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Earlier today, the
Daily Telegraph reported that a truck of explosives and weapons managed
to slip past a surveillance operation in Sana’a, Yemen.
“The revelations came as western diplomatic missions in Sana’a went into
lockdown following threats from al-Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate, which has taken
responsibility for a failed attempt to blow up an airliner over Detroit on
Christmas Day,” the newspaper reported. “The identity of those who smuggled
the weapons contingent into Sana’a has not been disclosed, and it is unclear
if its disappearance is linked to al-Qaeda’s increasingly powerful Yemeni
branch, al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula.”
“Diplomats dismissed speculation that the vanishing convoy could presage
an imminent attack on Western interests in the city.”
An attack on “Western interests” or an embassy or two would play right
into the hands of the U.S. and Britain.
Gordon Brown has said he will convene a summit of world leaders on the
Yemen problem at the end of this month.
In the United States the corporate media continues to beat the war drums
and spread absurd hysteria about a supposed al-Qaeda faction in Yemen. We
are expected to believe a rag-tag gang of terrorists in one of the world’s
poorest countries pose a threat to freedom-loving Americans the same way a
sanctions-ravaged Iraq posed a threat after Saddam ganged up with Osama and
al-Qaeda — one of the more colorful lies spun by the warmongering and
Muslim-hating neocons.
Last October authorities in Yemen busted a terrorist cell accused of
attacking the U.S. embassy the previous month. According to a reported filed
with the state-run Saba news agency, the group had links to Israeli
intelligence. “The report, quoting an unnamed source, said investigations
and data retrieved from a computer seized from the cell, showed there was
correspondence between the Islamic Jihad group’s deputy leader Bassam
Abdullah Fadhel Al-Haidari and an Israeli intelligence agency,” the
Indo-Asian News Service said.
The Islamic Jihad, reported to have links with
the Al Qaeda, had claimed responsibility for the attack on the US embassy in
Sana’a Sep 17, which had claimed 18 lives, including that of an Indian
woman.
Saba quoted the source as saying that the
correspondence between the two sides included a request from the Israeli
side to implement terrorist attacks inside Yemen.
“An Israeli foreign ministry spokesman said the Yemeni president’s
statement was without foundation,” the
BBC reported.
“To believe that Israel would create Islamist cells in Yemen is really
far-fetched. This is yet another victory for the proponents of conspiracy
theories,” said Igal Palmor.
In fact, Israel has a long and sordid history of false flag attacks.
Following the Six-Day War in 1967,
Israel supported and encouraged Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Hamas in order
to counter the influence of a secular PLO. “Israel started Hamas. It was a
project of Shin Bet, which had a feeling that they could use it to hem in
the PLO,” said
Charles Freeman, a former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia. A former senior
CIA official speaking to UPI described Israel’s support for Hamas as “a
direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by
using a competing religious alternative.”
During the Six Day War, Israel attacked the USS Liberty and attempted to
blame it on Egypt.
In the 1980s, Israel conducted
a bombing campaign in Europe to counter A. Q. Khan’s nuclear
proliferation network, which helped Pakistan build a nuclear weapon.
Oded Yinon’s paper, “A
Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties,” published in the winter
of 1982 issue of Kivunim, suggested Arab States should be destroyed from
within by exploiting their internal religious and ethnic tensions.
In September of 2000, India’s largest news weekly reported that a
Mossad attempt to infiltrate al-Qaeda failed when undercover agents were
stopped on their way to Bangladesh by Indian customs officials.
A year later, the
Army School of Advanced Military Studies in the United States said the
following about Israeli intelligence: “Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has
capability to target US forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab
act.”
In 2005, US Intelligence officers reported that insurgents in Iraq used
Beretta 02 pistols minus serial numbers. “Analysts suggest the lack of
serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for intelligence
operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing. Analysts
speculate that these
guns are probably from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that
agent provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as US
authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of the
illegitimacy of the resistance,” the UPI reported.
In 2002, officials from the Palestinian Authority accused Mossad of
setting up a fake al-Qaeda terrorist cell in Gaza. Then Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat said that Israel had set up the mock cell in order to justify
attacks in Palestinian areas, according to the
BBC.
“Not one big success of the Mossad has ever been made public,”
Ephraim Halevy, head of the Mossad from 1998 to 2002, told 60 Minutes in
2003.
The U.S. also has a record of using and planning false flag attacks, most
notably
Operation Northwoods.
Andreas von Bülow, former German Minister for Research and Technology
and a long-time member of German parliament, said in 2002 the attacks on
September 11, 2001, were a false flag attack. “Whoever wants to understand
the CIA’s methods, has to deal with its main task of covert operations:
Below the level of war, and outside international law, foreign states are to
be influenced by inciting insurrections or terrorist attacks, usually
combined with drugs and weapons trade, and money laundering,” he told
Tagesspiegal.
In addition to its long history of covertly overthrowing governments
around the world, the CIA plotted false flag attacks in Europe to drive a
wedge between Syria and Iran (according to CIA agent
Robert Baer).
CIA operatives and patsies are legendary, as Webster Tarpley documents in
his book, 9/11
Synthetic Terrorism: Made in USA. (Tarpley told
Russia Today that the failed attack on a US passenger jet traveling from
Amsterdam to Detroit was a set-up provocation controlled by US
intelligence.)
If an embassy or other Western interests are bombed in the next few days
in Yemen, a finger should be pointed at the CIA, Mossad, or both, not the
rag-tag supposed al-Qaeda franchise operating in the country.
On January 3, the
Yemeni Foreign Ministry declared the threat posed by al-Qaeda is
“exaggerated” by the U.S.
Finally, it should be noted that al-Qaeda was established by the CIA in
Yemen, as CIA contractor
Billy Waugh admitted in his autobiography. “I worked right there with
these al-Qaeda operatives,” Waugh wrote in
Hunting the Jackal with
Tim Keown.
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