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Preempitve Manhunting, The CIA's New Assassination Program
Preempitve Manhunting, The CIA's New Assassination Program
Preempitve Manhunting, The CIA's New Assassination Program
needed to kill its members. A Vietnamese informant provioded the intelligence that Kerrey based his mission on, and, in Iraq, the CIAs Phoenix assassination teams will rely on paid, anonymous Iraqi informants to identify which Baath Party members will be murdered along with all their family, friends, and neighbors. And anyone else the CIA wants killed. Thats rightterrorizing the people into submission is the point of Preemptive Manhunting, just as it was the point of the CIAs Phoenix Program. As in Kerreys operation in Thanh Phong, that means killing anyone in any way related to the target. Hundreds of My Lai massacres occurred in South Vietnam in the name of Phoenix, and starting in Afghanistan and Iraq, the CIA will perpetrate a hundred times that many massacres around the world, in the name of George Bush, Ariel Sharon, and the Judaeo-Christian God. One final note. Hersh mentions that Israel is guiding the CIAs Phoenix Program in Iraq, and as everyone knows, the Israelis are the worlds masters of assassination and terrorizing an entire people into submission. What Hersh doesnt mention is that the blanket of censorship that prevents the American media from criticizing Israel for its war crimes has now been cast over Bush and the CIA, and all the people they use to conquer foreigns nations and assassinate people who never did any American any harmuntil the Americans invaded their country. Compare Americas conquest of Iraq with Israelis conquest of Palestine, and you begin to understand. In each case the stragey is massive war crimes on the one hand, and targetted kills of inspirational leaders on the other. This devastating one-two punch is easier through the complicity of the corporate media. In this respect both Hersh and The New Yorker serve as essential instruments of the Big Lie that makes Preemptive Manhunting popular and thus possible. His story in The New Yorker was no mistake, but merely a part of the psychological warfare campaign being waged by the Bush regime to subdue the resistance of the American public to this awful war. DOUGLAS VALENTINE is the author of The Hotel Tacloban, The Phoenix Program, and TDY. His fourth book, The Strength of the Wolf: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930-1968, will be published in May 2004. His latest article, "Whose Homeland Security", appeared in the July 2003 issue of Penthouse Magazine. For information about Mr. Valentine, and his books and articles, please visit his web sites at www.DouglasValentine.com and http://members.authorsguild.net/valentine