by General Leonid Ivashov
1-22-6
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General Leonid Ivashov
General Leonid Ivashov is the vice-president of
the Academy on geopolitical affairs. He was the chief of
the department for General affairs in the Soviet Union's
ministry of Defense, secretary of the Council of defense
ministers of the Community of independent states (CIS),
chief of the Military cooperation department at the
Russian federation's Ministry of defense and Joint chief
of staff of the Russian armies. |
General Leonid Ivashov was the
Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces when the September 11,
2001, attacks took place. This military man, who lived the events
from the inside, offers an analysis which is very different to that
of his American colleagues. As he did during the Axis for Peace 2005
conference, he now explains that international terrorism does not
exist and that the September 11 attacks were the result of a set-up.
What we are seeing is a manipulation by
the big powers; this terrorism would not exist without them. He
affirms that, instead of faking a "world war on terror", the best
way to reduce that kind of attacks is through respect for
international law and peaceful cooperation among countries and their
citizens.
General Leonid
Ivashov (left)
at the Axis for Peace
Conference 2005 in Brussels, with Webster Tarpley
As the current international situation
shows, terrorism emerges where contradiction aggravate, where there
is a change of social relations or a change of regime, where there
is political, economic or social instability, where there is moral
decadence, where cynicism and nihilism triumph, where vice is
legalized and where crime spreads.
It is globalization what creates the conditions for the emergence of
these extremely dangerous phenomena. It is in this context that the
new world geo-strategic map is being designed, that the resources of
the planet are being re-distributed, that borders are disappearing,
that international law is being torn into pieces, that cultural
identities are being erased, that spiritual life becomes
impoverished...
The analysis of the essence of the globalization process, the
military and political doctrines of the United States and other
countries, shows that terrorism contributes to a world dominance and
the submissiveness of states to a global oligarchy.
This means that terrorism is not
something independent of world politics but simply an instrument, a
means to install a unipolar world with a sole world headquarters, a
pretext to erase national borders and to establish the rule of a new
world elite. It is precisely this elite that constitutes the key
element of world terrorism, its ideologist and its "godfather". The
main target of the world elite is the historical, cultural,
traditional and natural reality; the existing system of relations
among states; the world national and state order of human
civilization and national identity.
Today's international terrorism is a phenomenon that combines the
use of terror by state and non-state political structures as a means
to attain their political objectives through people's intimidation,
psychological and social destabilization, the elimination of
resistance from power organizations and the creation of appropriate
conditions for the manipulation of the countries' policies and the
behavior of people.
Terrorism is the weapon used in a new type of war. At the same time,
international terrorism, in complicity with the media, becomes the
manager of global processes. It is precisely the symbiosis between
media and terror, which allows modifying international politics and
the exiting reality.
In this context, if we analyze what happened on
September 11, 2001,
in the United States, we can arrive at the following conclusions:
1. The organizers of those attacks
were the political and business circles interested in
destabilizing the world order and who had the means necessary to
finance the operation. The political conception of this action
matured there where tensions emerged in the administration of
financial and other types of resources.
We have to look for the reasons of
the attacks in the coincidence of interests of the big capital
at global and transnational levels, in the circles that were not
satisfied with the rhythm of
the globalization process or its
direction. Unlike traditional wars, whose conception is
determined by generals and politicians, the oligarchs and
politicians submitted to the former were the ones who did it
this time.
2. Only secret services and their current chiefs or those
retired but still having influence inside the state
organizations have the ability to plan, organize and conduct an
operation of such magnitude. Generally, secret services create,
finance and control extremist organizations. Without the support
of secret services, these organizations cannot exist let alone
carry out operations of such magnitude inside countries so well
protected. Planning and carrying out an operation on this scale
is extremely complex.
3. Osama bin Laden and "Al Qaeda" cannot be the organizers nor
the performers of the September 11 attacks. They do not have the
necessary organization, resources or leaders. Thus, a team of
professionals had to be created and the Arab kamikazes are just
extras to mask the operation.
The September 11 operation modified the
course of events in the world in the direction chosen by
transnational mafias and international oligarchs; that is, those who
hope to control the planet's natural resources, the world
information network and the financial flows.
This operation also
favored the US economic and political elite that also seeks world
dominance.
General Leonid
Ivashov with journalist Christopher Bollyn from American Free Press
The use of the term "international
terrorism" has the following goals:
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Hiding the real objectives of the
forces deployed all over the world in the struggle for dominance
and control
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Turning the people's demands to a
struggle of undefined goals against an invisible enemy
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Destroying basic international norms
and changing concepts such as: aggression, state terror,
dictatorship or movement of national liberation
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Depriving peoples of their
legitimate right to fight against aggressions and to reject the
work of foreign intelligence services
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Establishing the principle of
renunciation to national interests, transforming objectives in
the military field by giving priority to the war on terror,
violating the logic of military alliances to the detriment of a
joint defense and to favor the anti-terrorist coalition
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Solving economic problems through a
tough military rule using the war on terror as a pretext.
In order
to fight in an efficient way against international terrorism it is
necessary to take the following steps:
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To confirm before the UN General
Assembly the principles of the UN Charter and international law
as principles that all states are obliged to respect
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To create a geo-strategic
organization (perhaps inspired in the Cooperation Organization
of Shanghai comprised of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) with a set of values different to
that of the Atlantists; to design a strategy of development of
states, a system of international security, another financial
and economic model (which would mean that the world would again
rest on two pillars)
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To associate (under the United
Nations) the scientific elites in the design and promotion of
the philosophical concepts of the Human Being of the 21st
Century
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To organize the interaction of all
religious denominations in the world, on behalf of the stability
of humanity's development, security and mutual support
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