=E2=80=9D Author=E2=80=99s emphasis, WGT.) Denma=
rk, in
short, is a monarchist police state.
Denmark has been largely a British puppet state over the last two
centuries =E2=80=93 since Lord Nelson burned the Danish fleet in a sneak
attack on Copenhagen which put an end to Denmark as an independent
power. For the broadest political purposes, provocations coming from
Denmark can be thought of as being signed by the warmonger Tony Blair
personally. The current Danish neocon regime is in any case a member of
Bush=E2=80=99s coalition of the willing engaged in the illegal occupation of
Iraq.
The editor of Jyllands Posten who ordered the publication of the
cartoons is Flemming Rose, who has extensive connections to Daniel
Pipes, another neocon fascist madman who runs Campus Watch, a
neo-McCarthyite witch-hunting organization which vilifies American
professors who criticize Israel or show sympathy for the Palestinians.
President Bush wanted to name Daniel Pipes to the board of the US
Institute of Peace, a government-funded arm of the State Department
which organizes conferences and publishes books. When the raving
extremist Pipes turned out to be too widely discredited to obtain
Senate confirmation for this post, Bush forced his nomination through
with a summer 2003 recess appointment to a temporary term at USIP
without Senate approval. Daniel Pipes is the nepotist son of Richard
Pipes, a Sovietologist who was a leading figure in George H.W. Bush=E2=80=
=99s
1976 Team B, the incubator of today=E2=80=99s neocon clique. At the time of
his recess appointment, Daniel Pipes was accused by the very moderate
Arab-American Institute of =E2=80=9Chatred and bigotry=E2=80=9D in the cont=
ext of
his =E2=80=9Cbizarre obsession with all things Arab and Muslim.=E2=80=9D
(http://www.aaiusa.org/pr/release08-14-03.htm) This is the sick, racist
point of view embraced by Jyllands Posten.
Flemming Rose provided details of his conversation with Daniel Pipes in
a later article. They talked about the need to mobilize Europe for the
war of civilizations against the Moslem world. Rose wrote: =E2=80=9CPipes is
surprised that there isn't greater alarm in Europe over the challenge
that Islam represents thanks to falling rates of fertility and a
weakened sense for its own history and culture.=E2=80=9D (Flemming Rose,
=E2=80=9CThe Threat from Islamism, Jyllands-Posten, October 29, 2004) The
relation of such racist arguments to the Mohammed cartoons provocation
should be clear enough.
GENERAL WAR IN SIGHT
With these facts, a strong prima facie case for preconcert in the
cartoon affair emerges. The convergence of the US-UK nuclear lynch
mob=E2=80=99s dragging Iran before the United Nations Security Council in a
parody of the spring 2003 US-UK proceedings against Iraq, plus the
cartoons affair, means that a new general war, perhaps more like the
Thirty Years=E2=80=99 War (1618-1648) than futuristic scenarios of World War
III, is now in sight.
EURO-TRAITORS ON THE MARCH
The impact of the cartoon affair has been to re-invigorate the already
considerable racist and xenophobic forces of European society, making
these tendencies more respectable in parts of the mainstream. For the
moment, xenophobic reactionaries =E2=80=93 Euro-traitors in every sense =E2=
=80=93
are in power in France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands, and
other countries of the old continent. None of these governments would
dare resist Rice and Straw in a war vote at the UN. Of course, if these
regimes decide to play Mussolini to Bush=E2=80=99s Hitler and actually send
their troops to join the Anglo-Americans in war with Iran, most of them
would fall, but that would come too late to avoid the looming general
conflagration.
The alleged free speech defended by ranting Atlanticist hypocrites
(including Cheney) thus amounts to the opposite: the defense of a
society incessantly manipulated by out-of-control secret intelligence
agencies with the help of the controlled corporate media =E2=80=93 a martial
law society on the road to the endless war desired by the invisible
government and the neocons.
PRECONCERT ON BOTH SIDES
Danish embassies have been burned in Syria, Lebanon, and Iran. There
are indications that some of these violent riots were not spontaneous,
but were the work of mercenary rent-a-mobs stoked and steered by CIA,
MI-6 and Mossad. In Beirut, UN officials told CNN they knew about the
riot before it happened. But the embassy attacks, plus world-wide
threats, protests, and economic boycotts, have gone far to convince
European public opinion that the war of civilizations between the west
and the Moslem world is indeed inevitable.
In 2003, Germany, France, Belgium, and other European nations rejected
the Bush-Blair plan for an illegal aggressive war against Iran. Since,
then, Atlanticist (US-UK) intelligence networks have been working to
overthrow or subvert the leading European governments. In Germany,
Chancellor Schroeder has been replaced by Mrs. Merkel, a puppet of Wall
St. and the City of London. In France, the Chirac presidency, weakened
by its own foolish support of last year=E2=80=99s European constitution, has
been wholly subverted by last fall=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CMoslem=E2=80=9D riots=
, which were
led by old Nazi networks sheep-dipped in Islam under the guidance of
Atlanticist intelligence agencies. The beneficiary has been the
Anglo-Saxon Trojan horse, Sarkozy. Chirac has even issued his own
nuclear threats against Iran. The days are long gone when Chirac could
reject the war of civilizations and be cheered for it by Algerian
students, as he was in the spring of 2003. The one valuable lesson most
Europeans had learned from the twentieth century =E2=80=93 the utter and
suicidal futility of war =E2=80=93 has been called into question by the
cartoons affair.
IF A TERRORIST ATTACK OCCURS, BLAME CHENEY
Since last July, the world has known of the order from ***** Cheney to
the Pentagon to prepare for the atomic bombing of Iran in the wake of a
new 9/11 terrorist atrocity. Given Cheney=E2=80=99s manifest aggressive
intent, it should also be plain that he is not occupying his time doing
rain dances in the hopes of conjuring up a new terrorist attack. Cheney
and his invisible government backers in the US-UK rogue network are
actively preparing a new 9/11 or Gulf of Tonkin provocation with
weapons of mass destruction in order to secure the pretext for their
attack. Our advice to the world is accordingly: if mysterious WMD
incidents occur anywhere in the world, don=E2=80=99t start looking for the
swarthy perpetrators sporting turbans in the caves of Pushtunistan.
Look instead in ***** Cheney=E2=80=99s office.
THE REAL CASUS BELLI: THE IRAN OIL BOURSE
Much of the real urgency of the Anglo-American attack on Iran comes not
from nonexistent nuclear devices, but from the planned March 20 opening
of the Iran oil bourse, the first international exchange since 1945
where buyers and sellers of oil can conduct their oil transactions
using a currency other than the US dollar =E2=80=93 in this case, the euro.
The Iran oil bourse threatens the number one pillar of US-UK world
domination =E2=80=93 the global hegemony of the dollar, as anchored in the
dollar=E2=80=99s central role in oil and other raw materials transactions.
With the Iranian oil bourse, as much as $1 trillion of central bank
reserves may flee the US greenback into the euro, the yen, and other
currencies. The concomitant exodus of hot money from Wall Street would
then puncture the US stock bubble, the US housing bubble, and the US
bubble economy generally, leading to a collapse of the dollar in
international exchange and the dumping of hundreds of billions of
dollars in US treasury bonds now in the hands of the Chinese and
Japanese. The transition from today=E2=80=99s outmoded and obsolete
dollar-based system to a dollar-euro-yen system of fixed parities, gold
settlement, and high-technology exports to the developing sector could
be easily handled by peaceful negotiations, but this is exactly what
the neocons are determined to prevent. Ironically, the neocon obsession
for general war to preserve dollar dominance, by almost guaranteeing
the closure of the straits of Hormuz, will lead to an even more
catastrophic dollar collapse and world depression than the peaceful
Iranian oil bourse ever could. The neocons, in other words, are playing
a losing hand. Only fools would join them.
BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH
When might the new hostilities begin? General Sharon, before he was
incapacitated, had told the Israeli Defense Force to be ready to strike
Iran in March. The former US Iraq weapons inspector Scott Ritter says
that the attack order has already been given. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the
maverick Russian politician, thinks that the most likely date is March
28, coincident with the Israeli elections. Zhirinovsky has longed
served as an auxiliary to Russian President Putin, and his estimate may
benefit from the insights of the Russian special services. Whenever the
attack comes, it is clear that the NATO logistics and manpower
infrastructure =E2=80=93 the German railways, the French air force and navy,
the Italian ports and air bases =E2=80=93 will play a vital role. Without
these, the US could hardly operate in the Middle East at all. Today,
the US neocons may be offering occupation rights in various secondary
target countries, like Syria, to tempt countries like France or Italy
into joining the war. When Hitler attacked the USSR in June 1941, he
was joined by troops from Italy, Romania, Hungary, Finland, Spain, and
other European states. These auxiliaries had received promises of their
own, but they fared poorly. The parallel is suggestive for the path
some Europeans wish to tread today.
