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31 January 2002
J'ACCUSE: BUSH'S DEATH SQUADS
By Wayne Madsen
31 January 2002
Today, The Washington Post ran the fifth segment in its series on
what transpired within the Bush Cabinet in the aftermath of September
11. Of particular interest is what CIA Director George Tenent brought
to the table at Camp David last September 15. According to the
article by Bob Woodward and Dan Balz, when Tenent produced a Top
Secret "Worldwide Attack Matrix" that specified targets in 80
countries around the world, he sought unprecedented authority to
simply assassinate foreign terrorists directly or though allied
intelligence services. The CIA even prepared a "Memorandum of
Notification" which would allow the agency to have virtual carte
blanche to conduct political assasinations abroad. This Memorandum
trumped previous mechanisms by which the President would authorize
intelligence actions (but not assassinations) through individual
Presidential Findings. The fail safe mechanisms established under the
administrations of Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, and
Clinton were simply erased at the urging of Tenent. In light of these
revelations, what was authorized by the President may have led to the
assassinations of a umber of human rights and ethnic leaders not
connected in any way with Al Qaeda but did represent bothersome
roadblocks to a number of U.S. military and corporate interests.
It now seems likely, given the unprecedented "license to kill" President Bush granted
to the CIA, there was U.S. complicity in the murders of the following individuals.
Human rights commissions and war crime tribunals in
Belgium and France should take a close look at these likely criminal misadventures:
1. Theys Eluay. Today, the Indonesian army chief, General Endriartono Sutarto,
confirmed in Jakarta that West Papuan independence leader Theys Eluay was assassinated
by Indonesian Army units after he was kidnapped last No
vember 11. The assassins were members of KOPASSUS, a special operations unit trained
by U.S. Special Forces and CIA personnel and was involved in massacres in East Timor
during the Indonesian occupation of that country. I
n 1969, West Papua was formally handed over to Indonesia by the United Nations after a
referendum, now widely recognized as rigged, determined that the non- Indonesian
population wanted to be Indonesian. Eluay was a thorn
in the side of Freeport McMoran, a Louisiana-based mining company that has pillaged
West Papua's natural resources and has been accused by local activists of propping up
local Indonesian army and KOPASSUS officers with b
ribes and favors. Henry Kissinger serves as a Director Emeritus on the board of
directors of Freeport and former Louisiana Senator J. Bennett Johnston, recently
identified as a lobbyist for Enron, serves as a full member
of the board.
2. Abdullah Syafii. On January 22, 2002, Indonesian army troops assassinated the
military commander of the Free Aceh Movement, Abdullah Syafii. The Free Aceh Movement
demands independence for Aceh, a region in northwest S
umatra, and is a member of the non-violent Unrepresented Nations and Peoples
Organization (UNPO), an international organization headquartered in the Netherlands.
It has also been at loggerheads with ExxonMobil, which has
extensive drilling and refining operations in the territory. Aceh's Governor Abdullah
Puteh, who is claimed by local activists to be on the payroll of ExxonMobil, had
written a letter to Syafii inviting him to attend peac
e talks with the government. Syafii's lieutenants claim that the letter contained a
small microchip that permitted Indonesian KOPASSUS troops to track him down and ambush
him. The operation has all the earmarks of the CIA
, which can rely on National Security Agency (NSA) satellites to track such microchip
transponders.
3. Elie Hobeika. Elie Hobeika was the head of the Lebanese Forces militia, a
right-wing Christian army that was allied with Israel during its 1982 occupation of
Beirut. Although Hobeika was in charge of the Christian forc
es that massacred hundreds of Palestinian men, women, and children at the Sabra and
Chatilla refugee camps that year, he had irrefutable evidence that Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon had authorized the mass murder in
his role as Israeli Defense Minister. An official Israeli commission of inquiry found
Sharon indirectly responsible for the massacres. Hobeika was going to testify against
Sharon at an upcoming Belgian war crimes tribunal
which has already indicted Sharon for the war crimes. It was that testimony that
resulted in Hobeika being silenced by a Mossad car bomb that exploded near his SUV
near Beirut. The bomb killed Hobeika and his bodyguards.
The CIA, now closely allied with Mossad, is said to have given its approval for the
action.
4. Chief Bola Ige. On December 23, 2001, Chief Bola Ige, the Minister of Justice and
Attorney General of Nigeria, was assassinated in the bedroom of his home in Ibadan by
unknown gunmen. Ige was a leader of the Yorubas, a
largely Christian ethnic group that has championed the cause of southern Nigerian
Christian tribes like the Igbo, Ogoni, and Yoruba that maintain grievances against
exploitative Western oil companies that have spoiled th
eir lands with pollution and pocketed most of the oil revenues for themselves and
corrupt Nigerian politicians. Ige was the presidential candidate of the pan-Yoruba
Alliance for Democracy but lost to the current President
Olusegum Obasanjo, a former general who is thought by many Nigerians to be in the hip
pocket of western oil companies, including Chevron and ExxonMobil. A lucrative CIA and
Pentagon front operation, the private military
contractor MPRI, has been training special units of the Nigerian armed forces. These
forces have been active in putting down anti-oil industry protests by Igbo, Ogoni, and
Yoruba tribal peoples along the Nigerian coast. M
ichael J. Boskin, the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President
Bush I is a member of the Exxon Mobil board, while current National Security Adviser
Condolleezza Rice served on the board of Chevron. Cur
rently serving on Chevron's Board is Bush I trade representative Carla Hills and
former Louisiana Senator Johnston, who also serves on the board of Freeport McMoran.
In all likelihood all of these assassinations were likely known to the CIA and allowed
to take place unhindered. The killings all directly benefitted the interests of the US
military-industrial complex that President Eise
nhower so poignantly warned us about some 40 years ago.
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I more or less predicted the Indonesian murders a few months ago (just after Tenent
received authorization to conduct assassinations of "terrorists") during an interview
with Radio Singapore International. The transcript
of that broadcast follows:
CIA assassination missions - a look into the implications of this US Foreign policy
Source: Augustine Anthuvan, Newsline, Radio Singapore International Broadcast date: 30
October 2001
Wayne Madsen, a former Intelligence Officer at the National Security Agency in
Washington with this comment.
When Senator Frank Church had a committee in the Senate that found
out that the CIA was conducting assassination missions against foreign leaders and
they passed very stringent laws against the CIA to
prevent any abuses. And now what we're hearing is that the late Senator Church went
too far. Well Senator Church was responding to some very severe abuses of authority by
the CIA. And now we're hearing basically history i
s being changed on us here and we're hearing that Senator Church went too far in what
he did.
And I think its very important now to understand that these things
are all in context and what people like Senator Frank Church did in the 1970s really
still applies today."
If CIA assassination missions are taken beyond the present
operations in Afghanistan to other countries where terrorists are known to be
operating, what sort of repercussions will this present for count
ry to country relations? A concern I posed to Wayne Madsen.
"Especially in countries in South East Asia, we have
a President who is very much in it with the US multi-national
companies. What if they decide that West Papua independence movement
in Irian Jaya - West Papua - could be a terrorist organization. And
they could decide well we're going to target their leadership for
assassination because they happen to be against the interests of
Freeport McMoran - one of the biggest mining companies in West Papua.
Or what if they decide that the Aceh movement in Northern Sumatra
happens to be ……. to the interests of Exxon Mobil corporation, and
they decide to target their leadership for assassination. I think
this is the problem with this type of wide sweeping authorization to
assassinate foreign leaders. We may find ourselves assassinating
people because they just so happen to be against US interests. "
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