Doug Henwood wrote:
Not one engaged the central point - that a
consultant to the Pentagon recommended the use of selectively
released data that would stimulate conspiracy theorists as a useful
political distraction. Right there in the open: an admission of a
conspiracy of sorts! But the conspiracists couldn't get their heads
around that. They had to move on to a new conspiracy.
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You mean UFOs as a fear mongering method if the 'cold War' failed to
produce the inteded results of instilling fear into the American populace?
Which "consultant to the Pentagon". What time period? Cite please? If
you have one...
I'd like to point out that the conspiracies that I'd like to think most
folks on this list pay attention to aren't chemtrails or UFOs, but look
more like the following. To lump all conspiracy theories of government
into one big stew of alleged disinformational propaganda is a red
herring, and a total diversion from the task at hand... and the task at
hand is getting to the root of the problem in the here and now.
Like weapons smuggling. Who do you suppose received these?
Or perhaps the Bermuda Triangle sucked them in?
I know this story disappeared into that "SUCK" that is called the US media.
10 May 2006
HAVE 200,000 AK47S FALLEN INTO THE HANDS OF IRAQ TERRORISTS?
FEARS OVER SECRET U.S. ARMS SHIPMENT
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17055497&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=have-200-000-missing-ak47s-fallen-into-the-hands-of-iraq-terrorists---name_page.html
SOME 200,000 guns the US sent to Iraqi security forces may have been
smuggled to terrorists, it was feared yesterday.
The 99-tonne cache of AK47s was to have been secretly flown out from a
US base in Bosnia. But the four planeloads of arms have vanished.
Orders for the deal to go ahead were given by the US Department of
Defense. But the work was contracted out via a complex web of private
arms traders.
And the Moldovan airline used to transport the shipment was blasted by
the UN in 2003 for smuggling arms to Liberia, human rights group Amnesty
has discovered.
It follows a separate probe claiming that thousands of guns meant for
Iraq’s police and army instead went to al-Qaeda
Amnesty chief spokesman Mike Blakemore said: “It’s unbelievable that no
one can account for 200,000 assault rifles. If these weapons have gone
missing it’s a terrifying prospect.” American defence chiefs hired a US
firm to take the guns, from the 90s Bosnian war, to Iraq.
But air traffic controllers in Baghdad have no record of the flights,
which supposedly took off between July 2004 and July 2005. A coalition
forces spokesman confirmed they had not received “any weapons from
Bosnia” and added they were “not aware of any purchases for Iraq from
Bosnia”.
Nato and US officials have already voiced fears that Bosnian arms - sold
by US, British and Swiss firms - are being passed to insurgents. A Nato
spokesman said: “There’s no tracking mechanism to ensure they don’t fall
into the wrong hands. There are concerns that some may have been
siphoned off.” This year a newspaper claimed two UK firms were involved
in a deal in which thousands of guns for Iraqi forces were re-routed to
al-Qaeda.
One arms broker’s lawyer is said to have admitted that nearly all of a
shipment of 1,500 AK-47s went missing. And a US official said
£270million of equipment could not be traced.
Two other companies in the complicated sale claim to have papers proving
the guns were delivered in Iraq but refuse to show them.
Amnesty has now called on Britain to clamp down on the arms trade.
Spokeswoman Kate Allen said: “It’s out of control and costing hundreds
of thousands of lives every year. The UK has a real chance to do
something about it when the UN meets in June.”
Voice of the Mirror: Page 6