RATTLING THE CAGES OF OFFICIAL WASHINGTON
Last Wednesday, a Home Depot in the Washington DC suburb of
Gaithersburg, Maryland was evacuated because of suspicious package
emitting a strange smell, which turned out to be a harmless videotape
recorder. Last Friday, the Rachel Carson Elementary School in the same
community, which is part of the region where many federal officials and
bureaucrats live and have their families, was evacuated because of
another suspicious package which a local official claimed looked like
an Improvised Explosive Device or Iraq-style roadside bomb. It was
=E2=80=9Csomething like you might see in a war zone,=E2=80=9D said the spok=
esman of
the Gaithersburg fire department said to the radio and television that
afternoon. The school is typically attended by the children of federal
employees. But the =E2=80=9CIED=E2=80=9D also turned out to be a big nothin=
g=2E Early
this evening, the Russell Senate Office Building was evacuated because
of a nerve gas alert that also proved to be groundless, a complete
false alarm. But a dozen senators had to flee. This escalating pattern
of incidents likely to provoke hysteria among US government officials
betrays the intent of the invisible government to overload the circuits
and facilitate the stampeding of this government into a wider war full
of incalculable danger.
MOSLEMS: DO NOT ACCEPT PROVOCATIONS
Our advice to the Moslem world: DO NOT FALL FOR PROVOCATIONS. From
Count Thurn=E2=80=99s 1618 defenestration of Prague to Bismarck=E2=80=99s E=
ms
telegram in 1870, big wars have often grown out of staged provocations.
For years former Prime Minister Dr. Mahatir Mohammed of Malaysia, an
astute Moslem observer who knows how the Atlanticists operate, has been
telling his co-religionists that the greatest vulnerability of the
oppressors is located in the weakness of the US dollar. Mahatir=E2=80=99s
argument has long been that it is time to stop complaining and dump the
dollar. The fall of the dollar will entail the fall of the
International Monetary Fund and of Wolfowitz=E2=80=99s World Bank, the
greatest engines of global oppression. Those who burn the embassies of
European countries or attack their citizens risk becoming dupes serving
as recruiting sergeants for the NATO armies and air forces that are
about to strike Iran, currently the leading Moslem state, plus Syria
and others. It is time to break ideological profile, and respond
unpredictably on the international monetary front, where the chances
for success are the greatest.
REFUTE THE BLOOD LIBEL OF 9/11
In terms of the battle of ideas, the other great task for the Moslem
world and for persons of good will everywhere is to contribute to the
utmost to the dismantling and discrediting of the ultimate blood libel
against Islam, the fantastic Atlanticist myth surrounding the events of
September 11, 2001. The international 9/11 truth movement has shown how
rogue networks inside the Pentagon and CIA organized those events.
Since the basis of every attack on Islam is 9/11, it is incumbent on
Moslems to join in refuting the myth. This will have the additional
effect of eroding Bush=E2=80=99s fanatical political base, and preparing his
fall.
WORLD PEACE
In my address to the Inter-Religious Conference in Khartoum, Sudan in
October 1994, I pleaded for a platform of ecumenical and irenic
cooperation among the world=E2=80=99s great faiths based in the comprehensi=
ve
scientific, technological, and economic development of all nations.
This is the call of Christianity, with its imperative of charity
(agape) and faith expressed through good works, as in the second great
commandment: love your neighbor. This is the call of the doctrine of
social solidarity in Islam. This is the call of Confucian benevolence
and the related need for rulers to promote prosperity and education.
These are the ideas reflected in similar impulses prominent in
Buddhism, Judaism, and other faiths. These are ideas readily accessible
to persons of good will whose outlook is purely secular, whatever their
political persuasion. Humanity must act now to neutralize war
provocations, and thus to prevent the horrors of war itself.
by Webster Griffin Tarpley
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http://chiapas.mediosindependientes.org/display.php3?article_id=118708
The Mohammed Cartoons: Recruiting Europe for Bush’s Attack on Iran |
Autor(a): Webster Tarpley Fecha: 6:44pm Martes 14 Febrero 2006
Categor?a: Not?cias Generales / General News
The scurrilous Mohammed cartoons printed in Denmark were a carefully
staged provocation involving neo-con disciple of Daniel Pipes from the
US, Bilderberger and monarchist elements in Europe, and hired mobs in
the Middle East. The aim: to create a war mood in Europe and pre-empt a
Eurasian coalition against the Anglo-American world order.
Washington DC. The NATO intelligence provocation appearing in the guise
of the scurrilous Mohammed cartoons published by the reactionary
newspaper Jyllands Posten of Denmark, and then by a series of other
European publications, has already done much to mobilize the armies,
bases, and treasuries of Europe in support of the lunatic plan to the
Bush-neocon clique for a nuclear sneak attack and punitive expedition
against Iran over the coming weeks or months. As I warned in a red
alert for synthetic terrorism issued on total411.info and other sites
in the late afternoon of Feb. 3, this entire affair has been cynically
orchestrated by NATO intelligence agencies to set the stage for a new
world war.
In recent years, Moslem and Arab resentment for the various crimes of
imperialism has been directed primarily against the United States, the
United Kingdom, and Israel. What is new about the present crisis is
that Denmark, Norway, France, and Germany are the main targets this
time, while the usual suspects in London and Washington can remain in
the background and hypocritically condemn the inflammatory cartoons.
The result has been a massive degeneration of the ideological climate
of Europe in favor of militant racism in the form of the Samuel
Huntington War of Civilizations. The Europeans are now far more likely
than previously to go to war against Iran as the tail on the
Anglo-American kite. The genocidal demand that the European Union cut
off all aid to the Hamas-led government of Palestine has become far
more likely to succeed.
BILDERGERGERS AND NEOCONS
The evidence strongly suggests that the cartoon provocation was
presented to Atlanticist oligarchs at the meeting of the Bilderberger
group held from May 5 to May 8, 2005 at the Dorint Sofitel Seehotel
Überfahrt in Rottach-Egern, on the shores of the Tegernsee lake in the
south German federal state of Bavaria. (See
http://www.bilderberg.org/2006.htm#Fountainhead for a partial
attendance list) The first publication of the cartoons in Denmark
followed in September 2005. This meeting was attended by the certified
neocon fascist madmen Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, and William Luti
– all desperadoes haunted by the prospect of criminal indictment for
their roles in the Iraq aggression, the Plame case, the Niger
yellowcake forgeries, and the Lord Conrad Black embezzlement case. All
three are fanatic proponents of the wider war against Iran, also in the
hope of staying out of jail. Others in attendance included Dutch,
Belgian, and Spanish royalty, top Eurocrats and NATO bigwigs (including
NATO Secretary General Jaap Hoop de Scheffer himself) from Brussels,
Rockefeller and Rothschild international bankers, and such all-purpose
villains as Henry Kissinger. Another prominent participant in the
Bavarian Bilderberger group was Anders Eldrep of Denmark, a
Bilderberger regular over the last five years. This Anders Eldrep (or
Eldrup),the chairman of DONG (Danish Oil and Natural Gas), is the
husband of Merete Eldrep, the managing director of JP/Politikens Hus
(JP for Jyllands-Posten), the Danish publishing firm which owns the
newspaper which first published the Mohammed cartoons.
The Bilderberger group, founded after World War II by Britain’s
genocidal Prince Philip and the Nazi SS Prince Bernard of the
Netherlands, represents one of the key nodal points where the
international finance oligarchs meet under US-UK leadership to ratify
consensus on larger strategic initiatives. It was for example the
Bilderberger meeting held near Stockholm in Saltsj¸baden, Sweden in
the spring of 1973 which secured the final consensus for the Royal
Dutch Shell plans for the October 1973 Middle East War and the
attendant “Arab” oil boycott, which looted Japan and Europe and
imposed global austerity to stabilize the US dollar and the Atlanticist
banking system. That financiers’ staged oil boycott was the 1973
version of today’s “peak oil” hoax.
SOMETHING ROTTEN: POLITIETS EFTERRETNINGSTJENESTE
As for the repeated canard about freedom of the press, all the
countries of the Nordic Council have long maintained press control
through psychological warfare boards with the power to suppress and
plant news stories for propaganda purposes. Sweden is the best-known
example, but Denmark, a NATO member state, is no slouch either. Having
directed political organizing in Denmark for a number of years, the
present writer can also personally attest to the pervasive surveillance
of publishing, political meetings, and public speech (as of the
mid-1980s) maintained by the PET (Politiets Efterretningstjeneste), the
Danish Security Intelligence Service. The PET is a sinister and
stealthy organization staffed by devotees of the Danish monarchy, and
its mandate is unchecked. (See http://www.pet.dk/English.aspx for a
chilling self-presentation, including the ominous news that “the new
Danish legislation on terrorism expands the scope of the Intelligence
Service so that PET’s investigations, to a higher degree than
previously, may provide the basis of actual criminal cases or other
more offensive initiatives.” Author’s emphasis, WGT.) Denmark, in
short, is a monarchist police state.
