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 Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 3:01 am Post subject: American Terror Strategy in Iraq |
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American Terror Strategy in Iraq
[8/6/2005 11:10:00 AM]
By Dr. Elias Akleh
Killing has become a daily routine in Iraq. Caught between resistance and
terrorism Iraqi citizens are being daily killed in an estimated average of
50 a day. The attacks can be sorted into two categories; resistance directed
against occupational forces and terrorism directed against civilians.
Resistance is led by Iraqi freedom fighters, while terrorism is orchestrated
and carried out by American Special Forces and their death squads.
Iraqi freedom fighters targeted American logistical convoys and patrols, and
had inflicted more casualties than what is declared by the Americans.
Resistance started with relatively small number of fighters, who grew up in
numbers, and started coordinating between each other. They started with
simple automatic weapons that were ineffective against American armored
vehicles, and then upgraded their weapons to the more effective rockets,
grenade launchers, and street side bombs. The frequency of attack against
American troops had also increased to an average of 68 attacks per day as
per American statistics. Iraqi resistance had become a real pain in the neck
for Americans, who were not able to distinguish between fighters and
civilians. The fighters could easily hide among civilians, who sympathized
with them and refused to turn them in.
The American invasion of Iraq brought terror to the country, and aimed at
spreading a culture of sectarian hatred (rather than democracy) between the
three major Iraqi sects; Kurds, Shiite, and Sunnis. Such hatred would
facilitate dividing the country into three divisions (Kurdish, Sunni, and
Shiite) for ease of control and manageability. To incite this hatred
American operatives – including Israelis – started assassinating Sunni and
Shiite leaders, and bombing their communities and mosques in a way to appear
that attacks were responses to each other. Attacks against Kurds were not
necessary since they already had established a separate semi-government.
Sunni and Shiite leaders had called for unity against such attacks in order
to foil the American strategy.
The Americans reverted to World War II terror tactics: targeting civilian
communities and associating the attacks to resistance groups to create
animosity between them. American propaganda campaign was launched to link
resistance with terror groups; Al-Qaeda, Al Zarqawi, and foreign terrorists.
Although unable to produce those alleged killed or captured foreign
fighters, such propaganda worked well for the Americans in the international
arena since Bush had declared war on terror. They carried out large scale
attacks against Iraqi towns inflicting damages to their infrastructure,
killing many civilians, and detaining many others under the guise of freeing
the town from the grip of terrorists. The goal, here, was to punish those
towns that do not turn in freedom fighters. The civilians have to pay a
heavy price for harboring the fighters, and such a price must be so
expensive that other towns would start turning in fighters or refuse to
harbor them for fear of reprisal. The Nazi SS forces used this tactic in
Czechoslovakia to destroy whole villages that harbored fighters.
In April 2004 John Negroponte was assigned Ambassador to Iraq. He headed the
largest American embassy in the world with three thousand employees,
advisors, and CIA operatives. Negroponte was assigned this position for his
long bloody criminal history in dealing with resistance that dates back to
early 1960s. He started his career in Vietnam working within the CIA’s
Phoenix program supervising the training and the arming of death squads
specialized in torture, forced interrogation, assassination, and genocide.
These death squads were responsible for the murder of 40 thousand Vietnamese
guerillas. He then moved to work in Central America, the Philippines, and
Mexico before he was appointed to Iraq.
In 1981 President Reagan appointed Negroponte Ambassador to Honduras, where
he established, financed, trained and armed death squads like Battalion 316
to help General Gustavo Martinez terrorize the population. Negroponte turned
Honduras into a base of operation, from which CIA’s Contra terrorists set up
their attacks to destabilize Nicaragua. Similar death squads were also
formed in El Salvador that massacred hundreds of farmers and civilians.
Negroponte was sent to Iraq to duplicate these death squads using the
Salvadorian model to terrorize Iraqi communities, who sympathize with the
resistance.
Negroponte didn’t stay long in Iraq. He left the job to two military
personnel experienced in the training of death squads; James Steele, who led
a team of 55 American Special Forces advisers in El Salvador in 1980’s, and
Steve Casteel, who fought Latin American insurgency under the guise of
“American war on drugs”. These two “advisers” worked within the Iraqi
Interior Ministry to build, arm, train, and fund vigilante militias linked
to Iraqi politicians for their protection. These militias have no allegiance
to the government, but to political leaders such as Iyad Allawi, who
controls the Muthana Brigade and the Defenders of Khadamiya. Other militias
include Iraqi Army’s 36th Commando Battalion and its 40th Brigade in
Baghdad, the Lion Brigade and the Wolf Brigade. The most fearsome militia
group is the Special Police Commandos led by General Adnan Thabit, and has
ten thousand troops, making it larger than the British military forces,
second largest foreign force in Iraq. These militias work under former
Baathists assigned by Allawi to various security services to fight
insurgents. Such Baathists are Thabit’s nephew Interior Minister Falah
al-Naqib, the Minister of Defense Hazem al-Shaalan, and the head of Iraqi
Secret Police Brigadier General Mohammad Abdullah Shahwani.
