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- In early March 2001, a leading European
intelligence agency received disturbing news from its most senior and trusted
agent in Tel Aviv. Aware of growing international resistance to its ruthless
and murderous suppression of the Palestinians, the Israeli Cabinet had
met to discuss the limited ways in which it could proceed with its plans
to annex the rest of Palestine, with or without the support of principal
ally America, or the "International Community". At the time,
the Israeli Cabinet had no idea that the subject matter of its March meeting
would later become one of the prime reasons for the September attack on
the World Trade Center.
- The Israeli Cabinet was seriously worried.
Despite effective control of the western media by the Jewish-American lobby,
risk assessment conducted in Tel Aviv showed there was still a high probability
that continued ruthless Israeli activity in Palestine, would lead in turn
to increased sanctions by the western nations. Initially the sanctions
would take the form of decreased arms shipments to Israel, followed later
by increasingly large cuts in overseas financial "aid", still
provided in the main by unwitting American taxpayers. Sooner or later financial
aid might dry up completely, but this was not the worst case scenario.
- Eventually, if western public opinion
became strident enough, America and Europe might feel compelled to impose
a complete oil embargo on Israel. With no natural resources of its own,
and only limited strategic oil reserves in the country, Israelís
armed forces would grind to a complete standstill in only a few weeks.
Aircraft and battle tanks have an almost insatiable thirst for petroleum
products, and when those products run out, the aircraft and tanks are no
more use to their owners than chunks of aluminum and steel waiting for
the recycling smelters.
- Clearly then, the Israeli Cabinet had
to find an alternate source of oil, and find it quickly. Moreover, bearing
in mind they would no longer be able to pay for the oil because of financial
sanctions, the new source would have to be "free". Back in the
sixties, ambitious Israelis had made detailed plans to acquire just such
an alternate source of oil by force, but the plans had to be shelved for
geopolitical reasons. Those geopolitical restrictions no longer existed
in 2001, so the old plans were taken out of storage, dusted off, and renamed
Operation Shekhinah.
- Stealing oil reserves from another nation
was certainly not an original idea. The closest historical precedent for
Operation Shekhinah was probably back in 1941, when Roosevelt imposed a
total oil embargo on Japan during the first American "War on Terror".
Seeing conflict as inevitable and recognizing its desperate need for an
alternate source of oil, the Japanese responded accordingly, acutely aware
that in order to reach and utilize the oil reserves in the Dutch East Indies,
it would first have to overwhelm the [then] vastly superior US Navy.
- It was in this context that Admiral Isoroku
Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, suggested
an air attack on the US Pacific Fleet, which had moved from its usual base
at San Diego on the American west coast, to a mid-Pacific location at Pearl
Harbor in May 1940. Yamamoto's plan was a development of the traditional
Japanese defensive strategy. He gambled on a surprise attack to destroy
the American naval capability in the Pacific, including its all-important
aircraft carriers, and create enough time, perhaps six months, to enable
Japan to complete its territorial conquests.
- Simultaneous attacks by the Japanese
army on Hong Kong, Malaya, the Philippines, Guam and the Dutch East Indies
would capture the strategically important bases and areas rich in raw materials
Japan felt was vital for its national survival and would also now be needed
to sustain its war with America. The rest, as they say, is history.
- Along much the same lines, and for similar
strategic reasons in 2001, Israel intended to launch a surprise attack
against southern Iraq, capture its southern oil fields, then use the old
existing Trans Arabian Pipeline ["Tapline"], to pump the oil
back to its own refineries at Haifa. Technical details of the operation
will be provided later in this report, and in part two to follow, but first
we need to examine the chances of the operation succeeding, and the subsequent
reaction of the western nations and Russia.
- Back in the sixties, when the operation
was first planned by Israel, the British, Russians and Europeans had huge
investments in the middle east, so an outraged backlash against Israel
would have been immediate, and probably terminal for any ongoing "Jewish
State" in Palestine. It was on this basis that the Iraqi plan was
shelved and left to gather dust. However, during the years that followed,
the entire geopolitical landscape changed. By March 2001, the Israeli Cabinet
considered the risks to be minimal, and probably non-existent if Operation
Shekhinah was handled correctly. What had changed the odds was the new
status of Iraq.
- During the late eighties and nineties,
the fledgling "New World Order" and the media had spent millions
of dollars demonizing President Saddam Hussein, to the point where he was
eventually regarded by 95% of the western public as "The Butcher of
Baghdad". Not only was this Iraqi demon allegedly manufacturing weapons
of mass destruction almost identical to those stored in America, he was
also the tyrant who "gassed his own Kurds at Halabja".
- In fact President Hussein did no such
thing. In February 1990 the US Army War College published a report titled
"Iraqi Power & US Security in the Middle East", which proved
the Kurds of Halabja died as the direct result of an Iranian Phosgene gas
attack. But the western media, firmly in the grip of the Jewish-American
lobby, wasnít going to let the hard truth get in the way of its
frantic vilification campaign.
- In light of Saddam Husseinís new
demonic status, the Israeli Cabinet reasoned in March 2001 that no one
would now object to Israel taking strenuous action against this "known
war criminal and killer of babies". Instead, it was calculated that
the action would be seen by the western public as daring. Once again the
brave Jews would have taken a stand against a dictator in the sacred name
of democracy; and hopefully the western public would not notice the millions
of barrels of stolen Iraqi oil flowing back to its refineries in Haifa.
And even if they did notice, what could they do about it with Israel already
in occupation?
