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Written by William F. Jasper
Monday, 03 August 2009
To the headlines listed below could be added hundreds more cataloging
the concerted global attack by terrorist organizations against law
enforcement.
Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster (Los Angeles Police Department,
retired), writing for Hi-Tech Criminal Justice, notes that "as of
August 14, 2005, world-wide, there have been 554 terrorist attacks
targeting police officers. These attacks resulted in 2,546 injuries
and 1,327 fatalities."
Item: "Al Qaeda suicide attack hits police center in Algeria," August 19, 2008
Item: "Pakistan ambush kills four police officials," July 19, 2009
Item: "Ten killed, including seven police, in Iraq violence," July 20, 2009
Item: "Terrorists in Iraq target police: 350 killed in year," March 26, 2004
Item: "Child, senior police officer killed in Mosul attacks," July 6, 2009
Item: "Blast hits Islamabad police station, 2 killed, 3 wounded," June 7, 2009
From Malaysia to Turkey, and Colombia to Pakistan, the trend seems
to be spiking upward. According to the press reports, many, if not
most, of the attacks on police mentioned above are the work of
"Islamic extremists." However, the current round of terrorist attacks
on law enforcement bears an unmistakable resemblance to previous
orchestrated campaigns of "escalating violence" by Soviet-directed
Marxist-Leninist terror groups. The more astute counterterrorism
analysts have noted virtually all of the significant "Islamic"
terrorist groups carrying out these attacks al-Qaeda, Hezbollah,
Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Taliban, Lashkar e-Taiba, Abu
Sayyef, etc. were formed by, and/or are led by, chiefs who are
"former" communists. These same "militant Islamicists" maintain open
cordial relations with the Kremlin "infidels" and more secret
back-channel relations with the Russian KGB-FSB and GRU, through whom
they receive not only arms, munitions, and explosives, but also
training and intelligence.
Communists as Jihadists
As Finnish counterterrorism expert Antero Leitzinger has noted in his
enlightening study The Roots of Islamic Terrorism, "Afghan communists
have a broad history of 'turning coats,' or to be more accurate, of
growing beards and adopting the title 'Mullah' attached to a
pseudonym." The most important Taliban leaders Abdurrashid Dostum,
Shahnawaz Tanai, Gulbuddin Hikmatyar are longtime, career
communists and KGB operatives. Their attacks on the Afghani and
Pakistani police have been taken from the communist game plan, as put
forth in the Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla (quoted above),
authored by Brazilian Communist Party member Carlos Marighella.
Since its publication 40 years ago, this text has been translated
into many languages and published in many editions. It has become a
standard handbook of terrorists (including so-called Islamic
terrorists) worldwide, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. The Mini-Manual
focuses a considerable portion of its attention on instructing
would-be terrorist cadres on the importance of targeting the police
and how to go about attacking them in the most efficient manner.
Marighella tells his Mini-Manual readers, for instance, that among
the "vulnerable targets for assaults" are commissaries and police
stations, jails, and military and police vehicles. His students of
mayhem are taught the importance of ambushing police:
Ambushes are attacks typified by surprise when the enemy is trapped
across a road or when he makes a police net surrounding a house or an
estate. A false message can bring the enemy to the spot where he
falls into the trap.
The principle object of the ambush tactic is to capture enemy arms
and punish him with death.
"The roads followed by the police vehicles must be mined at key
points along the way and at forced stopping points," instructs
Marighella. "When the mines explode, the vehicles will fly into the
air. The police will be caught in the trap and will suffer losses or
will be victims of ambush."
The Mini-Manual also provides instruction to the urban guerrilla on
the fine art of using mass demonstrations as a cover for terrorist
activities. It advises, for example:
Street tactics have revealed a new type of urban guerrilla, the
urban guerrilla who participates in mass demonstrations. This is the
type we designate as the urban guerrilla demonstrator, who joins the
ranks and participates in popular marches with specific and definite aims.
These aims consist in hurling stones and projectiles of every type,
using gasoline to start fires, using the police as a target for their
fire arms, capturing police arms, kidnapping agents of the enemy and
provocateurs, shooting with careful aim at the henchmen torturers and
the police chiefs.
The manual also urges the riot-makers to place snipers on roof tops
for shooting police who are trying to maintain crowd control, and
instructs on "throwing bottles, bricks, paperweights, and other
projectiles from the tops of apartment and office buildings against
the police."
Global Game Plan
We can observe these instructions being followed in attacks on law
enforcement from Karachi to Kabul, Istanbul to Baghdad, Paris to Los
Angeles. Why the concentrated focus on aggression toward the police?
