The Earlier 11th September

By Robert Thompson
Sep 11, 2008, 05:20
Courtesy Of AxisOfLogic

While I have no desire to overlook the tragedy of seven years ago, I still have stronger memories of that of thirty-five years ago, 11th September 1973. For us, as a family, it was a day of great joy, when I was present at the birth of our son, and the whole day was lit up by that happy event. This why the day is for us unforgettable, but it was not long after our joyous celebrations that we heard the dreadful news of the same day in far away Chile.

The biggest terrorist organisation in the world, the CIA, chose that same day to overthrow one of the few democracies then existing in the Americas, and installed Augusto Pinochet in the place of the elected Salvatore Allende. This brutal coup d'état had effects all around the world, and no democratic elected leader in any country could feel safe in his or her seat.

We have still not been told who did in fact commit the crimes in New York and Washington on this day in 2001, but it may well have been one of the many terrorist bodies spawned by the CIA in its reckless drive to impose its imperialism everywhere on all of us.

As we all know, the reason why the CIA created the Taliban was to cause problems for the Soviet Union which in its turn was trying to give support to the only even half-decent régime that has ever ruled Afghanistan in the past century. This CIA offspring has now developed an ability to behave at least as badly as its parent and the people of Afghanistan have every reason to curse them both, as also the corrupt bunch of people who now endeavour to rule the country.

However, the CIA did not stop there and it also funded and trained a member of the Saudi Arabian bin Laden family (very closely linked financially with the Bush tribe) to form and organise a movement which we now know broadly as al-Qaeda. This movement is only loosely coordinated and seems to work on the basis of individual cells. Ideologically, it has its roots in the Wahabi branch of Sunni Islam which seized power in Arabia after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and it is far from anything which one could ever imagine from reading the Qu'ran.

For reasons of greed and thirst for power, the CIA was willing to do anything to back the destruction of the infrastructure of Iraq on the pretext of "régime change", but the family of its former Director, Mr George H.W. Bush, is deeply tied into its joint interests with the Saudi tyrants and their supporters, such as the bin Laden family. There is therefore no sign that the CIA would ever make any move to destabilise this violently ruthless régime, whose record makes the worst aspects of the rule of Saddam Hussein Takriti seem like the sweetest of fairy stories. I have experienced working in Iraq at a time when the former régime was in power, but the atmosphere was clearly nothing like as oppressive as what I found on visiting Saudi Arabia. At least in those days I could stroll along the banks of the Tigris of an evening without fear, which is now very obviously unthinkable thanks to the criminal actions of the Bush régime and its offshoots such as the CIA.

I fully approve of all honour being given to the courage of the firemen and others who died or risked their lives in New York on this day in 2001, who with all others who have suffered from those events all have my deepest sympathy. However, we must never forget the evil done in 1973 in Santiago by clearly identifiable terrorists whose rule lasted for far too many years. Also, we in Europe found it hard to understand the shock clearly felt in the USA in general on the occasion of this sole tragic event, when we had for many years suffered from terrorist atrocities often financed by organisations in the USA which actions had caused far greater numbers of deaths and injuries.

It is also essential to remember that, following the Gulf War waged under the direction of the then USA president George H.W. Bush until the illegal invasion of March 2003, the sanctions imposed on the supply of food and medicines to Iraq caused vast numbers of deaths largely among innocent children, which murders were then most coldly, cruelly and heartlessly described as "collateral damage"

By all means honour the brave of 11th September 2001, but please do not forget the events of 11th September 1973 which were typical of the terrorist activities which the CIA still pursues under the Orwellian title of the "War on Terror". Vigilance is vital to us all, including above all the citizens of the USA, the principal victims of the tyranny of the totally amoral real rulers of their country.

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