Leading international think tank for military affairs says the threat from al-Qaeda and the Taliban has been over exaggerated. CIA chief Leon Panetta admitted recently that there were no more than 50 members of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Obama has authorized 120,000 American soldiers to fight them.
THE London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), is the world’s leading think tank for military affairs. It represents the top echelon of defence experts, retired officers and senior military men, spanning the globe from the United States and Britain to China, Russia and India.I’ve been an IISS member for over 20 years. IISS’s reports are always authoritative but usually cautious and diplomatic, sometimes dull. However, two weeks ago the IISS issued an explosive report on Afghanistan that is shaking Washington and its Nato allies.
The report, presided over by the former deputy director of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency, MI-6, says the threat from al-Qaeda and Taliban has been “exaggerated” by the western powers. The US-led mission in Afghanistan has “ballooned” out of all proportion from its original aim of disrupting and defeating al-Qaeda. The US-led war in Afghanistan, says IISS, using uncharacteristically blunt language, is “a long-drawn-out disaster”.
Just recently, CIA chief Leon Panetta admitted there were no more than 50 members of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Yet US President Barack Obama has tripled the number of US soldiers there to 120,000 to fight Al Qaeda.
The IISS report goes on to acknowledge the presence of western troops in Afghanistan is actually fuelling national resistance. I saw the same phenomena during the 1980’s Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Interestingly, the portion of the report overseen by the former MI-6 Secret Intelligence Service deputy chief, Nigel Inskster, finds little Al Qaeda threat elsewhere, notably in Somalia and Yemen. Yet Washington is beefing up its attacks on both turbulent nations.
Abandoning its usual discretion, IISS said it was issuing these warnings because the deepening war in Afghanistan was threatening the west’s security interests by distracting its leaders from the world financial crisis and Iran, and burning through scarce funds needed elsewhere.
The IISS’s findings are a direct challenge to Obama, Britain’s new prime minister, David Cameron, and other US allies with troops in Afghanistan. This report undermines their rational used to sustain the increasingly unpopular conflict. It will certainly convince sceptics that the real reason for occupation of Afghanistan has to do with oil, excluding China from the region, and keeping watch on nuclear-armed Pakistan.
The report also goes on to propose an exit strategy from the Afghan War. Western occupation troops, IISS proposes, should be sharply reduced and confined to Kabul and northern Afghanistan, which is mostly ethnic Tajik and Uzbek.
Southern Afghanistan – Taliban country – should be vacated by Western forces and left alone. Taliban would be allowed to govern its own half of the nation until some sort of loose, decentralised federal system can be implemented. This was, in fact, pretty much the way Afghanistan operated before the 1979 Soviet invasion.
Meanwhile, the war in Afghanistan is turning against the increasingly wobbly western occupation forces. The US-installed Afghan leader, Hamid Karzai, openly prepares for direct peace talks with Taliban and its allies – in spite of intense opposition from the US, Britain and Canada.
Pro-government Afghan forces are increasingly demoralised. Only the Tajik and Uzbek militias, and Afghan Communist Party, both supported by India, Russia and Iran, want to keep fighting the Pashtun Taliban.
Taliban leader Mullah Omar last week proclaimed the western occupiers were rapidly losing the war. He may well be correct. Nothing is going right for the US-backed Kabul regime or its western defenders. Even the much-ballyhooed US offensive at Marjah, designed to smash Taliban resistance, was an embarrassing fiasco. Civilian casualties from US bombing continue to mount.
Europeans are fed up with the Afghan war. Polls report 60% of Americans think the war not worth fighting.
The IISS bombshell comes on the heels of the most dramatic part of the British Chilcot Inquiry into the origins of the invasion of Iraq. Baroness Manningham-Buller the former head of Britain’s domestic security service, MI-5, testified that the Iraq War was generated by a farrago of lies and faked evidence from the Blair government. What we call “terrorism” is largely caused by the western invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, she testified.
The truth about Iraq and Afghanistan is finally emerging.
Afghanistan may again prove to be “the graveyard of empires”.
Eric S. Margolis is a contributing editor to the Toronto Sun chain of newspapers, writing mainly about the Middle East and South Asia. Comments: letters@thesundaily.com
Once people become somewhat conversant with the evidence surrounding the actual mechanics of the 9/11 Psy-op and the many methods of embellishing that lie employed by the perps on so many different levels, it becomes obvious that as much effort went into the planning and propagating of the propaganda and “Public Myths” aspect as went into the operation itself. We see that right from the outset, within minutes of the beginning of the unfolding of tragic events on the morning of 9/11, people appearing with ready-made stories to tell and specific technical knowledge of the “fire-induced structural failure” of the WTC towers, or intimate knowledge of the designated perpetrators Osama bin Laden and his cave-dwelling Al Quesadilla Terrorist Network and how they pulled it off, etc., when such specific knowledge could not possibly have been known so early in the game without it being pre-scriptied ahead of time. Jerome Hauer was one of those pre-planted experts employed to help steer the public towards the official myths that morning, appearing on multiple national television networks.
