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The Hidden Face of
Terrorism
Terrorism
does not emerge by accident but is usually sponsored by the state to serve the
demands of a powerful elite, as can be seen in the creation of Osama bin
Laden's al-Qa'ida.
Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 10, Number 3 (April-May 2003)
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The following is an edited extract from
The Hidden Face of Terrorism: The Dark Side of Social Engineering, From
Antiquity to September 11, by Paul David Collins.
In our modern world, discomforting truths are usually discarded in
favour of fictions. One such fiction is the idea that terrorists are
disenfranchised dissidents who independently generate the wealth and resources
necessary for their heinous acts. Such is the contention of Professor Mark
Juergensmeyer. In his article, "Understanding the New Terrorism", he
says that modern terrorism "appears pointless since it does not lead
directly to any strategic goal" (p. 158).
Juergensmeyer arrives at this conclusion
because he restricts his examination to the visible perpetrators, whose motives
may be, in fact, irrational. However, he does not examine the patrons of
terrorism. Given the exceptional subtlety and discretion of terrorism's shadowy
sponsors, Professor Juergensmeyer may just be oblivious to their existence. On
the other hand, he could simply be parroting his fellow academicians in order
to maintain the status quo.
Whatever the case may be, this contention
seems to be the overall view held by the orthodoxy of academia. With such a
view vigorously promulgated by the arbiters of the dominant national paradigm,
few can recognise those shady individuals who stand to profit from terrorist
acts.
To understand terrorism, one must discard
the view that arbitrarily characterises it as "a resort to violence or a
threat of violence on the part of a group seeking to accomplish a purpose
against the opposition of constituted authority" (Adler, Mueller & Laufer,
p. 309). Such an impotent notion is predicated upon the hopelessly flawed
accidentalist perspective of history. It relegates terrorism, which is the
product of conscious effort and design, to the realm of circumstantial
spontaneity. In other words, a contrived act suddenly becomes an inexplicable
social phenomenon.
In November 1989, Father Ignacio
Martín-Baró, a social psychologist, delivered a speech in
He [Martín-Baró] stressed several relevant
points. First, the most significant form of terrorism, by a large measure, is
state terrorism--that is, "terrorizing the whole population through
systematic actions carried out by the forces of the state". Second, such
terrorism is an essential part of a "government-imposed sociopolitical
project" designed for the needs of the privileged.
Disturbing though it may be, Martín-Baró's
definition is one validated by history. The majority of terrorism throughout
history has found its sponsors in the hallowed halls of officialdom, in the
entity known as government. Terrorism is surrogate warfare, a manufactured
crisis designed to induce social change. Its combatants consciously or
unconsciously wage the war on behalf of higher powers with higher agendas.
Whether its adherents are aware of it or not, terrorism always serves the
ambitions of another.
In his article, "Fake Terror: The
Road to Dictatorship", Michael Rivero states that "It's the oldest
trick in the book, dating back to Roman times: creating the enemies you
need" (p. 1). The strategy is quite simple: individuals create a crisis so
that they can then introduce their desired solution.
Are there recent, modern examples of
state-sponsored terrorism? Unfortunately, the answer to that question seems to
be "Yes".
Operation Northwoods
The first example is in 1962. The Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lyman L. Lemnitzer, and his fellow JCS members
wanted to remove Castro from
According to James Bamford, former
According to secret and long-hidden documents
obtained for Body of
Secrets, the Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans for what may
be the most corrupt plan ever created by the
Codenamed Operation Northwoods, the plan, which had the
written approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats carrying
refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave of violent
terrorism to be launched in Washington, DC, Miami and elsewhere.
People would be framed for bombings they
did not commit; planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would
be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as
the public and international backing, they needed to launch their war.
Northwoods even called for the military to turn on
itself (p. 84):
Among the actions recommended was "a
series of well-coordinated incidents to take place in and around" the US
Navy Base at
Operation Northwoods would draw
upon history as well, using the 1898 explosion aboard the battleship
"We could blow up a
The attempt to create a Cuban terrorist
threat makes it clear that the
American Imperialism and the Terrorist
Threat
However, it is in the
What came out of the
Presently,
These and other eye-opening revelations
have many people asking why the
The story of the dreaded al-Qa'ida
terrorist network begins with Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's National
Security Advisor. In his 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy
and Geostrategic Objectives, Brzezinski provides readers with the
motivation for the creation of a terrorist threat. He begins (p. xii):
The last decade of the twentieth century
has witnessed a tectonic shift in world affairs. For the first time ever, a
non-Eurasian power has emerged not only as a key arbiter of Eurasian power
relations but also as the world's paramount. The defeat and collapse of the
Brzezinski celebrates the fact that
This sense of awareness has been a major
obstacle to the foreign policy elites that Brzezinski represents. Thus far,
enough patriots know that none of the "Freedom Documents" (i.e., the
Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc.) makes concessions for the arbitrary
extension of
America's withdrawal from the world, or
because of the sudden emergence of a successful rival, would produce massive
international instability. It would promote global anarchy.
