By "Badger"
Mar 22, 2007, 10:06
UrukNet.info
March 21, 2007
Iraqi resistance groups, in the course of their regular daily summary of incidents, (for Tuesday, March 20, under the heading "Baghdad") yesterday cited an interview by the Russian news agency Novosti with a Russian military think-tank official, who said among other things that American "special forces" are instigating Shiite-Sunni fighting in Iraq. The point came up in the course of the following report about a mini-bus bombing:
Bomb rips through Kia passenger bus in Baghdad, as mysterious bombings increase. Russian expert cites US special services as source of sectarian tension in Iraq.
In a dispatch posted at 1:20pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a bus carrying civilian passengers exploded in the Baghdad district of al-Karradah according to an announcement by the puppet police.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported the source as saying that a bomb went off in a Kia vehicle in a shopping center near the al-Karrahda area, which is predominantly Shi'i. The source said that two people were killed and four more wounded. The injured were ambulanced to nearby hospitals.
The bombing was one of a growing number of mysterious attacks that have rocked Baghdad on a daily basis, killing or wounding thousands of Iraqis amidst claims that regional powers are attempting to keep sectarian violence raging in the country. Since no groups of the Resistance take responsibility for the mysterious blasts, suspicions are widely expressed that intelligence services are behind the bombing campaign.
Russian geostrategic expert Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov alluded to precisely this reality in an interview with the RIA-Novosti Press Agency correspondents Valery Yarmolenko and Zalina Tsopanova on Monday. Ivashov, who is Vice-President of Russia’s Academy of Geopolitical Problems, reviewed America’s military and political defeat in Iraq and noted the failure of US troops to counter the guerrilla movement, despite America’s advanced technological edge and the primitive armament of the Resistance. Ivashov remarked that, "the only thing that is working is not being done by the US troops but by their special services, namely to organize fighting between Shi'ah and Sunnis."
Here is a summary I prepared using a machine translation of the:
Monday March 19 Novosti article:
Americans suffer military and political defeat in Iraq: Expert
Vice president of the Academy of Geopolitical Affairs Leonid Ivashov said the state of affairs in Iraq demonstrates the military and political defeat of the USA and warned Washington against agression against Iran.
He said to put it mildly the Americans' military results are unsatisfactory, in spite of their technological superiority.
Regular army units in the south were easily defeated, but it was a different story as soon as they met guerilla resistance in the cities.
Pentagon officials looked in Eastern Europe for expertise on what was done against guerilla formations in the WWII period, but this doesn't appear to have helped either.
The only thing they are able to do, he said--and not the army but their special services--is to organize fights between Shiites and Sunnis.
High-tech weaponery such as electronic spy planes and so on have proven absolutely ineffective.
The war has cost over 3000 killed, 24,000 wounded, and will have $500 billion by end 08. Republicans have lost prestige and will lose the White House.
EU China India and Russia looking for alternatives to US monopoly on world order.
Anti-americanism everywhere, even among allies in Europe, is helping consolidate efforts for a new approach. He said Russia can be one of the leaders of the multipolar world.
Note that Ivashov also "warned [the US] against agression against Iran", but the point isn't elaborated.
Comment Posted: by Eric Lindblad
On 23 Mar 2007 - 02:35
The Potsdam Conference, premise and agreements, 1945, have been violated by the Western powers. Towards a resolution of the current conflicts it is indicated how such conflict s developed, namely the violations of Potsdam by Western powers.
Comment Posted: by Eric Lindblad
On 23 Mar 2007 - 02:47
The following is an article of 17 January 2006. I have deleted the final section as I have some disagreements with Gen. Ivashov on that content. The full text can be obtained at below listed Internet site.
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General Ivashov:
“International Terrorism Does Not Exist” by General Leonid Ivashov General Leonid Ivashov was the Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces when t he September 11, 2001, attacks took place. This military man, who lived the even ts from the inside, offers an analysis which is very different to that of his Am erican colleagues.
As he did during the Axis for Peace 2005 conference, he now explains that international terrorism does not exist and that the September 11 attacks were the result of a set-up.
