Last Time Iraq Was Invaded
Pontifex Maximus
by James Dunnigan
http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/20021126.asp
During the 1920s, Britain cobbled together bits of the defunct
Ottoman empire and created Iraq. An Arabian prince, driven into
exile by the al Saud family, was made king, to insure that Iraq
remained pro-British. But when World War II began in 1939, Arab
nationalists became pro-German. The anti-Semitism of the Nazis
appealed to Arabs, who resented the way Britain was deciding how
new Arab nations would be set up, and for supporting continued
Jewish settlement in Palestine. As Greece fell to the Germans and
the Afrika Korps was advancing across North Africa towards Egypt,
pro-German Iraqi army officers staged a coup in early April, 1941.
The new Iraqi government didn't declare war on Britain, they just
wanted to be on the right side when the Germans won the war.
The British knew what was up, and they still had a few hundred
troops in Iraq. By treaty, Britain had the right to move troops
through Iraq, and maintain two airbases (outside Baghdad and Basra
in the south, mainly for training). Without saying anything to the
Iraqis, the British began moving the 10 Indian Infantry division from
India to Basra. The first brigade of the division arrived in Basra on
April 18th. On April 27th, the Iraqis broke their treaty by demanding
that the British land no more troops until the brigade already in Basra
had left Iraq. The British told the Iraqis that they would ignore that
request. Both sides knew this meant war. The British took over
Basra, thus protecting their airbase outside the city. They also flew
400 troops to the Habbaniya airbase outside Baghdad, as they knew
that the Iraqis were already moving troops to seize the base.
The British had a battalion of Assyrian (Iraqi Christians) militia,
plus a company of Kurds and Arabs, guarding Habbaniya, and sent
additional troops to show the Assyrians that they would be
supported. The airbase had about 90 aircraft, but nearly all were
biplane trainers. The base was used mainly for training pilots. But
the pilots were of good quality, particularly the instructors. The Iraqi
air force was also equipped mainly with a 60 aircraft, mostly biplanes
from three different countries, and the Iraqi pilots were not very
competent.
The Iraqi army consisted of four infantry divisions, one mechanized
brigade (a battalion with 16 light tanks and fourteen armored cars,
plus two battalions of infantry in trucks). Many of the officers and
NCOs had served in the Turkish army. Men from Baghdad had served
as Turkish civil servants, army officers and NCOs for centuries. But
these men were not of the same quality as the Turks. Indeed, the
Turks considered the Baghdadis corrupt, effete and unreliable. But
they were smart, and they could count. On April 30th, the Iraqis
moved 50 pieces of artillery and 9,000 troops to Habbaniya, as well
as several times that number (no one got an exact count) of tribal
militiamen. The tribal fighters were tough, but undisciplined and
poorly led. The Iraqis did the math and decided that Habbaniya
would soon be theirs.
The Iraqis occupied the high ground about a thousand yards from
Habbaniya, and warned the British that they would open fire with
artillery if any British aircraft took off. At dawn on May 2nd, the
British aircraft took off anyway, and attacked the Iraqi troops. Over
the next five days, the British aircraft launched 584 sorties, dropped
45 tons of bombs and fired over 100,000 rounds of machine-gun
ammunition. The Iraqi artillery did some damage, but Iraqi infantry
and tribesmen began to flee on the 6th. British troops also launched
raids from the base, and by May7th, the only Iraqi troops to be
found were fleeing from the British warplanes.
Meanwhile, the rest of the 10th Indian division landed at Basra on
May 6th and began advancing on Baghdad. At the same time, the
British organized a mobile brigade ("Habforce") and a battalion sized
force (KingCol) in Palestine and sent them off towards Baghdad. Led
by several hundred scouts from the Arab Legion, Habforce entered
Iraq on May 9th, followed by KingCol on the 15th.
