@@ British terrorists exposed in Basra @@
Arash
September 20, 2005
British “Pseudo-Gang” Terrorists Exposed in Basra
By Kurt Nimmo
Baghdad Dweller, writing for Uruknet, reports two British soldiers held by “Iraqi
authorities” in Basra (also described as “Shia militiamen” in the corporate media),
and subsequently freed after the British stormed a police jail, were working
undercover as bombers. http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m15922
Baghdad Dweller includes a link to the Washington Post, where the following appears:
“Iraqi security officials on Monday variously accused the two Britons they detained
of SHOOTING AT IRAQI FORCES or TRYING TO PLANT EXPLOSIVES. Photographs of the two men
in custody showed them in civilian clothes”.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091900572.html?nav=rss_world
The Herald notes the following: “Sources say the British soldiers, possibly members
of the new Special Reconnaissance Regiment formed earlier this month to provide
intelligence for SAS operations, were looking at infiltration of the city’s police by
the followers of the outspoken Shia cleric, Moqtada Sadr”, thus admitting the
soldiers worked undercover. http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/47323-print.shtml
The “Special Reconnaissance Regiment,” according to Regiments.org, “formed with HQ at
Hereford from volunteers of other units to support international expeditionary
operations in the fight against international terrorism, absorbing 14th Intelligence
Company (formed for operations against Ulster terrorists), Intelligence Corps, and
releasing the SAS and SBS for the 'HARD END' of missions”.
http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/specfor/SRR.htm
Is it possible the "HARD END" of the “MISSION” in Iraq is to discredit the resistance
and sow chaos in the country by fronting pseudo-gang terrorist groups (or the variant
“pseudo-guerilla operations”), as the British have ample experience with elsewhere,
notably in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising and in Malaya?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau
“Pseudo operations are those in which government forces disguised as guerrillas,
normally along with guerrilla defectors, operate as teams to infiltrate insurgent
areas”, writes Lawrence E. Cline for the U.S. Army War College External Research
Associates Program. http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2005/articles/080105counter.pdf
"This technique has been used by the security forces of several other countries in
their operations, and typically it has been very successful”, Indeed, one long
running pseudo op, GLADIO, was so successful it managed to render a nominal Italian
terrorist group, the Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse), into an excuse (after proper
infiltration by agents provocateurs) to increase the power of reactionary forces in
Italy and discredit socialist, communist, and even labor movements.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladio
The British SAS honed its “counter-insurgency” techniques in Northern Ireland and
there is no reason to believe it has refrained from doing so in Iraq. “Formed to
perform acts of SABOTAGE and ASSASSINATION behind enemy lines during World War 2,
the SAS evolved into a counter-insurgency regiment after the war”, writes Sean Mac
Mathuna. http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/dirty_war_in_ireland.htm
Sean Mac Mathuna cites a 1969 Army Training manual (British Army Land Operations
Manual, volume 3, counter-revolutionary operations) that enumerates several “TASKS”,
including:
the ambush and harassment of insurgents, the infiltration of SABOTAGE,
ASSASSINATION and DEMOLITION parties into insurgent-held areas, border surveillance …
liaison with, and ORGANIZATION OF FRIENDLY GUERRILLA forces operating against the
common enemy.
Examples “were found during the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya during the mid-fifties”,
Sean Mac Mathuna explains, “when SAS officers commanded some of the infamous ‘pseudo
gangs’ that terrorized the civilian population”, and
in Borneo, where they used cross-border operations to attack and destroy
guerrilla bases; and in Aden in 1967, where they DRESSED AS ARABS and would use an
Army officer to lure Arab gunmen into a trap and kill them. To defeat the insurgents
counter-terror must be deployed back at them—described by Ken Livingstone as
“subverting the subverters”….
In order to “subvert the subverters” and discredit the IRA in Northern Ireland, the
SAS formed the Military Reconnaissance Force (MRF), a covert pseudo-gang. “During the
1972 [IRA] ceasefire the MRF shot civilians from unmarked cars using IRA weapons”,
writes Mathuna. “In November 1972 the Army admitted that the MRF had done this one
three occasions. One of these incidents happened on 22nd June 1972—the day the IRA
announced its intention to introduce a ceasefire. The shootings appear to have been
done to discredit the IRA…”
It is clear now, that because elements within the security forces did not want a
political deal with the IRA in the mid-seventies, and the military solution was only
possible with a change at the top of the Labor leadership, MI5 and the SAS were
prepared to use the same methods the IRA are condemned for - CIVILIAN DEATHS,
ASSASSINATIONS, BOMBINGS and BLACK PROPAGANDA—to bring this about.
In fact, so effective were these “military solution” pseudo-gang terrorist techniques
the French employed them in Algeria and Vietnam. “The most widespread use of pseudo
type operations was during the ‘Battle of Algiers’ in 1957”, explains Lawrence E.
Cline. “The principal French employer of covert agents in Algiers was the Fifth
Bureau, the psychological warfare branch”.
The Fifth Bureau “planted incriminating forged documents, spread false rumors of
treachery and fomented distrust among the [FLN, the National Liberation Front] … As a
frenzy of throat-cutting and disemboweling broke out among confused and suspicious
FLN cadres, nationalist slaughtered nationalist from April to September 1957 and did
France’s work for her”, notes Cline, quoting Martin S. Alexander and J. F. V. Kieger
(“France and the Algerian War: Strategy, Operations, and Diplomacy,” Journal of
Strategic Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2, June 2002, pp. 6-7).
Even though the Washington Post mentions two Brits were detained, apparently caught
red-handed shooting Iraqi police and planting explosives, it does not bother to
mention the SAS or its long and sordid history of engaging in covert pseudo-gang
behavior and conclude the obvious: Britain, and the United States—the latter having
admitted formulating the Proactive Preemptive Operations Group, P2OG in 2002
(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Proactive_Preemptive_Operations_Group), a
brain child of neocons staffing the Pentagon’s Defense Science Board, designed to
“stimulate reactions” on the part of “terrorists” (in Iraq, that would be the
resistance)—are intimately involved in sowing chaos and spreading violence in Iraq
and more than likely soon enough in Iran and Syria.
Of course, this unfortunate and embarrassing incident in Basra will fall off the
front page of corporate newspapers and websites soon enough, replaced with more
appropriate, if fantastical, propaganda implicating the Iraqi resistance and intel
ops such as al-Zarqawi for the violence, obviously engineered to create a civil war
in Iraq and thus divide the country and accomplish the neocon-Likudite plan to
destroy Islamic culture and society.
Addendum
It is not surprising the corporate media in the United States and Britain would omit
crucial details on this story. In order to get the whole story, we have to go
elsewhere—for instance, China’s Xinhuanet news agency. “Two persons wearing Arab
uniforms [see the M.O. cited above] opened fire at a police station in Basra. A
police patrol followed the attackers and captured them to discover they were two
British soldiers”, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua. “The two soldiers were
using a civilian car packed with explosives, the source said”.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3606
So, the next time you read or hear about crazed “al-Qaeda in Iraq” terrorists blowing
up children or desperate job applicants, keep in mind, according to the Iraqi
Interior Ministry, the perpetrators may very well be British SAS goons who cut their
teeth killing Irish citizens.