Denmark has been largely a British puppet state over the last two
centuries – since Lord Nelson burned the Danish fleet in a sneak
attack on Copenhagen which put an end to Denmark as an independent
power. For the broadest political purposes, provocations coming from
Denmark can be thought of as being signed by the warmonger Tony Blair
personally. The current Danish neocon regime is in any case a member of
Bush’s coalition of the willing engaged in the illegal occupation of
Iraq.
The editor of Jyllands Posten who ordered the publication of the
cartoons is Flemming Rose, who has extensive connections to Daniel
Pipes, another neocon fascist madman who runs Campus Watch, a
neo-McCarthyite witch-hunting organization which vilifies American
professors who criticize Israel or show sympathy for the Palestinians.
President Bush wanted to name Daniel Pipes to the board of the US
Institute of Peace, a government-funded arm of the State Department
which organizes conferences and publishes books. When the raving
extremist Pipes turned out to be too widely discredited to obtain
Senate confirmation for this post, Bush forced his nomination through
with a summer 2003 recess appointment to a temporary term at USIP
without Senate approval. Daniel Pipes is the nepotist son of Richard
Pipes, a Sovietologist who was a leading figure in George H.W. Bush’s
1976 Team B, the incubator of today’s neocon clique. At the time of
his recess appointment, Daniel Pipes was accused by the very moderate
Arab-American Institute of “hatred and bigotry” in the context of
his “bizarre obsession with all things Arab and Muslim.”
(http://www.aaiusa.org/pr/release08-14-03.htm) This is the sick, racist
point of view embraced by Jyllands Posten.
Flemming Rose provided details of his conversation with Daniel Pipes in
a later article. They talked about the need to mobilize Europe for the
war of civilizations against the Moslem world. Rose wrote: “Pipes is
surprised that there isn't greater alarm in Europe over the challenge
that Islam represents thanks to falling rates of fertility and a
weakened sense for its own history and culture.” (Flemming Rose,
“The Threat from Islamism, Jyllands-Posten, October 29, 2004) The
relation of such racist arguments to the Mohammed cartoons provocation
should be clear enough.
GENERAL WAR IN SIGHT
With these facts, a strong prima facie case for preconcert in the
cartoon affair emerges. The convergence of the US-UK nuclear lynch
mob’s dragging Iran before the United Nations Security Council in a
parody of the spring 2003 US-UK proceedings against Iraq, plus the
cartoons affair, means that a new general war, perhaps more like the
Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) than futuristic scenarios of World War
III, is now in sight.
EURO-TRAITORS ON THE MARCH
The impact of the cartoon affair has been to re-invigorate the already
considerable racist and xenophobic forces of European society, making
these tendencies more respectable in parts of the mainstream. For the
moment, xenophobic reactionaries – Euro-traitors in every sense –
are in power in France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands, and
other countries of the old continent. None of these governments would
dare resist Rice and Straw in a war vote at the UN. Of course, if these
regimes decide to play Mussolini to Bush’s Hitler and actually send
their troops to join the Anglo-Americans in war with Iran, most of them
would fall, but that would come too late to avoid the looming general
conflagration.
The alleged free speech defended by ranting Atlanticist hypocrites
(including Cheney) thus amounts to the opposite: the defense of a
society incessantly manipulated by out-of-control secret intelligence
agencies with the help of the controlled corporate media – a martial
law society on the road to the endless war desired by the invisible
government and the neocons.
PRECONCERT ON BOTH SIDES
Danish embassies have been burned in Syria, Lebanon, and Iran. There
are indications that some of these violent riots were not spontaneous,
but were the work of mercenary rent-a-mobs stoked and steered by CIA,
MI-6 and Mossad. In Beirut, UN officials told CNN they knew about the
riot before it happened. But the embassy attacks, plus world-wide
threats, protests, and economic boycotts, have gone far to convince
European public opinion that the war of civilizations between the west
and the Moslem world is indeed inevitable.
In 2003, Germany, France, Belgium, and other European nations rejected
the Bush-Blair plan for an illegal aggressive war against Iran. Since,
then, Atlanticist (US-UK) intelligence networks have been working to
overthrow or subvert the leading European governments. In Germany,
Chancellor Schroeder has been replaced by Mrs. Merkel, a puppet of Wall
St. and the City of London. In France, the Chirac presidency, weakened
by its own foolish support of last year’s European constitution, has
been wholly subverted by last fall’s “Moslem” riots, which were
led by old Nazi networks sheep-dipped in Islam under the guidance of
Atlanticist intelligence agencies. The beneficiary has been the
Anglo-Saxon Trojan horse, Sarkozy. Chirac has even issued his own
nuclear threats against Iran. The days are long gone when Chirac could
reject the war of civilizations and be cheered for it by Algerian
students, as he was in the spring of 2003. The one valuable lesson most
Europeans had learned from the twentieth century – the utter and
suicidal futility of war – has been called into question by the
cartoons affair.
IF A TERRORIST ATTACK OCCURS, BLAME CHENEY
Since last July, the world has known of the order from ***** Cheney to
the Pentagon to prepare for the atomic bombing of Iran in the wake of a
new 9/11 terrorist atrocity. Given Cheney’s manifest aggressive
intent, it should also be plain that he is not occupying his time doing
rain dances in the hopes of conjuring up a new terrorist attack. Cheney
and his invisible government backers in the US-UK rogue network are
actively preparing a new 9/11 or Gulf of Tonkin provocation with
weapons of mass destruction in order to secure the pretext for their
attack. Our advice to the world is accordingly: if mysterious WMD
incidents occur anywhere in the world, don’t start looking for the
swarthy perpetrators sporting turbans in the caves of Pushtunistan.
Look instead in ***** Cheney’s office.
THE REAL CASUS BELLI: THE IRAN OIL BOURSE
Much of the real urgency of the Anglo-American attack on Iran comes not
from nonexistent nuclear devices, but from the planned March 20 opening
of the Iran oil bourse, the first international exchange since 1945
where buyers and sellers of oil can conduct their oil transactions
using a currency other than the US dollar – in this case, the euro.
The Iran oil bourse threatens the number one pillar of US-UK world
domination – the global hegemony of the dollar, as anchored in the
dollar’s central role in oil and other raw materials transactions.
With the Iranian oil bourse, as much as $1 trillion of central bank
reserves may flee the US greenback into the euro, the yen, and other
currencies. The concomitant exodus of hot money from Wall Street would
then puncture the US stock bubble, the US housing bubble, and the US
bubble economy generally, leading to a collapse of the dollar in
international exchange and the dumping of hundreds of billions of
dollars in US treasury bonds now in the hands of the Chinese and
Japanese. The transition from today’s outmoded and obsolete
dollar-based system to a dollar-euro-yen system of fixed parities, gold
settlement, and high-technology exports to the developing sector could
be easily handled by peaceful negotiations, but this is exactly what
the neocons are determined to prevent. Ironically, the neocon obsession
for general war to preserve dollar dominance, by almost guaranteeing
the closure of the straits of Hormuz, will lead to an even more
catastrophic dollar collapse and world depression than the peaceful
Iranian oil bourse ever could. The neocons, in other words, are playing
a losing hand. Only fools would join them.
BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH
When might the new hostilities begin? General Sharon, before he was
incapacitated, had told the Israeli Defense Force to be ready to strike
Iran in March. The former US Iraq weapons inspector Scott Ritter says
that the attack order has already been given. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the
maverick Russian politician, thinks that the most likely date is March
28, coincident with the Israeli elections. Zhirinovsky has longed
served as an auxiliary to Russian President Putin, and his estimate may
benefit from the insights of the Russian special services. Whenever the
attack comes, it is clear that the NATO logistics and manpower
infrastructure – the German railways, the French air force and navy,
the Italian ports and air bases – will play a vital role. Without
these, the US could hardly operate in the Middle East at all. Today,
the US neocons may be offering occupation rights in various secondary
target countries, like Syria, to tempt countries like France or Italy
into joining the war. When Hitler attacked the USSR in June 1941, he
was joined by troops from Italy, Romania, Hungary, Finland, Spain, and
other European states. These auxiliaries had received promises of their
own, but they fared poorly. The parallel is suggestive for the path
some Europeans wish to tread today.
