-->by Michel Chossudovsky

Abu Musab Al Zarqawi has been presented...as the mastermind behind the"insurgency" in Iraq, allegedly responsible for the massacres of Iraqi civilians....

the Washington Post.... has acknowledged that the role of Zarqawi had been deliberately"magnified" by the Pentagon with a view to galvanizing public support for the US-UK led"war on terrorism"...

What the Washington Post fails to mention, however, is its own role in sustaining the Zarqawi legend, along with network TV, most of the printed press, and of course CNN and Fox News, not to mention a significant portion of the alternative media. Disinformation regarding the War on terrorism has been fed into the news chain by a limited number of"top feeders":

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20060418&articleId=2275




passend dazu noch folgende Meldung vom Guardian:

US allies are behind the death squads and ethnic cleansing


More Iraqis are dying from militia violence than from the terrorists," Khalilzad said recently."The militias need to be under control."

His blunt comment came in the wake of over 1,000 abductions and murders in a single month, most of them blamed on Shia militias... Suddenly the US faces a greater"enemy within" - militias manned by the Shia community, once seen by the US as allies, and run by government ministers.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1753710,00.html