Apr 18, 2011

The world since the rise of the House of Rothschilds in the 19th, 20th and 21st century.

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BIG CONSPIRACY - JOHN BUCHAN by aangirfan


































John Buchan was briefly the head of the UK intelligence service. (
Grumpy Old Bookman: John Buchan: The Three Hostages) He helped invent the spy novel. In his adventure story The Three Hostages (1924), John Buchan described rather accurately the way in which the world works, and the way in which a big modern conspiracy is carried out. We are introduced to the American banker Julius Victor, "one of the richest men in the world" He "had done a lot of Britain's financial business in the War." He was "once described... as 'the whitest Jew since the Apostle Paul.'" Victor says: "I am a very rich man, and my wealth has given me power, so that Governments honour me with their confidence. "I am concerned in various important affairs, and it would be false modesty to deny that my word is weightier than that of many Prime Ministers."






We are introduced to a top British policeman Macgillivray who describes a conspiracy.
According to Macgillivray, "A large part of the world had gone mad, and that involved the growth of inexplicable and unpredictable crime... "Men had grown too well accustomed to death and pain... "The criminal... could mobilize ...the moral imbecile... a terribly common product... cruel, humorless, hard, utterly wanting in sense of proportion...you found it among the young Bolshevik Jews...





"Don't imagine that they are devotees of any movement, good or bad.
"They are what I have called them, moral imbeciles, who can be swept into any movement by those who understand them... "This desperate degenerate stuff is being used by a few clever men who are not degenerates or anything of the sort, but only evil... "There were sinister brains at work to organise for their own purposes the perilous stuff lying about. "All the contemporary anarchisms, he said, were interconnected, and out of the misery of decent folks and the agony of the wretched tools certain smug entrepreneurs were profiting...




"The aim of the gang was money... "Partly their business was gambling in falling exchanges and using every kind of brazen and subtle trick to make their gamble a certainty. "Partly it was common fraud of the largest size. "But there were darker sides - murder when the victim ran athwart their schemes, strikes engineered when a wrecked industry somewhere or other in the world showed symptoms of reviving, shoddy little outbursts in shoddy little countries which increased the tangle.




"These fellows were wreckers on the grand scale, merchants of pessimism, giving society another kick downhill whenever it had a chance of finding its balance, and then pocketing their profits.
"Their motive, as I have said, was gain... Their cleverness lay in the fact that they used the fanatics, the moral imbeciles..." "They are masters of propaganda ... using all the channels of modern publicity to poison and warp men's minds..." They are also masters of mind control.


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John Buchan was probably bisexual - A BOY IN A SCHOOL BLAZER

aangirfan: THE THIRTY NINE STEPS and JEWS

Apr 16, 2011

Its not merely about "requesting" and "objecting"

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Pakistan has been a failed state since its inception in 1947. A large part of that initially was the nature of its birth in 1947, starved of institutionalized resources and logistics; 90% or more of which went to India, either by default or deliberate British policy. Munitions meant for the Pakistan army from the huge armaments depots in South India built up during WWII, were found dumped in the Arabian sea, and trains carrying logistics for the state never arrived......due to it was said "Partition" and "border" problems.

Pakistan should never have been created.

Gandhi should have called the British Raj bluff and unusually high pressure tactics, and not acceded to a partitioned India.("OK we're leaving India right now, no time to loose, going right now.......1948 is too late for us.......Jinnah will die by then, so we've been told........so what if we've been in the region for 200 years.....we've got to go, massacres will follow and escalate if you don't make a quick hasty ill judged decision now) But he was shaken by the Bengal communal riots, organized by the Muslim League in 1946 (British Raj).

But that was 63 years ago.

Since 1951, when the Pakistan military carried out a soft/hard coup, the ONLY source of Pakistan's failed nature have been the Pakistan military, through the ISI.....the military's think tank and chief strategist................................set up by the British in 1948, with a British General running it from 1948--56(58?).

To make Pakistan stable the ISI would have to be disbanded; cut ALL military ties with the USA/UK......and cut the size of the Pakistan military with its 191 multi-millionaire generals, and 1,100,000 military machine which probably eats up around 8--10% of the real unofficial GDP(Ayesha Siddiqa"Military Inc---Inside Pakistan military economy")


Unfortunately in Pakistan, as in many nations around the world, the military think they are the rightful and only custodians of national security and defense of their country.......and for this to be fully appreciated and realized, THEY must actually run the government of the country either directly (Indonesia, where the generals wear civilian jackets, with ties) or from the back seat...Pakistan where they basically decide Pakistan's security, and foreign policy---the civilian government has little or no power and simply cannot compete against an armed organization of 1,100,000 men......3,000,000 reserves and retirees...and finally 500,000 trained, armed Islamic Fundamentalists such as the LeT, HuJi, Taliban...at its back and call. FINALLY, the diplomatic and financial backing of the USA.

This is all good for the Pakistan military, with lots of military equipment, hardware, but not good for the Pakistan STATE, with its people of 180 million.

The Pakistan military strategically, acting for itself, guided by the gora via the ISI over cocktails in Pindi/Islamabad "pushes" and "shakes" the state for its particular interests......but each time it does so, it FAILS Pakistan one notch further:

1. 1951---1958----destabilization of civilian governments, after the soft/hard coup of 1951. GREAT for the Pakistan military because with each destabilization it brought them closer to power, BUT extremely bad for a new unstable young nation struggling to survive and legitimate itself......through the normal avenue of civilian government.

2. Signing a Security Pact with the USA in 1954, as an anti-Communist bloc country. Great for the Pakistan military where most of the $1 billion aid promised was defense related. But bad for Pakistan the young struggling nation state because it could now be interfered with politically by the USA using military aid/training as a leverage unto the present 2011.

3. 1965 war, where the Pakistan military committed to war against more powerful India, with their American supplied arms and 1 weeks worth of military spares and ammunition......hoping to i) defeat India, ii) Capture Kashmir iii) Hold Kashmir/Repulse Indian counter attacks. What actually happened was failure of i and ii objectives obviously, and failure of iii when India decided to crank it up, but saved by USA diplomatic intervention. STRATEGICALLY, India very naturally then focused on East Pakistan defended by a lone weak division, from 1965--1971.

4. The 1971 Civil war in East Pakistan, organized and conducted by the Pakistan military as the leading actor in the tragic drama. East Pakistanis cannot rule Pakistan; East Pakistanis cannot rule themselves(1958--1971)......so said the gora run Pakistan military. Just to prove that point we'll destroy East Pakistan, its infrastructure, and its people......in the name of defending Pakistan.

5. Over throw of the democratically elected government of Bhutto in 1977. For the first time the Pakistan military acted on the direct orders of the USA, overtly. From 1977 to the present, it became common currency for ALL who may have had a slight interests in power in Pakistan to kiss gora ass. To this day, because of the events of 1977 where the Pakistan military killed Bhutto for the USA, senior politicians and generals alike go the American embassy, like serfs visiting the high emperor. If this is not a fundamental destabilization of national politics, I don't know what is?