Brzezinski continues further on in
hyperbolic fashion (p. 194):
Without sustained and directed American
involvement, before long the forces of global disorder could come to dominate
the world scene.
In other words, the promotion and practice
of representative government amongst other nations would lead to doomsday
itself. In such statements, the former National Security Advisor reveals the
authoritarian features of his bizarre eschatology. According to Brzezinski's Weltanschauung,
those who cherish individual liberties and the sovereignty of their respective
nations constitute the "forces of global disorder"; these forces must
be defeated or they will invariably cause the apocalypse--so public opinion
must be altered. (Brzezinski fails to mention that such a doomsday will only
mean the end for him and his elitist comrades.) Brzezinski cites a very
interesting historical example (p. 25):
The public supported
Ah, an option presents itself! Mass consensus
could be facilitated through mass trauma. In fact, the engineering of
widespread compliance is an essential constituent in the implementation of
Brzezinski's foreign policy. In an exemplary moment of self-incrimination so
endemic to elitist tracts, Brzezinski pens a damning confession (p. 211):
Moreover, as
A readily exploitable menace, whether
genuine or promulgated, is the solution.
Brzezinski began the construction of his
"direct external threat" years before he wrote The Grand
Chessboard. In an interview with the French magazine Le Nouvel
Observateur, the former national security adviser made a stunning
confession that will change the history books forever (Blum, p. 1):
Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert
Gates, stated in his memoirs [From the Shadows] that American intelligence
services began to aid the Mujahadeen in
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official
version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to
say, after the Soviet Army invaded
Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate
of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into
war and looked to provoke it?
B: It isn't quite that. We didn't push the
Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they
would.
Re-education and the Creation of the
Taliban
Having encouraged the Soviets to invade
Part of the radicalisation process
included the brainwashing of children under the guise of education. The
Washington Post's Joe Stephens and David B. Ottaway report (pp. 1-2):
In the twilight of the Cold War, the
The "Primers", which were filled
with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines,
have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the
Taliban used the American-produced books, though the radical movement scratched
out human faces in keeping with its strict fundamentalist code.
Stephens and Ottaway identify the
governmental and educational organisations involved in development of the
textbooks (p. 4):
Published in the dominant Afghan languages
of Dari and Pashtu, the textbooks were developed in the early 1980s under an
AID [Agency for
International Development] grant to the
Under this project, the images and talk of
violence were craftily intermingled with legitimate education (p. 4):
Children were taught to count with illustrations showing tanks, missiles and
land mines, agency officials said. They acknowledged that at the time it also
suited US interests to stoke hatred of foreign invaders.
An examination of a textbook produced
shocking results (p. 5):
An aid-worker in the region reviewed an unrevised 100-page book and counted
43 pages containing violent images or passages.
The writers of the Washington Post
story go on to provide a specific example of the material that is nothing less
than appalling (pp. 5-6):
One page from the texts of that period
shows a resistance fighter with a bandolier and a Kalashnikov slung from his
shoulder. The soldier's head is missing.
Above the soldier is a verse from the
Koran. Below is a Pashtu tribute to the mujaheddin [sic], who are described as
obedient to Allah. Such men will sacrifice their wealth and life itself to
impose Islamic law on the government, the text says.
This social engineering project
successfully transformed Muslim children into conscienceless killing machines.
Many would go on to join al-Qa'ida, the terrorist network headed up by Osama
bin Laden.
An heir to a Saudi construction fortune,
bin Laden went to
What the CIA bio conveniently fails to specify (in its unclassified form, at
least) is that the MAK was nurtured by Pakistan's state security services, the
Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, the CIA's primary conduit for
conducting the covert war against Moscow's occupation.