Check out this BrasscheckTV.com collection of video clips regarding these pre-planting of myths via the media on 9/11. Jerome Hauer’s interview by Dan Rather starts at 2:27
So, Jerome Hauer (former head of NY Office of Emergency Management) appeared in the CBS studio that morning within a couple of hours of the beginning of the attacks and already had this elaborate story to tell, both about how the WTC towers “collapsed”, and about Bin Laden and his merry band of hijackers able to outsmart the world’s most sophisticated air defense, etc., and then suddenly changed the topic to emotional-laden things such as the impact on rescue workers, blah, blah, blah.
The Method:
-Sell the lie with authority
-Then change the subject to something emotional
Rather asks him if pre-positioned explosives could have been used to bring down the Twin Towers and Hauer immediately discounts the possibility, saying: “My sense is that just the velocity of the plane and the fact that you have a plane filled with fuel hitting that building that burned, that the velocity of the plane certainly had an impact on the structure itself. And then the fact that it burned and you had that intense heat probably weakened the structure as well. And I think it was simply the planes hitting the buildings and causing the collapse.” Why was Hauer so sure the plane crashes and subsequent fires alone caused the collapses? In fact, when he testifies before the 9/11 Commission in 2004, he will be asked whether Office of Emergency Management had, before 9/11, conducted “any planning for what would be the response if a commercial or a private plane were to accidentally [hit] either the World Trade Center or some other building in New York City?” He will reply: “We had aircraft crash drills on a regular basis. The general consensus in the city was that a plane hitting a building… was that it would be a high-rise fire”. Yet he will not say that the building collapsing had been considered a possibility.
Jerome Hauer is a very interesting fellow.
A crucial aspect of control that needed to be established in order to pull off 9/11 was to gain control of security of the WTC complex. This way, Mossad explosive experts — who just so happened to be in town just prior to and on 9/11 — could be readily allowed access to strategic areas of the buildings in order to prep for the demolitions, for example. The contract to run security at the WTC was given to Kroll Associates after the 1993 wtc bombing. Kroll is otherwise known as “Wallstreets CIA”. The New York Port Authority (Chaired by Zionist Lewis Eisenberg) paid them $2.5 million to “revamp” security at the complex. The owners of Kroll were two Zionist Jews named Jules & Jeremy Kroll. The managing director of Kroll at the time was Zionist Jerome M. Hauer. I wonder why Kevin Ryan never explored these interesting connections when he wrote his big paper “Demolition Accesss to the WTC Towers”?
Hauer was also the guy chosen to run Mayor Rudy Guiliani’s office of emergency management (more…)
Those who have studied history know that nothing invigorates and empowers an authoritarian regime more than a spectacular act of violence, some sudden and senseless loss of life that allows the autocrat to stand on the smoking rubble and identify himself as the hero. It is at moments like this that the public—still in shock from the horror of the tragedy that has just unfolded before them—can be led into the most ruthless despotism: despotism that now bears the mantle of “security.”
Acts of terror and violence never benefit the average man or woman. They only ever benefit those in positions of power.
This is why Nero fiddled while Rome burned: it gave him a chance to throw the Christians to the lions and rebuild the capital of the Roman Empire in his own image.
This is why Hearst and the warmongers of the emerging American Empire were delighted by the destruction of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor: it gave them the excuse they needed in order to rouse the public into supporting the Spanish-American War.
This is why Israel attacked the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967 during the Six Day War, strafing and torpedoing it relentlessly for hours in a vain attempt to send it to the bottom: the Israelis believed that the loss of the Liberty could be blamed on Egypt and draw the Americans into war.
This is why there are hundreds of documented examples of governments staging attacks in order to blame them on their political enemies. In every civilization, in every culture, in every historical period, authoritarians have known that spectacular acts of violence help to further consolidate their own power and control. And sadly, throughout history there have been all too many willing to allow attacks to occur, to pretend that attacks have occurred or even to attack their own population in order to further their political agenda.
To think that such staged provocations and false flag attacks no longer occur would be as unrealistic as believing that human nature itself has changed, that powerful people no longer seek to increase their power, that influence is never used for deceit or manipulation, that lies are no longer told to satisfy greed or slake the thirst for control. It is to believe that our society is immuned from those things that we have seen in every other society in every other era. In short, it is a dangerous delusion.
The people are once again learning the power of this delusion. They are learning the extent to which they have been lied to. They are once again studying their history.
The Russians are learning how the FSB was caught planting bombs in Moscow in the 1990s during a terror scare that swept Putin into power and stirred the public into supporting the Second Chechen War. They are learning how their autocratic ex-President came to power campaigning on the graves of those his old FSB cronies had killed.
