#11
Nezavisimaya Gazeta
October 10, 2001
A GLOBAL PROVOCATION
Why the war against terrorism may not be what it seems
Author: Leonid Ivashov
[from WPS Monitoring Agency, www.wps.ru/e_index.html]

ANY OPERATIONS AGAINST TERRORISM WILL AMOUNT TO TILTING AGAINST WINDMILLS IF WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONS IN EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED. THE TRAGEDY OF SEPTEMBER 11 BENEFITS FORCES WHICH SEEK TO STRENGTHEN WASHINGTON'S GLOBAL DOMINANCE.

The military operation against Afghanistan and George W. Bush's menacing warning that the US will consider any government which supports terrorism as its enemy concerns practically all countries, because it is easy enough to find terrorists and reports of terrorist organizations. Meanwhile, the US can accuse any country which did not support the operation of supporting terrorism - and the image of the enemy is ready.

Of course, the Taliban is an evil. However, the US did not want to vote for sanctions against this regime a few months ago...

The tragedy in New York and Washington raises many questions.

Were the terrorist attacks on September 11 a global challenge by terrorists to the international security? Could they have been a provocation by powerful transnational forces which use terrorists to achieve their goals? Any operations against terrorism will amount to tilting against windmills if we do not understand the cause-effect relations in everything that has happened.

Why did terrorists attack the US, the top nation in economic and military terms, and the leader of the civilized world?

The other side of the coin is darker. The US is a country which considers the whole planet - and outer space - as the zone of its interests. This country wants to gain control over the whole world and forces its allies to support its interests, thus disregarding traditions of other nations.

The essence of the new world order is a global Monroe doctrine. The US seeks global dominance. A far as the causes of the tragedy in the US are concerned, they should be sought in 1991 when the US contributed to the disintegration of the USSR.

The Soviet Union guaranteed the stability of the world.

The USSR held the US back from aggressive attacks and gave Washington a chance to remain a democratic country. The USSR prevented the US from using its military force and new technologies for gaining control over the world.

At present, no one can stop Washington's expansion and its aggressive policy. The US has ignored the UN. This is why many forces protest against this expansion spontaneously. Anti-globalization protesters hold demonstrations in Europe and oppose the process of globalization launched by the US. Terrorism was born because Washington's policies cannot be stopped by democratic methods.

The tragedy which happened on September 11 is a consequence of Washington's policy and an advantage for US forces which seek global predominance in the world. On the other hand, such a policy will aggravate protests which will lead to new terrorist actions. This situation raises a very important questions: aren't terrorist acts in New York and Washington a well-planned global provocation?

If we were to view the version of the events of September 11 as a huge provocation, then we should discover the motives and aims of its organizers and those forces that ordered this large-scale crime.

As for the immediate executors, it is obvious that there exists social habitat for their appearance and there are enough people ready to sacrifice themselves for the sake of Allah, for the sake of justice. This "human trotyl" is dangerous only potentially. It explodes only when some other people put it under some object and launch the trigger. And I am absolutely sure that Osama bin Laden, Terrorist No. 1 is nothing but a more powerful charge of the same "human trotyl". They started creating him when anti-western terrorism was spreading rapidly - the 1960s and 1970s. It was then that in a number of countries of the Middle East, Latin America and South-East Asia there were established organizations, professionally dealing with preparing and carrying out acts of terrorism. The main objects of this diversion activities were the United States, Israel, France, Britain. All these events prompted the CIA and Mossad to conclude that it was necessary to establish a wide network of agents in the Islamic states and to set up anti-Soviet terrorist structures. Appearance of Soviet troops in Afghanistan in December 1979 favored this idea. This is how Osama bin Laden appeared. The media often say that bin Laden left his masters. Did he? Or did he just change his masters? In connection with bin Laden there are a number of questions, and the first of them is about his invulnerability. The Taliban is a creature of Pakistani secret services, which are strategic allies of the US secret services. And today, if the US wants Osama bin Laden dead or alive (most likely they want him dead), Pakistanis would hand him over on a silver platter. The second question: why did bin Laden keep his money openly in US banks, without anyone touching it until September 2001? And another thing: why does Osama bin Laden express his extremist inclinations when Israel has political problems? As we know, the situation around Tel Aviv is especially gloomy this year. And according to the Washington Post on October 1, it was in September this year that Secretary of State Colin Powell was going to express the idea of supporting the establishment of a independent state of Palestine; only the tragedy of September 11 wrecked these plans. And even during the first hours of the US retaliatory strikes, Osama bin Laden (or someone who looks very much like him) played up to its organizers, making a speech on television. At that, if earlier he proclaimed that he was innocent, this time he accepted it, and thus, justified the decision of George Bush. We have to conclude that some other forces, apart from the Islamic world, need a Terrorist No. 1. What aims might the action with the planes follow if it was a planned provocation?

Nowadays, geo-economical interests are in the foreground, defending the interests of the United States - of giant transnational oil companies, to be more exact. For example, in the Balkans Washington is puffing up Albanian nationalism and setting up a network of protectors and tiny states, thus deciding the destiny of Bulgarian- Macedonian-Albanian oil transport routes. The same combination reveals itself in the Middle East, where a state of controlled tension is being kept up artificially. Such plans are connected with the Caspian Sea oil fields.

The provocation of September 11 serves the interests of tightening military control of the US over oil routes, enhancing political-military pressure on states producing oil, activating influence on the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Thus, one of the parties interested in the provocation might be the United States, and multinationals as well.

In the political sphere aims were dictated on the assumption of worsened political image of Washington, which was caused by its aggressive actions in the Middle East and the Balkans, withdrawal from the ABM Treaty of 1972, ignoring the UN and other international organizations, ignoring the standards and principles of the international law.

The huge provocation enables the US to appear as the injured party, the victim, drawing sympathy from around the world.

And the slogan of "those who aren't with us are with the terrorists" fits into the situation very well. Nobody wants to be with the terrorists, nobody wants to be a target for US missiles. It means that other nations can only be with the United States, sharing responsibility for its policies - past, present and future; sharing responsibility for this global-scale escapade. So all of us, or nearly all, are tied to US policy. And this is a fairly serious step toward world domination.

(Translated by Daria Brunova and Alexander Dubovoi)

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