by Mary W Maxwell, LLB
On October 6, 2016, The Independent, UK, had this headline:
“US government spent over $500m on fake Al-Qaeda propaganda videos that tracked location of viewers.”
The article, by Feliks Garcia, was about a PR firm in the UK that helped “the war effort” during the 2003 Iraq war. I will show in a moment that there is good news here for the Boston Marathon non-bomber, Jahar Tsarnaev.
But first, I hope every parent of a US soldier is reading this.
The PR firm in question is called Bell Pottinger. They worked alongside the Coalition in Iraq. Remember the Coalition? US, UK, Oz, Poland and the nation of Freedom Fries, and other who were Willing. (I’d be interested to know of any governments that registered as “No, not willing, I’ll pass, thank you anyway.”)
“The agency was tasked with crafting TV segments in the style of unbiased Arabic news reports, videos of Al-Qaeda bombings that appeared to be filmed by insurgents, and anti-insurgent commercials – and those who watched the videos could be tracked by US forces.”
Would you agree with me that it is reasonable to deduce that if a government (The Great Republic’s) is spending $500 million on showing that Al Qaeda does bombings, that Al Qaeda does not do bombings?
(Can that $500M figure possibly be correct? It seems extreme.)
The Bell Pottinger Public Relations Firm
And if Al Qaeda is not doing bombings, then very logically it would be the donor of the $500M for “Public Relations” that would be the bomber. Here is a photo of the then-head of Bell Pottinger, James Henderson:
Oh, an aside. Last year he stepped down. The HolmesReport.com says:
“Bell Pottinger is facing expulsion from the UK’s trade association for PR firms (PRCA), while a full report by law firm Herbert Smith Freehills is set to be published on Monday. The firm has already appealed the PRCA decision after it found Bell Pottinger guilty of stoking racial tensions in South Africa, following a complaint by South Africa’s Democratic Alliance opposition party.”
I continue with the 2016 article in The Independent:
“Bell Pottinger was first tasked by the interim Iraqi government in 2004 to promote democratic elections. Lord Tim Bell, a former Bell Pottinger chairman, confirmed the existence of the contract with the Sunday Times.
[That’s “Lord” as in House of Lords, I presume.]
The Pentagon also confirmed that the agency was contracted under the Information Operations Task Force, but insisted that all material distributed was “truthful”.
How dare they use the word “truthful.” How dare they call it “Information Operations.”
Dropping CD’s
Now here’s the bombshell. This comes from a video editor named Martin Wells who worked on the contract at Bell Pottinger. He says they were given very specific instructions on how to produce the fake Al-Qaeda propaganda films. Again, I am taking this from the Independent.co.uk:
“According to Mr Wells’ account, US Marines would then take CDs containing the videos while on patrol, then plant them at sites during raids.
“’If they’re raiding a house and they’re going to make a mess of it looking for stuff anyway, they’d just drop an odd CD there,’ he said.”
Parents of soldiers, are you still reading this? I sympathize with your feelings.
I pause now to quote also from a much earlier exposé in The Los Angeles Times, of November 30, 2005, which had the headline “U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press”, by Mark Mazzetti and Borzou Daragahi.
“Troops write articles presented as news reports. Some officers object to the practice.
As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
The articles, written by U.S. military “information operations” troops, are translated into Arabic and placed in Baghdad newspapers with the help of a defense contractor, according to U.S. military officials and documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times.”
Now for the Boston Marathon Situation
I learned today, from 9/11 scholar Elias Davidsson, that the magazine “Inspire” is produced by Zionists, not by Muslims. That online magazine, Inspire, was “found” in the home of the Tsarnaevs and was used as evidence in court that they had learned how to do “their” bombing [read: the FBI’s bombing] of the finish line at the 2013 Boston Marathon.
In other words, I claim the magazine, albeit online, was DROPPED there, in the Tsarnaev home, in good PR fashion. God help us.
On April 16, 2018, TheConversation.com published this by Mia Bloom:
“Dzhokhar was described by Rolling Stone magazine …as attractive, popular and a student athlete. He was also flunking courses and lost his financial aid… But that hardly explains why he went on to plan the deaths of potentially hundreds of runners and spectators.
“Eventually, prosecutors found copies of Inspire magazine on Dzhokhar’s laptop. The magazine is an English-language online publication that was published by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. They also found videos of sermons by Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born firebrand jihadi cleric.”
