General Leonid Ivashov was the Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces
when the September 11, 2001, attacks took place. This military man, who lived
the events from the inside, offers an analysis which is very different to that
of his American colleagues. As he did during the Axis for Peace 2005 conference,
he now explains that international terrorism does not exist and that the
September 11 attacks were the result of a set-up. What we are seeing is a
manipulation by the big powers; this terrorism would not exist without them. He
affirms that, instead of faking a "world war on terror", the best way to reduce
that kind of attacks is through respect for international law and peaceful
As the current international situation shows, terrorism emerges where
contradiction aggravate, where there is a change of social relations or a change
of regime, where there is political, economic or social instability, where there
is moral decadence, where cynicism and nihilism triumph, where vice is legalized
and where crime spreads.
It is globalization what creates the conditions for the emergence of these
extremely dangerous phenomena. It is in this context that the new world
geo-strategic map is being designed, that the resources of the planet are being
re-distributed, that borders are disappearing, that international law is being
torn into pieces, that cultural identities are being erased, that spiritual life
becomes impoverished...
The analysis of the essence of the globalization process, the military and
political doctrines of the United States and other countries, shows that
terrorism contributes to a world dominance and the submissiveness of states to a
global oligarchy. This means that terrorism is not something independent of
world politics but simply an instrument, a means to install a unipolar world
with a sole world headquarters, a pretext to erase national borders and to
establish the rule of a new world elite. It is precisely this elite that
constitutes the key element of world terrorism, its ideologist and its
"godfather". The main target of the world elite is the historical, cultural,
traditional and natural reality; the existing system of relations among states;
the world national and state order of human civilization and national identity.
Today's international terrorism is a phenomenon that combines the use of
terror by state and non-state political structures as a means to attain their
political objectives through people's intimidation, psychological and social
destabilization, the elimination of resistance from power organizations and the
creation of appropriate conditions for the manipulation of the countries'
policies and the behavior of people.
Terrorism is the weapon used in a new type of war. At the same time,
international terrorism, in complicity with the media, becomes the manager of
global processes. It is precisely the symbiosis between media and terror, which
allows modifying international politics and the exiting reality.
In this context, if we analyze what happened on September 11, 2001, in the
United States, we can arrive at the following conclusions: 1. The organizers of
those attacks were the political and business circles interested in
destabilizing the world order and who had the means necessary to finance the
operation. The political conception of this action matured there where tensions
emerged in the administration of financial and other types of resources. We have
to look for the reasons of the attacks in the coincidence of interests of the
big capital at global and transnational levels, in the circles that were not
satisfied with the rhythm of the globalization process or its direction.
Unlike traditional wars, whose conception is determined by generals and
politicians, the oligarchs and politicians submitted to the former were the ones
who did it this time.
2. Only secret services and their current chiefs or those retired but
still having influence inside the state organizations have the ability to
plan, organize and conduct an operation of such magnitude. Generally, secret
services create, finance and control extremist organizations. Without the
support of secret services, these organizations cannot exist let alone
carry out operations of such magnitude inside countries so well protected.
Planning and carrying out an operation on this scale is extremely complex.
3. Osama bin Laden and "Al Qaeda" cannot be the organizers nor the performers
of the September 11 attacks. They do not have the necessary organization,
resources or leaders. Thus, a team of professionals had to be created and the
Arab kamikazes are just extras to mask the operation.
The September 11
operation modified the course of events in the world in the direction chosen by
transnational mafias and international oligarchs; that is, those who hope to
control the planet's natural resources, the world information network and the
financial flows. This operation also favored the US economic and political elite
that also seeks world dominance.
The use of the term "international terrorism" has the following goals:
Hiding the real objectives of the forces deployed all over the world in the
struggle for dominance and control;
Turning the people's demands to a struggle of undefined goals against an
invisible enemy;
Destroying basic international norms and changing concepts such as:
aggression, state terror, dictatorship or movement of national liberation;
Depriving peoples of their legitimate right to fight against aggressions and
to reject the work of foreign intelligence services;
Establishing the principle of renunciation to national interests,
transforming objectives in the military field by giving priority to the war on
terror, violating the logic of military alliances to the detriment of a joint
defense and to favor the anti-terrorist coalition;
Solving economic problems through a tough military rule using the war on
terror as a pretext. In order to fight in an efficient way against international
terrorism it is necessary to take the following steps:
To confirm before the UN General Assembly the principles of the UN Charter
and international law as principles that all states are obliged to respect;
To create a geo-strategic organization (perhaps inspired in the Cooperation
Organization of Shanghai comprised of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) with a set of values different to that of the
Atlantists; to design a strategy of development of states, a system of
international security, another financial and economic model (which would mean
that the world would again rest on two pillars);
To associate (under the United Nations) the scientific elites in the design
and promotion of the philosophical concepts of the Human Being of the 21st
Century.
To organize the interaction of all religious denominations in the world, on
behalf of the stability of humanity's development, security and mutual support.
