CIA hired mercenary assassins (or assassin trainers) in plan to bump off Qaeda leaders

In 2004, the CIA hired Blackwater USA contractors as part of a covert program to find and kill top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to statements from current and former US officials.

Snip from New York Times story:

The fact that the C.I.A. used an outside company for the program was a major reason that Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A.'s director, became alarmed and called an emergency meeting in June to tell Congress that the agency had withheld details of the program for seven years, the officials said.
It is unclear whether the C.I.A. had planned to use the contractors to actually capture or kill Qaeda operatives, or just to help with training and surveillance in the program. American spy agencies have in recent years outsourced some highly controversial work, including the interrogation of prisoners. But government officials said that bringing outsiders into a program with lethal authority raised deep concerns about accountability in covert operations.

C.I.A. Sought Blackwater's Help to Kill Jihadists (NYT via Mitch Kapor)

A related news article, just out today: The Rise and Fall of the Mercenary Formerly Known as Blackwater (Newsweek)

Oh, and by the way, Blackwater has changed its name to "Xe," which I'm none too happy about for personal reasons (cough).

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Tdawwg

I think we both agree that Bush’s and Obama’s wars were and are badly handled. I don’t see their failures as necessary ones, though, nor do I accept big rhetoric like “War on Turbans”: not really helpful, or accurate, IMHO. And the question of America’s overthrown Constitution aside (Traduced or violated, maybe. Overthrown, nah.), one needn’t destroy civil liberties to prevent terrorists from killing civilians. So we shouldn’t do that when combating terrorists, check, got it, knew it beforehand. Again, what’s your argument?

“Don’t attack terrorist groups because Bush was an idiot” isn’t really a good argument, in my book. Really, how are we going to keep ourselves, our families, the world, safe?

A lot of the dead Iraqis killed each other, gleefully, by the way: I really think we need to stop blaming their deaths on Americans. At worst, we acted to enable the bloodshed and we didn’t actively prevent most of it: this culpability is huge enough without placing all America’s finger on the trigger.
redpiller

The main problem I have with this article is that it assumes that 1) The CIA is worried about Al-Qaeda. Hint: It’s not and 2) That Al-Qaeda is an autonomous agency that our shadowy elite deems necessary for getting rid of.

Why in the world would they want to get rid of the number 1 boogeyman in their propaganda machine to steal American’s civil rights? They are much more useful alive and well-funded. This article sounds like just more nonsense aimed at getting people to believe our government is actually worried about terrorism, instead of actively engaging in it.
Brainspore

Lay off Takuan. His fingers just tire easily.
grimc

Hey, don’t sweat it too much Xeni. From a Democracy Now! interview this morning:

AMY GOODMAN: Jeremy Scahill, can we get the name straight? What is Blackwater called today?

JEREMY SCAHILL: Well, Blackwater has, you know, twenty different iterations, and they have all sorts of companies…The official name of the company, how they do business overtly with the US government, is through U.S. Training Center…

AMY GOODMAN: And the New York Times refers to them as Xe Services, X-E.

JEREMY SCAHILL: Yeah, thatâ€™s so last week. Amy. I mean, you know, they changeâ€”it changes pretty much every week.
Takuan

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/24/call-to-reopen-us-prison-abuse-cases-report/
TharkLord

Big mistake. Cheney had much better luck with his Germanic Guard.
sleze

I’m not sure I see a problem with this. I wish we would act more like the Mossad in certain ways. This is one of them.
Thad E Ginataom

On entering these premises you consent to a random search of your vehicle

I’ve always found random searching pretty inefficient; they’d be better advised to undertake an organised search of the vehicle.
Takuan

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/us/politics/24detain.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Takuan

here’s another secret cabal worth looking into:
http://www.theweek.com/article/index/98841/DCs_invisible_army_for_Christ
Ugly Canuck

Hungry Joe: Indeed. It seems that you don’t care who operates the drill?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8215722.stm

Remarkably similar, and close in time too, to the techniques used in the reign of terror in Summer 2003 [ which events in turn were used as justification of Bush's 'successful' (so the US Media Korps claimed) so-called "Surge"- a follow-up op to the torture-them-into-submission policy, in my book]) Bagdad, when it was reported that “power drills” had been used on the people whose bodies were found- at a rate of dozens, each and every night – dumped in prominent places throughout Bagdad – at a time when the USA’s Occupying Army was responsible for the security of the civilian populace. (oh wait, the US had “declared” that they had “transferred Sovreignity”, so not their fault, no sir! Convenient too that the Red cross observers and the UN observers had been driven out…)

More work by America’s “secondary Army” (of hired terrorists, deniable terrorists, foreign terrorists?) …gee, kinda like the SS was to the Wehrmacht, eh?

