The following is mirrored from its source at: http://www.sptimesrussia.com/archive/times/818/opinion/o_7835.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Global Eye - Into the Dark by Chris Floyd 5 November 2002 The St Petersburg Times "This age: layers of lime harden in the sick son's blood ... There's nowhere to run from the tyrant-epoch ... Who else will you kill? Who else glorify? What other lies will you invent?" - Osip Mandelshtam, "January 1, 1924" This column stands foursquare with the Honorable Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defense Secretary, when he warns that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large. We know, as does the Honorable Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defense Secretary, that this statement is an incontrovertible fact, a matter of scientific certainty. And how can we and the Honorable Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defense Secretary, be so sure that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large? Because these attacks will be instigated at the order of the Honorable Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defense Secretary. This astonishing admission was buried deep in a story, which was itself submerged by mounds of gray newsprint and glossy underwear ads in last Sunday's Los Angeles Times. There -- in an article by military analyst William Arkin detailing the vast expansion of the secret armies being massed by the former Nixon bureaucrat now lording it over the Pentagon -- came the revelation of Rumsfeld's plan to create "a super-Intelligence Support Activity" that will "bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence and cover and deception." According to a classified document prepared for Rumsfeld by his Defense Science Board, the new organization -- the "Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG)" -- will carry out secret missions designed to "stimulate reactions" among terrorist groups, provoking them into committing violent acts which would then expose them to "counterattack" by U.S. forces. In other words -- and let's say this plainly, clearly and soberly, so that no one can mistake the intention of Rumsfeld's plan -- the United States government is planning to use "cover and deception" and secret military operations to provoke murderous terrorist attacks on innocent people. Let's say it again: Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and the other members of the unelected regime in Washington plan to deliberately foment the murder of innocent people -- your family, your friends, your lovers, you -- in order to further their geopolitical ambitions. For P2OG is not designed solely to flush out terrorists and bring them to justice -- a laudable goal in itself, although the Rumsfeld way of combating terrorism by causing it is pure moral lunacy. (Or should we use the Regime's own preferred terminology and just call it "evil"?) No, it seems the Pee-Twos have bigger fish to fry. Once they have sparked terrorists into action -- by killing their family members? luring them with loot? fueling them with drugs? plying them with jihad propaganda? messing with their mamas? or with agents provocateurs, perhaps, who infiltrate groups then plan and direct the attacks themselves? -- they can then take measures against the "states/sub-state actors accountable" for "harboring" the Rumsfeld-roused gangs. What kind of measures exactly? Well, the classified Pentagon program puts it this way: "Their sovereignty will be at risk." The Pee-Twos will thus come in handy whenever the Regime hankers to add a little oil-laden real estate or a new military base to the Empire's burgeoning portfolio. Just find a nest of violent malcontents, stir 'em with a stick, and presto: instant "justification" for whatever level of intervention/conquest/rapine you might desire. And what if the territory you fancy doesn't actually harbor any convenient marauders to use for fun and profit? Well, surely a God-like "super-Intelligence Support Activity" is capable of creation ex nihilo, yes? The Rumsfeld-Bush plan to employ murder and terrorism for political, financial and ideological gain does have historical roots (besides al-Qaida, the Stern Gang, the SA, the SS, the KGB, the IRA, the UDF, Eta, Hamas, Shining Path and countless other upholders of Bushian morality, decency and freedom). We refer of course to Operations Northwoods, oft mentioned in these pages: the plan that America's top military brass presented to President John Kennedy in 1963, calling for a phony terrorist campaign -- complete with bombings, hijackings, plane crashes and dead Americans -- to provide "justification" for an invasion of Cuba, the mafia/corporate fiefdom that had recently been lost to Castro. Kennedy rejected the plan, and was killed a few months later. Now Rumsfeld has resurrected Northwoods, but on a far grander scale, with resources at his disposal undreamed of by those brass of yore, with no counterbalancing global rival to restrain him -- and with an ignorant, corrupt president who has shown himself all too eager to embrace any means whatsoever that will augment the wealth and power of his own narrow, undemocratic, elitist clique. There is prestuplyeniye here, transgression, a stepping-over -- deliberately, with open eyes, with forethought, planning, and conscious will -- of lines that should never be crossed. Acting in deadly symbiosis with rage-maddened killers, God-crazed ranters and those supreme "sub-state actors," the mafias, Bush and his cohorts are plunging the world into an abyss, an endless night of black ops, retribution, blowback, deceit, of murder and terror -- wholesale, retail, state-sponsored, privatized; of fear and degradation, servility, chaos, and the perversion of all that's best in us, of all that we've won from the bestiality of our primal nature, all that we've raised above the mindless ravening urges and impulses still boiling in the mud of our monkey brains. It's not a fight for freedom; it's a retreat into darkness. And the day will be a long time coming. The Secret War Los Angeles Times, 27 October 2002 Friendly Fire: Operation Northwoods ABCNews.com, 1 May 2001 Making a Killing: The Business of War: Overview Center for Public Integrity, 29 October 2002 1. Making a Killing: The Business of War, 10/28/02 (PDF) 2. Privatizing Combat, the New World Order, 10/28/02 (PDF) A look at the global trend toward military outsourcing and foreign policy by proxy since the end of the Cold War. 3. Marketing the New `Dogs of War', 10/30/02 (PDF) A look at the secret world of British special operations and the erratic career of Britain's best known mercenary, who is campaigning to legalize private armies. o Cozy, Clubby and Covert - Britain's thriving mercenary trade. 4. Greasing the Skids of Corruption, 11/4/2002 (PDF) Insider banking information provides a glimpse into how money from multinationaloil companies helps fuel corruption and war in an oil-rich African state. 5. The Curious Bonds of Oil Diplomacy, 11/6/2002 (PDF) An oil-rich state with a dismal human rights record becomes a major object of interest for the U.S. government and an American military company. 6. Conflict Diamonds are Forever, 11/8/2002 (PDF) Poor controls in the diamond industry have undercut attempts to clamp down on conflict diamonds that fuel war. 7. The Adventure Capitalist, 11/11/2002 A look at one of the new breed of opportunists who have the acumen and ruthlessness to profit from Africa's wars. 8. The Influence Peddlers, 11/13/2002 9. The Field Marshal, 11/15/2002 10. Drugs, Diamonds and Deadly Cargoes, 11/18/2002 11. The Merchant of Death, 11/20/200 Deeper Into the Big Muddy Consortiumnews.com, 27 October 2002 America's Secret Armies US News & World Report, 4 November 2002 An American Invitation to Deter America International Herald Tribune, 24 October 2002 Vidal Claims `Bush Junta' Complicit in 9-11 The Observer, 27 October 2002 Operation Endless Deployment The Nation, 3 October 2002 U.S. Weapons Secrets Exposed The Guardian, 29 October 2002 The Rumsfeld Intelligence Agency Slate.com, 28 October 2002 Copyright © 2002 Chris Floyd Copyright © 2002 TheMoscowTimes.com Reprinted for Fair Use Only. http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/IntoTheDark.html (hypertext) http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/IntoTheDark.txt (text only) http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/IntoTheDark.pdf (print ready)