RATTLING THE CAGES OF OFFICIAL WASHINGTON
Last Wednesday, a Home Depot in the Washington DC suburb of
Gaithersburg, Maryland was evacuated because of suspicious package
emitting a strange smell, which turned out to be a harmless videotape
recorder. Last Friday, the Rachel Carson Elementary School in the same
community, which is part of the region where many federal officials and
bureaucrats live and have their families, was evacuated because of
another suspicious package which a local official claimed looked like
an Improvised Explosive Device or Iraq-style roadside bomb. It was
“something like you might see in a war zone,” said the spokesman of
the Gaithersburg fire department said to the radio and television that
afternoon. The school is typically attended by the children of federal
employees. But the “IED” also turned out to be a big nothing. Early
this evening, the Russell Senate Office Building was evacuated because
of a nerve gas alert that also proved to be groundless, a complete
false alarm. But a dozen senators had to flee. This escalating pattern
of incidents likely to provoke hysteria among US government officials
betrays the intent of the invisible government to overload the circuits
and facilitate the stampeding of this government into a wider war full
of incalculable danger.
MOSLEMS: DO NOT ACCEPT PROVOCATIONS
Our advice to the Moslem world: DO NOT FALL FOR PROVOCATIONS. From
Count Thurn’s 1618 defenestration of Prague to Bismarck’s Ems
telegram in 1870, big wars have often grown out of staged provocations.
For years former Prime Minister Dr. Mahatir Mohammed of Malaysia, an
astute Moslem observer who knows how the Atlanticists operate, has been
telling his co-religionists that the greatest vulnerability of the
oppressors is located in the weakness of the US dollar. Mahatir’s
argument has long been that it is time to stop complaining and dump the
dollar. The fall of the dollar will entail the fall of the
International Monetary Fund and of Wolfowitz’s World Bank, the
greatest engines of global oppression. Those who burn the embassies of
European countries or attack their citizens risk becoming dupes serving
as recruiting sergeants for the NATO armies and air forces that are
about to strike Iran, currently the leading Moslem state, plus Syria
and others. It is time to break ideological profile, and respond
unpredictably on the international monetary front, where the chances
for success are the greatest.
REFUTE THE BLOOD LIBEL OF 9/11
In terms of the battle of ideas, the other great task for the Moslem
world and for persons of good will everywhere is to contribute to the
utmost to the dismantling and discrediting of the ultimate blood libel
against Islam, the fantastic Atlanticist myth surrounding the events of
September 11, 2001. The international 9/11 truth movement has shown how
rogue networks inside the Pentagon and CIA organized those events.
Since the basis of every attack on Islam is 9/11, it is incumbent on
Moslems to join in refuting the myth. This will have the additional
effect of eroding Bush’s fanatical political base, and preparing his
fall.
WORLD PEACE
In my address to the Inter-Religious Conference in Khartoum, Sudan in
October 1994, I pleaded for a platform of ecumenical and irenic
cooperation among the world’s great faiths based in the comprehensive
scientific, technological, and economic development of all nations.
This is the call of Christianity, with its imperative of charity
(agape) and faith expressed through good works, as in the second great
commandment: love your neighbor. This is the call of the doctrine of
social solidarity in Islam. This is the call of Confucian benevolence
and the related need for rulers to promote prosperity and education.
These are the ideas reflected in similar impulses prominent in
Buddhism, Judaism, and other faiths. These are ideas readily accessible
to persons of good will whose outlook is purely secular, whatever their
political persuasion. Humanity must act now to neutralize war
provocations, and thus to prevent the horrors of war itself.
by Webster Griffin Tarpley
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PETRO DOLLARS & NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROLIFERATION
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00157.htm
Petrodollars and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 11:57 am
Opinion: Michael Keefer
Petrodollars and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: Understanding the
Planned Assault on Iran
By Michael Keefer
February 10, 2006
From... GlobalResearch.caIran has been in the gun-sights of George W.
Bush and his entourage from the moment that he was parachuted into the
presidency in November 2000 by his father=E2=80=99s Supreme Court.
A year ago there were signs, duly reported by Seymour Hersh and others,
that the United States and Israel were working out the targeting
details of an aerial attack on Iran that it was anticipated would occur
in June 2005 (see Hersh, Gush Shalom, Jensen). But as Michel
Chossudovsky wrote in May 2005, widespread reports that George W. Bush
had =E2=80=9Csigned off on=E2=80=9D an attack on Iran did not signify that =
the
attack would necessarily occur during the summer of 2005: what the
=E2=80=98signing off=E2=80=99 suggested was rather =E2=80=9Cthat the US and=
Israel [were]
=E2=80=98in a state of readiness=E2=80=99 and [were] prepared to launch an =
attack
by June or at a later date. In other words, the decision to launch the
attack [had] not been made=E2=80=9D (Chossudovsky: May 2005).
Since December 2005, however, there have been much firmer indications
both that the planned attack will go ahead in late March 2006, and also
that the Cheney-Bush administration intends it to involve the use of
nuclear weapons.
It is important to understand the nature and scale of the war crimes
that are being planned=E2=80=94and no less important to recognize that, as =
in
the case of the Bush regime=E2=80=99s assault on Iraq, the pretexts being
advanced to legitimize this intended aggression are entirely
fraudulent. Unless the lurid fantasies of people like former
Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security and now
Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton count as evidence=E2=80=94and
Bolton=E2=80=99s pronouncements on the weaponry supposedly possessed by Ira=
q,
North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela show him to be less acquainted with
truth than Jean Harlow was with chastity=E2=80=94there is no evidence that
Iran has or has ever had any nuclear weapons development program.
Claims to the contrary, however loudly they may have been trumpeted by
Fox News, CNN, or The New York Times, are demonstrably false.
ADVERTISEMENT
Nor does there appear to be the remotest possibility, whatever
desperate measures the Iranian government might be frightened into by
American and Israeli threats of pre-emptive attacks, that Iran would be
able to produce nuclear weapons in the near future. On August 2, 2005,
The Washington Post reported that according to the most recent National
Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which represents a consensus arrived at
among U.S. intelligence agencies, =E2=80=9CIran is about a decade away from
manufacturing the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon, roughly doubling
the previous estimate of five years=E2=80=9D (Linzer, quoted by Clark, 28
Jan. 2006).
The coming attack on Iran has nothing whatsoever to do with concerns
about the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Its primary motive, as oil
analyst William Clark has argued, is rather a determination to ensure
that the U.S. dollar remains the sole world currency for oil trading.
Iran plans in March 2006 to open a Teheran Oil Bourse in which all
trading will be carried out in Euros. This poses a direct threat to the
status of the U.S. dollar as the principal world reserve currency=E2=80=94a=
nd
hence also to a trading system in which massive U.S. trade deficits are
paid for with paper money whose accepted value resides, as Krassimir
Petrov notes, in its being the currency in which international oil
trades are denominated. (U.S. dollars are effectively exchangeable for
oil in somewhat the same way that, prior to 1971, they were at least in
theory exchangeable for gold.)
But not only is this planned aggression unconnected to any actual
concern over Iranian nuclear weapons. There is in fact some reason to
think that the preparations for it have involved deliberate violations
by the Bush neo-conservatives of anti-proliferation protocols (and
also, necessarily, of U.S. law), and that their long-term planning, in
which Turkey=E2=80=99s consent to the aggression is a necessary part, has
involved a deliberate transfer of nuclear weapons technology to Turkey
as a part of the pay-off.
Prior to her public exposure by Karl Rove, Lewis =E2=80=98Scooter=E2=80=99 =
Libby,
and other senior administration officials in July 2003, CIA agent
Valerie Plame was reportedly involved in undercover anti-proliferation
work focused on transfers of nuclear technology to Turkey that were
being carried out by a network of crooked businessmen, arms dealers,
and =E2=80=98rogue=E2=80=99 officials within the U.S. government. The leaki=
ng of
Plame=E2=80=99s identity as a CIA agent was undoubtedly an act of revenge f=
or
her husband Joseph Wilson=E2=80=99s public revelation that one of the key
claims used to legitimize the invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein=E2=80=99s
supposed acquisition of uranium ore from Niger, was known by the Bush
regime to be groundless. But Plame=E2=80=99s exposure also conveniently put
an end to her investigative work. Some of the senior administration
officials responsible for that crime of state have long-term diplomatic
and military connections to Turkey, and all of them have been employed
in what might be called (with a nod to ex-White House speechwriter
David Frum) the Cheney-Bolton Axis of Aggression. Thanks to the courage
and integrity of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, there is evidence
dating from 2002 of high-level involvement in the subversion of FBI
investigations into arms trafficking with Turkey. The leaking of
Valerie Plame=E2=80=99s identity as a CIA agent may therefore have been not
merely an act of revenge for her husband=E2=80=99s contribution to the
delegitimizing of one war of aggression, but also a tactical maneuver
in preparation for the next one.
