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John
Yoo, a “visiting scholar” at the neocon criminal organization
the American Enterprise Institute, suggests “our intelligence agencies
create a false terrorist organization” as a way to fight against another
false terrorist organization, al-Qaeda. “It could have its own websites,
recruitment centers, training camps and fundraising operations. It could launch
fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping
to sow confusion within Al Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt
others’ identities and to question the validity of communications.”
Obviously, Mr. Yoo never heard of the Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group,
otherwise known as P2OG, designed “to bring together CIA and military
covert action, information warfare, intelligence and cover and deception,”
as David Isenberg
writes. “P2OG would launch secret operations aimed at ’stimulating
reactions’ among terrorists and states possessing weapons of mass destruction,
meaning it would prod terrorist cells into action, thus exposing them to ‘quick-response’
attacks by US forces. The means by which it would do this is the far greater
use of special operations forces.”
Maybe Yoo never heard of William
Arkin or read his article in the Los Angeles Times: “The Defense Department
is building up an elite secret army with resources stretching across the full
spectrum of covert capabilities. New organizations are being created. The missions
of existing units are being revised.” Rumsfeld’s Defense Science
Board 2002 Summer Study on Special Operations and Joint Forces in Support of
Countering Terrorism embraced P2OG operations.
Frank
Morales comments: “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.” It would also further legitimize criminal organizations
such as the American Enterprise Institute (where
Bush gets his “finest minds”), coined as “one of the leading
architects of the Bush administration’s foreign policy” (see the
SourceWatch
entry on the AEI).
It should be noted that Michael Ledeen, “influential” Machiavellian
Strausscon and admirer of Mussolini fascism (“universal
fascism”; also see Michael
Ledeen Demands “Regime Change” in Iran by Scott Thompson), is
an AEI “fellow.” Ledeen, as Right
Web points out, “was allegedly tied to the Italian P2 Masonic Lodge,
a violent right wing group that was involved in a number of terrorists attacks
in Italy in the 1970s the 1980s; in the late 1970s, while P2 was doing its dirty
work, Ledeen was working as a consultant to Italian intelligence on terrorism
issues.” P2 (short for Propaganda Due) was responsible for Operation
Gladio, a sort of precursor and template for what Rumsfeld wants to do with
P2OG. (For more on Ledeen and Gladio, see my Gladio-Styled
“Strategy of Tension” Spawning Islamic Terrorism?)
Either the Straussian-Machiavelli neocons don’t talk to each other over
at the AEI, or Yoo wants a redoubling of efforts to create fake terrorist organizations.
Considering the CIA spent around $2 billion to fabricate the Islamic Terror
Network in Afghanistan—and a favored faction was headed up by a young
Osama bin Laden—this is a tall order. But then, I suppose, for the neocons,
more fake terror is a good thing because it provides the “stomach”
required for empire (i.e., Americans and Brits driven to xenophobic hysteria
over subway and bus “suicide” bombings).
Thanks to Xymphora
for pointing out Yoo’s vicious “idea” of terrorists gone wild.
