The US government is also known for fabricating evidence in order to push its interests. This is particularly true in the international arena, when the US wants a pretext to justify military action. For example, while the media did not forget to remind everyone of the Lockerbie Pan Am crash, none of them mentioned the US terrorist bombing of Libya. This occurred after a bomb went off at a German nightclub, killing American soldiers. The US proclaimed Libya was guilty (without any evidence) and sent fighter planes to bomb civilian targets, including the President's residence, killing his daughter. To this day no evidence of Libyan involvement has been presented. Even if evidence existed, it does not justify use of military force--there are diplomatic means and international courts for resolving such issues. Instead, what is very evident, then and now, is that the US will use any pretext to justify its own state terrorism. It is no accident that in the midst of the current hysteria created about terrorism, Secretary of War (Defense) Perry warned of "strong action" against any nation linked to the recent bombing of US troops in Saudi Arabia. He claimed--without evidence--that the bombing will have an international connection and that the "leading candidate" is Iran. Just what is the US up to? Why are there US troops in Saudi Arabia? Why stir up suspicion against Iran? Who has forgotten that the US used terrorism to install and back the Shah of Iran, who terrorized the peoples of Iran until his overthrow in 1979? Now, when Iran is pursuing its own course, the US labels it a "rogue" state to justify aggression, against Iran and in the region. Perry and the media conveniently leave out the reality that the US is currently striving to establish a unipolar world under its dictate--striving to be the single and sole dictator of the world. The US wants to dominate the strategic Gulf region and control the main source of the world's oil--both crucial for the success of their plans to weaken their imperialist rivals and increase their own grip on Asia. Creating further justification for increasing their military presence and threatening countries like Iran serves these US plans for world domination. The "terrorist" scare, like the McCarthyite "red" scare of the 1950's, serves as justification for the increase of state terrorism by the US. It is to frighten Americans into supporting this terrorism abroad and into acceptance of militarism at home. Shawgi Tell University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education [EMAIL PROTECTED]