03-30-2007, 12:57 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Stoke-on-Trent
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US is a rouge state.
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Originally Posted by IRL";p="
...while willing to equivicate for Iran.
Nothing new here either.
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Originally Posted by ashleykennedy";p="
US funds more terrorism than Iran see Fort Benning and the Latin American school.
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Somebody needs to learn the difference between "state terror" and "terrorism".
The former charge against the US, being the most tenuous of claims anyhow. |
The Hypocrisy is from someone who is very quick to say that another sovereign state is a terrorist state.
In deed a few do need to learn that there is no difference between terrorism and state terrorism.
Read up on The disappeared in south America and the connection to Fort Benning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western...ty_Cooperation
Then look up Operation Condor.
Then try to tell me that the US doesn't support terrorism, death squads and cocaine production.
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Operation Condor (Spanish: Operación Cóndor, Portuguese: Operação Condor) was a campaign of state terrorism and intelligence operations implemented by right-wing dictatorships that dominated the Southern Cone in Latin America from the 1950s to 1980s, heavily relying on numerous assassinations. The systematic counter-terrorism aimed both to deter democratic influence and ideas disseminated in the region and to control active or potential opposition movements against these governments. This organized counter-terrorism caused an unknown number of deaths, due to the covering up of the different governments involved. According to the "terror archives" discovered in Paraguay in 1992, 50,000 persons were murdered, 30,000 "disappeared"
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It appears that Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford administrations, was closely involved diplomatically with the Southern Cone governments at the time and well-aware of the Condor plan. The first cooperation agreements were signed between the CIA and anti-Castro groups, fascist movements such as the Triple A set up in Argentina by José Lopez Rega, "personal secretary" of Juan Peron and Isabel Peron, and Rodolfo Almiron (arrested in Spain in 2006)
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A "U.S. communications installation in the Panama Canal Zone which covers all of Latin America", "employed to co-ordinate intelligence information among the southern cone countries", was acknowledged by the cable. The "information exchange" (via telex) included torture techniques (i.e. near drowning or playing the sound recordings of victims who were being tortured to their families). The infamous "death flights," theorized in Argentina by Luis Maria Mendia — and also used during the Algerian War (1954-62) by Marcel Bigeard — were also widely used, in order to make the corpses, and therefore evidence, disappear. There were also many cases of child abduction.
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In February 2004, John Dinges, a reporter, published "The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents" (The New Press, 2004). In this book, he reveals how Uruguayan military officials threatened to assassinate US Congressman Edward Koch in mid-1976. In late July 1976, the CIA station chief in Montevideo received information about it, but recommended that the Agency take no action because the Uruguayan officers (among which Colonel José Fons, who was at the November 1975 secret meeting in Santiago, Chile, and Major José Nino Gavazzo, who headed a team of intelligence officers working in Argentina in 1976, where he was responsible for more than 100 Uruguayans´ deaths) had been drinking when the threat was made. In an interview for the book, Koch said that George H.W. Bush, CIA's director at the time, informed him in October 1976 - more than two months afterward, and after Orlando Letelier's murder - that his sponsorship of legislation to cut off US military assistance to Uruguay on human rights grounds had provoked secret police officials to "put a contract out for you". In mid October 1976, Koch wrote to the Justice Departement asking for FBI protection. None was provided for him. In late 1976, Colonel Fons and Major Gavazzo were assigned to prominent diplomatic posts in Washington DC, but the State Department forced the Uruguayan government to withdraw their appointments, with the public explanation that "Fons and Gavazzo could be the objects of unpleasant publicity..." Koch only became aware of the connections between the threats in 2001.
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Condor operatives were trained at the WHISC at fort Benning previously known as the Latin American School.
Go to the disappeared web site and see how many were trained in the US.
http://www.desaparecidos.org/eng.html
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