Even after the war, bin Laden was on good
terms with the CIA (p. 3):
Though he has come to represent all that went wrong with the CIA's reckless
strategy there, by the end of the Afghan war in 1989, bin Laden was still
viewed by the agency as something of a dilettante--a rich Saudi boy gone to war
and welcomed home by the Saudi monarchy he so hated as something of a hero.
Bin Laden would later receive three
necessary provisions from factions of government. These essentials would allow
him and al- Qa'ida to conduct one of the worst terrorist attacks ever
conceived. These constituents were: (1) protection courtesy of highly
influential, well-placed shepherds in government; (2) government funding; and
(3) government training. Without a beat, individuals in positions of authority
delivered.
Both Democrat and Republican
administrations protected bin Laden. Undaunted by Osama's attack on the USS
Cole and bombings of the embassies, this non-partisan aegis consistently
insulated the terrorist and his network. President William Jefferson Clinton, a
Democrat, shielded bin Laden and company from the hand of justice in Sudan.
Mansoor Ijaz revealed this fact in the December 5, 2001, Los Angeles Times
(Ijaz, p. 1):
President Clinton and his national
security team ignored several opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his
terrorist associates, including one as late as last yearÉ
From 1996 to 1998, I opened unofficial
channels between
President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, who
wanted terrorism sanctions against Sudan lifted, offered the arrest and
extradition of bin Laden and detailed intelligence data about the global
networks constructed by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah and the Palestinian
Hamas. Among those in the networks were the two hijackers who piloted
commercial airliners into the
Bin Laden left for Afghanistan, taking
with him: Ayman Zawahiri, considered by the US to be the chief planner of the
September 11 attacks; Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, who traveled frequently to Germany
to obtain electronic equipment for al-Qaeda; Wadih El-Hage, bin Laden's
personal secretary and roving emissary, now serving a life sentence in the US
for his role in the 1998 US Embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya; and Fazul Abdullah
Mohammed and Saif Adel, also accused of carrying out the embassy attacks. Some
of these men are now among the FBI's 22 most-wanted terrorists.
In
LONDON -- The Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) worked in tandem with Pakistan to create the "monster" that is
today Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, a leading US expert on South Asia said
here.
"I warned them that we were creating
a monster," Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre
[sic] for Scholars said at the conference here last week on "Terrorism and
Regional Security: Managing the Challenges in
To the average American, the Taliban might
have been a rogue gallery of maniacs that comprised a fanatical outlaw
government and nothing more. However,
The Taliban are not just recruits from
"madrassas" (Muslim theological schools) but are on the payroll of
the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence, the intelligence wing of the Pakistani
government).
A Covert Government Agenda
The government had all the means necessary
to detect and prevent the September 11 attacks. Researcher Russ Kick makes a
significant statement concerning this point (p. 1):
The
In 2001, the
After reviewing the facts, one must
consider a more sinister possibility: that certain factions in the
The CIA, ever mindful of the need to
justify its "mission", had conclusive evidence by the mid-1980s of
the deepening crisis of infrastructure within the
Now, a troubling question arises. Given
the impending collapse of the
What was the true agenda that motivated
the CIA to support what would later become an international Frankenstein's
monster? Former CIA Associate Deputy Director of Operations Theodore Shackley
may have already answered this question in his book, The Third Option
(p. 17):
Senior intelligence officers like myself,
who had experience in paramilitary operations, have always insisted that the
United States should also consider the third option: the use of guerrilla
warfare, counterinsurgency techniques and covert action to achieve policy
goalsÉ Political warfare is very often the stitch in time that eliminates
bloodier and more costly alternatives.
It is possible that the September 11
attack represents a tangible enactment of Shackley's third option. Bin Laden's
ties to the intelligence community certainly reinforce such a contention. Were
al-Qa'ida and bin Laden considered part of a third option to facilitate
political and social change in the
Consider a conversation that took place
between former DEA agent Michael Levine and a CIA agent. It suggests that the
CIA is ready and willing to use the third option in
"How can you be so good at what you
do and have so little understanding of what really pulls your strings? Don't
you realize that there are factions in your government that want this to
happen--an emergency situation too hot for a constitutional government to
handle."
"To what end?" I asked.
"A suspension of the Constitution, of
course. The legislation is already in place. All perfectly legal. Check it out
yourself. It's called FEMA. Federal Emergency Management Agency. 'Turn in your
guns, you antigovernment rabble-rousers. And who would be king, Michael?"
"CIA," I said.