In such a scenario will the Americans listen to the Pakistani Coolies? Generals, politicians or civilians.

6. The backing of hardline Islamic Fundamentalists, over more moderate Afghan's against the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan between 1977--1994 by the Pakistani military/ISI. Psychopaths such as Hekmatyar and Geelani would never make good rational leaders of a war torn country. The USA of course backed all this, as it was now all in favor of Islamic Fundamentalists, such as the Islamic Brotherhood, and the mullah's of Iran, from the 1970's, using them in specific arena's.(Egypt, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan)

7. The backing of the Taliban for "strategic depth" by the Pakistan military at the behest of the USA, from 1994 in Afghanistan. The backing of the 'al-Qaeda" hologram for the USA, conducting military ops, and capturing 'al-Qaeda' members for sustaining the USA hologram. The Pakistan military must take sole responsibility for allowing Pakistan to be named terrorist hub number one. A source of shame for most nations, but not for the millionaire Pakistani generals who hope to make more money as the useful dogs of the fake USA war known as GWoT.

Good for a few Pakistani generals, but not good for Pakistan the nation state.

8. Pakistan is a failed de- legitimated state. Its President did prison time for corruption, and is known as Mr. 10%....with $3 billion worth of looted state funds. The nations future looks bleak as it embarks on a ceaseless, American backed war against 'terrorists' who in the American defined sense don't exist. The Pakistan state faces massive population and other socio-economic threats which need to be addressed calmly, strategically and logically.......working side by side, honestly, sincerely with India.

HOWEVER in a nation where the military lie through their teeth to the Pakistan people, day in day out as an exercise in cleverness....and secretly collaborate with JEWSA geo-strategy in Pakistan, which is destructive to Pakistan all too evidently.....then such a state has no future, no future except self destruction.

CIA Panetta says he is doing his duty for his country launching drone strikes into sovereign Pakistan territory........which has killed 1500 innocent civilians, and a few purported Taliban people, ratio of 1:50. The Taliban and 'al-Qaeda' are the responsibility of the USA, nobody else. Certainly large number of innocent civilians should not be killed in the process of fighting these two CIA created and run creatures in AF/Pak. Bombing Cambodia to fight the Vietcong should not be repeated in Pakistan.

What then is the true Duty of the Pakistan military?

The Pakistan Military, with its 63 years of "strategic genius"......how long is this fake USA show going to go on for on Pakistani soil?

The drone strikes are bad; they kill innocent dirt poor fourth world people. What is far far worse however is the American GWoT narrative, which says Pakistan is terrorist hub number one; The Taliban is a global challenge as is 'al-Qaeda' in Pakistan. The drone strikes reinforce that image, which for the long term is very very dangerous for Pakistan......given what is happening around the world, and neo-colonialism.

For the largely Punjabi Pakistani generals, they make money, they get arms aid for the loss of some Pashtun civilians. In their world this might be an acceptable loss...in a nation of 180 million. Whats a few Pashtuns to them? Whats a few Baluchis to them? Whats a few East Pakistanis to them? whats a few civilians to them? Whats a few soldiers to them (Kargil 1999, 4000 Pakistanis killed---derail any chances of an Indian/Pakistan peace deal----peace with India, no need for big military in Pakistan)

But the sum total of their thinking is destroying Pakistan.

Shuja Pasha does not need to merely "Object" "argue" and "request" to the USA about drone strikes in Sovereign Pakistan territory; he needs to take real action.

1. Drone strikes cannot take place on Pakistani soil, unless the Pakistani military provide the coordinates first. Stop assisting the JEWSA killing innocent Pakistani civilians.

2. It is past incredibility that the Pakistan military, with its ISI, the 'best intelligence service in the world" do not know the where abouts of American covert operatives!!!!!! The ISI with its previous British Raj legacy and 150 years experience has a very long record of tracking warring tribals in the NWFP certainly, if not the rest of Pakistan. How difficult is to spot a gora, for fuck sakes? Pakistanis on average aren't cosmopolitan people.......they should be able smell a gora from a mile off. More dis-information from the Pakistani military geniuses. Americans wearing make-up should be easily spotted.

3. 70-80% of supplies to the Occupation forces in Afghanistan go through Pakistan. CUT IT OFF. If that's difficult, squeeze the supply to 30-40%.

4. Go to the Pakistan Media and tell the real story of the Taliban, and 'al-Qaeda". Instead of repeating the American false lies lets tell the truth that OBL is dead; "al-Qaeda" does not exist; the Taliban is a force created by the USA.......side with the Pakistan people and their interests, BEFORE a peoples revolution and not AFTER, where you have less control.(Egypt----Mubarak a former airforce general, 82, old, being prosecuted by his former colleagues in the Egyptian military, who otherwise benefited under his regime, because that is what the mob in Tahrir Square wants).....and the Americans, and the ascendancy of the Muslim Brotherhood there NOW.
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Panetta Spurns Pakistan’s Calls to End CIA Drone Strikes


Insists Strikes Part of His 'Fundamental Responsibility'

by Jason Ditz at antiwar.com


According to officials familiar with the conversation, CIA Director Leon Panetta rejected demands from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence head Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha to end drone strikes against his nation and scale back operations beyond those coordinated with the ISI itself.


The officials said the multi-hour talks ended with Panetta insisting the drone strikes were part of his “fundamental responsibility” and that they would continue. He also apparently rejected the other calls, insisting the US government would do whatever it thinks is in its interest in the region.


Despite rejecting every single demand of Pasha, CIA spokesmen insisted that the talk was “productive” and proved the two spy agencies have a “solid partnership.” It is a partnership involving considerable hostility, however.


Pakistan has been taking a renewed look at CIA operations after Raymond Davis, a consulate employee charged with murder, turned out to be a CIA operative. Officials have since said they believe hundreds of CIA agents are operating in Pakistan above and beyond the ones working directly with the nation’s government.

Apr 12, 2011

Finding Izzat and your balls in Pakistan

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The USA is in Afghanistan to make maximum profits from the Heroin trade, and then put into place local satraps who will operate and protect this trade worth between $50-80 billion annually for the Anglo-American Jewish banking fraternity in London and New York.(Vietnam war)

The American military presence also affords them the ability to weaken Pakistan directly by backing the TTP, with various destabilization programs in the long term objective of neutralizing Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. (Israeli objective since the 1970's...when at first Henry Kissinger the Jew came to Pakistan to warn Bhutto...1974/75...and then the military coup against Bhutto in 1977)

The Pakistan military, the "best military" in the world, providing slave soldiers to the Gulf, fighting their biggest and longest battles against their own people, is the most important component of American strategic policy in and around Pakistan.

Mercifully for the Americans the Punjabi generals, trained in the USA, are not too strong on strategic thinking and pure Pak patriotism. Money is an important factor for this as ALL the generals are millionaires.....and there are an awful lot of Punjabi Pakistani generals....191 in an army of 612,000....so there is a general for every 3,000 jawan. The highest general to troop ratio in the world. I guess everybody wants a piece of the scam hey?