Bloom continues:
“The evidence and Dzhokhar’s [Jahar’s] testimony suggest that the brothers were inspired by propaganda. … Dzhokhar and his brother learned how to make the pressure-cooker bombs from one of the most well-known articles published by the magazine: ‘How to Build a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom.’ … But before how, we ask why? It is because Allah says … every Muslim is required to defend his religion and his nation.”
Elias Davidsson has found that this type of propaganda is produced by MEMRI, which is a Zionist group; SITE Intelligence Group, run by Rita Katz; and Jihadology, run by Aaron Zelin. Davidsson says the only place you can find Inspire magazine is on “Jihadology.”
He also told me that the same applies to Amaq, the alleged news agency of the Islamic State, which somehow has neither website, email address, street address or telephone.
Fathom it!
Academia Has Farewelled the Socratic Method
Note: the author of The Conversation article quoted above, Mia Bloom, is a Professor of Communication at Georgia State University. Her article carried this Disclosure Statement:
“Mia Bloom receives funding from the Minerva Research initiative Documenting the Virtual Caliphate Minerva #N00014-16-1-3174 and the office of naval research. All opinions are exclusively those of the author and do not represent the Department of Defense or the Navy. [Wanna bet?]
The “Virtual Caliphate.” Oh my.
Just look at the ease with which she says “The evidence and Dzhokhar’s testimony suggest [blah blah blah].” Folks, there was no testimony at all by the accused Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Not a word. Not even one syllable of one word. Not even one letter of one word. The leg-shackled Jahar did not even opine a “Zzzz” when the evidence from the Feebs got boring (such as regarding the black backpack). No, it was all quiet on the Boston front.
And Mia Bloom is a professor of communication. Paid by the Georgia taxpayer! (And does she double dip?) Mia, if you contact me I will try to arrange an immunity deal for you if you tell us who gave you the hot scoop on Jahar’s being inspired by Inspire. And why you agreed to it. And if you’ve had any second thoughts about it.
How Can This Ever Be Repaired?
This matter of false information regarding Al-Qaeda is about the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who were killed, not the one boy who is in Supermax prison, Colorado. How can the past fifteen years ever be overturned?
American soldiers, British soldiers, and Australian Diggers must be informed of all the ways in which they were duped. Then let them decide what to do about it. Many already feel they have bloody hands. Back in 1971 there was a Winter Soldier Investigation about atrocities in the Vietnam war. Even Wikipedia defended the accuracy of the soldiers’ testimony:
“Since the first day of the WSI event and for more than thirty years since, individuals and organizations have sought to discredit or at least minimize the testimonies presented at the event. Critics have claimed that participants were frauds; that they were told to not cooperate with later investigators; that their testimonies were inaccurate or completely fabricated. To date, no records of fraudulent participants or fraudulent testimony have been produced.”
In March 2008, for the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, over a hundred veterans participated in a similar Winter Soldier meeting. These men and women are still in distress.
See this video:
Off-Topic
I would like to NOT detour in these Comments to the matter of the visit outside the Optus shop on Saturday at 3.30pm, but since i have been asked about it I can say it was cordial, but did not provide any new leads. More on that at a later date.
Also, it has now been announced that my war-powers case appeal is a-happenin’ in Boston; three judges have been assigned to Maxwell v Trump. I will be there in a few days, Insha’allah.
Thanks to Gumshoers for encouragement. How fortunate I am.
Mary before you trip off to the US, I tried to answer your query regarding my mention of Hans Overbeeke being in slaughter man dress at Port Arthur at the right topic page, but it did not record. That computer has been playing up a bit, so it might not be your site’s fault. I could not locate my original information, but this afternoon at http://www.tobenbiz/20/13/10joe-vialls-ari-and-jim-stone-the-mouse-that-roared/ article written by Andrew McGregor states that “Hans Overbeeke was identified by the white Wellington boots he was wearing”. That is part of the slaughter man dress.
I suggest anybody interested in Joe Vialls career, check out that site. It will throw up some new shocks to you. It is quite a long article.
My friend told me he does not own Wellingtons and was not ‘booted” that day.
Now I restate that my interest is in court, not in piecing together (on what data?) the events of that day at Port Arthur. I don’t mean others shouldn’t follow that investigation, just that it is not my focus.
The courts are behaving strangely in many cases. Here is a snippet from another country this week where the accused wants to nullify the crime he is being charged with.
