Professor Michel Chossudovsky
is of course not alone in propounding this thesis, which is as simple as it is
astounding: After 9/11, the fully enlivened myth of the
"outside enemy" and the threat of "Islamic terrorists" was used as a convenient
pretext to invade Afghanistan and Iraq -- invasions that had been planned,
or at least anticipated,
As the good
professor and many others point out, we need to remember that without an
"outside enemy," there could have been no "war on terrorism," and the entire
national security agenda built up since 9/11 would not exist -- at least not in
its current form and not to the huge extent to which it has now grown ,
with nearly a million Americans currently employed by the Department of
Homeland Security alone. And now, if the
complete fraudulence of the current war on terrorism could be fully
exposed, the high-level officials who became war criminals (Bush, Cheney, even Obama?)
would be left with no leg to stand on.
Amply
documented but rarely mentioned by the mainstream media, is the fact that alQaeda
was created by the CIA to
lead the fight against the Soviets in the Soviet-Afghan war. This is a well-known fact, corroborated by
numerous sources including official documents of the US Congress. Even the US intelligence community has acknowledged
that it had indeed supported (click here and here ) Osama bin Laden, but claimed that "he turned
against us."
After 9/11,
the campaign of media disinformation served not only to drown the truth but
also to kill much of the historical evidence about how this illusive "outside
enemy" had been fabricated and transformed into the nation's "Enemy Number One."
The Balkans Connection
Professor Chossudovsky's
research on the Balkans, conducted since the mid-1990s, enabled him to document
numerous ties and connections between alQaeda and the US Administration. The US
military, the CIA and NATO had supported alQaeda in the Balkans. Washington's objective was to trigger ethnic
conflict and destabilize the Yugoslav federation, first in Bosnia, then
in Kosovo.
In 1997, the
Republican Party Committee (RPC) of the US Senate released a detailed report
which accused President Clinton of collaborating with the
"Islamic Militant Network" in Bosnia and working hand in glove with an
organization linked to Osama bin Laden. (See
Chapter III of Professor Chossudovsky's
book .) However, the report was not
widely publicized. Quite incredibly, the
Republicans then chose, instead, to go after Bill Clinton for something "far
more important": his "reprehensible' oval office "liaison'
with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, in which a blue dress was inadvertently
"stained.'
The Clinton
Administration had been providing covert support to the Kosovo Liberation Army
(KLA), a paramilitary group supported by alQaeda, which was involved in
numerous terrorist attacks. The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
and Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, more commonly known as MI6, together
with former members of Britain's 22nd Special Air Services Regiment (SAS) were
providing training to the KLA, despite its extensive
links to organized crime, to alQaeda, and to the heroin trade. Meanwhile, several known and documented alQaeda
operatives had integrated and organized the ranks of the KLA. (Again see Chapter III of Professor Chossudovsky's new book ).
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