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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yaacov who wrote (8249)	5/10/2005 4:53:06 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Re: Behind Algerians were the CIA and Russians. Actually, both the CIA and Mossad supported French colonialists, not Algerian insurgents/nationalists.... General Raoul Salan, who rebelled against the French government and General de Gaulle, admitted that, when he was the fugitive OAS leader in Algiers (or Madrid?), American agents --that is, CIA agents-- approached him to offer help --mostly weapons and intelligence...() It's also well known that Israel helped the terrorist outfit OAS and Pied-Noir militias to fight the FLN guerrilla... US President John F. Kennedy, when still a Senator in the late 1950s, idealistically supported Algerian independence but he had to adjust, so to speak, to the Realpolitik after he was elected President in 1960.... The Iraqi mess somehow mirrors the French-Algerian war of 1954-62: the FLN leadership was split between a "domestic command" and a "foreign command" based in Cairo, Egypt... The domestic resistance itself was subdivided into several "Wilayas" (around Oran, Algiers, Constantine, etc). When the French closed off the Tunisian-Algerian border, contacts between the FLN leaders hiding out in Algeria and their colleagues in Tunisia and Egypt were no longer possible but it didn't disrupt their overall strategy to topple the French regime (in Algeria).... Likewise, Syria is to Iraq what Tunisia was to Algeria --a rear base... and so is Iran. The latter has probably the strongest interest in the ongoing disruption of Iraq. As I said, both Afghanistan and Iraq shouldn't be viewed as separate, unrelated campaigns but rather as a pincer positioning around Iran: the more Iraq is snafued, the less likely the US will use it against Iran. Gus () reseauvoltaire.net