- Before Operation Shekhinah could be launched,
Israel needed its own "tame" Arabs on the ground in both northern
Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq. Detailed plans of the area had to be drawn
up or updated, and airfields and assembly points for incoming Israeli aircraft
and ground troops arranged. In order to avoid suspicion or unwanted prying
eyes, Israeli agents infiltrated the areas and started offering certain
Shiíite Muslims in the area "free passage" to other countries
away from their enemy Saddam Hussein, plus spending money to take with
them, in exchange for their ramshackle homes in the area.
- Predictably there was no shortage of
takers, and by mid April 2001 the preliminary operation was in full swing.
Droves of Shiíite Muslims quietly started departing the area for
America, Europe and Australasia at enormous cost to the Israelis. Buying
entire people smuggling operations was an incredibly expensive business,
to which had to be added the ad hoc payments to the migrants and other
significant expenses. Once again America unwittingly came to the rescue,
with certain financial institutions in the World Trade Center laundering
most of the massive funds needed. This activity was conducted with alacrity,
because Israel had offered a dazzling quid pro quo to its financial juggernaut
in New York City.
- Once firmly established in southern Iraq,
the new Israel would be at the crossroads of middle east oil, not only
with direct control of the giant southern Iraqi fields, but also within
easy striking distance of Kuwait, northern Iran, and the northern Iraqi
pipeline routes. From this position of enormous strength, Israel would
be able to either control or blackmail the local states into marketing
their oil in an "organized way", rather than allowing any old
Tom Dick or Harry to buy the stuff on the Rotterdam Spot Market. Using
sophisticated insider trading techniques, OPEC would be neutered, and world
oil supplies would come under the exclusive de facto control of NYMEX and
the New York Stock Exchange in the World Trade Center.
- Concurrent with this activity, the Jewish-American
Lobby was frantically urging the White House and US Department of State
to step up its enforcement of the illegal "no fly" zones over
northern and southern Iraq. The records show that attacks did indeed increase
during this period, though the American and British pilots could not have
known they were being deliberately used to "blind" the Iraqi
air defenses, and ensure they stayed blinded in the run up to Israelís
Operation Shekhinah. When the Israeli surprise attack was finally launched,
there would be not the slightest chance of detection by Baghdad until it
was too late.
- The possibility of military intervention
by the United States seemed to trouble the Israeli Foreign Minister, but
risk assessment came to the rescue and calmed his fears. Though a few US
military aircraft based in Kuwait would probably have to be destroyed,
either on the ground or in the air, it was calculated that this would not
be a problem in technical or public relations terms. Technically, the Israeli
aircraft had home-grown fire control systems vastly superior to their American
equivalents, and could be relied on to shoot down the US jets swiftly and
with the minimum of fuss. In public relations terms the Israelis would
later claim it was a case of "mistaken identity", twist a few
arms and grease a few palms in Washington, and the whole affair would be
swept under the carpet. Once again the Israeli Cabinet had a sound precedent
for this, in the form of the USS Liberty.
- On 8 June 1967, during the Six Day War
between Israel and the Arab States, the unarmed American intelligence ship
USS Liberty was attacked for 75 minutes by Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo
boats. Thirty-four men died and 172 were wounded. Despite the proven fact
that the USS Liberty was far offshore in international waters, and flying
a bright, clean American flag, Israel insisted it was all a terrible case
of mistaken identity, which it most certainly was not. Israel attacked
the USS Liberty in an attempt to "blind" the American intelligence
ship and prevent it forwarding details of Israelís pre-emptive strikes
to the Pentagon.
- The Jewish-American Lobby went to work
with a vengeance in Washington, twisting arms and handing out pieces of
silver. So effective was the lobbying that the murder of thirty four American
sailors on the unarmed USS Liberty went largely unnoticed by the public,
and the media was predictably silent on the matter. Though the Libertyís
Captain William Loren McGonagle was later awarded the Congressional Medal
of Honor for conspicuous gallantry and intrepedity at the risk of his life
above and beyond the call of duty, it was presented to him quietly at the
Washington Navy Yard, rather than the White House as is customary. American
politicians had bent over backwards to avoid embarrassing the murderers
of the thirty-four American sailors. The Israeli Cabinet thus knew full
well that any American "collateral damage" during Operation Shekhinah
could be swept under the carpet in exactly the same way.
- By early June 2001 the trickle of Shiíite
"migrants" out of northern Saudi and southern Iraq had swelled
to a flood, which came to the attention of at least two more European intelligence
agencies. For reasons unknown but presumably acting on orders, the Shiíites
were all woodenly claiming they were Afghans, which was not a good move.
Afghans speak Farsi but these people couldnít speak a word of it,
which is hardly surprising. The native language in both northern Saudi
Arabia and southern Iraq is Arabic. Around this time Russia also became
aware of the pending Israeli operation, though it is not yet known whether
the information was leaked by a European agency, or provided direct by
one of its own agents in Tel Aviv. But what was known by all by this time,
was the actual start date for Operation Shekhinah: 2 October 2001, the
first day of a seven-day Jewish holiday, and thus a most unlikely period
in which expect an attack by Israel.
- Things then went very quiet for a few
weeks until 12 July, when Pravda, still considered by many as the establishment
voice of Russia's old guard communists who control the military and intelligence
agencies, printed a story on its page one entitled "Will the Dollar
and America Fall Down on August 19? That's the Opinion of Dr. Tatyana Koryagina".
Was Mother Russia using this expert, and deliberately citing the wrong
date, in order to distance herself from involvement in the upcoming 11
September attack on the World Trade Center?
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- Coming Soon: Operation Shekhinah, Part
Two
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