NATO’s secret armies linked to terrorism?

Daniele Ganser | ISN | 15 December 2004

In Italy, on 3 August 1990, then-prime minister Giulio Andreotti confirmed the existence of a secret army code-named “Gladio” – the Latin word for “sword” – within the state. His testimony before the Senate subcommittee investigating terrorism in Italy sent shockwaves through the Italian parliament and the public, as speculation arose that the secret army had possibly manipulated Italian politics through acts of terrorism.

Andreotti revealed that the secret Gladio army had been hidden within the Defense Ministry as a subsection of the military secret service, SISMI. General Vito Miceli, a former director of the Italian military secret service, could hardly believe that Andreotti had lifted the secret, and protested:

“I have gone to prison because I did not want to reveal the existence of this super secret organization. And now Andreotti comes along and tells it to parliament!” According to a document compiled by the Italian military secret service in 1959, the secret armies had a two-fold strategic purpose: firstly, to operate as a so-called “stay-behind” group in the case of a Soviet invasion and to carry out a guerrilla war in occupied territories; secondly, to carry out domestic operations in case of “emergency situations”.

The military secret services’ perceptions of what constituted an “emergency” was well defined in Cold War Italy and focused on the increasing strength of the Italian Communist and the Socialist parties, both of which were tasked with weakening NATO “from within”. Felice Casson, an Italian judge who during his investigations into right-wing terrorism had first discovered the secret Gladio army and had forced Andreotti to take a stand, found that the secret army had linked up with right-wing terrorists in order to confront “emergency situations”. The terrorists, supplied by the secret army, carried out bomb attacks in public places, blamed them on the Italian left, and were thereafter protected from prosecution by the military secret service. “You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game,” right-wing terrorist Vincezo Vinciguerra explained the so-called “strategy of tension” to Casson.

“The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security. This is the political logic that lies behind all the massacres and the bombings which remain unpunished, because the state cannot convict itself or declare itself responsible for what happened.”

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Neoconservative forces to blame for 9/11 tower collapses

Posted in Satire by sirsatire on September 10th, 2008

After seven years, scientists are now able to explain why the Twin Towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001, even though fires were well below the 1,500C melting point of the buildings’ steel girders.

The discovery that unusual chemical cutting charges and demolition explosives made the girders weak by blowing them to pieces finally puts to rest bizarre scientific theories designed to avoid revealing that Sept. 11 was, in fact, an act of treason committed by the Bush administration for political gain.

Retired physics professor Steven Jones found that steel loses its strength when chemically melted by thermite — or its more powerful cousin thermate — and the steel undergoes a physical transition from big pieces to small pieces due to demolition charges exploding next to it. The steel didn’t collapse — it just became blown-to-pieces. It is an unusual condition caused by the pre-planting of explosives by a team of demolition experts hired as part of a false-flag operation, which was designed to make the American people think they were attacked in order to gain their support in changing from a constitutional republic to a global empire ruled by a neoconservative junta.

“Understanding how neoconservatives behave means we can find the right ‘justice’ to make the U.S. Constitution stronger after acts of high treason,” Jones said. “And if this work can be used in other applications, such as safeguarding democratic republics against would-be tyrants, so much the better.”

Jones also said he was able to rule out an alternative theory based on magnetism by using three of his brain cells while analyzing it, and trying hard not to laugh while doing so.

Zachary Karabell on the Middle East

By Zachary Karabell | Posted on Aug 8, 2008

If you grew up in the 1970s, it was impossible not to be acutely aware of the Middle East as a flashpoint in the Cold War, a region fraught with danger, beset by conflict between Israel and the surrounding Arab states, home to radical groups that hijacked airplanes and in 1972 disrupted the Olympics. Long and difficult negotiations finally led to peace between Egypt and Israel in 1977, before darkness returned after the Shah of Iran was overthrown and replaced by a revolutionary group led by the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979.

The kaleidoscope of war, peace, terrorism and revolution was a vivid and unsettling aspect of the 1970s, but what is both startling and depressing about the Middle East is that the same statement with different details could be made about the region for every single decade of the 20th century, and for the first decade of the 21st. It is not true that the Middle East has seen more war or instability than any other region in the world over the past century; far from it. Southeast Asia, Korea, China, Europe through 1945 saw far more devastation and death from war, as have large swaths of sub-Saharan Africa in the past decades. But the Middle East does have a singular ability to draw attention, create global shock waves and upset international politics. While the discovery of oil in the region early in the 20th century was certainly a factor, oil has not been the sole source of conflict or the primary reason for many of the crises. There is no one reason for the peculiar capacity of the Middle East to generate shock waves. Take history, a dollop of religion and ideology, mix in a bit of geography, add oil and serve over political sclerosis and corruption with some bad luck on the side, and you get a tumultuous corner of the world where “after a century of Western assertiveness, peace remains elusive and sectarian passions are virulent.”