WE ARE THE NEXT TARGET (Amazing special report on real forces behind the global terrorist network)

Inside Story: World Report ^

[GIJoel]

It was actually quite entertaining. Took me back to the days of the Black Panthers/Weather Underground. I'm sure she'll turn up again. She's very, very angry.

[struwwelpeter]

From Viktor Bukovskiy's Secrets of the Central Committee:

USSR Committee for
State Security of the
Council of Ministers of the USSR
Moscow

April 23, 1974
Top Secret
Special Importance
(Special File)

To Comrade L.I. Brezhnev:

Since 1968, the KGB has maintained secret working contact with Wadia Haddad, Politburo member of the Peoples’ Liberation Front of Palestine (PLFP), head of the PLFP’s external operations section.

In a confidential conversation at a meeting with the KGB resident in Lebanon in April of this year, Wadia Haddad outlined a prospective program of sabotage and terrorism by the PLFP, which can be defined as follows:

The main aim of special activity by PLFP is to increase the effectiveness of the struggle of the Palestinian movement against Israel, Zionism, and American imperialism. Arising from this, the main thrusts of the planned sabotage and terrorist operations are:

• employing special means to prolong the "oil war" of Arab countries against the imperialist forces supporting Israel;
• carrying out operations against American and Israeli personnel in third countries with the aim of securing reliable information about the plans and intentions of the USA and Israel;
• carrying out acts of sabotage and terrorism on the territory of Israel;
• organizing acts of sabotage against the Diamond Center [in Tel Aviv], whose basic capital derives from Israeli, British, Belgian, and West German companies.

In order to implement the above measures, the PLFP is currently preparing a number of special operations, including strikes against large oil-storage installations in various countries (Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf, Hong Kong, et al.), the destruction of oil tankers and supertankers, actions against American and Israeli representatives in Iran, Greece, Ethiopia, Kenya, an attack on the Diamond Center in Tel Aviv, etc.

W. Haddad asks that we help his organization with the procurement of several kinds of special technology necessary for carrying out certain sabotage operations.

Cooperating with us and appealing for our help, W. Haddad is fully aware of our opposition to terrorism in principle, and does not pose any questions to us connected with this sphere of the PLFP’s activity.

The nature of our relations with W. Haddad allows us a degree of control over the activities of the PLFP’s external operations section, to exercise an influence favorable to the USSR, and also to reach some of our own aims through the activities of the PLFP while observing the necessary secrecy.

In view of the above, we feel it would be feasible, at the next meeting, to give a generally favorable response to Wadia Haddad’s request for special assistance to the PLFP. As for concrete questions of supplying aid, it is envisaged that every in-stance will be decided on an individual basis, bearing in mind the interests of the Soviet Union and preventing any detriment to the security of our country.

We request authorization.

Chairman of the Committee
for State Security
Andropov

[185JHP]

Excellence In Posting

[GIJoel]

To All,

I'm amazed at how fast information gets posted and developed on this forum. I've read this forum from time to time for quite some time. But I only recently starting posting. You really see how fast moving this place is when your paying attention to your own post. You guys must drive the Left nuts!!!

[Jasper]

"It was actually quite entertaining....."

I'll bet it was entertaining. Judging by other responses to her post; I can imagine what 'she' said.

/jasper

[GIJoel]

Jasper/Moderator,

Let's see if a moderator can locate it and put it back up.

Calling all Moderators, calling all Moderators...come in Moderators. It would seem that a number of Freepers would like the leftist screed that was removed from this thread to be put back up. Is that possible? It's strictly for entertainment purposes.

[Poohbah]

Generally, when much of the source material is from the John Birch Society, Claire Sterling's very flawed book about terrorism (which was apparently a victim of "blowback"), and Soldier of Fortune magazine, it's not going to be taken seriously (or seriesly).

The world, in case nobody noticed, has changed dramatically since 1991. Among other things, transnational terrorism has changed sharply with it. It is far less centrally directed or funded, which is why 9/11 happened--because Moscow isn't there to kill the ideas that could start World War III.

In the bad old days of the Cold War, the terrorist who said to Moscow, "Hey, we can fly an airplane or two into the World Trade Center and kill lots of people, would you please write us a check?" would be dead before the meeting ended--Moscow would not sign off on any attack that big that could be traced to them.

[xtinct]

Didn't Kerry just tell Australia not to support the US because they would be the next target?

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Related eye-opening story in today's Chicago Tribune:

A rare look at secretive Brotherhood in America - Muslims divided on Brotherhood - A group aiming to create Islamic states worldwide has established roots here, in large part under the guidance of Egypt-born Ahmed Elkadi

[Buggman]

BTTT

[Jasper]

"Jasper, Moderator.."