The Israelis are learning how Mossad has been caught time and again posing as the very Muslim terrorists they claim to be opposing. They are learning how Israel uses the specter of terror to further extend their (more…)
The Internet is an effective source of information for many Americans, therefore, the attack on the free Internet is in full force, from numerous angles. Unless people wake up and demand freedom, it will be lost. As usual, the collectivists are using fear in order to sway the public to embrace their predetermined outcome.
Last week, freedoms began to be threatened when the news came out about “cyberthreats” to the Internet, using the tired excuse of terrorism, despite the many years without any serious attacks.(1) Their solution, of course, is to take control over the Internet. The Senate is considering a law to allow the military to seize control over the Internet and content on personal computers, by way of comandeering America’s privately operated power grids.
The Cybersecurity Bill is another way that those in power are trying to take over the Internet, using the all-purpose excuse of terrorism again. Those who want to control what information you read, write and share are doing so under the guise of protecting the critical U.S. network infrastructure. Senator Jay Rockefeller, the driving force behind this bill, has publicly stated that it would have been better if the Internet had never existed. Perhaps this is because so many people have awoken to the truth of the Rockefeller family’s involvement in creating the fraudulent Federal Reserve System. Why is this guy still in office?
As of late March, the Cybersecurity Act bill has passed the House and made is still pending before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs (it is my opinion that it will pass through this committee with ease). Many in the Senate are rushing the enactment of this bill, and are trumpeting the necessity for “safety”. It is safe to presume that they are not acting in the interests of the individual. Further, Public- Private Partnerships (PPP) are planned as part of the takeover.(2) More people need to become aware of the true nature of the PPP (a tool used to implement fascism within the Agenda
Jesse covers a wide range of topics in this hour long interview with Alex Jones.
Alex welcomes back to the show former Minnesota governor, retired professional wrestler and color commentator, Navy Seal veteran, actor, and the host of Tru TV’s popular series Conspiracy Theory, Jesse Ventura. Jesse’s latest book is American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies That the Government Tells Us. Ventura’s previous book is Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me!
Special thanx to WEARECHANGELA for their protest footage and huge banner signs they used. what people do not know is killing people and causing too much suffering across the world. Glenn beck you have blood on your hands
Clearchannel hosts John and Ken, who host a daily show on top-rated KFI 640 Los Angeles, were discussing the case of Maj. Nidal Hasan, Army psychiatrist who reportedly murdered 13 people in a rampage at Fort Hood TX on November 5th.
A google search of the term ‘Nidal Hasan September 11′ returns nearly 24 million results, along with 5,719 new stories containing the terms.
John and Ken spent a good part of their show discussing Hasan’s 2007 power point presentation, and whether or not the government should have kicked him out of the military because of his views. This despite the fact that the Army generally refuses to let even those who beg for conscientious objector status out without a fight.
They then asked for listener input, and one of the first callers says “John and Ken, unless you want to give government authority to ban the koran altogether, then how could you stop people from promoting what’s in it?”
Kobylt immediately respond with a declaration of non-rights, stating , “No one has freedom of speech in their workplace, you know that; especially in the military”.
The caller, prefacing their response with comments about “terrorism” in order to get the hosts guard down and not be cut off by the time delay, continues “well you know, let’s not be naive about terrorism also guys, you know a lot of Bush and Reagan appointees say that 911 was an inside job, that the government demolished those towers”.
Met with stunned awkward silence, Kobylt then resorts to the standard ad hominem attacks, “Well that’s stupid”.
Chiampou chimes in, remarking “well that one got by”, seemingly insinuating that the station gets regular calls on the topic of government sponsored terrorism.
Kobylt then sarcastically adds ”thanks”, possibly to their screener who was not strict enough in her screening, or to the engineer who did not cut the comments off before they were aired to millions of listeners. In their summary of the station, Wikipedia reports“In the Spring 2006 quarter Arbitron rating, KFI was the most listened to radio station in Los Angeles, averaging approximately 1.5 million listeners during any given weekday.”
Unable to engage the caller or address the issue at hand, Kobylt concludes his angry tirade with “uh, Martin, you win stupidest listener of the day award” and quickly moves on to the next caller.
It is important for those of us who know the truth to combat the 9/11/01 propaganda, especially since the government and coprorate media attempting to link every disaster to the horrific memory of 9/11/01.
Mark Dice of TheResistanceManifesto.com has refined a science out of how to have anti new world order comments aired on local and national tv and radio shows, and links to the clips on his website.
The KFI clip can be heard here, and the entire clip from the original broadcast can be heard here by clicking Listen to ‘Blame Game 3pm hour 11/10/09′
Major General Albert “Bert” N. Stubblebine III, head of all intelligence says: Pentagon was NOT hit by a plane, WTC 7 brought down by explosives, Media in America is controlled.
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