by Gouda » Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:36 am
Excellent short series on the <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>trumped-up and useful </em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->Triple-Border area of Brazil, Paraguay, Argentinay by Pepe Escobar. He mainly concludes that US/globalist sights are set on the Guarani Aquifer an other spoils of the energy wars - which is in great part true - but gives only limited attention to the other great agenda concerning continued <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Northern</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> control over the drug and arms trade. Nevertheless, fine new updates and background for those following this and/or learning more about it. <br><br>I don't think it can be emphasized enough that this area will be one to watch very closely in the next few years of the 5-pronged <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Long War</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. The North is trying to set the South up for a fall, and it may be one of their last cards to play should Latin America continue to swing left, oppose the 'Free Trade Area of the Americas' scam, and make claims on its own water and oil. <br><br>***<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"When he's not busy blowing up the world, bin Laden spends his time relaxing at Iguacu."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HH03Aa01.html">www.atimes.com/atimes/Fro...3Aa01.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Part 1: Hezbollah south of the border<br><br>The "new threats of the 21st century recognize no borders", according to the Pentagon. Ergo, everyone may be a terrorist, at least a potential one. Not accidentally, General Craddock hates "anti-globalization and anti-free-trade demagogues". Sunni or Shi'ite, Marxist or anarchist, ruralist or existentialist, the Russian mafia, the Hong Kong triads, the Nigerian mafia, the Ukrainian mafia - they are all in cahoots. And for the Pentagon, Hezbollah is selling pirate video discs of Christina Aguilera to finance more Katyusha rockets. <br>...<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>US Immigration and Customs agents, financed to the tune of $2.25 million, will soon be parachuting into the Triple Border to help the locals fight money laundering, contraband and terrorism financing.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>...<br><br>* The "Yankee troops" are holding "training exercises" in Paraguay (more on that in Part 2 of this report). <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>* And the World Bank is developing a program toward mapping the Guarani Aquifer - which is the first step toward commercial exploration of its precious waters.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>...<br><br>The locals claim they don't need Americans to arrest one of the top Brazilian narco-traffickers, Marcelinho Niteroi, as they did last week. [!!!]<br>...<br><br>When you combine a huge Arab community and lots of non-commercialized water in a Pentagon-defined "lawless area", no wonder bells start ringing. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br>***<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"dominion over ungoverned spaces"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HH04Aa01.html">www.atimes.com/atimes/Fro...4Aa01.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Part 2: Lost paraguayos: The Yankees are coming<br><br>US Special Forces are performing 13 military exercises, to expire late this year, including "educational courses", "domestic peacekeeping operations" and counter-terrorism training, this one part of Operation Commando Force 6, scheduled to go on until next month. <br>...<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The US Special Forces are guaranteed total immunity and diplomatic status. They are free to import and export, they don't pay any taxes, and what they trade is not subjected to any inspections. Contraband kingpins at the Triple Border would kill for a deal like that. </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>...<br><br>It's useful to remember that soon after September 11, 2001, notorious neo-con Douglas Feith suggested to George W Bush an air invasion of the Triple Border - where the boundaries of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina meet - to capture al-Qaeda fighters and permanently occupy the region. No wonder that as early as 2002 a study by the Brazilian army was asking whether "these armed forces that ring the border of Brazil, especially in the Amazon region", could be used "for reasons that are [at present] undeclared". <br><br>Essential in the Pentagon machinery is the new Counter-Terrorism Fellowship Program, which is operated (with no supervision by anyone) out of the Pentagon's Office of Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. What this represents in fact is nothing but a rerun of the infamous Operation Condor coordinated by infamous Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet during the 1970s. As much as Condor, the Counter-Terrorism Fellowship Program may work as the de facto Central Command in a South America-wide campaign of intimidation and political terror. <br>...<br><br>After September 11 the US State Department mantra was that al-Qaeda and/or Hezbollah had an intimate connection with FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia). The "coincidence" could not be more extraordinary: "terror" at the geographic heart of Mercosur - which happens to be dreaded in Washington as the made-in-South America answer to the Washington-promoted Free Trade Area of the Americas - was suddenly connected with "terror", which happens to be the biggest obstacle to the US occupation of the Amazon rainforest. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>
