Right, right. Police in all countries also increases Crime so, all countries should ban Police.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> Evidence Suggest U.S.-U.K. Wars Increase Global Terror Threat War on Terror
> or War of Terror?
>
> By ANTHONY DiMAGGIO
> Critical evidence from the British government and other sources suggest that
> the "War on Terror" has
>
> actually destabilized the Middle East and increased the terror threat
> throughout the globe. The former head of Britain's MI5 – Baroness
> Manningham-Buller – finds that the Iraq war has dramatically contributed to
> the growing terror danger as directed against the United Kingdom and its
> citizens. Britain has been forced to double the budget devoted to
> investigating terrorist plots following the 2003 invasion. An official
> British inquiry into the proposed invasion warned of just such an increase
> in the terror threat. This means that the destabilizing affects of Western
> attacks were predicted in advance of attacks that were seen as illegal under
> international law (as British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg recently
> conceded) .
>
> Buller's confession is an admission that the war in Iraq has further
> inflamed anti-U.S. and anti-U.K. sentiment. When considering it along other
> critical studies, it looks as if the war has contributed to a greater
> hostility toward British foreign policy more generally among the majority of
> Middle Easterners, and among British nationals more specifically (Buller is
> most concerned with the latter group). She concludes that "a whole
> generation of young people" have been "radicalized' by what is perceived as
> an attack on Islam. The Blair administration, Buller states, conceded that
> the war increased the terror threat at home: the budget increases for
> anti-terror operations were "unheard of, certainly unheard of today, but he
> (Blair) and the Treasury and the chancellor accepted that because I was able
> to demonstrate the scale of the problem that we were confronted by." The
> growing threat to Britain seems all the more plausible in light of the 7/7
> 2005 terrorist bombings in London, which killed more than 50 civilians and
> were motivated by anger at the British invasion of Iraq.
>
> Buller concedes what should be known by most in the U.S. and U.K. today –
> the terror threat has grown in the wake of the Iraq invasion, despite the
> fact that Iraq posed no real national security threat to the West. Buller
> admits that MI5 had refused to contribute to the intelligence comprising the
> British government's dossier against Iraq's "WMD threat" in 2002. The
> reason is clear enough: there was "no credible evidence" that Iraq was
> linked to the 9/11 attacks, and Saddam Hussein was "unlikely" to support any
> attacks against the U.S. or U.K. unless his regime's survival was
> threatened. These conclusions were shared with the Bush administration at
> the time, and promptly ignored by a U.S. administration whose members had
> been set on going to war for more than 10 years.
>
> Buller also discusses a point well known among critics of U.S. foreign
> policy on the left: the invasion of Iraq has actually served as one of the
> best recruiters for Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and loosely affiliated
> Islamist terror groups. As Buller describes with regards to U.S.-U.K.
> actions in Iraq: "Arguably, we gave Osama bin Laden his Iraqi jihad." In
> short, those throughout the Muslim world see the U.S.-allied occupation as
> motivated by imperial ambitions for oil; they see the torture and abuses in
> which American and British troops are responsible, and they are reacting
> critically. Targeting of U.S. and allied forces has become far more common
> now than it was prior to 9/11.
>
> Buller's MI5 based conclusions are not the first time it's been conceded
> that the "War on Terror" actually increases the global terror threat.
> Terrorism experts Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank found through their own
> statistical analysis that the 2003 invasion was accompanied by an "Iraq
> Effect" in which terrorist attacks escalated dramatically from 2003 to 2006
> (the time period when the study was conducted). More specifically, their
> report <http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17137.htm> finds
> that: "the rate of terrorist attacks around the world by jihadist groups and
> the rate of fatalities in those attacks increased dramatically after the
> invasion of Iraq. Globally there was a 607 percent rise in the average
> yearly incidence of attacks (28.3 attacks per year before and 199.8 after)
> and a 237 percent rise in the average fatality rate (from 501 to 1,689
> deaths per year). A large part of this rise occurred in Iraq, which accounts
> for fully half of the global total of jihadist terrorist attacks in the
> post-Iraq War period. But even excluding Iraq, the average yearly number of
> jihadist terrorist attacks and resulting fatalities still rose sharply
> around the world by 265 percent and 58 percent respectively." Subsequent
> empirical studies of the decline of violence in Iraq after 2007 demonstrated
> that the reduction came about, not because of the success of the "surge" in
> promoting humanitarianism, but because the ethnic cleansing in cities like
> Baghdad had essentially succeeded (with the help of U.S. troops disarming
> Sunni communities in the name of "counter-insurgency"), and with the Shia
> militias winning the civil war against Iraq's Sunnis (for more, see:
> http://www.juancole.com/2008/07/social-history-of-surge.html and
> dimaggio02272009.html <http://www.counterpunch.org/dimaggio02272009.html>).
