Dutch judge turns down EU referendum complaint

The Dutch are supposed to 'pay up and shut up', but they do not at all seem to be keen on signing another blank check again. Eighty-six percent thinks they absolutely have been fooled when the same gang said the introduction of the Euro money would be good for them. The word TAXES is not even to be found in the EU 'explanations' for the people, who are paying the whole scheme.

by Henk Ruyssenaars

The Netherlands - May 25th 2005 - One of the dutch government's judges has turned down the official court complaint by the Dutch Committee* opposed to European Union 'constitution' - concerning the unlawfulness of the Dutch government using an extra 3.5 Euro-millions to advocate a YES to the blank EU check, a.k.a. 'referendum on the EU 'constitution', to be held on the coming first of June.

Even if the valid law on referenda in the Netherlands and the EU does not allow the taking of extra millions in taxpayers money by a government to further it's own policy, the judge - contrary to the law - but as expected by the realists - said the spending of an extra 3.5 million Euro unlawfully taken by the right wing government from their employers, the taxpayers, was OK.

The law raping judge in The Hague did - as far as is known - not even give a motive for his strange verdict. But his name has been added to the list of negative collaborators.

According to the dutch referendum law, one million Euro (say $1.28 million US) should be divided equally between the 'YES' and 'NO' sides... Now the judge tells the people which are complaining, that it's fine if the panicking dutch neocon government has an extra 3.5 million Euros: ten times as much as the NO saying people.

It's needed: all polls this far indicate that between 50 tot 63 % of the fooled people plan to vote NO. Since in the Netherlands the electronic voting machines allow the same tactics is in the US (Diebold) and the track is not followed (no paper trail mostly) it doesn't matter how the people vote: the outcome, the 'Yes' result, is already decided by the people running the dutch government. Now they're just looking for the most innocent looking way to commit the fraud. There must be some 'deniability'...

Justice in the Netherlands is in a coma. In one of the main dutch newspapers - Trouw - a group of dutch judges a while ago accused the minister of Justice - an anachronism called Donner - of using some kind of blueprint of the disgusting and inhuman US Patriot Act to rape existing law. Confirming that 'minister' Donner, his ilk and his actions are a danger to the country's justice, society and population. They are correct.

The badly informed Dutch are supposed to pay up and shut up: but the word TAXES is not to be found in the EU 'explanations' for the people, who are paying the whole scheme.

And nobody answers the questions why a Dutch taxpayer pays four times more to Brussels than comparable Denmark? Or even twice as much as the many times larger Germany?

England has no written Constitution

There is a now fast growing public skepticism about some important parts of the new European constitution. In England - where the pro Bush' Blair government plays the role of '5th colone' - the worst traitor' in the EU, Bush's warmongering poodle Blair, speaks with a misleading loud voice about human rights democracy etc.

But there is not even a written constitution in the UK he can refer to. Something which is spoken about with a stiff upper lip.

And still nothing is said about the 'Secret controversial agreements'

So people wonder about the fact that 'the highly controversial agreements' between the EU and the USA on extradition* and judicial cooperation, do not have to be referred to the European Parliament or national parliaments for their opinions. In the case of the latter EU-USA agreements the Council of the European Union was eventually forced to de-classify the texts and refer them to parliaments.

But: "The texts of the new agreements are not public."

Any government, and that includes the dishonest and incompetent dutch 'managers' running the government which - 'chosen' and paid for by the people - is not taking responsibility for done deeds, but keeping agreements etc. 'secret', is on the wrong track.

Bothering most 'is the scope of the new agreements, which is of great concern, as they will cover: "all security matters" and because of the need to encompass "EU crisis management operations". This means the agreements will cover: "many different areas of EU business, not only security and defense matters."

Tony Bunyan, Editor of the excellent 'Statewatch'* commented earlier: "This is another instance of secret policy making. European and national parliaments should be consulted and the texts made public so that there can be a debate as to their content and consequences.

Putting these agreements in place is not just about exchanging classified documents, it is also about the construction of a security regime for future cooperation on defense, foreign policy and justice and home affairs between the EU, non-EU states and international organizations. It is about tying in the acceding states and others into the aims and objectives of the EU-NATO-USA politico military axis."

But, the funny 'judge' in The Hague played his expected role, and the same crooked banking people, their corrupted politicians and media figures - which forced the Euros down the dutch throats, making their economy in many cases a shambles - the same gang is now asking the Dutch 'to do it again': sign again the 'blank check' which again will bounce back...