The other factor is that most of the Punjabi Pakistani generals are low caste Hindu converts to Islam...and whilst they may have great names like Lt Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha, (straight honest headman...Turkish in origin) Lt Gen Muhammad Haroon Aslam ("Attaining peace by submitting oneself to the will of almighty god"...Arabic), Lt Gen Tariq Khan (as in Genghis Khan), Maj Gen Zawar Hussain Shah (King/emperor in Farsi), Maj Gen Shahida Badshah (King of Iran and Turkey) they haven't changed their centuries old habits.

Name changing and changing religion does not change race.....and unfortunately since the 1950's they have retained their low caste Hindu "natural" habits. Pursuing personal gain, and financial gain, and ego massaging way beyond their true capacity, hiding behind their guns and uniforms.......on a long trail of mass murder, rape and destruction in East Pakistan, Baluchistan, and now NWFP.

These Coolies never learn, but heap chaos and mayhem on Pakistan and its good people and then with a straight face blame it on Islamic fundies outfits which they run covertly, on neighbors such as India, Afghanistan and even Iran (Junallah).

These Coolies in the military kiss the gora ass, lick the gora pudi, fawn and smile at the gora like little shy girls, meeting regularly with the gora in various locations.........but against good honest poor fellow Pakistanis, their eyes turn red along with their guns. They regularly lie to the Pakistanis people.

You don't have to be strategic genius in the ISI, "The best intelligence service in the world" to know that the booming Afghan Heroin trade is harming Pakistani society.......millions.....but the ISI/Pakistan military is silent about this.

"al-Qaeda" is non-existent and is a hologram run by the CIA, through their agent Tim Osman, long since dead in 2001. But the ISI/Pakistan military maintain that "al-Qaeda" exists in Afghanistan and Pakistan and is a threat to Pakistan, which must be fought......in aid of this an assortment of unlikely Afghans mostly since 2001, numbering 700 have been handed over to the Americans to be murdered, tortured as 'al-Qaeda"........the Americans have released most of them, on condition that they work for the Americans as Islamists in the Taliban (TTP) or else where in Araby as "al-Qaeda"....Libya, Yemen, Saudi Arabia.

The Taliban was created by the CIA, through the ISI/Pakistan military of Pakistan from 1994. The Taliban is "Controlled Opposition" for the USA....which wages a very low intensive war, which gives the Americans the justification to be in Afghanistan for the last 10 years......Put simply, no Taliban, no American military presence in Afghanistan. The Pakistan military kets now this game. But year in year out the generals maintain this lie, with mullah Omer safely housed in Karachi and the Taliban Shura in Quetta.

The Americans in the process of destabilizing Pakistan have used their Western media assets to create the propaganda that Pakistan is terrorist hub number one, with "al-Qaeda" based there with the Taliban. Most amazingly the Pakistan military repeat this American created fraud and lie. Even as they know the truth. For them this American lie is an opportunity to make more money and line their pockets.......with more "military aid".........fuck Pakistani national strategic interests, and the very serious danger of building a reputation as terrorist hub number one which eventually requires NATO/American invasion and sorting out with ground troops creeping ever closer to Pakistan, along with attacks on Pakistani border posts.

The so called GWOT fraud is hurting Pakistan economically and therefore socially. The American aid, which arrives sometimes, and sometimes not is not enough or equal to the economic and social loss Pakistan incurs by actively participating in the American security game. The American aid helps some politicians in the ruling PPP, bureaucrats and security people, who then transfer their wealth to Swiss bank accounts, BUT Pakistan as a nation state, and the general people do not benefit. The economic and social cost to Pakistan of participating in GWoT is far greater then any American aid given to Pakistan. (high % military).........the country is gradually sliding down the abyss......The Pakistan military know this too well.

Around the corner, in the near future Pakistan will face severe water shortage created naturally. This problem can be resolved by effective governance, serious investment, and honest negotiations with India bilaterally. The population will reach 280 million by 2030........in a nation with high ratio's of malnutrition......The Pakistan military know that they can't sustain their present American directed security posture, AND at the same time seriously deal with these significant national challenges, just stated.

There is no hope from the Coolies in the Pakistani military......they look the same as before. They can't change even to save themselves and their beleaguered country.

The winds of change must be gently blowing from North Africa and the Gulf surely, and ordinary Pakistanis must gird their loins and roll up their sleeves for the coming revolt for their country and its future.

In changing the destiny of their country the Pakistani people must eliminate the Coolies in the Pakistan military......the primary tool of American mischief in Pakistan since 1951, nothing less will do.

The below article is CIA propaganda to give the impression that the PPP under $3 billion looter kuta Zardari, and the Pakistan military finally really do "CARE" about Pakistanis (We ought to believe them from now bhaisahab). After so many years of this game, EVEN as they help the American with their drone attacks against innocent Pakistani civilians (1,500 innocent Pak civilians have died at the hands of the Americans and their bogus wars).....without Pakistani military help there can be no
drone attacks.

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Pakistan Demands Halt to US Drone Attacks, Cuts in CIA Ops

Officials Ask 335 Operatives to Leave Pakistan

by Jason Ditz at antiwar.com

In what officials are describing as further fallout from the Raymond Davis fiasco, the Pakistani government has asked the United States to remove some 335 operatives from the nation. They are also demanding that the US put its drone strike program “on hold.”

Pakistan’s government has faced increasing domestic unrest over the massive presence of CIA operatives and US special forces in the nation. This was compounded when Davis, who was ostensibly working for the US consulate in Lahore, murdered two Pakistanis on the streets, then demanded diplomatic immunity. He was released after the payment of “blood money” to the families of the victims.

The already controversial drone strikes came to a head in March as well, after a drone strike targeted a tribal jirga, killing a large number of civilians and tribal fighters loyal to the Pakistani government. The US insisted the attack was appropriate.

(Hints a total disconnect between Pakistan and the USA)

The demand to halt the drone strikes appears more serious than previous “formal requests,” which came as Pakistani officials were quietly endorsing the program. The current demands seem to originate within Pakistan’s ISI, which is likely in more of a position to require that such attacks stop.

Apr 10, 2011

Corruption is not the crux of the STATE problem

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The bizarre drama of the intriguingly named Anna Hazare saga reached its climax on Saturday 9th when the government of India, in Delhi seemed to have caved into the demands of the lone Crusader against corruption. Maybe they will make a Goondawood movie about this event, staring .........Dev Anand as Hazare, in his native RSS/Siv Sena Maharashtra........singing and dancing of course with Modi of Gujarat who he has endorsed; Poor lad, educates himself for a few years, joins army, finds Nirvana at war in 1965, and public service finally......overcoming the sheer bloated corrupted government of the Congress Party, through his lone efforts.

That's the Fairy Tale, but what really happened?

Congress is rudderless, with a geriatric leadership under ManMohan Singh, and now into its second term is on the defensive...OBVIOUSLY.

