--- Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:47:20 -0700, joanna bujes
> <jbujes at covad.net> wrote:
>
> > Life in Baghdad...
> >
> >
>
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EI19Ak02.html
> >
> > Joanna
>
>
>
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EI19Ak02.html
> >...Elvis-Saddam
> continues to operate in the bowels of the Iraqi
> capital itself...
>
> Just as credible as Brad's, "Who Benefit's?, "
> logic
> http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/wwn/newsstand.cfm ,
> Saddam Hides Out In
> Baghdad. Shocking Video Shows Him Cleaning Toilets
> in Baghdad!
>
> Yes, given that synagogue bombings in Iraq in the
> 50's, have been
> credibly linked to Mossad, I can see why Brad and
> Joanna and Hakki,
> "Khaddafi didn't do Lockerbie, " could assert as
> Diana Johnstone did in In
> These Times in the 80's after a Paris synagogue
> bombing had the
> fingerprints of Mossad on it. But, could not the the
> UN HQ and/or mosque
> massacre be the work of Hizbollah, Sh'iite factions
> opposed to the dead
> Ayatollah Hakim of SCIRI, Al-Ansar, ex-Mukharabat
> officers?
> A swedish trotskyist I kibbitz w/ on occasion via
> e-mail, w/ many
> contacts among the various exile Iraqi and Kurdish
> leftist circles, as well
> as Lebanese and Jordanian leftists, when I passed on
> a Teheran Times piece
> alleging Mossad perfidy said that a great weakness
> in Arab and Persian
> political culture, on the mass and elite level, is a
> habitual recourse to
> conspiracy theories. Because of it, the defeat of
> '67, was a great shock.
> Far from supporting his political line (though I
> half expect Brad to make
> an amalgam as the Trotskyists say Stalinists do),
> but, Daniel Pipes, in
> "The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy, "
>
> http://www.danielpipes.org/books/hidden.php
> http://www.danielpipes.org/books/hiddenchap.php
> documents hundreds of
> examples. Became aware of the book after Jeffrey
> Bale cited it in his
> column in, "Hit List." Jeffrey, is on the left,
> though like his friend
> Kevin Coogan, has become over the yrs. more than bit
> skeptical of leading
> assumptions of the archetypal Pacifica Radio
> listening audience. He wrote a
> great dissertation, under Peter Dale Scott, at UC,
> Berkeley, on a real
> State conspiracy, the "strategy of tension, " of the
> Italian far right, in
> league w/ the P-2 Masonic Lodge and other elements
> of the Italian State,
> whose most infamous crime was the bombing of a train
> station that killed
> over 80.
>
http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/l29consp.htm
> 'Conspiracy Theories' and Clandestine Politics
> by Jeffrey M. Bale From Lobster 29
>
>
http://www.bath.ac.uk/esml/ecpr/newsletter/Profiles4_1.htm
> > ...At present I am in the process of completing a
> huge book manuscript on
> > transnational
> neo-fascist networks and the terrorist 'strategy of
> tension' in Italy, and
> am proceeding with research for another book on the
> clandestine network of
> paramilitary organizations established throughout
> Cold War Europe (such as
> "Gladio" in Italy). I am also organizing and
> co-editing two collective
> works, one on Cold War Guerrillas and the other on
> Religious Cults and
> Extremist Politics. In addition, I am preparing
> articles on the Eurofascist
> role in "Operación Condor" assassinations in South
> America (and beyond)
> during the late 1970s and early 1980s; the
> paramilitary dimensions of the
> secret South African CBW program, Project Coast;
> Jean Thiriart's Jeune
> Europe network and its successors; and – perhaps
> most importantly – the
> extensive array of Islamist networks, overt and
> covert, that are currently
> operating in the West...
> One last note, I expect Hakki denies that the
> Iranian Islamic Republic
> reps. in Argentina did not do the synagogue bombing
> there either.
>
> --
> Michael Pugliese
>
>
>
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