April 25, 2006
In order to keep the contrived "war on terror" alive, and pump up
its central figure, the dead Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as a perpetually
looming threat, "a rare video" has surfaced, posted on the internet.
"The video, released just days after Iraq named a new prime minister
and a high-profile audiotape from bin Laden appeared on Arab TV, seemed
a deliberate attempt by al-Zarqawi to claim the spotlight again
following months of taking a lower profile," reports NBC News.
"It also came just one day after a triple bombing at a resort in Egypt
that killed at least 24 people, including 21 Egyptians and three
foreigners," an attack not yet connected to "al-Qaeda," not that it
needs to be—as a matter of course, virtually all terrorism in the
Middle East is blamed on al-CIA-duh. "Egyptian authorities have not yet
said who they think was behind the attacks, but other security experts
have said that previous Sinai bombings have borne some marks of
al-Qaida or groups affiliated with it," the neocon owned and operated Jerusalem Post explains.
Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi’s unexpected appearance is rather suspiciously timed.
Earlier this month, the CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Times,
ran an article claiming the Pentagon "is conducting a propaganda
campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq,
according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the
program…. documents state that the U.S. campaign aims to turn Iraqis
against Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian, by playing on their
perceived dislike of foreigners. U.S. authorities claim some success
with that effort, noting that some tribal Iraqi insurgents have
attacked Zarqawi loyalists." Such an effort is required because most
Iraqis believe al-Zarqawi is a Pentagon contrivance, although the Post
does not allude to this fact. "For the past two years, U.S. military
leaders have been using Iraqi media and other outlets in Baghdad to
publicize Zarqawi’s role in the insurgency. The documents explicitly
list the 'U.S. Home Audience’ as one of the targets of a broader
propaganda campaign."
Now we are expected to believe
al-Zarqawi has obliged the Pentagon by appearing in a video—even
though, over the last few years, the mercurial terrorist has
assiduously avoided being photographed (except as the hooded
executioner of the supposedly hapless Nick Berg—if we are to believe
the fairy tale of al-Zarqawi’s supposed exploits). According to NBC,
al-Zarqawi decided to be videotaped in order "to display unity among
the jihadis in Iraq," as the fantasy generated by the Pentagon and the
White House stipulates that al-Zarqawi runs the resistance (only
foreign "jihadis" and Saddam "dead-enders" are involved in the effort
to force the United States out of Iraq—everybody else is ready with
rose petals, ever thankful for bombed hospitals, destroyed electrical
infrastructure, polluted water, and relatives shot up at checkpoints
manned by trigger-happy yahoos who thought they joined the military to
get an education).
NBC also points out "Zarqawi appears in
front of the Mujahedin Shura Council logo" in the video. The Mujahedin
Shura Council is portrayed as an "umbrella" group of several resistance
organizations in Iraq. "The Mujahideen Shura Council is composed of
eight insurgency groups in Iraq: al-Qaeda in Iraq, Victorious Army
Group, the Army of al-Sunnah Wal Jama’a, Jama’a al-Murabiteen, Ansar
al-Tawhid Brigades, Islamic Jihad Brigades, the Strangers Brigades, and
the Horrors Brigades, collaborating to meet the 'unbelievers gathering
with different sides’ and defend Islam.," writes the SITE Institute.
On April 4, the Telegraph
speculated "Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the most feared commander in the
Iraqi insurgency, may have been forced to surrender his leadership by
rival groups, angered by his tactics and the interference of foreign
fighters in the Iraqi conflict…. [al-Zarqawi’s] tactics have alienated
many Iraqis, even those sympathetic to the insurgency. Azzam, whose
father is known as the 'prince of the Mujaheedin’, said that he was
accused of 'creating an independent group’ in Iraq, 'making political
mistakes’ and hijacking the Iraqi insurgency for his own cause."
Indeed, the dead al-Zarqawi’s "independent group" hijacked the
resistance— not for al-Zarqawi’s "cause," mind you, but rather the
Pentagon sponsored "cause" of portraying the entirely legitimate Iraqi
resistance as blood-thirsty thugs and promoting and effectuating "civil
war" engineered to result in the balkanization of Iraq. It appears the
Pentagon is attempting to hitch al-Zarqawi’s wagon up to the Mujahedin
Shura Council, even though he (or the black op in his name) was
rejected as a sadistic self-seeker by the Council, or so we are told.
"It
was not possible to confirm authenticity, but it was posted on a Web
site that al-Zarqawi’s group and others have used to post Internet
messages," NBC continues, adding more dimension to the absurd
al-Zarqawi fable. "Al-Zarqawi previously has made statements only
through audiotapes posted on the Web, although photos of him obtained
by the U.S. government have been widely circulated," never mind that
these photos—numbering less than a dozen—are four or more years old and
since they were taken virtually no reliable sources have witnessed the
one-leg wonder who has escaped apprehension on several occasions.
In
essence, the "release" of this purported video (no doubt straight from
a Pentagon video editing deck) is a transparent effort to rekindle the
al-Zarqawi myth and connect it to the Iraqi resistance at large. Now,
with fresh imagery in mind, millions of gullible Americans will declare
al-Zarqawi and his boss, the long deceased Osama bin Laden, alive,
well, and on the loose—as Orwell’s Emmanuel Goldstein of the
"Brotherhood" was on the run—thus necessitating a "long war" at the
behest of the Straussian neocons, their heirs, and the heirs of their
heirs, ad infinitum.
Of course, it will be impossible to
"confirm" the "authenticity" of the al-Zarqawi video—that is to say not
without a video graphics sequence supervisor, a few animators and
technical directors on the Pentagon payroll coming forward and spilling
the beans.
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