Les Forces Spéciales SAS en Afganistan

Le rôle du Royaume-Uni (Prince Phillip) dans sa participation au 'terrorisme'.

Aujourd'hui, j'ai reçu de Spartacus un cours d'histoire que vous ne recevrez jamais à l'école ou à l'université, et que vous ne trouverez jamais dans les médias. Voici que les forces spéciales du SAS de l'UK (United Kingdom, sic.) sont rendues en Afganistan. Et puis après ? Lisez ce qui suit et vous serez plus éclairé sur la situation entre le Pakistan (producteurs officinalis d'opium avec l'Afgan), L'entraînement des muhadjeens, l'Inde, le Cashemire et beaucoup d'autres faits oubliés ou méconnus . Le texte est en anglais. Cependant vous pouvez utiliser Alta Vista. Cliquez sur le site d'Alta Vista et une fois rendu changez la traduction en bas de 'English to french' et copiez-collez cette page dans l'addresse URL juste en haut. Et amusez-vous à lire et comprendre la traduction. Vous pouvez l'imprimer et comparer avec le texte anglais. Bonne lecture. Executive Intelligence Review possède toujours des informations d'Intelligence de première classe sur les événements mondiaux depuis plus de deux décennies. Bravo à Lynden Larouche et à son équipe dont Mr. Steinberg est l'enquêteur en chef. N'oubliez pas la date de cette parution: 13 octobre 1995. Maintenant faites les liens avec la situation mondiale d'aujourd'hui 10 octobre 2001...Amitié, Nenki.

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This article appears in the October 13, 1995 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.

The SAS (SPECIAL AIR SERVICE):
Prince Philip's manager of terrorism

by Joseph Brewda

On the eve of the first of six scheduled French nuclear weapons tests
in the South Pacific atoll of Mururoa in September, Greenpeace, an
offshoot of Prince Philip's World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), carried
out a series of violent protests. A Greenpeace team somehow
managed to penetrate the highly militarized nuclear test zone. French
authorities revealed that the team was led by two highly trained retired
professionals from the British Army's Special Air Services (SAS), its
elite paratrooper and commando arm. "They are people used to
operations which have nothing to do with ecology," commented the
French Security Services commander on the scene.

The incident points to the fact that SAS is active in international
terrorism today, and that the motives behind its deployment are
different than those of its patsies. As this report will show, SAS deployment is
a key component of the "afghansi."

SAS has a special role derived from the fact that it operates outside the
British government command structure, and is directly beholden to the
Sovereign. Formed in 1941 by Lt. Col. David Stirling, it has always
drawn on the highest levels of the Scottish oligarchical families for its
officer corps. Stirling himself was from the Fraser family (the LordsLovat),
one of the oldest and wealthiest of the Scottish Highland families.

Closely associated with the royal family throughout his career, Stirling
served as the "Goldstick" at Queen Elizabeth's 1952 coronation. The
Goldstick is the royal household official solemnly mandated with
securing the Sovereign's protection. Until his death in 1990, Stirling
was a principal military adviser for Prince Philip's World Wide Fund for
Nature, the royal family's most important private intelligence agency,
and an organization bankrolled by his uncle, Lord Lovat, and his
cousin, the Hongkong banker Henry Keswick. Together with its
numerous private security company spinoffs, SAS is the military arm of the WWF.

SAS methods and procedures

According to the British Army handbook, the SAS is "particularly
suited, trained, and equipped for counter-revolutionary operations," with
a specialization in "infiltration," "sabotage," "assassination," as well as
"liaison with, organization, training, and control of friendly guerrilla
forces operating against the common enemy." From its inception in
World War II, Special Air Services was detailed to run sabotage behind
enemy lines and to organize popular revolt, at first in North Africa, and then in the Balkans,
where another Stirling cousin, Fitzroy Maclean, ran British operations.

