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Wikileaks Gets Hold of Counterinsurgency Manual
HeavensBlade23 writes in to let us know that Wikileaks has published a US Special Forces counterinsurgency manual, titled Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces (1994, 2004). "The document, which has been verified, is official US Special Forces doctrine. It directly advocates training paramilitaries, pervasive surveillance, censorship, press control and restrictions on labor unions & political parties. It directly advocates warrantless searches, detainment without charge and the suspension of habeas corpus. It directly advocates bribery, employing terrorists, false flag operations and concealing human rights abuses from journalists. And it directly advocates the extensive use of 'psychological operations' (propaganda) to make these and other 'population & resource control' measures more palatable."
Don't you think that it's a *bit* more likely that the document is a fake.
...) are better in the morality department ... The current iranian administration killed 500.000 kids (well, they sent them straight into Saddam's bullets after giving them a carton "key to heaven" - this is NOT a joke). North Korea ... well does anything really need to be said ?
Besides, please explain how non-western (what ? commie ? islamist ?
Unfortunately western governments are the best governments there are. They're VERY far from perfect. However they beat the crap out of every other "style" of government.
Exactly ... Glad I'm not the only non-idiotic slashdot reader.
"Have I fallen asleep and woken up in some universe where there really are aliens on area 51" is what I'm thinking if I read this document.
And the truth is simple : it's a fake.