- General Leonid Ivashov was the Chief of Staff of the
Russian armed forces when the September 11, 2001, attacks took place. This
military man, who lived the events from the inside, offers an analysis
which is very different to that of his American colleagues. As he did during
the Axis for Peace 2005 conference, he now explains that international
terrorism does not exist and that the September 11 attacks were the result
of a set-up. What we are seeing is a manipulation by the big powers; this
terrorism would not exist without them. He affirms that, instead of faking
a "world war on terror", the best way to reduce that kind of
attacks is through respect for international law and peaceful cooperation
among countries and their citizens.
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- General Leonid Ivashov (left) at the Axis for Peace Conference 2005
in Brussels, with Webster Tarpley
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- As the current international situation shows, terrorism
emerges where contradiction aggravate, where there is a change of social
relations or a change of regime, where there is political, economic or
social instability, where there is moral decadence, where cynicism and
nihilism triumph, where vice is legalized and where crime spreads.
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- It is globalization what creates the conditions for the
emergence of these extremely dangerous phenomena. It is in this context
that the new world geo-strategic map is being designed, that the resources
of the planet are being re-distributed, that borders are disappearing,
that international law is being torn into pieces, that cultural identities
are being erased, that spiritual life becomes impoverished...
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- The analysis of the essence of the globalization process,
the military and political doctrines of the United States and other countries,
shows that terrorism contributes to a world dominance and the submissiveness
of states to a global oligarchy. This means that terrorism is not something
independent of world politics but simply an instrument, a means to install
a unipolar world with a sole world headquarters, a pretext to erase national
borders and to establish the rule of a new world elite. It is precisely
this elite that constitutes the key element of world terrorism, its ideologist
and its "godfather". The main target of the world elite is the
historical, cultural, traditional and natural reality; the existing system
of relations among states; the world national and state order of human
civilization and national identity.
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- Today's international terrorism is a phenomenon that
combines the use of terror by state and non-state political structures
as a means to attain their political objectives through people's intimidation,
psychological and social destabilization, the elimination of resistance
from power organizations and the creation of appropriate conditions for
the manipulation of the countries' policies and the behavior of people.
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- Terrorism is the weapon used in a new type of war. At
the same time, international terrorism, in complicity with the media, becomes
the manager of global processes. It is precisely the symbiosis between
media and terror, which allows modifying international politics and the
exiting reality.
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- In this context, if we analyze what happened on September
11, 2001, in the United States, we can arrive at the following conclusions:
1. The organizers of those attacks were the political and business circles
interested in destabilizing the world order and who had the means necessary
to finance the operation. The political conception of this action matured
there where tensions emerged in the administration of financial and other
types of resources. We have to look for the reasons of the attacks in the
coincidence of interests of the big capital at global and transnational
levels, in the circles that were not satisfied with the rhythm of the globalization
process or its direction.
- Unlike traditional wars, whose conception is determined
by generals and politicians, the oligarchs and politicians submitted to
the former were the ones who did it this time.
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- 2. Only secret services and their current chiefs
or those retired but still having influence inside the state organizations
have the ability to plan, organize and conduct an operation of such
magnitude. Generally, secret services create, finance and control extremist
organizations. Without the support of secret services, these organizations
cannot exist let alone carry out operations of such magnitude inside
countries so well protected. Planning and carrying out an operation on
this scale is extremely complex.
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- 3. Osama bin Laden and "Al Qaeda" cannot be
the organizers nor the performers of the September 11 attacks. They do
not have the necessary organization, resources or leaders. Thus, a team
of professionals had to be created and the Arab kamikazes are just extras
to mask the operation.
- The September 11 operation modified the course of events
in the world in the direction chosen by transnational mafias and international
oligarchs; that is, those who hope to control the planet's natural resources,
the world information network and the financial flows. This operation also
favored the US economic and political elite that also seeks world dominance.
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- General Leonid Ivashov with journalist Christopher Bollyn from American
Free Press
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- The use of the term "international terrorism"
has the following goals:
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- Hiding the real objectives of the forces deployed
all over the world in the struggle for dominance and control;
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- Turning the people's demands to a struggle of undefined
goals against an invisible enemy;
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- Destroying basic international norms and changing
concepts such as: aggression, state terror, dictatorship or movement of
national liberation;
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- Depriving peoples of their legitimate right to
fight against aggressions and to reject the work of foreign intelligence
services;
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- Establishing the principle of renunciation to national
interests, transforming objectives in the military field by giving priority
to the war on terror, violating the logic of military alliances to the
detriment of a joint defense and to favor the anti-terrorist coalition;
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- Solving economic problems through a tough military
rule using the war on terror as a pretext. In order to fight in an efficient
way against international terrorism it is necessary to take the following
steps:
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- To confirm before the UN General Assembly the principles
of the UN Charter and international law as principles that all states are
obliged to respect;
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- To create a geo-strategic organization (perhaps
inspired in the Cooperation Organization of Shanghai comprised of Russia,
China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) with a set of
values different to that of the Atlantists; to design a strategy of development
of states, a system of international security, another financial and economic
model (which would mean that the world would again rest on two pillars);
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- To associate (under the United Nations) the scientific
elites in the design and promotion of the philosophical concepts of the
Human Being of the 21st Century.
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- To organize the interaction of all religious denominations
in the world, on behalf of the stability of humanity's development, security
and mutual support.
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- General Leonid Ivashov
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- General Leonid Ivashov is the vice-president of the Academy
on geopolitical affairs. He was the chief of the department for General
affairs in the Soviet Union's ministry of Defense, secretary of the Council
of defense ministers of the Community of independant states (CIS), chief
of the Military cooperation department at the Russian federation's Ministry
of defense and Joint chief of staff of the Russian armies.
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