The Other Shoe Dropped!

February 10, 2010 at 9:41 A.M. This essay had been left alone for a while, but it has been vandalized, again, as "errors" have been inserted in the text. I will do my best to correct these inserted "errors." I cannot say how many other essays have been altered. No images can be posted at these blogs; access to MSN is obstructed; I cannot see my own books on-line. ("How Censorship Works in America.") Happily, a photographer took my picture from a discrete distance yesterday. I hope that he got my good side.

January 7, 2010 at 1:00 P.M. An attack against my computer and security system has frozen my access to my home e-mail, which cannot be closed out, after receiving something called "The Phenomenology Newsletter." My scan is obstructed. I was unable to access blogger just now. I am afraid that it is very likely that "errors" will be inserted in these writings by Trenton's "walking turds" (OAE) or alleged friends of "El Bobo" Menendez. This was the term used for Bob in Hudson County. I will be happy to name lawyers and judges who used this affectionate nickname. Many of whom have been photographed with New Jersey's junior Senator.

January 6, 2010 at 3:14 P.M. I posted this essay in the morning. By the early afternoon, a word was deleted from the text. I have now restored that word to the essay. I expect additional attacks against my writings, as always, in confirmation of America's commitment to freedom of speech.

Mark Mazzetti, "Al Qaeda Intent on Attack, Senators Told," in The New York Times, February 3, 2010, at p. A6. (Foreign intelligence agencies may provide assistance to America's enemies.)
Pir Zubair Shah, "U.S. Drones Said to Strike Along Border In Pakistan," in The New York Times, February 3, 2010, at p. A6. (At least 17 missiles fired in a single attack, one of fifty or so, aimed at "militants.")
Scott Shane & Eric Schmitt, "C.I.A. Deaths Prompt Surge In Drone War," in The New York Times, January 23, 2010, at p. A1. (Ambiguous reaction to drone attacks that are fueling hostility to U.S. among Pakistanis.)
Christopher Drew, "Drone Flights Leave Military Awash in Data," in The New York Times, January 12, 2010, at p. A1. (Much of this data is made worthless by the absence of theoretical "filters." Is "Christopher Drew" related to "Elizabeth Drew"?)
"The Right to Confront Witnesses," (Editorial) in The New York Times, January 12, 2010, at p. A16.
"Privatized War, and Its Price," (Editorial) in The New York Times, January 12, 2010, at p. A16. (Does New Jersey "outsource" torture?")
Stephen Farrell, "Video Bolsters Pakistani Taliban Link to C.I.A. Deaths," in The New York Times, Sunday, January 10, 2010, at p. A1. (Was the Taliban in Pakistan receiving assistance from Pakistani intelligence officers sympathetic to their cause or from "others" in the region who wish to see the Americans leave the area? Victims must never cooperate with violations of their rights or government criminals acting against them.)
Sheryl Gay Stolberg & Mark Mazzetti, "Suicide Bombing Puts a Rare Face on C.I.A.'s Work: Agency is Dealt a Blow," in The New York Times, January 7, 2010, at p. A1.
Ismail Khan & Salman Masood, "U.S. Drone Strikes Against Militants Reported in Pakistani Tribal Area," in The New York Times, January 7, 2010, at p. A18. ("The United States has stepped up the pace and intensity of its drone attacks in Pakistan, carrying out more than 40 last year in a C.I.A. program that is ostensibly covert but is widely known.")
Richard A. Oppel, Jr., Mark Mazzetti, & Souad Mekhenmet, "Suicide Bomber in Afghanistan a Double Agent: Recruited by Jordan," in The New York Times, January 5, 2010, at p. A1. (Wrong, he was always their agent.)
Alissa J. Rubin & Alan Cowell, "4 Americans and Briton Killed in Afghanistan," in The New York Times, January 5, 2010, at p. A8.
(AP), "U.S. Suspects in Pakistan Invoke Jihad, Not Terrorism," in The New York Times, January 5, 2010, at p. A8.
"Names of the Dead," in The New York Times, January 5, 2010, at p. A8. (4,462 American service people killed in Iraq; about 1,000 -- so far -- killed in Afghanistan.)
"Names of the Dead," in The New York Times, January 6, 2010, at p. A10. (935 American service members killed in the Afghan war.)
Jeff Zeleny & Helene Cooper, "Obama Says U.S. Failed to Understand Intelligence on Terror Plot," in The New York Times, January 6, 2010, at p. A11. (No kidding?)
Thomas Kean & John Farmer, "How 12/25 Was Like 9/11," in The New York Times, January 6, 2010, at p. A23. (Op-Ed) ("I told you so.")
Farhan Bokhari, "Islamabad Urges United Reaction After CIA Blast," in Financial Times, January 4, 2010, at p. 3. ("Pakistan security officials ... WARNED against an escalation in attacks by pilot-less U.S. drones on the country's territory.")
Mark C. Taylor, The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2001), pp. 73-124, "Strange Loops" and "Noise in Information."

Perhaps turning off my computer is like firing a robot bomb at my blogs, as it were, in order not to address the issues raised by me and many others. This is unwise.

"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The suicide bomber who killed seven C.I.A. officers and a Jordanian spy last week was a double agent who was taken onto the base in Afghanistan because the Americans hoped he might be able to deliver top members of Al Qaeda's network, according to Western government officials."

