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CIA Invents Hezbollah Threat
Kurt
Nimmo
Monday Sept 3, 2007
As it turns out, the “threat” of terrorist attacks
against the United States by Hezbollah, included in the latest
National Intelligence Estimate, was casually thrown in, apparently
to add some color.
“Speaking under condition of anonymity because they were
not authorized to speak publicly, several intelligence officers
asserted that the report was sloppy and lacked supporting evidence,”
reports Larisa
Alexandrovna for Raw Story. “The NIE seems… fiddled
[with],” regarding Hezbollah, one high-ranking CIA official
told Alexandrovna. “Whether it is or isn’t is not
really the point. The point is that nobody is ready to believe
it.” Nobody, that is, except a gullible American public,
barraged 24-7 with idiotic tales of terrorists gone wild, ready
to invade the homeland and convert Americans at gunpoint to Islamofascism.
“As regards to the Hezbollah ‘threat,’”
the official added, “they just threw that in. Nobody in
CIA talks to Hezbollah, and they’re living off their assessments
from back in the 80s, which they really never got right anyway.”
The CIA never got it right, preferring instead to regurgitate
Israeli “assessments” formulated after the invasion
of Lebanon. Fact is, Hezbollah was organized as a response to
Israel’s invasion in 1982. Even the CFR
admits as much. “Hezbollah was founded in 1982 in response
to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and subsumed members of the
1980s coalition of groups known as Islamic Jihad. It has close
links to Iran and Syria,” same as the United States has
“close links” with Israel, although the CFR does not
bother to make such comparisons.
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“Released last week, the NIE is a consensus view from all
sixteen intelligence agencies and departments, compiled by the
National Intelligence Council and signed off on by the agencies
involved as well as by the Director for National Intelligence,”
Alexandrovna continues. “The document represents the ‘official’
intelligence community view on any issue related to national security.”
In other words, the NIE consists of made-up threats and should
be considered a work of fiction, not an “estimate”
of reality. “Intelligence officials would not confirm whether
the classified version contained dissenting views. However, several
expressed concern that parts of the report may have been politicized,”
that is to say it is, at least in part, a Brothers Grimm fairy
tale, designed to scare witless Americans. Director of National
Intelligence Vanee Vines told Alexandrovna “the key judgments
of the NIE speak for themselves,” sort of the same way Dr.
Seuss’ poetic meters speak to children.
“The main analysis of the report focuses on the rise and
resurgence of Al Qaeda in Pakistan. Most sources interviewed for
this article agreed with the general assertion provided in the
analysis—that Pakistan is harboring al Qaeda and has a record
of support for terrorism.” Of course, there is scant evidence
“al-Qaeda,” itself a creation of the CIA and Pakistan’s
ISI, is on the rise in Pakistan, although it is certainly true
the intelligence service of Pakistan “has a record of support
for terrorism,” most notably in Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmiri
militants are trained and supported the same way the “Afghan
Arabs” were trained and supported, with the guiding hand—and
a large infusion of U.S. taxpayer cash—of the CIA. Point
is, the tribal area of South Waziristan is not directly under
the control of Pakistan, as it was not fully under the control
of the British Raj. It remains a wild card in need of domestication.
Neolib loan sharks demand as much.
Edward Gistaro, key drafter of the NIE and the national intelligence
expert for transnational threats at the National Intelligence
Council, provided an excuse for the addition of Hezbollah to the
NIE. The Hezbollah threat emerges “partly out of what we
saw last summer in Lebanon where Hezbollah publicly said that
they saw a U.S. hand in the conflict there,” a big time
no-brainer, as the United States has provided Israel with an astounding
$1.6 trillion in handouts since 1973. “Israel is the largest
recipient of US foreign aid. It is already due to get $2.04 billion
in military assistance and $720 million in economic aid in fiscal
2003. It has been getting $3 billion a year for years,”
reports the Christian
Science Monitor. “Many Americans would probably say
it is money well spent to support a beleaguered democracy of some
strategic interest,” never mind this “democracy”
is restricted to people of Jewish ancestry and non-Jews in Palestine
are not only victims of a pernicious form of apartheid but victims
of frequent mass murder campaigns conducted with expensive high-tech
tools provided by unobservant Americans. For the racist Israeli
government, controlled by fanatical Jabotinskyite Likudniks, no
doubt this is “money well spent,” or rather the money
of other people well spent.
It is precisely these Israelis, in collaboration with American
neocons—who are often more fanatical when it comes to slaughtering
Muslims and Arabs than the Jabotinskyites—who are pushing
the fantastical Hezbollah threat. “As bombing and missile
attacks continue between Israel and Hezbollah, Israeli officials
have warned their diplomats around the world about the threat
of Hezbollah sleeper cells,” ABC
News reported last July. “There is no credible intelligence
pointing to an imminent Hezbollah attack on the United States,
but sources say to ABC News that the group is capable of striking
here,” same as properly motivated Greenlanders are “capable
of striking here.”
Finally, the illusory threat of Hezbollah attacking the United
States needs to be put in its proper context—it is a neocon
excuse to target and victimize American Muslims. “Muslim
American groups worry that fear of Hezbollah violence in the United
States could again cast an unwelcome spotlight on their community,
which has often felt a target of surveillance or discrimination
since the Sept. 11 attacks,” NewsMax
reported last July. “Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the
Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington, said his
advocacy group fielded almost daily complaints from Muslims who
felt singled out or intimidated by government officials.”
As should be expected, the CIA is doing its part in the effort,
as the “clash of civilizations” is about targeting
American Muslims as well as those of the Middle East. “US
foreign policy and its approach to terrorism are based on political
decisions, which then trickle down inadvertently, or in some cases
surreptitiously, into intelligence analysis,” writes Larisa
Alexandrovna. As we know, U.S. foreign policy is currently in
the clutches of a coven of criminally insane neocons, determined
to launch “World War IV,” the war against Israel’s
enemies. As should be expected, the kissing cousins of the neocons,
the venal Wall Street neolibs, are onboard with this noxious plan,
as the “war on terror” is as much about squashing
all resistance to loan sharking schemes and fire sales as it is
the serial murder of all who would oppose Israeli hegemony.
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