Many of these militias are Shiite from Southern Iraq, and they operate
mainly in what is called the Sunni Triangle. They spear-head the American
raids against civilian homes, where they arrest and abuse Sunni families.
This incites hatred between Sunnis and Shiites, which is what the Americans
had planned for. The use of Kurdish Peshmerga and Shiite militias against
Sunnis increases the likelihood of sectarian hatred and civil war.
Besides these private militias the American Marines had created their own
Iraqi militia. In January 2005 the 7th Marines Regiment had set up their own
61 person militia group called the Iraqi Freedom Guard with a monthly salary
of $400 each. The 23rd Marines Regiment had also set up a 20 member Special
Forces militia mainly Shiite from Basra, who call themselves the Freedom
Fighters. These two militias were heavily used during the attack on Al-Anbar
province.
The American forces had also reached an agreement with Shiite Mogtada
Al-Sadr’s Mehdi army to have them pursue and capture resistance fighters.
This is the same Mehdi army, who fought American forces in the past in Sadr
City. The enemy of yesterday becomes the friend of today.
All these militias are paid, armed and encouraged to conduct raids against
Sunni communities and detain, interrogate, torture, and murder many of their
men. For Sunnis being detained is equivalent to being murdered. Many
unidentified bodies, with signs of torture, are being daily discovered in
the rivers and lakes. General Wayne Downing, former head of all American
Special Forces, called these death squads “very valid tactics” that had been
used since the beginning of the war in Iraq. He acknowledged the existence
of these death squads calling them “Special Police Commandos” that conduct
strike operations.
Media was also used to sever resistance from any popular sympathy and
support. A television program called “Terror in the Grip of Justice” is
broadcasted six nights a week on al-Iraqiya channel showing alleged captured
terrorists confessing of crimes, theft, alcohol, and homosexuality. The
program is aimed at demonizing resistance fighters and portraying them as
criminals and deviant from Moslem faith, who do not deserve any sympathy.
The Americans reverted also to the use of post WWII terror tactics to stir
sectarian hatred and to drive a wedge between people and resistance
fighters. These terror tactics are modeled after “Operation Gladio”. The
plan was worked by the previous British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and
Allen Dulles, first chief of CIA, for post-war Europe to stop the spread of
socialism and communism. According to this plan right-wing secret terror
groups in Italy, Portugal, Germany, Spain and other European countries were
organized by NATO and funded by the CIA. These terrorist groups were trained
to carry out terror attacks against civilians and blame it on left-wing
groups in an attempt to manipulate population to reject communism, and to
push them to turn for the government to ask for greater “security”. The
population, then, becomes more agreeable to oppressive measures under the
guise of security. These are the same “security measures” President Bush had
enforced after 9/11, and Tony Blair had followed suit few days ago with his
“anti-terrorist measures”.
To Isolate Iraqi resistance from the locals and from other Arab countries
American forces had carried out Gladio-like attacks against civilian Iraqis.
Terror attacks targeted civilians in markets and mosques, others targeted
Iraqi police and recruits, and others targeted Iraqi political figures and
Arab diplomats. The most common attacks are done in the form of car
bombings. American soldiers would stop Iraqi cars, confiscate the driver’s
license, and direct him to an army center for interrogation. While being
interrogated explosives would be implanted in his car. The driver is then
directed to an Iraqi police station to retrieve his license. An American
helicopter would follow the car until it reaches the police station and
remotely detonate the explosives, and then claim this as a suicide car bomb.
This plan was discovered when one driver checked his car immediately after
leaving the army center, and discovered explosives under the rear car seat.
Another driver discovered explosives in his spare tire when he was changing
his tire.
The strategy of the current American Administration for Iraq consists of
spreading sectarian hatred rather than freedom and democracy, dividing the
country into three weaker sub-states rather than unity, creating terror
rather than fighting it, and destroying the country rather than rebuilding
it.
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Operation Iraqi Freedom, what a joke.
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how sad is this truth. 
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