Any of those Iraqi “power drill” torture-killers of prisoners brought to justice yet?

Oh right, they’re all Iranians, according to the USA…and it’s not up to the US to protect iraqis, after all.
Ugly Canuck

tak: good to see Newsweek use the word “atrocity”.
Another Friday news dump, eh?
Ugly Canuck

Sleze: Funny it seems that the people the US is attacking are people the Mossad would attack too, if they could.

Israel, a nation of some few million, is under a state of siege: so what’s the USA’s excuse to spead war across a continent?

Joh Yoo, on torture: “The Israelis have had some success with it”.

And targeted assassinations? Of ancient quadraplegics in wheelchairs, while also taking out whoever happened to be around? Yay for the Mossad…

Speaking of Israel, now that Hamas has stopped firing rockets, when will the peace talks re-start? Oh right when the Israelis want them to.
Ugly Canuck

You know, mercenaries are outlawed by the Geneva Conventions: calling them “contractors’is a weaselly lawyer’s way to get out from under the Law.
The Bush Administration was made up of War Criminals: tough to face the truth, huh?
Ugly Canuck

hungry Joe: As to “secondary standing armies” ( I would have thought that US Taxpayers had their hands full paying for the “primary standing army”! Why pay more for a redundant…but they’re not really ‘redundant’, I suspect!):

is not that what Al-Qaeda was, in the 1980s, whem they fought Jihad against the Soviet army in Afghanistan, on US taxpayers’ dime?

How’d that work out?

And in general, the history of “praetorian guards”, and their influence on the State which employs them, is monotonous in its repetitiveness…but US people cannot be bothered to use heir freedom to study history, eh? No problems here, move along, eh Joe? Hey, Joe?
Maybe you’ll listen to a former paratrooper, if not me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLnKUiybiFo

Where are y’all going, with that in your head?
Ugly Canuck

wait there’s more!

http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern08212009.html

Written by an ex-CIA guy no less.

I’ve never been prouder to NOT be an American…
Ugly Canuck

Please. Someone remind me why Bush & Co.treated Al-Qaeda like some kind of State actor, against which one sends the Army & Navy & Air Force & Marines & CIA, rather than just another gang of murderous criminals, to be dealt with by law enforcement?

Maybe they wanted their hands unbound by the Law?
To do other things? Apparently, the Laws of War were too “restrictive”: so they hired “outside help” to do their dirtiest work, their most heinous crimes. “Unfortunate excesses”, they call these, excused by the “patriotism” of the murderers..

Please revisit my Cryptome link above: serious allegations are made about Blackwater/Xe (who IIRC had $0.00 worth of contracts prior to Bush’s time ruling the “Homeland”: and how many billions of $$ worth now?)…and if they are true? What then? Can we expect more armed ‘protesters’, this time to prevent any domestic US prosecutions from taking place?

Because “Special Irregular Forces” historically make a habit of ignoring ANY Laws they do not agree with, and which cannot be enforced by a superior power…eventually, the King/Ruler/Sovereign becomes too fearful of them to reign them in …. they are a most serious threat to freedom, to Americans’ freedoms.

And you are truly blind, if you cannot see the potential threat to you and your fellow Citizens, of a Lawless Power, given unlimited & secret resources, always unquestioningly backed up by a cheerleading Corporate Mass Media. And their allies, both paid and unpaid (“useful idiots”, the Nazis would call these latter), on the Internet.
Ugly Canuck

hey I just noticed the “manos negra” on the sign…nice touch! The “Black Hands”,eh?
cinemajay

You guys need to post more links to Rachel Madow: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/

she is one smart cookie!
Daemon

Everything an intelligence agency does should “deep concerns about accountability”.

Organizations who’s entire purpose is to perform illegal activities without being caught really should have better oversight.

