Entered into the database on Wednesday, December 28th, 2005 @ 19:02:30 MST
We are expected to believe the Iraqi resistance is not only vicious,
but also uninterested in repairing the damage inflicted on its country by the
neocon invasion. It runs around abducting Christian peace activists, western
journalists, Sudanese and Moroccan embassy employees, and people from countries
that opposed Bush’s invasion. On December 5, Bernard Planche,
an engineer working for the “little known non-governmental group”
AACCESS, was abducted. Planche worked at the Rusafa water treatment plant in
eastern Baghdad. It should be noted that AACCESS is involved in “two small
rehabilitation projects” financed by the United States Army, according
to the New York
Times. In short, on the surface, it would appear Planche’s abducting
is legitimate, considering Planche worked indirectly for the U.S. Army and the
United Nations. Once again, however, this latest kidnapping was apparently carried out by a
“previously unknown armed group,” according to the BBC,
sporting yet another absurd name—Surveillance for the Sake of Iraq Brigade.
It is curious how the larger, more well-know Iraqi resistance groups such as
the Iraqi National Islamic Resistance, the National Front for the Liberation
of Iraq, and the Iraqi Resistance Islamic Front do not engage in kidnapping
but rather military operations aimed at occupation forces and their Iraqi allies
(even the United Nations accepts that people under occupation have a right to
resist). If we are to believe the corporate media, at least some of these kidnappings
from ostensibly ad hoc terrorist groups are related to the Iraqi High Tribunal
hearing of Saddam Hussein. However, kidnapping and possibly executing foreign
workers and peace activists will not sway hand-picked judges in their ultimate
decision to lynch Saddam, who after all cooperated with the United States for
years, that is until he fell out of favor as client dictators often do. Obviously, kidnapping and possibly killing innocent journalists, peace activists,
and water engineers has a more practical goal—to make the resistance out
to be blood-thirsty savages, demented Islamic fanatics determined to kill as
many people as possible, both Iraqi and Sudanese, Moroccan, French, British,
and assorted others. It makes no sense for the improbably named Surveillance
for the Sake of Iraq Brigade to kidnap Bernard Planche, even if he is tenuously
linked to the U.S. Army. In Bushzarro world, where Pentagon black ops are conducted
in the name of the Iraqi resistance, it makes perfect sense to abduct and threaten
to kill an engineer who worked to bring clean water to the Iraqi people.