In a free society, the police are indispensable agents for protection
of the rule of law; both for protection of the citizen against
aggression by criminal elements, and even more importantly for
protection of the citizen against aggression and abuse by government
officials. In the totalitarian society that the terrorists hope to
create whether modeled on Iran, Cuba, Russia, or post-Soviet
Kazakhstan the police are purely instruments of oppression for the
central government, whose power is unrestrained by constitutional
checks and balances. Although the urban guerrilla and his street
demonstration accomplices vociferously denounce what they claim is
oppression and brutality, their true aim is to escalate violence to a
level that will provoke the government and the police to suspend
civil liberties, invoke emergency powers, and dismantle the
constitutional structures that protect against the concentration of power.
Marighella is explicit that the urban guerrilla is not interested in
any peaceful reforms; his only interest is to drive the situation to
the crisis point where:
The government has no alternative except to intensify repression.
The police roundups, house searches, arrests of innocent people make
life in the city unbearable.... The armed forces, the navy and the
air force are mobilized to undertake routine police functions....
Rejecting the "so-called political solution," the urban guerrilla
must become more aggressive and violent, resorting without letup to
sabotage, terrorism, expropriations, assaults, kidnappings, and
executions, heightening the disastrous situation in which the
government must act.
Although his name is affixed to this devilish playbook, Marighella
was not the originator of the scheme. Claire Sterling noted in her
important 1980 book The Terror Network: "An intimate of Castro's and
assiduous visitor to Cuba, Marighella was an apparatchik in Brazil's
pro-Moscow Communist Party for forty years." It was Castro's DGI
(supervised by the Soviet KGB) that helped Marighella codify in the
Mini-Manual a program that the Soviets had already been using with
deadly efficiency for decades. Constitutional scholar and former Salt
Lake City Police Chief W. Cleon Skousen observed in his 1966 book The
Communist Attack on U.S. Police that a key event that would serve as
an archetype for the global attack on police actually took place
shortly after World War II, in 1948 a little over 20 years before
the Mini-Manual was published.
The Bogota Archetype
The event was the Pan-American Conference in Bogota, Colombia,
featuring leaders of all nations of the Western Hemisphere. The
Soviet embassy was the nerve center of massive preparations aimed at
turning the conference into a violent and deadly maelstrom. One of
the nine hand-picked communist leaders who instigated the riots and
mayhem in Bogota on April 9 was the then-virtually unknown Cuban
"student" Fidel Castro. On a signal, the assassination of Colombian
politician George Gaitan, the communist urban guerrillas generated
their street mobs and led them into a rapid escalation of violence
that overwhelmed the police.
Dr. Skousen, who served with the FBI for 16 years and was for many
years the editorial director of the independent police journal Law
and Order, wrote:
The Communists had a crew sweep through the city ahead of the mob,
smashing off locks and opening stores and warehouses. After the mob
had looted the buildings, another crew went through spraying gasoline
on floors and walls. The last stage was to have trained arsonists
methodically burn these structures which ultimately destroyed the
center of the city. Colleges, churches, stores and other public
buildings were burned. Altogether, 136 major buildings were
destroyed.... After the battles between the police and the mobs had
subsided, more than 1,000 corpses were left lying in the streets.
Hundreds more had been carried off in the night.
A decade and a half later, the same program would be used to reduce
American cities to smoldering ruin. And the communist program for
targeting police outlined by Marighella would be instituted with a
vengeance. The Weather Underground (WU), the Black Panther Party
(BPP), the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), the American Indian
Movement (AIM), and the Puerto Rican Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación
Nacional (FALN) were some of the most active terrorists carrying out the plan.
The Obama presidential campaign unintentionally thrust two of the
most notorious Weather Underground terrorists of the 1960s, Bill
Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, back into the spotlight. Evidence points
to them as the murderers of San Francisco Police Sergeant Brian
McDonnell on February 16, 1970. Larry Grathwol, a former FBI
undercover informant inside the WU, says that Ayers admitted to him
that Dohrn had planted the bomb for him. Ayers and Dohrn, who are
friends and supporters of President Barack Obama from his Chicago
"community activist" days, have never repented of their revolutionary
activities, and in fact, Ayers is still actively involved with the
communist government of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
The cases of communist "Islamic" cop killers Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
(formerly H. Rap Brown) and Mumia Abu-Jamal (formerly Wesley Cook)
are also examples of the Mini-Manual put into action. During the
1960s, H. Rap Brown gained fame as the fiery orator and minister of
justice of the Black Panther Party. Brown engaged in a shootout with
police in New York in 1971, for which he was arrested, tried,
convicted, and sent to prison for five years. While in prison, he
supposedly converted to Islam, and when he was released in 1976 had
become "Imam" Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. However, when two sheriff's
deputies attempted to serve him with an arrest warrant in 2000 (for
possession of a stolen vehicle, impersonating an officer, and other
charges), he shot them both, killing Deputy Ricky Kinchon and
wounding Deputy Aldranon English.