At the end of the war, SAS was disbanded, but it was soon revived to
crush the Malay insurgency in Malaysia, and the Mau Mau insurgency
in Kenya. The principle employed was to take over the insurgency from
within, and use it to destroy the native population. In his 1960 book
Gangs and Countergangs, Col. Frank Kitson boasted that the British
were covertly leading several large-scale Mau Mau units, and that
many, if not all Mau Mau units had been synthetically created by the
colonial authorities. As a result of this practice, 22 whites were killed
during the insurgency, as compared to 20,000 natives.

Based on this principle, SAS emphasized recruitment of natives, as it
received increasing responsibilities for overseeing counterinsurgency
within the postwar empire, as well as organizing insurgencies
elsewhere. In New Zealand, 30% of SAS was drawn from the
indigenous Maori tribes, later supplemented by Sarawak tribesmen
from Indonesia. By the 1960s, New Zealand SAS was active throughout
Southeast Asia, organizing tribal revolts against the Burmese
government, and stirring similar movements in Northeast India.
Similarly, SAS squadrons based in Rhodesia ran the 1960s tribal
separatist insurgency in Zaire. They later recruited and deployed
natives in terrorist raids in Mozambique and Zambia.

Today, there are three known SAS regiments, comprising 4,500 highly
trained commandos in total. Training exercises for 15-man teams
simulate terrorist assaults, in order, it is said, to "know the mind of the
terrorist." Such teams are often sent abroad, to train British
Commonwealth and other military units in the techniques of terrorist
assault, as well as the use of tribal auxiliaries in covert warfare.
Through such means, SAS has built an extensive terrorist control
capability, especially in its former colonies. Its soldiers currently serve
officially in some 30 countries.

'Private' means 'Her Majesty's'

In order to facilitate its role as a disavowable arm of royal household
covert operations, SAS has spun off a series of private security and
mercenary recruitment firms led by its retired or reserve-status officers.
Among these are Keenie Meenie Services, whose name is taken from
the Swahili term for the motion of a snake in the grass. During its
heyday in the 1980s, KMS shared offices with Saladin Security,
another SAS firm, next door to the 22nd SAS Regimental HQ in
London. The firms were run by Maj. David Walker, an SAS South
American specialist; Maj. Andrew Nightingale of SAS Group
Intelligence; and Detective Ray Tucker, a former Arab affairs specialist
at Scotland Yard.

Others SAS firms include:

Kilo Alpha Services (KAS), run by former SAS
Counter-Terrorism Warfare team leader Lt. Col. Ian Crooke;

Control Risks, run by former SAS squadron leader Maj. Arish
Turtle; and

J. Donne Holdings, run by SAS counterespionage specialist
H.M.P.D. Harclerode, whose firm later provided bodyguards and
commando training for Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi.

SAS operations under KMS label have been particularly important. In
1983, Lt. Col. Oliver North hired KMS to train the Afghan mujahideen,
and simultaneously, to mine Managua harbor in Nicaragua, and to train
the Nicaraguan Contras. At the same time, KMS was detailed to
provide personal security for the Saudi ambassador to Washington,
Prince Bandar, a close associate of then Vice President George Bush,
who helped supply tens of billions of Saudi dollars for "Iran-Contra"
operations internationally.

KMS has a long history in the Arab and Muslim world. One of its first
known assignments, back in the 1970s, was to aid Oman in repressing
a revolt in its province of Dhofar. Oman remains a de facto British
colony; its officer corps is dominated by British officers on
secondment. KMS has also worked in Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia,
and Qatar, all of which are de facto British colonies, and all of which
include numerous former SAS officers in their security apparatus. The
current security chief in Bahrain, Ian Henderson, for example, was an
SAS officer in Kenya during the Mau Mau period. The Omani chief of
security is a former SAS officer, as is the case in Dubai, where KMS
official Fiona Fraser, another Stirling relative, resides.

These oil sheikhdoms are key hubs for British covert financial
operations internationally. Dubai, for instance, is the center of the
illegal flow of gold to Asia, while Kuwait has been a major bankroller of
Afghan and Pakistan opium cultivation. The emirates' gold trade, which
is integral to the drugs-for-arms trade, is overseen by the British Bank
of the Middle East, a Dubai-based subsidiary of the Hongkong and
Shanghai Banking Corp., a centuries-old leading financier of the opium
trade dominated by Stirling's cousins, the Keswicks. Abu Dhabi,
similarly, was the headquarters of the Bank of Commerce and Credit
International, the now-defunct narco-bank. BCCI, which was run by
WWF activist and funder Hassan Abedi, was a major conduit for
bankrolling the Afghan War.

