Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
October 7, 2013
More than an effective military raid against
dangerous terrorists, the twin raids in Libya and Somalia over the weekend are
flimsy propaganda efforts designed to keep the war on terror sideshow rolling
along. The events provided both national and local corporate media an expanded
venue to sloganeer in the name of state violence against largely manufactured
enemies:
Once again, we are subjected to the facile fiction of a brave and tireless SEAL Team Six, the
military unit that supposedly took out Osama bin Laden (a fairy tale debunked
last week by ace investigative reporter Seymour Hersh).
Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday that
al-Qaeda “can run but they can’t hide” and praised SEAL Team Six for their work.
“I want to thank and congratulate the quality and courage of those young
Americans who took part in [the] operations,” he said from Indonesia. “We hope
that this makes clear that the United States of America will never stop in its
effort to hold those accountable who conduct acts of terror.”
The Somalia raid, however, did not go off as
planned. Supposedly in search of a Kenyan of Somalia descent named Ikrimah who
is said to head up the terror group al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda spin-off, and two of
his al-Qaeda associates allegedly involved in the 1998 US embassy bombings in
Kenya and Tanzania, the raid encountered stiff resistance. The corporate media
speculated that the bad guy Ikrimah may have been killed during the raid, but
provided no evidence.
“Though not a household name, Ikrimah was
apparently seen as a valuable enough adversary to send in the elite SEAL team,
as one military officer noted Saturday, before Ikrimah was named,” ABC News reported on Monday.
Despite the armed resistance reportedly
encountered by the US military and a now typical paucity of details, the
Pentagon marched out its propaganda specialists to make hay of the orchestrated
media event. “When we put boots on the ground, it is only for an important
target,” a nameless military officer “familiar with the raid” said.
ABC added to the drama by citing the fictional
Osama bin Laden take-out and stating that the US government conducted an
“intense debate” about the raid and “whether it was worth the risk to send in
American troops rather than launch a missile strike from death-dealing drones in
the sky,” which is the preferred modus operandi as the US military conducts its
long-range murderous video game.
The show was more successful in war-ravaged Libya
where Delta force troopers grabbed one Anas al-Libi. Al-Libi, aka Nazih
Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, who is also wanted for his alleged role in the 1998
embassy bombings. According to CBS News, al-Libi is “being held on a Navy ship in the
Mediterranean Sea where he will be interrogated about his many years as a
leading member of al Qaeda, before being sent to New York for criminal
prosecution.”
Libya wants an explanation for the violation of
its national sovereignty. “The Libyan government is following the news of the
kidnapping of a Libyan citizen who is wanted by US authorities,” read a
statement from the office of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan.
“The Libyan government has contacted US
authorities to ask them to provide an explanation.”
Kerry said the rendition of al-Libi, described as a kidnapping
by the government in Tripoli, was “legal” and the suspected terrorist is an
“appropriate target.”
“We will continue to try to bring people to
justice,” said Kerry.
The dramatic and excessively covered Westgate
shopping mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, last month has provided the
establishment with an excuse to ramp up its terror narrative and deluge the
American people with more propaganda.
The interminable war on manufactured terror
requires dramatic events like the Libyan and Somalia raids. Unrelenting news
coverage is designed to further condition a war-weary public of the necessity
for never-ending war abroad requiring enormous expenditures and a rapidly
escalating diminishment of liberties at home as a high-tech police and
surveillance state continues to go into place apace
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