(Note: espionage is universally illegal)
Takuan

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/23/torture-probe-intel-experts/
allium

How do you think the Xenon Marketing Board feels?
Ugly Canuck

hey this article’s fading into the pack quickly, eh?

but there’s more!From the “Big Mac Index” folks:

http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14291547

So those guys killed by the Fallujans WERE Blackwater boys, eh? Well, well….
Ugly Canuck

And an other under-reported news item, out on friday night:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/world/americas/21mexico.html?_r=2

Time to book a Mexican vacation?
Takuan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8219307.stm
Anonymous

In related hypothetical news, Al Qaeda hired mercenary assassins (or assassin trainers) in plan to bump off Western leaders.

Which is exactly why assassination has been largely avoided by governments as a strategy, in the same way that the Geneva convention tried to limit warfare and why torture is abhored by most governments.

Isn’t it time we stopped doing this stuff?
Marcel

#1

That said, if engaging in violence IS a nessisary evil in maintaining world peace,..

And you do not see the obvious fallacy in that statement?!

Also, if a security company’s idea of maintaining security is to blast every man, woman and child to smithereens at a moments notice, how do you suppose they would tackle an operation as precarious as the assasination of a certain individual?

My guess is it would be a messy affair.
coaxial

I wish I could remember the link, but I believe that it was Arriana Huffington who talked about the use of American mercenaries being employed in Columbia to fight the FARC and the rest of the narco-cartels. She(?) pointed out the advantage of using mercenaries for clandestine work: no flagged draped coffins.

Of course, using a covert team, doesn’t result in flagged draped coffins either.
hungryjoe

I agree with #20. The analyst on NPR said that in several cases, Blackwater contractors were put on these projects when CIA personnel were reallocated to other projects. “Bigger fish to fry,” one might say.

In any case, who cares which guy pulls the trigger? Pay a government employee to pull the trigger, or pay a former government employee somewhat more to pull the same trigger. Why are we in such a twist over this secondary standing army of ours? It’s the same harmful policy, no matter who the actors are.
RyonRyon

Privitised deathcare alongside privatised healthcare.. makes sense in a way.

I never hear people whinging about our socialized military, or our socialised firemen, or our socialized policemen.

That said, if engaging in violence IS a nessisary evil in maintaining world peace, I do believe subterfuge such as this would be more effective, and more importantly, less likely to harm innocents than open field warfare (which leads to less hostile conversions; which = win state for the wargamers). But that does have to be tempered with accountability, which of course Blackwater is very humanitarian at manning up to thier failings.

Yeah sorry for the Xeni
RyonRyon

Sorry for the Xeni/Xe name association I meant to say. Still not half as cool.
Enoch_Root

wait the CIA is using the services of a mercenary firm to capture and or kill non-state actors who lead an international gang of theocratic murders bent on the death of American citizens!? perish the thought!
Takuan

@30
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/andrew-steele/who-watches-csis/article1262559/
Anonymous

Oh USA was your democracy a dream or have you actually lost something?
complicity

If Xeni is unhappy with Blackwater now wishing to be known as Xe, which sounds like ‘Xeni’, surely Xeni could just… change her name?
wilmo

I’ll bet it was a no-bid contract too.
mjohnson

Call me a pedant, but I object to the use of the term security contractors when referring to these mercenaries.

‘Contractors’ may be the preferred term of the security industry, but mercenaries they are.

If they don’t like the negative connotations then they should consider changing professions rather than just renaming the one they are in.
Ugly Canuck

Enoch Root: You forgot to use the word “allegedly”, before the word ‘lead’: (or did you mean “inspire”, or “covertly hire”, rather than “lead”?) and by ‘theocratic’ do you mean Jewish or Muslim or Blackwater’s born-again Crusaders?

http://cryptome.org/0001/black-prince.htm

Oh wait, you also ought to say “allegedly theocratic murders”….whatever a “theocratic murder” is…maybe “killers by remote control” would fit in place of your phrase, eh?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/us/21intel.html?_r=1

And those “American citizens” being “targeted”, would not be soldiers in an invasion force, fighting in a country on the other side of the planet from Washington, DC, would they?
I take it the nationality of the people being killed is important to you, for some unclear reason…and that it “trumps” any other characteristic. (Except religion, eh?)

Bah!

No presumption of innocence for you!

