Western Intel agencies - A breeding ground for phony terrorists
When the US and EU governments defined Muslim groups in the Middle East as their enemy in the 'war on terror', US and EU intelligence agencies began the standard process of dealing with that 'threat'. Israeli intelligence agencies, of course, having lived with what it calls 'Muslim terrorism' for several decades, had long-since begun this process. The methods employed by British intelligence in dealing with the IRA during the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland illustrate clearly how the process works.
The first (and most important) order of business is infiltration of the 'terrorist' group. This is typically done by capturing and 'turning' members of the target group so that they work as 'double agents' for the intel agency. It's a pretty simple process. A member is arrested and faced with a choice between long imprisonment (or torture and death) or working for the intel agency as an informant. Sometimes threats to family members and other forms of blackmail are used. On occasion, members turn themselves in and offer to work for the agency in return for money and immunity from prosecution or persecution. An actual member of the intelligence agency may also join the group as a new member and then, with the help of the agency, climb up through the ranks. In this way, the agency begins to gain control over the 'terrorist' group and to direct its actions. These types of informants must, of course, appear genuine to other group members, and they are encouraged by their handlers to carry out killings and other attacks in order to 'gain credentials'. In Northern Ireland, for example, one known MI5 agent within the IRA (codenamed 'Stake-knife') carried out dozens of murders of British military personnel and civilians. In many cases, the victims were selected, and their murders facilitated, directly by MI5.3
The supposed goal of these tactics is to ultimately defeat and neutralize the 'terrorist organisation'. However, when we transpose these known methods onto Israeli, US, British and French intelligence agency activity in the Middle East, we run into an obvious problem. We have to remember that the broad agenda of Israeli and Western governments is not simply to 'defeat Muslim terrorist groups' in the Middle East, but to destroy any popular Arab Muslim resistance to ongoing Western control over the resources of Middle Eastern countries (and to protect the state of Israel, of course). In that context, it becomes clear that the continued existence of a 'Muslim terror threat' is a vital tool with which to effect that ongoing control, and to prevent a more equal status quo from emerging, one in which Western governments no longer enjoy the lion's share of the wealth of Middle Eastern nations, and in which Israel is forced to refrain from brutalizing Palestinians.
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