The Ardash scam, the 2G scam, the Commonwealth Games scam's, Military Golf Course scam's, and the sudden discovery that there are between $500--1,500 billion looted from impoverished India by the corrupted elite lying idle in Swiss Bank accounts alone
.....has correctly generated public anger. (70 tax havens around the world, excluding the UK and USA....otherwise 2 favorite destinations of South Asia's assets by the corrupted governing post-colonial elite from Bangladesh to Pakistan)

PM Singh is a weak front for Sonia, the real back seat driver who herself is wholly uneducated, not holding a single under grad degree, but is the unofficial leader of the country simply because she is the wife of former PM Rajiv Gandhi, and through marriage she belongs to that famous dynasty.
Clearly Congress is insecure...as it should be.

India has 69 Billionaires.

The Congress Party has been in charge of the show for most of the 63.5 years of "Independence" run by the Macaulay Brown sahibs, so obviously they must take the greatest direct flak for the nations many woes. However what is sad is that in a Great Nation such as India, the government of such a great nation has to bow to the wishes of one man, and the blackmail tactics of a lone hunger striker.

That is not the way to run Great nations, and governments.

There are many levels of financial corruption:

(i) Corruption between individual citizens.

(ii) Petty corruption between government officials and civilians.

(iii) Big corruption cases involving powerful public figures in government and the private sector.

With the first and second, in developed countries, there is quite a lot of transparency which allows Joe public to seek redress if corruption is involved, usually through civil or criminal action. The neutral (a) state institutions, (b) effective governance, and (c) the rule of law is quite sufficient to prevent high levels of corruption in the first two cases, in Developed countries. Though there are variations between say Norway, New Zealand on the one exemplary end and Greece, Italy and Portugal at the other.

However in the instance of the third kind of financial corruption, the level of corruption is as great if not greater in Developed Countries as it is in any Third World country. But because the system of the nation state works, and the scamsters are more sophisticated, infiltrating governments and controlling them (USA/UK)......big corruption cases in First World countries, save a few (Enron/Bernie Madoff) don't really surface as they do in India.

Consider that London is the headquarters of the global narcotics trade and money laundering ($600 billion annually) with New York, since the days of the East India company over 200 years ago.

The Pentagon does not know what has happened to $3 trillion of its expenditure from 1990--2001. There is no audit, and "al-Qaeda" helpfully cruise missiled the single office of the Pentagon which was investigating the trail of this money in 9/11 2001.

Barak Obama, elected by Wall Street money has given corrupt, mismanaged Wall Street Banks trillions of $ to "Bail them out" of their own corrupt, deceptive, criminal practices.

The USA installs puppets in Third World Nations; pressurizes them to put ALL their nations money in American banks, and then topples them (Shah of Iran, where the USA is holding between $40-50 billion of the Shah's Iran assets, with interest)

Despite the above, the USA is still a successful country, with tremendous prosperity, and an economy of $15 trillion. The UK is still a successful country, with tremendous prosperity, and an economy of $2 trillion. What makes these two countries First World, and prosperous is the total absence of the first two kinds of corruption. Which also allows Indian expats to succeed into millionaires through sheer hard work, and business acumen in the USA and UK. The OVERALL system of the state works.

I do not condone the third category of big corruption, I abhor it. We must also remember that Germany and Japan are doing quite well, with huge economies, without the clear indication of running the third type of big league corruption cases, through the government and big business.

However major league corruption is not the crux of the problem for a Developing nation.

The main challenges are:

Governance

Transparent, effective state institutions.

Good strategic policies which are useful for the state in all spheres.

Effective leadership which articulates state policies to the state structure and the masses

China is success
ful not because the Communist Party is completely incorruptible, and there are no cases of major corruption in the country....quite the contrary. However the Communist Party in China is strong, is meritocratic and not based on dynasty politics....governance is effective...with effective top down state institutions...and finally good strategic policies for the state, which bears obvious fruit.

India by contrast is a mafia state, where the government is weak, epitomized by PM Singh, and the organized criminal elements strong (oil mafia, movie mafia, wheat mafia). Government operates on a minimalist basis, despite all the hue and cry, with the budget accounting for about barely 20% of the official GDP.....and far less of the real GDP ($4 trillion).

Indian Government institutions are corrupt, colonial era and ineffective---they don't do their jobs that well, thus obviously governance is very weak. Finally most government policies are inappropriate for the strategic development of the country, but instead is a mixer of bandage wrapping and hole plugging adhoc policies depending on the publicity that is generated by the "popular" Westernized media (TOI, Hindustan Times, Anglicized TV channels).....Indian governments are shallow, and inactive.

However trying to hold hunger strikes against such deep institutional problems is not going to be easy, trying to galvanize the public at the same time.

How do you hunger strike against a corrupt MOD, which thirsts for foreign arms purchases, which affords huge kickbacks for the netas and babus involved, but compromises India's strategic defense policies?

How do you you hunger strike against a corrupt worthless MEA, which does not know how to purs
ue India's external interests even in its back yard?

How do you detect ALL the spies working within the state structure for foreign governments for money? (Mitr
okin papers reveal to us that most of Indira's cabinet worked for the KGB, whilst a few worked for the CIA).....who works for India and its poor people?

Hunger strikes against corruption is noble, and gauges audiences in India. The poor man with no money has some satisfaction against the man with too much money. But the focus and meditation in Civil society action must ultimately focus on how to improve GOVERNANCE, EFFECTIVE STATE INSTITUTIONS, GOOD STRATEGIC POLICIES OF THE STATE, and finally GOOD LEADERSHIP WORKING WITHIN EFFECTIVE PARTIES, which are not paid for and run by International bankers and their agenda's in the West.

But have I not stated quite clearly in previous blogs that corruption is the number one enemy of Developing countries? Yes it indeed is, but the question is how do you go about tackling it which makes the overall system of the state more effective?

I just don't think having a ten man committee (including 5 heavy government political insiders with a lot of experience dodging the ball).....with no lawyers with experience with complex corruption cases, or no clean honest untainted senior police officers again with experience with financial corruption will have the clear capacity to tackle the huge area of "CORRUPTION IN INDIA"......but instead will react to media stories, and exposes by journalists, piecemeal.

I'm not sure you can get rid of corruption in such a huge impoverished state.

In that scenario, it will be more effective if the informed and concerned section of Indian society focus on making India work more effectively as a state and society of 1.2 billion by improving governance bit by bit, state institutions through reform....bringing them into the 21st century through investment, reform, training (police)...developing better national strategic policies.......these things are doable, step by step, through strong leadership.

.....HOWEVER erasing the 3 categories of corruption mentioned above is near impossible in impoverished India. Certainly a peoples Lokpal will be a political football with too little resources, time, and energy to deal with the huge area of "corruption in India".....even though it may check hopefully the open season corruption in Indian politics. (Commonwealth Games scam, on going defense contract scam's since the 1960's from the day's of Indira Gandhi, indeed all government contracts scrutinized)....and corruption in the States.

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ANNA HAZARE
By V Raghunathan in the TOI blog

In my last post, I argued why we cannot accept corruption as tolerable in some fields but not tolerable in others. I also argued that tolerating corruption in any segment of a society ultimately leads to its encroaching every nook and cranny of the society, and the situation culminates in corruption and un-patriotism merging into one another.