Yup, strictly for informational and entertainment purposes only.

/jasper

[Jasper]

"Jasper, Moderator.."

Yup, strictly for informational and entertainment purposes only.

/jasper

[GIJoel]

Mr. Pacepa was the highest ranking intelligence officer ever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc. The author of "Red Horizons" (Regnery, 1987), he is finishing a book on the origins of current anti-Americanism. Here is what Gen. Pacepa had to say about Yasser Arafat...

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The KGB's Man--By ION MIHAI PACEPA (September 22, 2003 )

The Israeli government has vowed to expel Yasser Arafat, calling him an "obstacle" to peace. But the 72-year-old Palestinian leader is much more than that; he is a career terrorist, trained, armed and bankrolled by the Soviet Union and its satellites for decades.

Before I defected to America from Romania, leaving my post as chief of Romanian intelligence, I was responsible for giving Arafat about $200,000 in laundered cash every month throughout the 1970s. I also sent two cargo planes to Beirut a week, stuffed with uniforms and supplies. Other Soviet bloc states did much the same. Terrorism has been extremely profitable for Arafat. According to Forbes magazine, he is today the sixth wealthiest among the world's "kings, queens & despots," with more than $300 million stashed in Swiss bank accounts.

"I invented the hijackings [of passenger planes]," Arafat bragged when I first met him at his PLO headquarters in Beirut in the early 1970s. He gestured toward the little red flags pinned on a wall map of the world that labeled Israel as "Palestine." "There they all are!" he told me, proudly. The dubious honor of inventing hijacking actually goes to the KGB, which first hijacked a U.S. passenger plane in 1960 to Communist Cuba. Arafat's innovation was the suicide bomber, a terror concept that would come to full flower on 9/11.

In 1972, the Kremlin put Arafat and his terror networks high on all Soviet bloc intelligence services' priority list, including mine. Bucharest's role was to ingratiate him with the White House. We were the bloc experts at this. We'd already had great success in making Washington -- as well as most of the fashionable left-leaning American academics of the day -- believe that Nicolae Ceausescu was, like Josip Broz Tito, an "independent" Communist with a "moderate" streak.

KGB chairman Yuri Andropov in February 1972 laughed to me about the Yankee gullibility for celebrities. We'd outgrown Stalinist cults of personality, but those crazy Americans were still naïve enough to revere national leaders. We would make Arafat into just such a figurehead and gradually move the PLO closer to power and statehood. Andropov thought that Vietnam-weary Americans would snatch at the smallest sign of conciliation to promote Arafat from terrorist to statesman in their hopes for peace.

Right after that meeting, I was given the KGB's "personal file" on Arafat. He was an Egyptian bourgeois turned into a devoted Marxist by KGB foreign intelligence. The KGB had trained him at its Balashikha special-ops school east of Moscow and in the mid-1960s decided to groom him as the future PLO leader. First, the KGB destroyed the official records of Arafat's birth in Cairo, replacing them with fictitious documents saying that he had been born in Jerusalem and was therefore a Palestinian by birth.

The KGB's disinformation department then went to work on Arafat's four-page tract called "Falastinuna" (Our Palestine), turning it into a 48-page monthly magazine for the Palestinian terrorist organization al-Fatah. Arafat had headed al-Fatah since 1957. The KGB distributed it throughout the Arab world and in West Germany, which in those days played host to many Palestinian students. The KGB was adept at magazine publication and distribution; it had many similar periodicals in various languages for its front organizations in Western Europe, like the World Peace Council and the World Federation of Trade Unions.

Next, the KGB gave Arafat an ideology and an image, just as it did for loyal Communists in our international front organizations. High-minded idealism held no mass-appeal in the Arab world, so the KGB remolded Arafat as a rabid anti-Zionist. They also selected a "personal hero" for him -- the Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, the man who visited Auschwitz in the late 1930s and reproached the Germans for not having killed even more Jews. In 1985 Arafat paid homage to the mufti, saying he was "proud no end" to be walking in his footsteps.

Arafat was an important undercover operative for the KGB. Right after the 1967 Six Day Arab-Israeli war, Moscow got him appointed to chairman of the PLO. Egyptian ruler Gamal Abdel Nasser, a Soviet puppet, proposed the appointment. In 1969 the KGB asked Arafat to declare war on American "imperial-Zionism" during the first summit of the Black Terrorist International, a neo-Fascist pro-Palestine organization financed by the KGB and Libya's Moammar Gadhafi. It appealed to him so much, Arafat later claimed to have invented the imperial-Zionist battle cry. But in fact, "imperial-Zionism" was a Moscow invention, a modern adaptation of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," and long a favorite tool of Russian intelligence to foment ethnic hatred. The KGB always regarded anti-Semitism plus anti-imperialism as a rich source of anti-Americanism.