That should be another big sign on the wall, of what's in store for the Europeans.

But, in the Netherlands, like in so many other also so called 'democracies' it does not matter anymore who votes, or what people vote for or against.

The only important thing is who counts the votes!


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* European leaders sign in Rome - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4c7mt

* The Euro and US dollar - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5plf8

* Statewatch - Url.: http://www.statewatch.org/

Dutch page - Grondwet Nee - Url.: http://www.grondwetnee.org/

P.M. - Dutch State taken to court tomorrow on EU vote - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cxquk - Pay up and shut up: but the word TAXES is not to be found in the EU explanations.

P.M.: Dutch skeptical over EU treaty: NSS-poll: 63 per cent of respondents were opposed to the treaty, with 37 per cent in favor [end quote - more at - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9vj67]

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Sick strategies for senseless slaughter - The cat is out of the bag now

[ CNN: "Pentagon runs clandestine intelligence-support infrastructure" ]

Kaminski: The cat is out of the bag now*


by Henk Ruyssenaars

FPF - May 25th 2005 - It simply does not make sense - unless many of the kidnappings and bombings, as I think too, are designed to foment chaos and portray all resistance as 'murderous nihilists and cold-blooded criminals'. Make them look 'subhuman'... 'Untermenschen' - as the Nazis called them.

We've all seen it many times in those american movies, read about it in books and heard the stories: and today one of the FPF's favorite writers - John Kaminski - writes about it. It's been said and written earlier, what the purpose of many of the 'false flag' [http://tinyurl.com/dzqo7 ] atrocities is: such brutal and heartless acts will send the intended message: the Iraqi resistance is comprised of monsters and serial murderers - and there can be no response other than wiping them from the face of the earth... Dehumanize human beings into 'gooks' like in Vietnam, or now 'sandniggers', 'towel' or 'rag heads' and worse in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.

We all know it too: in politics and sociology, divide and rule is a strategy of gaining and maintaining power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into groups that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy. The phrase comes from the Latin "divide et impera", which translates to "divide and rule ".

War criminal Rumsfeld's secret SSB is part of it, even according to CNN: Pentagon runs clandestine intelligence and support infrastructure - CNN - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5jjfr - Kaminski is right all the way!


Sick strategies for senseless slaughter

The murderous fools are not trying to end the war; they're trying to keep it going as long as they can.*

By John Kaminski - skylax@comcast.net

The cat is out of the bag now.

It happened quite by accident, as most revelations do. And it is seen by most of the world as the most revolting of the American/Israeli atrocities in the past few years, although it's hard to prioritize that claim because of the level and frequency of barbaric acts that are committed on a regular basis by those affluent automatons who call themselves the good guys.

Yet everyone but the comatose American populace — blinded by its Orwellian media and stupefied by its demented diet of physical and mental poisons — can see it.

So permit me to spell it out for those cowardly people who say they're living in the freest country on Earth, but absolutely refuse in their silent ignorance to see the blood they're spilling. No country that condones deliberate torture for any reason can ever be trusted.

The first hint came in Imad Khadduri's "A warning to car drivers" written in Arabic and posted on www.albasrah.net on May 11. The dispatch was quickly picked up by two of the most realistic and reliable news sites on the Web, www.uruknet.info, which I try to read every day, and www.globalresearch.ca, which I try to read every week, since it offers less breaking and more analytical news. I consider these two sites essential to keeping up with the real news of the world, and highly recommend that you monitor them, too.

Khadduri recounted a scam that opens up a clear window to seeing who is perpetrating all this inexplicable violence in Iraq. Beyond the American attempt to pacify an outraged and abused nation through demonic destruction, and beyond the Iraqi attempt to resist this totalitarian takeover by a foreign conqueror, there are more than numerous acts of violence that simply can't be understood by straightforward explanations.

I mean, when a mosque blows up and Americans blame Islamic terrorists, whether Sunni or Shiite, it makes no sense. Muslims never blow up their own houses of worship. Or when reporters sympathetic to either the Iraqi cause of freedom, or even just general principles of international justice, are suddenly assassinated and the blame is placed on often imaginary Islamic extremists whose perspective is supported by these writers, how can anyone believe that Muslims did it, even thought this is what the Zionist American press and government continue to insist.

SO WHO’S DOING ALL THESE DEMENTED DEEDS? AS IF WE DIDN’T KNOW ....