George W. Bush made clear his aggressive intentions in relation to Iran
in his 2002 State of the Union address; and his regime=E2=80=99s record on
issues of nuclear proliferation has been, to put it mildly, equivocal.
If, as seems plausible, Bush=E2=80=99s diplomats had been secretly arranging
that Turkey=E2=80=99s reward for connivance in an attack on Iran should
include its future admission into the charmed circle of nuclear powers,
then the meddling interference of servants of the state who, like Plame
and Edmonds, were putting themselves or at least their careers at risk
in the cause of preventing nuclear weapons proliferation, was not to be
tolerated.
The ironies are glaring. The U.S. government is contemplating an
unprovoked attack upon Iran that will involve =E2=80=9Cpre-emptive=E2=80=9D=
use of
nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear-weapons-holding state. Although
the pretext is that this is necessary to forestall nuclear weapons
proliferation, there is evidence to suggest that planning for the
attack has involved, very precisely, nuclear weapons proliferation by
the United States.
It would appear that this sinister complex of criminality involves one
further twist. There have been indications that the planned attack may
be immediately preceded (and of course =E2=80=98legitimized=E2=80=99) by an=
other
9/11-type event within the U.S.
Let us review these issues in sequence.
Plans for a conventional and =E2=80=98tactical=E2=80=99 nuclear attack on I=
ran
On August 1, 2005 Philip Giraldi, an ex-CIA agent and associate of
Vincent Cannistraro (the former head of the CIA=E2=80=99s
counter-intelligence operations and former intelligence director at the
National Security Council), published an article entitled =E2=80=9CDeep
Background=E2=80=9D in The American Conservative. The first section of this
article carried the following headline: =E2=80=9CIn Washington it is hardly=
a
secret that the same people in and around the administration who
brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran.=E2=80=9D I quote the
first section of Giraldi=E2=80=99s article in its entirety:
=E2=80=9CThe Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President *****
Cheney=E2=80=99s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command
(STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in
response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States.
The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both
conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more
than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected
nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are
hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by
conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq,
the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the
act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air
Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the
implications of what they are doing=E2=80=94that Iran is being set up for an
unprovoked nuclear attack=E2=80=94but no one is prepared to damage his care=
er
by posing any objections.=E2=80=9D
The implications of this report are breathtaking. First, it indicates
on the part of the ruling Cheney faction within the American state a
frank in-house acknowledgment that their often-repeated public claims
of a connection between Saddam Hussein=E2=80=99s regime and the 9/11 attacks
are the rubbish that informed people have long known them to be.
At a deeper level, it implies that =E2=80=9C9/11-type terrorist attacks=E2=
=80=9D
are recognized in Cheney=E2=80=99s office and the Pentagon as appropriate
means of legitimizing wars of aggression against any country selected
for that treatment by the regime and its corporate
propaganda-amplification system. (Though the implicit acknowledgment is
shocking, the fact itself should come as no surprise, since recent
research has shown that the Bush administration was deeply implicated
not merely in permitting the attacks of September 11, 2001 to happen,
but in actually organizing them: see Chossudovsky 2002: 51-63, 144-56;
Chossudovsky 2005: 51-62, 135-46, 237-61; Griffin 2004: 127-46,
169-201; Griffin 2005: 115-35, 277-91; Marrs 134-37; and Ruppert
309-436.)
And finally, Giraldi=E2=80=99s report suggests that the recent U.S.
development of comparatively low-yield nuclear weapons specifically
designed to destroy hardened underground facilities, and the recent
re-orientation of U.S. nuclear policy to include first-strike or
pre-emptive nuclear attacks on non-nuclear powers, were both part of
long-range planning for a war on Iran.
Articles published by William Arkin in the Washington Post in May and
October 2005 reported on what the U.S. military=E2=80=99s STRATCOM calls
CONPLAN 8022, a global plan for bombing and missile attacks involving
=E2=80=9Ca nuclear option=E2=80=9D anywhere in the world that was tested in=
an
exercise that began on November 1, 2005; the scenario for this exercise
scripted a dirty-bomb attack on Mobile, Alabama to which STRATCOM
responded with nuclear and conventional strikes on an unnamed
east-Asian country that was transparently meant for North Korea.
Jorge Hirsch has outlined the deployment of key administrative
personnel and of ideological legitimations in preparation for a nuclear
attack on Iran (Hirsch, 16 Dec. 2005). And Michel Chossudovsky has
described the command structure that has been set up to implement
STRATCOM=E2=80=99s current plans for preemptive =E2=80=98theatre=E2=80=99 n=
uclear warfare
(see Chossudovsky 2006). But it must be emphasized that these plans, as
tested in November 2005 in the exercise referred to by Arkin, involve
the creation of an impression of what theorists of nuclear war call
=E2=80=9Cproportionality.=E2=80=9D An attack on Iran, which would presumably
involve the use of significant numbers of extremely =E2=80=98dirty=E2=80=99
earth-penetrating nuclear bombs, might well be made to follow a
dirty-bomb attack on the United States, which would be represented in
the media as having been carried out by Iranian agents.
Yet as Giraldi indicates, although the bombing of Iran would follow and
be represented as a response to =E2=80=9Canother 9/11-type terrorist attack
on the United States,=E2=80=9D the planned pattern involves a cynical
separation of appearance from reality: =E2=80=9Cthe response is not
conditional on Iran actually being involved in [this] act of
terrorism=E2=80=A6.=E2=80=9D
Earth-Penetrator =E2=80=98dirty bombs
Talk about =E2=80=9Clow-yield=E2=80=9D nuclear weapons, by the way, means s=
imply
that the most recent U.S. nuclear weapons can be set to detonate with
much less than their maximum explosive force. The maximum power of the
B61-11 earth-penetrating =E2=80=9Cbunker-buster=E2=80=9D bomb ranges, by di=
fferent
accounts, from 300 to 340 or 400 kilotons (see Nelson; Hirsch, 9 Jan.
2006). (By way of comparison, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in August,
1945, killing some 80,000 people outright, and a further 60,000 over
the next several months due to radiation poisoning and other injuries,
had a yield of 15 kilotons.) The lowest-yield setting of the BL61-11 is
reportedly 0.3 kilotons=E2=80=94equivalent, that is to say, to the detonati=
on
of 300 tons of TNT.
But since these new weapons are designed as earth-penetrating
=E2=80=9Cbunker-buster=E2=80=9D rather than air-burst bombs, each one can be
expected to produce large volumes of very =E2=80=98dirty=E2=80=99 radioacti=
ve
fallout. Robert Nelson of the Federation of American Scientists writes
that even at the low end of the B61-11 bomb=E2=80=99s yield range, =E2=80=
=9Cthe
nuclear blast will simply blow out a huge crater of radioactive
material, creating a lethal gamma-radiation field over a large area.=E2=80=
=9D
The very intense local fallout will include both =E2=80=9Cradioactivity from
the fission products=E2=80=9D and also =E2=80=9Clarge amounts of dirt and d=
ebris
[that] has been exposed to the intense neutron flux from the nuclear
detonation=E2=80=9D; the blast cloud produced by such a bomb =E2=80=9Ctypic=
ally
consists of a narrow column and a broad base surge of air filled with
radioactive dust which expands to a radius of over a mile for a 5
kiloton explosion.=E2=80=9D
Yet wouldn=E2=80=99t the =E2=80=9Ctactical=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Clow-yield=
=E2=80=9D nature of these
weapons mean that civilian casualties could be kept to a minimum? A
study published in 2005 by the National Research Council on the Effects
of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons offers estimates of the
casualties that could be caused by these weapons. According to
Conclusion 6 of this report, an attack in or near a densely populated
urban area could be expected, depending on the B61-11=E2=80=99s yield
setting, to kill from several thousand to over a million people. An
attack in a remote, lightly populated area might kill as few as several
hundred people=E2=80=94or, with a high-yield setting and unfavourable winds,
hundreds of thousands.
But what kinds of yield settings might the U.S. military want to use?
Conclusion 5 of the NRC report might seem to suggest that genuinely
low-yield settings might be possible: the yield required =E2=80=9Cto destroy
a hard and deeply buried target is reduced by a factor of 15 to 25 by
enhanced ground-shock coupling if the weapon is detonated a few meters
below the surface.=E2=80=9D Conclusion 2, however, is more sobering. To have
a high probability of destroying a facility 200 metres underground, an
earth-penetrating weapon with a yield of 300 kilotons would be
required=E2=80=94that is to say, a weapon with twenty times the explosive
power of the Hiroshima bomb. Extrapolating from the information the
report provides, one might guess that a weapon in the 7-8 kiloton
range=E2=80=94with half the power of the Hiroshima bomb=E2=80=94could be de=
ployed
against a facility like Natanz, the sensitive parts of which are buried
18 metres underground and protected by reinforced concrete (Beeston). A
similar or smaller weapon might be used against the uranium fuel
enrichment facility at Esfahan=E2=80=94a city of two million people which is
also, by the way, a UNESCO World Heritage City.
