[lbo-talk] Re: Life in Baghdad

[Brad Mayer]

"The convergence of views between Baghdad students and the Jordanian
intelligence official is remarkable - and is widely shared by the popular voice
of the bazaars. The perception is that "the Americans" engineered both the UN
bombing that killed special envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello, and the Najaf bombing
that killed Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim (the Jordanian insists the
Israeli Mossad was responsible for the Hakim bombing, which benefits the
Americans by splitting the Shi'ites and pitting Sunnis against Shi'ites). All
agree on what the US agenda is: to maintain a perpetual state of chaos, enforce
the control of the fabulous Iraqi sources of energy, and use this new, sprawling
military base in the heart of the Middle East to harass Syria, Lebanon, Iran and
Saudi Arabia."

    The current silence on these bombings is deafening.

    I'm not a big fan of conspiracy theories, because they are not politically
very useful, even if true, but the virtual disappearance of these bombings as
media stories, the lack of "9/11" type concern over these obvious terrorist
bombings, indicates that the American authorities in both Baghdad and Washington
are not very interested in finding the culprits.  That lends creedence to any
notion that it was Likudists, American, Israeli or both, that were behind these
bombings.

    Politically, the bombings fit the needs of Likudist-Chalabi Axis quite well.

    That theory remains credible in lieu of a roundup of a convincing group of
different perps.

-Brad

joanna bujes wrote:


> Life in Baghdad...
>
> http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EI19Ak02.html
>
> Joanna

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