The Iraqis now knew they were in big trouble. Even though they
outnumbered the attacking British by more than three to one, the
British troops were far better trained and led. And the British
controlled the air. So the Iraqis looked for stronger allies, and
contacted the Germans. Moving quickly, the Germans began flying
warplanes from Greece, via Vichy controlled Syria, into northern
Iraq. Two German He-111 bombers hit Habbaniya on May 10th. A
squadron of He-111s (about a dozen aircraft) were flying into Mosul,
as well as a squadron of two engine fighters (Me-110s) and some
captured French Dewontine fighters. The Italians sent 12 biplane
fighters. The British responded by flying in some Hurricane fighters in
from Palestine. On May 13th, the German force began to fly more
bombing missions out of Mosul. But the German air operations were
limited by a lack of aviation gas at Mosul. And they were unable to
fly in more fuel from Syria because British bombers from Palestine
were attacking the Syrian air bases.
Faced with an unreliable supply line, a fuel shortage, and British
troops advancing on Baghdad, the Germans withdrew their aircraft.
Habforce reached Habbaniya on May 17th. On May 23rd, the British
force in Habbaniya moved out, crossed the Euphrates river and
moved towards Baghdad. The Iraqi resistance got weaker and
weaker as they neared the city. On May 30th, the Iraqi resistance
ended. The Iraqi leader, Rashid Ali, fled to Iran, and thence made his
way to Germany. There he spent the war making anti-Semitic and
anti-British radio broadcasts to the Arabs in the Middle East. When
Germany fell in 1945, Rashid Ali escaped once more and found refuge
in Saudi Arabia. He remained there until 1958, when another army
coup killed most of the royal family and Rashid Ali was invited to
return home.
Although outnumbered more than three to one, and facing superior
German air power, the British conquered Iraq in four weeks.
http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/20021126.asp
Hypersphere
>
> The Last Time (1941) Iraq Was Invaded
>
> by James Dunnigan
>
> http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/20021126.asp
>
> During the 1920s, Britain cobbled together bits of the defunct
> Ottoman empire and created Iraq. An Arabian prince, driven into
> exile by the al Saud family, was made king, to insure that Iraq
> remained pro-British. But when World War II began in 1939, Arab
> nationalists became pro-German. The anti-Semitism of the Nazis
> appealed to Arabs, who resented the way Britain was deciding how
> new Arab nations would be set up, and for supporting continued
> Jewish settlement in Palestine. As Greece fell to the Germans and
> the Afrika Korps was advancing across North Africa towards Egypt,
> pro-German Iraqi army officers staged a coup in early April, 1941.
> The new Iraqi government didn't declare war on Britain, they just
> wanted to be on the right side when the Germans won the war.
> German air power, the British conquered Iraq in four weeks.
> http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/20021126.asp
http://www.abrupt.org/LOGOS/sow/sowintro.html
"MAN, you are come to the bitter end of your degradation.
Drain the dregs and leave not a stain in the glass.
"For WAR is upon you, around you and within you. You are
submerged in WAR so totally now there is no escape.
Like a cancer it has taken hold on you, crept stealthily
among you and become entrenched. No force on earth can
remove it. And no force in heaven will. For We, the Gods,
give man what man demands, not what he pretends to want.
And man who puts on airs and cries for peace and light
and love, and claims that his one desire is to live in
harmony with those around him, man who clothes himself
soberly with proper decency and goes about his business
saying: 'I am civilised. I am respectable. I am a
rational being in control of all my emotions', he is no
more than an ignorant fool, a hypocrite, a self-deluded
imbecile. For all he really wants is death, slaughter,
bloodshed, rape, pillage, and the violent hysterical
screeching lunacy of WAR. That is his true desire and
nothing less will truly satisfy him."
http://www.abrupt.org/LOGOS/sow/sow1.html
OBJECTS IN MIRROR (Are Closer than They Appear)
http://www.disinfo.com/pages/article/id1562/pg1/
Al Jazeera Arabic News:
http://www.aljazeera.net/news/arabic/2002/9/9-10-2.htm
Al Jazeera's Analysis
http://www.aljazeera.net/cases_analysis/
http://www.aljazeera.net/mritems/images/2002/8/15/1_109980_1_6.jpg
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"... The Islamic groups that are committed to violence have
stripped into tiny little groups of about 30 people each.