Since I posted that blog, I came across this interesting little news heading tucked away in the interior pages of a news paper: Defence contract: Dassault executive accused of bribery. The news item went on to explain that the ‘Indian Air Force has put on hold its dealings with the country manager of French defence firm Dassault Aviation for his role in the bribery scandal during the Aero India show in Bangalore’.

Exactly what was the role this manager played in the bribery scandal? It turns out that a Wing Commander of Indian Air Force, in charge of allotting parking spots for the aircrafts going on show demanded Rs 20,000 for allotting a preferred spot. An official premium for a preferred slot would have been understandable; but a personal consideration? Apparently this gentleman paid the sum, but took his complaint to the higher ups in Air Force, where upon the gentleman was accused of being involved in bribery and black listed, while the officer concerned wasn’t; or if he was, the news paper did not say so! Insiders tell us stories of how even preferred timings of demonstration flights have their ‘rates’!

Now is this your plain vanilla corruption of the usual business man variety or it something else? Air shows are meant for civilian and military aircrafts manufacturers alike to show case their wares. A wrong choice of the aircraft because it was not given a due slot could compromise the lives of passengers if the aircraft is civilian, and compromise national security if the aircraft in question was a military one. See what I mean about corruption and un-patriotism being inter-linked?

From all reckoning it does appear that the cup of corruption has indeed been overflowing in this country for some time now. A great majority of the so-called political leaders, the pilots, the air force brass, the army brass, the naval brass, the babus, the cops, the businessmen, the industrialists, the university professors on accreditation duties, the railway ticket collectors, the peons outside government offices, the lawyers, the judges, the journos, the doctors, the traders, the engineers, the contractors – apparently none of these groups can claim to be relatively more clean than the other. It is as if most of them fancy themselves a BSF Jawan on ceremonial retreat at Wagah border bent on outdoing the other. It is time when not just the politicians, but all of us as citizens need to look deep into ourselves as to whether or not we are corrupt.

After all the everyday graft seekers aren’t necessarily politicians, though the chain of corruption does go all the way up in most cases.(Sonia and family)

That is why the gentle Anna Hazare undertaking fast-unto-death assumes significance. People like Anna Hazare are evolved souls not given to jumping the gun like many of us are wont to. It takes a lot of doing for their patience to be tested. It is hardly surprising that Anna Hazare regards the corrupt politicians entrusted with the task of drafting the anti-corruption law as akin to a bunch of thieves appointed to design our home security system, when the thieves are still loose! It may not be feasible for every citizen to make a beeline to Delhi. (Tahrir Square in New Delhi---with 10 million..why not?)

But all patriotic and right thinking citizens of the country must provide every conceivable support to Anna Hazare, as thousands upon thousands are already beginning to do; but we are a country of a billion plus – so there is room for more support. Perhaps after Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan’s call for sampoorna kranti, culminating in Delhi’s Ramlila Grounds with evocative chants of Singhasan Khaali Karo Ke Janata Aaati Hai renting the air by a crowd of some 100,000 strong in 1975, Anna’s fast may be the next most significant mass movement in modern India yet.

Apr 8, 2011

Third World Crypto-Jew to a First World Crypto-Jew

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Touching bit of pathos and melodrama from Gaddafi, as he pleads with Obama (Both African, both crypto-Jews on their mothers side, both brought to power by the CIA, both ardent Jewish Socialists)...........but the snake pit of American Jewish geo-strategy, and the pursuit of other peoples money ($32 billion of Gaddafi's assets grabbed by the USA barely before the "revolution" against Gaddafi began)......means that the American crypto-Jews must disown one of their own puppets, for the sake of installing "al-Qaeda"in Libya......aka...Taliban Afghanistan in North Africa, which will be blamed for more false flag ops in the USA later presumably.

American puppets and dogs beware!

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Gaddafi writes to 'dear son' Obama

By NYT

TRIPOLI: Colonel Muammar Gaddafi of Libya sent another strikingly personal letter to US president Obama, urging him to stop Nato's air strikes but drawing a swift rejection in response.

"You will always remain our son whatever happened,"

Obama, who since his inauguration has received three letters full of fatherly affection from the Libyan leader, did not respond. In Gaddafi's letter, addressed to "Mr Our dear son, Excellency, Baraka Hussein Abu Oumama," the Libyan leader reiterated his characterization of the rebels as "al Qaida gangs." He recalled Obama's repeated statements "that America is not responsible for the security of other peoples."

"That America helps only. This is the right logic," Gaddafi wrote, adding, "As you know too well democracy and building of civil society cannot be achieved by means of missiles and aircraft (Iraq, Afghanistan....both failed states), or by backing armed members of al-Qaida in Benghazi."

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton(crypto-Jewess) rebuffed the appeal from Gaddafi and demanded he withdraw his forces and go into exile. "Gaddafi knows what he must do," she said."There needs to be a ceasefire , his forces need to withdraw from cities they have forcibly taken at great violence and human cost. There needs to be a decision made about his departure from power and ... from Libya," she said.

Gaddafi wrote. "We Endeavour and hope that you will gain victory in the new election campaigne. You are a man who has enough courage to annul a wrong and mistaken action," he added, in idiosyncratic spelling and capitalization.

Apr 7, 2011

Whats $400 billion in Mexican drugs laundering money......relax and forget.

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"Hey Shlomo we're really rolling, what with drugs money from Afghanistan, and South America....and free handouts from our CIA President"

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Wachovia Paid Trivial Fine for Nearly $400 Billion in Drug Related Money Laundering – Moving 22 Tons of Cocaine

from Naked Capitalism

If this news story does not prove that banks are effectively above the law, I don’t know what does. The Guardian, in an account yet to be picked up anywhere in the US media (per Google News as of this posting, hat tip readers May S and Swedish Lex) reports that Wachovia was at the heart of one of the world’s biggest money laundering operations, moving $378.4 billion into dollar-based accounts from Mexican casas de cambio, which are currency exchange firms. While these transfers took place over a period of years, the article notes that it equals 1/3 of Mexican GDP. And the resolution?

Criminal proceedings were brought against Wachovia, though not against any individual, but the case never came to court. In March 2010, Wachovia settled the biggest action brought under the US bank secrecy act, through the US district court in Miami. Now that the year’s “deferred prosecution” has expired, the bank is in effect in the clear. It paid federal authorities $110m in forfeiture, for allowing transactions later proved to be connected to drug smuggling, and incurred a $50m fine for failing to monitor cash used to ship 22 tons of cocaine.

Most Western intelligence Services operate within the Jewish power structure.

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And not for the taxpayers of their country.

That is why they are involved heavily in narcotics wars (Vietnam 1965-1975, Afghanistan 1979--2011, Balkans 1995--1999), and smuggling narcotics into THEIR own countries.(This business benefits the Jewish bankers of London and NY, where narcotics money laundering plays an important part of the financial sustenance of the Jewish banks).....but obviously very bad for everybody else, including for the people in the USA, and Europe.

