MI6 hired al-Quaeda to kill Gaddafi. Killed innocent bystanders instead

[JohnyCanuck]

Nafeez Ahmed - "Ties With Terror: The Continuity of Western-Al-Qaeda Relations in the Post-Cold War Period"

SNIP

David Shayler worked for the international terrorism desk of MI5 for 6 years before resigning in 1997. In 1995, he obtained classified MI6 documents detailing a covert British intelligence plan to assassinate Libyan Head of State, Col. Mu’ammar Gaddafi. Most surprisingly, Shayler disclosed that as part of the plot, MI6 paid over 100,000 Pounds to the al-Qaeda network in Libya to conduct the assassination. The operation, however, failed. The al-Qaeda operatives working on the MI6 payroll placed a bomb under the wrong car, killing six innocent Libyan civilians. (33) In a press release on the subject, Shayler observed:

We need a statement from the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary clarifying the facts of this matter. In particular, we need to know how around 100,000 Pounds of taxpayers’ money was used to fund the sort of Islamic Extremists who have connections to Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network. Did ministers give MI6 permission for this? by the time MI6 paid the group in late 1995 or early 1996, US investigators had already established that Bin Laden was implicated in the 1993 attack on the World Trade Centre. Given the timing and the close connections between Libyan and Egyptian Islamic Extremists, it may even have been used to fund the murder of British citizens in Luxor, Egypt in 1996. (34)

In a further comment piece for The Observer, Shayler elaborated on these concerns. The “real criminals,” he argued, “are the British Government and the intelligence services. The Government has a duty to uphold the law. It cannot simply be ignored because crimes are carried out by friends of the Government.” Noting his November 1999 dossier of evidence on the plot sent to Home Secretary Jack Straw, Shayler pointed out: “Although the assassination failed when attempted in 1996, innocent Libyan civilians were killed.” In the face of such compelling evidence, “these very senior Ministers should, of course, have called in the police immediately… The Government’s failure to ensure that two MI6 officers are brought to justice for their part in planning a murder is what I would expect of despots and dictators.” (35)

The British government’s response was at first to completely deny the story. Then Foreign Secretary Robin Cook described Shayler’s allegations as “pure fantasy” (36) The government then changed tactic, accusing Shayler of breaching the 1989 Official Secrets Act – his revelations, officials claimed, were a threat to British national security – and subsequently pursued legal action against him to prevent further publication of his information.......

http://www.911blogger.com/node/2966

[LynnTheDem]

1. And the US of A trained & supported OBL & the Taleban.

Before they didn't.

It's a very old story that both the US & the UK have played for many years.

Pinochet.

Taylor.

Hitler.

Ho Chi Ming

Hussein.

Currently it's the MEK.

On and on it goes. And then people are shocked and wonder "why do they hate us".

Well DUHHHHHH.

[rman]

7. Mussolini too (Morgan)

minor data dump:

Fascism and big business

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## history of Mussolini (Morgan)

The House of Morgan - The corporate roots of American fascism
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/morgan.html
...
Morgan also funded the rise of Italian fascism, in fact, his company was Mussolini’s main overseas bank. In 1926, Morgan partner, Thomas Lamont, who was later the chair of J.P. Morgan Co., secured a $100 million loan for Mussolini. As Noam Chomsky put it, Morgan’s man Thomas Lamont:

described himself as ‘something like a missionary’ for Italian Fascism, expressing his admiration for Il Duce, ‘a very upstanding chap’ who had ‘done a great job in Italy’ and for the ‘sound ideas’ that guide him in governing the country (1991).
...

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## history of Hitler (Dupont, Bush, Morgan...)


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## US business plot plot to overthrow president Franklin Delanor Roosevelt (Dupont, Bush, Morgan)

The United States and Neutrality
http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch20b.html
Some conservative democrats broke with their party and became a part of what was called the Liberty League. Alfred Smith, the Democrat candidate for president in 28, was among them. He accused Roosevelt of having abandoned the Democrat's party platform of 1932. With the Liberty League were a number of Roosevelt haters and representatives of some major corporations: DuPont, U.S. Steel, General Foods, all of them opposed to deficit spending and progressive taxation. Against the Liberty League were Father Coughlin and others of the Union Party, who attacked the Liberty League as the party of the fat cats.
- FDR: A Biography, by Ted Morgan, Simon and Schuster, 1985.
- Luce and His Empire, by W.A. Swanberg, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972.
- Road to War, by Walter Millis, 1935

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot


The plot to overthrow FDR (History Channel)
http://www.videos.informationclearinghouse.info/fdrplot.wmv (43min)

http://www.newsfocus.org/video/1934_US_Coup.wmv (1min37s)

book: THE PLOT TO SEIZE THE WHITE HOUSE
by Jules Archer
http://www.clubhousewreckards.com/plot/plottoseizethewhitehouse.htm

General Smedley Butler prevented the plot from succeding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/war_is_a_racket_033103.htm
http://www.warisaracket.org/

[Kagemusha]

2. Al-Qaeda shouldn't feel too bad. The USAF had no better luck.

Bagged a family member though.

[ShortnFiery]

8. Yeah, our USAF Pilots set the Targeting Equipment to ...

"The Baby's Room." :(

[BuyingThyme]

3. kcik

[FoxOnTheRun]

4. The CIA blew the DISCO "La Belle" in Berlin up

and blamed it on Gadaffi.
http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/aug1998/bomb1-a27.shtml

But now he isn't selling so much oil and driving down the oil price, so he is our friend again.

[Jcrowley]

5. Hidden history

Conclusion

At every major strategic point in the world, we find that US and Western power is symbiotically melded – through financial, military and intelligence connections – with al-Qaeda; and further that al-Qaeda has in certain places been explicitly used as a military-intelligence asset by Western powers, particularly the United States and United Kingdom. This documentation indicates that international terrorism in the form of al-Qaeda is not merely an enemy to be fought, but rather an unruly asset to be, when possible, controlled and manipulated in the pursuit of quite specific strategic and economic interests. Worse still, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that certain elements of the policy-making establishment are perfectly cognizant that as a direct result of such policies, national security is being fundamentally and continuously undermined with repeatedly fatal consequences. Yet the same brand of policies persists. Without dwelling unnecessarily on the possible theoretical ramifications of this phenomenon, it is sufficient for me to note that these facts fundamentally challenge the entire paradigm of the ‘War on Terror’ as articulated and legitimized by the official narrative.

[rman]

6. It's comparable to the police using informants from the criminal milieu,

main difference that the stakes are much higher and the secrecy much deeper.

[leveymg]

9. I'm glad to see this resurrected. Same problem led to 9/11 -

Counter-terrorism operation that went hideously wrong after White House shut down ongoing monitoring of al-Qaeda inside the US during the summer of 2001.

See, Daily Kos: Why 9/11 happened: Bush curtailed Operation CATCHERS MIT...
The Bush Administration cancelled or cut back Operation CATCHERS MITT, the highly classified ongoing CIA and FBI operation that tracked al-Qaeda operatives ...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/9/11/105117/571

Daily Kos: Able Danger Mystery Solved- How Atta Was Linked
Re leveymg's comment " Why would an Above Top-Secret DoD program, such as Able Danger (AD), be restricted to gathering and analyzing non-classified "open ...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/28/121022/933

[JohnyCanuck]

10. kick n/t

[htuttle]

11. If you're in the UK, you're not allowed to read this!!!!

It's all under a D NOTICE!

LOOK AWAY! LOOK AWAY!