Abdulazeez and Abdulaziz
By Robert Barsocchini
July 18, 2015 "Information
Clearing House"
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"Empire
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Former engineer Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez,
according to
investigators, was a lone gunman with no prior infractions who
this week targeted two US military facilities in Tennessee, killing
four militants and no civilians.
Salman bin Abdulaziz is one of the world’s worst
dictators. He has
many prior infractions, such as
publicly announcing becoming a rogue nuclear state, beheading
and torturing hundreds of people and repressing millions, and is
currently carrying out a war of aggression against one of the
poorest countries in the world, Yemen, killing thousands of
civilians and enforcing a blockade that risks starving millions, as
Yemen imports almost all of its food.
The despot Abdulaziz is one of Washington’s
top allies. His terrorist regime is the recipient of the
biggest shipment of weapons in US history, approved by Obama in 2010
(the US is the world’s biggest arms trafficker). These killing
machines are now being used on the people of Yemen. In 2013, Obama
sent the despot almost a billion dollars worth of banned cluster
bombs, which both Obama and Abdulaziz have now used against Yemenis.
Many foreign nationals are trapped in the war-zone
in Yemen, and
eight countries, including India, China, and Russia, are
performing risky missions to rescue civilians, their own citizens as
well as others. While there are thousands of US civilians trapped
in Yemen, Washington vocally refuses to rescue them, issuing a
facile claim that it would be too risky, while at the same time
performing rescue missions for Saudi pilots whose planes have
gone down in Yemen.
Washington is also personally coordinating with
dictator Abdulaziz on the strikes, and is refueling the US planes
being flown by Saudi pilots.
Obama continues to bomb Yemen himself, killing
hundreds of suspects and civilians in a death campaign he has been
pursuing for years. He is also participating in enforcing the
blockade, which human rights groups say has led the country to the
brink of a mass humanitarian catastrophe.
The attack by Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez is a
small and diluted taste – no explosives were used and no suspects or
civilians were killed – of what drone strikes on one’s country are
like.
Whenever the US gets a small taste of its own
medicine, it doesn’t like it, yet continues to administer the
medicine to others in mega-doses. Washington elites know their
violence causes violent retaliation, but continue it because they
themselves are insulated and safe, and only lower-level grunts and
civilians, their human shields, will take the hits.
The Tennessee shooter is quoted in his high school
year book as saying that his name, Abdulazeez, “causes national
security alerts”. This is now literally true, but is dependent on
circumstances. One attack by an Abdulazeez is saturating US
headlines and receiving stark condemnation from the US
government/oligarchy (Obama called it “heartbreaking”), while an
incomparably worse attack by an incomparably worse Abdulaziz,
raining down on thousands of people, including US Americans
abandoned by their oligarchy, is met with media silence and extreme
support and participation from Washington.
Author is a US-based researcher focusing on
force dynamics, national and global.
@_DirtyTruths