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U.S. War On Iraq, Afghanistan Worse Than 9/11: Filipino Leader
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"The
U.S. has long nurtured the plan to occupy Iraq and reshape the entire
Middle East politically and economically under U.S. hegemony."
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Rexcel
Sorza, IOL Correspondent
ILOILO
CITY, Philippines, September 11 (IslamOnline.net) – The exiled
leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) assailed the
United States for committing a "far more monstrous acts of
terrorism than those of the September 11, 2001" by waging wars of
aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq and "using weapons of
mass destruction."
Professor
Jose Maria Sison, CPP founding chairman, said the Afghanistan and Iraq
offensives were worse than the 9/11 attacks, for claiming the lives of
tens of thousands of Afghani and Iraqi civilians and destroying the
social infrastructure, including schools, hospitals
as well as water and power systems.
"The
U.S. has used the most lethal weapons of mass destruction, including
various types of bombs and ammunition tipped with depleted uranium.
"These
kill civilians in large numbers immediately and long after
hostilities," he averred in a statement sent Thursday, September
11, to IslamOnline.net from the Netherlands.
He
argued that the United States has used 9/11,"like Hitler used the
burning of the Reichstag," as the pretext for proclaiming a
"global war on terrorism", for launching wars of aggression
and for whipping up repression on a global scale.
Washington
exploited the "terrorist" tag to demonize countries,
national liberation movements and progressive leaders.
‘New
American Century’
Sison
said there is a clear evidence "that long before 9/11 a cabal of
‘neo-conservatives’ had launched the Project for a New American
Century and had agitated for an opportunity for the U.S. to use
overwhelming military force, demonstrate the ‘unchallengeable’
superiority of U.S. power and gain control over the strategic
resources of the world.
"There
is clear evidence that intelligence agencies of the U.S. and some
governments friendly to the U.S. had advance knowledge of the
terrorist plot leading to 9/11. At least five of the 19 hijackers came
under surveillance by U.S. intelligence agents.
But no effective counteractions were taken to foil the
terrorist plot.
"Top
officials and covert operatives of the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency have long collaborated with Osama bin Laden and his followers
since the anti-Soviet campaigns of the 1980s.
In fact, some of the 9/11 hijackers had pilot training in U.S.
air bases. The Bush and bin Laden families are close friends and
co-investors in the Carlyle Group.
"Filipinos
are familiar with U.S. instigation of terrorist groups and
activities…The CIA agent Michael Terrence Meiring and General Angelo
Reyes have been implicated in terrorist bombings in Mindanao in recent
years."
Grip
of oil and gas
Sison
further added the material rewards for the U.S. in pursuing "a
phony war on terrorism has been high."
With
the conquest of Afghanistan, he said, Washington "has tightened
its grip over sources of oil and gas in Central Asia and Caspian Sea.
It can build the pipelines from Central Asia to the Indian
Ocean via Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"The
U.S. is discouraging the construction of pipelines from Russia and
Central Asia to China. It
is tightening its encirclement of both Russia and China even as the
regimes in these large countries are still friendly and pliant to U.S.
monopoly interests. It is driven by imperialist greed to stay on in
Afghanistan and in the regions of Central and South Asia.
"From
its conquest of Iraq, the U.S. has gotten far bigger material rewards
than from that of Afghanistan. It
has seized the second largest oil reserves in the world and has gained
direct control over the entire OPEC more than ever before. The U.S.
dollar remains secure as the currency of oil transactions.
"The
U.S. has long nurtured the plan to occupy Iraq and reshape the entire
Middle East politically and economically under U.S. hegemony. The U.S.
military bases in Iraq are now at the heart of the entire region. The
Palestinian and Arab people are being told to accept the U.S.-made
'road map' and other dictates of the U.S. and the Israeli
Zionists."
Mounting
Resistance
In
the months to come, Sison expected "more U.S. and British
casualties and more oil pipelines exploding."
"As
soon as 500 or 1000 U.S. troops are killed in Iraq, there will
certainly be a powerful demand from the American people for the return
home of the US military force," he predicted.
"By
that time the American people shall have become fed up with the
mounting casualties, military expenditures rising from the level of
USD 4 billion per month and the sick state of the U.S. economy."
In
April this year USD 79 billion was appropriated for the military
aggression. Now, Bush is asking for another USD 87 billion.
"Many
countries will demand that under the auspices of the U.N. and the Arab
League, the U.S. ought to yield power to the sovereign Iraqi people or
to a council that is not an exclusive club of US puppets," he
further added.
"The
U.S. pretence at pushing the puppet Governing Council to draft a
constitution, lay the ground for elections and take a seat in the Arab
League will unwittingly encourage Iraqi, Arab and Islamic demands for
US withdrawal from Iraq and allowing the oilfields to remain under the
ownership and use of the Iraqi people."
Colossal
Blunder
Sison
also accused the U.S. of "scheming to grab Iran because of its
oil wealth and because it is already sandwiched between the
U.S.-controlled countries of Afghanistan and Iraq."
He
further charged the United States for trying to control Syria because
it "is seen as an obstacle in the U.S.-made road map for Israel
and Palestine."
"It
is definitely to the interest of Iran and Syria to support the Iraqi
people and to prevent the U.S. from consolidating its power in
Iraq."
Sison
also warned: "It would be a colossal blunder for the U.S. to take
preemptive actions against Iran and Syria and to widen the
battlefields from Iraq and Afghanistan" because if that happens
"popular armed resistance would spread like wild fire in the
Middle East and Central Asia and encourage armed revolution in South
Asia.
"At
any rate, the U.S. will increasingly pay for its imperial overreach.
The people in all regions of the world see their opportunity to
deliver their own blows on the overstretched and vulnerable
monster," he said.
The
CPP, waging war for a communist Philippine state, had been designated
a "foreign terrorist organization" by the U.S. in 2002,
including its armed wing New People’s Army.
This
label has stalled the peace negotiations between the Philippine
government and the CPP and the National Democratic Front.
The
CPP wanted to be removed from the list before it talks peace with the
government.
Sison
himself has been tagged a "terrorist" by the U.S. and the
European Union.
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