Massive Counterfeiting of currency.....al a Federal Reserve.

Third World regime changes and control...especially in the Greater Middle East most visibly for their Jewish masters.(Libya has little geo-strategic relevance for traditional American perspective given that it is already run by an American installed puppet {Gaddafi----his desperate letter to Obama recently}, but Libya does matter from the warped Jewish perspective)

Their linkages and fealty to the Rothschilds of London, the unofficial "sovereigns" of ALL Jews, and obviously their relationship with powerful Jews in the Western world.

Their relationships with Mafia groups. CIA/American Jewish Mafia.

Pedophile rings and child slavery, and slavery in general.

How they manipulate elections in countries, and which politicians and public figures they control. Obama, and Hilary Clinton are CIA prodigies groomed from a very early age, with crypto-Jewish backgrounds.

How they manipulate and speculate in sporting fields, especially soccer.

Details of their money laundering operations and general criminal activity
(Misc)

False intelligence/propaganda, and initiating wars based on false intelligence.

False flag operations in their own countries.

Kidnapping, illegal detention and torture of innocent civilians.

With the help of the Western Jewish controlled media, the intelligence Services and their activities and utterances are fawned over (James Bond, "Spooks" Alias.............), without question or reason, whilst their massive crimes are over looked.

Most intelligence recruits in Western countries have to perform elaborate ceremonies to show their loyalty to Israel......After they have finished training in their respective countries...USA/UK....they are taken to Israel and Jerusalem, where in a midnight ceremony, wearing Jewish clothes, they must drop their pants, hold their penis with the left hand, and with the right touch the Wailing Wall........where upon in perfect Hebrew they sing the Israeli national anthem.

The article below gives us a very small glimpse of this massive Jewish Mafia organizations with their double dealings and triple dealings across the globe.......doing every thing else, but pure intelligence work for their countries.

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PHILBY : WHO WAS HE WORKING FOR? By aangirfan.


Kim Philby


Kim Philby trained James Jesus Angleton. (The Cambridge Spy Ring - The Education Forum)

Kim Philby was a spy, but for whom was he really working?

Harold "Kim" Philby (1912 – 1988) was born in India.

His father, Harry St. John Philby, was a British spy.

St John Philby, left, and family

In 1921, Harry St. John Philby 1921, became UK head of the Secret Service in the British Mandate of Palestine.

He was in favour of Jewish immigration into Palestine. He got to know the Rothschilds. (St John Philby - Wikipedia)

In the 1930s, Harry St John Philby worked for Standard Oil of California (Socal), helping it get control of oil in Saudi Arabia.

Harry St John Philby, aided by Allen Dulles, helped Saudi Arabia negotiate a deal to allow Saudi oil to reach Hitler's Germany. (St John Philby - Wikipedia )



Victor Rothschild joined MI5 during the Second World War. After the liberation of France, Rothschild worked with
Dick White, Kim Philby and Malcolm Muggeridge at the MI6 offices established at the Rothschild family mansion in Paris. Edward Heath, in 1970, appointed him head of the government's Central Policy Review Staff. Later Margaret Thatcher appointed Rothschild as her unofficial security adviser.

While a student at Cambridge University, Kim Philby began his long friendship with Victor Rothschild.

Lord Victor Rothschild became an important memeber of the British security services, and reportedly gave away many secrets to Russia and Israel.

At Cambridge, Kim Philby also got to know Maurice Dobb 'a Communist sympathizer'. Dobb put Kim Philby in contact with the Communist underground in Vienna, Austria.

In Vienna, Kim Philby fell in love with Litzi Friedmann (née Alice Kohlmann), a Communist of Hungarian Jewish origins.

Kim Philby and Litzi Friedmann married 1934. Reportedly, Litzi recruited Kim Philby as a Soviet spy.

Kim Philby became a journalist and a member the Anglo-German Fellowship, which supported the Nazi Party in Germany.

In 1936, Litzi and Kim Philby split up. They divorced in 1946.

In 1937, Kim Philby traveled to Spain, reporting on the civil war for The Times, and apparently working for Soviet intelligence.

Kim Philby 'trumpeted' the victories of the fascists and was awarded the Red Cross of Military Merit by Franco in 1938.

John Philby (son of Kim), Kim Philby, George Blake, in Moscow. In 1948, when John Philby was five, Guy Burgess came to stay for a holiday at the Philbys sprawling villa in Turkey. "John's mother resented Burgess and his close relationship with her husband, and began staging accidents to claim attention; she once reported being mugged in her car, and on another occasion set fire to the living room, suffering serious burns. She was later sent to a Swiss clinic for treatment. Philby was posted to the United States the following year." Website for this image

While in Spain, Philby had an affair with Frances Doble, Lady Lindsay-Hogg, an actress and aristocratic divorcée who was an admirer of Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler.

In 1940, Philby began living with Aileen Furse in London. Their first three children were Josephine, John, and Dudley Thomas.

In 1940, Walter Krivitsky, a Soviet spy who had defected to the West, was interviewed by MI5 officers in London.

Krivitsky claimed that a certain Soviet intelligence agent had worked as a journalist for a British newspaper during the civil war in Spain.

In 1940, Philby was working for MI6.

In 1944, Philby became head of MI6's Section Nine, which kept an eye on Communist activities.

Reportedly, James Jesus Angleton had his suspicions about Philby's loyalties.

In August 1945, Konstantin Volkov, a high-ranking Soviet spy in Istanbul, wanted to defect to Britain.

Volkov claimed to know the names of three Soviet agents inside Britain. Philby warned the Soviets about Volkov, who was sent back to Moscow.

In February 1947, Philby was appointed head of British intelligence for Turkey, and posted to Istanbul with his second wife, Aileen, and their family.

In 1949, Philby became chief of British intelligence in Washington.

He was responsible for liaising with the newly-formed CIA.

From September 1949, the British and American intelligence services had been developing a plan to topple the communist regime in Albania.

Albanian émigré guerrillas were trained by British and American forces, and from 1950 to 1952, these guerrilla forces were parachuted into Albania.

Thanks to Philby, the Albanian regime was able to capture and kill the guerrillas.

Guy Burgess

In October 1950, Guy Burgess, Philby's 'flamboyantly homosexual' Cambridge colleague and fellow Soviet spy came to work at the British Embassy in Washington.

Burgess took up residence in the Philby family home.

J. Edgar Hoover complained that Burgess used British Embassy cars to avoid arrest when he cruised Washington in pursuit of homosexual sex.

The morning after a certain party at Philby's house, a guest found "Kim and Guy in bed together drinking champagne."

In May 1951, Burgess, and his fellow Soviet spy Donald Maclean, fled to Moscow.

Philby returned to London to be quizzed by MI5.

In July 1951, Philby 'resigned' from MI6

In October 1955, Philby was officially cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, who told the House of Commons, "I have no reason to conclude that Mr. Philby has at any time betrayed the interests of his country."

In August 1956, Philby was sent to Beirut as a Middle East correspondent for The Observer and The Economist.