The NRC report, it should be noted, was written by a committee, and one
that on the issue of civilian casualties seems to have had some
difficulty in making up its collective mind. Conclusion 4 of the report
informs us that =E2=80=9CFor the same yield and weather conditions, the
number of casualties from an earth-penetrator weapon detonated at a few
meters depth is, for all practical purposes, equal to that from a
surface burst of the same weapon yield.=E2=80=9D But Conclusion 7 tells a
different story: =E2=80=9CFor urban targets, civilian casualties from nucle=
ar
earth-penetrator weapons are reduced by a factor of 2 to 10 compared
with those from a surface burst having 25 times the yield.=E2=80=9D
The most charitable interpretation I can give to Conclusion 7 is that
it was composed for a readership of arithmetical illiterates=E2=80=94who the
authors assume will be unable to deduce that what is actually being
said (assuming a linear relation between yield and casualties) is that
an earth-penetrating weapon will cause from 2.5 to 12.5 times more
casualties than a surface-burst weapon of the same explosive power.
In light of the fact that the NRC report was commissioned by the United
States Congress, we can ourselves conclude that the U.S. government is
contemplating, open-eyed, a war of aggression that American planners
are fully aware will kill=E2=80=94at the very least=E2=80=94many tens of th=
ousands,
and perhaps many hundreds of thousands of civilians.
The pretexts
The principal reason being advanced for an attack upon Iran is the
claim that Iran is on the verge of becoming a nuclear threat with the
capacity and presumably the intention of launching nuclear
ballistic-missile attacks upon Israel and even western Europe and the
United States.
Iran does possess ballistic missiles, including the Shahab-3, which
with a range of 1300 kilometers is capable of striking Israel, as well
as U.S. forces throughout the Middle East. (Why Iran would dream of
initiating military aggression against the U.S. or against Israel,
which possesses an arsenal of some 200 nuclear warheads, together with
multiple means of delivering them, including ballistic missiles, is not
explained.)
A fear-mongering article published by The Guardian on January 4, 2006,
included the information that the next generation of the Shahab missile
=E2=80=9Cshould be capable of reaching Austria and Italy.=E2=80=9D The lead=
ing
sentence of this same article declares that =E2=80=9CThe Iranian government
has been successfully scouring Europe for the sophisticated equipment
needed to develop a nuclear bomb, according to the latest western
assessment of the country=E2=80=99s weapons programmes=E2=80=9D (Cobain and
Traynor). But neither this article nor a companion piece (Traynor and
Cobain) published the same day provides any evidence that Iran actually
has a nuclear weapons program, even though both articles were based
upon a =E2=80=9Creport from a leading EU intelligence service,=E2=80=9D a
=E2=80=9C55-page intelligence assessment, dated July 1 2005, [that] draws
upon material gathered by British, French, German and Belgian
agencies.=E2=80=9D
There is in fact very good evidence, in the form of exhaustive
inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency since 2003, that
Iran does not have and has never had any such program. As the physicist
Gordon Prather wrote in September 2005, =E2=80=9Cafter two years of
go-anywhere, see-anything inspections, [the IAEA] has found no
indication that any special nuclear materials or activities involving
them are being=E2=80=94or have been=E2=80=94used in furtherance of a milita=
ry
purpose=E2=80=9D (Prather, 27 Sept. 2005).
But what about intentions? The Guardian journalists inform us that
=E2=80=9Cwestern leaders =E2=80=A6 have long refused to believe Tehran=E2=
=80=99s
insistence that it is not interested in developing nuclear weapons and
is only trying to develop nuclear power for electricity=E2=80=9D (Cobain and
Traynor). Perhaps it is time these =E2=80=9Cwestern leaders=E2=80=9D=E2=80=
=94George W.
Bush, Tony Blair, and whatever rag-tag and bob-tail of lesser
luminaries they are dragging after them=E2=80=94began to attend to the fact=
s=2E
A good place to start might be with William Beeman=E2=80=99s and Thomas
Stauffer=E2=80=99s assessment of the physical evidence for an Iranian nucle=
ar
weapons program. (Stauffer, by the way, is a former nuclear engineer
and specialist in Middle Eastern energy economics; Beeman directs Brown
University=E2=80=99s Middle East Studies program; both have conducted
research on Iran for three decades.) Beeman and Stauffer note that Iran
has three principal nuclear facilities.
Of the first two, a uranium enrichment plant in Natanz and a deuterium
research facility in Arak, they remark that =E2=80=9CNeither is in operatio=
n=2E
The only question of interest is whether these facilities offer a
plausible route to the manufacture of plutonium-based nuclear bombs,
and the short answer is: They do not.=E2=80=9D
Beeman and Stauffer compare the third facility, the PWR pressurized
=E2=80=9Clight-water=E2=80=9D reactor under construction at Bushehr, with
Israel=E2=80=99s heavy-water graphite-moderated plant at Dimona. The Bushehr
reactor is designed to maximize power output through long fuel cycles
of 30 to 40 months; it will produce plutonium isotopes (PU240, 241 and
242) that are =E2=80=9Calmost impossible to use in making bombs=E2=80=9D; a=
nd
=E2=80=9Cthe entire reactor will have to shut down=E2=80=94a step that cann=
ot be
concealed from satellites, airplanes and other sources=E2=80=94in order to
permit the extraction of even a single fuel pin.=E2=80=9D Israel=E2=80=99s =
Dimona
plant, in contrast, produces the bomb-making isotope PU239; moreover,
it =E2=80=9Ccan be re-fueled =E2=80=98on line,=E2=80=99 without shutting do=
wn. Thus,
high-grade plutonium can be obtained covertly and continuously.=E2=80=9D
Claims emanating from the U.S. State Department to the effect that Iran
possesses uranium-enrichment centrifuges or covert plutonium-extraction
facilities are dismissed by Beeman and Stauffer as implausible, since
=E2=80=9Cthe sources are either unidentified or are the same channels which
disseminated the stories about Iraq=E2=80=99s non-conventional weapons or t=
he
so-called chemical and biological weapons plant in Khartoum.=E2=80=9D
As Michael T. Klare remarks, the U.S. government=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cclaim t=
hat an
attack on Iran would be justified because of its alleged nuclear
potential should invite widespread skepticism.=E2=80=9D But skeptical
intelligence appears to be the last thing one can expect from the
corporate media, whose organs report without blinking Condoleezza
Rice=E2=80=99s threat that =E2=80=9CThe world will not stand by if Iran con=
tinues
on the path to a nuclear weapons capability=E2=80=9D (see [Rice]), and Geor=
ge
W=2E Bush=E2=80=99s equally inane declaration, following the IAEA=E2=80=99s=
vote to
refer Iran to the UN Security Council, that =E2=80=9CThis important step
sends a clear message to the regime in Iran that the world will not
permit the Iranian regime to gain nuclear weapons=E2=80=9D (see [Bush]).
There is much to be said about the sorry process of propagandizing,
diplomatic bullying, and behind-the-scenes blackmail and arm-twisting
within the IAEA and in other forums=E2=80=94all of it strongly reminiscent =
of
the maneuverings of late 2002 and early 2003=E2=80=94that has led to the
present situation, where in early March the Security Council will be
called upon, as in the case of Iraq three years ago, to accept and
legitimize the falsehoods on which the new war of aggression is to be
based. The early stages of this process were lucidly analyzed by
Siddharth Varadarajan in three fine articles in September 2005. Its
more recent phases have been assessed by Gordon Prather in a series of
articles published since mid-September 2005, and also, with equal
scrupulousness and ethical urgency, by another well-informed physicist,
Jorge Hirsch, who has been publishing essays on the subject since
mid-October. I will not repeat here the analyses developed in their
articles (the titles of which are included in the list of sources which
follows this text). But Varadarajan=E2=80=99s recent summary judgment of the
diplomatic process is worth quoting: =E2=80=9CEach time it appeases
Washington=E2=80=99s relentless pressure on Iran, the international communi=
ty
is being made to climb higher and higher up a ladder whose final rungs
can only be sanctions and war. This is precisely the route the U.S.
followed against Iraq in its quest to effect regime change there=E2=80=9D
(Varadarajan, 1 Feb. 2006).
