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Are you still muddling along thinking the collusion between the CIA, the mainstream media and their allies (and enemies) in the Secret Services of the rest of the world are bringing good results for your country's future? Still no clue about the Bush connections to almost every catastrophe this country has witnessed since the late 40's? It's called conservation of Power, and this is what the Conservatives are all about, because they are not for conserving any other thing except their power. (Everywhere.) And it's become pretty clear that they are not long for this country. Dubai is what I'm left thinking will be their final destination. After all, they have lots of friends over there. Wealthy friends.
But today let's take a look at the latest abomination our esteemed ally in Germany has brought to the round table (and try to forget that smarmy hug "W" bestowed on Angela Merkel if you can as you read this article) in the essay "Manufacturing Consent For The 'War On Terror' " - "Terror Plot Emerges as Secret Service Game" (and Rock the Casbah "Over at the Temple, they really pack'em in!"). (Emphasis marks added - Ed.)
But now, the case has ceased to be "the serious terrorist threat" it was called. It is now a mysterious puzzle of secret service games, prosecutors' alarmism spread by the media, and basic failures of justice.
The supposedly dangerous group members have emerged as no more than some muddle-heads. They had no links whatsoever to international Islamic terror groups.
"No Islamic chief villain . . . in Pakistan or somewhere else influenced the group," says Hans Leyendecker, one of Germany's top investigative journalists. "Its members are dumb, narrow-minded young men who hate the U.S.
"Moreover, the fifth member of the group, yet to be captured, has been described as a Turkish national known only as Mevlut K. He now appears as an informer of the Turkish national intelligence organisation (MIT, after its Turkish name). He was the key figure in the plot, according to confessions by other members of the Sauerland group.
"Without Mevlut, we would not have been able to go as far with the preparations as we did," Attila Selek, one of the accused, told the court.
It was announced as a terror plot busted. German police had captured three young Muslim men in the small village Medebach-Oberschledor, some 450 km southwest of Berlin Sep. 4 in 2007. The police declared they had seized 730 kilograms of hydrogen peroxide, enough to make 550 kg of explosives.
The three men, and a fourth, who was captured a year later in Turkey, wanted to bomb U.S. military and other facilities in Germany, and to kill "as many U.S. soldiers as possible," one of the accused later confessed. The four men told court their plans were in retaliation against the U.S. war on 'Islamic terrorism', especially the abuse of hundreds of Muslims detained at Guantanamo prison. German authorities and the media dubbed the four men 'the Sauerland group', in reference to the region where they were captured. The Sauerland group were declared to be members of the Islamic Jihad Union, an alleged terrorist organisation based in Uzbekistan. Almost two years later, the case is before the higher regional court in Duesseldorf, some 460 km southwest of Berlin, and should come to a close early 2010. But now, the case has ceased to be "the serious terrorist threat" it was called. It is now a mysterious puzzle of secret service games, prosecutors' alarmism spread by the media, and basic failures of justice. The supposedly dangerous group members have emerged as no more than some muddle-heads. They had no links whatsoever to international Islamic terror groups. "No Islamic chief villain . . . in Pakistan or somewhere else influenced the group," says Hans Leyendecker, one of Germany's top investigative journalists. "Its members are dumb, narrow-minded young men who hate the U.S." Moreover, the fifth member of the group, yet to be captured, has been described as a Turkish national known only as Mevlut K. He now appears as an informer of the Turkish national intelligence organisation (MIT, after its Turkish name). He was the key figure in the plot, according to confessions by other members of the Sauerland group. "Without Mevlut, we would not have been able to go as far with the preparations as we did," Attila Selek, one of the accused, told the court. 