Showing posts with label David Petraeus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Petraeus. Show all posts
Saturday, February 20, 2010
State of the 'Shadow State' - False Flag Operations and Western Governments in Iraq and Afghanistan
Operation Gladio lives on today in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Saturday, February 20, 2010More information about potential US false flag ops @ Razed By Wolves
Guest Post: Governments From Around the World ADMIT That They Carry Out False Flag TerrorPreface: Please skip to the end of this essay (entitled “Why Should I Care?”) if you want to see why this issue is important to the economy, civil rights, and the political causes which are most important to you. Yves does not necessarily agree with this essay. Indeed, she may dislike it so much that she bans me from the site. Please send any hate mail to me, not Yves, as I am solely responsible. So why am I posting this? Because if I don’t have the courage of my convictions to speak unpopular truths, then why should I write at all?"U.S. intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem to have had their serial numbers erased.
The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come off a production line without any serial numbers.
Analysts suggest the lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing. Analysts (also) speculate that these guns are probably from either Mossad or the CIA." [In Full]
This post contains links to the Blackwater's Glock pistol smuggling operation in Iraq amongst other things.
Congressman Henry Waxman's Blackwater investigation (with the Nisoor Square massacre of Iraqi civilians as a (media driven) focus) was supposed to investigate, with witnesses from the organization's testimony, Blackwater's gun-running operations. "Shrink wrapped pallets" of Glock pistols intended for delivery to the Iraqi police from the CPA. They ended up being used in Turkish street crime. One of the weapons was turned over to Austrian manufacturer, Glock who ID'd the original purchaser... The Coalition Provisional Authority.
This could have been an attempt to destabilize the Turks and cause a backing off of their military presence at the time on the Kurd-Iraqi border by necessitating more domestic policing and intelligence resources.
The outcome of the Waxman investigation?
It's a secret.
This one is about Blackwater's German assassination operation for the CIA where they "Went Dark".
Blackwater, now Xe, was 'outed' recently for attempting an assassination of an alleged 'al Qaeda' financier in Germany at the behest of the CIA.
The kicker... They, as a US sponsored ASSASSINATION OPERATION, 'went dark'... AKA "Rogue".
That means they never informed the CIA station (the US government agents responsible for what little oversight might be applied) they were in-country no less the German government. It's just a short step, and the same personnel MOS/materiel from this sort of op to accomplish false flag operations.
This post exemplifies, in an illegal arms trade way, Yogi Berra's expression "It's Like Deja Vu All Over Again.
1/4 million weapons missing in Afghanistan, Just like Russian mobster/gunrunner/ex-KGB operative Victor Bout's 'airline' loss of 1/4 million Pentagon AKs in Iraq.
Victor Bout had already been 'apprehended' by INTERPOL by this time, but there's never a shortage of "Death Merchants" as long as someone is willing to pay.
The Victor Bout/Iraq incident is covered in the first link.
General David Petraeus responded, in that case, with the statement "It must have been a bookkeeping error". Even Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper thought it laughable.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
"It's Like Deja Vu All Over Again" (AKA "Is Viktor Bout Out Of Jail?") - 1/4 Million Weapons Unaccounted For In Afghanistan
BBCNews: US 'lost track of Afghan weapons'
[Afghan soldiers with US-issue automatic rifles]
The US military has failed to keep track of thousands of weapons shipped to Afghanistan, leaving them vulnerable to being lost or stolen, a report says.
The report has been compiled by congressional auditors, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO).
It found that, in the four years up to June 2008, the US military failed to keep complete records on some 222,000 weapons entering the country. [In Full]
Maybe it's the 'Bookkeeping' again... as General David Petraeus claimed when the same thing happened in Iraq...
Bookkeeping problems are to blame for the inability to account for nearly 200,000 weapons issued to Iraqi security forces, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said late Tuesday.
In an interview on Fox News Radio, Gen. David H. Petraeus said he believes the weapons did reach the security forces, but that paperwork deficiencies don’t show their status.
“We believe those weapons all certainly were given to Iraqi units,” Petraeus said, according to a podcast recording on “The Alan Colmes Show.”
Meanwhile, 125,000 sets of body armor and 115,000 helmets intended for Iraqi forces could not be accounted for either, according to a Government Accountability Office report issued July 31.
The report faulted the Pentagon and the U.S. military command in Iraq for not applying the same standards in tracking supplies and weapons that it does elsewhere. The system has since been improved, the report found.
...or could it be.... Blackwater?
A former Blackwater employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the investigation includes a look at whether Blackwater shipped weapons from its Moyock headquarters to Iraq hidden in pallets wrapped tightly in shrink wrap..
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“In December, the prosecutors obtained guilty pleas from two former Blackwater employees, Kenneth Wayne Cashwell of Virginia Beach, Va., and William Ellsworth “Max” Grumiaux of Clemmons, N.C."
