It was a bold assault that strongly suggests the involvement of highly-trained paramilitaries conducting a well-rehearsed plan. Still, that doesn’t give us any solid proof of what groups may have been involved.
The destruction of the Samarra shrine, also known as the Golden Mosque, has unleashed a wave of retaliatory attacks against the Sunnis. Overnight, more than 110 people were reported killed by the rampaging Shia. More than 90 Sunni mosques have been either destroyed or badly damaged. In Baghdad alone, 47 men have been found scattered throughout the city after being killed execution-style with a bullet to the back of the head. The chaos ends a week of increased violence following two major suicide bombings directed against Shia civilians that resulted in the deaths of 36 people.
The public outrage at the desecration of one of the country’s holiest sights has reached fever-pitch and its doubtful that the flimsy American-backed regime will be able to head-off a civil war.
Original Article at http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mike_whi_060223_whose_bombs_were_the.htm
[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on February 26, 2006]
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<p>---<br>People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. <br />
Alexei Sayle
I learned after the Kennedy assassination that conspiracy theories mainly serve to muddle the water so that the truth becomes next to impossible to authenticate. Who is served by putting this theory forward. Who wants to muddle this water and what do they gain by it?
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"Conspiracy theory" used to call to mind something so outlandish that no serious person would believe it to be true. The use of the term "conspiracy theory" encourages the reader to reflexively dismiss whatever may have been said. But lately, the term has been hijacked. A range of commentators has been using the phrase to confer instant illegitimacy on any argument with which they disagree. Want to close off the terms of the debate? Call something a conspiracy theory. One of the most widely-practiced forms of disinformation today is what can only be called 'conspiracy theory denial'. <br />
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Today, unelected, unaccountable elites working at the highest levels of corporate power and in the obscure government agencies like the NSA that compose the American national security state stifle public discussion of their actions -- including attempts to discover what they are really up to -- by suggesting that anyone who intuits that there is more to history than what one can read in the newspaper or see on the news is a deranged conspiracy theorist. (It is often suggested that conspiracy theorists believe in conspiracies only becase they suffer from psychological problems such as paranoid schizophrenia.) Such disinformation strategies enable such actors to continue business as usual. With a profound stigma attaching to the notion of conspiracy -- particularly since the political assassinations of the 1960s -- the public is generally inclined to settle for the explanations for events offered by government agencies like the FBI and the corporate media. In most cases, political assassinations or terrorist attacks, are attributed to 'lone nuts' with, at best, one or two helpmates. Today, one might say, an extremely popular and powerful delusion is that, by and large, there are no conspiracies - with the notable exception of those which can be laid at the door of enemies of the United States like Osama bin Laden. [Source: Disinfopedia "Conspiracy theory"]<br />
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<p>---<br>People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. <br />
Alexei Sayle
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"Conspiracy theory" used to call to mind something so outlandish that no serious person would believe it to be true. The use of the term "conspiracy theory" encourages the reader to reflexively dismiss whatever may have been said. But lately, the term has been hijacked. A range of commentators has been using the phrase to confer instant illegitimacy on any argument with which they disagree. Want to close off the terms of the debate? Call something a conspiracy theory. One of the most widely-practiced forms of disinformation today is what can only be called 'conspiracy theory denial'. <br />
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Today, unelected, unaccountable elites working at the highest levels of corporate power and in the obscure government agencies like the NSA that compose the American national security state stifle public discussion of their actions -- including attempts to discover what they are really up to -- by suggesting that anyone who intuits that there is more to history than what one can read in the newspaper or see on the news is a deranged conspiracy theorist. (It is often suggested that conspiracy theorists believe in conspiracies only becase they suffer from psychological problems such as paranoid schizophrenia.) Such disinformation strategies enable such actors to continue business as usual. With a profound stigma attaching to the notion of conspiracy -- particularly since the political assassinations of the 1960s -- the public is generally inclined to settle for the explanations for events offered by government agencies like the FBI and the corporate media. In most cases, political assassinations or terrorist attacks, are attributed to 'lone nuts' with, at best, one or two helpmates. Today, one might say, an extremely popular and powerful delusion is that, by and large, there are no conspiracies - with the notable exception of those which can be laid at the door of enemies of the United States like Osama bin Laden. [Source: Disinfopedia "Conspiracy theory"]<br />
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<p>---<br>People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. <br />
Alexei Sayle
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"Declining to comment on why two armed British nationals disguised as Iraqis would be in Basra, the Ministry of Defence told Aljazeera.net it didn't matter if both men were out of uniform with no identification."<br />