What we are seeing is a manipulation by the big powers; this terrorism would not exist without them.
He affirms that, instead of faking a “world war on terror”, the best way to reduce that kind of attacks is through respect for international law and peaceful cooperation among countries and their citizens.
As the current international situation shows, terrorism emerges where contradiction aggravate, where there is a change of social relations or a change of regime , where there is political, economic or social instability, where there is moral decadence, where cynicism and nihilism triumph, where vice is legalized and where crime spreads.
It is globalization what creates the conditions for the emergence of these extremely dangerous phenomena.
It is in this context that the new world geo-strategic map is being designed, that the resources of the planet are being re-distributed, that borders are disappearing, that international law is being torn into pieces, that cultural identities are being erased, that spiritual life becomes impoverished...
The analysis of the essence of the globalization process, the military and political doctrines of the United States and other countries, shows that terrorism contributes to a world dominance and the submissiveness of states to a global oligarchy.
This means that terrorism is not something independent of world politics but simply an instrument, a means to install a unipolar world with a sole world headquarters, a pretext to erase national borders and to establish the rule of a new world elite. It is precisely this elite that constitutes the key element of world terrorism, its ideologist and its “godfather”.
The main target of the world elite is the historical, cultural, traditional and natural reality; the existing system of relations among states; the world national and state order of human civilization and national identity.
Today’s international terrorism is a phenomenon that combines the use of terror by state and non-state political structures as a means to attain their political objectives through people’s intimidation, psychological and social destabilization, the elimination of resistance inside power organizations and the creation of appropriate conditions for the manipulation of the countries’ policies and the behavior of people.
Terrorism is the weapon used in a new type of war. At the same time, internation al terrorism, in complicity with the media, becomes the manager of global processes.
It is precisely the symbiosis between media and terror, which allows modifying international politics and the exiting reality.
In this context, if we analyze what happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States, we can arrive at the following conclusions:
1. The organizers of those attacks were the political and business circles interested in destabilizing the world order and who had the means necessary to finance the operation.
The political conception of this action matured there where tensions emerged in the administration of financial and other types of resources.
We have to look for the reasons of the attacks in the coincidence of interests of the big capital at global and transnational levels, in the circles that were not satisfied with the rhythm of the globalization process or its direction.
Unlike traditional wars, whose conception is determined by generals and politicians, the oligarchs and politicians submitted to the former were the ones who did it this time.
2. Only secret services and their current chiefs – or those retired but still having influence inside the state organizations – have the ability to plan, organize and conduct an operation of such magnitude.
Generally, secret services create , finance and control extremist organizations. Without the support of secret services, these organizations cannot exist – let alone carry out operations of such magnitude inside countries so well protected. Planning and carrying out an operation on this scale is extremely complex.
3. Osama bin Laden and “Al Qaeda” cannot be the organizers nor the performers of the September 11 attacks. They do not have the necessary organization, resources or leaders.
Thus, a team of professionals had to be created and the Arab kamikazes are just extras to mask the operation.
The September 11 operation modified the course of events in the world in the direction chosen by transnational mafias and international oligarchs; that is, those who hope to control the planet’s natural resources, the world information network and the financial flows.
This operation also favored the US economic and political elite that also seeks world dominance.
The Use Of The Term “International Terrorism” Has The Following Goals:
- Hiding the real objectives of the forces deployed all over the world in the st ruggle for dominance and control;
- Turning the people’s demands to a struggle of undefined goals against an invis ible enemy;
- Destroying basic international norms and changing concepts such as: aggression , state terror, dictatorship or movement of national liberation;
- Depriving peoples of their legitimate right to fight against aggressions and to reject the work of foreign intelligence services;
- Establishing the principle of renunciation to national interests, transforming objectives in the military field by giving priority to the war on terror, violating the logic of military alliances to the detriment of a joint defense and to favor the anti-terrorist coalition;
- Solving economic problems through a tough military rule using the war on terror as a pretext."
Full Text:
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I've added the link (on my own) for the original "International Terrorism Does Not Exist," article:
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