…says the Nazi.
Takuan

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/24/white-house-vs-cia-profan_n_267112.html
Wardish

What I want to know is how Blackwater became THE authority on assassination…
Takuan

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/24/hig-obama-approves-new-el_n_266830.html
Tdawwg

Takuan, do you have an argument to make with any of those posts? Or are you assuming my Google is broken? (It’s not.)

Oh, and I’ve never had Bin Laden quoted approvingly to me, ever, for any reason. Congratulations, of a sort…. Again, though, do you have an argument to make by citing a mass-murderer, or, again, do you assume that we all somehow haven’t read this text? (We have.)
buddy66

Yep, that sounds like something the McLean Clown Posse would dick around with. After all, they’re spies, translators, number-crunching analysts and torturers, not assassins. Why not just go over to the DOD and check with Delta Force; that’s their job, the wet work, not the CIA’s. (Remember the Goldberg woman, the one who set up Bill Clinton? She was a Delta Force receptionist, which was a surprise: setting up presidents is CIA work.) I wish those spooks and creeps could get their jobs straight, without stepping in each other’s shit and getting it all over the carpets.
Takuan

http://www.newsweek.com/id/213188
mdh

uglycanuck

I’ve never been prouder to NOT be an American…

Yes you have. You never shut up about it here.
Takuan

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/22/cia-blackwater-transfer-gitmo/
SkullHyphy

Everyone in the Bush administration was a hardcore Friedmanite capitalist who wanted to sell off every function of government so that they could personally gain financially by shuttling executive personnel back and forth between the government and the private companies they were contracting. Cheney and Halliburton is the most well-known and egregious example. Blackwater is part of the plan to create a war-for-profit industry. Profit is the primary motive in this system and things like ethics and oversight are burdensome costs that get cut out of the system. I agree that it’s right to kill terrorists, but there is no ethical imperative or moral superiority in eliminating or bypassing the checks and balances that govern the taking of human life.
buddy66

The really dirty work, the blackest, wettest, weirdest ops is done by civilians; that’s been the case for fifty years. It’s all about deniability.
Tdawwg

Please. Someone remind me why Bush & Co.treated Al-Qaeda like some kind of State actor, against which one sends the Army & Navy & Air Force & Marines & CIA, rather than just another gang of murderous criminals, to be dealt with by law enforcement?

Just guessing, but maybe it had something to do with that spectacular act of mass murder whose anniversary’s right around the corner. Have you heard about it? It happened on September 11, 2001.

Whom would you have sent, the Mounties?
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  If we’re supposed to send the full force of the military to deal with the acts of a small group of people, why didn’t we invade Oklahoma City in 1995?
Tdawwg

Because Timothy McVeigh blundered into the cops’ hands, luckily. Osama and company, if memory serves, were a bit more out of the way of the long arm of American law enforcement. I seem to recall that McVeigh acted largely alone, with (I think) only one accomplice: not hundreds, with the backing of the Taliban’s murderous theocracy. So both the scope of the threat and McVeigh’s carelessness made further police or military action unnecessary.

Do you have a positive argument for letting terrorist networks go unmolested?
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Do you have a positive argument for letting terrorist networks go unmolested?
  
  If there were hundreds in Al-Qaida on September 11, 2001, there are thousands now, thanks to the Bush administration’s decision to consider all Muslims as potential terrorists. Oh, and there are hundreds of thousands of dead in Iraq and Afghanistan because of our racist and misbegotten War on Turbans. So, yes, I do have an argument: When you respond to the actions of a group consisting of hundreds by starting two foreign wars and overthrowing your own Constitution, things get worse, not better.
Takuan

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/24/former-interrogator-prosecution/
Takuan

every now and then, I read this:

“Praise be to Allah who created the creation for his worship and commanded them to be just and permitted the wronged one to retaliate against the oppressor in kind. To proceed:

Peace be upon he who follows the guidance: People of America this talk of mine is for you and concerns the ideal way to prevent another Manhattan, and deals with the war and its causes and results.

Before I begin, I say to you that security is an indispensable pillar of human life and that free men do not forfeit their security, contrary to Bush’s claim that we hate freedom.

If so, then let him explain to us why we don’t strike for example – Sweden? And we know that freedom-haters don’t possess defiant spirits like those of the 19 – may Allah have mercy on them.

No, we fight because we are free men who don’t sleep under oppression. We want to restore freedom to our nation, just as you lay waste to our nation. So shall we lay waste to yours.

