This story relates to Mike Whitney's very good article - APFN -
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Special, ultra-secret "anti-terrorist" military units: Americans
in America killing Americans...
"JCS CONPLAN 0300-97" AUTHORIZED THE PENTAGON TO EMPLOY SPECIAL,
ULTRA-SECRET 'ANTI-TERRORIST' MILITARY UNITS ON AMERICAN SOIL,
FOR WHAT THE AUTHOR CLAIMS ARE 'EXTRA-LEGAL MISSIONS':
AMERICANS IN AMERICA KILLING AMERICANS...
Paranoia Grips the U.S. Capital
by Eric Margolis - First published Sunday, February 6, 2005
The film Seven Days In May is one of my all-time favourites. The
gripping 1964 drama, starring Burt Lancaster, depicts an
attempted coup by far rightists in Washington using a top-secret
Pentagon anti-terrorist unit called something like "Contelinpro."
Life imitates art. This week, former military intelligence
analyst William Arkin revealed a hitherto unknown directive,
with the Orwellian name "JCS Conplan 0300-97," authorizing the
Pentagon to employ special, ultra-secret "anti-terrorist"
military units on American soil for what the author claims are
"extra-legal missions."
In other words, using U.S. soldiers to kill or arrest Americans,
acts that have been illegal since the U.S. Civil War.
This frightening news comes as Washington is gripped by reborn,
Cold-War-style paranoia, ominous threats of war against Iran
from
the real president, Dick Cheney, and a titanic bureaucratic
battle
just won by Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Instead of being fired for the grotesque military-political
fiasco in Iraq and the shameful torture scandals, Rumsfeld has
just managed to create a new, Pentagon spy/special ops
organization, blandly named "Strategic Support Branch," that
will replace or duplicate many of the CIA's tasks.
The CIA has been sent to the doghouse. Too many CIA veterans
criticized or contradicted Bush's and Cheney's phony claims over
Iraq and terrorism.
So Bush has imposed a new, yes-man director on the agency,
slashed its budgets, purged its senior officers and downgraded
CIA to third-class status.
Rumsfeld's new, massively funded SSB will become the Pentagon's
CIA, complete with commando units, spies, mercenary forces,
intelligence gathering and analysis, and a direct line to the
White House.
The Pentagon has just effectively taken over the spy business.
USED TERRORISM HYSTERIA
Mind you, the Pentagon and its Defence Intelligence Agency have
been deeply involved in intelligence around the globe for 50
years. U.S. Army intelligence and its covert sub-branches have
long conducted "black ops," including missions in the U.S. as
well as assassinations and sabotage abroad. The Pentagon
consumes three-quarters of the total U.S. intelligence budget.
Rumsfeld has skillfully used terrorism hysteria to wrest control
of intelligence and make the Pentagon supreme in Washington's
bureaucratic power struggles.
The Pentagon's new spy arm will be largely excluded from
Congressional oversight or media examination. Its special
operations teams will roam the globe, all under cover of "deep
black" missions of which no records will be kept, and no
questions asked.
Equally worrying, the Pentagon's new special-ops units are
headed up by notorious religious fanatic, Lt. Gen. William
Boykin, who calls the U.S. Army "the house of God" and Islamic
insurgents "agents of Satan."
He warned Muslims, "my God is bigger than your god, which is an
idol."
Boykin's command will now dispatch post-modern Christian
crusaders to cleanse the world of Satanic Muslims and other
miscreants. The Pentagon's new special forces will be able to
run operations of which the CIA knows nothing.
The 9/11 Commission called for improved intra-agency
co-operation and data sharing -- instead, the U.S. will get far
less co-operation, as the Pentagon goes its own, secret way.
Now, George W. Bush, who clearly believes he holds the mandate
of heaven after being re-elected by the less mentally active
half of American voters, has decided to "unleash" special forces
and all sorts of irregular units, including mercenaries,
uniformed bounty hunters, and mutants sporting t-shirts
proclaiming "kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out."
These militarized thugs and video arcade Rambos are sure to run
amok, dragging America's once good name ever deeper into the
mud.
We have evidently learned nothing from the wars in Indochina and
Central America.*
HAVE WE REACHED SEVEN DAYS IN MAY?
Not yet, but the second Bush administration has been taking
dangerous steps that continue to curtail personal rights,
further emasculate the supine, cowardly U.S. Congress, and
empower ideological or religious extremists and shadowy agencies
with unrestrained powers that endanger Americans at home, and
all
abroad suspected of troubling the Pax Americana.
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Eric Margolis is Contributing Foreign Editor to the Toronto Sun.
- Url.:
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* HR - 'Rendition' by secret Global US Terror squads - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/6gaz3
* HR - 'Making Dead Friends' - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/5t9j7
MAIN$TREAM MEDIA MAKE MORONS!
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Links also related to the group guilty of it all, which after
Russia and their Revolution - as described by Nobel prize
Laureate Alexandre Solzjenitsyn - now is wrecking the United
States and the rest of the world with it - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/cygcl
* The Dutch author this far has worked abroad for international
media for more than 4 decades, as a fully independent foreign
correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in
the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every
bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism: you harvest what
you sow! - At present - like a few other and honest journalists
- 'Persona non Grata' in his native - but neocon - country :-) -
The greedy group 'managing' The Netherlands operates it as a US
'neocolony' - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/a44ek
* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of
the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v
* The leaked 'Downing Street Memos' expose the criminal lies by
war criminals like Bush, Blair, Berlusconi(It.) Balkenende(NL) -
their collaborating media and other malignant ilk - Url.:
http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/
* American millionaire and car magnate Henry Ford warned 85
years ago about what was permanently being done by this
malignant murderous group, which has proceeded wrecking the rest
of the world with it's greed - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/2xz35
* Never trust the neocons which are degrading the BBC -
Broadcasting Blair's Crap - nor all their warmongering
propaganda - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/6td3d
* Are their Corporate News Media Incompetent, Criminally
Negligent or Complicit? - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/cqpfe
* Brainwashed? Take the free 'Gullibility Factor' test to find
out if you're really a mind slave or not - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/cbgnc
* Colin Powell: 'It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the
policies of the state of Israel' - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/22p6c
Who creates our money? - And what is 'Press Freedom' about? -
Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/atxyk
Wayne Madsen: What has Israel to do with 9/11? - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/bj754 - 'American' neocons - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/b5vsb
* Comforting 'screensaver': It can be done! - Former PM Wim Kok
and other Dutch Govt's War criminals in Court - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/662pp
* Help all the troops of whatever nationality to come back from
abroad! We need them badly at home in many countries - AND WITH
ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE PAID FOR BY TAXES - to fight with us
against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managing
ilk - Url.:
http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
The World Can't Wait! - Drive out the neocons and their 'Bush
Regime' - Mobilize for November 2, 2005! - Url.:
http://www.worldcantwait.org/
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