igotthisguitar
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 Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 5:09 am Post subject: US Terrorist Training Camps |
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Backyard Terrorism
The US has been training terrorists at a camp in Georgia for years - and it's still at it
George Monbiot
Tuesday October 30, 2001
The Guardian
"If any government sponsors the outlaws and killers of innocents," George Bush announced on the day he began bombing Afghanistan, "they have become outlaws and murderers themselves. And they will take that lonely path at their own peril."
I'm glad he said "any government", as there's one which, though it has yet to be identified as a sponsor of terrorism, requires his urgent attention.
For the past 55 years it has been running a terrorist training camp, whose victims massively outnumber the people killed by the attack on New York, the embassy bombings and the other atrocities laid, rightly or wrongly, at al-Qaida's door.
The camp is called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, or Whisc. It is based in Fort Benning, Georgia, and it is funded by Mr Bush's government.
It is a training facility operated in the Spanish language especially for Latin American military personnel. Around 60,000 people, roughly 1,000 per year, have taken courses.
The SOA was renamed to WHISC in January 2001 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Americas
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=school+of+the+americas+terrorism |
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