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AUSTRALIA THREATENED BY US STATE TERRORISM

After a 4 decade career as a scientist, I have almost finished researching and writing a huge book on global avoidable mortality. “State terrorism” has had massive complicity in global avoidable mortality (excess mortality) that now totals 1.3 billion since 1950. While “jihadist” and insurgent “non-state terrorists” have killed 5,000 Western civilians over the last 20 years, US state terrorism is complicit in a post-invasion avoidable mortality and under-5 infant mortality in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan now totalling 2.1 million and 1.7 million, respectively. Please find below a summary of my informed and dispassionate assessment that AUSTRALIA IS UNDER SERIOUS THREAT FROM US STATE TERRORISM. Anyone has permission to publish this and otherwise inform all of their associates in the interests of humanity.

Australia is irrationally expanding draconian civil rights-abusing anti-terror laws in response to right-wing media and politician hysteria over “non-state terrorism”. Yet only 3 Australians have died in the last 3 decades from terrorism WITHIN AUSTRALIA (the 1978 Sydney Hilton Bombing that killed 3 and wounded 7) - and the surviving policeman and his barrister still believe that Australian Security may have been involved. Indeed right wing Australian Governments and politicized Security have an appalling post-war record of making Australia a haven for Nazi war criminals; permitting violent fascist terrorists to train and operate in Australia (hence the famous Attorney General’s raid on ASIO in 1973 over Croatian Ustase terrorists who had been bombing Yugoslav consulates in Australia); long-term support for Indonesian state terrorism (including the now-resumed training of the notorious, genocidal Kopassus state terrorism Special Forces units); putting Australian civilians and soldiers at risk by withholding crucial information about Indonesian military state terrorism; and continuous post-war support for immensely bloody US state terrorism throughout the world (the post-1950 avoidable mortality and under-5 infant mortality in Asian and Pacific countries in which UK-US ally Australia has been involved militarily in that era now total 67 million and 35 million, respectively).

The Shorter Oxford Dictionary defines "terror" as "intense fear" and "terrorism" as the "furtherance of views through coercive intimidation". "Terrorists"  "intimidate" by causing "intense fear", typically by killing people. “Terrorists” fall into 3 categories, namely (1) state terrorists (nations committing huge crimes against civilians e.g. the UK, US and Israel) ; (2) non-state terrorists (e.g. jihadist terrorists and Iraqi and Palestinian insurgents); and (3) state-sponsored non-state terrorists (e.g. the US-supported mujaheddin, Al Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan; US-support for Al Qaeda until the mid-1990s in the Balkans; US and UK covert terrorism including covert bombings, shootings and torture in Iraq; world-wide US support for particular non-state terrorists; US support for the mass murdering Indonesian military state terrorists who are evidently STILL involved in supporting anti-Christian militias and probably the  terrorists involved in the Bali bombings, according to former president Abdurrahman Wahid). 

"Jihadist" or "insurgent"  "non-state terrorists" have killed about 5,000 Western civilians over the last 20 years (mostly on 9/11, according to the US Administration). However the US "state terrorist" response has so far been disproportionately associated with post-invasion avoidable (excess) mortality and under-5 infant mortality in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories that now total 2.1 million and 1.7 million, respectively. Anglo-American-dominated mainstream media utterly IGNORE the huge reality of state terrorism, notably US state terrorism.

Australia is under threat from ALL THREE types of terrorism, specifically (1) US state terrorism (compounded by slavish Australia Government and Security association with US state terrorism, US media dominance in Australia and passive acceptance of direct US interference in Australian affairs, as in the 2004 election); (2) jihadist non-state terrorism; and (3) US state terrorism support for non-state terrorists ( e.g. former president Abdurrahman Wahid recently expertly suggested that the US-backed Indonesian military may have been involved in the Bali bombing atrocities). 

There is an appalling record of US state terrorism over the last half century and of US support for non-state terrorism in Africa (e.g. in civil wars), Asia (e.g. mujaheddin and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, US Al Qaeda support in the Balkans into the mid-1990s; US covert terrorism in Iraq) and Latin America (e.g. the US School of Americas trained 60,000 Latin American military and police personnel including torturers, dictators, death squads, state terrorists and non-state terrorists; US terrorist squads bombed churches in Ecuador; horrendous death squads, Contra rebels and other terrorism in Latin America).