They don't know a great deal about each other. So if you
eliminated one, another one would operate somewhere else.
They are spread throughout the Middle East in the Islamic
world. They are unafraid. I remember a former Jordanian
prime minister saying, 'How do you frighten someone who
thinks he's going to heaven if you chop his head off?'
It's a good question. If they are willing to sacrifice
themselves, then they will be able to carry out
operations..."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/interviews/aburish.html
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Federation of American Scientists:
"Bush Administration Documents on Secrecy Policy"
http://www.fas.org/sgp/bush/index.html
http://www.fas.org/sgp/index.html
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Pentagon Metro Entrance Facility Project
http://metro.pentagon.mil/contacts.htm
Links: http://renovation.pentagon.mil/links.htm
The Whitehouse
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
National Nuclear Security Administration
Field Offices & facilities:
http://www.nnsa.doe.gov/map.htm
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Contacts:
http://www.fbi.gov/contactus.htm
Hizbollah
http://www.hizbollah.org
Hizbollah links:
http://www.hizbollah.org/links/linkseng.htm
National Security Agency
Attn: IAD Business Affairs Office, V14
9800 Savage Road, Suite 6740
Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755-6740
301-688-0606
The C.I.A. Factbook on Intelligence
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/facttell/index.html
Vatican Information Services
http://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/vis/vis_en.html
http://www.vatican.va/jubilee_2000/magazine/documents/ju_mag_01111997_p-42a_en.html
The Kremlin
http://www.kremlin.ru/noflash/mainpage.shtml
Sandia National Laboratories
http://www.sandia.gov/contact-us/index.html
Contact Interpol
http://www.interpol.int/Public/contact.asp
The House of Saud, or the:
Saudi Arabian Information Resource
http://www.saudinf.com/main/w.htm
sa...@saudinf.com
Shi'a Network International
P.O. Box 15893
Cincinnati, OH 45215
http://www.islamicdigest.net
Frontline, a Public Broadcasting Station investigative program.
See the interview with: Said K. Aburish
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/interviews/aburish.html
fron...@pbs.org
Department of Defense
http://www.dod.gov/sites/
Homeland Security
(State International Information Programs)
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/homeland.htm
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Some Additional Notes:
Imam Al-Mahdi (atfs)
http://www.jafariyanews.com/may2k2/15imammahdi.htm
Compare, Frank Herbert's "Dune"
http://www.dreamersofdune.com/images/fightertil.gif
Frank Herbert was a prophet! If you want to get
a handle on contemporary-futuristic bizarro Islamic
behaviors, then read his entire series of Dune
books, which fictionally-prophetically span
thousands of years. I wish he were alive today
to see the present situation and comment upon:
"The Vanguard of the Mahdi" http://www.taliyah.org
Abu Hamza al-Masri & Supporters of Shariah
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Abu+Hamza+al-Masri%2C+Supporters+of+Shariah
al-bab.com
ARAB GATEWAY
http://www.yemenembassy.org/links/links/links.htm
arabg...@hotmail.com
The Muslim Directory online
http://www.ummah.net/
in...@ummah.com
CAABU: Council for the Advancement of
Arab-British Understanding
http://www.caabu.org/
ca...@caabu.org
The ISP of Iraq
http://www.uruklink.net/eindex.htm
Yemeni Development Foundation
http://www.ydf.org.uk/index.html
ad...@ydf.org.uk
Timeline to Global Governance
http://www.sovereignty.net/timeline.html
United States Department of Justice
Al Qaeda Training Manual
http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/trainingmanual.htm
Office of the
Attorney General
John Ashcroft
http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/
() From the Editor: www.oilandgasinternational.com
http://www.oilandgasinternational.com/departments/from_editor/10_29_01.html
Unocal & Afghanistan
[...]
