The War On Terror
by BushBGone04
Oct. 03, 2003

In our resolve to seek out and destroy terrorism, we have invaded Afghanistan, and Iraq and have on our agenda Iran, Syria, and Libya. We have promised to eliminate any threat from terror and have warned those countries that harbor, train and support terrorists that we will not tolerate it.

There is another country that should be on that list. While it is not widely known, this country has trained sixty thousand in the evil art of torture and repression and its graduates have been the most nortorious terrorists and dictators throughout Latin America. They have been schooled in how to use torture and threats to family members to elicit the information or behavior desired.

The torture manuals used in the training program teaches how to handle intelligence sources by manipulation through fear. They are taught about using blackmail, kidnapping, paying bounties for enemy bodies, and public executions in the villages they terrorize to impose their will. They learn commando tactics, how to use psychological operations and advanced combat.

Training of these human rights abusers has been on-going since 1946. It began in Panama, which is appropriate since one of its more infamous graduates is Manual Noriega, the currently jailed Panamanian dictator. In 1961 and 1966 nine Latin American governments were overthrown by coups accomplished or assisted by these death squads, including Guatemala and Honduras. Since 1968, ten of this country's trainees have become un-elected heads of state in six Latin American countries.

In El Salvador, six Jesuits and 2 housekeepers were massacred by these trained terrorists. They were responsible for the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, the chain saw massacre of 107 villagers in Columbia, genocide in Guatemala, the deaths of 9 students and a professor in Peru, the massacre of 900 people in the village of El Mozote and 19 of the members of the infamous Honduran "Battalion 16" were trained in bruality at this country's terrorist camp.
More recently, in Columbia, these terrorists have been responsible for kidnapping, murdering raping, and the massacre of human rights workers, labor organizers, union members, political activists, priests and anyone else who dared to speak out against that brutal government.

The camp is supported by money collected from the people of that country which has kept it operating for almost sixty years. No other country has been training terrorists in more brutal techniques or for so long.

Death squads graduated from this terrorist training camp have been dispatched to perform their atrocities in Argentina,, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. These are the worst kind of terrorists. Their brutality and murderous attacks are not prompted by an ideology or a mis-placed desire to right some perceived wrong. Their torture and repression is perpetrated on their own people for the purpose of promoting and protecting the interests of those who operate the training camp.

Do you wonder why the country that harbors, trains and supports this terrorism has not been declared a rogue state and added to the "Axis of Evil"? It's because the country that trains terrorists for Latin America is the United States and the training camp is the School of the Americas located in Ft. Benning, GA. It has been operating there since 1984 when it was ousted from Panama under the terms of the Panama Canal Treaty.

Activists have been trying to have the school closed for years. Sen. Joseph Kennedy presented seven of the manuals, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, before Congress. The School of the Americas, (SOA), nicknamed "The School of Assassins" was finally closed and immediatedly reopened as Western Hemisphere Institue for Security Cooperation in 2001. The name is changed but the game's the same. We're back to business as usual, training terrorists for Latin America to protect US corporations and interests in the area and keep enough of the population oppressed to have a source of cheap labor to work for those corporations.

Let's hope that the other countries of the world who have joined the War on Terror don't decide to come after the worst offender.

10-03-03

It is cowardice to fear confronting the truth and the fact that one may have been wrong. It is ignorance to see the truth and deny it. To make the choice to remain both a coward and ignorant is treasonous.