Mumia Abu-Jamal, the international darling of the socialist-communist
Left and the Islamic Left, is serving a life sentence for the 1981
ambush and execution-murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel
Faulkner. Like Brown/Al-Amin, Cook/Abu-Jamal studied the communist
rants of Chairman Mao's "Little Red Book." And like Brown, he
converted to Islam while in prison. Both men still show far more Mao
and Marx than Mohamed in their ideological tirades.
So too does another notorious relic from the 1970s, Ilich Ramirez
Sanchez, the infamous communist terrorist better known as "Carlos" or
"The Jackal." In 1997, he was tried and found guilty of the 1975
murder of two French police officers in Paris. He converted to Islam
in prison, but his 2003 book Revolutionary Islam is a screed for
Islamo-Leninism, a fusion of communism and Islam.
It is important to recognize, however, that these cases and many
others illustrate not the conversion of communists to Islam, but the
adaptation of Islam by communists to serve communist purposes.
"Today's international terrorism was conceived at the Lubyanka, the
headquarters of the KGB, in the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War in
the Middle East," says General Ion Mihai Pacepa, former head of
Communist Romania's secret police, the DIE. "I witnessed its birth in
my other life, as a Communist general."
In an August 2006 National Review Online column, Pacepa, who had
overseen much of the Middle Eastern terrorism for the Kremlin, made
these startling statements:
General Aleksandr Sakharovsky, who created Communist Romania's
intelligence structure and then rose to head up all of Soviet
Russia's foreign intelligence, often lectured me: "In today's world,
when nuclear arms have made military force obsolete, terrorism should
become our main weapon."
Between 1968 and 1978, when I broke with Communism, the security
forces of Romania alone sent two cargo planes full of military
goodies every week to Palestinian terrorists in Lebanon. Since the
fall of Communism the East German Stasi archives have revealed that,
in 1983 alone, its foreign intelligence service sent $1,877,600 worth
of AK-47 ammunition to Lebanon. According to Vaclav Havel, Communist
Czechoslovakia shipped 1,000 tons of the odorless explosive Semtex-H
(which can't be detected by sniffer dogs) to Islamic terrorists
enough for 150 years.
In the mid-1970s, says Pacepa, the KGB ordered his service, the DIE
along with other East European sister services to scour their
countries for trusted Communist Party activists belonging to various
Islamic ethnic groups, train them in disinformation and terrorist
operations, and infiltrate them into the Islamic countries of their
spheres of influence. "Before I left Romania for good, in 1978,"
Pacepa states, "my DIE had dispatched around 500 such undercover
agents to Islamic countries. According to a rough estimate received
from Moscow, by 1978 the whole Soviet-bloc intelligence community had
sent some 4,000 such agents of influence into the Islamic world."
Adding to General Pacepa's revelations are the more recent exposés by
KGB-FSB defectors Alexander Litvinenko and Mikhail Trepashkin, who
similarly point to Vladimir Putin and the Lubyanka as the sources of
the global wave of terrorism. They and others have noted that Ayman
al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second in command, is a Russian FSB
operative. In an interview following the deadly suicide bomb attacks
in London in July 2005, Litvinenko stated:
I know only one organization that has made terrorism the main tool
of solving political problems. It is the Russian special services.…
At the special department of the KGB they trained terrorists from
practically every country in the world…. The bloodiest terrorists in
the world were or are agents of the KGB-FSB…. I can definitely say
that the center of global terrorism is not in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan
or the Chechen Republic. The terrorist infection is spread worldwide
from Lubyanka Square and the Kremlin cabinet. And until the Russian
special services are outlawed, dispersed and condemned, the terrorism
will never stop: bombs will blow up and blood will be shed…. Yuri
Andropov, Vladimir Putin, Nikolay Patrushev and others these people
are the main terrorists.... And until we condemn them ... global
terrorism will continue.
And, we might add, we can expect the police forces of the
non-communist nations to bear the brunt of the global attack.
Incredibly, the United States government through the Clinton, Bush,
and now Obama, administrations continues to treat Russia as an
"ally" in the fight against terrorism, ignoring the extensive
evidence that Putin and company are orchestrating the terror
offensive. It is the same terrorist offensive of the 1960s and '70s,
but in a new phase, under a new guise; instead of the
"anti-colonialism" and "national independence" movements the
communists used as covers in that earlier period, they have adopted
and co-opted Islam to serve their purpose.
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