'Operation Northwoods' - Terrorist Side of US Military Even Hurting Americans and GIs (Deepak Sarkar, www.kolki.com )

Before 9/11/2001, world didn’t know much about virtual Al-Qaeda; attacking countries at peace were meant to be War Crimes. Before US-Led illegal invasion and destruction of peaceful Iraq, entire land was Green Zone void of Al-Qaeda, suicide bombings, sectarian violence and friendly fires! But under massive US-British-Australian brutal occupying forces – the only Green Zone became new US Embassy Fortress (Late Saddam Hussein’s Palace) and virtual Al-Qaeda seems to be omnipresent dividing Iraqis while prolonging oppressive occupation as justification of military might! How and why?

Recently declassified Pentagon documents, after more than 40 years, highlight a set of terrorist proposals on Cuba by the US military Joint Chiefs of Staff codenamed OPERATION NORTHWOODS.

Details of Operation Northwoods can be found in ABC News and US National Archives (ARC Identifier:  305036, Title: Northwoods, U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba, 1962), as well as the book on US National Security Agency 'Body of Secrets' from Doubleday by author James Bamford.

The document, titled "Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba" was provided by the then American Joint Chiefs of Staff, President Eisenhower appointee Army Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962, outlining the key components of Operation Northwoods.

The top secret document was written in response to a request from then Chief of the Cuba Project, Col. Edward Lansdale describing U.S. military plans to covertly engineer various terrorist pretexts leading to justification of invading Cuba.

The proposals -- part of a secret anti-Castro program known as Operation Mongoose – included:

· Staging the assassinations of Cubans living in the United States,

· Developing a fake "Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami and other

cities of Florida, as well as Washington DC,"

· Sinking a boatload of Cuban refugees (real or simulated),"

· Faking remote controlled Cuban air force attack on a civilian jetliner, and

· Concocting a "Remember the Maine" incident by blowing up a U.S. ship in

Cuban waters and then blaming the incident as Cuban sabotage.

Details of the plans described in ‘Body of Secrets’ suggest deliberate U.S. military casualties as obvious from quote: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation." It is now obvious how 9/11 US media coverage helped destroy Afghanistan and Iraq, without open public investigation respecting rule-of-law and proof-of-conviction.

President Kennedy rebuked the idea and Gen. Lemnitzer was transferred to another job after a month. President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22nd, 1963, Friday, in Dallas, Texas, in broad day light.

Operation Northwoods is an ideal example that US military can plan & execute 9/11 style precision well coordinated terrorism blaming on prefabricated Islamic militants and their leader Osama Bin Laden.

The proof is simple as anomalies of official version are shown in the poem 9-11-Hijacking, elaborated in Simple Proof, and substantiated in the Thesis 9-11 Truth, supported by 9-11-time-line from the 9/11 commission report.

It is time the Americans, United Nations, and the World open an honest investigation upholding rule of law to end ‘War of Terror’ in disguise of most racist crusade of our time ‘War on Terror’!

[Author: Deepak Sarkar, 844 Royal Oak Ave, Victoria, BC V8X 3T2, Canada. E-mail: kolki@kolki.com; Poetry & Peace Web site: www.kolki.com; Tel/Fax: 250-412-2897]