It is also worth saying something, however briefly, about the media
campaign that has accompanied the diplomatic preparations for war. This
has included, since mid-2005, accusations that that Iran was involved
in the terrorist attacks of 9/11, some of whose perpetrators are
alleged (by members of the wholly discredited Kean Commission of
inquiry into the events of 9/11) to have passed through Iran on their
way to the U.S. (see Coman; Hirsch, 28 Dec. 2005; and also, if you
believe The 9/11 Commission Report to have any credibility, Griffin
2005).
A more relevant accusation surfaced in November 2005, when the New York
Times reported that senior U.S. intelligence officials had briefed IAEA
Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei and his senior staff on information
gleaned from a =E2=80=9Cstolen Iranian laptop computer=E2=80=9D which they =
said
demonstrated that Iran had developed nuclear weapons compact enough to
fit onto its Shahab missiles. But as Gordon Prather wrote,
=E2=80=9C=E2=80=98sources close to the IAEA=E2=80=99 said what they had bee=
n briefed on
appeared to be aerodynamic design work for a ballistic missile reentry
vehicle, which certainly couldn=E2=80=99t contain a nuke if the Iranians
didn=E2=80=99t have any. Furthermore, according to David Albright, a someti=
me
consultant to the IAEA, who has actually had access to the =E2=80=98stolen
Iranian laptop,=E2=80=99 the information on it is all about reentry vehicles
and =E2=80=98does not contain words such [as] =E2=80=98nuclear=E2=80=99 and=
=E2=80=98nuclear
warhead=E2=80=99=E2=80=9D (Prather, 23 Nov. 2005).
Sorry, boys: no biscuit.
And yet the object of the exercise was evidently not to persuade the
IAEA people, who are not idiots, but rather to get the story into the
amplification system of that Mighty Wurlitzer, the corporate media.
This strategy has evidently worked. The New York Times, for example,
may have parted company with Judith Miller, the =E2=80=98star=E2=80=99 repo=
rter
whose sordid job was to serve as a conduit for Bush regime
misinformation during the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, but in
Elaine Sciolino they have a reporter who is no less skilled in passing
off neocon propaganda as fact (see Prather, 7 Jan. 2006). The New York
Times also gave front-page space in mid-January to an article by
Richard Bernstein and Stephen Weisman proposing =E2=80=9Cthat Iran has
restarted =E2=80=98research that could give it technology to create nuclear
weapons=E2=80=99=E2=80=9D (quoted by Whitney, 17 Jan. 2006). =E2=80=9CPerha=
ps,=E2=80=9D Mike
Whitney suggests, =E2=80=9Cthe NY Times knows something that the IAEA
inspectors don=E2=80=99t? If so, they should step forward and reveal the
facts.=E2=80=9D
The key facts, as Whitney wrote on January 17, are that there is no
evidence that Iran has either a nuclear weapons program or centrifuges
with which to enrich uranium to weapons-grade concentration. =E2=80=9CThese
are the two issues which should be given greatest consideration in
determining whether or not Iran poses a real danger to its neighbors,
and yet these are precisely the facts that are absent from the nearly
2,500 articles written on the topic in the last few days.=E2=80=9D Add to
these the further fact, noted above, that the August 2005 National
Intelligence Estimate doubled the time American agencies thought Iran
would need to manufacture =E2=80=9Cthe key ingredient for a nuclear weapon=
=E2=80=9D
from the previous estimate of five years to a full decade.
Why then is the American public being incited to ever greater anxiety
in the face of a weapons program which=E2=80=94on the paranoid and unproven
assumption that it actually exists=E2=80=94is if anything a receding rather
than a gathering threat?
Fox News has led the way among the non-print media in drum-beating and
misinformation=E2=80=94to the extent, as Paul Craig Roberts observes, that a
Fox/Opinion Dynamics poll can plausibly report =E2=80=9Cthat 60% of
Republicans, 41% of Independents, and 36% of Democrats support using
air strikes and ground troops against Iran in order to prevent Iran
from developing nuclear weapons.=E2=80=9D Worse yet, an LA Times/Bloomberg
poll apparently finds that 57% of the respondents =E2=80=9Cfavor military
intervention if Iran=E2=80=99s government pursues a program that would enab=
le
it to build nuclear arms.=E2=80=9D Any civilian nuclear power program opens
up this possibility (Canada, had it so desired, could have become a
nuclear-weapons power forty years ago)=E2=80=94but the function of the
nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is precisely to open the way to
peaceful nuclear power generation while preventing the further
dissemination of nuclear weapons. What the LA Times/Bloomberg poll
therefore means, Roberts says, is that =E2=80=9Cif Iran exercises its rights
under the non-proliferation treaty, 57% of Americans support a US
military attack on Iran!=E2=80=9D
Numbers like these suggest that George W. Bush will indeed get the new
war he so desires. And it appears that he will get it soon. As Newt
Gingrich declared on Fox News in late January, the matter is so urgent
that the attack must happen within the next few months. =E2=80=9CAccording =
to
Gingrich, Iran not only cannot be trusted with nuclear technology, but
also Iranians =E2=80=98cannot be trusted with their oil=E2=80=99=E2=80=9D (=
Roberts).
The Euro-denominated Tehran Oil Bourse
Gingrich=E2=80=99s wording may sound faintly ludicrous. However, it would
appear to be a slanting allusion to the fact that the Iranian
government has announced plans to open an Iranian Oil Bourse in March
2006. This Bourse will be in direct competition with the New York
Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and London=E2=80=99s International Petroleum
Exchange (IPE)=E2=80=94and unlike them will do business not in U.S. dollars,
but in euros. What Gingrich evidently means is that the Iranians cannot
be trusted to market their oil and natural gas in a manner that
continues to benefit the United States.
Peter Phillips and his colleagues in Project Censored explained very
clearly in 2003 how the current U.S. dollar-denominated system of oil
and gas marketing provides the U.S. with a highly advantageous system
of exchange. In 1971, =E2=80=9CPresident Nixon removed U.S. currency from t=
he
gold standard=E2=80=9D:
=E2=80=9CSince then, the world=E2=80=99s supply of oil has been traded in U=
..S. fiat
dollars, making the dollar the dominant world reserve currency.
Countries must provide the United States with goods and services for
dollars=E2=80=94which the United States can freely print. To purchase energy
and pay off any IMF debts, countries must hold vast dollar reserves.
The world is attached to a currency that one country can produce at
will. This means that in addition to controlling world trade, the
United States is importing substantial quantities of goods and services
for very low relative costs.=E2=80=9D (Phillips)
As Krassimir Petrov has observed, this amounts to an indirect form of
imperial taxation. Unlike previous empires, which extracted direct
taxes from their subject-nations, the American empire has
=E2=80=9Cdistributed instead its own fiat currency, the U.S. Dollar, to oth=
er
nations in exchange for goods with the intended consequence of
inflating and devaluing those dollars and paying back later each dollar
with less economic goods=E2=80=94the difference capturing the U.S. imperial
tax.=E2=80=9D
Oil, backed by military power, has provided the rest of the world with
a reason for accepting depreciating U.S. dollars and holding
ever-increasing amounts of them in reserve. Petrov remarks that in
1972-73 the U.S. made =E2=80=9Can iron-clad arrangement with Saudi Arabia to
support the power of the House of Saud in exchange for accepting only
U=2ES. dollars for its oil. The rest of OPEC was to follow suit and
accept only dollars. Because the world had to buy oil from the Arab oil
countries, it had the reason to hold dollars as payment for oil. [=E2=80=A6=
..]
Even though dollars could no longer be exchanged for gold, they were
now exchangeable for oil=E2=80=9D (Petrov).
But as Phillips notes, the economic reasons alone for switching to the
euro as a reserve currency have been becoming steadily more persuasive:
=E2=80=9CBecause of huge trade deficits, it is estimated that the dollar is
currently [in late 2003] overvalued by at least 40 percent. Conversely,
the euro-zone does not run huge deficits, uses higher interest rates,
and has an increasingly larger share of world trade. As the euro
establishes its durability and comes into wider use, the dollar will no
longer be the world=E2=80=99s only option.=E2=80=9D The result will be to m=
ake it
=E2=80=9Ceasier for other nations to exercise financial leverage against the
United States without damaging themselves or the global financial
system as a whole.=E2=80=9D
Prior to the invasion of Iraq, several analysts suggested that one very
obvious motive for that war was the fact that, beginning in November
2000, Iraq had insisted on payment in euros, not dollars, for its oil.
In mid-2003, by which time the U.S. had made clear the intended terms
of its occupation of Iraq, one such analyst, Coilin Nunan, remarked
that it remained =E2=80=9Cjust a theory=E2=80=9D that American threats agai=
nst Iraq
had been made on behalf of the petro-dollar system=E2=80=94=E2=80=9Cbut a t=
heory
that subsequent U.S. actions have done little to dispel: the U.S. has
invaded Iraq and installed its own authority to rule the country, and
as soon as Iraqi oil became available to sell on the world market, it
was announced that payment would be in dollars only=E2=80=9D (Phillips).