He was still working for MI6.

Philby began an affair with Eleanor, wife of New York Times correspondent Sam Pope Brewer.

Aileen Philby died in England in 1957.

Philby married Eleanor in 1959.

In 1961, the KGB's Anatoliy Golitsyn defected to the United States from his post in Helsinki.

Golitsyn produced evidence pointing to Philby being a Soviet agent.

In 1962, Nicholas Elliott, an MI6 officer, interviewed Philby in Beirut.

Philby confessed that he worked for the Soviets.

On 23 January 1963, Philby vanished from Beirut and eventually turned up in Moscow.

Reportedly, the KGB did not trust Philby.

Philby began an affair with Donald Maclean's wife, Melinda.

Philby divorced Eleanor.

In 1971, Philby married Rufina Ivanova Pukhova, a Russo-Polish woman twenty years his junior, with whom he lived until his death in 1988.

According to Rufina, in the late 1960s Philby attempted suicide by slashing his wrists.

And what of Philby's 'friend' Angleton?

Angleton, who was of the pro-Israel faction in the CIA. He was head of Counter Intelligence at the CIA from 1954 - 1975.

There is a theory that the key people in the CIA have always worked on friendly terms with the key people in the KGB and the key people in Mossad. (DO JEWS RUN THE SECURITY SERVICES?)

And Jewish folks are very influential in certain countries.

According to Haaretz, "Every appointee to the American government must endure a thorough background check by the American Jewish community."
(American Jews eye Obama's 'anti-Israel' appointees - Haaretz ...
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James Jesus Angleton worked for the CIA.

He may also have worked for Mossad.

He may, or may not, have realised that Mossad worked with the KGB.

USS Liberty

A Spotlight report, of 21 November 1977, claimed that Angleton conspired with Israel to attack the USS Liberty. (USS Liberty)

Reportedly, Angleton believed the sinking of the Liberty could be used as a "Pearl Harbour" type of incident to turn Americans against the Arabs.

(aangirfan: The US government tried to sink the USS Liberty)

It was Angleton who negotiated an agreement whereby Israel and America agreed not spy on each other. (Book Reviews: Every Spy a Prince)

(The agreement was nullified by Admiral Stansfield Turner, when he was Jimmy Carter's CIA director. But, Mossad contined to work closely with the CIA.)


Terence Hawkes wrote that Angleton's friendship with Mossad "gave him a major role in preserving Israel's secrecy in respect of Suez.

"As the officer in charge of the Israeli 'account', he supported the Israeli atomic bomb programme." (James Jesus Angleton by Michael Holzman reviewed by Terence Hawkes TLS)

After Angleton died, a memorial to him was erected in Jerusalem.

James Jesus Angleton's father, according to a close friend, Max Corvo, was "ultra-conservative" and a fascist sympathizer. (James Angleton)

It was during World War II that James Jesus Angleton became a spy.

Reportedly Angleton helped set up Operation Gladio, which involved CIA militias carrying out acts of muderous terrorism in Italy.

"Angleton built on family and business connections in Italy to lay the basis of Gladio...

"He also helped notorious Nazi/fascist mass-murderers such as Junio Valerio 'Black Prince' Borghese elude justice at war's end." (Cached)

Philby, friend of the KGB and MOSSAD.

In 1943 Angleton was sent to London to be trained by MI5 officer Kim Philby, who turned out to be a friend of the KGB and Mossad. (James Angleton)

In 1951 Angleton was sent to Israel where he helped to set up Mossad.

According to the controversial Eustace Mullins (CHAPTER FIVE - The CIA - 3): "While CIA station chief in Rome, the CIA's Angleton "worked closely with the Zionist terrorists Teddy Kollek and Jacob Meridor, and later became chief of the Israeli desk at the CIA, helping Philby to set up the lavishly funded international Mossad espionage operation, all paid for by American taxpayers."

In 1951, the CIA was investigating Kim Philby, the top MI6 agent working in Washington.

The CIA director, Walter Bedell Smith, asked Angleton and William Harvey to write separate reports on Philby. (James Angleton)

Harvey concluded that Philby was a Soviet spy.

Angleton defended Philby.

Smith took the advice of Angleton.

Philby escaped to the Soviet Union in 1963.

Reportedly, Kim Philby was assisted in escaping to the Soviet Union by the Israeli Mossad (Sunday Telegraph, April 16, 1989) Cached.

(Lord Victor Rothschild was allegedly one of the other top Soviet spies in the UK ; Soviet spy Guy Burgess was close to Rothschild.)

In 1954 CIA boss Allen Dulles appointed Angleton as chief of the CIA's counter-intelligence section.


Angleton provided information to the Warren Commission.

Some people have claimed that Angleton was involved in covering up the CIA's involvement in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.


Golitsin

Angleton interviewed Anatoli Golitsin, a KGB agent who defected to the CIA.

Golitsin suggested that W. Averell Harriman had been a Soviet spy, while he was the U.S. Ambassador to the Russia during the Second World War. (James Angleton)

According to Eric Margolis, Angleton "became an active 'asset' or at least very close ally of Israel’s Mossad, and a champion of Israel’s cause in Washington." (FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, by Eric Margolis)

Clare Edward Petty, of the CIA's Special Investigation Group (SIG), concluded that there was an "80-85 percent probability" that Angleton was a Soviet spy. (James Angleton)

Kissinger

In 1973, James Schlesinger temporarily became Director of the CIA.

Angleton gave Schlesinger a list of people that he thought were Soviet agents.

This list included Harold Wilson, the British prime minister, Olof Palme, the Swedish prime minister, Willy Brandt, chairman of the West German Social Democratic Party, Averell Harriman, the former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, Lester Pearson, the Canadian prime minister and Henry Kissinger, the National Security Adviser and Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon.

Schlesinger thought Angleton was suffering from paranoia.

In mid 1973, William Colby became the Director of the CIA.

Colby was not impressed with Angleton.

Colby said he could not find any evidence "that we ever caught a spy under Jim". (James Angleton)

So, are the key spooks often in league with each other?

The newspaper Scotland on Sunday reported, on 16/9/ 2001, that Osama bin Laden made his fortune in part by working with Jewish-Russian mafia operations in Qatar and Cyprus. (Mafias)

According to Wayne Madsen, "The Bin Laden drug network ... intersects with Geneva-based financial entities established by George H. W. Bush while he was CIA director and Vice President and President of the United States." - (aangirfan: Bush, Bin Laden, Drugs.... )

Reportedly, "Angleton had an alliance with ... the Mafia, dating from 1944 when he was an O.S.S. officer in Italy.

"'Operation Gladio' ... was based on Angleton's fascist-Mafia connections, and employed ... the Mafia to assassinate some who couldn't be bribed, e.g. Prime Minster Aldo Moro." (Cached)

Apr 5, 2011

"al-CIAduh" in Libya.

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Mounting evidence of CIA ties to Libyan rebels
By Patrick Martin of World Socialist Website in Information Clearing House.

