At least 19,000 Iraqi refugees were admitted to the United States --- and who gave them asylum in the USA?
Alwan wasn't even necessarily referring to the foreign troops occupying his country, but rather to the craven and despicable policymakers who had sent them there --- we can thank Wolfowitz and Libby for this mess On Jun 3, 12:56 pm, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > He Didn’t Say 'Infidels': Homeland Security Theater, Continuedby William > Norman GriggThe word has a very distinct connotation. There's nothing else > that quite captures it.... Give me one word that captures the same image. One > word. You name it, and I will use it.~ Defense attorney Robin Weathersarguing > for the admissibility of a profoundly vulgar epithet involving the emunctory > orifice in the filmFrom the Hip. > A few months after Iraqi national Waad Ramadan Alwanwas allowed to immigrate > to the U.S. as a refugee, he found himself unwittingly cast in a leading role > in yet another installment ofHomeland Security Theater. > Someoneidentified in the criminal complaintas a "Confidential Human Source" > (CHS) in the FBI's employ – that is, a bit player from theBureau's large and > ever-expanding troupe of agent provocateursand "terrorism facilitators" – > approached then-28-year-old Alwan to recruit him into an effort to aid > mujahadeen fighters in Iraq. > The script written by the Louisville Joint Terrorism Task Force called for > the FBI's asset to pose as a representative of an unnamed "Hajii" with > connections to Iraqi insurgents. After Alwan had been lured into the > pseudo-plot, the role-playing stooge added a final decorative detail by > claiming that he received money from Osama bin Laden – a claim that neither > impressed nor interested the Iraqi, according to the account provided in the > criminal complaint. > The Bureau's bit player proposed thatAlwan, who had taken up residence in > Bowling Green, Kentucky,help train Iraqi insurgents in the manufacture and > use of IEDs, and assist in smuggling weapons and a large amount of money to > Iraq. > Alwan was let into the country in April 2009. A few weeks later, 21-year-old > Iraqi > Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, who would be recruited by Alwan into the > federally-choreographed "conspiracy," arrived in the U.S. The FBI operation > began just a few weeks later after Alwan's arrival. The criminal complaint > against Alwan states that he began "notionally assisting" the supposed plot > "beginning in 2010." > At least 19,000 Iraqi refugees were admitted to the United States that year; > why was Alwan of particular interest to the Bureau? One possible answer is > found in the fact that Alwan, a one-time employee at an electrical plant in > Bayji, was a known insurgent. > From 2003-2006 Alwan took part in a number of ambushes involving IEDs, and > was arrested by security personnel after one operation went awry. His > fingerprints had been found on a wireless telephone base station used in an > IED that failed to go off. That dud IED was found by occupation forces in > September 2005. > Federal prosecutors have charged Alwan and Hammadi with several crimes – > including "Conspiracy to Use a Weapon of Mass Destruction,"a category of > armaments that includes any destructive device, no matter how trivial its > yield, fashioned by anybody other that the United States government. The > prosecutors refuse to say why the two Iraqis were let into the country, > whether Alwan's arrest in Iraq was known to federal officials, or what > prompted the Bureau to target them for a "sting" operation.Res ipsa loquitir: > Alwan and Hammadi were allowed to enter the U.S. for the precise purpose of > being lured into an FBI false flag operation. That conclusion is suggested by > the circumstantial evidence in this specific case, and justified by the fact > that every significant "terrorist plot" supposedly disrupted by the FBI since > 9/11has been a Federal Government production. > In making its pitch to potential patsies, the FBI is too smart to appeal to > the seething hatred of all infidels that supposedly festers inside every > young Muslim male. Instead,they exploit the perfectly understandable and > thoroughly human resentment provoked by Washington's invasion and occupation > of Muslim countries. > Were Peter King –former fundraiserforthe most violent faction of the > terrorist IRA– an honest man rather than a feckless demagogue, his hearings > regarding the"radicalization of American Muslims"would focus on the > unparalleled success enjoyed by the FBI in recruiting once-peaceable Muslim > men into ersatz terrorist plots. The Bureau has isolated a formula that > works: Rather than trying to rile up Muslims over the decadence of American > culture and the general impudence of the infidels, FBI-trained provocateurs > focus instead on the horrific human cost of Washington's foreign policy. > In the case of Alwan and Hammadi, the Regime was given the gift of two young > Iraqi males who had already been pre-radicalized as a result of their life > experiences. > Alwan was born in 1981 – the year after Saddam Hussein, in his role as > Washington's regional subcontractor,began his war with Iran– with > Washington's covert encouragement andmaterial assistance. Alwan was still in > diapers whenthe Reagan administration removed Saddam's government from the > roster of terrorism-supporting regimes, which permitted Washington to begin > plying Baghdad with military and financial aid. > When Alwan was two years old,Donald Rumsfeld visited Baghdad as a > presidential emissary, laden with promises of subsidies, military aid, and > other forms of material and moral support. Thisincluded transfers of dual-use > technology to Iraqi nuclear facilities, andtacit support for Iraq's > development and use of chemical weapons(even thoughWashington acknowledged > that this would provoke Iran to expand its own use of chemical munitions). > In 1984, when Alwan was a toddler, President Reagan issuedNational Security > Decision Directive 139, which made preventing the "collapse" of Saddam's > abominable police state a strategic priority. > Although – or, perhaps, because – the war turned out disastrously for > Iraq,Saddam continued to be a specially favored beneficiary of Washington's > imperial largesseuntil literally the eve of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. During > the 12-year intermission in the Persian Gulf war, Washington imposed a deadly > embargo that further entrenched Saddam's rule while consigning hundreds of > thousands of young Iraqis – many of them Alwan's age – to an early death > through avoidable illness or > starvation.