"The court files are stingy on details of the crimes…”
“…the federal (Nb. criminal) investigation of Blackwater is proceeding behind closed doors,”
A buffalo's take on the 'whos', 'whats', and, maybe most inportantly, 'whys' here
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
The 'good war' in Afghanistan?... It isn't a good war... It isn't an Afghan war... "It is about Pakistan" -Tom Ricks (Ex-WaPo now FP Magazine)
But I wonder what the hell we've been doing since then...
In Full @ Foreign Policy
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Friday, May 23, 2008
As War Crimes Continue, Admiration On Capitol Hill Grows For General Petraeus... Upbeat on Destruction Of Iraqi Society And Culture
Analysis: Petraeus upbeat on Iraq
May 23, 2008 at 10:56 AM
By MELISSA SCHMITT
WASHINGTON, May 23 (UPI) -- Gen. David Petraeus told an admiring Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday that the improving security situation in Iraq will likely allow him to recommend further U.S. troop reductions this fall, beyond the planned drawdown to about 140,000 in July.
Petraeus, currently the commander of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and now nominated by President Bush to take over as head of U.S. Central Command, appeared before the senators for a confirmation hearing. But the gathering quickly turned from his job qualifications to a progress report on Iraq.
His comments were markedly more optimistic than his last update to the committee only six weeks ago.
Petraeus reported that recent attempts by Iraqi security forces to secure parts of the nation -- including Basra, Mosul and the sprawling Shiite slum known as Sadr City in Baghdad -- with diminished U.S. military involvement have proven successful.
The general also said the U.S.-backed central government was enjoying more support among the Iraqi people,"
In Full @ UPI
Here's one of the 'Iraqi people' he obviously hasn't asked:
"Those civilians include people like Zahara Fadhil, a 10-year-old girl with a tiny frame and long brown hair. Relatives said she was wounded by a missile on April 20 at approximately 8 p.m. in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City. The U.S. military said it fired a Hellfire missile in Zahara's neighborhood at that time, targeting men who were seen loading rockets into a sedan.How, you ask, did THAT happen to this child?
Her face drained of color and her legs scarred by shrapnel, Zahara spoke haltingly when asked what she thought of U.S. troops.
"They kill people," she said. Lying in bed, she gasped for air before continuing.
"They should leave Iraq now."
Simple.
The reason the Pentagon MIGHT be able to allow a 'drawdown' to 140,000 troops is:
In Iraq, a Surge in U.S. Airstrikes
(Washington Post)
In other words, We can't really carpet bomb Baghdad, Mosul etc like we did to VAST INHABITED AREAS of Vietnam...
We NEED the infrastructure this time...
But we can commit the high tech, tailored-for-urban-warfare equivalent of that war crime.
Military Says Attacks Save Troops' Lives, but Civilian Casualties Elicit Criticism
Footage: Hellfire Airstrikes Over Sadr City
Since clashes broke out in eastern Baghdad in late March the U.S. Army has fired more than 200 hellfire missiles in Baghdad, killing over 251 people. A pilot describes his experiences.
By Ernesto Londoño and Amit R. Paley
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, May 23, 2008; Page A10
CAMP TAJI, Iraq -- From an Apache helicopter, Capt. Ben Katzenberger's battlefield resembles a vast mosaic of tiny brown boxes.
"The city looks like a bucket of Legos dumped out on the ground," the 26-year-old pilot said. "It's brown Legos, no color. It's really dense and hard to pick things out because everything looks the same."
He uses a powerful lens to zoom in on tiny silhouettes, trying to identify people with "hostile intent" among hundreds of ordinary citizens in Baghdad.
In recent weeks, Katzenberger and other pilots have dramatically increased their use of helicopter-fired missiles against enemy fighters, often in densely populated areas. Since late March, the military has fired more than 200 Hellfire missiles in the capital, compared with just six missiles fired in the previous three months.
The military says the tactic has saved the lives of ground troops and prevented attacks, but the strikes have also killed and wounded civilians, provoking criticism from Iraqis...
In Full (4 Pages) @ The Washington Post
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
You Want To See Our Iraq NIE? ...Ha Ha Ha! We Don't Need To Show You Any Stinkin' NIE!
If you're the police where are your badges?
Badges? We ain't got no badges.
We don't need no badges!
I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!
Source
Badges? We ain't got no badges.
We don't need no badges!
I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!
Source
No Iraq Intelligence Update For You!
By Spencer Ackerman
04/01/2008
"For weeks, analysts within the 16-agency U.S. intelligence community have been toiling to complete an assessment of the situation in Iraq. This morning, it finally went to the Hill: the Senate and House intelligence committees, and the leadership in both chambers, are the proud owners of an update to the August 23, 2007 National Intelligence Estimate. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee received a briefing on it. But you'll never see it.
According to an administration official with knowledge of the intelligence process, this morning's intelligence document isn't itself a National Intelligence Estimate. 'It's not a formal report,' the official said, 'it's more or less an assessment memo, an update to policy makers.'"
In Full @ The Washington Independent
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