UK carrying out a 'dirty war' in Iraq?
The authoritative Canadian Center for Research on Globalization last month published an online article [1] reporting disturbing indications that US and UK special forces were responsible for at least some of the supposed 'suicide bombings' in Iraq. Whilst no direct evidence of this has yet been found, various eyewitness accounts cast strong doubt on the standard line of crazed Islamicist suicide bombers killing indiscriminately in order to provoke disorder and civil war. According to the author, Michael Keefer, the motivation for any US-UK destabilisation of the country would be to partition it into 3 ethnically-homogenous entities, so as to split off the oil-rich South and North, and he references articles by Leslie H Gelb, "a former senior State Department and Pentagon official" and "an insider's insider", arguing the advantages to the US of a "three-state solution" [2].
The article is restrained, well-researched and fully-referenced, not your standard conspiracy theory rant, and deserves serious attention. It may sound far-fetched, but as the author points out, both the US and UK have plenty of 'previous' - the US's various 'destabilisations' the world over, and particularly in South America, have been well documented by historians, and need no further mention here. The UK, of course, carried out 'dirty tricks' (nice euphemism, that) and 'black ops' in Northern Ireland during TheTroubles, and colluded with Loyalist paramilitary groups to carry out proxy assassinations against Republicans, which policies have also been well-documented[3].
That the suggestions of UK involvement in what will become known as Iraq's 'dirty war' haven't been reported in the mainstream UK Press is a reflection on the supine and subservient nature of our once-fearless (cough) Fourth Estate and broadcast media, which rarely publishes anything more incendiary than Big Brother contestants having it off, unless it's asylum seekers eating babies.
[1] Were British Special Forces Planting Bombs in Basra? Michael Keefer, Center for Research on Globalization, 25/9/05.
http://www.globalresearch.ca
[2] Leslie H Gelb,"The Three-State Solution," New York Times, 25 November 2003.
[3] See, for instance: Dillon, Martin. The Dirty War. 1991, Arrow. ISBN 0099845202. More recently: "The double agent who helped run terror cell" by Henry McDonald (Guardian online, 20/4/03) (part of the Guardian Special Report on Northern Ireland).
The article is restrained, well-researched and fully-referenced, not your standard conspiracy theory rant, and deserves serious attention. It may sound far-fetched, but as the author points out, both the US and UK have plenty of 'previous' - the US's various 'destabilisations' the world over, and particularly in South America, have been well documented by historians, and need no further mention here. The UK, of course, carried out 'dirty tricks' (nice euphemism, that) and 'black ops' in Northern Ireland during TheTroubles, and colluded with Loyalist paramilitary groups to carry out proxy assassinations against Republicans, which policies have also been well-documented[3].
That the suggestions of UK involvement in what will become known as Iraq's 'dirty war' haven't been reported in the mainstream UK Press is a reflection on the supine and subservient nature of our once-fearless (cough) Fourth Estate and broadcast media, which rarely publishes anything more incendiary than Big Brother contestants having it off, unless it's asylum seekers eating babies.
[1] Were British Special Forces Planting Bombs in Basra? Michael Keefer, Center for Research on Globalization, 25/9/05.
http://www.globalresearch.ca
[2] Leslie H Gelb,"The Three-State Solution," New York Times, 25 November 2003.
[3] See, for instance: Dillon, Martin. The Dirty War. 1991, Arrow. ISBN 0099845202. More recently: "The double agent who helped run terror cell" by Henry McDonald (Guardian online, 20/4/03) (part of the Guardian Special Report on Northern Ireland).
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