Sunday, February 05, 2006

US killing spree: Secret strategy document orders to 'neutralize' all resistance.

"EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY AND TERRORIST ATTACKS ARE "ELIMINATED"

FPF - 05-02-2006 - Washington and the Pentagon's 'Hell Kitchen' publish today, via one of their biggest propaganda channels - The New York Times, the new US PNAC plans for a broader global killing spree: the resistance and/or opposition must be 'neutralized' - as the killing of opponents has been called in all American terror wars. "The classified version also includes goals, or "termination objectives."

The neocon's own propaganda outlet - The New York Times - phrases the gore they have been advovating for years like this: "Dated Feb. 1, signed by Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and endorsed by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, the strategy document orders the Defense Department to undertake a broad campaign to find and attack or neutralize terrorist leaders, their havens, financial networks, methods of communication and ability to move around the globe. It also orders the military to focus on terrorist information-gathering systems, personnel and ideology." [ ]

That, by the way, is the same General Peter Pace who - according to Rep. John Murtha said, when Pace called him to discuss the war: "Peter Pace told me this last night: They know militarily they can't win this." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8r23v

The complete strategy concerning this more detailed "global campaign plan for the war on terror" - as this murder for profit by the neocons and their global war propaganda machine will be called - shall be distributed across the military in coming days, Pentagon officials said.

There's only one conclusion possible: this genocidal gang has to be stopped, because again they are planning to further spread their American 'War OF terror' - their ''Global Terror by Secret US Death Squads" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5mlsy

In the Quisling New York Times the story* with it's deadly details is presented like this: "February 5, 2006 - "Pentagon Hones Its Strategy on Terrorism" - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has completed A NEW, CLASSIFIED COUNTERTERRORISM STRATEGY that for the first time orders the military to focus on nine areas identified as necessary for any terrorist network to operate, senior Pentagon officials say, and warns that ill-conceived military operations could add to terrorists' ranks. - [FPF: 'terrorists' = 'resistance']

DATED FEB. 1, SIGNED BY GEN. PETER PACE, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and endorsed by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, the strategy document orders the Defense Department to undertake a broad campaign to find and attack or neutralize terrorist leaders, their havens, financial networks, methods of communication and ability to move around the globe. It also orders the military to focus on terrorist information-gathering systems, personnel and ideology.

The document orders the military to defeat terrorists, specifying that doing so requires "continuous military operations to develop the situation and generate the intelligence that allows us to attack global terrorist organizations."

The complete strategy will be distributed across the military in coming days, Pentagon officials said. An unclassified version, from which a series of top-secret appendices detailing intelligence activities and military operations had been removed, was provided to The New York Times by a senior Pentagon official. Military officials would speak about the document only on condition of anonymity.

EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY AND TERRORIST ATTACKS ARE "ELIMINATED"

A military officer said that among the classified parts were the specific terrorist networks and leadership to be targets, and projected timelines for those missions. Success will be achieved, the document states, when "violent extremist ideology and terrorist attacks" are "eliminated as a threat to the way of life of free and open societies," and with the establishment of "a global environment that is inhospitable to violent extremism, wherein countries have the capacity to govern their own territories" and "have in place laws, information sharing and other arrangements that allow them to defeat terrorists as they emerge."

The new document takes the place of a classified counterterrorism strategy written two years ago by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff but never released for public review. It establishes a system for measuring the military's counterterrorism efforts, with a review of progress on the nine target areas every six months. The reviews are intended to determine whether more terrorists are being captured, killed or persuaded to give up their violent struggle than are being created.

One senior Pentagon official involved in writing the strategy said the Defense Department had identified more than 30 new terrorist organizations affiliated with Al Qaeda that had sprung to life since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

''HOW THE ENEMY USES THE U.S. MILITARY'S ACTIONS AGAINST US'' - [FPF: 'ENEMY' = RESISTANCE]

The document's unusual admission of the negative impact military actions can have cited no examples, but said: "The way we conduct operations — choosing whether, when, where and how — can affect ideological support for terrorism. Knowledge of indigenous population's cultural and religious sensitivities and understanding of how the enemy uses the U.S. military's actions against us should inform the way the U.S. military operates."