I read it at the website AdelaideInstitute.org:
“Court case of today, July 2nd Monday, First Day. We kept on having breaks because of Alfredʼs defiance and refused to recognize the Court as official. He refused to get up for the entrance of the Judges. He used expressions like “Muppet Show” and “Inquisition”. He also stated something to the Judge like, that we should change positions and that you (the Judge) should be judged by the Volk.”
There is no jury in German trials (I think), but in a jury country a jury can defy a law by using jury nullification. That is a reasonable way to protest a bad law.
And we sure have plenty of bad law now.
How important is it to disengage from mantras and rituals that have nothing to do with L A W in the real sense of the word ? A forum that relies on intimidation isn’t fit to make any sort of determination about anything: Three cheers for “Alfred”.
As raiding and planting is invariably conducted under a spell I guess it’s a matter of breaking the corresponding enchantment.
Can you enlarge on the spell thing, Berry?
As humanity has the power to make conscious choices I’d argue that anything driven by group-think is done under a spell. Most psychologists prefer to call the condition “sub-conscious fear” but that belies the fact that it needs some sort of external energy to take hold.
Fear is, of course, only ever felt as such when the trance-state starts to wear off. That’s when most folk turn to some form of anesthesia. They don’t realise that true inner-peace can only be achieved by going cold-turkey, but that’s going off topic a bit.
So as far as spell-breaking goes you really need to get a bit of practice in your own environment . As most government departments and operatives are 100% fueled by group-think everything is really set-up and ready to go.
In the early ‘90s I witnessed WA’s Education Department terrorise home-educating families via all the techniques you mention, mostly via a random assessment policy that everyone dreaded and corresponding false charges. To this day I’ve no way of knowing the exact stats and I’m still stuck with trumped up criminal convictions that’ve never been officially quashed, but I have one memory that I hold really dear.
I’d got to the point of formally advising those concerned to take a hike but when my youngest child turned 6
my only means of remaining “legal” was to somehow wangle a respective “school exemption certificate” via some sort of in-person meeting. So I agreed to meet with a certain officer in the family home; I’d not dealt with him before but I’d heard he had a real reputation for arrogance & scuzzy tactics.
At the time there was a young dope-smoking surfie crew living next-door. The following day one of the girls told me “We saw this guy rock up to your place and he was just, you know, shitting himself, getting in and out of his car, straightening his tie and jacket, dithering around, so we knew he was from the Ed Dept. What a H O O T !
As for me I almost felt sorry for the guy; he was such a wreck!
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Quote, ” American soldiers, British soldiers, and Australian Diggers must be informed of all the ways in which they were duped. Then let them decide what to do about it. Many already feel they have bloody hands.” Unquote.
Yes Mary, you are correct in the above statement. However, as a Vietnam veteran myself, being confronted with the lies and hypocrisy that we were all victims of, you question as to “what to do about it” demonstrates a failing of understanding how the Australian military and Australian law works. Sure, after discovering the truth, how could soldiers respond, what exactly would you expect them to do ???? Volunteers are obligated to sign, basicly a CONTRACT, handing over their lives to their Government to do with as they wish. Conscripts have no choice, they are simply obliged to adhere to the program, or else spend their time in Hollsworthy military prison, where the abuse meted out on a daily basis, would be far worse than anything they would ever experience on active service.
Volunteers also have the choice of recognising they have been lied to and signed said contract as a result of those lies, do you honestly believe, a soldier in the war zone, discovering the realities of their service, and the fact they are serving under lies, has access to a lawyer, or could even pay for said access ???????? L.O.L. Opening your mouth in such a situation ensures the might of the military establishment comes down on you like an tsunami, in the Military, you have NO RIGHTS, there is no one anywhere, for you to seek assistance. The military ensures any such obstinate disobeying orders is dealt with quickly and firmly, can’t have a rebellion amongst the troops.
Why do you think so many returning troops have mental issues ??? They have suppressed their feelings and functioned on auto pilot during their time in the war zone, then coming home and no longer neccessary to suppress things, they leak out, whether they like it, or not. We all know the outcome of such actions.
So the next time you come up with this subject and refer to the troops, it would be nice to provide them with a suggestion and resources that they could utilise to actually do something constructive to throw light on the matter.
You’ve just seen on the ABC, how innocent soldiers can be targeted simply for others to use as a step ladder for themselves. This is how the military operates.
So far, I have not witnessed ANYONE from civilian life putting up their hands with helpful advice or assistance to help soldiers in need.
Do some research on the Vietnam Counseling Service and what brought it about and why.
Thank you very much, Eddy. I had not realized the extent of all that.