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Margaret Hassan execution: Anatomy of a CIA-DIA-Mossad Counterinsurgency
operation? 
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Margaret Hassan execution: Anatomy of a CIA-DIA-Mossad Counterinsurgency
operation?

November 17, 2004
"It is with profound sadness that we have learnt of the existence of a
video in which it appears that our colleague Margaret Hassan has been
killed. We are shocked and appalled that this has been the apparent
outcome of her abduction," CARE International said in a statement
released yesterday. "Through her courage, tenacity and commitment, she
assisted more than seventeen million Iraqis living in the most difficult
of circumstances." 

CARE's statement followed a video received by al-Jazeera "showing a
hooded militant shooting a blindfolded woman in the head," as the
Associated Press describes it. "On Sunday, U.S. Marines found the
mutilated body of what they believe was a Western woman on a street in a
Fallujah during the U.S. assault on the insurgent stronghold. Officials
have not said if the body has been identified." 

Disgusting. However, we still do not know who allegedly killed Hassan,
since no group has claimed responsibility. Of course, the corporate media
and the Bushcons want you to believe it was the Iraqi resistance. As I
said when Hassan was abducted, if the resistance killed her they are the
stupidest resistance movement in recent memory. It makes absolutely no
sense for the resistance to kill a "humanitarian worker known around the
Mideast for her concern for Iraqis-particularly during the years of U.N.
sanctions, whose effects on children she vocally denounced," as the AP
notes. 

It is curious the video of Hassan's execution surfaced at the same time
allegations of civilian mass murder, the execution of wounded prisoners,
and other war crimes in Fallujah made the rounds.

I believe-admittedly without any evidence-that the abduction and now
apparent murder of Margaret Hassan is a counterinsurgency intelligence
operation run by the Americans, the Israelis, or both, as a way to sow
chaos and discredit the Iraqi resistance (a resistance the United States
cannot possibly hope to crush militarily). Discrediting the resistance is
particularly important, as a psychological warfare tactic.

Although I have no direct evidence of this, there are several factors
currently in play that make the US/Israeli counterinsurgency operation
plausible:

More than 200 college professors since April 30, 2003, according to the
Iraqi Union of University Lecturers, have been the targets of
assassination. In addition, many intellectuals have disappeared. (See
Andrew Rubin's Bloodbath.) 

In December, 2003, Julian Borger of the Guardian reported, "Israeli
advisers are helping train US special forces in aggressive
counter-insurgency operations in Iraq, including the use of assassination
squads against guerrilla leaders. . US forces in Iraq's Sunni triangle
have already begun to use tactics that echo Israeli operations in the
occupied territories." 
"A new Special Forces group, designated Task Force 121, has been
assembled from Army Delta Force members, Navy seals, and C.I.A.
paramilitary operatives, with many additional personnel," according to
Seymour Hersh. 
Israel funded Hamas, as the UPI's Richard Sale reported in 2002. 
The Palestinian Authority arrested a group of collaborators who confessed
they were working for Israel, posing as al-Qaeda operatives in the
Palestinian territories, in December, 2002. A PA official said the
collaborators sought to "discredit the Palestinian people, justify every
Israeli crime and provide reasons to carry out a new (military)
aggression in the Gaza Strip." 
Israel currently runs covert ops in the Kurdish area of Iraq (see Seymour
Hersh's Plan B) 
A CIA instruction manual entitled Psychological Operations in Guerrilla
Warfare, written in the 1980s, states the following: "Bring about
uprisings or shootings, which will cause the death of one or more persons
 in order to create greater conflicts." 
US military (and CIA operative) officer Major Edward Geary Lansdale's
"psy-war tactics" used in the Philippines against the Huk. Lansdale's
methods "centered on measures of deception similar to those employed in
the British and French colonial campaigns in Kenya and Indochina,"
including the creation of bogus guerilla units used to discredit the
enemy. (See Michael McClintock's Instruments of Statecraft: U.S. Guerilla
Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and Counterterrorism, 1940-1990.) 
Of course, the above is hardly conclusive evidence that Hassan was killed
by counterinsurgency operatives, only establishes a track record for
similar behavior on the part of the Americans and Israelis over a period
of decades. As noted above, the Iraqi resistance has absolutely nothing
to gain by brutally murdering a high profile humanitarian worker such as
Hassan, even though we are told she was abducted and threatened with
execution in response to the British presence in Iraq (and the part
Britain played in the recent attack on Fallujah). If the resistance
seriously believes the British or the Americans will respond to such
threats, they are not only sadly mistaken, they are unbelievably naive,
possibly even stupid. 

The abduction and murder of Margaret Hassan is a prime example of cui
bono, who benefits. It certainly isn't the Iraqi resistance-that is if we
believe, as we are told through the corporate media, that they are
responsible for this heinous act. However, when we consider the past
behavior of the CIA and its long and sordid history of covert activity,
another dimension emerges, one that cannot be discarded out of hand. 


Kurt Nimmo

posted Wednesday, 17 November 2004

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