No one except a dumb thief plays with the security of others and then makes himself believe he will be secure. Whereas thinking people, when disaster strikes, make it their priority to look for its causes, in order to prevent it happening again.

But I am amazed at you. Even though we are in the fourth year after the events of September 11th, Bush is still engaged in distortion, deception and hiding from you the real causes. And thus, the reasons are still there for a repeat of what occurred.

So I shall talk to you about the story behind those events and shall tell you truthfully about the moments in which the decision was taken, for you to consider.

I say to you, Allah knows that it had never occurred to us to strike the towers. But after it became unbearable and we witnessed the oppression and tyranny of the American/Israeli coalition against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, it came to my mind.

The events that affected my soul in a direct way started in 1982 when America permitted the Israelis to invade Lebanon and the American Sixth Fleet helped them in that. This bombardment began and many were killed and injured and others were terrorised and displaced.

I couldn’t forget those moving scenes, blood and severed limbs, women and children sprawled everywhere. Houses destroyed along with their occupants and high rises demolished over their residents, rockets raining down on our home without mercy.

The situation was like a crocodile meeting a helpless child, powerless except for his screams. Does the crocodile understand a conversation that doesn’t include a weapon? And the whole world saw and heard but it didn’t respond.

In those difficult moments many hard-to-describe ideas bubbled in my soul, but in the end they produced an intense feeling of rejection of tyranny, and gave birth to a strong resolve to punish the oppressors.

And as I looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my mind that we should punish the oppressor in kind and that we should destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children.

And that day, it was confirmed to me that oppression and the intentional killing of innocent women and children is a deliberate American policy. Destruction is freedom and democracy, while resistance is terrorism and intolerance.

This means the oppressing and embargoing to death of millions as Bush Sr did in Iraq in the greatest mass slaughter of children mankind has ever known, and it means the throwing of millions of pounds of bombs and explosives at millions of children – also in Iraq – as Bush Jr did, in order to remove an old agent and replace him with a new puppet to assist in the pilfering of Iraq’s oil and other outrages.

So with these images and their like as their background, the events of September 11th came as a reply to those great wrongs, should a man be blamed for defending his sanctuary?

Is defending oneself and punishing the aggressor in kind, objectionable terrorism? If it is such, then it is unavoidable for us.

This is the message which I sought to communicate to you in word and deed, repeatedly, for years before September 11th.

And you can read this, if you wish, in my interview with Scott in Time Magazine in 1996, or with Peter Arnett on CNN in 1997, or my meeting with John Weiner in 1998.

You can observe it practically, if you wish, in Kenya and Tanzania and in Aden. And you can read it in my interview with Abdul Bari Atwan, as well as my interviews with Robert Fisk.

The latter is one of your compatriots and co-religionists and I consider him to be neutral. So are the pretenders of freedom at the White House and the channels controlled by them able to run an interview with him? So that he may relay to the American people what he has understood from us to be the reasons for our fight against you?

If you were to avoid these reasons, you will have taken the correct path that will lead America to the security that it was in before September 11th. This concerned the causes of the war.

As for it’s results, they have been, by the grace of Allah, positive and enormous, and have, by all standards, exceeded all expectations. This is due to many factors, chief among them, that we have found it difficult to deal with the Bush administration in light of the resemblance it bears to the regimes in our countries, half of which are ruled by the military and the other half which are ruled by the sons of kings and presidents.

Our experience with them is lengthy, and both types are replete with those who are characterised by pride, arrogance, greed and misappropriation of wealth. This resemblance began after the visits of Bush Sr. to the region.

At a time when some of our compatriots were dazzled by America and hoping that these visits would have an effect on our countries, all of a sudden he was affected by those monarchies and military regimes, and became envious of their remaining decades in their positions, to embezzle the public wealth of the nation without supervision or accounting.

So he took dictatorship and suppression of freedoms to his son and they named it the Patriot Act, under the pretence of fighting terrorism. In addition, Bush sanctioned the installing of sons as state governors, and didn’t forget to import expertise in election fraud from the region’s presidents to Florida to be made use of in moments of difficulty.

All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies.

This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as we, alongside the mujahidin, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat.

All Praise is due to Allah.

So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah.

That being said, those who say that al-Qaida has won against the administration in the White House or that the administration has lost in this war have not been precise, because when one scrutinises the results, one cannot say that al-Qaida is the sole factor in achieving those spectacular gains.