William Clark writes, more directly, that the invasion was principally
about =E2=80=9Cgaining strategic control over Iraq=E2=80=99s hydrocarbon re=
serves
and in doing so maintain[ing] the US$ as the monopoly currency for the
critical international oil market=E2=80=9D (Clark, 28 Jan. 2006).
There is currently some debate over the extent to which U.S. war
preparations against Iran are motivated by concern for the continued
hegemony of the petrodollar (see Nunan). I find the analyses of William
Clark and Krassimir Petrov persuasive.
Clark notes that an important obstacle to any major shift in the oil
marketing system has been =E2=80=9Cthe lack of a euro-denominated oil prici=
ng
standard, or oil =E2=80=98marker=E2=80=99 as it is referred to in the indus=
try.=E2=80=9D
(The current =E2=80=9Coil markers,=E2=80=9D in relation to which other
internationally traded oil is priced, are Norway Brent crude, West
Texas Intermediate crude [WTI], and United Arab Emirates [UAE] Dubai
crude=E2=80=94all of them U.S. dollar denominated.) In his opinion, =E2=80=
=9Cit is
logical to assume the proposed Iranian bourse will usher in a fourth
crude oil marker=E2=80=94denominated in the euro currency,=E2=80=9D and wil=
l thus
=E2=80=9Cremove the main technical obstacle for a broad-based petro-euro
system for international oil trades.=E2=80=9D This will have the effect of
introducing =E2=80=9Cpetrodollar versus petroeuro currency hedging, and
fundamentally new dynamics to the biggest market in the world=E2=80=94global
oil and gas trades. In essence, the US will no longer be able to
effortlessly expand credit via US Treasury bills, and the US$=E2=80=99s
demand/liquidity value will fall=E2=80=9D (Clark, 28 Jan. 2006).
An even partial loss of the U.S. dollar=E2=80=99s position as the dominant
reserve currency for global energy trading would, as Petrov suggests,
lead to a sharp decline in its value and an ensuing acceleration of
inflation and upward pressure on interest rates, with unpleasant
consequences. =E2=80=9CAt this point, the Fed will find itself between Scyl=
la
and Charybdis=E2=80=94between deflation and hyperinflation=E2=80=94it will =
be
forced fast either to take its =E2=80=98classical medicine=E2=80=99 by defl=
ating,
whereby it raises interest rates, thus inducing a major economic
depression, a collapse in real estate, and an implosion in bond, stock,
and derivative markets [=E2=80=A6], or alternatively, to take the Weimar way
out by inflating, [=E2=80=A6] drown[ing] the financial system in liquidity
[=E2=80=A6] and hyperinflating the economy.=E2=80=9D
Any attempt, on the other hand, to preserve what Mike Whitney calls the
=E2=80=9Cperfect pyramid-scheme=E2=80=9D of America=E2=80=99s currency mono=
poly (Whitney,
23 Jan. 2006) by means of military aggression against Iran is likely to
result in equal or greater disruptions to the world economy. American
military aggression, which might conceivably include attempts to occupy
Iran=E2=80=99s oil-producing Khuzestan province and the coastline along the
Straits of Hormuz (see Pilger), will not just have appalling
consequences for civilians throughout the region; it may also place
American forces into situations still more closely analogous than the
present stage of Iraqi resistance to the situation produced in Lebanon
by Israel=E2=80=99s invasion of that country=E2=80=94which ended in 2000 wi=
th
Israel=E2=80=99s first military defeat (see Salama and Ruster).
The involvement of Turkey
One significant difference between the warnings of a coming war
circulating in early 2005 and those which have appeared in recent
months is the current evidence of feverish diplomatic activity between
Washington and Ankara. The NATO powers have evidently been co-opted
into Washington=E2=80=99s war plans: the so-called EU-3 (France, Germany, a=
nd
Britain) presented Iran with a negotiating position on the nuclear fuel
cycle for Iran=E2=80=99s power plants that seemed designed to produce an
indignant refusal. (As Aijaz Ahmad writes, the European group =E2=80=9Cwas
not negotiating; it was relaying to Iran, and to all and sundry, what
the U.S. was demanding and threatening to report Iran to the Security
Council if the latter did not comply. Everyone knows that Iran had
closed its Isphahan facility voluntarily, as a confidence-building
measure, expecting some reciprocity, and then re-opened it, in
retaliation, after having waited for reciprocity for many months and
not getting it=E2=80=94indeed, receiving only escalated demands.=E2=80=9D)
But according to the well-connected J=C3=BCrgen Gottslich, writing in Der
Spiegel in late December, Iran was not discussed during the new German
Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung=E2=80=99s recent visit to Washington.
Gottslich wrote that =E2=80=9Cthe speculation surrounding an American strike
against Iran centers more on developments in Turkey. There has been a
definite surge in visits to Ankara by high-ranking National Security
personnel from the U.S. and by NATO officials. Within the space of just
a few days, FBI Director Robert Mueller, [CIA] Director [Porter] Goss
and then NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer visited
Turkey.=E2=80=9D Condoleezza Rice also flew to Turkey immediately after her
December trip to Berlin.
The aim of these visits has quite obviously been to bring Turkey into
line with a planned attack on Iran. As Gottslich writes, =E2=80=9COn his
Istanbul visit, Goss is alleged to have given Turkish security services
three dossiers that prove Iranian cooperation with al-Qaeda. In
addition, there was a fourth dossier focusing on the current state of
Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear weapons program.=E2=80=9D
But why, beyond the obvious fact of Turkey=E2=80=99s shared border with Ira=
n,
should Turkey be such an important factor in American war plans? The
answer is suggested by an article published by an American academic,
Robert Olson, in the June 2002 issue of Middle East Policy. According
to Noam Chomsky, Olson =E2=80=9Creports that 12 percent of Israel=E2=80=99s
offensive aircraft are to be =E2=80=98permanently stationed in Turkey=E2=80=
=99 and
have been =E2=80=98flying reconnaissance flights along Iran=E2=80=99s borde=
r,=E2=80=99
signaling to Iran =E2=80=98that it would soon be challenged elsewhere by
Turkey and its Israeli and American allies=E2=80=99=E2=80=9D (Chomsky 159).=
These
Israeli aircraft would evidently take part in any American and Israeli
aerial attack on Iran, and Turkish consent would no doubt be necessary
for their use in such an act.
What advantages might Turkey hope to gain from its consent? The
collaboration of Britain, France and Germany in the cranking up of
diplomatic pressure on Iran might suggest that Turkey=E2=80=99s much-desired
admission to the European Union could have been held out as one
carrot=E2=80=94possibly with the argument that participation in an attack on
a fundamentalist Islamic state could be one way of calming European
fears over the entry of a Muslim nation into the Union. An equally
persuasive advantage may have been a secret promise of future admission
to the select group of nuclear powers.
Christopher Deliso has assembled evidence both of Turkey=E2=80=99s persiste=
nt
involvement in the smuggling and production of nuclear weapons
technology, including centrifuge components and triggering devices
(Deliso, 21 Nov. 2005)=E2=80=94and also of the very interesting fact that t=
he
key administration officials involved in the outing of Valerie Plame,
who was investigating these murky operations, included people, among
them Marc Grossman, former U.S. ambassador to Turkey, who give every
appearance of having been centrally involved in the very network of
nuclear arms proliferation that the CIA was working to uncover (Deliso,
24 Nov. 2005). Even when supplemented by Sibel Edmonds=E2=80=99 indications
of high-level collaboration in the frustration by Turkish agents of the
FBI=E2=80=99s parallel investigations of what appears to be the same networ=
k,
the evidence remains at best suppositious. And yet despite the
inaccessibility of details=E2=80=94which will no doubt remain inaccessible
for as long as ***** Cheney, John Bolton and the rest retain the power
to frustrate investigations into the activities of their close
associates and subordinates=E2=80=94the larger pattern is, to say the least,
intriguing. The same highly-placed neoconservatives who have been
crying wolf over Iran=E2=80=99s non-existent nuclear weapons appear to have
been deeply=E2=80=94and lucratively=E2=80=94involved in the trafficking of
restricted and forbidden weapons technology into Turkey.
Should this pattern turn out indeed to involve corruption, hypocrisy,
and treachery on the grand scale that Deliso=E2=80=99s investigative
reporting would suggest, is there any reason one should be surprised?
What else, to be frank, would you expect from people such as these?
*************
Global Research Contributing Editor Michael Keefer is Associate
Professor of English at the University of Guelph. He is a former
President of the Association of Canadian College and University
Teachers of English. His recent writings include a series of articles
on electoral fraud in the 2004 US presidential election published by
the Centre for Research on Globalization.
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