Khadduri’s report went like this:

“A few days ago, an American manned check point confiscated the driver license of a driver and told him to report to an American military camp near Baghdad airport for interrogation and in order to retrieve his license. The next day, the driver did visit the camp and he was allowed in the camp with his car. He was admitted to a room for an interrogation that lasted half an hour. At the end of the session, the American interrogator told him: ‘OK, there is nothing against you, but you do know that Iraq is now sovereign and is in charge of its own affairs. Hence, we have forwarded your papers and license to al-Kadhimia police station for processing. Therefore, go there with this clearance to reclaim your license. At the police station, ask for Lt. Hussain Mohammed, who is waiting for you now. Go there now quickly, before he leaves his shift work”.

The driver did leave in a hurry, but was soon alarmed with a feeling that his car was driving as if carrying a heavy load, and he also became suspicious of a low flying helicopter that kept hovering overhead, as if trailing him. He stopped the car and inspected it carefully. He found nearly 100 kilograms of explosives hidden in the back seat and along the two back doors.

The only feasible explanation for this incident is that the car was indeed booby trapped by the Americans and intended for the al-Khadimiya Shiite district of Baghdad. The helicopter was monitoring his movement and witnessing the anticipated “hideous attack by foreign elements”.

The same scenario was repeated in Mosul, in the north of Iraq. A car was confiscated along with the driver’s license. He did follow up on the matter and finally reclaimed his car but was told to go to a police station to reclaim his license. Fortunately for him, the car broke down on the way to the police station. The inspecting car mechanic discovered that the spare tire was fully laden with explosives."

If this were the only example of this type I heard, I might have let it pass as just a story. But it wasn’t.

There was also the sorry tale of the Iraqi man who saw American soldiers plant a bomb which shortly thereafter exploded, and when he said so out loud for all to hear, he was hauled away, never to be seen again.

This story was reported on arguably the most authentic and riveting source of news from Iraq, the heart-rending "Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq," which is compiled by someone known only as Riverbend or Iraqi Girl . Again, recommended reading.

SHE RECOUNTS, "THE LAST TWO WEEKS HAVE BEEN VIOLENT ....

The number of explosions in Baghdad alone is frightening. There have also been several assassinations — bodies being found here and there. It's somewhat disturbing to know that corpses are turning up in the most unexpected places. Many people will tell you it's not wise to eat river fish anymore because they have been nourished on the human remains being dumped into the river. That thought alone has given me more than one sleepless night. It is almost as if Baghdad has turned into a giant graveyard.

THE LATEST CORPSES were those of some Sunni and Shia clerics — several of them well-known. People are being patient and there is a general consensus that these killings are being done to provoke civil war. Also worrisome is the fact that we are hearing of people being rounded up by security forces (Iraqi) and then being found dead days later — apparently when the new Iraqi government recently decided to reinstate the death penalty, they had something else in mind.

But back to the explosions. One of the larger blasts was in an area called Ma'moun, which is a middle class area located in west Baghdad. It’s a relatively calm residential area with shops that provide the basics and a bit more. It happened in the morning, as the shops were opening up for their daily business and it occurred right in front of a butcher’s shop. Immediately after, we heard that a man living in a house in front of the blast site was hauled off by the Americans because it was said that after the bomb went off, he sniped an Iraqi National Guardsman.

I didn’t think much about the story — nothing about it stood out: an explosion and a sniper — hardly an anomaly. The interesting news started circulating a couple of days later. People from the area claim that the man was taken away not because he shot anyone, but because he knew too much about the bomb. Rumor has it that he saw an American patrol passing through the area and pausing at the bomb site minutes before the explosion. Soon after they drove away, the bomb went off and chaos ensued. He ran out of his house screaming to the neighbors and bystanders that the Americans had either planted the bomb or seen the bomb and done nothing about it. He was promptly taken away.

THE BOMBS ARE MYSTERIOUS. Some of them explode in the midst of National Guard and near American troops or Iraqi Police and others explode near mosques, churches, and shops or in the middle of sougs. One thing that surprises us about the news reports of these bombs is that they are inevitably linked to suicide bombers. The reality is that some of these bombs are not suicide bombs — they are car bombs that are either being remotely detonated or maybe time bombs. All we know is that the techniques differ and apparently so do the intentions. Some will tell you they are resistance. Some say Chalabi and his thugs are responsible for a number of them. Others blame Iran and the SCIRI militia Badir.

