OPERATION GERONIMO

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Frei Betto*

Why was the military action which supposedly killed Bin Laden named Operation Geronimo?  In 1918 Prescott Bush was a member of a student society known as Skull and Bones. Challenged by his colleagues, he entered an Apache cemetery and made off with the scalp of the legendary Chief Geronimo.

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Prescott owned land in Texas and became a successful businessman in the oil industry. He also became a close friend of John Foster Dulles who was later the head of the CIA when John Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Dulles convinced his friend to  magnanimously return Geronimo’s scalp to the Apaches. Bush did so but it was not long before the Apaches discovered that the relic which was returned was a fake…

The friendship with Dulles guaranteed employment as a CIA agent to Prescott’s eldest son, George H. Bush. George did well and in 1961 he coordinated the invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, an attempt to bring down the regime implanted by the Sierra Maestra guerrilla movement. In spite of the defeat, he became the director of the CIA in 1976.

Not happy with his first born’s achievements as 007, Prescott Bush found consolation in the success of his oil business. He lauded his son George’s business sense when in mid 1960 he befriended an Arab contractor who frequently visited Texas: Muhammad Bin Laden. In 1968, while flying over Bush oil fields in Texas, Bin Laden died in an airplane crash. The family ties, however, had been established.

George Bush did not mourn the death of his friend. He was more concerned about his son George W. Bush’s low achievement at school and his C grades. The war in Vietnam heightened and George had him enlisted in the National Guard air force so that he would not be called up.

Daddy Bush encouraged his son to start his own oil company, Arbusto (which means bush in English) Energy in the mid 1970s. Thanks to his father’s international CIA contacts, George son sought investments from Khaled Bin Mafouz and Salem Bin Laden who was the eldest of the late Muhammad’s 52 sons. Mafouz was the Saudi royal family’s banker and was married to one of Salem’s sisters. These family ties permitted Mafouz to become president of Blessed Relief, an Arab NGO where one of Salem’s brothers, Osama Bin Laden, was employed.

In December 1979 George H. Bush went to Paris for a meeting between Republicans and moderate partners of Khomeini, to discuss the freeing of 64 American Embassy hostages kidnapped in Teheran in November. They were trying to avoid President Jimmy Carter taking advantage of the episode and damaging Ronald Reagan’s presidential hopes. Daddy George travelled to the French capital aboard Salem Bin Laden’s jet which facilitated his contact with the Islamic world. (In 1988 Salem died, like his father, in an air crash).

That year the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Daddy George, who coordinated CIA operations, appealed to Osama, one of Salem’s brothers, who agreed to infiltrate into Afghanistan in order to strengthen the Afghan resistance against communist invaders, monitored by the CIA.

The above data is taken from Italian analyst Francesco Piccioni. More details are found in A Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the making of an American President, a book by Steve Hatfield.

In 1979, at the request of George Bush Sr. who was then Director of the CIA, Osama, 23 years of age, moved to Afghanistan to administer the financial resources destined for the agency’s secret operations against the Soviet invasion in that country. Worried about the Moscow offensive, the US government had conceded the highest sum received by the CIA in all its history for actions in a sole country: US$2 billion.

When President George W. Bush, after 9/11, termed crimes linked to terrorism “illicit exploitation of privileged information”, he knew what he was talking about. It would seem that thanks to this information Osama Bin Laden set up a world wide terrorist network, moving funds using off shore accounts.

Perhaps Freud can explain an aspect of the weapons chosen by the 9/11 terrorists: aircraft. Osama Bin Laden’s father and older brother died in air crashes, both in the USA.

If Geronimo’s scalp was a fake, who can guarantee that Bin Laden was really killed in his Pakistani mansion? Would it not be more useful for the struggle against terrorism to capture him alive and oblige him to reveal everything regarding Al-Qaeda? I have no doubt that Bin Laden is being tortured on some American aircraft carrier so that he will tell what he knows. After that, all that’s necessary will be the “Argentine solution” – throwing his body into the sea. If they find him floating on some beach, fishes’ sharp teeth can be blamed for the deep wounds.

*Frei Betto is a writer, author of “Calendário do Poder” (Calendar of Power) (Rocco) www.freibetto.org –  twitter :@freibetto

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Bin Laden left this life and entered history. There is nothing new about this. History, which few recall, is full of bandits and terrorists whose names and deeds are hardly remembered. The most well known are King Herod; Torquemada, the grand Inquisitor; Queen Victoria, the greatest drug trafficker of all time who fostered the Opium War in China; Hitler; President Truman who dropped atomic bombs on the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Stalin.

