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- Propagandalügen, eine fehlt noch - Sorrento, 18.04.2005, 21:07
Propagandalügen, eine fehlt noch
-->Hallo Prinz,
eine kleine Anmerkung noch, wenn mir diese gestattet ist:
>Gut zehn Jahre nach der"verdeckten Operation" am Hindukusch, mit der die Amerikaner die Sowjets in die"afghanische Falle" lockten, stimmten sie mit schmutzigen Propagandatricks die eigene und die Weltöffentlichkeit auf die"Operation Wüstensturm" von 1991 ein.
>Wer kennt sie nicht, die TV-Bilder jener vermeintlichen Krankenschwester, die vor einem US-Kongressausschuss unter Tränen irakische Soldaten beschuldigte, Brutkästen in einer Entbindungsklinik von Kuwait - City geöffnet und kuwaitische Säuglinge massakriert zu haben? Die Lügen hatten kurze Beine: Eine amerikanische PR-Agentur - dieselbe war mit dem Kriegsmarketing für den jüngsten Irakfeldzug betraut - hatte die Geschichte frei erfunden. In der Rolle der Pflegerin war die Tochter des Botschafters von Kuwait zu sehen.
>Anerkennung von mir an die Werbeagentur. Da müssen wahre Christen tätig sein, die die eigene religiöse Geschichte gut kennen.
Neben der Brutkastenlüge gab es noch eine weitere, die mindestens genauso perfide ist, erlaubt doch erst diese unter dem Vorwand der angeblichen Bedrohung Rihads die seitdem ungehemmte Stationierung von GIs im Lande des Propheten, woran sich der Zorn eines Bin Ladens ja dann erst so richtig entzündete.
Und der"offiziellen Geschichtsschreibung" [img][/img] zufolge führte ja genau dieser Zorn zu den Anschlägen vom 11.9 und zum dritten Golfkrieg:
Wednesday February 5, 2003
In 1990 as the US prepared for its first war with Iraq there was heavy reliance on the use of"classified" satellite photographs purporting to show that in September 1990 - a month after the invasion of Kuwait - 265,000 Iraqi soldiers and 1,500 tanks were massing on the border to gear up to invade Saudi Arabia. The threat of Saddam aggressively expanding his empire to Saudi Arabia was crucial to the decision to go to war, but the satellite pictures were never made public.
Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2 1990. The US cabinet met the same day. At that point, war was no more than a possibility. Norman Schwarzkopf recalls the prevailing mood in his autobiography, It Doesn't Take a Hero. He quotes General Colin Powell's remark to him:"I think we could go to war if they invaded Saudi Arabia. I doubt if we would go to war over Kuwait."
Within days the mood at the top had hardened. When Schwarzkopf next met Powell, he was told to prepare to go to Saudi Arabia."I was stunned," he says in his book."A lot must have happened after I left Camp David that Powell wasn't talking about. President Bush had made up his mind to send troops."
A lot had changed. By the early weeks of September, America and Britain were leading the march towards war. Somehow, almost without anybody noticing, the agenda was changing. Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait alone was no longer acceptable. New resolutions had been adopted by the UN security council
The photographs, which are still classified in the US (for security reasons, according to Brent Scowcroft, President Bush senior's national security advisor), purportedly showed more than a quarter of a million Iraqi troops massed on the Saudi border poised to pounce. Except, when a resourceful Florida-based reporter at the St Petersburg Times persuaded her newspaper to buy the same independently commissioned satellite photos from a commercial satellite to verify the Pentagon's line, she saw no sign of a quarter of a million troops or their tanks.
Jean Heller, an investigative reporter on the St Petersburg Times, has been nominated for a Pulitzer prize five times and come second twice, so when she asked permission to spend $3,200 (£1,950) on two satellite pictures, the newspaper backed her.
Heller's curiosity had been aroused in September when she read a report of a commercial satellite - the Soyuz Karta - orbiting and taking pictures over Kuwait. She wanted to see what the only independent pictures would make of the alleged massive build-up of Iraqi troops on the Kuwait/Saudi border. Soyuz Karta agreed to provide them. But no trace of the 265,000 Iraqi troops and 1,500 tanks that the US officials said were there could be found in the photographs.
"The satellite pictures were so clear that at Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia you could see American planes sitting wingtip to wingtip," Heller says.
She took the photographs for analysis to two experts."I looked at them with a colleague of mine and we both said exactly the same thing at exactly the same moment: 'Where are they?'" recalls Peter Zimmerman, a satellite expert at George Washington University.
'We could see clearly the main road leading right through Kuwait, south to Saudi Arabia, but it was covered with sand banks from the wind and it was clear that no army had moved over it. We could see empty barracks where you would have expected these thousands of troops to be billeted, but they were deserted as well."
Jean Heller wrote her story for the St Petersburg Times. It opened with the words:"It's time to draft Agatha Christie for duty in the Middle East. Call it, The Case of the Vanishing Enemy."
Looking back now, Heller says:"If the story had appeared in the New York Times or the Washington Post, all hell would have broken loose. But here we are, a newspaper in Florida, the retirement capital of the world, and what are we supposed to know?"
A year later, Powell would admit to getting the numbers wrong. There was no massive build-up. But by then, the war had been fought.
Soviel zu den Propagandalügen des zweiten Golfkrieges...
gruß,
Sorrento
<ul> ~ Quelle: Guardian</ul>
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