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THE CIA AND THE GLOBAL OIL CONSPIRACY Libya. Once again using the electronic The threat was obvious: another 88,000 media to maximum effect, Libya was slow- tons of bombs with an accuracy of 3%, Continued from page 72 Libya. Once again using the electronic The threat was obvious: another 88,000 — - r media to maximum effect, Libya was slow- tons of bombs with an accuracy of 3%, coalition partner Syria, was responsible for jy but surely tuned into a ‘guilty terrorist more than 70,000 dead innocent Libyan the outrage. The Security Council was state’ in the eyes of the television viewers. women and children, total destruction of stretching the public's imagination to No matter the entirely correct procedures the Libyan civilian infrastructure, plus star- breaking point. ’ that Libya used to respond in terms of vation and death through savage sanc- There is a very strong possibility neither jnternational law: the Security Council tions—a high price to pay for following Libya nor Syria was directly responsible was going to ‘punish’ the country and its international law to the letter as Libya for the downing of Pan Am 103. The tim- Jleader—just as the US had in 1986 on a undoubtedly had. ing of the crash indicates it may have been trumped-up charge when it bombed Tripoli As with most ideas hatched by psychotic an Iranian order that sent Flight 103 earth- and Benghazi, leaving trails of murdered megalomaniacs wishing to control the wards after the downing of an Iranian women and children strewn across both world by force, the Falklands game plan Airbus, carrying a full load of women and cities. came unstuck. The CIA managed the mas- children, by the USS Vincennes. Apparently the 1986 sneak attack did not _sacre stages quite well (it always does) but At the time of the Airbus crash the US do enough damage in the eyes of Comte de __ flunked on the oil price increase needed for Navy forgot to explain to the media that Marenches, then head of the SDECE, the an effective transfer from Middle East to even if surface-to-air missiles are fired by French version of the CIA. The Count Falklands crude oil. Although it was open- mistake, every one of them has a 'self- berated the Americans for their inefficiency ly reported on 7 December 1991 that destruct’ charge that can be detonated by with staggering simplicity and arrogance: British Petroleum, Shell and Occidental remote control in a split second. No expla- “Why, instead of killing a few women and were expected “to bid for rights” in the nation was offered as to why the missiles children, did they not bomb the oilfields?" Falklands, the oil price was already unsta- were not detonated long before they struck Examining the massive levels of bomb _ ble again. the Airbus. The Iranians must have been damage and toxic uranium dust in Kuwait Too few people realise just how danger- upset by the slaughter of their innocent and Iraq, it seems entirely possible the CIA _ ous the CIA really is. If the Falklands sce- women and children, and by the presenta- took the Count's rebuke to heart and was nario ever came to pass it would be the tion of a special medal to the captain of the trying to atone for its 1986 ‘failure’ in Western public who would ultimately have USS Vincennes by President Bush. Libya. Worse still were grim pronounce- to bite the bullet, paying massive prices for The Security Council, in its haste, com- ments from the Security Council that "the Falklands crude oil in order to please an pletely ignored such trifling matters and use of force against Libya has not been out-of-control US intelligence agency that pressed ahead with its charges against ruled out’. is accountable to no one including the SS I_ = aE OO _ ee NEXUS73