Numerous press reports over the weekend add to the evidence that the Libyan rebels fighting the regime of Muammar Gaddafi are under the direction of American intelligence agencies. Despite the repeated claims by Obama administration officials that the rebels are a largely unknown quantity, it is becoming increasingly clear that key military leaders of the anti-Gaddafi campaign are well known to the US government and have longstanding relations with the CIA.

For better than two weeks there had been a virtual ban in the US media on reporting the name of Khalifa Haftar, the long-time CIA collaborator who was appointed chief rebel commander March 17, on the eve of the US-NATO bombing campaign against Libya. Only the regional McClatchy Newspapers chain reported Haftar’s appointment, and ABC News ran a brief interview with him on March 27. Otherwise, silence prevailed.

This de facto censorship abruptly ended April 1, when a right-wing US think tank, the Jamestown Foundation, published a lengthy study of Haftar’s background and record, which was cited extensively by Reuters news service, and then more widely in the US and British media.

The Jamestown Foundation report declared: “Today as Colonel Haftar finally returns to the battlefields of North Africa with the objective of toppling Gaddafi, his former co-conspirator from Libya’s 1969 coup, he may stand as the best liaison for the United States and allied NATO forces in dealing with Libya’s unruly rebels.”


The Jamestown study noted Haftar’s role in organizing the Libyan National Army (LNA), which he founded “on June 21, 1988 with strong backing from the Central Intelligence Agency,” and cites a 1991 interview with him “conducted in an LNA camp in rural Virginia.” Not only did the CIA sponsor and fund the LNA, it engineered the entry of LNA officers and men into the United States where they established a training camp.

Reuters added, using a variant spelling of the name, that it has “repeatedly asked for an interview with Hefta but he could not immediately be contacted.” The news service added, “The CIA declined to comment” on its relationship to the former Libyan military leader.

Other references to Haftar’s role appeared in the
online blog of the New Yorker magazine, in Africa Confidential, on National Public Radio, the British daily Guardian, and in the Independent on Sunday, another British newspaper.

The Independent column, headlined “The Shady Men Backed by the West to Displace Gaddafi,” described the Libyan rebel commanders as follows: “The careers of several make them sound like characters out of the more sinister Graham Greene novels. They include men such as Colonel Khalifa Haftar, former commander of the Libyan army in Chad who was captured and changed sides in 1988, setting up the anti-Gaddafi Libyan National Army reportedly with CIA and Saudi backing. For the last 20 years, he has been living quietly in Virginia before returning to Benghazi to lead the fight against Gaddafi.”

Finally, the Washington Post’s Sunday edition carried several references to Haftar, including a front-page article profiling the divisions within the rebel military leadership. “Khalifa Haftar, a former army colonel who recently returned to Libya after living for many years in Falls Church, was initially hailed by the Transitional National Council as a leader who could help discipline the new army and train its largely volunteer ranks,” Post reporter Tara Bahrampour wrote.
She then quoted TNC and rebel military spokesmen giving conflicting accounts, one saying Haftar had been removed from command, the other saying he remained in control of the military. A spokesman for the TNC, asked to explain the conflict in light of its earlier announcement of Haftar’s appointment, said, “This is the position of the council today. The situation is fluid.... The political viewpoints change frequently.”

Walter Pincus, the Post’s long-time reporter on intelligence activities, himself a former CIA informer in the National Student Association, described Haftar as “a former Libyan army colonel who for years commanded the Libyan National Army (LNA), an anti-Gaddafi group.” The article said Haftar had “established the LNA, allegedly with backing from the CIA and Saudi elements.” It continued: “In 1996, he was reported to have been behind an alleged uprising in eastern Libya. By that time, he was already settled with his family in Falls Church.”

According to Pincus, “a senior intelligence official,” asked about the Libyan commander’s connection to the CIA, “said it was policy not to discuss such issues.”

The informal blackout on Haftar’s identity and CIA connections still continues on the American television networks and in the pages of the New York Times—a newspaper that openly admits its subservience to the US military/intelligence apparatus. But the significance of the weekend press reports is unmistakable: the Libyan rebel military is not the independent organ of a popular uprising against the Gaddafi dictatorship, but rather the creature of American imperialism, the most reactionary political force on the planet.

The dubious character of the Libyan rebels was further underscored in a remarkable profile published Saturday by the Wall Street Journal of three Libyans who had fought with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and were now playing major roles in the rebel military effort. Two of the three had been in US custody as alleged Al Qaeda operatives and one spent six years at Guantanamo Bay before being turned over to the Gaddafi regime in 2007. The three men are:

Abdel Hakim al-Hasady, described as “an influential Islamic preacher and high school teacher who spent five years at a training camp in eastern Afghanistan” and now “oversees the recruitment, training and deployment of about 300 rebel fighters from Darna,” a city in eastern Libya:


  • Salah al-Barrani, “a former fighter from the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, or LIFG,” who is Hasady’s field commander
  • Sufyan Ben Qumu, “a Libyan army veteran who worked for Osama bin Laden’s holding company in Sudan and later for an al Qaeda-linked charity in Afghanistan,” and who “is training many of the city’s rebel recruits.”

  • Hasady and Ben Qumu were arrested by Pakistani security after the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and turned over to the US. Hasady was transferred to Libyan custody two months later, while Ben Qumu was moved to Guantanamo and held there until 2007, when he, too, was sent to a Libyan prison. The Gaddafi regime released both men in 2008, at a time when US-Libya collaboration in the “war on terror” was at its height. Such an action would certainly have been checked with Washington.

    The former Al Qaeda warrior was quite willing to speak to the leading US business newspaper, which reported, “his discourse has become dramatically more pro-American.” He told the Journal, “If we hated the Americans 100 percent, today it is less than 50 percent. They have started to redeem themselves for their past mistakes.…”

    Whether these individuals are Al Qaeda operatives who were “turned” by their American captors or have simply changed allegiance under changed circumstances is unclear. But their role in the Libyan opposition further undermines the longstanding propaganda of the US government about the supposedly unbridgeable gulf between Al Qaeda and American imperialism.

    For a decade, the US government, under Bush and now Obama, has used the terrorist actions of Al Qaeda and its alleged supporters as a pretext for one military intervention after another in the Muslim world—Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, the Philippines, Indonesia and now Libya.

    There has long been reason to doubt the “war on terror” narrative, not least the fact that Al Qaeda was effectively created by the CIA through its activities in recruiting and mobilizing radical Islamists to go to Afghanistan in the 1980s and join the mujaheddin guerrillas fighting the Soviet army there. Many of the 9/11 suicide hijackers were known to the CIA as Al Qaeda operatives, and in some cases under active surveillance, but were nonetheless allowed to enter the country, receive training at US flight schools and carry out the terrorist attacks.

    An incident during a hearing Thursday before the House Armed Services Committee demonstrates the sensitivity of the US government concerning the links between US intelligence services and Al Qaeda. Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman questioned a witness, Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, about the role of Abdel Hakim al-Hasady. Steinberg refused to discuss the matter, suggesting it could be taken up only in a closed-door session where US covert operations are regularly reviewed.