That has been clear in the situations ranging from disgrace suffered by the United States after revelations of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib to instances when Arab media emphasized pictures of crosses or rosaries hung from artillery tubes by American soldiers. Such photographs were used to argue that the counterterrorism effort was a war on Islam. Pentagon officials involved in writing the strategy point out that the American military's efforts to aid tsunami victims in southeast Asia and to assist victims of Pakistan's earthquake did more to counter terrorist ideology than any attack mission.

OPERATING IN NATIONS WITH WHICH THE UNITED STATES WAS NOT AT WAR?

The senior Pentagon official said a major challenge the military faced was finding ways to fight terrorist networks operating in nations with which the United States was not at war. That job, the document states, requires the American military to help other nations improve their own counterterrorism abilities.

The document also orders the military to halt proliferation of unconventional weapons and to recover or eliminate uncontrolled chemical, biological or nuclear materials, which includes efforts to detect and monitor the acquisition and development of unconventional weapons.

A central piece of the plan, the document says, is the concept of "supporting mainstream efforts to reject violent extremism." The effort requires encouraging those segments of the Islamic world that support inclusion, moderation and tolerance.

It also calls on all members of the military "to be aware of the culture, customs, language and philosophy of affected populations and the enemy, to more effectively counter extremism, and encourage democracy, freedom and economic prosperity abroad." Among other classified parts of the plan are descriptions of current intelligence operations, as well as specific tasks and tactics. The classified version also includes goals, or "termination objectives."

The senior Pentagon official said the guidance was issued "to integrate a number of conflicting opinions and views about what the military strategy should be." The job of writing the specifics of the military's counterterrorism effort falls to the Special Operations Command, based in Tampa, Fla.

The more detailed "global campaign plan for the war on terror" is expected from Gen. Bryan D. Brown, the commander of the Special Operations Command, in coming weeks.

[andend] - Feb. 05 - 2006 - The New York Times - Url.: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/politics/05strategy.html?th&emc=th

RELATED:

* Amnesty International - Part of the US made 'War of Terror' are the 'American Gulag' concentration camps - Url.: http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGPOL100142005

* Achtung! Are We the New Nazis?" - Soldiers, God and Empire - by Douglas Herman - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2tdfp

* Pace/Murtha - "They know militarily they can't win this." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8r23v

* The 9/11 and 'War on Terror' fake - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/d7gfk

* Google search "Biggest threat to world peace" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dk2lj

* MSNBC - Live Vote: Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment? - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/

* "People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: they also strike back." - 2005 Nobel Literature Prize winner Harold Pinter - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9cyeq

* Reference guide to the Geneva Conventions - Url.: http://www.genevaconventions.org

* Who or What is this 'Al Qaeda'? – 'The Database' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqx69

* WHICH WAR ON TERROR? - The 9/11 WTC drama was PNAC terror - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9np7d - It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d

* Who's financing all this misery? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

* 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one' — A.J. Liebling - The merciless engine of propaganda has been turned on: The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

*A FREE working press in Kansas - Pls. read the 'Fightin' Cock Flyer' - Url.: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/

* Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE WERE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm ] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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Why Russia caved-in on Iran - Iran Ends Voluntary Cooperation With IAEA

FPF: Iran Ends Voluntary Cooperation With IAEA - Houston Chronicle, United States - 05-02-2006 - 11.00 GMT
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said Sunday it has ended all voluntary cooperation with the UN - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/d3obk

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Why Russia caved-in on Iran

By Mike Whitney - OpEd Url. below -

February 4, 2006 - Many war-weary newshounds are probably wondering why Russia caved in at the IAEA board meeting and agreed to have Iran sent before the UN Security Council. Russia, of course, is very familiar with Iran’s nuclear program (having worked with Iran on its nuclear power projects) and fully realizes that the Mullahs are not developing nuclear weapons.

SO, WHY WOULD THEY GO ALONG WITH THE COERCIVE MANEUVERING OF THE UNITED STATES THAT IS SO CLEARLY DESIGNED TO PAVE THE WAY FOR WAR?

Obviously, Russia’s foreign minister’s comment that the referral to the UNSC is “only a warning” doesn’t adequately explain why Russia would have placed its ally in such grave danger of a preemptive attack.