Rather, the policy of the White House that demands the opening of war fronts to keep busy their various corporations – whether they be working in the field of arms or oil or reconstruction – has helped al-Qaida to achieve these enormous results.

And so it has appeared to some analysts and diplomats that the White House and us are playing as one team towards the economic goals of the United States, even if the intentions differ.

And it was to these sorts of notions and their like that the British diplomat and others were referring in their lectures at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. [When they pointed out that] for example, al-Qaida spent $500,000 on the event, while America, in the incident and its aftermath, lost – according to the lowest estimate – more than $500 billion.

Meaning that every dollar of al-Qaida defeated a million dollars by the permission of Allah, besides the loss of a huge number of jobs.

As for the size of the economic deficit, it has reached record astronomical numbers estimated to total more than a trillion dollars.

And even more dangerous and bitter for America is that the mujahidin recently forced Bush to resort to emergency funds to continue the fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, which is evidence of the success of the bleed-until-bankruptcy plan – with Allah’s permission.

It is true that this shows that al-Qaida has gained, but on the other hand, it shows that the Bush administration has also gained, something of which anyone who looks at the size of the contracts acquired by the shady Bush administration-linked mega-corporations, like Halliburton and its kind, will be convinced. And it all shows that the real loser is … you.

It is the American people and their economy. And for the record, we had agreed with the Commander-General Muhammad Ataa, Allah have mercy on him, that all the operations should be carried out within 20 minutes, before Bush and his administration notice.

It never occurred to us that the commander-in-chief of the American armed forces would abandon 50,000 of his citizens in the twin towers to face those great horrors alone, the time when they most needed him.

But because it seemed to him that occupying himself by talking to the little girl about the goat and its butting was more important than occupying himself with the planes and their butting of the skyscrapers, we were given three times the period required to execute the operations – all praise is due to Allah.

And it’s no secret to you that the thinkers and perceptive ones from among the Americans warned Bush before the war and told him: “All that you want for securing America and removing the weapons of mass destruction – assuming they exist – is available to you, and the nations of the world are with you in the inspections, and it is in the interest of America that it not be thrust into an unjustified war with an unknown outcome.”

But the darkness of the black gold blurred his vision and insight, and he gave priority to private interests over the public interests of America.

So the war went ahead, the death toll rose, the American economy bled, and Bush became embroiled in the swamps of Iraq that threaten his future. He fits the saying “like the naughty she-goat who used her hoof to dig up a knife from under the earth”.

So I say to you, over 15,000 of our people have been killed and tens of thousands injured, while more than a thousand of you have been killed and more than 10,000 injured. And Bush’s hands are stained with the blood of all those killed from both sides, all for the sake of oil and keeping their private companies in business.

Be aware that it is the nation who punishes the weak man when he causes the killing of one of its citizens for money, while letting the powerful one get off, when he causes the killing of more than 1000 of its sons, also for money.

And the same goes for your allies in Palestine. They terrorise the women and children, and kill and capture the men as they lie sleeping with their families on the mattresses, that you may recall that for every action, there is a reaction.

Finally, it behoves you to reflect on the last wills and testaments of the thousands who left you on the 11th as they gestured in despair. They are important testaments, which should be studied and researched.

Among the most important of what I read in them was some prose in their gestures before the collapse, where they say: “How mistaken we were to have allowed the White House to implement its aggressive foreign policies against the weak without supervision.”

It is as if they were telling you, the people of America: “Hold to account those who have caused us to be killed, and happy is he who learns from others’ mistakes.”

And among that which I read in their gestures is a verse of poetry. “Injustice chases its people, and how unhealthy the bed of tyranny.”

As has been said: “An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.”

And know that: “It is better to return to the truth than persist in error.” And that the wise man doesn’t squander his security, wealth and children for the sake of the liar in the White House.

In conclusion, I tell you in truth, that your security is not in the hands of Kerry, nor Bush, nor al-Qaida. No.

Your security is in your own hands. And every state that doesn’t play with our security has automatically guaranteed its own security.

And Allah is our Guardian and Helper, while you have no Guardian or Helper. All peace be upon he who follows the Guidance.
Tdawwg

I guess that’s a “no,” then…. Again, my HuffPo’s working fine, thanks, no need for the spam posts. I guess the injunction against spamming doesn’t apply to you?