PANDEMONIUM  MIDNIGHT  HERALD
No. 688

ENGLISH:

A Brief History of US-Sponsored Terrorism Abroad

11/06/03

1946- U.S. opens School of the Americas in Panama. Now located in Fort
Benning, Georgia, the "School of the Assassins" has taught over 60,000
personnel from some of the world's most brutal regimes how to subvert the
truth, to muzzle union leaders, activist clergy, and journalists, and to
make war on their own people.

1951- CIA is involved in a coup to overthrow nationalist Primeminister Dr.
Muhammed Mossadeq in Iran. Supports Iranian military in massacre of
Mossadeq supporters and returns the Shah to power. In 1976, Amnesty
International concluded that the Shah's CIA-trained security force, SAVAK,
had the worst human rights record on the planet, and that the number and
variety of torture techniques the CIA had taught SAVAK were "beyond
belief." 1951-CIA involved in terror campaign against democratically
elected Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. After Arbenz government is overthrown,
CIA backed regimes murder more than 100,000 Guatemalans over the next 40 years

1961- CIA recruits 1500 Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow the
Castro regime. The Pay of Pigs invasion would be a disaster, however the
CIA would continue with more than two dozen attempts to kill Castro.

1963- The CIA have South Vietnemese president Ngo Dinh Diem overthrown and
assasinated for supporting negotiations with the north. After 20 years of
covert war the U.S. turns to direct military invasion, in a war that costs
tens of thousands of Vietnemese, Cambodian and U.S. lives

1963- CIA recruits Iraqi Baath Party (including a young Saddam Hussein) to
assasinate the new leader, Abdul-Karim Kassem. After the coup, the CIA gave
the Baath a long list of communists and others to liquidate. During the
1980s the CIA would go on to help provide weapons to both Iraq and Iran in
a war that would kill over one million people.

1965- CIA provokes a coup that leads to the overthrow of Indonesian leader
Sukarno, who is replaced by General Suharto. In the follow ing weeks
between 500,000 and one million people are murdered by death squads using
lists provided by US State Department.

1973- After interfering in Chilean elections in 1958 and 1964, the CIA
begins a campaign of sabotage and terror after leftist Salvadore Allende is
elected president in 1970. In 1973, a CIA supported coup overthrew and
assassinated Allende and installed fascist General Pinochet, resulting in
thousands of murders over the next two decades. This year in France, former
U.S. secretary of state, Henry Kissinger was served a (mostly symbolic)
warrant for arrest as a war criminal for his role in the coup.

1979- After Nicaraguan dictator Samosa is overthrown in 1979, the CIA helps
to train Samosa's National Guard into death squads known as the Contras.
The Contras are used to terrorize rural Nicaragua while the US military
blockades Nicaragua's harbors with mines. In 1989, after 10,000 deaths, the
US is successful in ousting the Sandanista government.

1989- US invades Panama to overthrow and "arrest" Manuel Noriega, who has
been on the CIA payroll since 1966 and supported through decades of drug
running, political assassination and corrupt elections. After the invasion,
which included the fire bombing of an entire urban ghetto, human rights
observers uncover mass graves and estimate that over 4,000 died during the
invasion.

1991- US and allies (mostly Britain) invade Iraq after U.S./CIA supported
Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait. 200,000 Iraqis are killed, including over
400 civilians killed by two U.S. missiles in the Al-Amerya air shelter.
Over the next 10 years another 400 tons of explosives will be dropped on
Iraq killing another 300 civilians, and hundreds of thousands more starved
through U.S. imposed sanctions. The U.S. forces Saudi Arabia to allow
thousands of U.S. military to remain indefinitely within its boarders.

1998- Al Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan is bombed without
warning by 13 U.S. cruise missiles killing a janitor. The attack deprives
Sudan of desperately needed medical drugs and potentially killing tens of
thousands of people. The CIA later admits that information linking the
plant to Osama bin Laden was probably "incorrect."

Due limitations of space I have not included the U.S. support of Israeli
acts of terror against Palestinians, the atomic bombing of 200,000
civilians in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the numerous other U.S. invasions
south of the Rio Grande, the invasion of Grenada ,the 19th century war of
terror against U.S. indigenous peoples or the 200 years of slave trade.

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