- I am convinced Bill Gertz is a CIA plant. Gertz works
for the Washington Times, a newspaper founded, owned, and controlled by
Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, a whacked out religious mind-meld
cult if ever there was one (see Behind the Times: Who Pulls The Strings
at Washington's No. 2 Daily?). Since the Washington Times is already far
right-wing territory, it is a near perfect platform for Gertz (billed as
"defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times,
a position he has held since 1985), as a CIA operative, to launch a disinformation
campaign in regard to terrorism: viz., Abu Musab Zarqawi has a nuke and
plans to use it. Of course, as usual, "analysts are unable to gauge
the reliability of the information's sources" in regard to the Abu
Nuke, but that sure didn't prevent the editors over at Moonie Central from
cooking up a big old scary headline: Reports reveal Zarqawi nuclear threat.
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- "Recurrent intelligence reports say al Qaeda terrorist
Abu Musab Zarqawi has obtained a nuclear device or is preparing a radiological
explosive-or dirty bomb-for an attack, according to U.S. officials,"
warns Gertz. "The classified reports have been distributed to U.S.
intelligence agencies for several consecutive months and say Zarqawi, al
Qaeda's leader in Iraq, has stored the nuclear device or dirty bomb in
Afghanistan, said officials familiar with the intelligence."
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- Notice how it is now a foregone conclusion that Abu Musab
Zarqawi-who was reported killed some time ago-is "al Qaeda's leader
in Iraq." (Gertz tells us Abu is "formally" linked to al-Qaeda.)
If the corporate media "reports" spurious "facts" long
enough, they simply become gospel. "We were basically paying up to
$10,000 a time to opportunists, criminals and chancers who passed off fiction
and supposition about Zarqawi as cast-iron fact, making him out as the
linchpin of just about every attack in Iraq," a military intelligence
agent told Adrian Blomfield of the UK Telegraph last year. "Back home
this stuff was gratefully received and formed the basis of policy decisions.
We needed a villain, someone identifiable for the public to latch on to,
and we got one."
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- Gertz continues:
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- A report by the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities
of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction faulted U.S.
intelligence agencies for not understanding al Qaeda's unconventional weapons
programs in Afghanistan prior to 2001, when U.S. forces helped oust the
Islamist Taliban government.
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- Is it possible al-Qaeda did not have an "unconventional
weapons program," as assumed by the Commission on the Intelligence
Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
(i.e., Bush's nine eleven white wash commission)? Of course, we know "al-Qaeda"
(or what would latter become al-Qaeda for the sake of political expediency)
was awash in conventional weapons, courtesy of the United States government.
For instance, we know that "the United States funneled more than $
2 billion in guns and money to the mujaheddin [in Afghanistan] during the
1980s, according to U.S. officials. It was the largest covert action program
since World War II," according to Steve Coll of the Washington Post
(see Anatomy of a Victory: CIA's Covert Afghan War).
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- But what about the dead Abu Musab Zarqawi getting a suitcase
nuke or two from the dead Osama bin Laden?
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- As Carey Sublette notes, the Osama-has-a-nuke story originated
from a story that appeared in an Arabic language newspaper, al-Watan Al-'Arabi,
in 1998. "Nearly all of the claims that have circulated since then
about bin Laden's nuclear capabilities are derived directly from this report,"
writes Sublette. "The unsourced claims made in Al-Watan Al-'Arabi
did not attract >immediate attention in the West. It was not until about
a year later that stories began surfacing in English repeating these assertions.
For example, a story in the 25 October 1999 issue of the Jerusalem Report
(quoted in Bin Laden has several Nuclear Suitcases) asserted that Osama
bin Laden's terrorist organization al Qaeda has acquired a number of these
devices in exchange for a '$30 million in cash and two tons of Afghan heroin',
a claim taken directly from Al-Watan Al-'Arabi." (It should be noted
that the Jerusalem Report is owned by Conrad Black, who also owns the Strausscon
influenced Jerusalem Post and several other Israeli newspapers and periodicals.)
"The Jerusalem Report story provided as the source of this allegation
Yossef Bodansky, an apparently a free-lance analyst with connections to
Israeli intelligence and conservative Republican think tanks. Bodansky's
source for this information was not disclosed."
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- In other words, it appears the original Osama-has-nukes-and-wants-to-irradiate-your-kids
story was dreamed up by Israeli intelligence and so-called "conservative
Republican think tanks," more than likely of the PNAC-JINSA-AEI variety,
i.e., the Likudite influenced Strausscons.
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- In short, the story ranks high on the bullshit meter.
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- Of course, now that Osama is persona non grata, and Abu
the Terrible is the locus of Islamic turpitude, it stands to reason that
the al-Qaeda nuke fairy tale, apparently cooked up by the Likudite-Strausscon
alliance, take on a new life. It is Bill Gertz's responsibility, as CIA
(or Israeli intelligence) propagandist, to roll out a new booga-booga story
designed to scare the pants off little girls and weak-kneed American adults
no longer able to use their cerebral cortexes, thanks to decades of incessant
televised propaganda.
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- Gertz wraps up his scary parable as follows:
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- The reported threat of nuclear terrorism comes amid other
intelligence indicating that Zarqawi is planning an attack on the United
States. Still other intelligence says Zarqawi was planning a chemical weapons
attack in Europe, officials said. In February, U.S. intelligence and security
officials said information showed bin Laden had asked Zarqawi to focus
future attacks on targets inside the United States. The threat was contained
in a classified bulletin to state and local security officials.
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- In other words, a dead terrorist with a highly improbable
bomb will attack the Great Satan, probably between now and a generation
or two-remember, we are engaged in a generational war, as our fearless
leader and his minions keep telling us-although there is no evidence and
even if the government had evidence they wouldn't tell us about it, but
instead issue a "classified bulletin to state and local security officials,"
who routinely complain that they don't have the money to protect us, let
alone secure the borders (another fairy tale is that terrorists, reportedly
Chechens, are sneaking into the country with suitcase nukes).
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