'K' had procured 26 fuses for the bombs the group was supposed to make, Selek said. Only, the fuses were useless. German police investigations showed that all but two were too humid to work. Fritz Gelowicz, another member of the terrorist group, said the four men were informed of K's links with the MIT. "We knew that Mevlut had links with several secret services," Gelowicz told the court. "We though that these links were good for us." K apparently did not hide his links to the Turkish secret service. On at least one occasion, K told the group they were being monitored by the German security agencies. "Then he told me he was stealing this information from secret services," Selek told the court. Despite warnings that the German police were constantly informed of their actions, the four men continued their preparations until they were captured. Numerous sources have confirmed that the German foreign intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) knew in 2004 that Mevlut K worked for the MIT. That year, the sources said, the MIT proposed to the BND that K be infiltrated into Islam movements in Germany. The BND reportedly rejected the Turkish plan. Despite the confessions about K's involvement, German justice failed to order his capture for a long time. Mevlut K. is believed to be living in Turkey. German authorities only issued an international warrant against Mevlut K. Aug. 13, several weeks after depositions by the other four members of the group had been widely circulated. The Sauerland group could have been "an orchestration to make believe that a huge terrorist threat" was looming over U.S. military facilities in Germany, says Rene Hellig, leading commentator with the Neues Deutschland daily. Former British ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray calls it a fake case orchestrated by Uzbek security services. "I should make plain that regrettably it is a fact that there are those who commit violence, motivated by a fanatic version of their faith," Murray wrote in his personal blog. "Sadly the appalling aggression of the U.S. government and allied war policy has made such reaction much more frequent. They may or may not have been planning to commit explosions. But if they were, the question is who was really pulling their strings, and why?" Murray says there is no evidence of the existence of Islamic Jihad Union, alleged to have been directing the Sauerland group, other than that given by Uzbek security services. "There are, for example, no communications intercepts between senior terrorists referring to themselves as the Islamic Jihad Union," he said. Murray said the planned attacks the Uzbekistan government attributed to the group since the spring of 2004 "are in fact largely fake and almost certainly the work of the Uzbek security services, from my investigations on the spot at the time."
And to the people who think the above is fantasy brought to them by the bad-guy liberals . . . .
The Watcher (Rehctaw) has a few compelling words ("You can't fix stoopid!"):
You cannot speak truth to stoopid.
"What about the Death Panels?
There are no Death Panels.
But what about the Death Panels?
"There are NO DEATH PANELS!"
See how hostile they are? All I did was ask a simple question...
The ONLY way to win is NOT TO PLAY.
There really is only one way forward. Fuggem.
See how they aren't listening to meeeeeeeeeeeee!
That's right Bobo, we're fighting against inertia, we're fighting against agitprop, we're fighting against entrenched, monied, well-connected special interests, we're fighting against flaccid campaign finance laws, we're fighting against sixty years of responding to obfuscation, misdirection, stonewalling and outright LIES. Now somebody rattled your cage and you DEMAND to be heard? Look, as long as you still believe that Ronald Reagan was a champion of the people, that the slimy reptiles from his tenure who are still holding down government jobs, who work from the dogma that government can't do anything right and dutifully prove it daily, that this clusterfuck began upon the inauguration of Barack Obama, that PROGRESSIVE approaches equal socialism and the rest of the rote regurgitation you seek to spout, you don't DESERVE to be heard more than once.
We all got the memo. You're pissed off. Still mind-numbingly Stoopid, but pissed off.
CHECK. The plain fact is that you're pissed off at the wrong people. So until you've gotten up to speed and can actually separate fact from fear-driven FICTION, your pissed off is just being used by the rat-fuckers responsible for driving us into the ditch. The people who gutted, looted and changed all the rules for SHORT-TERM greed.
Who've lied to you about so much, for so long, that you're incapable of voicing a coherent argument without jingoism and spoon-fed talking points.
Just take a number and wait your fucking turn. Goodness knows, we've waited long enough for ours. Take your pick, dismantlement or dismemberment, but don't confuse our patience for pacifism. That would be the biggest mistake of all.
Amen (and -women)!
Spread the word!
Suzan __________________
The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials.
Warren Bamford, the special agent in charge of the FBI in Boston, said Tuesday that he is baffled by opposition to a proposal to give some neighborhood police officers the semiautomatic weapons.
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