The Hidden Face of Terrorism.

DesertRose

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@vigilante71 those numbers are off the worst oppressors did not include their numbers.;)

"The perpetrators of the incidents must be sub-national actors
The database does not include acts of state terrorism."
 

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@vigilante71 those numbers are off the worst oppressors did not include their numbers.;)

"The perpetrators of the incidents must be sub-national actors
The database does not include acts of state terrorism."
You're right, but what I wanted to say is that despite all the roars about War On Terror, the situation has gotten worse, even according to what they publicly state about terrorism and based on their own definition. That has to tell you something.
 

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" Lt. Gen. Flynn, speaking safely from retirement, is the highest ranking intelligence (ex-DIA chief) official to go on record saying the United States and other state sponsors of rebels in Syria knowingly gave political backing and shipped weapons to Al-Qaeda in order to put pressure on the Syrian regime."

Gives new meaning to the "Arab Spring".
 
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This could easily have gone in my NGOs thread because USAID is involved but I guess it makes more sense here. I suppose this should also answer that lingering question, of whether or not Trump is part of the Deep State and (or) just a puppet.

Trump Administration Gifts Syrian Terrorist-Linked Organization White Helmets $6.6 Million

"The President has authorized the United States Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of State to release approximately $6.6 million for the continuation of the vital, life-saving operations of the Syrian Civil Defense, more commonly known as the White Helmets, and the UN’s International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM)."
https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/06/283220.htm



London May Increase Support for White Helmets Operating in Syria - PM May
 

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The Cost of the War on Terror

"In the name of the fight against terrorism, the United States is currently waging “ credit-card wars” in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere. Never before has this country relied so heavily on deficit spending to pay for its conflicts. The consequences are expected to be ruinous for the long-term fiscal health of the U.S., but they go far beyond the economic. Massive levels of war-related debt will have lasting repercussions of all sorts. One potentially devastating effect, a new study finds, will be more societal inequality."
 

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“I used to call it World War IV [the war on terror], following my friend Eliot Cohen, who called it that in an op-ed right after 9/11 in the Wall Street Journal . Eliot’s point is that the Cold War was World War III. And this war [on terror] is going to have more in common with the Cold War than with either World War I or II. But people hear the phrase World War and they think of Normandy and Iwo Jima and short, intense periods of principally military combat. I think Eliot’s point is the right one, which is that this war will have a strong ideological component and will last some time. So, in order to avoid the association with World Wars I and II, I started calling it the Long War of the 21st Century.”~James Woolsey (->CIA, PNAC, Genie Energy, etc)
 

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Robert Fisk: "I Traced Al-Qaeda Missile Casings In Syria Back To Their Original Sellers"

" lest it disappear down the collective public memory hole forever, that all the way back in 2013 when as all analysts agree the Obama White House came very close to launching an Iraq-style war of regime change against Damascus… guess who was a foremost media “expert” aggressively lobbying for regime change? At that time Stephen Hadley, then a Raytheon director (since 2009) and former National Security Advisor to George W.Bush, made multiple appearances on FOX, CNN,MSNBC, and Bloomberg News during the height of the national debate over whether the US should go to war in Syria. In all of these appearances, aswell as in an influential Washington Post op-ed piece, he argued for a U.S. missile strike on Damascus as a matter of national security...In each case Hadley’s audience was not informed that he serves as a director of Raytheon, the weapons manufacturer that makes the Tomahawk cruise missiles that were widely cited as a weapon
of choice in a potential strike against Syria. Hadley earns $128,500 in annual cash compensation from the company and chairs its public affairs committee. He also owns 11,477 shares of Raytheon stock, which traded at all-time highs during the Syria debate ($77.65 on August
23, making Hadley’s share’s worth $891,189).
Despite this financial stake, Hadley was presented to his audience as an experienced, independent national security expert."
 

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Report: Saudi-UAE coalition 'cut deals' with al-Qaeda in Yemen
Military alliance battling Houthi rebels negotiated secret deals and recruited al-Qaeda fighters, AP report says.

A military coalition battling Houthi rebels secured secret deals with al-Qaeda in Yemen and recruited hundreds of the group's fighters, a news report said on Monday.
For more than two years, a Saudi-led alliance - backed by US logistical and weapons support - claimed it crushed al-Qaeda's ability to carry out attacks from Yemen.
However, an investigation by The Associated Press found the coalition has been paying some al-Qaedacommanders to leave key cities and towns while letting others retreat with weapons, equipment, and wads of looted cash.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/report-saudi-uae-coalition-cut-deals-al-qaeda-yemen-180806074659521.html
 

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The Ideological Origins of the War on Terror

".....in 1979, in his brother’s memory, Netanyahu founded the Jonathan Institute to study geopolitical issues such as terrorism.
In July 1979 the Jonathan Institute held its first conference – the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism. Around 700 people attended the week-long conference – almost entirely American, British and Israeli, with some other Western Europeans. Key speakers included Benjamin Netanyahu and George HW Bush. It is at this conference that the entire ideology of the modern war on terror was laid out. This was not widely reported at the time, and several years later Netanyahu published a book called International Terrorism: Challenge and Response, containing the main speeches and some of the question and answer sessions.
This is on google books, not in its entirety but enough to give you a good idea of what’s in the full book and it is well worth your time to read some pieces from it because there is a lot of eyebrow-raising moments. Just the list of people who attended tells you something – we have the father of the Netanyahu brothers Benzion, Simon Peres, Henry M Jackson, Richard Pipes, Lord Chalfont, Brian Crozier, Ray Cline, Midge Decter and Major General George Keegan. Basically it’s a cross section of people who were either NATO hawks or Zionists, and who work in the political, intelligence and/or journalistic and media industries....

According to Netanyahu’s book an unnamed speaker said, ‘we should establish a non-stop source of media in order to pump our ideas, our information into the world’s free press… If this Institute will consider such a center for effective psychological warfare, maybe the media would be successful in influencing leaders and legislators.’

Once again, notice the doublethink – whoever is saying this is talking about the ‘free press’ but has no respect for the freedom of the ‘free press’ because they just want to use it to ‘pump our ideas and information’ for ‘effective psychological warfare’ purposes."


"The Revolution had gone mad; it was uncontrollable. The Jacobins had to use terror to the bitter end
“tormenting the people” and suspecting everyone and everything. In other words, “overthrowing the principle of democratic legitimacy and building on its ruins the dictatorship of the Committee of Public Safety,as conceived by their terror: bloody idol, insatiable Moloch to which they sacrificed the majority, rights and opposition, beheading, drowning, riddling thousands of victims with shots.” ... The Jacobin dictatorship was the typical revolutionary dictatorship, a nervous illegal regime, which could only survive by using terror and becoming a totalitarian regime that enveloped and controlled the whole of society. It tried to gain the support it needed by mobilizing the nation against the “enemies of the people” and drugging it with massive doses of ideology." —pg 33
 
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