Is the CIA Behind Iraq Violence?

When the US first invaded Iraq, I said in this Blog that they would ensure a continuing atmosphere of violence and chaos so that their military presence could be justified for several years at least. The CIA has been using such tactics around the world for many years, so it would hardly be a surprise to discover that the US, not Al Quaeda, is fomenting the ongoing violence.

Don't believe me? Look at the CIA's own admissions, look at the post-Nixon Church committee findings. The CIA first used terrorist bombing campaigns in Iran in the 1950s. They used them again, very extensively, throughout Italy in the 60's, when George Bush Senior joined the agency. They have used them many times since. The coup in Haiti, like the ongoing unrest in Venezuela, has this CIA modus operandi "fingerprint" all over it. Are they doing the same in Iraq?

Now even prominent Arabs are blaming the US and Israel for the attacks.

"'Israel and the United States are the principal beneficiaries of the attack that killed dozens of people in Baghdad and Karbala,' Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, head of Lebanon's Shi'ite Muslim Hizbollah, said at a ceremony in southern Beirut marking the Ashura holy day of mourning.

'The objective is to sow discord among Muslims, between Sunnis and Shi'ites,' a visibly shaken Sheik Nasrallah told a crowd of more than 100,000. 'Israel, which wants to destroy Iraq, has provided a lot of money and agents and formed sabotage networks in Iraq,' he alleged.

'The American administration wants to dominate Iraq and pillage its oil and other resources.' "