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RM0uvgHKZe8Like > millions of other Iraqis of the same age, Alwan has no memory of a time when > his country wasn't either at war with Washington, or involved in a war as a > result of Washington's chicanery. During the 1990s, his country was ravaged > by a murderous embargo that was punctuated with airstrikes and missile > assaults, even as Washington very thoughtfully cattle-penned Saddam's > domestic opposition and allowed the dictator to slaughter them (something > made clear inthe account offered by former CIA operative Robert Baer). > Alwan was 22 years old when the distant government that had visited such > favors on his country invaded Iraq to remove the middleman. In a fit of > ingratitude that would be inexplicable to neo-conservatives and others > unfamiliar with the rudiments of human motivation, Alwan was among those who > chose to greet the "liberators" with IEDs and high-velocity rounds fired from > a sniper rifle, rather than flowers and sweets. > The people on the receiving end of Alwan's attacks were Americans. They > should not have been there. They had no right to be there, and no authority – > moral or legal – to employ violence to force Iraqis like Alwan to submit to > them. The policymakers who sent them to Iraq, thereby putting them in a > morally untenable and physically vulnerable position, are criminals who > should be put in the dock for mass murder and crimes against the Constitution. > The grand jury indictment against Alwan accuses him of conspiring to murder > "United States nationals outside the United States" by using "weapons of mass > destruction" – that is, crude, low-yield IEDs. > The sight of an American who has been maimed, blinded, or killed by an IED > set by an Iraqi insurgent is unbearable, and this moral conclusion is just as > unavoidable: The people who set that charge aren't terrorists; they're > patriots fighting on their home soil against a prohibitively stronger foreign > aggressor. If America were on the receiving end of a similar "liberation," > American patriots would provide a similar welcome to our uninvited > benefactors. > Ina typically onanistic and self-congratulatory statementannouncing the > arrests of Alwan and Hammadi, David J. Hale, U.S. Attorney for the Western > District of Kentucky, said that the Feds are prepared "to pursue terrorists > wherever in the United States they may be found.... Whether they seek shelter > in a major metropolitan area or in a smaller city in Kentucky,those who would > attempt to harm or kill Americans abroadwill face a determined and prepared > law enforcement effort ... to bring them to justice." (Emphasis added.) > Note well that these two purported terroristswere not accused of plotting to > kill unsuspecting Americans anywhere within the United States; they were > allegedly plotting to kill the heavily armed, well-protected military > personnel who still occupy their home country. If they had been consumed by > an unconquerable desire to smite the American infidels wherever they could be > found, they had no shortage of opportunities here. > In any case, rather than congratulating the Feds for their vigilance, we > should be demanding to know why they knowingly permitted Alwan, a purported > mass murder, into the country to begin with. After all, isn't the supposed > purpose of occupying Iraq to "fight them there, so we don't have to fight > them here"? But, once again, the critical fact is that these Iraqis had no > interest in pursuing vengeance against Americans who are simply minding our > own business. > As one telling exchange with the FBI's agent provocateur illustrates, Alwan > didn't lavish hostility on all infidels, or even on Americans in general; > instead, he apparently focused it on a small, selective sub-population. > During a meeting last November 8, according to the criminal complaint, the > FBI's undercover asset told Alwan "to pick up weapons from a storage > facility, place them in bags, and deliver them" to a waiting vehicle. > "You will be shocked with the RPGs," the provocateur boasted. "It is almost > like you see in the movies." > "Yes, the a**holes built it?" Alwan inquired, prompting the FBI's stooge to > reply, "Yeah, yeah – it is American." > That epithet, once again,wasn't"infidels." It's also pretty clear that Alwan > wasn't applying that insult to Americans in general, but rather to those he > blamed for turning his country into a perpetual spectacle of violence, > disease, terror, and tyranny. Whywouldn'the perceive such people as – well, > you know...? > Every human being has the potential to earn that designation, and nearly all > of us qualify at some point in our lives. Government, said James Madison, is > the "largest of all reflections on human nature." Given that the behavior of > human beings invested with power is invariably asinine rather than angelic, > Madison's metaphor would work better if it employed aproctoscope, rather than > a mirror. > If I take his meaning correctly, Alwan wasn't even necessarily referring to > the foreign troops occupying his country, but rather to the craven and > despicable policymakers who had sent them there, and the corporatist > parasites who profit from State-orchestrated bloodshed – which includes the > death and dismemberment of American troops sent somewhere they didn't belong > to carry out a mission they shouldn't have been given against a population > that never harmed or threatened us in any way. > In describing people capable of orchestrating atrocities of that kind, there > simply isn't a suitable substitute for the expression Alwan > employed.http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2011/06/he-didnt-say-infidels-homeland-security.html -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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