CIA "Freedom Fighters Manual"
1986 1986-05Read it in the scan (PDF at ETOL), page 2 →
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2 SOCIALIST ACTION MAY 1986 untold damage to the cities of Tripoli and Benghazi.
The Reagan administration, however, did not feel it necessary to disclose its actual evidence against Libya, which has denied involvement in the Berlin bombing. As Alexander Cockburn wrote in the April 17 issue of The Wall Street Journal, "The administration's idea of 'irrefutable evidence' is anything CIA Director William Casey chooses to put under plain brown wrap -pers."
Further, if the alleged evidence contained in decoded Libyan cables is so irrefutable, why is it that as late as April 14, U.S. and West German officials spoke only of "suspected" Libyan involvement? It was only later that they claimed proof that Libya's role was known as early as April 5.
Twisted justification
The legal justification for this second attack was not much better than the first. Using the Berlin nightclub bombing as evidence of a Libyan plan to attack • 415 CDS DISABLE ALARM SYSTEMS Terrorist handbook CUT TELEPHONE | CALL IN SICK SO AS NOT LINES TO WORK STEAL AND HOARD GOVERNMENT FOOD SUPPLIES RADIADOR TANQUE DE GASOLINA NEUMÁTICO in Nicaragua in speakers also blasted the U.S. bombing attacks on Libya.
The San Francisco demonstration is a clear indication that broad layers of the American population oppose the increased U.S. bipartisan drive toward war. But this antiwar sentiment must be organized into a powerful and independent national protest movement in the streets. A national coalition and leadership committed to this task is sorely lacking.
Reliance on Democratic Party politicians, or fall campaigns to elect "antiReagan" Democrats, will do nothing to halt the increasing use of U.S. state terrorism. The Democrats supported the invasion of Grenada and the bombing of Libya. Mondale was the first to suggest an embargo of Nicaragua.
The San Francisco Bay Area Mobilization for Peace, Jobs and Justice has shown the way forward for the antiwar movement. It is more urgent today than ever before to forge a national coalition on the basis of this example.—The Editors
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