Sri Lanka, Easter Sunday, 21 April 2019: More than half a dozen
bomb blasts shook the country killing from 250 to more than 350 people.
Depending on who counts, the death toll varies. The devastation took
place in in several catholic churches and luxury hotels. Other
explosions, including from – what they say – are suicide bombers, have
since killed another several dozens of people. Many are children, women –
christen worshippers. Why the luxury hotels? Western (Christian) tourists?
Yesterday, another explosion ripped through a suspicious building,
killing 18, including children and women. Again, they, the
‘authorities’, say suicide bombers, who didn’t want their ‘cache’ to be
discovered. Conveniently they are all dead – the “suicide bombers”.
Nobody can ask them any questions.
There was a lot of confusion, and still is, all through Sri Lanka.
Nobody claimed credit for the massacres. There were rumors that Sri
Lanka’s President received warnings ahead of the attacks from foreign
intelligence, but ignored them. The President denies these allegations.
And the explosions continue.
Finally, the verdict is in.
The culprits are an Islamic terrorist group, associated with ISIS. What else is new.
Sri Lanka’s population is composed of about 70% Buddhists, 13%
Hindus, almost 10% Muslims, mainly Sunni, the Salafi version, and about
7% Christians. The New York times reports that the accused mastermind of
the terror attacks was strongly influenced by Wahhabism, the same
extreme hardliners that control most of Saudi Arabia.
Hatred between religions seems on the rise. In New Zealand a few
weeks ago a white supremacist assaulted a mosque, killing 50. This past
weekend, a shooting in a Synagogue near San Diego, California, killed a
woman. The murderer said he was inspired by the New Zealand massacre.
Are these spontaneous, interreligious mini-wars part of a foreign
directed ‘divide to conquer’ effort, a strategy that has been used by
empires for centuries, but seems to be alive and well with the current
Washington based empire?
MintPress News reports that
“Sri Lanka Easter attacks are the handiwork of
terrorists returning from fighting in Syria, practicing
the Saudi-backed Wahhabi Salafist ideology,”adding, “though not
confirmed yet, they, [the attacks], are in keeping with the modus
operandi of Saudi-sponsored Wahhabi terrorism worldwide. [The] Saudi
sponsorship of Salafi Wahhabi dogma [is found] across the globe. From
Boko Haram to ISIS, and from the Taliban to Al Qaeda, a common
ideological thread runs through these terror groups. This is the
Saudi-sponsored Wahhabi Salafi ideology whose South Asian counterpart is
Deobandi. For abbreviation purposes, it is becoming increasingly
common to term this interconnected ideology as WSD (Wahhabi Salafi
Deobandi).”
May we expect a wave of Saudi-sponsored WSD terrorism in the east
too? – Is the horror Saudi government protected by the US, because it
does its bidding? And this bidding leads to making gradually Islam
extremism the justification for NATO bases around the globe? – Perhaps
in Sri Lanka, tomorrow? So far Sri Lanka is clean from NATO. Sri Lanka
has not even an association agreement with NATO.
Just look at the world-geostrategic location of Sri Lanka, linking
the Arabian Sea with the Indian Ocean. Sri Lanka may also have a direct,
open-sea connection with the small British island of Diego Garcia, in
the Chagos Archipelago, north-east of Madagascar. Diego Garcia hosts the
US’s largest Navy base outside the American Continent. Many of the
drone killings in Yemen, Syria and other places in the Middle East
originate from Diego Garcia. The “civil war” in Syria was (and still is)
largely directed from Diego Garcia, as well as from Djibouti.
Wouldn’t it be logical for NATO to set up base in Sri Lanka to
control South East Asia? Saudi guided WSD attacks would create the
necessary chaos justifying Western secret services – plus NATO – to
descend on Colombo, to create further protests and anarchy – a
never-ending internal strife, giving the war industry a new never-ending
flow of profit, hence, further justifying the never-ending war on
terror – and, thereby, moving yet an inch closer to Full Spectrum
Dominance over Mother Earth and her hapless spectators, what western
humanity has become – a bunch of complacent consumers, drenched in
turbo-capitalist market ideology, too comfortable to go on the
barricades.
The key and engine to all of this is NATO, whose modus operandi is
killing for a living, for dominance and for profit. If there is ever to
be Peace – and that’s what the vast majority of the inhabitants of this
globe wants – I’m not exaggerating pretending that 99.99% of world
population wants to live in peace – then NATO must go, NATO must be
dismantled.
So, Europe which has the largest membership in NATO (27 out of 29
nations) has to put the money where her mouth is: Europe calls for
Peace, Europe claims to be Peace-loving – really? Then put your money
into creating Peace – pulling out of NATO, refusing at once to fund this
killing machine under the pretext of “protecting Europe”. Protecting
Europe from what? From whom? – Not from Russia – despite all the highly
propagandized and highly corporate-funded Russiagate / Russiaphobia,
exacerbated by a new artificially implanted fear – China. These
countries have no history of expansion, like the west.
They only seek friendly relations of trade, of transport, cultural
and research interconnectivity within the supercontinent, Eurasia, and
ultimately, they promote a multi-polar world. The best example is the
Chinese President Xi’s ingenuity – the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
that just finished its highly successful forum in Beijing – where more
than 120 nations signed memoranda of understanding (MOU) and cooperation
agreements with China for tens of billions of dollars equivalent. –
What a way of cooperating, instead of sowing western-style belligerence.
Europe and the rest of the world is not in danger, except in danger
of itself for being a vassal of the US and for hosting 30-plus NATO
bases which would be first in the line of fire, if the east is forced to
defend itself from that permanent Pentagon-NATO driven aggression.
Europe withhold your funding for NATO, get out of NATO, dismantle
NATO, – NOW, before NATO sets up yet another base in Asia, before NATO
spreads more death around the globe.
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This article was originally published on New Eastern Outlook.
Peter Koenig is an
economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a water resources and
environmental specialist. He worked for over 30 years with the World
Bank and the World Health Organization around the world in the fields of
environment and water. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe
and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research; ICH; RT;
Sputnik; PressTV; The 21st Century; TeleSUR; The Saker Blog, the New Eastern Outlook (NEO); and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization.
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