Wikileaks Publishes US Counterinsurgency Manual-Bribery-Employing Terrorists-False Flags-Cover-Ups

[kpete]

Jonathan Schwarz:
Wikileaks Publishes US Counterinsurgency Manual?
Wikileaks has posted what it says is a manual of US counterinsurgency doctrine:

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/How_to_train_death_squads_and_quash_revolutions_from_San_Salvador_to_you
The manual, Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces (1994, 2004), may be critically described as “what we learned about running death squads and propping up corrupt government in Latin America and how to apply it to other places”. Its contents are both history defining for Latin America and, given the continued role of US Special Forces in the suppression of insurgencies and guerilla movements world wide, history making.

The document, which has been verified, is official US Special Forces doctrine. It directly advocates training paramilitaries, pervasive surveillance, censorship, press control and restrictions on labor unions & political parties. It directly advocates warrantless searches, detainment without charge and the suspension of habeas corpus. It directly advocates bribery, employing terrorists, false flag operations and concealing human rights abuses from journalists. And it directly advocates the extensive use of “psychological operations” (propaganda) to make these and other “population & resource control” measures more palatable.

The document has been particularly informed by the long United States involvement in the El Salvador…

I have no way of judging whether the document is legitimate, but it certainly reads like it is.

Recall that in 2005 the Defense Department decided on what it called “The Salvador Option” for Iraq, with James Steele, a veteran of counterinsurgency in El Salvador during the eighties, training Iraq’s Special Police Commandos.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek/print/1/displaymode/1098/
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0507-26.htm

more at:
http://thismodernworld.com/4358

[Joanne98]

1. OMG! K&R

[evlbstrd]

2. Read The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.

It's all in there.

[kpete]

6. great book

[arcadian]

3. U.S. Army - Thank you for your service

[annabanana]

4. (whew - wikileaks is one HOT site!)

I hope they move around a lot...

[pleah]

5. K&R Thank you Wikileaks and you kpete!

[robertpaulsen]

7. Hmmm...wonder how many counterinsurgency forces we have lined up around Saudi Arabia?

That thought crossed my mind seeing the Breaking News Page at LATOC today:

Breaking News: Tuesday June 17th, 2008

Der Spiegel: King of Saudi Arabia Calls an Emergency Meeting with World Bankers

Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud seems less than thrilled these days, and the newly tense atmosphere at the Saudi Petroleum and Natural Resources Ministry in Riyadh is a reflection of his mood. Early last week, the Saudi king decided that enough had been said about the oil price, and that it was time for action. He invited the world's petroleum elite to attend a meeting at his
summer residence on the Red Sea, and this time he wants everyone on the list to attend: the heads of state and relevant cabinet ministers of oil-producing countries and the biggest oil consumers, the heads of ExxonMobil, Shell and Gazprom, and bankers from Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Lehman Brothers.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,560215,00.html


Der Spiegel: Saudi Arabia Desperate for Oil Prices to Come Down

When the oil-producing and oil-consuming countries meet over the weekend
in Jiddah on the invitation of the king of Saudi Arabia, the Saudis will be
alone in their belief that oil prices are abnormally high. Saudi Arabia's great
opponent is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is banking on
long-term shortages and believes that petroleum should cost a lot more.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,560159,00.html


FTW: Saudi Arabia, the Next Stop in the Global War for Oil

Editor's Note: An FTW article fom 2003, should put the last-minute meeting the King of Saudi Arabia is calling into some wider context.

Saudi Arabia is another classic example of how trickle down economics
doesn't work. The chances are good the US would conveniently respond to
a collapse of the Saudi monarchy in an operation which would see many of
the al-Saud and Bin Laden family gratefully take their billions and watch as
their country, which has only existed since the 1930s, be partitioned into
several emirates or sultanates. They might safely move into the eastern
part of the country - where the oil is - under US protection and dodge the
wreckage they have created in the rest of the country.Or they might move
to Switzerland or Beverly Hills as the family of the Shah of Iran did in 1979.

Also, in a recent private email, Mike had this to say regarding a possible invasion of Saudi Arabia:

The plan to partition Saudi Arabia has been in place for at least five years.
That's when I described it. US air and naval assets are already positioned to
secure the georgraphy, which is all in the east and concentrated. Special
Forces are pre-deployed to assist Saudi factions behind the ruling family to
secure just the oil fields. Like Iraq, the rest of the country be damned.
That's been the plan for a long time.

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/051503_saudi_africa.html


Mother Jones: The Thirty Year Itch (to Seize Saudi Oil)

Editor's Note: Mother Jones article, als fom 2003, should put the last-minute meeting the King of Saudi Arabia is calling into some wider context:


In 1975, while Akins was ambassador in Saudi Arabia, an article headlined
"Seizing Arab Oil" appeared in Harper's. The author, who used the
pseudonym Miles Ignotus, was identified as "a Washington-based professor
and defense consultant with intimate links to high-level U.S. policymakers."
The article outlined, as Akins puts it, "how we could solve all our economic
and political problems by taking over the Arab oil fields bringing in
Texans and Oklahomans to operate them." Simultaneously, a rash of similar
stories appeared in other magazines and newspapers. "I knew that it had to
have been the result of a deep background briefing," Akins says. "You don't
have eight people coming up with the same screwy idea at the same time,
independently. "Then I made a fatal mistake," Akins continues. "I said on
television that anyone who would propose that is either a madman, a
criminal, or an agent of the Soviet Union." Soon afterward, he says, he
learned that the background briefing had been conducted by his boss, then
-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Akins was fired later that year.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/03/ma_273_01.html


http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/BreakingNews.html

[kpete]

8. interesting links

thanks

[readmoreoften]

9. wow. great reading.

This is why there is more to life than self-interest or group interest. It's also why I have no sympathy for scabs and counter-revs and woe-as-mes. "I must join an organization that murders the grandmothers of militants because I dearly love my own grandmother so desperately! I am backed into a corner! Oh the humanity!" This line of thinking is not forgivable or acceptable.

[Quantess]

10. Interesting...