Terrorism in the
The truth of the matter is that you do
have those standby provisions, and the statutory emergency plans are there
whereby you could, in the name of stopping terrorism, apprehend, invoke the
military, and arrest Americans and hold them in detention camps.
Add to the list of "statutory
emergency plans" the Patriot Act, passed in response to the September 11
attacks. According to Washington Post staff writer Jim McGee (pp 1-2),
this law:
Éempowers the government to shift the
primary mission of the FBI from solving crimes to gathering domestic
intelligence. In addition, the Treasury Department has been charged with
building a financial intelligence-gathering system whose data can be accessed
by CIA.
Most significantly, the CIA will have the
authority for the first time to influence FBI surveillance operations inside
the
The Patriot Act is designed to transform
The new law also gives the CIA unprecedented
access to the most powerful investigative weapon in the federal law
enforcement's arsenal: the federal grand jury. The grand juries have nearly
unlimited power to gather evidence in secret, including testimony, wiretap
transcripts, phone records, business records or medical recordsÉ
The new law permits allow the FBI to give
grand jury information to the CIA without a court order, as long as the
information concerns foreign intelligence or international terrorism. The
information can also be shared widely throughout the national security
establishmentÉ
All of the above points to a very
frightening conclusion: there are some factions of government that consider
terrorism to be a tool of social engineering. The direction society is being
steered by this "tool" is even more frightening.
Terrorism: A Tool of the Ruling Elite
Terrorism is being used to keep the rabble
in line on behalf of an elite that wishes to maintain and expand its power. In
The Power Elite, sociologist C. Wright Mills introduces these powerful
individuals (pp. 3-4):
The power elite is composed of men whose
positions enable them to transcend the ordinary environments of ordinary men
and women; they are in positions to make decisions having major consequences.
Whether they do or do not make such decisions is less important than the fact
that they do occupy such pivotal positions: their failure to act, their failure
to make decisions, is itself an act that is often of greater consequence than
the decisions they do make. For they are in command of the major hierarchies
and organisations of modern society. They rule the big corporations. They run
the machinery of the state and claim its prerogatives. They direct the military
establishment. They occupy the strategic command posts of the social structure,
in which are now centered the effective means of the power and the wealth and
the celebrity which they enjoy.
Talk of oligarchs might tend to conjure
pictures of mediaeval feudal lords. However, a Federal Reserve study points out
to elitism being alive, well, and existing in the "Land of the Free",
the
É54 percent of the total net financial
assets were held by the 2 percent of families with the greatest amount of such
assets and 86 percent by the top 10 percent; 55 percent of the families in the
sample had zero or negative net worthÉ
This concentration of wealth in so few
hands certainly suggests that there is a ruling class. It is highly naive to
believe that this elite does not wield a great deal of influence over
civilisation. In her book, Beyond The Ruling Class: Strategic Elites In
Modern Society, Professor Suzanne Keller states (p. 3):
The notion of a stratum elevated above the
mass of men may prompt approval, indifference, or despair, but regardless of
how men feel about it, the fact remains that their lives, fortunes, and fate
are and have long been dependent on what a small number of men in high places
think and do.
Former Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency William Colby recognised the existence of a network of
bluebloods. When former Nebraska Senator and Vietnam War hero John W. DeCamp
was looking into elites' involvement in child abuse, drug running, gun running,
and satanic ritual-murder, Colby warned him of the hidden aristocracy and their
power (DeCamp, pp. ix-x):
"What you have to understand, John,
is that sometimes there are forces and events too big, too powerful, with so
much at stake for other people or institutions, that you cannot do anything
about them, no matter how evil or wrong they are and no matter how dedicated or
sincere you are or how much evidence you have. That is simply one of the hard
facts of life you have to face. You have done your part. You have tried to
expose the evil and wrongdoing. It has hurt you terribly. But it has not killed
you up to this point. I am telling you, get out of this before it does.
"Sometimes things are just too big
for us to deal with, and we have to step aside and let history take its
course."
Probably the greatest source of
"insider" information comes from
There does exist, and has existed for a
generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent,
in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this
network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to
cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I
know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty
years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its
papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it and to many of its aims and
have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments.
I have objected, both in the past and
recently, to a few of its policies (notably to its belief that England was an
Atlantic rather than a European Power and must be allied, or even federated,
with the United States and must remain isolated from Europe), but in general my
chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe
its role in history is significant enough to be known.
