U.S. "PRACTITIONER OF TERRORISM"
Noam Chomsky in The Toronto Star

...Author and US political critic Noam Chomsky is among those who contend that the United States is one of the main practitioners of terrorism today. Writing in the Toronto Star on August 22, 1998, he accused the U.S. government of regularly resorting to violence for political motives, to intimidate and terrify.

In seeking to justify last summer's cruise missile strikes on targets in Sudan and Afghanistan President Clinton said that he was determined "to strike back at terrorists" and to head off further violence. Chomsky says that if the Clinton doctrine on retaliation is to be taken literally, then all around the world there are countries that have a perfect right to set off bombs in Washington.

Chomsky calls this theory "a doctrine for the strong, and what it says is that the strong are allowed to attack the weak and defenceless any time they want to. He asserts that in response to terrorism, further terrorism is not authorized. If Cuba or Nicaragua or Lebanon or whatever were to drop bombs in Washington - although it would be justified under the Clinton doctrine - it wouldn't be justified in any other sense. In Chomsky's view, it's all blatantly illegal, there's nothing more clear than what the U.N. Charter says about this (use of violence). People who carry out terrorist attacks are culpable and should be punished just like any other crime...

More News Unfit To Print >From Our Archives: "Islamic Affairs Analyst", October 18, 1995:
"UNITED STATES FRAMED SERBS FOR MARKET BOMBING"

(Not that you didn't know, but here it comes anyway...)

...published an article in which it said that British ammunition experts believed the Bosnian Muslim army had itself launched the morter round on Sarajevo that killed 3 7 people and wounded 90 and triggered NATO's air onslaught against the Serbs. The experts, who are serving with the United Nations in Sarajevo, inspected the site of the massacre in August and reported that there was no evidence that the round that killed the civilians had been fired by the Serbs. French experts concurred.

According to the newspaper's report, the British experts were on the scene just 40 minutes after the offending round had exploded in Trznica market on 28 August. They concluded that five mortars had been fired, four of them probably coming from Serb positions but causing no casualties. The fifth, they reported came from another compass bearing and could well have been fired by the Bosnian Muslim forces.

The Bosnian army has been implicated in earlier incidents in which it is said to have fired on its own civilians in order to provide a NATO/lTN attack on Serb forces around Sarajevo. Five people died on 29 June in a rocket attack on Sarajevo's television station. The Bosnian army is thought to have been responsible for this and also possibly for the mortar attack on Trznica market place in February 1994 in which 68 people were killed...

Quote-Unquote: THE NEW EVIL EMPIRE?

...the last half-century. If its actions in the Balkans are any guide, it is well on its way to becoming the successor to the Soviet Union as the world's most recent evil empire. What is driving America in that direction is not greed or avarice. Nor is it lust for conquest or world domination. [Itl is overweening pride, a hubris that carries with it more passion and conviction than did the revolutionary zeal that motivated the Bolshevik Comintern agents of old… U. S. policy-makers have deluded themselves into believing their ideals of self-determination and democracy are a force for peace and stability. The reality is that U.S. policies are the most revolutionary doctrines the world has ever seen.

"The self-determination preached by Woodrow Wilson, that quintessential peacemaker, has been responsible for more wars and uprisings than all of the rantings of the communist ideologues put together. And "democracy" has become the battle cry of patriots and mountebanks alike struggling to overthrow governments around the world." (Col. Harry J. Summers Jr. in The Washington Times, 16 July 1998)