From: "John Thomson"
Subject: [marxist] WHY THE ATTACK WAS CARRIED OUT? -
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WHY THE ATTACK WAS CARRIED OUT?
Whilst the world is outraged at the terrorist attacks on the
USA mainland, it must be remembered that the USA has been
conducting just as deadly covert acts of terrorism around
the globe for 50 years (i.e. their support for Suharto's
military coup in 1966 which resulted in the deaths of
600,000 members of the PKI and their more recent support for
an Indonesian regime that massacred thousands who voted for
independence in East Timor). In this same period the US has
toppled some 30 governments and supported every dictator
imaginable (Pol Pot, Mobuto, Amin, Papa Doc Duvalier and
Saddam Hussein) whilst seriously interfering in the domestic
affairs of almost 70 countries.
In recent years the US has devastated Iraq in continuous
bombing raids - even for using radar to scan the Iraqi
airspace its own air force is excluded from, imposed
sanctions on Iraq that have resulted in the deaths of
perhaps 2 million people, bombed Iraq in defence of the
Kurds from the same air bases Turkey uses to bomb Kurdish
villages. In the wake of the Iraqi defeat during the Gulf
War, the US attacked a retreating Iraqi army on the Basra
road and fried to death 60,000 ill-equipped soldiers, the
vast majority never wanting any part in the conflict in the
first place. The US has launched attacks upon Libya, Somalia
and Grenada and supported right wing tendencies in Panama,
Haiti, El Salvador and Colombia whilst at the same time
ensuring there is no Middle Eastern solution, that the
Palestinian people are kept in a state of subjection and
that UN Resolutions pertaining to the occupied territories
are ignored. During the retaliatory raids following the
attacks on the US embassies in Africa, the US fired 20 cruse
missiles into Afghanistan and killed tens of thousands in
Sudan (a true figure is not available because the US blocked
an inquiry). The list is indeed a long one.
John
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