[lbo-talk] Re: Life in Baghdad

Brad Mayer bradley.mayer at sun.com
Thu Sep 18 12:57:17 PDT 2003


"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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