So why did Russia capitulate?

It may be, in the words of the Godfather, that the Bush administration made Putin “a deal he couldn’t refuse”. For one thing, MosNews reports just yesterday that “Lukoil will replace the disgraced Halliburton” in providing fuel in Iraq. MosNews states, “Over three months beginning from April 1, LITASCO will have to deliver 180,000 tons of gasoline and 130,000 tons of diesel fuel to Iraq. After this the contract may be renewed.

Halliburton’s replacement was chosen by a tender, the results of which the Pentagon announced on March 8. The winners were six Turkish companies and the U.S. Refinery Associates which won the right to the largest contract worth $108.5 million.”

That’s a pretty hefty reward for Putin’s vote on Iran, but apparently it only scratches the surface. (We should also note the generous prizes handed out to the 6 Turkish companies. Is this Turkey’s payoff for using its bases in future military operations against Iran?)

IT APPEARS NOW THAT PUTIN IS WINNING THAT BATTLE.

Russia’s real goal, however, is “the securing of rights for exploration and extraction at the huge West Qurna-2 oil field.” Putin has always insisted that the Bush administration honor Saddam’s previous commitments with Lukoil. It appears now that Putin is winning that battle.

According to the Boston, Globe Lukoil president Vagit Alekperov met with Iraq’s oil minister Ibrahim al-Ulloum to firm up “an understanding” about Russia’s $6 billion contract to develop the West Qurna-2 oil field. Al-Ulloum, of course, is just following Washington’s directives in reviving the moribund Russian contract. But it is striking that Bush would surrender such an enormous trophy as one of Iraq’s main oil fields just to secure Russia’s vote.

Why?

Does the administration really need a war with Iran so desperately?

Yes.

The truth is, that even the control of oil is not nearly as critical to the US as maintaining it’s continued dominance in the exchange of oil in greenbacks. If Iran is allowed to open its oil bourse (exchange) in March and openly compete with the US’s monopoly on trading oil in petrodollars, the central banks across the globe will dump hundreds of billions of dollars overnight, and the American economy will disappear beneath the waves.

THIS IS NOT FICTION.

The reason the United States is the unchallenged leader of the global economic system is because it has a stranglehold on the oil trade. Even the oil itself, or the price at which it is sold, is of less importance than the means by which it is traded. The nation that controls the currency, determines the rules of the game. It forces other nations to stockpile mountains of its debt-ridden script, while Congress breezily produces oceans of red ink. America’s fat-cat bankers and corporatists are now living off the generosity of the developing world that must hold on to worthless dollars so they can purchase oil. Iran’s plan to sell its oil in petro-euros threatens to break up this massive extortion-ring and put the greenback nose-to-nose with its global competitor; the euro.

The Lukoil transaction should prove to skeptics that Washington is prepared to give up anything to prevent the opening of Iran’s oil exchange. The UN Security Council is just the last step before military operations begin.

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS DEAD-SET ON ATTACKING IRAN AND REMOVING THIS EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO THE AMERICAN ECONOMY AND THE ONGOING SUPREMACY OF THE RESERVE CURRENCY.

Now that the case is in the Security Council, things should move ahead fairly quickly.

Mike Whitney

Authors Bio: Mike lives in Washington State with his charming wife Joan and two spoiled and overfed dogs, Cocoa and Pat-Fergie. - You can find the article at OpEd - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/a2tge


RELATED REFERENCES & LINKS:

* Israel declares war: Preparing the next nuclear holocaust: military action in Iran. Jan. 22nd - 2006 - forpressfound.blogspot.com/2006/ 01/israel-declares-war-iran-next-nuclear.html

* UN Figures Show: US Controls Iran Permanently - 16 August, 2005 - Url.: www.countercurrents.org/us-henk160805.htm

* THE REAL STORY ON THE YUKOS OIL SNATCH - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4gpd7

* Google search "Biggest threat to world peace?" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dk2lj

* The 9/11 WTC drama was PNAC terror - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9np7d - It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d

* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

*Read the Fightin' Cock Flyer - Url.: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/

* 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one' — A.J. Liebling - The merciless engine of propaganda has been turned on: The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

* Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE WERE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm ] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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