New Age Islam

War on Terror

12 Sep 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com

A Killing Machine Called CIA

By Brian Cloughley

I think we’ll stick with the ‘killing machine’ depiction. The CIA’s drone attacks in Pakistan have killed a lot more innocent people than it does in more mundane day-to-day butchery, but the plain fact is that it has always been in the business of killing, and always will be. The double murder in Lahore by the CIA employee Raymond Davis was bizarre and outrageous but only a minor indication of its embrace of criminality. Its loony tunes schemes to assassinate Fidel Castro were so preposterous as to be comical, in a sick sort of way, but they were perfectly serious. In 2007, the US declassified some documents, including “a memo that reveals that CIA director, Allen Dulles, personally approved a plot to assassinateCuban President Fidel Castro”. Brits and Americans are not averse to torture, you understand, but they want it to be done by someone else so that they can look starry-eyed at the world and declare they would be shocked — shocked! — that anyone could imagine they would be involved. They wring their bloodstained hands in mock dismay — but this time they’ve been caught with their hands in the kill. --Brian Cloughley http://newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamWarOnTerror_1.aspx?ArticleID=5463