September 30, 2005
By Dr. Elias Akleh
It
had been long known to the Iraqis, to the Arabs, and to all Moslems in
countries bordering Iraq that the majority of the terrorist attacks in
Iraq, especially car bombing, are perpetrated by covert British,
American, and Israeli operatives. It is also well known to them that
the terrorist Abu Musab Al Zarqawi and his "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" are just
inventions of the coalition forces to justify their existence.
More and more evidences are coming out of Iraq to support this fact.
The arrest of two undercover British SAS operatives last week,
disguised as Arabs trying to plant a car bomb in the middle of Basra
during the Karbala Festival, which draws as many as 3 million pilgrims
to the city, is just the latest of such revelations.
In previous article - "American Terror Strategy in Iraq", published
first week of last August) I wrote about the American covert terrorist
activity in Iraq aimed at inciting civil war and alienating Iraqi
resistance. The good citizens of Great Britain and US, including their
troops fighting in Iraq, would not believe that their governments would
do such terrible acts. After all these two countries are sacrificing
the lives of their young troops to liberate Iraqis and not to murder
them. The article was criticized harshly by American troops, who served
in Iraq, and claimed that they were helping Iraqis re-building their
lives. Yet many other Americans and Britons – troops as well as
independent reporters – speak loudly about the African, Latin American,
American and British mercenaries operating in Iraq and are paid
thousands more than the regular troops to perpetrate the terror
attacks. British and American leaders had lied their troops into the
war in Iraq. Studying history one discovers a long history of these
leaders deceiving their people and leading them to terrorize other
countries.
The two British operatives, arrested by Basra police and later freed
by a British military operation, were identified by the BBC as "members
of the SAS elite special forces" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/424614.stm).
They were disguised by wigs and Arab dress. Iraqi sources reported that
the Iraqi police were watching the two, and when they tried to approach
them they shot two policemen and tried to escape the scene. The Iraqi
police chased and captured them, to discover large amount of explosives
planted in the car, which apparently was planned to be remotely
detonated in the busy market of Basra. The SAS involvement in Iraq was
discovered on the 30th of January 2005 when an RAF Hercules plane
crashed near Baghdad killing then British servicemen after dropping off
fifty SAS members north of Baghdad to fight Iraqi guerillas.
SAS (Special Air Service) is a secret regiment in the British Army.
It was formed in 1941 to conduct raids behind the German lines in North
Africa. At the present it forms part of the United Kingdom Special
Forces alongside the Special Boat Service and the Special
Reconnaissance Regiment. The role of the SAS includes intelligence
gathering, behind enemy lines target attacks, counter revolutionary
warfare, guarding of senior British dignitaries, conducting military
missions without official British Government involvement, training
special forces of other nationalities, and counter-terrorism
operations. The SAS conducted many military missions throughout
the world. From 1958 – 1959 they fought the anti-sultan rebels in Jebel
Akhdar in Oman. They also fought against another insurrection in
Dhofar, Oman in 1970 - 1977. They fought Indonesian-supported guerillas
during the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation in Borneo in 1963 – 1966.
They operated in Aden in 1964 – 1967 before the withdrawal of the
British troops. During the Falklands War in 1982 SAS were
involved in covert operation in San Carlos before the landing of the
main British forces. In the Gulf War of 1991 they were deployed deep
behind the Iraqi army lines to destroy Scud missiles launchers and to
gather intelligence. It was also reported that they had set fires to
the Kuwaiti oil wells. Some of the SAS had helped Afghani fighters
during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan during the 1980s. They also
had special training camp in Scotland to train them on shooting down
Russian Helicopters. The SAS was deeply involved in
the British conflict in Northern Ireland since its start in 1969. At
the beginning they operated openly in their own uniform, and later on
they planted moles in the IRA, who were involved in terror bombing. The
well known August 15th, 1998 Omagh bombing attack, which killed 29
civilians was done by an SAS double agent as reported by Sunday Herald (http://www.sundayherald.com/17827).
The Paper also reported the confession of another SAS member, who
operated as an IRA mole from 1981 to 1994 while on full British army
pay. He helped to develop a new type of bomb activated by photographic
flashes to overcome the problem of IRA remote-control devices being
signal jammed by army radio units. (http://www.sundayherald.com/print25646).
Another mole, known by his codename "Stakeknife", was still active in
December of 2002 as one of Belfast’s leading provisionals. His military
commander "allowed him to carry out large numbers of terrorist murders
in order to protect his cover within the IRA". (http://www.sundayherald.com/29997).
