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Wednesday January 31, 2007
POLITICAL ESSAYS
The Wailing Wall - Part 3
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In Part 2, I recommended Daniele Ganser's book
*NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and ter-
rorism in Western Europe.*
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In an interview datelined Zurich January 22, 2007
Silvia Cattori interviewed Ganser. The interview's
online at Voltaire Network.
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Here's excerpts from the English translation. I've
made the translation more like English.
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Daniele Ganser: It is extremely important to under-
stand what the strategy of tension truly represents,
the way it works nowadays.
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Only a few people know what the expression "strate-
gy of tension" means.
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It is a tactic that involves carrying out criminal acts
and attributing them to someone else.
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By the term "tension," we mean emotional tension,
all that which creates a feeling of tension.
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By "strategy" we make reference to that which
increases people’s fear in regard to a determined
group.
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Silvia Cattori: You have talked about an important
emotional factor in the strategy of tension. There-
fore, the terror, whose origin is vague, uncertain, the
fear that it causes, all that helps to manipulate the
public opinion.
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Are we not assisting today to the same kind of pro-
cedure? Yesterday, we fuelled the fear of commun-
ism, today aren’t we fuelling the fear of Islam?
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Daniele Ganser: Yes, there is a very clear parallel.
During the planning of the war in Iraq, it was said
that Saddam Hussein had biological weapons in his
possession, that there was a link between Iraq and
the Al-Qaeda terrorists. But none of that turned out
to be true.
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By means of these lies, it was intended to make peo-
ple believe that Muslims wanted to spread terrorism
all around, and that this war was necessary to fight
against terror.
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However, the true reason for this war is the control of
energy resources. This is due to the fact that the geo-
logy, the richness in gas and oil, are concentrated in
the Muslim countries.
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He who wants to monopolize them, must hide behind
this type of manipulations.
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That is why Muslims are labelled as "terrorists". It is
all a big lie, but if it is repeated a thousand times that
Muslims are "terrorists," people will end up believing
it and thinking that the wars against Muslims are use-
ful; and to forget that there are several types of ter-
rorism, that violence is not necessarily a feature of
Islam [alone].
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Silvia Cattori: So, these [NATO] clandestine structures
might have well been dissolved, but the strategy of
tension continues?
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Daniele Ganser: Exactly. The structures might have
been dissolved, and other ones could have been
formed.
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It is important to explain how, in the strategy of ten-
sion, the tactic and manipulation work. None of that
is legal. But, for the governments, it is easier to man-
ipulate people than to tell them that they are trying
to get hold of somebody else’s oil.
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Nevertheless, not all these attacks arise from the stra-
tegy of tension. But it is difficult to know which ones
are the manipulated attacks. Even those who know
the amount of attacks that have been manipulated by
the governments to discredit a political enemy, can be
confronted by a psychological obstacle.
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After every bombing, people are afraid, they feel con-
fused. It is very difficult to accept the idea that the
strategy of tension, the strategy of false flag, is a re-
ality. It is easier to accept the manipulation and to
say: "I have kept informed for 30 years, and I have
never heard about these criminal armies. The Mus-
lims are attacking us; this is why we fight against
them."
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Silvia Cattori: Since 2001, the European Union has
created anti-terrorist measures. Later, is has been
seen that these measures have allowed the CIA to
kidnap people, to move them to secret places and
torture them. Have the European States become a
sort of hostages to their submission to the United
States?
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Daniele Ganser: The European countries have had
quite a weak attitude concerning the United States
after the attacks on September 11th, 2001.
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After having confirmed that the secret prisons were
illegal, they let them continue. The same happened
with the prisoners in Guantanamo. Many voices stood
up in Europe to say: "The prisoners cannot be de-
prived of a lawyer or defence." When Mrs. Angela
Merkel mentioned this question, the United States
clearly suggested that Germany was a little bit invol-
ved in Iraq, that its secret services had contributed
to prepare this war, and therefore they must shut up.
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Silvia Cattori: But, we cannot see what it is that in-
terests the European countries and that makes them
engage their troops in the wars decided by the Penta-
gon, as was the case in Afghanistan.
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Daniele Ganser: I think that Europe is confused. The
United States is in a strong position, and the Europe-
ans have a tendency to think that the best thing is to
collaborate with the strongest one.
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But we would have to think about this more thorough-
ly. The European politicians give in easily to the pres-
sure put by the US, who is always asking for more
troops in this or that front. The more the European
countries give in, the more they subordinate [them-
selve],...the more they will find themselves confront-
ed by bigger and bigger problems.
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In Afghanistan the Germans and the British are under
the command of the American army. Strategically, it
is not a position in the interests of these countries.
Now, the US has asked the Germans to engage their
soldiers in the South of Afghanistan as well, in the
areas were the battle is the hardest. If the Germans
accept, they take the risk of being massacred by the
Afghan forces which refuse the presence of any kind
of occupier. _ Germany should ask itself seriously
whether she should not rather withdraw their 3000
soldiers from Afghanistan. But, for the Germans, to
disobey the US’ orders, to which they are a bit like
lieges [= vassals], it is a very hard step to make.
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The European countries must wake up and understand
once and for all how the strategy of tension works.
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And they must also learn to say "no" to the US.
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We are prone to manipulation if we are afraid. Afraid
of losing the respect from the people that we love. We
cannot get out of this spiral of violence and terror if
we let the fear take over. It is normal to be afraid, but
we must overtly talk about this fear and about the ma-
nipulations that generate it.
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Nobody can escape their [= the manipulations'] con-
sequences. This is even more serious when the poli-
ticians in charge react often under the effect of fear.
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One must find the strength to say: "Yes, I am afraid
to know that these lies make people suffer; yes, I am
afraid to think that there is less oil left; yes, I am a-
fraid to think that this terrorism they talk about is the
consequence of manipulations, but I will not let my-
self become intimidated."
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Strategy of tension = strategy of false flag.
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Definition?
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False flag operations is the expression used to talk
about terrorist acts, conducted secretly by govern-
ments or organizations, and which are made to be
seen as having been conducted by somebody else.
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This strategy has evolved. Note the last sentence
of Part 2:
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Major, major atrocities are favored weapons of The
Superpower and of Iran, which are fighting for dom-
inance in Iraq.
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http://www.voltairenet.org/article144748.html
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or
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http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/117078
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Part 2:
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoliticalEssays/message/878
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In case you imagine Ganser's overdoing the fear factor:
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/02/01/after_fear_delays_and_confusion_expressions_of_outrage?mode=PF
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