IMC UK 'War on Terror' Startpage Special

This is somewhere to draft a startpage special article for the UK's Terror War archive.

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The War of Terror

The so-called 'war on terror' is nothing new; it has its precedents in operations like Gladio; can be seen as the "strategy of tension" gone global and a logical extension of the US-UK imperial policy post 1945. According to Youssef Aschkar, the 'war on terror' did not start on September 11, 2001: "between 1996 and September 11, 2001, the culture of hate and fear was spread to the United States by the publication of thousands of books and articles on the subject of terrorism. From that time onward, 'Islamic terrorism' became the new Evil Empire". The Power of Nightmares, a BBC documentary, even starts from earlier. It "explores the origins in the 1940's and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East, Neoconservatism in America and the parallels between these movements." Now, with the neocon's 'war on terror', legality and morality gone out of the window, torture, detention without trial, rendition, dawn raids, death squads, profiling, fabricated terror plots and executions are the new norm as muslims are demonised in order to justify the "clash of civilisations" and perpetual global war.

Campaigns: Campaign Against Criminalising Communities | Scotland Against Criminalising Communities | National Guantanamo Coalition | Cage Prisoners

Blogs: Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed | Craig Murray

Radio: Taking Aim | Guns and Butter

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Resources

Links to good posts on this topic which should be linked in a feature:

• Nafeez Ahmed: "INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: THE SECRET HISTORY" 1 1/2 hour mp3 on post 1945 UK / US imperialism and the use of terror
• Nafeez Ahmed: Whose War on Whose Terror? Reclaiming Our Rights transcript of Nafeez Ahmed's speech at the 'Reclaiming Our Rights' conference organized mainly by the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC).
• Craig Murray: Torture and The "War on Terror" mp3 of former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan speaks of the shocking torture and the knowingly false intelligence produced in the so called "War on Terror".
• Craig Murray: Legality, Morality and the War on Terror Video and audio of a talk by Craig Murray [former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan], Legality, Morality and the War on Terror, recorded at Sheffield Hallam University on 9th October 2006.
• Daniele Ganser: NATO's Hidden Terrorism transcript of an interview covering Gladio and the 'war on terror', during the last 50 years the United States have organized bombings in Western Europe that they have falsely attributed to the left and the extreme left with the purpose of discrediting them in the eyes of their voters. This strategy is still present today, inspiring fear for the Islam and justifying wars on oil.
• BBC: The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear 3 part documentary on the origins of Islamic fundamentalism, available to watch online and as a DVD image from the Internet Archive.
• Chossudovsky interview: "Al-Qaeda Is a U.S.-sponsored Intelligence Asset" transcript of an interview with Michel Chossudovsky.
• Michel Chossudovsky: War and Globalization - The Truth Behind 9/11 video of a lecture from 2003, the video is available from Google video
• Michel Chossudovsky: The "Demonization" of Muslims and the Battle for Oil article
• Sheffield Indymedia: The Summer of Truth a months of film screenings on 9/11, Oil, War and Globalisation, many films are available to watch online.
• Max Kolskegg: 9/11: A Desperate Provocation By U.S. Capitalism interview: The War on Terrorism is a fraud. Its purpose is to maintain carte blanche for the ever more desperate agenda of American capital: the domination of the continent of Eurasia, and the crushing of the Left worldwide, especially its anti-capitalist core.
• BRITAIN: The mysterious case of the disappearing 'terror' plots — Norm Dixon, Green Left Weekly, on the British terror scares
• The "War against Terror" is a War against the People interview: In this interview recorded by Swiss journalist Silvia Cattori in November 2005 — more than six months before the war launched against Lebanon by Israeli army in summer 2006 — Youssef Aschkar was warning that the destabilization of Lebanon, Syria and Iran was under way, and that Lebanon was the country most threatened and most vulnerable to the Israeli menace.
• Roots of the Neo-Con Junta

— Leo Strauss provided the Machiavellian thought, Albet Wohlstetter provided the strategic military concept. Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle as prime movers of neo-con policy have sought to change the world. And they have.