It’s finally mission accomplished in Iraq but don’t expect announcements of any troop withdrawals or peace breaking out in the Middle East.
Royal Dutch Shell has reached a deal with Iraq’s state-owned South Gas Company giving Shell a 25 year monopoly on production and exports of natural gas and oil reserves from the embattled country.
The monopoly agreement made literally with a gun to the head of Iraq’s parliament betrays the real reason for invading Iraq and Afghanistan and the continued saber rattling at the nation of Iran - the consolidation of oil reserve under an Anglo lead oil monopoly.
Controlling the worlds oil reserves is a way of controlling the nation states of the planet. Oil is in fact money, a true commodity that can be traded for currency or other valuable commodities, securing an oligopoly on oil provides these monopoly men the ability to manipulate world currency and commodities markets.
This agreement will send valuable energy resource out of Iraq at a time when only 58% of the nations own energy needs are being meet.
Michael McConnell, the director of national intelligence and former J2 for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is predicting a rising demand for limited supplies of food and fuel, heated competititon over new technologies, and the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
“What I’m suggesting — there’s an increased potential for conflict,” McConnell said in a speech Thursday to intelligence professionals in Nashville, Tennessee.
“During the period of this assessment, out to 2025, the probability for conflict between nations and within nation-state entities will be greater,” he said.
McConnell feels that terrorism will still be a problem but the bigger security challenges will come from the emerging world super powers of China and India who will likely become the worlds second and third largest economies in the coming decade.
“In terms of size, speed, and directional flow, the transfer of global wealth and economic power, now underway, as noted from West to East is without precedent in modern history,” McConnell said.
McConnell believes China, Russia, India and the west will struggle over trade, demographics, access to natural resources and technological innovation to establish dominance in the “New World.”
US Generals planning for resource wars
As the GWOT is even now coming to an end due to unsustainable demand for forces a new threat seems to be developing - Global Resource Wars.
Lt. General Stephen Speakes, Deputy chief of Staff of the US Army has written the 2008 modernization strategy and in its 90 pages outlines how the military will be albe to sustain operations for future “persistent” international conflict over the next 30 to 40 years.
The document reinforces the preemptive first strike doctrine suggesting the United States will be facing decades of “perpetual warfare.” The threats will be ideologically based terrorist using biological, chemical and possibly nuclear devices as well as emerging threats from countries with growing economies and populations.
“We face a potential return to traditional security threats posed by emerging near-peers as we compete globally for depleting natural resources and overseas markets.” Says Lt. Gen. Speakes.
The concern is that young developing nations will cause a “youth bulge” who “will consume ever increasing amounts of food, water and energy”. And this will lead to further “resource competition.”
One particularly frightening aspect to the document is the prediction that troops will deploy and fight against the target population itself to win these future resource wars. The document refers to this euphemistically as “commanders employing offensive, defensive and stability or civil support operations simultaneously”.
To achieve this level of force projection with a downsized U.S. military the Pentagon plans to deploy ever increasing fleets of remotely controlled and unmanned weapon systems.
The document even suggest that Earth’s orbit is considered a legitimate zone for offensive military action.
When Pfc. Albert Nelson died in Iraq in 2006, the Army told his mother Jean Feggins a retired Philadelphia police officer that he was killed in action. First the Army casualty officer said it may have been friendly fire but later claimed Pfc. Nelson was killed by enemy mortar fire.
Salon online magazine recently came upon a video that suggest he and a second soldier were killed by fire from a U.S. tank. The video is shot from a helmet cam worn by Sergeant First Class Jack Robison who wanted a record of a firefigt in Ramadi. The video shows platoon Sergeant Robison reporting the friendly fire incident over the radio. The sergeant was immediately overruled by an officer who insists his platoon was attacked by enemy mortar fire.
You can hear the platoon sergeant yelling to his troops, “Hey. It doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter. None of it matters. It was a 120 mortar, got it. It was a 120 mortar, got it. Fucking got it.”
He then responds to a another distraught soldier, “Until we hear different it was a 120 mm mortar. I don’t think it was, but for now that’s the way it is and that’s what happened. Got it?”