In any case, they are terrifying. If you're close enough, the first sound is a that of an earsplitting blast and the sounds that follow are of a rain of glass, shrapnel and other sharp things. Then the wails begin — the shrill mechanical wails of an occasional ambulance combined with the wail of car alarms from neighboring vehicles… and finally the wail of people trying to sort out their dead and dying from the debris.

THEN THERE WAS THIS ONE.

On May 13, 2005, a 64 years old Iraqi farmer, Haj Haidar Abu Sijjad, took his tomato load in his pickup truck from Hilla to Baghdad, accompanied by Ali, his 11 years old grandson. They were stopped at an American check point and were asked to dismount. An American soldier climbed on the back of the pickup truck, followed by another a few minutes later, and thoroughly inspected the tomato filled plastic containers for about 10 minutes. Haj Haidar and his grandson were then allowed to proceed to Baghdad.

A minute later, his grandson told him that he saw one of the American soldiers putting a grey melon size object in the back among the tomato containers. The Haj immediately slammed on the brakes and stopped the car at the side of the road, at a relatively far distance from the check point. He found a time bomb with the clock ticking tucked among his tomatoes. He immediately recognized it, as he was an ex-army soldier. Panicking, he grabbed his grandson and ran away from the car. Then, realizing that the car was his only means of work, he went back, took the bomb and carried it in fear. He threw it in a deep ditch by the side of the road that was dug by Iraqi soldiers in preparation for the war, two years ago.

Upon returning from Baghdad, he found out that the bomb had indeed exploded, killing three sheep and injuring their shepherd in his head. He thanked God for giving him the courage to go back and remove the bomb, and for the luck in that the American soldiers did not notice his sudden stop at a distance and his getting rid of the bomb.

"THEY INTENDED IT TO EXPLODE IN BAGHDAD AND CLAIM THAT IT IS THE WORK OF THE 'TERRORISTS', OR 'INSURGENTS' OR WHO CALL THEMSELVES THE 'RESISTANCE'.

I decided to expose them and asked your reporter to take me to Baghdad to tell you the story. They are to be exposed as they now want to sow strife in Iraq and taint the Resistance after failing to defeat it militarily. Do not forget to mention my name. I fear nobody but God, as I am a follower of Muqtada al-Sadir."

The background and admission of guilt for such satanic shenanigans was clearly outlined in Frank Morales' piece on globalresearch.ca: "The Provocateur State: Is the CIA Behind the Iraqi 'Insurgents' — and Global Terrorism," by Frank Morales clearly demonstrates how Donald Rumsfeld said he was going to do exactly what these three sorry episodes show he actually did.

Morales writes:

Back in 2002, following the trauma of 9-11, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld predicted there would be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large. How could he be so sure of that? Perhaps because these attacks would be instigated on the order of the Honorable Mr. Rumsfeld. According to Los Angeles Times military analyst William Arkin, writing Oct. 27, 2002, Rumsfeld set out to create a secret army, "a SUPER-INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT ACTIVITY" NETWORK that would "bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence, and cover and deception," to stir the pot of spiraling global violence.

We never got the full story on those ghastly beheadings of Nick Berg and others. Nor have we ever understood who killed the American mercenaries in Fallujah that eventually precipitated one of the great slaughters in history. Nor have we ever been able to discern if Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is actually a real person or just another bin Ladenesque boogeyman. Nor if the al-Qaeda website which claims responsibility for various atrocities is not really run by the CIA.

Provoking this type of violence also further conceals the sinister genocide the Israelis continue to perpetrate on the hapless Palestinians, which is exactly its point, as is the entire Iraq invasion and destruction, and as was the inside job mass murder on 9/11 in New York City. The purpose of all these despicable acts is to conceal what the Israelis and the Americans have been doing all along to the entire Arab world, namely enslaving and destroying it.

There is not now nor ever was an Arab terror threat. That was all invented by Rothschild, Rockefeller, Kissinger, Brzezinski, Bush, Cheney, Sharon, Zakheim, Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, Abrams and Warren Buffett. These people are all traitors to not only their countries but to humanity in general, and should all be slammed and RICOed into Guantanamo immediately.

And so should the government officials, media lackeys, and ordinary citizens who, by their complicity or their ignorance, support them.

The main point in understanding these deliberate provocations to prevent peace is to understand how the American capitalist system, now hijacked by billionaires with no trace of conscience, thrives on war and profits from the misery of others.