> In short, violence declined because there were fewer people to kill
> following the successful ethnic cleansing.
>
> Additional journalistic investigation finds that the policy of torture and
> mistreatment at Guantanamo, in Iraq, and in Afghanistan (often directed
> against those whose terrorist ties were questionable to non-existent, but
> were nonetheless picked up in blanket raids in Afghanistan and Iraq) led to
> a further intensification of anti-U.S. sentiment in the Muslim world. As
> McClatchy Newspapers concluded in an eight month
> investigation<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2008/06/15/38773/day-1-americas-prison-for-terrorists.html#ixzz0uLC2CKXg>in
> 11 countries, U.S. detainees were often kept "on the basis of flimsy
> or
> fabricated evidence…McClatchy interviewed 66 released detainees, more than a
> dozen local officials in Afghanistan, and U.S. officials with intimate
> knowledge of the detention program...This unprecedented compilation shows
> that most of the 66 were low level Taliban grunts, innocent Afghan
> villagers, or ordinary criminals. At least seven had been working for the
> U.S. backed Afghan government and had no ties to militants…many of the
> detainees posed no danger to the U.S. or its allies".
>
> Through its investigations, McClatchy found that "prisoner mistreatment
> became a regular feature in cellblocks and interrogation rooms at Bagram and
> Kandahar air bases, the two main way stations in Afghanistan en route to
> Guantanamo…the investigation found that top Bush administration officials
> knew within months of opening the Guantanamo detention center that many of
> the prisoners there weren't `the worst of the worst,'" as "it was obvious
> [from military administrators] that at least a third of the population
> didn't belong there."
>
> American soldiers were often gullible in that they
> accepted<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2008/06/15/38773/day-1-americas-prison-for-terrorists.html#ixzz0uLCs7Dxl>"false
> reports passed along by informants and officials looking to settle
> old grudges in Afghanistan, a nation that had experienced more than two
> decades of occupation and civil war before U.S. troops arrived". The lack
> of connections of many detainees to any terror operations looks especially
> tragic in hindsight, considering that the torture visited upon these
> individuals contributed to their radicalization against the United States.
> As McClatchy reports, "U.S. detention policies fueled support for extremist
> Islamist groups. For some detainees who went home far more militant than
> when they arrived, Guantanamo became a school for jihad."
>
> The above evidence strongly suggests that the U.S. and U.K. primarily play a
> destabilizing role throughout the world, rather than fighting terrorism and
> ensuring world order out of chaos. Global public opinion polls have long
> found that most throughout the world view the U.S. as one of the primary
> threats to global security, rather than the protector of world order. These
> revelations are likely to elude many Americans, as the evidence above is not
> widely disseminated in the U.S. press. American journalists have long been
> content to uncritically repeat statements from liberal and conservative
> political officials (typically accompanied with no evidence) that the "War
> on Terror" must continue in order to keep America, its allies, and the
> Middle East "safe." In reality, though, the U.S. and U.K. are not fighting
> a War on Terror, but a War *of *Terror.
> *Anthony DiMaggio* is the editor of media-ocracy (www.media-ocracy.com), a
> daily online magazine devoted to the study of media, public opinion, and
> current events. He is the author of When Media Goes to
> War<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1583671994/counterpunchmaga>(2010)
> and Mass
> Media, Mass Propaganda<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0739119036/counterpunchmaga>(2008).
> He can be reached at:
> mediaocracy@...
>
> http://www.counterpunch.org/dimaggio07232010.html
>
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