Author Ahmed Rashid * has revealed that since 1995,
Unocal has sought to build US$1.9 billion, 790-mile oil and
gas pipelines from the 25 Tcf Dauletabad Field in Turkmenistan
across Afghanistan to Pakistani ports on the Arabian Sea as an
alternate route for transporting Caspian region oil and
gas to the enormous Indian subcontinent markets and perhaps
beyond to Southeast Asia. But, Rashid points out, this requires
an agreeable administration in Afghanistan, which the Taliban
no longer is.
Unocal tried courting Taliban leaders after they took Kabul
in 1996, taking them to Houston, where they were treated royally.
They were offered US$.15 per 1000 cf of gas that passed through
Afghanistan, and they agreed after US Assistant Secretary of
State Robin Raphael lobbied them for the Unocal pipeline.
[...]
If the Taliban is overthrown, terrorism may take a major blow,
but in doing so, the primary stumbling block to the
Caspian-Pakistan pipeline will also be removed. [...] (10/29/01)
http://www.oilandgasinternational.com/departments/from_editor/10_29_01.html
* Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban -
Militant Islam, Oil & Fundamentalism in Central Asia [2000]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0300089023/reader/1/ref=lib_dp_TFCV/002-3510289-4573632#reader-link
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Taliban%2C+Ahmed+Rashid%2C+oil+pipeline
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=0000EF52-6483-1E49-967D809EC588EEDF
February 2003
The Infant Universe, in Detail...
New data from a NASA probe
located a million miles from Earth
has provided scientists with the
information necessary to paint the
most precise picture yet of the early
universe. The long-awaited images,
unveiled yesterday, support theories
that posit that the universe
underwent a tremendous growth
spurt shortly after the big bang.
Moreover, they pinpoint the age of
the universe at 13.7 billion years
old--give or take 200 million
years--a mere 1 percent margin of
error.
[...]
As a result of the information collected
by WMAP, the researchers were able to
sharpen their estimates of when the first
stars formed. The team reports that the
lights in our universe came on only
200 million years after the big bang, which
is nearly 500 million years earlier than
previously thought. "This is a beginning of
a new stage in our study of the early universe,"
Spergel notes. "We can use this portrait not
only to predict the properties of the nearby
universe, but can also use it to understand
the first moments of the big bang."
--Sarah Graham
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=0000EF52-6483-1E49-967D809EC588EEDF
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~zarathus/deen33f.html
Ommmmmmmm....
Moohnochwa
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> gl...@panix.com (Robert Scott Martin) wrote in message
> > news:<b4jruk$i12$1...@panix1.panix.com>...
> > In article <d1eb8c80.03030...@posting.google.com>,
> > Pontifex Maximus <maxpo...@yahoo.it> wrote:
<><><>
> > > > The Last Time (1941) Iraq Was Invaded
> > > > by James Dunnigan
> > > > http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/20021126.asp
> > > > "During the 1920s, Britain cobbled together bits of the defunct
> > > > Ottoman empire and created Iraq. An Arabian prince, driven into
> > > > exile by the al Saud family, was made king, to insure that Iraq
> > > > remained pro-British. But when World War II began in 1939, Arab
<><><>
> > > > http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/20021126.asp
> > > IRAK (e-rak). The name of an indefinitely bounded region
> > > extending on both sides of the confluence of the Euphrates
> > > and the Tigris, from the Syrian desert northeastward to
> > > the Elburz Mountains, on the south shore of the Caspian Sea.
> > > The region consists chiefly of sandy desert lowlands in the
> > > west, called Irak-Arabi, and in the east a region of parallel
> > > ridges and furrows, mostly barren, with fertile river
> > > valleys, called Irak-Ajemi. Irak-Arabi is nearly coterminous
> > > with ancient Babylonia and includes parts of the modern
> > > Turkish vilayets of Bagdad and Basra. It includes the ruins
> > > of the ancient cities of Babylon, Seleucia, and Ctesiphon,
> > > and the modern cities of Bagdad, Basra, and Kerbela (Meshed
> > > Hussein). Irak-Ajemi coincides nearly with the ancient Media
> > > and includes a large part of western and central Persia,
> > > containing its largest and most flourishing cities, Ispahan,
> > > Teheran, and Hamadan. The population of the whole of Irak is
> > > estimated at about 3,000,000. The inhabitants of the
> > > western part are largely nomadic.
