Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 01:41:11 +0000 (GMT)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?j=20t?= <nopossesion1-AT-yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: COVERT  TERRORISM


Whilst the world is outraged at the terrorist attacks on the USA mainland,
it must be remembered that the US has been conducting and supporting just
as deadly covert acts of terrorism around the globe for 50 years. For
instance, the US and Britain supported Suharto's military coup in
Indonesia in 1966, which resulted in the deaths of 600,000 mainly ethnic
Chinese supporters of the Indonesian ^ÓCommunist^Ô Party, the PKI. 

And it was the US who toppled (also on an 11 September) the elected
Allende government in Chile which resulted in thousands of deaths and
countless disappearances. When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 and
massacred 17,500, this act of terror was supported by the US.

Since 1945 the US has toppled some 30 governments and supported every
dictator imaginable (Pol Pot, Mobuto, Amin, Marcos, Papa Doc Duvalier and
Saddam Hussein) whilst seriously interfering in the domestic affairs of
almost 70 countries. 

In recent years the US has devastated Iraq in continuous bombing raids ^Ö
even for using radar to scan airspace from which its air force is
excluded. During the 40-day Gulf War, US planes dropped 177 million pounds
of explosives on Iraq ^Ö the greatest aerial bombardment in history. It has
imposed sanctions on Iraq that have resulted in the deaths of perhaps two
million people and bombed Iraq in defence of the Kurds from the same air
bases Turkey has used to bomb Kurdish villages. 

In the wake of the Gulf War, the US mercilessly attacked a retreating
Iraqi army on the Basra road and quite literally fried to death 60,000
ill-equipped, ill-trained soldiers, the vast majority never wanting any
part in the conflict in the first place. Two weeks ago, the US and Britain
again joined hands in a bombing raid on Iraq. It wasn't even reported in
most Western newspapers. And where is the three-minutes' silence for the
500,000 Iraqi children who have died of hunger and disease as a result of
US sanctions in the past 10 years ^Ö a figure which Madeleine Albright
described recently as ^Óa price worth paying^Ô? 

There was of course a time when the US couldn't help Iraq enough. During
the Iran-Iraq war, the US gave its full blessing to Iraqi atrocities, even
supplying Iraq with the chemical weapons it used on the small town of
Halabjah in 1988 with the loss of 5,000 innocent lives. Indeed, in 1987
when Iraq attacked the USS Stark, killing 37 servicemen, there was no US
response as the White House was keen at the time that Iraq got the upper
hand in its war with Iran so as weaken Iran's threat to the West's oil
supplies.

The US has launched attacks upon Libya, Somalia and Grenada, propped up
right wing tendencies in Panama, Chile, Brazil, Haiti, El Salvador,
Nicaragua and Colombia. In Africa it supported the gangster Savimbi as he
tried to make Angola more hellish for its impoverished millions, adopted a
policy of ^Óconstructive engagement^Ô with South Africa's apartheid machine
and was all to willing to shoulder up with South Africa in its war with
the frontline states. 
In the Middle East it has propped up despotic regimes in Saudi Arabia and
the Gulf whilst at the same time backing Israel. This year alone Israel is
receiving $6 in free US aid, in direct contravention of Congress rulings.
During the retaliatory raids following the attacks on the US embassies in
Africa, the US fired 70 cruise missiles into Afghanistan and killed many
thousands in Sudan (a true figure is not available because the US blocked
the proposed UN inquiry). The US ruling class's catalogue of shame is
indeed a deep one and we can only begin to scratch at its surface.

The solution to the ongoing insanity, we insist, remains the same. 
There is one world and we exist as one people in need of each other and
with the same basic needs. There is far more that unites us than can ever
divide us along cultural, nationalistic or religious lines. Together we
can create a civilisation worth living in, but before that happens we need
the conscious Cupertino of ordinary people across the world, united in one
common cause ^Ö to create a world in which each person has free access to
the benefits of civilisation, a world without borders or frontiers, social
classes or leaders and a world in which production is at last freed from
the artificial constraints of profit and used for the good of humanity ^Ö
socialism.
http://communities.msn.com/realworldsocialism


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