Deborah, loved your snapshot on deception. The way it moves in and out,
so to speak, also, I really like.
Without wishing to detract from it and uncertain of context my story of
deception.... Deception by the one who deceives is the capture of truth
and truth arrogated by his deception as his adopted child to raise to a
worldview and world bearing intellect. He captures truth and then thinks
he can lord it over us who have not seized truth. Oh what a tangled web
he weaves setting about to deceive. Ensnared in his web he ties himself
up in chains and now wearing chains will always wear chains. To his
deception is his great shame. Himself his guilt, always. A naked soul. A
swindler does not deceive but is a vagabond storyteller not setting out
to capture truth and be fixed by chains to a spot of truth. To roam as a
free spirit is the swindler's way. Deceive from the Old French, to seize
or capture that which may be conceived thus fixing the deception to a
spot, a point from which it may not move without losing what has been
captured. The deceiver is himself captured. A swindle from the etymology
of story teller remaining free to tell stories and not being concerned
with what is to be captured and as such capture the vagabond freedoms
with the property of truth. A swindle is no proper thing, just
fabulation. A poet lies because they know only how to lie and to lie is
to know truth while passing through.
Thought these media stories on Saddam's capture may be of interest wrt
deception:
(And I collected another signature file quote right at the end.)
MID-EAST REALITIES - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 22
December 2003: The first major challenge to the American story of
the capture of Saddam came over the weekend when Agence-France Press
(AFP) published the following short article late Saturday picking up
from the British media. Then, from the Sydney Morning Herald today
this much more detailed article and analysis. As usual the compliant
corporate American media is both asleep at the switch and afraid of the
powers that be. They'll get on it only after others have already broken
the ground and only when it is too late. Increasingly, the whole
televised 'We Got Him' Saddam capture show and display has all the
trappings of a classical CIA manipulation and deception effort.
Saddam was
held by
Kurdish
forces,
drugged and
left for US
troops
AFP
Sat Dec
20,11:00 PM
ET
LONDON, (AFP) - Saddam
Hussein was captured by
US troops only after he
had been taken prisoner
by Kurdish forces,
drugged and abandoned
ready for American
soldiers to recover him,
a British Sunday
newspaper said.
Saddam came into the
hands of the Kurdish
Patriotic Front after
being betrayed to the
group by a member of the
al-Jabour tribe, whose
daughter had been raped
by Saddam's son Uday,
leading to a blood feud,
reported the Sunday
Express, which quoted an
unnamed senior British
military intelligence
officer.
The newspaper said the
full story of events
leading up to the ousted
Iraqi president's
capture on December 13
near his hometown of
Tikrit in northern
Iraq, "exposes the
version peddled by
American spin doctors as
incomplete".
A former Iraqi
intelligence officer,
whom the Express did not
name, told the paper
that Saddam was held
prisoner by a leader of
the Kurdish Patriotic
Front, which fought
alongside US forces
during the Iraq war,
until he negotiated a
deal.
The deal apparently
involved the group
gaining political
advantage in the region.
An unnamed Western
intelligence source in
the Middle East told the
Express: "Saddam was not
captured as a result of
any American or British
intelligence. We knew
that someone would
eventually take their
revenge, it was just a
matter of time."
We got him: Kurds say
they caught Saddam
By Paul McGeough, Herald
Correspondent in Baghdad
Sydney Morning Herald -
Australia - December 22,
2003
Washington's claims that
brilliant US
intelligence work led to
the capture of Saddam
Hussein are being
challenged by reports
sourced in Iraq's
Kurdish media claiming
that its militia set the
circumstances in which
the US merely had to go
to a farm identified by
the Kurds to bag the
fugitive former
president.
The first media account
of the December 13
arrest was aired by a
Tehran-based news
agency.
American forces took
Saddam into custody
around 8.30pm local
time, but sat on the
news until 3pm the next
day.
However, in the early
hours of Sunday, a
Kurdish language wire
service reported
explicitly: "Saddam
Hussein was captured by
the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan. A special
intelligence unit led by
Qusrat Rasul Ali, a
high-ranking member of
the PUK, found Saddam
Hussein in the city of
Tikrit, his birthplace.
"Qusrat's team was
accompanied by a group
of US soldiers. Further
details of the capture
will emerge during the
day; but the global
Kurdish party is about
to begin!"
The head of the PUK,
Jalal Talabani, was in
the Iranian capital en
route to Europe.
The Western media in
Baghdad were electrified
by the Iranian agency's
revelation, but as
reports of the arrest
built, they relied
almost exclusively on
accounts from US
military and
intelligence
organisations, starting
with the words of the
US-appointed
administrator of Iraq,
Paul Bremer: "Ladies and
gentlemen: we got 'im".
US officials said that
they had extracted the
vital piece of
information on Saddam's
whereabouts from one of
the 20 suspects around
5.30pm on December 13
and had immediately
assembled a 600-strong
force to surround the
farm on which he was
captured at al-Dwar,
south of Tikrit.
Little attention was
paid to a line in
Pentagon briefings that
some of the Kurdish
militia might have been
in on what was described
as a "joint operation";
or to a statement by
Ahmed Chalabi, head of
the Iraq National
Congress, which said
that Qusrat and his PUK
forces had provided
vital information and
more.
A Scottish newspaper,
the Sunday Herald,
quoted from an interview
aired on the PUK's
al-Hurriyah radio
station last Wednesday,
in which Adil Murad, a
member of the PUK's
political bureau,
said that the day before
Saddam's capture he was
tipped off by a PUK
general - Thamir
al-Sultan - that Saddam
would be arrested within
the next 72 hours.
An unnamed Western
intelligence source in
the Middle East was
quoted in the British
Sunday Express
yesterday: "Saddam was
not captured as a result
of any American or
British intelligence. We
knew that someone would
eventually take their
revenge, it was just a
matter of time."
There has been no
American response to the
Kurdish claims.
An intriguing question
is why Kurdish forces
were allowed to join
what the US desperately
needed to present as an
American intelligence
success - unless the
Kurds had something
vital to contribute to
the operation so far
south of their usual
area of activity.
A report from the PUK's
northern stronghold,
Suliymaniah, early last
week claimed a vital
intelligence
breakthrough after a
telephone conversation
between Qusrat and
Saddam's second wife,
Samirah.
www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/21/1071941612613.html
best wishes, Chris Jones.
--
The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency'
in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a
conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we
shall clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of
emergency. --Walter Benjamin
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