In late 2002 the paper reported reliable evidence that the British army
had used its moles in terrorist organizations to "carry out proxy
assassinations", such as the case of the human rights activist Pat
Finucane, who was murdered in 1989 by the Protestant Ulster Defense
Association (UDA). The mole supplied the UDA with necessary information
to assassinate Finucane. (http://sundayherald.com/29997). Car
bombings in Iraq started few months after the occupation. The first
attacks were directed against the U.N. Headquarters in Iraq prompting
the U.N. to withdraw its employees. The Red Cross and the Jordanian
Embassy were also initially targeted. Later on car bombing targeted
several mosques and religious leaders, and lately the fragile Iraqi
Police became the main target. Oddly enough the common denominator in
these attacks is that they targeted exclusively Iraqis rather than the
occupying forces. It does not make any sense for Al-Qaeda and
Al-Zarqawi, allegedly came to Iraq to fight Americans, to attack Iraqi
civilians and Iraqi police. In doing so the occupying forces find
excuses to stay longer in Iraq. As Bush and Blair continue to remark
that since the Iraqi Forces are very week and could not defend the
Iraqi against terrorist, it is imperative for the British/American
troops to stay in Iraq in order to fight terrorists and help Iraqis
defend themselves. There is a common belief that these car
bombings are orchestrated by foreign forces (Americans, British, and
Israelis) in Iraq to spread chaos. Imad Khadduri, the Iraqi-exile
physicist, reported of Arab drivers discovering bombs planted in their
cars after being stopped and interrogated at an American checkpoint.
Baghdad Burning blog reported in May 2005 of eyewitnesses to American
patrols planting bombs in Ma’moun area in west Baghdad. Abdel Hadi
Al-Daraji, Al-Sadr’s top official in Sadr City, accused Britain of
plotting to start an ethnic war by carrying out car bombings targeting
Shia civilians and then blaming the attack on Sunni Arabs. He said:
"Everyone knows the occupiers’ agenda. They are in bed with the Mossad
(the Israeli secret service) and their intention is to keep Iraq an
unstable battlefield so they can exploit their interests in Iraq".
Sheik Hassan Al-Zarqani, a spokesman for Mahdi Army militia described
the two British SAS operatives as terrorists. He stated that the Iraq
police found weapons, explosives and remote control detonators in their
car. He explained "We believe these soldiers were planning an attack on
a market or other civilian targets". The quick fierce action of the
British army to release the two SAS operatives before being
interrogated tends to support the view that this incident has deeper
implications beyond what appears on the surface.
The general attitude of many Iraqis could be summarized in a
statement made by a Shiite man. He said: "I believe it is the Americans
who are doing this, pretending it is Sunnis, so there will be a civil
war and they can control our wealth." International reporters, such as
the American journalists Dahr Jamail and Juan Cole, started viewing car
bombings through the Iraqi point of view. When asking the
important question of who benefits from these car bombings, we discover
that the only beneficiaries are the occupying forces. Blaming car
bombings on Iraqi resistance the Americans are trying to drive a wedge
between the resistance and the sympathetic Iraqis. By bombing Shiite
mosques in one day and Sunni mosques in another they are trying to
incite hatred between the two religious factions. Civil war and
division of Iraq is the ultimate goal of the occupation. Bush’s and
Blair’s speeches are geared towards planting seeds of religious
conflict. Corporate-owned media on both sides of the Atlantic seem to
cultivate these seeds and repeatedly report that car bombing attacks
causing casualties among Iraqi civilians are pushing Iraq towards a
civil war between Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds. To incite more religious
hatred between the groups the corporate media report of "alarming
ethnic cleansing" of Shiites in the predominantly Sunni Baghdad
neighborhoods. To exacerbate the situation the American army has been
deploying Kurdish Peshmerga troops and Shiite militias in their attacks
on Iraqi cities, lately in Tal Afar and Ramadi, killing Sunnis and
destroying their houses in a manner designed to inflame ethnic
hatred. The policy is to divide in order to conquer, and the
ultimate plan is to partition Iraq into three warring three ethnic
sections; Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish. Such division entails civil war
and ethnic cleansing on a massive scale to weaken any merging Iraqi
government, so that it could not demand the withdrawal of the occupying
forces. The division of the Yugoslav Federation in the 1990s into
smaller weaker states has been taken as a model to slice Iraq. This
plan falls perfectly within the Israeli strategic goal, proposed in
1982, of dividing Iraq, the strongest Arab nation, into three warring
ethnic states. The same policy can be seen In Israel’s attempt to
incite civil war between PA on one side and the other Palestinian
factions on the other side.
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