European News Digest
LaRouche Expose of Sept. 11 "Coup d'Etat" Reported in Italian Daily
The Italian daily Libero, a populist, pro-government newspaper, on March 3 published an article under the headline "LaRouche, the Heretical Democrat Who Exonerates bin Laden," which features the revelation that the Sept. 11 attacks were an internal U.S. coup d'etat. Author Andrea Colombo wrote the article using excerpts from a series of previous interviews with LaRouche by which were done in Italian. Among the points covered were the following (LaRouche's remarks have been back-translated from Italian):
"Well, Mr. LaRouche, are you still convinced that it was not bin Laden who organized the attacks?"
"Of course. If you take into account the normal alert level of security structures, you must conclude that only high-level persons, directly in the command structure of U.S. security, could coordinate the success of the three attacks occurring in a short period of time. Consider that the attack against the Pentagon aimed at setting nuclear arsenals on alert. Those actions were a real attempt at coup d'etat from those circles connected to Carter's former National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who intend to carry out the [Clash of Civilizations]. These circles can count, inside the Bush Administration, on support from Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, two convinced warmongers."
"A coup d'etat?"
"Yes, a full-set one. Luckily, this maneuver was opppsed by President Bush's wisdom. Instead of launching a borderless war, Bush consulted with Putin and formed a strategic alliance even involving China. This alliance will bring very positive fruits."
"What about bin Laden?"
"He is a disgusting character, well known by U.S. intelligence services, which have used him in Afghanistan in the war against the Soviets. But I do not find it believable that such a character could have organized a strategic attack of such dimensions....
"But beware: Those who orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks are still in their command positions, and the President, in his own way, must try to take back control. Therefore, the future of U.S. policy in the Afghanistan region is still open."
As for his own Presidential campaign, and its goals:
"The only way to avoid a total war and the final collapse of global economy (a collapse which so far has hit Argentina, but which is already expanding to Japan and to Europe, the latter being strangled by the Maastricht parameters), is to go back to the ideals of our Founding Fathers: Benjamin Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln; the ideals of a free and sovereign republic, promotor of a New Bretton Woods to reorder the international financial system and cancel the debt of poorer countries. No longer a [global empire] like the one conceived by Wolfowitz cabal's warmongers, an inhuman [empire] which intends to govern peoples as if they were cattle to be slaughtered, to satisfy the appetites of the [New World Order]."
"Has America Attacked America?" on Sept. 11, Asks Macedonian Daily in Coverage of LaRouche
The Macedonian daily Vecer highlights the analysis of Lyndon LaRouche in a March 3, 2002 article by Emil Sterjevski headlined "Has America Attacked America?" "Do the Americans know more about themselves after September 11, and what does the American Government mean when it says that after the attacks of September 11, a new opinion has come to the fore in the USA?" asks Vecer. "As the time passes on ... a new way of thinking has appeared in the U.S. ... according to which the official version of the events of September 11 'does not hold water' any more. Instead, some say that a long and thoroughly prepared plan has been at stake, specially designed for domestic attacks against Americans, in order for the U.S. to involve itself in a military hysteria."
According to the article, Lyndon LaRouche, whom Vecer describes as an American scientist, economist, and politician, at the end of the last year put together his knowledge and suspicions about the events of Sept. 11 into a written document, a Special Report titled "Zbigniew Brzezinski and September 11th."
"'For those who are capable and have a desire to accept the way the history functions, the collected data for the September 11 events, allows only one conclusion: The development of the events in America between 8:45 and 11:00 that morning were the result of a violent military coup d'etat against the American government and the President,' states LaRouche.... A more plausible explanation is that high American military officials had switched off the 'button'--an important piece of the security arrangements which would have been sufficient minimally to stop the attack on the Pentagon.
"There are three elements, according to LaRouche, which are intertwined: first--the attempt at a military coup d'etat ... a deliberate detonator in the operation which would result at worst in a potential swift thermonuclear escalation ... which was only avoided by the phone call between Presidents Bush and Putin. The second element is the general political and strategic factor of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Samuel Huntington's policy of 'A Clash of Civilizations,' which is, according to LaRouche, a prime suspect.... The policy should have had an impact in a fierce inter- and intra-partisan battle within the American government and the leading media on the issue of waging a war against Iraq. The third element is an implicit role of the current Israeli regime, similar to the one of the suicide bombers, whose intention it has been to inflict a wider war on the region....
"LaRouche poses the question--to what degree, the deep and implicitly adversary entrenchment within the American political and military command and the operations of the Israeli military secret service, have played a significant role in shaping the military coup d'etat and its political and strategic consequences.... The real perpetrators of the September 11 attacks, or the ones who ordered the attacks, according to LaRouche, are still at large, they are hiding among the high-ranking officials who were there the same morning on the September 11, and they still have a position and power to attack."
The author explains that LaRouche revealed the scenario of a full-fledged world war envisioned by Brzezinski and Huntington, ending the story: "'We must define the geometry of the thought, the insanity, the perverted state of mind which afflicts the writing of Brzezinski, Huntington, Kissinger and the people like them,' says Lyndon LaRouche, probably the most controversial political figure alive."
Swedish Colonel: War on Iraq Could Trigger Israeli Nuclear First Strike
A war against Iraq might lead to an Israeli nuclear first strike, warns an article in the March 5 issue of the Swedish national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
Under the headline "Nuclear Weapons Against Iraq?," Col. Lars Nordmark, member of the Swedish Royal Academy of War, writes that the war against Iraq, which seems already to have been decided by the U.S. "war cabinet," "may be the first atomic war since that against Japan in 1945."
"What happens when the attack starts? Israeli Prime Minister Sharon has declared that Israel will not again wait passively for Saddam's missiles to hit the country [as in the Persian Gulf war]. Saddam Hussein is likely not ready with his atomic program, but has chemical and biological weapons. Should he use them against Israel, Sharon will likely answer with nuclear weapons.
"It cannot be excluded that Sharon will preventively launch a first nuclear strike. The U.S. as well might find itself in a position where one will use nuclear weapons to hit Saddam Hussein or his weapons of mass destruction.
"Defense Secretary Rumsfeld advocates the view 'that war, if necessary with atomic weapons, is a self-evident means of American foreign policy.' "
Nordmark reviews the European warnings against an attack on Iraq, citing German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and concludes, "An attack against Iraq is probably the biggest adventure in security policy since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962."
|