The KGB file on Arafat also said that in the Arab world only people who were truly good at deception could achieve high status. We Romanians were directed to help Arafat improve "his extraordinary talent for deceiving." The KGB chief of foreign intelligence, General Aleksandr Sakharovsky, ordered us to provide cover for Arafat's terror operations, while at the same time building up his international image. "Arafat is a brilliant stage manager," his letter concluded, "and we should put him to good use." In March 1978 I secretly brought Arafat to Bucharest for final instructions on how to behave in Washington. "You simply have to keep on pretending that you'll break with terrorism and that you'll recognize Israel -- over, and over, and over," Ceausescu told him for the umpteenth time. Ceausescu was euphoric over the prospect that both Arafat and he might be able to snag a Nobel Peace Prize with their fake displays of the olive branch.

In April 1978 I accompanied Ceausescu to Washington, where he charmed President Carter. Arafat, he urged, would transform his brutal PLO into a law-abiding government-in-exile if only the U.S. would establish official relations. The meeting was a great success for us. Carter hailed Ceausescu, dictator of the most repressive police state in Eastern Europe, as a "great national and international leader" who had "taken on a role of leadership in the entire international community." Triumphant, Ceausescu brought home a joint communiqué in which the American president stated that his friendly relations with Ceausescu served "the cause of the world."

Three months later I was granted political asylum by the U.S. Ceausescu failed to get his Nobel Peace Prize. But in 1994 Arafat got his -- all because he continued to play the role we had given him to perfection. He had transformed his terrorist PLO into a government-in-exile (the Palestinian Authority), always pretending to call a halt to Palestinian terrorism while letting it continue unabated. Two years after signing the Oslo Accords, the number of Israelis killed by Palestinian terrorists had risen by 73%.

On Oct. 23, 1998, President Clinton concluded his public remarks to Arafat by thanking him for "decades and decades and decades of tireless representation of the longing of the Palestinian people to be free, self-sufficient, and at home." The current administration sees through Arafat's charade but will not publicly support his expulsion. Meanwhile, the aging terrorist has consolidated his control over the Palestinian Authority and marshaled his young followers for more suicide attacks.

Link:

http://www.geocities.com/munichseptember1972/the_kgb_man.htm

[GIJoel]

Buggman,

Forgive my ignorance, what is BTTT????

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/862546/posts

Free Republic Dictionary-Help For Newcomers
Old FR Thread ^ | 3/11/03 | Various FReepers

Bump is used when someone wants to post a reply to a thread simply to "bump" it back to the top of the "Latest Posts" list so more visitors will see it. BTTT - "Back To The Top" is used interchangeably with "Bump".

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And from BBS/sysop days-- BUMP means "bring up my post."

[Poohbah]

Notice the time period that 99% of the article refers to: the 1970s. Like I said, the rules changed drastically in 1991--mostly because there were no rules anymore.

If you insist on looking at Russia as the source of terrorism in this Year of Our Lord 2004, you're going to get very thoroughly surprised.

[GIJoel]

Poohbah,

Someone once told me, "you don't debate liars, you expose them." Given your total commitment to debunk any possibility of continuity between the time of the Cold War and the present, I'm getting dangerously close to putting you into the very category my friend warned me about. If you want to debate the merits of the piece, then do so with a desire to get at the truth. Sweeping and condescending statements only cause me to doubt your credibility.

[GIJoel]

BTW POOH-bah,

Your assertion that 99% of the report deals with the 1970s is pure BS. You obviously conducted a cursory review to get the flavor of the piece, and then unleashed a barrage of (rehearsed) inuendo. No conservative worth his salt behaves in this way. Perhaps you should go back to the sandbox from which you came.

[GIJoel]

Thanks Backhoe,

I'm rather lost when it comes to message board lingo.

[DC Bound]

Nice article, and the ones that follow on the thread support your contention that the old carried over into the new. I've been reading quite a bit about terrorism, including a book called "the Age of Sacred Terror" which totally skips the communist part in the roots of terror. It lays the blame on the Muslim Brotherhood, which it says resulted from purely religious discord between infidel muslim leaders and fundamentalist muslims in the 50's. The book is authored by two gentlemen that served in Clinton's NSC. (I know, I should have expected a half-true story). At any rate, your post has been an eye opener. Thanks.