The neocon murder menace has been for months ratcheting up the hyperbole about why we need to invade Iran — which some predict will happen in June — and just this week, rumors of troop movements in the Caribbean and lockdowns at Florida military bases appear to augur an imminent invasion of oil-producing Venezuela.

The overall plan is to create hell on Earth, and we are succeeding. By our silent complicity and cowardly reluctance to oppose and stop this homicidal behavior in the name of profit, we are all accessories to mass murder and the destruction of human society, not to even mention the extinction of individual human freedom and the God-given right to be safe and secure in the homes of our choice.

SO NOW THAT YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? YOU KNOW
IF YOU DO NOTHING, THESE SAME THINGS WILL ONE DAY HAPPEN TO YOU.

[End story] - Uruknet (very good/HR) - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9t2np

John Kaminski is a writer whose Internet essays are seen on hundreds of websites around the world. These stories have been compiled into two anthologies, “America’s Autopsy Report” and “The Perfect Enemy.” In addition, he has written “The Day America Died: Why You Shouldn’t Believe the Official Story of What Happened on September 11, 2001,” a booklet written for those who still believe the government’s cynical lies about that tragic day. All three books are available at http://www.johnkaminski.com/

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'Secretary of State' Condoleezza Rice’s office is suppressing data, showing that the number of major terrorist attacks worldwide exploded from 175 in 2003 to 625 in 2004, the highest number since the Cold War began to wane in 1985. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/c8fwd

* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' says United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan in a BBC interview: txt+video - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

* Journalists 'disappear' in US army hands - Url.: http://electronicIraq.net/news/printer1970.shtml

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* US Foreign Affairs minister Madeleine Korbel Albright was asked by Leslie Stahl on CBS's program 'Sixty Minutes' about US barbarism, and stated that more than half a million small children dying in Iraq because of the US/UN 'sanctions' - from the US's warped point of view: "The price was worth it." - Albright - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dneux

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THE PROVOCATEUR STATE

Is the CIA Behind the Iraqi "Insurgents"- and Global Terrorism?

by Frank Morales

The requirement of an ever-escalating level of social violence to meet the political and economic needs of the insatiable "anti-terrorist complex" is the essence of the new US militarism. What is now openly billed as "permanent war" ultimately serves the geo-political ends of social control in the interests of US corporate domination, much as the anti-communist crusade of the now-exhasuted Cold War did.

Back in 2002, following the trauma of 9-11, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld predicted there would be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large. How could he be so sure of that? Perhaps because these attacks would be instigated on the order of the Honorable Mr. Rumsfeld. According to Los Angeles Times military analyst William Arkin, writing Oct. 27, 2002, Rumsfeld set out to create a secret army, "a super-Intelligence Support Activity" network that would "bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence, and cover and deception," to stir the pot of spiraling global violence.

According to a classified document prepared for Rumsfeld by his Defense Science Board, the new organization--the "Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG)"--would actually carry out secret missions designed to provoke terrorist groups into committing violent acts. The P2OG, a 100-member, so-called "counter-terrorist" organization with a $100-million-a-year budget, would ostensibly target "terrorist leaders," but according to P2OG documents procured by Arkin, would in fact carry out missions designed to "stimulate reactions" among "terrorist groups"--which, according to the Defense Secretary's logic, would subsequently expose them to "counter-attack" by the good guys. In other words, the plan is to execute secret military operations (assassinations, sabotage, "deception") which would intentionally result in terrorist attacks on innocent people, including Americans--essentially, to "combat terrorism" by causing it!

This notion is currently being applied to the problem of the Iraqi "insurgency," it seems. According to a May 1, 2005 report by Peter Maass in the New York Times Magazine, two of the top US advisers to Iraqi paramilitary commandos fighting the insurgents are veterans of US counterinsurgency operations in Latin America. Loaning credence to recent media speculation about the "Salvadorization" of Iraq, the report notes that one adviser currently in Iraq is James Steele, who led a team of 55 US Army Special Forces advisers in El Salvador in the 1980s. Maass writes that these advisors "trained front-line battalions that were accused of significant human rights abuses."

The current senior US adviser at the Iraqi Interior Ministry, which Maass writes "has operational control over the commandos," is former top US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official Steve Casteel, who worked "alongside local forces" in the US-sponsored "Drug War" in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia, "where he was involved in the hunt for Pablo Escobar, the head of the Medellin cocaine cartel."