The relations of these SAS firms with the Iran-Contra narcotics
trafficking, emerged dramatically in August 1989, when reports
surfaced in the British and Italian press that the Colombian Cali Cartel,
historically most closely tied to the George Bush machine, had hired
SAS veterans to assassinate Pablo Escobar of the rival Medellín
Cartel. On Aug. 16, three days after the story broke, Colombian
presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán, a fierce opponent of the drug
trade, was assassinated, some Colombian government sources say,
by these British mercenaries. Among the individuals identified as
working for the Cali Cartel were Col. Peter McAleese, a former SAS
officer in Malaysia; Alex Lenox, a former member of the SAS
Counter-Terrorism Warfare task force; and David Tomkins, a veteran of
Afghanistan.

WWF's 'Operation Lock'

In 1988, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, a co-founder of the WWF
with Prince Philip, established a special hit squad within the WWF
under the name of "Operation Lock," officially charged with stopping the
poaching of elephants and rhinos in South Africa's national parks.
Operation Lock hired Kilo Alpha Services (KAS), the private security
firm led by Lt. Col. Ian Crooke. Crooke was a commander of the 23rd
SAS Regiment, a part-time unit composed of reserve officers and
soldiers frequently employed in SAS private security firms. His brother
Alastair, the British vice consul in Pakistan, helped oversee the arming
of the Afghan mujahideen.

Operation Lock is the secret behind the fratricidal warfare in South
Africa between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Inkatha,
which killed 10,000 people between 1990-95. KAS supervised the
commando training of Zulu followers of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi's
Inkatha, who were employed as game wardens and guards in several
South African national parks. It also undertook the training of opposing
Xhosa tribal followers of Nelson Mandela's ANC, in different parks.
Beginning in 1989, these commando teams began what has since
been referred to as "third force" killings: the slaughter of ANC and the
rival Zulu cadre in such a way as to implicate each other.

In August 1991, Zimbabwean Minister for National Security Sydney
Sekerayami accused KAS of "being a cover for the destabilization of
southern Africa." In 1993, his government's investigations determined
that the 1992 Boipatong anti-Zulu massacre was carried out by the
"Crowbar squad," a Namibian anti-poaching unit created and trained by
KAS.

Destabilizing Sri Lanka

In 1983, Sri Lankan President Julius Jayawardene asked the U.S. and
British governments to help him suppress the insurrection led by the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, Tamil Tigers). The British
government authorized KMS to train the Sri Lankan Army in
counterinsurgency, and to lead Army units fighting the LTTE. For its
part, the United States set up an "Israeli interests" section at its
embassy in Sri Lanka, also charged with training the Sri Lankan Army.
But simultaneously, KMS and the Israelis were secretly training the
LTTE too, at training camps in Israel and elsewhere. The Sri Lankan
civil war rapidly increased in intensity. In 1991, the LTTE was
implicated in the murder of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

An article in the Western Mail in Wales at the time noted: "A band of
mercenary soldiers recruited in South Wales is training a Tamil army to
fight for a separate State in Sri Lanka. About 20 mercenaries were
signed up after a meeting in Cardiff, and have spent the last two
months in southern India preparing a secret army to fight the majority
Sinhalas, in the cause of a separate Tamil State in Sri Lanka."
According to recent Indian press reports, the LTTE is now being
equipped with Stinger missiles diverted from former Afghan mujahideen
stocks.

The afghansi

Throughout the 1980s, SAS was on the ground in Pakistan as a lead
agency training the Afghan mujahideen. SAS expertise in "sabotage,"
and "liaison with, organization, training, and control of friendly guerrilla
forces," was, of course, much in demand when Islamic volunteers with
plenty of fervor, but no military training, began arriving in Pakistan from
all over the world. In camps throughout Pakistan, these youth and their
Afghan refugee counterparts, were turned into commandos, and sent
into Afghanistan to fight. In reality, the Afghan operation was always
deployed against all nation-states in the region, not just the Soviet
Union.