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"Iraqi security officials on Monday variously accused the two Britons they detained of shooting at Iraqi forces or trying to plant explosives. Photographs of the two men in custody showed them in civilian clothes."<br />
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"In another example of how the Iraqi quagmire is deliberately designed to degenerate into a chaotic abyss, British SAS were caught attempting to stage a terror attack and the media have dutifully shut up about the real questions surrounding the incident.<br />
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What is admitted is that two British soldiers in Arab garb and head dress drove a car towards a group of Iraq police and began firing. According to the Basra governor Mohammed al-Waili, one policeman was shot dead and another was injured. Pictured below are the wigs and clothing that the soldiers were wearing."<br />
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So, the soldiers were then 'rescued' from the Iraqi Police, and all pretense of what they were doing in Civillain clothes with explosives was dropped:<br />
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<p>---<br>"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden<br />
No conspiracies Eh?<br />
his from <br />
<a href="http://www.bilderberg.org/bis.htm">http://www.bilderberg.org/bis.htm</a><br />
with regard to BIS<br />
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Carrol Quigley - the bankers' plan <br />
"The Power of financial capitalism had far reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. <br />
This system was to be controlled in a feudalistic fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. <br />
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The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks, which were themselves private corporations. <br />
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Each central bank sought to dominate its government by its ability to control treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence co-operative politicians by subsequent rewards in the business world." <br />
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Carrol Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, 1966 - [Bill Clinton's mentor and Georgetown University professor] <p>---<br>People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. <br />
Alexei Sayle
Ray Mcgovern says US in most danger ever, from its own government<br />
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Prison Planet | February 26 2006<br />
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Former CIA analyst a and presidential advisor Ray McGovern does not rule out Western involvement in this week's Askariya mosque bombing in light of previous false flag operations that have advanced hidden agendas of the ruling elite.<br />
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During the mid-eighties, McGovern was one of the senior analysts conducting early morning briefings of the PDB one-on-one with the Vice President, the Secretaries of State and Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.<br />
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He joined Alex Jones to discuss many topics from martial law to government false flag terrorism and provocation tactics.<br />
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McGovern firstly suggested that Posse Comitatus, the law that forbids the military to take on a policing role within the US, is being systematically overthrown.<br />
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"Not only have the top ranks of the intelligence community been politicized and corrupted, so has the army. The military establishment is goose stepping around, saluting the President and saying whatever the President wants them to." <br />
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A former officer himself, McGovern declared that the unprecedented movement towards a martial law mentality within government and military is a deeply unsettling one and that the US is hurtling toward a dictatorship.<br />
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"As I look at the top Pentagon brass, I have to conclude that unlike my days as a US army officer, those folks have been so politicized that if the US President told them to go ahead and exercise police functions in this country they would go ahead and salute and they would do it, and that's really scary."<br />
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Moving on to the "war on terror", 27 year veteran McGovern concurred that staged terror has long been used by our governments in order to forward their own agendas at home and elsewhere:<br />
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"There's lots of evidence that the government in the past has used these things for its own purposes, for overthrowing governments, as it did in Iran in 1953, and in Guatemala in 1954, the Gulf of Tonkin was a little different...LBJ did deceive Congress and the war went on for seven years."<br />
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Concerning 9/11 McGovern declared that although he is still in two minds, he is deeply suspicious of the official version of events and "there is certainly a cover up." The amount of unanswered questions and blatant lies told by Cheney and the NeoCons makes it very easy for him to believe the government was involved. <br />
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Moving on to the recent Askariya mosque bombing in Samarra, Iraq McGovern commented;<br />
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"The main question is Qui Bono? Who benefits from this kind of thing? You don't have to be very conspiratorial or even paranoid to suggest that there are a whole bunch of likely suspects out there and not only the Sunnis. You know, the British officers were arrested, dressed up in Arab garb, riding around in a car, so this stuff goes on."<br />
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Ray McGovern is part of a collective of former Intelligence officers who call themselves Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). Their writing can be found on <a href="http://www.truthout.com">www.truthout.com</a> <br />
<p>---<br>People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. <br />
Alexei Sayle