[NYTr] A Real Terrorist Is on the Loose: Humanity, Mother Earth In Danger

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A Real Terrorist Is On The Loose: 

Humanity and Mother Earth Are in Danger

By Ali Baghdadi
speech at Northeastern University, Chicago

"I am greatly honored to be speaking to you. I must tell you from
the start that I will not beat around the bushes. I am not here to
entertain you or to please you. Truth sometimes hurts. You are
adults. You can take it.

I am a Palestinian, an Arab and a Muslim. That means I belong to
the people that the United States government has designated as
enemy. I belong to the camp of the "bad guys", who are punished,
murdered, tortured and even raped. But I am also an American. I
belong to the camp of the "good guys", who are doing the murder,
torture and rape, who are waging what President George W. Bush calls
a crusade, against my people, the "terrorists". Israel is an integral
member of this camp. As a matter of fact, the American Israeli
Political Action Committee (AIPAC), a Zionist-Jewish lobby in
Washington, is leading this camp.

My wife for forty three years is an American. My six children and
eleven grandchildren know no other country on Earth except the
United States of America. Two of my kids have served in the military,
and were honorably discharged.

Let me put it this way. I do belong to the people who hate you.
Ironically, I also belong to the people, who are hated, not only
by Arabs and Muslims, but by almost the rest of the world, including
Europeans. The United States is hated not only by Muslim masses,
but also by Arab rulers who enjoy Washington's military and political
support. Yes, America is hated by its "loyal friends", King Abdallah
of Saudi Arabia, King Abdallah II of Jordan, President Mubarak of
Egypt, and al-Maliki of Iraq, among many others. They hate, because
the White House humiliates them, despises them and pushes them
around. George W. Bush has given them one choice. Either you are
with us, or with the "terrorists", their own people. They are
unwilling to face the destiny of those who challenge the American
empire. Unlike Saddam Hussein, they chose to be living cowards and
traitors, instead of becoming great martyrs loved and honored by
the Arab and Muslim people. The fact remains that, when their service
is no longer needed, their master will trash them, will flush them
into the sewage of history. America has no permanent friends, only
interests. Today, anti-Americanism throughout the world is the norm,
not the exception.

During a two day visit to my city of birth, Jerusalem, and as my
family and I were attempting to enter the Holy Sepulcher, the holiest
church in Christianity, Palestinians told me, point blank, straight
to my face, that they hate me; that they hate all Americans; that
I am one of them, an enemy to Arabs and Muslims. The fact that I
have been defending Arab and Muslim causes, particularly the
Palestinians, for forty seven years, made no difference. I do
understand.

A day earlier, at the Jordan River entry point to my native lands,
Palestine (Israel), I was treated by the Israeli authorities quite
differently. Though none of us meet the profile of a Muslim
"terrorist", my son and I have no beard, and my grandson is too
young to have a beard; though my wife is blond, has a low profile
and peaceful disposition; though my wife, daughter and granddaughter
had no headscarf; and though we all carried U.S. passports; we
waited for seven hours in front of the passport control window
before we were allowed in. In the eyes of the Israeli authorities,
we are all Palestinians, not Americans. We are all potential
terrorists.

I don't blame the Palestinians, my fellow countrymen and women for
hating me. President Jimmy Carter describes the Tel-Aviv government
as the worst occupational regime. Nelson Mandela and Bishop Desmond
Tutu speak of Israel as worse than the former apartheid government
of South Africa. The present South African government agrees.

In the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinians are murdered daily. They
are being starved to death. They all live in a prison. Their homes
and agricultural lands are bulldozed. Their olive and citrus trees
are uprooted. More than 550 Israeli military checkpoints are scattered
all over the West Bank alone. A trip between two villages that
normally takes fifteen minutes last for five to seven hours.
Palestinian babies die at military checkpoints while their mothers
are on their way to a hospital to deliver. Palestinians drinking
water is stolen and diverted to Jewish swimming pools in illegal
settlements built on their confiscated lands. Their economy is in
shambles. The little of what they clench unto of their remaining
land is actually a living hell. More than 60% of the work force is
unemployed. Palestinian children are seen searching in Jewish garbage
dumps for food to eat. Recently, Palestinian students who had come
home to visit were not permitted to return to their universities
abroad.

Three weeks ago, despite protest made by the United Nations, the
world community and international human rights organizations, food,
electricity and fuel to Gaza were cut in half, by Israeli government,
as a mass punishment, because the Palestinians chose Hamas as their
representative, in an election that was described by former President
Carter, as free and democratic. President Bush, who told us that
his invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq is prompted by his desire to
spread democracy, labels the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement,
Hamas, as a terrorist organization with which the United States
will not deal. Even Israeli military disagrees with Bush's claim.
According to a Nov 11, 2007 news report published by Haaretz, a
leading Israeli newspaper, Israeli paratroopers testified that "in
all parameters, we are facing an army, not gangs."

The Zionist controlled U.S. mass media allege that Israel is not
morally or legally obliged to cater to needs of Palestinians who
are blockaded, who are under occupation, and all their air, sea and
land entry points are controlled by Israeli forces. Israel continues
to disavow responsibility for the human catastrophe Palestinians
are facing, in violation of international law.

No wonder that my family and I saw, by the Damascus Gate to the Old
City of Jerusalem, Palestinian crowds who were not allowed to pray
at al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock mosques, shouting, pleading
upon the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad, to fire Iranian
missiles towards their Israeli occupied city, out of no concern for
their own lives. No wonder why, after experiencing the intolerable
living conditions of Palestinians, my children and my grandchildren
in my company, stood helplessly by, and expressed approval and
support, despite the heavy presence of trigger happy Israeli soldiers.
No wonder why, during the 1991 war of aggression ordered by Bush
senior, against Iraq, West Bank Palestinians danced on the roofs
of their homes and cheered Saddam?s missiles lighting the skies on
their way to Tel-Aviv and Haifa. No wonder why, after they were
forcefully driven out of over 550 towns and villages in 1948, and
the remaining 22% of their lands occupied in 1967, did Palestinian
youths, males and females, find no alternative but to explode
themselves amongst Israeli soldiers. Palestinians have no army.
They have no tanks, no jet fighters, no apache helicopters, and no
weapons of mass destruction, but their enemy does and uses.

Iraq as a country has been completely destroyed. Its seven thousand
year civilization has been shattered. Its infrastructure has been
ruined. Its industrial machinery, 750 billion dollars worth, was
disassembled and sold as scrap to neighboring countries. Its water,
air and land have been poisoned. It resources are being robbed.
Since Bush's "mission accomplished" declaration on aircraft carrier
The Lincoln in the Gulf, 1.2 million men, women and children have
been murdered, a death toll that rivals Rwanda genocide. This brings
the total number of Iraqis losing their lives from a combination
of the two wars led by Bush the father and the son, and including
the 13 years of illegal sanctions imposed on the country, to 3.5
million. Iraqi widows number over 3 million. Iraqi orphans exceed
5 millions. 70% of Iraqi children suffer traumatic stress syndrome
due to death and destruction they are exposed to daily. Though
Iraqis are known to be proud, educated and hard working people,
thousands of mothers and children are forced into prostitution to
survive. According to the U.N., Iraqi refugees, including the
internally displaced, reached 4.4 million, two millions in Syria
alone.

A month ago, in an interview that appeared on 60-Minutes CBS TV, a
U.S. field commander said that the military is authorized to bomb
and kill civilians if a suspected Taliban fighter was in their
midst, provided that the number of those civilians is less than
thirty. If the number of unarmed civilians was higher, the approval
of the U.S. Secretary of Defense or the President would become
necessary. I am almost certain that those two men have never said
no to the murder of Muslims and destruction of Muslim countries.

Even the Afghani leader, Hameed Karazai, a puppet and a traitor,
stated on the same program that he had complained to the U.S.
President and had asked him "to stop bombing us". Remember that
Karazai is the White House man. Until he was handpicked by Bush and
Cheney to become president of Afghanistan, the man was employed by
Unical, an oil giant, here in the United States.

You must have heard a question that Americans often ask, "Why do
they hate us?"

In a speech given to the Congress, George W. Bush answered, because
they hate our freedoms. We are told that they hate us because we
are rich. They envy us because we stand for democracy and freedom.
They resent us because we are the most powerful nation. They are
jealous of our achievements and accomplishments. They are loners
like Timothy McVeigh. They are intolerant; and their religion is
primitive, irrational and violent. Certainly, these statements are
insults to the intelligence of the American people.

Americans, particularly the Christian Zionists, ignore the fact
that Arab Christians share Muslim sentiments. They also hate America.

