"More than 3,500 insurgents have been 'taken off the streets of Baghdad’ by the elite British force in a series of audacious 'Black Ops’ over the past two years," reports Sean Rayment for the London Telegraph. "It is understood that while the majority of the terrorists were captured, several hundred, who were mainly members of the organization known as 'al-Qa’eda in Iraq’ have been killed by the SAS."

Recall the Washington Post, the CIA’s favorite newspaper, admitting that the putative leader of "al-Qaeda in Iraq," the criminal retard Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was little more than a Pentagon PSYOP.

The assassination program in Iraq is a collaborative effort between the British SAS and the American Delta Force. It is called "Task Force Black." General Petraeus was so impressed with the assassination effort he remarked: "They have exceptional initiative, exceptional skill, exceptional courage and, I think, exceptional savvy. I can’t say enough about how impressive they are in thinking on their feet."

Let’s rewind. Recall the Washington Post, the CIA’s favorite newspaper, admitting that the putative leader of "al-Qaeda in Iraq," the criminal retard Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was little more than a Pentagon PSYOP.

"The U.S. military 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. The effort has raised his profile in a way that some military intelligence officials believe may have overstated his importance and helped the Bush administration tie the war to the organization responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks," wrote Thomas E. Ricks in a front page story for the newspaper on April 10, 2006. "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."

As Michel Chossudovsky notes, much of this fairy tale propaganda is delivered to the corporate media by "top feeders" at the Pentagon. "Disinformation and war propaganda are an integral part of military planning. What the Washington Post fails to mention, however, is its own role in sustaining the Zarqawi legend, along with network TV, most of the printed press, and of course CNN and Fox News, not to mention a significant portion of the alternative media," writes Chossudovsky. As we know, the Washington Post was long ago compromised by the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird, so this role is now reflexive.

US military-intelligence has created it own terrorist organizations. In turn, it has developed a cohesive multibillion dollar counterterrorism program "to go after" these terrorist organizations. To reach its foreign policy objectives, the images of terrorism in the Iraqi war theater must remain vivid in the minds of the citizens, who are constantly reminded of the terrorist threat. The Iraqi resistance movement is described as terrorists led by Zarqawi.

In other words, "al-Qaeda in Iraq" is a fabrication designed to discredit the Iraqi resistance.

	Two SAS operatives captured in Iraq after attempting to stage a false flag terrorist attack.

Sean Rayment and the London Telegraph would have us believe the British SAS is only killing "al-Qaeda in Iraq" members. In fact, it appears they are targeting the leadership of the Iraqi resistance while capturing and imprisoning street level "terrorists," that is to say fighters resisting occupation.

The SAS is a natural for this sort of work. It was formed during WW11 by David Stirling with the intention to operate behind enemy lines and to perform acts of sabotage and assassination. The SAS also worked against indigenous groups under the rubric of "counter insurgency" in Malaya, Oman, Borneo, and elsewhere.

"By 1969, the SAS had been sent to Northern Ireland to perform covert operations against the IRA — which included assassination," writes David Guyatt. "Perhaps the best known incident that involved the SAS in a 'wet operation’ was the assassination of an IRA unit in Gibraltar."

In fact, British intelligence created much of the terrorism attributed to the IRA. Kevin Fulton (a pseudonym), the British agent who was assigned to infiltrate the IRA, writes in his book, Unsung Hero, that the he met FBI and MI5 agents and was given money to buy an infra-red device to be used to set off IRA bombs. "In New York he attended a meeting with FBI agents and British intelligence officers. There he agreed to expose IRA operatives in America to the FBI. However, the same terrorists, who were arrested months later, were first allowed to procure and send the infrared technology to the IRA. Fulton claims this technology was used in the Troubles and forms the basis for insurgent bombs in Iraq," Enda Leahy wrote for the Sunday Times on March 19, 2006. For more on the dirty tricks of British intelligence and the SAS in particular, see my British "Pseudo-Gang" Terrorists Exposed in Basra, Global Research, September 24, 2005.

As for British involvement in creating terrorism in Iraq, recall the two SAS agents captured by the Iraqis attempting to stage terror attacks. "Iraqi security officials on [September 19, 2005] variously accused the two Britons they detained of shooting at Iraqi forces or trying to plant explosives," the Washington Post reported. As I wrote at the time (see link above), "the next time you read or hear about crazed 'al-Qaeda in Iraq’ terrorists blowing up children or desperate job applicants, keep in mind, according to the Iraqi Interior Ministry, the perpetrators may very well be British SAS goons who cut their teeth killing Irish citizens."

The CIA ran likewise operations in Vietnam. As former CIA employee Ralph McGehee notes, the "U.S. and Saigon intel services maintained an active list of VC cadre marked for assassination" in the late 1960s. Dubbed Operation Phoenix, the assassination program "called for 'neutralizing’ 1800 [alleged Viet Cong] a month." Approximately one third of the Viet Cong targeted for arrest were summarily killed by so-called "security committees" in provincial interrogation centers outside of judicial control and funded by the CIA. More than 40,000 Vietnamese were killed under Operation Phoenix at an estimated cost of nearly $2 billion (see Ralph McGehee, CIA and Operation Phoenix in Vietnam).

The collaborative effort between the British SAS and America’s Delta Force is obviously designed to take out the leadership of the Iraqi resistance, led by a disparate and not necessarily connected combination of former Ba’athists, nationalists, Sunni and Shi’a militias. It is intended to decimate the leadership — referred to as "al-Qaeda in Iraq" terrorists in the corporate media — as the United States prepares to downsize its presence in Iraq and shift emphasis under a new administration to Afghanistan.