The danger is that Osama might move from history to myth and from myth to martyr. His death should not deserve more than a notice on the inside pages of the newspapers. However as the USA is a necrophilic country which feeds on the victims of its wars, Obama transforms Osama into an icon of evil, inciting the imagination of all those who, for some reason, hate US imperialism.

Saddam Hussein, a puppet of the White House manipulated against the Iranian Islamic revolution, proved that sorcery backfires against the sorcerer.

After 1979, the CIA armed Osama Bin Laden using him against the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan. The CIA taught him how to produce explosives and carry out terrorist attacks, to move his fortune through phantom businesses and offshore accounts, operate secret codes and infiltrate agents and controls.

“Bin Laden is the product of the American services” affirmed Swiss author Richard Labévière. In 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall Bin Laden began to aim his terrorist arsenal at the heart of Uncle Sam.

Terrorism is abominable, even when practised by the left, for all terrorism only benefits one side: the extreme right. In life, you reap what you sow. This is true both in the personal and social realm. If the USA are attacked so violently today it is because, in some way, they used their power to humiliate peoples and ethnic groups. They have abused of their power for decades, as in the case of the occupation of Puerto Rico, in the naval base at Guantanamo in the heart of Cuba, in the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan and now Libya, in the participation in Central Europe’s wars and in their omission in Arab and African conflicts and dictatorships.

It is time for the USA, as mediators, to induce Arabs and Israelis to reach a peace agreement. All this has been postponed for the sake of Uncle Sam’s hegemony on the planet. All of a sudden hatred erupted in a brutal way, showing that the enemy can also act unethically with the only difference being that it does not dispose of international forums to legitimise its criminal actions, as is the case of the UN’s connivance with the genocides practised by the White House.

Those who know the history of Latin America know very well that during the last 100 years the US interfered directly in the sovereignty of our countries, spreading terror. Maurice Bishop was assassinated by the green berets in Grenada, the Sandinistas fell due to Reagan’s unleashed terrorism, the Cubans continue to be blockaded since 1961 without a right to normal relations with the rest of the countries in the world and one part of their territory, Guantanamo, is still invaded by the Pentagon.

In the 1960s and 70s dictatorships were installed in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Guatemala and El Salvador sponsored by the CIA and under Henry Kissinger’s orders.

Violence attracts violence, Brazilian bishop Dom Helder Camara used to say. Terrorism leads nowhere, except to harden the right and suppress democracy, prompting the powerful to believe that the people are incapable of governing themselves.

Innocent victims cannot be sacrificed in order to satisfy the profits of imperial governments which judge themselves to own the world and plan to divide the planet like cutting slices in a delicious cake. The September 11 2001 attacks demonstrated that there is neither science nor technology capable of protecting peoples or nations. It is useless for the USA to spend trillions of dollars on sophisticated defence schemes. It would be better to apply that fortune towards world peace, which will come forth only when it is the daughter of justice.

The fall of the Berlin Wall ended the East-West conflict. What now needs to fall is the North-South wall of inequality. If we have no bread, neither the Father nor peace will be ours.

Nach Informationen der Qualitätszeitung „O Globo“ sowie TV Globo in Rio de Janeiro hat Barack Obama die für Sonntag angekündigte Rede auf Rios Protest-Platz in Cinelandia abgesagt. Wie es hieß, wolle er jetzt lediglich vor kleinerem Publikum im Opernhaus von Rio sprechen. Gründe für die Rede-Absage wurden danach offiziell nicht genannt. Von Brasiliens Sozialbewegungen, die Obama zur „persona non grata“ erklärten, waren bereits für den Freitag in Cinelandia Anti-Obama-Proteste angekündigt worden.

Streit um Anti-Obama-Proteste: http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2011/03/17/barack-obama-in-brasilien-teile-der-arbeiterpartei-lulas-bei-geplanten-protesten-prasidentin-dilma-rousseff-irritiert-anweisung-zum-unterdrucken-der-mobilisierung-laut-landesmedien-protesto-de/

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Aufregung um Treffen des Rio-Präfekten mit Doppelgänger von Osama bin Laden:  http://odia.terra.com.br/portal/rio/obamanorio/html/2011/3/brincadeira_polemica_antes_de_obama_chegar_151549.html

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