Oman was a particularly critical base of SAS operations into
Afghanistan throughout the 1979-89 war. According to the recent
unauthorized biography of Mark Thatcher, son of the former British
prime minister, Oman's extensive SAS community served as the
principal British arms-shipping center for the mujahideen.

The sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said, was installed on the throne in
1970, in an SAS-orchestrated coup that deposed his father. The head
of the coup effort was Brig. J.T.W. ("Tim") Landon, who had been an
intimate of Qaboos since the 1950s, when both had attended the
British military academy at Sandhurst. The newly installed sultan
showed his gratitude to his old school chum by making Landon his
equerry, special adviser, and chief military counsellor. Landon built up
Oman's military as one of the best-armed small forces in the world. The
arms purchases were handled by another former British Army officer,
David Bayley, who set up a purchasing office in the Omani capital of
Muscat. Another active figure in the British military community in Oman
was Lt. Col. Johnny Cooper, a founder of SAS.

Landon enjoyed intimate ties to both Mark Thatcher and Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher throughout the 1980s, and this further facilitated
Oman's key role as a weapons conduit to the Afghan mujahideen. A
look at a map of the Arabian Sea and the Indian subcontinent shows
that Oman is a stone's throw away from the Pakistani port of Karachi,
the major weapons-importing point (and heroin-exporting point) for the
Afghan rebels.

Ironically, another strong player in Oman during this period was one of
the American CIA figures who most closely followed the British SAS
model: Theodore G. Shackley. Shackley had directed the CIA's "secret
war in Laos" during the late 1960s and early 1970s, and had written a
book, The Third Option, spelling out the SAS approach to training and
controlling local insurgent armies as surrogates. Much of the Laos
"secret war" had been financed by the sale of Golden Triangle opium.
Shackley was a pivotal behind-the-scenes player in George Bush's
"secret parallel government" apparatus that ran the Afghan,
Nicaraguan, Angolan, and other covert operations.

When Shackley left the CIA, he went on retainer with a shadowy Dutch
oil trader named John Deuss, who developed a special relationship with
Sultan Qaboos that was almost as tight as the Omani's ties to
Brigadier Landon.

Typical SAS uses of these afghansi include:

Punjab: In 1984, Sikh separatists assassinated Indian Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi, following a several-year bloody
insurgency in Punjab. Many of the Sikh terrorist leaders had
fought in Afghanistan. The Sikh terrorist groups active in Punjab,
such as Babbar Khalsa, were trained abroad by SAS veterans in
British Columbia, Canada, and Britain. Many of these Canadian
Sikh leaders also oversaw western arms smuggling to Pakistan
for the war in Afghanistan.

Kashmir: In May 1995, Kashmiri separatists occupying the
Charare-e-Sharif mosque burnt it down, after a three-month
Indian Army siege. "India should remember that the fire of
Charare-e-Sharif will not be confined to Kashmir alone, but will
burn Delhi and Bombay," the leader of Harkat-ul-Ansar
threatened following the incident. The group is composed and
led by former Afghan mujahideen, and is an offshoot of the
"Islamic fundamentalist" Jamiati Islami of Pakistan which
received millions of dollars from the West during the Afghan
War.

If Pakistan "continues to interfere in India's internal affairs, we shall
have no option but to accomplish the unfinished task of vacating
Pakistan-occupied Kashmir," the Indian home minister threatened,
claiming that Pakistan oversaw the incident. Pakistan's Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto convened a special cabinet meeting to review
Pakistan's military preparedness in response, claiming Indian
responsibility for the affair.

But there is another "third force" at work. The Kashmiri groups demand
that Pakistani-occupied Kashmir, and not just Indian Kashmir, be
"liberated," to form an independent State. The creation of an
independent Kashmir would fragment and destroy Pakistan, while
massively eroding the strength of India.

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