Great Britain has just suffered a mini-911 in which the attackers were English-born citizens and not even Arabs. British leaders pretend the attackers were from outside British society, but they were not. Smooth Tony Blair would have us think he is mystified that young citizens of his great empire, who were in no way economically desperate, would sacrifice their lives, even killing innocent people, to get at him and his banker friends.

 

 

This writer is not alone in thinking that human bombs are rational, determined people with a defined mission, carrying out calculated actions. We have already reviewed Professor Robert Pape’s brilliant and timely study of human bombs world wide called Dying to Win. Author Pape makes a good argument that those on one-way missions are the most efficient of the dedicated and do not fit any of the stereotypes the press tries to paste on them. According to Dying to Win, to not take them seriously is folly, which confirms what I have written in several Pharisee Watch papers.

 

Author Virginia Rodero also knows there are reasons behind the acts of the human bombs. In her touching story about living conditions in Iraq, she explains quite well why there are human bombs. She writes of her native England, Why has the Iraq war not made us safer? She asks, “Isn’t that what the War on Terrorism is supposed to do, make us safe?” 

 

The answer is “no.” The “war on terrorism” is, in fact, a war on Islam. Every Muslim knows this deep down inside.

 

 

If we are to end terrorism, a rising tide from within must face our reality just as the bombers have faced theirs.

 

The Brits must realize, as many already do, that the war on terrorism that Tony Blair has involved them in has nothing to do with Britain‘s safety or the safety of the United States. It makes us less safe, not more.

 

 

The phony “War on Terrorism” was started to replace the “Cold War” for reasons well understood by the international bankers of old London who dwell down the street from Downing Street and Trafalgar Square, where bombs went off. The bankers know that Iraq is perhaps the richest land in the Mideast. Their predecessors knew the value of Sudan, India and South African a century ago, when each was brutalized and converted to a British colony. They want to share the spoils with their American counterparts on Wall Street. The “War on Terrorism” is an excuse for looting Iraq. The Iraqis know this. British Pakistani youths bombed the British on account of their government’s support for those who are abusing Arabs in Iraq and Palestine also knows it.

 

 

To understand why so many Iraqis are willing to give up their lives to kill an occasional American, we have to consider the quality of life in Iraq today. It’s not so easy to imagine life in Iraq while living in Phoenix with air-conditioners cooling my office. Twenty or thirty people have died from the heat on Phoenix streets, even though each is within a few feet of drinking water and an air conditioner. The water in my swimming pool is safer for drinking than the water the children in Baghdad have.

 

But the scorching heat in Iraq–100 degrees some nights and rising with the sun–is not the worst problem Iraq‘s people face by any means. The results of war are joblessness, dilution of savings, and shortage of life’s necessities, a combination more deadly than any tsunami that ever washed ashore.

 

 

Archie Blumhorst, an American visitor to Iraq in March 2000 reported his amazement at how well the people of Iraq were managing during the sanctions between the twin destructions. They were deprived and sometimes bombed, yet this American found that though some were hungry, most were managing. Electricity was not fully restored, but there was no shortage of fuel and with fuel, water and land, there was food.  Mr. Blumhorst is a farmer who saw Iraq as a rich country. He related an amazing fact that the American media never mentioned–that gasoline was available to any Iraqi with a tank or pail for about 5 cents per gallon from the government of Saddam Hussein. Iraqis could afford power because they had fuel.

 

 

A gallon of gas at a pump in Baghdad or Basra is still priced about five cents US, but there is none to buy, and on the black market it sells for $1.20 per gallon. Few have jobs to pay for even one gallon, and pension plans and savings for the aged have been wiped out. Every Iraqi knows his country contains the world’s second-largest oil reserves. From the inflated prices, they also know the conquerors are dividing up the oil and they no longer can afford fuel.

 

 

According to a story in the Arab press Aljazeera, government officials have been looking into creating a coupon program to ration fuel for winter. But now the bankers in London and NY control the Iraqi oil, fuel for Iraqis is scares and expensive.

 

 

The evidence of a crushed Iraqi society was again confirmed to this author on Saturday.  Ahmed (he asked I not use his real name) is an Arab American citizen whose path recently crossed mine. He shared the story of his sole support of aging parents in Iraq. For years he had been able to provide necessities and comfort for them at a cost of about $200 per month. But after only two years of occupation Ahmed must send almost ten times as much to Iraq every month. Black market prices apply to everything, he said, and there are virtually no jobs for Iraqis, and certainly none for his aging parents.

 

 

Ahmed has reason not to like the former dictator, but in 2000, food, fuel, electricity and water were available despite bitterly repressive US sanctions. Today there is only desperation and growing hatred.

 

 

Who is opposing US occupation of Iraq, and who are the human bombers in Iraq who give up a life every day? Let me guess. It’s not not “insurgents” or Al Qaeda boogiemen as we are continually told, nor is it the reportedly fanatical Sunnis, Kurds or Bathe Party, as the media wants us to believe.

 

 

I asked Ahmed the question: “Who these people in rebellion are with strapped on bombs?” It’s the people,? he said, “they are proud of Iraq, its history and its culture — “the best country in the Middle East? — And they want it back. He went on, “I am an American citizen; I love this place; it has been good to me. But I am proud of my native Iraq. “America is a great place, but it is not free here, not for Arabs.”

 

 

Why did Muslims from an entirely different eastern culture carry bombs in London? Pakistan and India were once occupied by Great Britain, too, and the youth have not forgotten their history.

 

Saudis with an economically good life in the USA, swap their lives to bring down the World Trade Center? Our leaders and Central Bankers cannot afford to hear the truth or allow us to hear it. Had they done so, there would have been no destruction of Iraq, no bombs in the London subway or World Trade Center, and not one Americans would have been killed in Iraq.

 

 

We are about 15 years late in asking our leaders, Why do they hate us?? Do we really need a “War on Islam?” The question that remains unique to We Hold These Truths and is the most important of all is this: why don’t our professed Christian leaders demand peace?

ATTACKING ISLAM, by the same author, March 21, 1994, an expos if the Neo-cons planned War on Islam spun years ago. It is reprinted with few updates: