Commentator of Note: Christopher Bollyn

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Christopher Bollyn

As an independent researcher and journalist, I depend entirely on the support of my readers to fund my work. I have spent many years studying the Middle East and Semitic languages and have a degree in history from the University of California at Santa Cruz with an emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Besides research and writing, I am an editor and translator.  My extensive travels and knowledge of German, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish, Hebrew and Arabic give me an insight to analyze international politics and events.

I am currently working on a book entitled Solving 9-11, which is dedicated to explaining what really happened and bringing the events of 9-11 into historical perspective.  The research is underway and will take months to complete.  This essential work to increase understanding and clarity of the subject can only be completed with the support of readers and interested citizens.

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Journal: Israel, False-Flags, Dual-Citizens, & Smiles

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Phi Beta Iota: We have been increasingly concerned by the penetration of US Government agencies by a two-pronged Israeli assualt, mixing dual-citizens in positions of either influence  or observation potential, and Israeli-provided and supported software that vacuum-cleans from within.  To this ugly mix the Israeli's add false-flag operations–we believe 9-11 included both an Israeli false-flag operation and the active advance support of Dick Cheney, Rudy Guliani, and Larry Silverstean, as well as members of the Bush family who profited handsomely from the murder of 3,000.

The USS Cole is now suspected of being an Israeli false-flag operation.  Coming as it does after the USS Liberty, a blatant direct attack by Israel on a US Navy ship engaged in non-combtant audio surveillance duties, there are ample grounds for our speculation on Israel's subversion, espionage, and dual-citizen treason against the United States of America–and our certainty that there is sufficient evidence for an indictment of all concerned–we defer to a proper investigation of these matters, merely observing that U.S. Government “counterintelligence” does not exist and and “relgiious counterintelligence” is not even contemplated.

In our view, the religious affiliation of an indivdidual must be included in any evaluation of their suitability for positions of trust and confidence, so as to inform the direction of the security investigation or counter-intelligence follow-on.  Opus Dei and the Mormons have their own networks, generally much less active.  Neo-Nazis and gangs have their networks, to which we were oblivious until recently.  The worst, the most pernicious, the most demanding of the highest standards of security and precaution, are the Israelis and their Jewish sayonim, a term brilliantly articulated in Review: Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy–The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul.

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Journal: Afghanistan, Sun Tzu, State, & “Intelligence”

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Chuck Spinney

This post has four parts:  1)  Chuck Spinney's long commentary; 2)  The original article with attachments from TruthDig; 3)  a ripost making three points about Chuck's comments; 4) Chuck's answer and a short comment from Robert Steele

The Eikenberry Cables Turn Sun Tzu on His Head: Domestic Politics and the Art of Asymmetrical Bureaucratic War

In the opening line of Book 1 of Sun Tzu's classic, The Art of War (circa 400 BC), the first treatise ever written on the subject, the Chinese master said,”War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life and death; the road to survival or ruin.  It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.” [1]  He then goes on to describe a systematic method for assembling the information needed to make a rational decision to go to war.   Today, in Pentagonese, we would call his method a “net assessment,” that is to say Sun Tzu described a very thoughtful way to perform a comparative analysis of one's own strengths and weaknesses with those of the adversary.

Sun Tzu's strategic outlook is amazingly relevant to contemporary circumstances; indeed, it is timeless, and I submit it provides the gold standard for for evaluating our own efforts to grapple with the question of going to war or to escalate a war — basically, his advice was simple: know your enemy and know yourself before plunging into war.

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SOUTHCOM Week in Review Ending 28 Jan 10

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NOTE:  This offering ends 9 Feb 10 unless we can find a volunteer to do once a week.

Hot Topics

AA: How Hugo Chavez's revolution crumbled 01/24/10

AA: Time to Stop Ignoring Chávez 01/25/10

AR: Argentina's Redrado Denies Threat To Reveal Dollar Lists-Lawyer 01/26/10

BO: Violence and democracy in Bolivia 01/26/10

BR: Brazil starts beefing up security for Olympics 01/26/10

HN: Honduras: Court Clears Military Officers of Charges 01/26/10

PE: AIRLIFT OF FLOOD STRANDED TOURISTS IN PERU CONTINUES 01/27/10

PE: Peru Rebel Chief Announces Suspension of Armed Attacks 01/28/10

PE: Peru: Police announce public demonstrations for Feb. 5 01/25/10

Below the Fold: Instability, Security Forces, Foreign Affairs, Crime

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Journal: Haiti Assessment 29 Jan 10 AM

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The earthquake ocurred on 12 January 2010–17 days ago.

As of today, as reported by Team Rubicon's team leader in Haiti, there are still people on the outskirts or Port au Prince  who have not received medical attention (i.e. crushed bones and open wounds are now beyond gangrene, blood poisoning, and other infections).

Haiti victims' medical needs shift away from trauma [erroneous for those who have not seen doctors at all and have no near-term prospects of doing so]

JACMEL, Haiti — When she arrived, the woman's foot had been apparently crushed and gone untreated for almost two weeks. Maggots and flies covered her wound. Gangrene had set in.

“This is Vietnam — only we had better equipment then,” said Ted Alexander, a retired orthopedic surgeon who was a battalion surgeon during the war.

At this point in the relief effort, the need for emergency surgical care has declined significantly, said PAHO's deputy director, physician Jon Andrus.

“We are seeing many fewer traumatic injuries, fractures, wounds and burns, and internal injuries,” he said in an e-mail.

However, there is a worrisome development. Cases of tetanus have been reported, as well as suspected cases of measles. An outbreak would be another major challenge to doctors here.

There are 43 hospitals and 12 field hospitals operating from Port-au-Prince to Jacmel, a coastal city southwest of the capital, the U.N. says. About 200,000 people have been injured; the latest estimates from the Haitian government say at least 111,500 are dead.

Phi Beta Iota: 200,000 injured divided by 55 medical units is 3,636 per unit.  Not even close to needed capabilities and most on thye outshirts of  Port au Prince still have not seen a single first responder.

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Journal: Haiti–A Special Forces Sergeant Major Reports Our National Crime Against Humanity in Haiti

08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Methods & Process, Military, Peace Intelligence, Threats
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From A Retired Special Forces Sgt Major:

To All,

I just returned from Haiti with Hebler. We flew in at 3 AM Sunday to the scene of such incredible destruction on one side, and enormous ineptitude and criminal neglect on the other.

Port o Prince is in ruins. The rest of the country is fairly intact. Our team was a rescue team and we carried special equipment that locates people buried under the rubble.

There are easily 200,000 dead, the city smells like a charnel house. The bloody UN was there for 5 years doing apparently nothing but wasting US Taxpayers money.

The ones I ran into were either incompetents or outright anti American. Most are French or french speakers, worthless every damn one of them.

While 1800 rescuers were ready willing and able to leave the airport and go do our jobs, the UN and USAID ( another organization full of little OBamites and communists that openly speak against Americana) [REDACTED].

These two organizations exemplified their parochialism by:

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Journal: US Intelligence, Israel, and the Street Clowns

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Landrieu phone plot: Men arrested have links to intelligence community

WASHINGTON — Two of the three men arrested on Monday along with “ACORN pimp” James O'Keefe for “maliciously tampering” with Sen. Mary Landrieu's (D-LA) phones in her New Orleans office have ties to the United States intelligence community.

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Dai has been an undergraduate fellow with the Washington-based national security think tank Foundation for the Defense of the Democracies (FDD), according to his College Leadership Program award biography at the Phillips Foundation — as Lindsay Beyerstein first reported.

FDD claims that it's partly funded by the US State Department. Its Leadership Council and Board of Advisers comprise many high-profile conservative politicians and public figures — including former House speaker Newt Gingrich, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), former Bush official Richard Perle and columnist Charles Krauthammer.

Dai traveled to Israel for two weeks in 2004 on an FDD-sponsored trip, the Daily Herald reported. “All expenses (room, board and travel) will be assumed by FDD,” FDD's Web site said of its Israel program.

Phi Beta Iota: A full reading is recommended, there are a number of links that make the article a starting point for deeper reading.

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