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Time and again Western security
services have been shown to be up to their necks in promoting, training and
giving operational support for Islamists to do their dirty work. It started in
the 1950s as a strategy to mobilise the most backward and conservative sections
of society against nationalist, independent and mostly progressive currents in
the Middle East. They managed to destroy every single one of these currents,
leaving a politically barren landscape dominated by political options that have
no future and, despite their ultra-anti-Western rhetoric, which cannot fight
against Western imperialism.
Then came the CIA’s war in
Afghanistan in the 1980s, with the US funding Osama bin Laden’s group and other
jihadis to fight the Russians. Then there was the training and deployment of
thousands of jihadis to fight Serbia in the war in the former Yugoslavia. Then
the training and deployment of thousands of jihadis to fight in Chechnya with
the sole purpose of destabilizing Russia. Many of the latter had previously
fought in Serbia. Then came Libya, where the security services sent hundreds of
these operatives to undermine Gaddafi in 2011. Then came Syria, where the
security services sent in hundreds of armed Libyan jihadis to fight Assad.
Not a lot of people know that
many of the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay’s US military prison was or is a
former CIA- or MI6-trained fighter. They sent them there because they knew they
were committed jihadists, as opposed to the less dangerous Iraqi or Afghan
nationalists who were just fighting to oust foreigners from their countries and
had no global or ideological pretensions.
Now the web site MiddleEastEye lifts the lid on the Libyan connection to this week’s Manchester bombing that
the British authorities do not want to talk about. It explains why, within
hours of the attack, the security services were already declaring that a
network was involved. They knew whom they were dealing with!
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