Quigley also informs us that the ruling
class has a very low opinion of the common people. He voices this elitist
sentiment when he refers to the commoners as "the petty bourgeoisieÉ"
(pp. 1243-1244).
So why is the great mass of human
civilisation unaware of the oligarchs' presence among them? In The
Architecture of Modern Political Power, Daniel Pouzzner explains why (p.
16):
The establishment cloaks itself in
cultural camouflage, employing tactics for which it almost seamlessly maintains
plausible deniability. Subtle, ubiquitous, often implicit propaganda fosters a
broad public acceptance and embrace of the authority of the establishment, and
of the establishment's definitions of good and evil, preventing the public from
seriously contemplating the reality that the establishment is itself quite
often evil by its own definition. The establishment reiterates the mantra that
the President of the
Generally, an errant public attributes the
results of the establishment's meddlesome actions to happenstance, or to
motives viewed as essentially innocuous or virtuous. The design is irrefutably
evident only in the pattern of results, or by actually showing proof of
meddling. The public has been systemically conditioned to ignore such patterns,
and to condemn those who draw attention to them (derisively calling them
"conspiracy theorists"). Thus, controlling access to and
dissemination of information that constitutes proof of meddling suffices in large
part to protect the establishment program from exposure. The
compartmentalization of the establishment's covert apparatus assures that those
exposures which do transpire cause only limited damage.
Bush/Bin Laden Family Links
Are there any ties between the power
elites and the current terrorist network? The answer to that question lies with
the Bush dynasty. Neither Bush Senior nor Bush Junior can be described as
Presidents in the
One of our basic theses is that George
Bush [Senior] is, and considers himself to be, an oligarch.
In an article for the London Daily Mail,
Peter Allen points out a connection between George W. Bush and Osama's brother,
Salem bin Laden (pp. 1-2):
Incredibly,
As he built his own business empire,
Three years ago, Mr Bush said the $50,000
investment in Arbusto was the only financial dealing he had with Mr Bath.
The connection between the bin Ladens and
the Bush family does not end with Arbusto Energy.
On the BBC's Newsnight program,
Greg Palast stated (p. 5):
Young George also received fees as
director of a subsidiary of Carlyle Corporation, a little-known private company
which has, in just a few years of its founding, become one of America's biggest
defence contractors. His father, Bush Senior, is also a paid adviser. And what
became embarrassing was the revelation that the bin Ladens held a stake in
Carlyle, sold just after September 11.
These business connections may explain why
the Bush Administration frustrated the FBI's efforts to investigate Abdullah
and Omar bin Laden. Investigations may have demonstrated that Osama was not the
"black sheep" of the family. Instead, they may have shown that
terrorism was actually the bin Laden family business. This would have
associated the Bush family with terrorists, something the current President
could not allow to happen.
For neo-conservatives, the portrait of the
Bush family as a criminal syndicate with ties to questionable characters is
reprehensible. However, this contention can be based upon a major precedent.
Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin's
investigation into former President George Herbert Walker Bush's background led
to a startling discovery: that "The President's family fortune was largely
a result of the Hitler project" (p. 28).
The Bush dynasty's connections with the
bin Ladens suggest that the family's collusion with enemies of the
A State-sponsored Sociopolitical Project
Re-examining Martín-Baró's previous
contention, that terrorism is part and parcel of a "government-imposed
sociopolitical project", one is faced with some very disturbing questions.
What will be the results of this
"government-imposed sociopolitical project"? Where exactly is all of
this state-sponsored terrorism leading?
Quigley provides a fragmentary glimpse of
the outcome in Tragedy and Hope. The
With representation for the masses removed
from the picture, what kind of life can the common man expect to live? Quigley
(p. 886) declares that this will be a system where the individual's:
Éfreedom and choice will be controlled
within very narrow alternatives by the fact that he will be numbered from birth
and followed, as a number, through his educational training, his required
military or other public service, his tax contributions, his health and medical
requirements, and his final retirement and death benefits.
There you have it. George Orwell's 1984,
built al-Qa'ida style!
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About the Author:
Paul D. Collins has
studied suppressed history and the shadowy undercurrents of world political
dynamics for roughly eleven years. In 1999, he completed his Associate of Arts
and Science degree. He will soon complete his Bachelor's degree, with a major
in Communications and a minor in Political Science.
Paul's book, The Hidden Face of
Terrorism: The Dark Side of Social Engineering, From Antiquity to September 11,
is available online from www.1stbooks.com/bookview/13401, http://www.barnesandnoble.com,
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