Dear cj, I do not necessarily agree with the views expressed below by Parveez. I have found him to be sincere and well-informed, and I believe strongly-argued alternative views are essential to healthy public debate, especially at a time when one-sided xenophobic hysteria is being promulgated by the US media. Some of you will undoubtedly complain that Parveez' sources are confidential -- "Who are these people?!", you may demand. Let me just say three things about that: 1) Intelligence sources, if they are genuine, _must be kept confidential, otherwise their careers and even lives might be endangered. 2) Media reports -- our "default" reality -- are frequently based on statments by "unnamed sources"; Clinton claims "proof" without telling us what it is. 3) While I've never known Parveez to knowingly deceive, I've seldom seen the US government and media do anything but deceive. Judge for yourself...and remember this was written ten days ago, before the "retaliatory" strikes. -rkm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: •••@••.••• Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 Subject: US embassy bombings analysed From: •••@••.••• (Parveez Syed) Friday 14 August 1998 London-UK [Kenya989] From: Parveez Syed Global Media Monitoring Unit Shanti Communications One Stuart Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 8RA1 UK Telephone: London-UK 44-0831-196693 E-Mail INTERNET: •••@••.••• Copyright 1998 © Shanti Communications news agency. All rights reserved. The following feature may not be republished or redistributed, in whole or in part. Copying, storing, transfer, redistribution, retransmission, publication and exploitation of this information is hereby expressly forbidden without the prior written consent of Shanti Communications UK. In accordance with Title 17 USC Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. US embassy bombings analysed [Editorial feature] by Parveez Syed (c) Shanti RTV news agency LONDON-UK (SC/SRTV) - The death toll from the bombings in Kenya and Tanzania continue to rise. The overwhelming majority of wounded and dead in both blasts were black Africans. The US has offered a reward of up to US $2 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those people responsible for the bombings. Are there any clues for honest bounty hunters? Police in Kenya say they are still questioning five people in connection with the bombing in Kenya last Friday (07 August 1998). The questioning is in its initial stages and no charges have yet been filed against any suspects. According to Israeli intelligence sources: "Israel covertly advised the US to disregard a warning about a possible attack on the US embassy in Nairobi few weeks before the event". Why was the warning disregarded or ignored? Who knew about the insecure US embassy in Kenya? Why the embassy was not secured? What is the motive behind creative Israeli warnings? How the warnings are used or abused to stage-manage the event and the pretexts? A senior Western intelligence source, speaking on condition of anonymity to Shanti RTV news agency, said "the attack had to have been organised by Israeli government because of the sophisticated nature of the explosives and the precision of the timing of the blasts. "They have advance knowledge, and advise US to disregard their warnings and covert operations. Then they offer to "investigate" the incident. They know the 'usual suspects', and frame the cultivated scapegoats in Libya, Iraq, Sudan, Congo, Angola, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, North Korea and Afghanistan for daring to challenge the endless, undemocratic, parasitic and imperialistic US-UK-Israeli hegemony and for meddling in the internal affairs of most countries in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America". Almost simultaneous bomb attacks require major levels of organisation and coordination, huge resources, and months of sophisticated planning. Only certain Western and Israeli agencies have the experience or capabilities, capacity and free access," the source told Shanti RTV. The US-UK and Israeli governments engineer crisis whenever they need pretexts to oppress, demonise, criminalise and hit their chosen, changing geopolitical targets or the "usual suspects". It is an evil alliance of pariah states that have fallen foul of the international laws. Such evil designs and acts help influence events to their financial and geopolitical advantage. The main target for since 1990 has been Iraq, its 20 million civilians and its oil. There is a need to continue the siege for 10, 30 or 40 years to exert total US control over Arab oil, and enhance US grip over many countries in Africa, including Sudan where US sponsored, funded, armed and trained terrorists are busy. The allies kill civilians and use terror for purposes of realpolitik. The mysterious bombing of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor was, for example, the pretext for the US to declare war on Spain in 1898 in order to grab Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. It seems the Kenyan police, just like the Saudi police, is incompetent. So, within 48 hours after the two bombings more than four hundred FBI and Mossad agents poured into Kenya and Tanzania to "investigate" the incidents. Why are they running the "investigation" in the two African capitals? Why