"Why do they hate us?" Americans should have known why. Americans
have allowed the Israeli Jewish lobby to hijack U.S. government in
the service of the Israeli policy of aggression and expansionism.
No Republican or Democrat candidate can win without the blessings
and approval of this lobby. We have been pouring billions of dollars
into aid to insure Israel's military superiority over all Arab
armies. We protect Israel in the United Nation, despite its refusal
to implement U.N. resolutions, and its disrespect to international
law. We have also allowed Israel to be the only state in the Middle
East that possesses nuclear weapons aimed at all major Arab and
Muslim cities. In addition, this illegal and genocidal war was waged
on behalf the Zionist state, to prevent Iraq of becoming a threat
and a challenge to its military power and dominance.

Israel invaded southern Lebanon in July of 2006. Israeli-U.S. F-15
and F-16 fighters dropped over 1.25 million American cluster bombs
on the civilian population. Lebanese cities and villages were
bombarded, day and night. The infrastructure, including highways,
roads, and bridges south of Beirut, was destroyed. Food, water and
fuel storages were hit. Apartment buildings, schools, hospitals,
clinics and houses of worship were leveled to the ground. One million
Lebanese refugees were compelled to flee, with little food or water.
It took 33 days of killing and destruction by the Israeli army,
which is described as the fourth most powerful army in the world,
before the U.S. agreed to a U.N. resolution for a cease fire.

Notably, Americans who volunteered to go to Lebanon to help were
there only to rescue the surviving animals.

Five weeks ago, many of the residents of southern California, who
escaped the deadly fires that resulted in over a half million
displaced individuals, left almost everything behind, but brought
with their animals, their dogs, cats and even fish.

Love for animals is not confined to Americans. It is universal. I
do love animals.

Again, I must tell you the truth. Americans show unusual love and
mercy towards animals. Those who are cruel to animals are punished
and jailed if convicted. But what is really disturbing is the fact
that the great majority doesn't show similar love and mercy towards
people, towards fellow men and women. Death and destruction has
been an integral part of Western culture and Western history.

I am not a psychologist or a psychiatric. However, I do know that
that is sick. It is also sickening. It makes me vomit.

Despite tight censorship, Americans saw the destruction of Baghdad,
and images of the assault on the city of Falujah, which was nearly
razed to the ground. They saw the devastation of the entire city.
They saw Iraqi corpses blackened with Napalm and phosphorus bombs,
which are outlawed. They heard cheers and laughs of U.S. soldiers
as they bring down mosques and minarets. They saw the marines
shooting unarmed, wounded and harmless civilians that had taken
refuge in houses of worship. Though the number of active Iraqi
resistance fighters is no more than 20,000, the U.S. army fired 1.5
billion small arms rounds in one year, more bullets than can be
manufactured. The very little of what Americans have seen is enough
to demand a Nuremberg-like trial for the President, the Vice
President, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State and
their advisors, as well as top generals in the Pentagon.

U.S. citizens have failed to do their part. They have been silent,
and silence is complicity. They are not prepared to dedicate a
fraction of the time wasted on stupid TV programs to learn a little
about world affairs and the serious crimes against humanity that
their government is actually committing.

Americans are generally indifferent and heartless. Americans see
wars as action movies, computer games, exciting and entertaining.
The 2,000 pounds bombs and ballistic missiles raining down on Baghdad
were fireworks. Victims are numbers and their murder is collateral
damage.

The question that puzzles me is, "How many more nations should be
invaded and destroyed; how many more cities should be torched and
devastated; how many more millions should be massacred; how many
more widows and orphans should be left without a supporter; how
many more Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons we are going to build;
how many more innocents we are going to torture; how many more
international laws and conventions our country will be violating,
before the American conscience can be awakened and become functional?"

Our "State of the Union" is gloomy and disgraceful. It is true that
there are honorable, caring and courageous American men and women,
Christians, Jews, atheists and others, who strongly protest U.S.
policy. It is true that there are Americans who challenge the
benefiters of war. Unfortunately, they are in the tiny minority.
They are seldom seen on major news networks.

