The U.S. military official, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, told CNN's Karl Penhaul that he believes members of the Iraqi security forces who were guarding the site either assisted or directly took part in helping al Qaeda insurgents place and detonate explosives at the mosque's minarets.This, despite the fact that state-run Iraqi television claimed that mortar rounds were fired.
"He told me there was no evidence at all that this was an attack using mortars or anything of the like and said, in his words, that this was an inside job," Penhaul, who's embedded with U.S. troops in Baquba, told CNN's "American Morning."
Meanwhile, Iraqis are blaming America, Israel, or both:
The anti-American cleric also said no rival Sunni Arab could have been responsible for the bombing, calling the development a "cursed American-Israeli scenario that aims to spread the turmoil and plant the hatred among the Muslim brethren."
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Remember the 2 British SAS agent disguised as Arabs who were caught with explosive in their car ? The British army stormed the prison where they were kept.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if most of the original "sectarian" violence in Iraq were (and are still) false flag operations.
The goal is obvious, break up the country in 3 smaller regions... much easier to control this way.
ZIONIST VISION
The Zionist vision for the Middle East rests on two essential premises, Nakhleh noted. “To survive, Israel must become an imperial regional power, and, secondly, it must effect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states.
“The Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states will become Israel’s satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimization,” Nakhleh wrote.
“The idea that all the Arab states should be broken down . . . into small units occurs again and again in Israeli strategic thinking,” Shahak wrote.
“For example, Ze’ev Schiff, the military correspondent for Ha’aretz, wrote on June 2, 1982, about the ‘best’ that can happen for Israeli interests in Iraq: ‘The dissolution of Iraq into a Shiite state, a Sunni state and the separation of the Kurdish part.’ ”
“Ideally, we’d like to see Iraq disintegrate into a Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni community, each making war on the others,” said an unnamed Israeli official who was quoted in the July 26, 1982, issue of Newsweek.
joe, i'll have to find the link, but i ran across a report the day of the event that described witnesses - in fact, iraqi security folks who guarded the mosque - said vehicles loaded with out of uniform militia (? who knows their background? blackwater?) who forced the security team out of the mosque, even after exchanging fire.
that supports hyperman's suspicions, and i'm assuming, yours.
As bad as the conventional wisdom now says Iraq is, and as bad are the reasons conventional wisdom blames for this condition-- bad or no planning, mistaken assumptions, no plan b, etc.-- the kind of reasoning in this post shows how much worse it really is than all of that.
For, this wasn't merely the lack of a coherent plan, the total clusterf*ck of incompetents in charge, which would have been horrific enough.
No, it is beginning to be clear that THIS. WAS. THE. PLAN. All of this, deliberately done, hiding behind the cover story provided by the conventional wisdom.
Not that all the go-along to get-along types, subservient to whatever The Lobby wants, necessarily knew this was the plan. They may have been confused and believed the cover story was the truth. Maybe Bush himself didn't know. (There have been some stories about how betrayed on the war by Cheney Bush has felt).
Not that it matters. They knew they were in a deal with the devil, either willingly, or out of cowardice to confront the Lobby.
We face a situation parallel to Seymour's with Audrey II. We may have thought we had an promising hot house project, but now we know we have a ravenous, voracious killer, who wants more blood. What do you do when a pet becomes a killer? Regretfully, you make sure it can never kill again.
sofla
Yeah, this definitely reeks of John Negroponte's shamelessly titled "Salvadoran Option". Not unlike the crap circulating around Elliot Abrahms in Palestine. This is their M.O.... People are saying "Vietnam" but they should really be thinking "Cambodia".
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