Former SEAL Team Six Commander=Israel Responsible for Global Terrorism

Former SEAL Team Six Commander: Israel Responsible for Global Terrorism
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February 10, 2012   dave                     .
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By Dave Gahary                            
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The recent raid by the U.S. Special Forces commando unit given worldwide
recognition for the alleged raid and murder of Osama bin Laden in
Pakistan has made headlines again, this time in Somalia, and the
apparent success of both operations is paving the way for a new military
strategy being promoted by the Obama White House which includes a much
larger role for Special Operations (SpecOp) forces in the leaned-down
U.S. military.
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                    . The United States Naval
Special Warfare Development Group (NSWDG), formerly named SEAL Team Six,
conducted a daring early-morning raid on nine heavily armed Somali
kidnappers to free the American and Dutch employees of the Danish
Refugee Council, who were captured by Somali pirates in October 2011
while working on a demining program, without suffering so much as a
scratch.
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                      . The SEALs, named so
because they operate on the sea, air and land, are the U.S. military's
most advanced, or elite, SpecOp unit, and are usually called upon for
the most complex of operations, although most of the information about
the SEALs is highly classified and not commented on by the White House
or the Department of Defense. .                    
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  . On January 23, AMERICAN FREE PRESS conducted an exclusive
interview with Charles Patrick 'Chuck' Pfarrer, III, author of the New
York Times Best Seller, SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the
Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden, to get a better understanding of this
elite fighting unit.
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Pfarrer went through Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training (BUD/S)
in 1981 and spent eight years as a SEAL, and was the Assault Element
Commander of SEAL Team Six. He witnessed the 1983 Marine barracks
bombing in Beirut and was one of the SEAL Team leaders responsible for
the apprehension of Abu Abbas and the hijackers of the cruise ship
Achille Lauro.
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                      . He is now a successful
author and Hollywood screenwriter with several of his works adapted for
the silver screen, including Navy SEALs, Red Planet and The Jackal. He
also serves as a consultant to government and industry on terrorism and
counter-terrorism, special operations, terrorist operational
methodology, counter-proliferation and terrorist employment of weapons
of mass destruction.              
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His time in the Middle East gave him unique insights into the root cause
of the troubles and violence in that region.
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Recounting the Shabra and Shatilla massacres in Lebanon, where between
2,000 and 10,000 innocent "old men, women and children" were murdered
"in two nights of violence"? by a Christian militia group, Pfarrer
said that "during the massacre the Israelis fired flares over the camps
so that the Christian militias could see what they were doing."? This
event, he explained, "had a galvanizing effect on Arab opinion, and on
the opinion of a 26-year-old college dropout named Osama bin Laden."?
Pfarrer explained that "Israeli investigations found that Ariel Sharon
was not just complicit but responsible for the massacre."?
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Another event that was significant in the minds of many Arabs was the
October 1983 Marine barracks truck bombing in Beirut, "the largest
non-nuclear explosion in the history of warfare,"? where, as Pfarrer
recounts, "My SEAL team, we were in a bunker about 300 yards away." As
he writes on page 82 of SEAL Target Geronimo, "It is one of the ironies
of history that the most emblematic weapon of Islamic terrorism, the
truck bomb, was invented not by a Muslim fundamentalist but by a radical
Jew,"? Menachem Begin.
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                      . AFP asked if he agreed
Israel's refusal to retreat to the agreed-upon borders that existed
prior to the 1967 Israeli-Arab War is the main reason behind terrorism
directed at the U.S.    
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"Well, I would,"? said Pfarrer. "This is an ongoing problem compounded
by the fact that the Zionist state has never talked seriously to the
Palestinian diaspora about allowing the almost 2 million dispossessed
Palestinians to return to their property."           .    
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Israeli/Palestinian problem is the mainspring for the clockwork of the
trouble in the Middle East,"? he continued, "and it's in the best
interests of America to help solve this problem."      
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Dave Gahary, a former submariner in the U.S. Navy, is the host of AFP's
"Underground Interview"? series. See www.americanfreepress.net for
more.

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