In the meanwhile, Bush continues to allege that we "don't torture"
and that "waterboarding" does not cause permanent damage. Republican
and Democratic senators, who should experience this technique only
for a minute or two, have just confirmed Mukasey as U.S. attorney
general, another victory for (AIPAC), despite the fact that he
refused to recognize "waterboarding" as torture. Mukasey, a Zionist
Jew who, as a judge, sentenced an innocent blind Muslim scholar for
life imprisonment for a crime that he never committed, is now the
Secretary of the "U.S. Department of Injustice". Under the disguise
of combating terrorism, efforts to marginalize Muslims and intimidate
non-Muslims of an imaginary enemy, the Los Angeles Police Department
has just announced a program to "map" Muslim communities. Muslims
population in the greater Los Angeles is estimated to be a half of
a million. According to recent polls, 53% of the Americans favor
expanding the fraudulent ant-terrorism war to include Iran.

I didn't come here to solicit your support and arouse your sympathy
for Arab and Muslim causes. Americans pass the buck. They cannot
escape responsibility. They put their trust mostly in the hands of
criminals, who do not take the legitimate interests of their country
at heart and instead, cater to Israeli demands.

Arabs and Muslims will survive. Eventually they will liberate their
lands, control their destiny, protect their resources and catch up
in the field of science, and technology. All indications show that
the Bush Empire is collapsing, and Israel, as an apartheid state,
will finally disappear. The year 2007 has been the deadliest for
U.S. troops in Iraq, and also Afghanistan.

Israel was forced to retreat from Lebanon. None of its objectives
have been realized. Hezbollah is stronger now than ever. Military
maneuvers held last week, have shown beyond a doubt the readiness
and preparedness of the Lebanese resistance fighters to defend their
country.

Though they are facing 160,000 U.S. troops and 180,000 U.S. mercenaries
that are called contractors, Iraqi resistance has dragged the United
States into a quagmire. Bush has been begging neighboring countries,
including Iran, to give a hand. "Support the Troops" stickers, have
been disappearing, not because Americans are largely against death
and destruction. They want an end to this war because it is costly,
and their money is going down the drain. The real cost is, according
to the latest estimates, is 3.5 trillion dollars. Also Americans
are not winning.

What is really tragic is that Americans are generally not concerned
about the boys and girls that come home in boxes under the cover
of darkness. They are not photographed. They are not seen. The
overwhelming majority are Blacks, Latinos and poor Whites. According
to official figures, which are too distorted, almost 4,000 of our
American sons and daughters have died in vain, died for Israel and
big business.

The injured and maimed are approximately 30,000. Those who suffer
brain damage and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are approximately
48,000. Soldiers who no longer serve in the front lines are neglected
by the "Commander in Chief" of the U.S. Army. An estimated 200,000
veterans have been homeless at some point in the last year. Veterans
waiting for their disability claims increased from 325,000 in 2002
to 600,000. Cooper, the head of the agency in charge of veterans'
benefits, an Evangelist, appointed by Bush, proclaimed that Bible
study is "more important than doing [my] job." Health care for
Iraq's veterans will cost tax-payers 650 billion dollars and is
rising.

Bush's claim that the "surge" mission is working, is another big
lie. Operations usually carried out by U.S. death squads have been
intentionally reduced. U.S. military ground missions and engagements
have been greatly decreased. Fewer road bombs have been exploding
because American forces stick to their bases, and no longer roam
the streets. However, airstrikes against heavily populated civilian
targets launched in 2007 are four times that of the ones launched
in 2006. The U.S. will eventually cut and run as it did in Vietnam,
Lebanon and Somalia. Members of the Iraqi parliament, though they
were handpicked by the Americans, want U.S. troops out, now.

In Afghanistan, Karazai is not actually a president but a mayor of
a heavily U.S. guarded section of Kabul, the capital. Taliban
resistance fighters are regaining strength and winning. The British
foreign intelligence, MI6, has been working on a deal with Taliban.
NATO has rejected U.S. requests for more troops.

I came here, however, to warn you. A serial killer, a mass murderer
and a war criminal and his gang are all on the loose. Americans
ought to wake up to the truth. They are in great danger.

George W. Bush is talking about a Third World War, a "nuclear
holocaust", which may bring an end to life on earth as we know it.
"So I've told people that, if you're interested in avoiding World
War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing
them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon,"
Bush recently declared.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that regularly inspects
Iran's nuclear facilities emphasizes that Iran has no atom bomb
development program. The uranium enrichment is for peaceful purposes.
Iran is not a nuclear threat. Many U.S. experts agree.