<><><>
> > the whole of Irak is estimated at about 3,000,000.
> > The inhabitants of the western part are largely nomadic.
>
> They better be...
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The following is the text of John Brady Kiesling's letter
of resignation to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell.
Mr. Kiesling is a career diplomat who has served in United
States embassies from Tel Aviv to Casablanca to Yerevan.
Dear Mr. Secretary:
I am writing you to submit my resignation from the Foreign
Service of the United States and from my position as
Political Counselor in U.S. Embassy Athens, effective March 7.
I do so with a heavy heart. The baggage of my upbringing
included a felt obligation to give something back to my
country. Service as a U.S. diplomat was a dream job.
I was paid to understand foreign languages and cultures,
to seek out diplomats, politicians, scholars and journalists,
and to persuade them that U.S. interests and theirs
fundamentally coincided. My faith in my country and its
values was the most powerful weapon in my diplomatic arsenal.
It is inevitable that during twenty years with the State
Department I would become more sophisticated and cynical
about the narrow and selfish bureaucratic motives that
sometimes shaped our policies. Human nature is what it is,
and I was rewarded and promoted for understanding human
nature. But until this Administration it had been possible
to believe that by upholding the policies of my president
I was also upholding the interests of the American people
and the world. I believe it no longer.
The policies we are now asked to advance are incompatible
not only with American values but also with American interests.
Our fervent pursuit of war with Iraq is driving us to squander
the international legitimacy that has been Americas most potent
weapon of both offense and defense since the days of Woodrow
Wilson. We have begun to dismantle the largest and most effective
web of international relationships the world has ever known.
Our current course will bring instability and danger, not security.
The sacrifice of global interests to domestic politics and
to bureaucratic self-interest is nothing new, and it is certainly
not a uniquely American problem. Still, we have not seen such
systematic distortion of intelligence, such systematic
manipulation of American opinion, since the war in Vietnam.
The September 11 tragedy left us stronger than before, rallying
around us a vast international coalition to cooperate for the
first time in a systematic way against the threat of terrorism.
But rather than take credit for those successes and build on them,
this Administration has chosen to make terrorism a domestic
political tool, enlisting a scattered and largely defeated Al
Qaeda as its bureaucratic ally. We spread disproportionate terror
and confusion in the public mind, arbitrarily linking the unrelated
problems of terrorism and Iraq. The result, and perhaps the motive,
is to justify a vast misallocation of shrinking public wealth to
the military and to weaken the safeguards that protect American
citizens from the heavy hand of government.
September 11 did not do as much damage to the fabric of American
society as we seem determined to do to ourselves. Is the Russia of
the late Romanovs really our model, a selfish, superstitious empire
thrashing toward self-destruction in the name of a doomed status quo?
We should ask ourselves why we have failed to persuade more of the
world that a war with Iraq is necessary. We have over the past two
years done too much to assert to our world partners that narrow
and mercenary U.S. interests override the cherished values of our
partners. Even where our aims were not in question, our consistency
is at issue. The model of Afghanistan is little comfort to allies
wondering on what basis we plan to rebuild the Middle East, and in
whose image and interests. Have we indeed become blind, as Russia is
blind in Chechnya, as Israel is blind in the Occupied Territories,
to our own advice, that overwhelming military power is not the answer
to terrorism? After the shambles of post-war Iraq joins the shambles
in Grozny and Ramallah, it will be a brave foreigner who forms ranks
with Micronesia to follow where we lead.
We have a coalition still, a good one. The loyalty of many of our
friends is impressive, a tribute to American moral capital built
up over a century. But our closest allies are persuaded less that
war is justified than that it would be perilous to allow the U.S.
to drift into complete solipsism. Loyalty should be reciprocal.