The US "drug war" in Latin America also serves as a cover for ongoing counterinsurgency, employing terrorist methods to achieve two aims: one, actually combating genuine insurgency; two, the ratcheting up of a "strategy of tension," heightened social violence designed to induce fear among the citizenry and the subsequent call for greater "security."

This was the essence, for example, of Operation Gladio, a decades-long covert campaign of provocateur-style terrorism and deceit. The ostensible purpose of Gladio, officially launched as a covert NATO program in 1952, was to establish a clandestine network of "stay-behind" teams which would organize armed resistance and sabotage in the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. But the network actually took a far more proactive role. Directed by US/NATO intelligence services of the West against their own populations, Operation Gladio led to possibly hundreds of innocent people being killed or maimed in "terrorist" attacks which were then blamed on "leftist subversives" or other political opponents. The most notorious such attack was the 1980 bombing of the train station at Bologna, which left 85 dead. Initially blamed on left-wing radicals, the blast was revealed upon investigation to be the work of an ultra-right network linked to the Italy's Gladio team; four Italian neo-fascists were eventually convicted of the crime.

The purpose was again twofold: to demonize designated enemies (the "communists") and to frighten the public into supporting ever-increasing powers for the national security state. It appears the Pentagon has been implementing Gladio-style operations for quite some time--possibly including 9-11. A stretch? Maybe not.

Witness the US Joint Chiefs discussion of "Operation Northwoods" back in 1962, a plan to blow up U.S. "assets"--including U.S. citizens--in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. Later, US Army Field Manual 30-31B, entitled "Stability Operations Intelligence - Special Fields," dated March 18, 1970 and signed by Gen. William C Westmoreland, promoted terrorist attacks (and the planting of false evidence) in public places which were then to be blamed on "communists" and "socialists." It called for the execution of terrorist attacks throughout Western Europe, carried out through a network of covert US/NATO armies, in order to convince European governments of "the communist threat."

What's striking is that during this period the primary source for US government info on the Russian "threat" was coming from the Gehlen Organiation, Hitlers eastern front intelligence apparatus, which in the aftermath of World War II had cut a deal with the CIA's Allen Dulles and worked out of Fort Hunt, just outside Washington DC, before being relocated back to Munich. Headed up by super-spy Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen, the Org's "special operations" expertise was heeded, financed and well-protected by U.S. tax dollars well into the 1970's. Could the Gehlen Org have had an influence in the production of FM 30-31B?

According to FM 30-31B, "there may be times when Host Country Governments show passivity or indecision in the face of communist subversion and according to the interpretation of the US secret services do not react with sufficient effectiveness. Most often such situations come about when the revolutionaries temporarily renounce the use of force and thus hope to gain an advantage, as the leaders of the host country wrongly consider the situation to be secure. US army intelligence must have the means of launching special operations which will convince Host Country Governments and public opinion of the reality of the insurgent danger."

The U.S. Army now claims the document was a Russian forgery. Journalist Allan Francovich in his BBC documentation on Gladio and US/NATO "special operations" terrorism, asked Ray Cline, CIA deputy director from 1962 to 1966, if he believed FM 30-31B was for real and he replied: "Well, I suspect it is an authentic document. I don't doubt it. I never saw it but it's the kind of special forces military operations that are described," to be implemented at the discretion of the president and Defense Department on the "appropriate occasion."

It could be that in Iraq--and elsewhere around the world--the "appropriate occasion" has arrived. Bush's war on terrorism could be the ultimate manifestation of the provocateur state; carrying out of clandestine "executive actions" and "special operations" directed against populations, including our own, who are truly ignorant of the real "enemy" in the face of the ever-present manufactured one, traumatized by strategic terror designed to engender fear and acquiescence to further "security measures"--thereby enriching the military, police agencies, and munitions and nuclear business enterprises.

RESOURCES:

Peter Maass, "The Salvadorization of Iraq?," New York Times Magazine, May
1, 2005.

A.K. Gupta, "Unraveling Iraq's Secret Militias," Z Magazine, May 2005

Lila Rajiva, "The Pentagon's 'NATO Option'," CommonDreams, Feb. 10, 2005.

Statewatch Briefing on Operation Gladio

US Joint Chiefs of Staff, "Operation Northwoods", 1962

National Security Archives on Operation Northwoods

US Army, Field Manual 30-31B, 1970

FM 30-31B excerpts from Cryptome.org

WW4 REPORT #58 on P2OG

Frank Morales, "John Negroponte and the Death Squad Connection," WW4 REPORT #108

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