As predicted in this blog, these events resulting in the death of CIA operatives involve intelligence agencies of other countries in the region. Jordan being one of the countries whose intelligence agencies have been trusted in the past by U.S. officials is a logical "source point" -- to use the old KGB terminology -- for an attack based on "covert entry." The enemy has established, and will continue to establish, multiple points of attack.

Was this always a "Trojan Horse" operation? Very likely.

Here are some further predictions based on that weird hermeneutic theory which may be confirmed by developments in the weeks and months ahead, whether these discoveries will become public soon is doubtful: The Nigerian "terrorist" (patsy) will be connected to these events as part of an integrated operation involving HIGHLY DANGEROUS cooperation between intelligence agencies in the region and beyond the Middle East. This connection, if it is found, will not be made public.

The most important word in the opening paragraph of this New York Times article is "network."

"The bomber had been recruited by the Jordanian intelligence service and taken to Afghanistan to infiltrate Al Qaeda by posing as a foreign jihadi, the officials said."

"But in a deadly turnabout, the supposed informant strapped explosives to his body and blew himself up at a meeting Wednesday at the C.I.A.'s Forward Operating Base Chapman in the southeastern province of Khost."

This suicide bomber is probably one of several deep cover people for Al Qaeda already in the American ranks. By some estimates, there are 300,000 illegal aliens in Manhattan alone. No one is capable of telling you who these people are or what purposes they have in coming to this country. Most immigrants are here to work hard and get ahead. However, a few are here for other purposes. Given the large number of Spanish-speaking persons of Middle Eastern origins, it is not unlikely that some of our recent arrivals from, say, Venezuela may have a mixed agenda for visiting our shores. We need the cooperation of other countries in this struggle. Good luck trying to spot these people.

Speaking of other countries, Pakistani security officials have sent every possible signal to inform us that indiscriminate killing of their people is objectionable, for some strange reason, to the Pakistani government:

" ... 'If the Americans step up the attacks at what they suspect are locations of Haqqani's men inside Pakistan, that would be a risky step,' one security official in the provincial city of Peshawar told the Financial Times. 'The Americans cannot simply go by assumptions. First, all the facts must be ascertained.' ..."

Financial Times, January 4, 2010, p. 3 (emphasis added).

The day after this warning the U.S. fired more drone attacks into Pakistan and Afghanistan. In the Times, repeated warnings concerning the counterproductive effects of drone attacks have appeared with distressing regularity:

"Some legal scholars have questioned the legitimacy under international law of killings by a civilian agency in a country where the United States is not officially at war. This month, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act for government documents revealing procedures for approving targets and legal justification for the killings." (Times, January 23, 2010, at p. A3.)

We are justifying the current struggle in the region to the global community as an effort to eradicate terrorism and uphold international law:

"Critics have contended that collateral civilian deaths" -- killing Pakistani children -- "is too high a price to pay. Pakistani officials have periodically denounced the strikes as a violation of their nation's sovereignty ... " Ibid.

These are the same officials, perhaps, providing logistical and other support for forces hostile to U.S. interests even as they receive American financial aid. These intelligence assistance mechanisms are multinational and, it is likely, include local and non-local entities. The assistance provided to our enemies by unidentified intelligence agencies will increase and become more professional in the months ahead.

"The attack at the C.I.A. base dealt a devastating blow to the spy agency's operations against militants in the remote mountains of Afghanistan, eliminating an elite team using an informant with strong jihadi credentials. The attack further delayed hope of penetrating Al Qaeda's upper ranks, and also seemed potent evidence of militants' ability to strike back against their American pursuers."

Does it occur to people that Al Qaeda may be just as diligent about "penetrating our ranks" as we are about penetrating their organization? Yes, the Freudian terminology is obvious and deliberate. There is an adversary playing against us on the other side of the chess board. The next paragraph is crucial and suggests, clearly, one goal of this operation:

"It could also [jeopardize] the relations between the C.I.A. and the Jordanian spy service, which officials said had vouched for the would-be informant."

There is no doubt in my mind that the Jordanians were also victimized and fooled in this operation. In order for such a thing to have occurred, again, there must have been "assistance" from other intelligence services in the region and beyond, also within the Jordanian service. Time for a mole hunt. Fostering distrust among Americans and our very few genuine friends in the region is always a goal of these attacks.

Robot or drone attacks by the U.S. have resulted in killing droves of people in Afghanistan and Pakistan, many of whom probably have nothing to do with this operation. We appear blinded by these events and are striking out randomly and, probably, stupidly. This may have been a final objective of the successful mission against the C.I.A. It is always helpful in any struggle when the enemy is made to appear idiotic. I prefer that America's enemies and not U.S. intelligence agencies look and be stupid, like Terry Tuchin of New Jersey or the OAE.

I was told that my daily reading of 50-100 pages and often much more than this (200-300 pages), especially about esoteric subjects such as complexity and networks as well as probability theories, not to mention Continental thought, is absurd and pointless. I disagree. We "stupid and ignorant" Latinos enjoy reading many books. This reading habit is useful when seeking to understand world events. This may be a good time for N.J. to insert more "errors" in my writings.