Why does our President condone the swaggering and contemptuous
approach to our friends and allies this Administration is fostering,
including among its most senior officials. Has oderint dum metuant
really become our motto?
I urge you to listen to Americas friends around the world.
Even here in Greece, purported hotbed of European anti-Americanism,
we have more and closer friends than the American newspaper reader
can possibly imagine. Even when they complain about American
arrogance, Greeks know that the world is a difficult and dangerous
place, and they want a strong international system, with the U.S.
and EU in close partnership. When our friends are afraid of us
rather than for us, it is time to worry. And now they are afraid.
Who will tell them convincingly that the United States is as it
was, a beacon of liberty, security, and justice for the planet?
Mr. Secretary, I have enormous respect for your character and
ability. You have preserved more international credibility for
us than our policy deserves, and salvaged something positive
from the excesses of an ideological and self-serving
Administration. But your loyalty to the President goes too
far. We are straining beyond its limits an international system
we built with such toil and treasure, a web of laws, treaties,
organizations, and shared values that sets limits on our foes
far more effectively than it ever constrained Americas ability
to defend its interests.
I am resigning because I have tried and failed to reconcile
my conscience with my ability to represent the current
U.S. Administration. I have confidence that our democratic
process is ultimately self-correcting, and hope that in a
small way I can contribute from outside to shaping policies
that better serve the security and prosperity of the
American people and the world we share.
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Marquis de Lafayette
>
> In article <2d367074.03031...@posting.google.com>,
> Small Tortoiseshell <atal...@volcanomail.com> wrote:
>
> >It includes the ruins of the ancient cities of Babylon, Seleucia,
> >> and Ctesiphon,
> >
> >Tommy Franks, after the russians got Ishtars temple because Putin is
> >secretly into goddess worship, then reassembled as war-souvenir and
> >memorial at ground zero after drawings by President Bush...
>
> Constant introduced the label "New Babylon" to his works around 1958,
> drawing upon established comparisons of legendary old Babylon with the
> heady phenomenon of the modern city. The metaphor of Babylon brought the
> architectural and cultural neatly together. Architecturally, modern cities
> has revived the fascination with elevation, engineering and spectacle that
> made old Babylon famous. Culturally, Babylon and the building of its tower
> have survived as a fable of common effort giving way to fragmentation and
> finally to decadence. So Babylon, once a parable of the godless modern
> city, was on the contrary revived by Constant as an exemplar for the
> modern city -- technological, universal and playful. In 1870 a German
> newspaper denounced Paris as a modern "Babylon" and the Commune that Paris
> collapsed into the following year was celebrated as a New Babylon in the
> classic 1929 Soviet film of the same name. Babylonian decadence promised a
> spiral into social anarchy.
Kenneth Anger - http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id171/pg1/
by Alex Burns
When most contemporary film-critics think of underground cinema,
Kenneth Anger's unique vision quickly springs to mind. Anger is
mentioned in the same breath as Maya Deren and Stan Brakhage,
and his canon are perennial film school student case-studies.
Anger has had a major impact on avant-garde film artists and
major-league film directors like Derek Jarman, Pier Paolo
Pasolini, Francis Ford Coppola ('Apocalypse Now'), David Lynch
('Blue Velvet') and Martin Scorcese ('Mean Streets').
'Fireworks' (1947) established Anger's reputation as a
'living myth' (Mike O'Pray), when the seventeen year-old
film-maker shot moody homo-erotic footage during a weekend
whilst his parents were away. The intense poetic images within
'Fireworks' attracted the attention of Maya Deren and Jean
Cocteau. 'Rabbit's Moon' (1950) and 'Eaux D'Artifice' (1953)
cemented Anger's critical reputation.
'Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome' (1954-56), featuring
Anais Nin and Marjorie Cameron (wife of 'Antichrist-Superstar'
Jack Parsons) established Anger's trademark hallucinogenic and
hypnotic visual style. The film introduced magus Aleister
Crowley's 'Thelema' philosophy, and was perhaps influenced by
Anger's re-discovery of Crowley's abbey at Cefalu, Sicily.
