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advisor in the Mekong Delta, Wayne Cooper: The Phoenix program was a “unilateral American
program,” whereby the CIA “recruited, organized, supplied, and directly paid CT [counter-
terror] teams... to use Viet Cong techniques of terror—assassinations, ambushes, kidnappings,
and intimidation—against the VCI leadership.” The US was directly responsible for the
administration of Phoenix between 1968-72. During this time “26,369 South Vietnamese
civilians were assassinated under the Phoenix program, and another 33,358 were imprisoned
under hellish conditions. Some of those 'neutralized' (to use CIA Director Colby's term).”
According to Cooper whose statement has not been contradicted, the majority of those who were
assassinated or imprisoned under Phoenix were not communists at all. They were
noncommunists nationalists “who expressed fatigue for the war, scorn for Thieu and Ky, and
enthusiasm for a coalition government.”
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Afghanistan
Zbigniew Brezinski, Former National Security Advisor under the Carter Administration
admitted in an interview to the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur that the US drew the
Soviets into Afghanistan. Brezinski stated: “We actually did provide some support to the
mujahideen before the invasion (by Russia).” “We did not push the Russians into invading, but
we knowingly increased the probability that they would.” The Mujahideen were largely
Wahhabi.
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“Mujahideen are Islamic holy warriors” and as noted previously are an product of
the Muslim Brotherhood and the CIA. The U.S used the most violent repressive form of Islam to
draw the Soviets into Afghanistan and then funded them to fight the Russians. In so doing the US
has helped create an Islamic “monster-movement which plagues the world today.”
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According to a 1992 Washington Post article, the CIA taught the Mujahdeen terrorist
tactics. One of those trained by the CIA was Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden and others were
trained to “make bombs with CIA-supplied plastic explosives and detonators” and schools were
established “for the mujaheddin in secure communications, guerrilla warfare, urban sabotage and
heavy weapons.” In 1983 the Mujaheddeen were supplied with 10,000 tons of arms and
ammunition. In 1986 they were supplied with US made Stinger antiaircraft missiles and trained
to use them effectively. By 1987 the steady supply of arms had risen to 65,000 tons annually.
The US also supplied thousands of Korans (the Islamic bible).
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Even more alarming is that the
US has trained the youth to hate. The US supplied Afghanistan with millions of “radical Islamist
textbooks.”
Between
1984 and 1994 $51 million was spent to supply these textbooks. “The
primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and
mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum.” “An aid worker in
the region reviewed an unrevised 100-page book and counted 43 pages containing violent images
or passages.”
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During the long war against the Russians, the Taliban emerged as the strongest of several
factions of the mujahideen. The following summary in regards to the humanitarian catastrophe in
Afghanistan comes from Dr. J. W. Smith, Development Specialist, founder and Director of
Research for the California-based Institute for Economic Democracy:
Afghanistan was also a U.S. destabilization. In 1998, Zbigniew Brezinski,
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