Who Is A Terrorist?

Who Is A Terrorist?

By Ghali Hassan

27 July, 2004
Countercurrents.org
http://www.countercurrents.org/hr-hassan270704.htm

excerpt:
The last few weeks have witnessed the US forces bombing civilian houses in Fallujah on six occasions, killing dozens of innocent civilians, including women and children, each time. The excuse for this barbarity is that the US intended to kill a "terrorist" by the name of al-Zarqawi. According to the
people of Fallujah, "al-Zarqawi does not exist. He is a made-up figure". The US occupation forces in Iraq have been claiming that al-Zarqawi and his Arab and non-Iraqi Muslim fighters are hiding out in Fallujah. Dr Muhammad al-Hamadani, a Fallujah resident told Aljazeera News that he had no knowledge about any non-Iraqi fighters in the town. "As a Fallujah citizen, and head of the Fallujah Scientific Forum, I can tell you that I have never seen or heard anything about non-Iraqi fighters in Fallujah". "We hear about al-Zarqawi in the media, but have never seen or felt his presence or any of
his followers in Fallujah", he said. Al-Zarqawi proves to be a good bogeyman for the time being. The underlying objective of this is that the US is misleading the public and using the rhetoric of antiterrorism as a cover for terrorism. It is part of Western propaganda to instil fear and hatred into
the Western mind against Muslims.

Iraq has not attacked or threatened to attack the US at any time. This was all done on the rationale of to " disarm Iraq from 'weapons of mass destruction'". Of course that proved to be completely untrue, and Iraq's so-called WMD has been destroyed in the summer of 1991 in a genuine attempt to allow for the lifting of the genocidal economic sanctions. The Iraqi people will unlikely forget or forgive the Americans for the crimes committed in their names.

The American media analyst Edward Herman wrote, "it is the West and Western interests that have pushed terrorism to the forefront, not the 'terrorists'. The West has done this because they want to use terrorism as an ideological instrument of propaganda and control". The only truth about this "war on terror" is that it has no end in sight, and it will absorb resources vital to the well being of societies. It is a war on the poor and powerless.

have been saying it for some time already myself.

These are questions which need more asking