The U.S. Army’s main battle tank has a 120 mm main gun.
When one of the soldiers questions the decision made by the officer on the other end of the radio to blame enemy mortar fire for the death of their comrade his platoon sergeant tells him to stay off that topic, “cause it won’t do no good.”
Troops in Iraq tell of carrying and using “drop weapons” to frame those who got caught in the line of fire. This is a common technique used by death squads operating in third world countries.
Can we expect this type of behavior from soldiers of the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division under the command of the dubious NorthCom as they patrol the streets and neighborhoods of the United States?
Col. Michael Boatner commander of the 1st Brigade, 3rd ID said in an interview with Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman that soldiers deployed in the United States will have the inherent right to self defense.
More ethnic cleansing in Iraq over the last 48 hours this time by the Turkish Military. Turkish nationalist say that Kurdish rebels mortared a military outpost in a Turkish valley killing 17 and respond with and air strike inside Iraq.
The attack has caused an outrage in Turkey and a nationalist opposition leader Devlet Bahceli has called on the government to immediately send ground troops acroos the border to chase down the Kurds into Iraq.
The Turkish-Iraqi border lies on a rugged, mountaionous area that is difficult to control not unlike the Tora Bora Mountains bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“The government must immediately show the political determination for a cross-border operation,” Bahceli said in a speech to parliament. “Turkey must set up a security zone to prevent infiltration from the north of Iraq.”
Turkish warplanes were sent into Iraq to bomb 16 suspected Kurdish PKK positions early Tuesday morning. (about 8 hours ago)
The United States is responsible for security in the region but has not been able to stop the fighting between the Kurds and Turks.
The White House would like Turkey to end their offensive quickly and not send ground troops into Iraq but are not willing to withdraw any military aid from Turkey if the do not comply.
Turkish leaders are asking parliament to extend a mandate, which expires next month, to launch further military operations against the PKK in Iraq.
Near the end of 2001 a Delta Force team from Ft. Bragg would be just meters away from where Osama Bin laden was holed up with a group of Afghan fighters.
Lead by a 37 year old, named Major Fury (not his real name) a team of fifty Delta Force operators in the mountains of Tora Bora near the Pakistan border, elevation 14,000 feet.
Major Fury and his team had come up with two seperate mission plans to capture Bin laden both would be denied by someone unknown in the chain of command. “Whether that was Central Command all the way up to the president of the United States, I’m not sure,” The Major says.
When asked by CBS 60 minutes how often mission planning would be denied by the chain of command Fury said, “In my experience, in my five years at Delta, never before,”
Denied the opportunity to use stealth and surprise and concerned there could be up to 1000 fighters in the area defending Osama’s position. And at the behest of a CIA handler called George Delta would take on the help of a rag tag band of Afghan militia ran by a self styled general, Ali.
George of the CIA would convince Ali to assist the Delta group by giving him millions of dollars in US currency but Major Fury and his men would soon find out this would not buy the loyalty of the Afghan guerrillas.
While making a frontal assault on Osama’s position with the Afghans, Delta would soon discover that the CIA bribed Ali and his men where not keen on fighting their fellow Afghans.
General Ali and his militia would abandon the Delta Force team in the evenings to return to their villages and would only half heatedly engage those protecting the mountainous region hiding Bin Laden. “It was almost like there was an agreement between the two to put on a good show and then leave.” Says Fury.
When Delta did get close to Osama’s position the CIA paid Afghans turned their weapons on Fury and his 50 man Delta team and claimed they had negotiated a cease fire with Al Qaeda. After a 12 hour debate on the mountain side just minutes away from Bin Laden’s suspected position the local militia agreed the cease fire was now over.
The delay would allow Osama to move from his position in a mountain cave into a small town near a cometary and poppy field close to the Pakistan border.
Once when Osama was transmitting via radio, Ali’s men held up a small transistor radio in the air and the Afghan militia with Fury would gather around to listen. Fury adds, “Osama Bin laden is many a Muslims hero. When they heard him talking on the radio they would stan
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