The US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which coordinates the
judgments of the US's 16 intelligence agencies, refused to yield
to Cheney's demands to remove dissenting judgments on the Iranian
nuclear program.

According to a Nov 11, 2007 news report, Micah Brose, a privately
contracted interrogator working for American forces in Iraq, near
the Iranian border, told the Observer that US military officials
are putting huge pressure on interrogators who question Iraqi
'insurgents' to find incriminating evidence pointing to Iran.

According to specialists, Bush is a mad man. He is a psychopath.
His brain is damaged as a result of years of alcohol dependency.
As a child, he stuffed fire crackers in the mouths of frogs on his
family farm, and left them to explode. The man hallucinates. He
admitted that he talks to God. He told the Palestinian Authority
"President", Mahmoud Abbas, that God told him to invade Iraq to
spread democracy. He is waiting for the green light from his god
to strike Iran. Of course, Bush's god is big business. He prays for
the oil companies and the war industrial complex. He gives alms in
the form of governmental contracts to his friends, who are robbing
the American tax-payers in the billions of dollars. If he is allowed
to push the button, the consequences will be a global disaster.
Humanity and mother earth are at great risk."



Posted by Justice Lover at 1:21 PM

2 comments:

John McGuire said...

I just read your article (reprinted at rense.com) ... I found it
very revealing and insightful, and agree with most everything put
forth. Truly, the US has endured a string of horribly corrupt
administrations, but things have hit an all-time low with this one.

I'm not sure that what we are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan has as
much to do with AIPAC as you would give them credit for. Although,
the Bush II Administration would no doubt be given a "thumbs up"
by AIPAC, I think this band of crooks are primarily motivated by
oil and drugs. The fact that our occupation of these countries --
and the subsequent internal chaos we've created -- pleases this
powerful lobby is something I view as more of a side effect than a
root cause.

Since we entered Afghanistan, the oil pipeline is now completed and
heroin production (once reduced to a little below 50%, under the
Taliban) is back at full production. ... And the CIA is still there
'looking for Bin Laden'?? With a satellite surveillance network
that covers every inch of inhabitable Earth, how long should it
take to find a man in a desert who stands 6'6" and is presunably
carrrying a colostomy bag by now?? ...

No -- just as in Viet Nam -- some of our top military brass and the
CIA have a vibrant new heroin source. Let's face it: the CIA is the
world's leading drug smuggling organization. With the network of
Zapata Oil off-shore oil rig drop points that Bush I established
throughout the '70's and '80's, America's "War On Drugs" has never
been more than a CIA-led effort to eliminate the competition!

When you look at drugs and oil in Afghanistan, the ungodly bank
heist in Baghdad (when we first arrived), and; the oil plundering
that is no doubt occuring behind the scenes, and; then Haliburton's
rape and pillaging of both Iraq and the American taxpayer, it is
very hard to give AIPAC full credit for this treasonous fiasco.

Until the rest of civilization (that part which is still not sold
out to Bush & Co. -- ie., Rockefeller) stands up and screams loud
enough for the World Court to wake up and take some action, what
can be done? Americans, in general, are too lethargic and overwhelmed
with their personal issues to actually see the obvious truth. Nothing
can be expected to happen here -- short of guys like Pat Tillman,
Sr., finally reaching a breaking point and planting a slug in
someone.

It is a very fristrating experience being a native American now.
Knowing that the rest of the world despises you, because of the
actions of a handful of completely out-of-control criminals in high
places -- and a population that is too stupid, gullible, naive and
lazy to put down their remotes, get off the couch and go lynch some
traitors. ... And our elected "representatives" ... there's another
joke. They are either complicit with this administrations grossly
criminal actions, or know the truth and don't have the balls to do
the right thing.

Thanks for your insight, for providing some facts of which I was
not previously aware and for providing a forum for the free exchange
of ideas, opinions and frustrations! Unfortunately, most Americans
won't come to an actual realization of the truth until FEMA implements
it's "Katrina Experiment" protocol on a national scale. ... Even
then, they'll probably be too apathetic to use their weapons rather
than turn them over.

The REAL terrorists of this world reside in Washington DC, and they
have absolutely unfettered reign over the most pathetically gullible
and naive population the world has ever seen (topping even Nazi
Germany, in WWII, I'm afraid ...). Pray for us, please ... and God
forgive us as a nation for ever letting things get so bad that we
could have such a horrible impact on humankind.