From media reports there is clearly a “jihadist” non-state terrorist threat to Australia – a threat that has been seriously EXACERBATED by the criminal actions of US state terrorism (illegal and bloody occupation of Iraq); Israeli state terrorism (the continuing illegal occupation of the West Bank and Golan Heights and imprisonment of Gaza); uncritical, racist Australian relations with Israel (uncritical support; possibly hundreds of Australians serving as soldiers in the illegal Israeli occupations; and tens of thousands of Australians permitted to make donations directly or indirectly supporting Israel state terrorism – while donations to some Palestinian organizations are prohibited with draconian penalties in relation to Arab victims of Israeli state terrorism); and the close association of Australia with the US in its illegal invasions and bloody occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

HOWEVER it is realistic to suppose that there is also an even greater danger to Australia of a US-sponsored terrorist attack to give political support for the US line (as occurred back in 1960s Ecuador with the bombing of Catholic churches by US-funded terrorist teams to excite anti-communist sentiment and as reported in Philip Agee’s “Inside the Company. CIA Diary”).

HORRENDOUS “ENEMY CIVILIAN DEATHS” / “US COMBAT DEATHS” DEATH RATIOS

Ten years ago Nazi SS Captain Erich Priebke was extradited from Argentina to Italy to face a war crimes trial over the March 24, 1944 execution of 335 Italian men and boys (about 75 of them Jewish) at the Ardeatine Caves south of Rome. The massacre had been ordered by arch-terrorist Adolph Hitler in retaliation for the killing of 33 German soldiers by Italian partisans the previous day. Priebke was eventually found guilty and sentenced to 15 years, with this being subsequently effectively commuted to 5 years. Evil arch-terrorist Hitler evidently regarded an "enemy civilian death"/"German soldier death" "kill ratio" (or "death ratio") of 10 as appropriate - but how does this compare with "enemy civilian death" /"military death" "kill ratios" for other World War 2 combatants?

In World War 2 the Axis civilian deaths totalled 5.1 million as compared to Allied civilian losses in Europe and Asia totalling 54 million; US, British Empire, Axis and Soviet military losses totalled 0.29 million, 0.45 million, 5.9 million and 13.6 million, respectively. Accordingly the "enemy civilian"/"military death" "kill ratios" were 0.4 (for the Soviet forces), 9.2 (Axis), 11.3 (the British Empire) and 17.6 (the US). These statistics reflect the mass murder of Soviet POWs by the Nazis (and vice versa) and the relatively high technology war fought by the US (which made great use of strategic bombing e.g. of Dresden, Hamburg, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki).

It is useful to examine the "kill ratios" in post-war conflicts involving US high technology war machines pitted against relatively lightly armed indigenous Asian soldiers in a swathe of countries from Korea to Iraq. It is difficult to determine Asian civilian casualties in these conflicts because, in the words of US General Tommy Franks, "We don't do body counts." However using UN Population Division demographic data from 1950 onwards it is possible to calculate "avoidable mortality" ("excess mortality"), which is the difference between the ACTUAL deaths in a country in a given period and the deaths EXPECTED for a peaceful, decently-run country with the same demographics.

The following "enemy civilian avoidable mortality"/"US combat death" "kill ratios" have been calculated for the Korean War (1950-1953) ( 23.8), the Indo-China War (1957-1975) (276.5), the Gulf War & Sanctions War (1990-2003) (12,259), the Afghanistan War (2001-2005) (15,716) and the Iraq War (2003-2005) (323.9).

The actual arithmetic involving the ratio of "avoidable (excess) deaths" (for the Asian country concerned over the relevant period)/"US combat deaths" is reproduced below (actual mortality figures are rounded off for clarity):

0.8 million Korean excess deaths/33,651 US combat deaths = 23.8

13.1 million excess Cambodian, Laotian & Vietnamese excess deaths/47,378 US combat deaths = 276.5

1.8 million Iraqi excess deaths/147 US combat deaths = 12,259

1.6 million Afghan excess deaths/102 US combat deaths = 15,716

0.5 million Iraqi excess deaths/1,513 US combat deaths = 323.9