'Inauguration' subsequently influenced Roger Corman's Edgar
Allen Poe series. Similar atavistic visions dramatically
underpinned the seminal 'Scorpio Rising' (1963), which captured
the hedonistic rituals and Thanatos-worship of rock music and
motorcycle youth culture. Fore-shadowing the 'evil glamour'
associated with Hells Angels and Harley Davidson motor-cycles,
Anger's paeon perfectly nailed the transition from the Piscean
to Aquarian Age. Serving as a stylistic counter-point to Andy
Warhol's Pop Art, 'Scorpio Rising' contained subtle mythological
sub-texts deeply embedded into the imagery.
'Kustom Kar Kommando' (1965) was to explore these themes
further, but Anger instead focused upon what was to become
his most notorious project: 'Lucifer Rising.' When his
collaborator Bobby Beausoleil buried the original footage in
Death Valley, Anger cursed him. Beausoleil was later implicated
in the Manson murders. With the assistance of Mick Jagger
(moog soundtrack) and Church of Satan High Priest Anton
Szandor LaVey, Anger transmuted the surviving footage into the
multi-layered 'Invocation Of My Demon Brother' (1969), revealing
Sergei Eisenstein's influence, and serving as 'Depth Psychologist'
to the MTV music film-clip generation.
Rarely out of the public eye through his involvement with the
March on the Pentagon and association with many celebrities,
Anger received wider attention with the 1975 English publication
of 'Hollywood Babylon', a detailed expose of the Hollywood star
system's lurid underbelly of sex, drugs, psychosis, and death.
First published in France in 1959 (dog-eared bootleg copies had
circulated for years), the best-selling 'Hollywood Babylon' is
an immaculately researched and memorable study of
gossip-mongering. A sequel followed, but Anger was forced to
later sell the title for an exploitative documentary that he
has subsequently distanced himself from. A revised version of
'Lucifer Rising'(1980) continued Anger's Cinema of the Sensual,
with sublime invocations of Isis, Astarte, and Lilith ('demonic
feminine' archetypes).
[Cont... <http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id171/pg1/>]
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Britain's Security Service (MI5) http://www.mi5.gov.uk/
IRAQ'S SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE NETWORK:
A GUIDE AND ANALYSIS
By Ibrahim al-Marashi
"Ensuring the survival of President Saddam Hussein
are five primary agencies that make up the Iraqi
security apparatus: Special Security, General Security,
General Intelligence, Military Intelligence and
Military Security. In addition to preventing coups and
protecting Saddam, these agencies, whose duties largely
overlap, maintain internal domestic security and conduct
foreign operations. These intelligence agencies along
with the Ba'th Party organizations and select units of
the military form Saddam’s security network, permeating
every aspect of Iraqi life and ensuring his total
control over the state." [...]
http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2002/issue3/jv6n3a1.html
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"MAN, you are come to the bitter end of your degradation.
Drain the dregs and leave not a stain in the glass.
"For WAR is upon you, around you and within you. You are
submerged in WAR so totally now there is no escape.
Like a cancer it has taken hold on you, crept stealthily
among you and become entrenched. No force on earth can
remove it. And no force in heaven will. For We, the Gods,
give man what man demands, not what he pretends to want.
And man who puts on airs and cries for peace and light
and love, and claims that his one desire is to live in
harmony with those around him, man who clothes himself
soberly with proper decency and goes about his business
saying: 'I am civilised. I am respectable. I am a
rational being in control of all my emotions', he is no
more than an ignorant fool, a hypocrite, a self-deluded
imbecile. For all he really wants is death, slaughter,
bloodshed, rape, pillage, and the violent hysterical
screeching lunacy of WAR. That is his true desire and
nothing less will truly satisfy him."
http://www.abrupt.org/LOGOS/sow/sow1.html
"Is Heidi Klum an Alien/Human Hybrid?"
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Free the YEZIDI!! Free KURDISATAN!!
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