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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 8 Num. 84
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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BRITS OUT TO TRAP CLINTON IN FACEOFF WITH IRAN
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By Jeffrey Steinberg
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(New Federalist, 08/12/96)
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Aug. 6 (EIRNS) -- A collection of well-known British
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propagandists, led by the Hollinger Corporation's Ambrose
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Evans-Pritchard, are agitating for an American military strike
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against Iran, on the basis of "leaked information" that the
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Teheran regime was behind the recent car-bomb attack against a
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U.S. military housing complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and the
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downing of TWA Flight 800. The mere fact that all of the
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reporters and terrorism "experts" pushing for a U.S. retaliatory
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strike against Iran, are dedicated enemies of President Clinton,
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ought to suggest that there is something rotten here.
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In fact, the drumbeat for American action against Teheran --
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rather than London, which is the real command-center of world
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terrorism today -- is, according to well-placed U.S. intelligence
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sources, part of a British/Club of the Isles effort to draw
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President Clinton into a geopolitical trap in the Persian Gulf,
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on the eve of the American Presidential elections.
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Writing in the Aug. 4 Sunday Telegraph, Clinton-basher Pritchard
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claimed that "the U.S. are making detailed plans for missile and
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bombing strike [sic] against Iran, because they are convinced
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that Iran was involved in the bombing of the Saudi Arabia
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barracks." Pritchard quoted another leading enemy of the Clinton
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Presidency, neo-conservative operator Kenneth Timmerman, who
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claimed that Iran was behind the TWA 800 crash, and that "more
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aircraft are going to fall out of the sky."
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For Pritchard and Timmerman to cast blame on Iran for the TWA 800
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crash, when investigators have so far failed to turn up
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definitive forensic evidence that the downing was a terrorist
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act, is a tip-off to the aggressive propaganda drive to box
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President Clinton into taking action against Iran.
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Several days before the Pritchard column appeared, U.S. Defense
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Secretary William Perry, in an interview with National Public
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Radio, had acknowledged that there *could* be foreign agencies
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behind the Dharhan bombing, including Iran. The American and
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British media immediately went hog-wild, practically claiming
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that Perry had declared war against Iran. The White House on
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Aug. 3 issued a clear statement repudiating the media hype.
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White House spokesman David Johnson told the New York Times: "We
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are cautioning that the investigation has not yet been concluded,
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the culprit or culprits responsible have not yet been identified,
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and... speculation about what type of response might be
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appropriate is premature." The next day, Perry told reporters
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that any speculation about American action against Iran "is just
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not warranted at all."
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Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich jumped into the middle of the
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hype on Aug. 3, demanding that President Clinton act against
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Iran. Citing reports that initially appeared in the Israeli
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press, about terrorist training camps inside Iran, Gingrich
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threatened, "Either you close down those camps or we will. If
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the Iranians refuse to close them down, I think there are a
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number of military means capable of closing them down."
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The story about the Iranian terror camps appeared in USA Today
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Aug. 2, attributed to "leaked U.S. intelligence documents"; and
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syndicated columnists Evans and Novak on Aug. 1 surfaced a story,
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about Iranian supplies of mortar-bombs being confiscated in
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Antwerp, Belgium earlier this year. The same column cited a
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report from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of a "terror summit"
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in June in Teheran -- at which, allegedly, some of the recent
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anti-American terrorist attacks were planned out.
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In every instance of these media leaks, the linkage between
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London and international terrorism has been omitted completely.
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Yet, the Clinton administration, according to at least one news
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account, has not lost sight of the London role in safehousing
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some of the world's leading terrorists. According to the London
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Observer, the U.S. has pressured the British government to begin
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an investigation into several London-based Islamic groups and
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publications that have been agitating for a Holy War against
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American troops in Saudi Arabia. Leaders of one such group, the
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Muslim Literary Circle, were recently interrogated by Special
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Branch (British Intelligence), and, according to the Observer's
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Nick Cohen, the British government opened the probe under heavy
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pressure from the Clinton administration.
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As you will read elsewhere in this issue (see the American
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Almanac), in an exclusive campaign memorandum by Lyndon LaRouche,
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no competent investigation of international terrorism today can
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ignore the top-down control exerted by the London-centered
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Anglo-Dutch/French "Entente Cordiale." While it would be a
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mistake to rule out any involvement by Iranian factions in the
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present wave of global irregular warfare, to focus upon Iran, or
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Libya, or Iraq, while leaving out Britain and its leading Mideast
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satrap, the Syria of Hafez al-Assad, would be folly -- precisely
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the kind of folly into which London would like to lure President
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Clinton.
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