did the US government called on the Israeli to "investigate" the bombings? Is this not a violation of the two countries' respective sovereignty and interfering in their respective internal affairs? Was it another 'Operation Mongoose'? Was it another 'Operation Tailwind'? Was it another phony 'Gulf of Tonkin' incident? Who killed US commerce secretary Ron Brown? Who killed Vince Foster? Who gassed Americans in Waco, Texas? What was the real cause of TWA-800 crash in the US navy exclusion zone on 17 July 1996? Tanzania's home (internal) affairs minister Ali Ameir Mohammed, who oversees police work, said: "we cannot say we have got somebody who is really responsible. Nevertheless, we think we are doing well". The culprits still remain unknown, and there is still no irrefutable evidence to charge, try and convict them beyond any reasonable doubt and subject to judicial appeals. Meanwhile, US officials claim there are no video tapes of the Tanzanian blast, adding that the embassy's surveillance cameras, though functioning, were for monitoring and not for recording images on tape. So, who removed tapes containing incriminating, irrefutable evidence? "Their lies and cover-ups only add insult to injury, insulting intellect and increase the pain already inflicted on the victims' families," the source said. The "investigators" claimed that a previously unknown group, allegedly "'Islamic' Army for the Liberation of Holy Places", has claimed responsibility for the blasts. So, what are the motives? What are the endless financial benefits from the engineered pretexts; divide and rule; impose and sustain client regimes; secured, give-away oil and natural resources; US arms sales; officially organised crimes or state-sponsored terrorism; protection-racket, and the subversive games, ploys and tricks? Who is defending freedom, peace, democracy and human rights for a chosen few, while oppressing billions and killing millions all over the world? "US bases in Saudi Arabia were bombed by US and Israeli agents, their mercenaries and assets to help sustain the army of occupation in the country and the region. This helps sell US arms and protection-racket to the client-regimes. This helps US get almost free oil to subsidise its economy and wargames," source said. "So, what's new? Irrefutable incriminating evidence was removed and planted by a team of US and Israeli intelligence, security and military agents in Kenya. This would help frame and convict the usual suspects; engineer new pretexts; subvert and obstruct justice, and move geopolitical goalposts. It is an effective setup to control the chain of events from fabricated Mossad-CIA warnings to executions in the US," the source added. Now self-serving Oklahoma and TWA-800 "terrorism experts", often tied to certain vested interests, are asked to give answers which have been paid for. Carefully cultivated "experts" are choreographed to lie; mislead; sell protection-racket or other wares; subvert or obstruct justice. They want to be loved and hired repeatedly. They are smart. They know the drill. They know what is expected of them. So they usually don't go against the tide, authority, establishment or the 'New World Order'. They won't remove religious references from their comments on tragic events. They drop their geopolitically disposable, stale but recyclable and tailored payloads on their easy, captured, sitting targets or scapegoats. Their predictable mantras are structured to grab news headlines to help create crisis, raise tension and hysteria. They say what their fellow commentators, paymasters or potential clients want to hear. They sacrifice journalistic integrity and impartial judgment at the altar of well paid "terrorism consultancy" or compelling FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) business. US president Bill Clinton spoke on Thursday (13 August 1998) at a memorial service in honor of 12 Americans killed in last week's bombing in Kenya. "Clinton shed a few crocodile tears for the victims of flawed US foreign policy. US secretary of state Mad Albright, who has said 'it was worth' killing almost one million Iraqi infants, also shed a few crocodile tears for the US victims. They won't shed sincere tears for more than 1,000,000 infants killed since 1990 by US-UK imposed genocidal sanctions. The infant-killers, global bullies, butchers, despots and tyrants can put on a mighty good show for global television audience. Clinton and Albright were playing to the camera without any encouragement from Jerry Springer. Their insincere grief provided compelling viewing. It was Hollywood-class performance," the source said. "Clinton is set to perform again on Monday 17 August 1998 when he is to testify again about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. The details of his testimony might not emerge publicly for several weeks. Who knows what could happen in the meantime? He needs more timely diversions to help him beat legal eagle Ken Starr," the source added. ends; Presented by: Shanti RTV (c) 14 August 1998. [Parveez Syed is an investigative journalist. He has exposed many political liars and subverters. His copyrighted, unique features are often developed into probing factual tv documentaries. The features are archived on more than 16,000 websites worldwide. 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