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LOL -- Bin Laden Tape

Plugs Book Against His

Jihad In Afghan-Soviet War

 

By Wayne Madsen

1-21-6

 

What's not right about the Osama Bin Laden audio tape. One thing that

the Bush administration does well is manage perceptions of the public.

Amid protests over the NSA wiretapping, the extension of the Patriot

Act, and the nomination of neo-Fascist Samuel Alito to the Supreme

Court, an audio tape on Osama Bin Laden is sent to Al Jazzera. On the

tape, Bin Laden suddenly veers from being a traditional right-wing

Wahhabi fanatic to the right of the House of Saud to a leftist

progressive. The tape by Bin Laden was quickly verified as " authentic "

by a CIA that is now firmly in the grasp of neo-cons under Porter Goss.

 

However, the tape is an obvious fake being used by the Bush

administration to scare Americans into believing " Al Qaeda " is making

plans for another attack and an attempt to link Bin Laden to Democrats.

 

The reason the tape is as phony as Niger yellowcake documents and

Saddam's weapons of mass destruction is as plain as day. Bin Laden

quotes from the introduction of a book written by long-time

Washington, DC progressive author and journalist and a friend of mine,

Bill Blum. Bill was once an editor and contributor to Covert Action

Quarterly, a magazine devoted to exposing CIA operations like the

arming, funding, and training of Bin Laden and his mujaheddin

guerrillas during the Afghan-Soviet war.

 

The Bush perception managers are either incredibly stupid or are

trying to ensnare liberal journalists as aiders and abettors of Al

Qaeda, something that is certainly within their scope. Bin Laden

quotes the following passage from Blum's book, Rogue State: " If you

(Americans) are sincere in your desire for peace and security, we have

answered you. And if Bush decides to carry on with his lies and

oppression, then it would be useful for you to read the book Rogue

State, which states in its introduction: 'If I were president, I would

stop the attacks on the United States: First I would give an apology

to all the widows and orphans and those who were tortured. Then I

would announce that American interference in the nations of the world

has ended once and for all.' "

 

Bogus tape alert! The Bin Laden tape plugging Bill Blum's book Rogue

State is a ridiculous neo-con forgery intended to tarnish the

progressive left.

 

Bin Laden might not be so eager to quote Blum if he was aware of his

other work, Killing Hope, an expose of the CIA's covert wars. In it,

Blum defends to Soviet occupation of Afghanistan as self-defense

against the CIA-backed Islamist guerrillas, including Bin Laden's

forces, that were backed by the CIA. Now, why would Bin Laden plug an

author like Blum who backed Bin Laden's hated enemies, the Soviet

Communists and their Afghan allies? Because the Bin Laden tape and his

purported oratory are frauds. In Killing Hope, this is what Blum wrote

about Bin Laden and his CIA masters' war in Afghanistan:

 

" The new government under President Taraki declared a commitment to

Islam within a secular state, and to non-alignment in foreign affairs.

It said the coup was not foreign inspired and that they were not

Communists but rather nationalists and revolutionaries. They pushed

radical reforms, they talked about class struggle, they used

anti-imperialist rhetoric, they supported Cuba, they signed a

friendship treaty and other cooperative agreements with the Soviets

and they increased the number of Soviet civilian and military advisers

in Afghanistan.... In May 1979, British political scientist Fred

Halliday said 'probably more has changed in the countryside over the

last year than in the two centuries since the state was established.'

 

In March 1979, Afghan President Taraki visited Moscow to request

Soviet help to fight the mujahideen. The Soviets did promise some

military aid, but they would not commit ground troops. As Soviet

Premier Alexei Kosygin told Taraki: 'The entry of our troops into

Afghanistan would outrage the international community, triggering a

string of extremely negative consequences. Our common enemies are just

waiting for the moment when Soviet troops appear in Afghanistan. This

will give them the excuse they need to send armed bands into the country.'

 

.. . . prior to the Soviet invasion, the CIA had been beaming radio

propaganda into Afghanistan and cultivating alliances with exiled

Afghan guerrilla leaders by donating medicine and communications

equipment. U.S. foreign service officers had been meeting with

Mujahideen leaders to determine their needs at least as early as April

1979. And, in July, President Carter had signed a 'finding' to aid the

rebels covertly, which led to the U.S. providing them with cash,

weapons, equipment and supplies, and engaging in propaganda and other

psychological operations in Afghanistan on their behalf. "

 

So, we're now supposed to believe that Bin Laden has come around to

plug the book written by an author who demonstrated that the Soviet

cause in Afghanistan was for self-defense and in furtherance of the

well-being of the Afghan people and that Bin Laden's and his

mujaheddin compatriots' cause was anti-progressive and destabilizing

to the central Asian region? This would be laughable if it were not

for the fact that the neo-cons are once again using the Big Lie to

further their ambitions of global domination and worldwide fascism.

The 911 attacks are beginning to look more and more like the Reichstag

Fire, both engineered to bring about fascist control.

 

http://waynemadsenreport.com/