OPINION: A 10-step recipe on how to make and bake a terrorist

RECIPE: How to make and bake...a terrorist (in 10 easy steps)

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Where do terrorists come from? How does one make or mould…a “terrorist”?

Like, for instance, those scary ISIS terrorists in Syria and Iraq.

Remember them? ISIS? Those wannabe, Wahhabi, jihadi, homicidal savages dressed like Ninjas…running around the Middle East (or cruising in Toyota trucks) disembowelling men, women and children and chopping off heads? And then posting it on YouTube?

Yes, that ISIS. Aka Isil. Islamic State. Daesh.

Ring any bells?

WHAT’S THE FORMULA FOR FOR MAKING A TERRORIST?

Think back to around 2012-2016 when ISIS was terrorising the Middle East – and the world. Remember how the whole planet tossed their lunch when they watched, live and uncut, the beheading of American journos, James Foley and Steven Sotloff?

How do terrorist cells like ISIS just pop up out of nowhere? Why don’t we see them coming? And where do they get all those wonderful toys? And Halloween costumes. And HUGE fleets of Toyota trucks.

I’ve been hearing about “terrorists” since the ’70s, and following them particularly closely since around…11 September 2001.

From what I can tell (and what many credible sources have told us), these violent, radical, jihadi extremists are forged in roughly 10 stages.

Call it the recipe, the formula, the 10-step programme…for creating a terrorist.

STEP 1: PICK YOUR TARGET COUNTRY

First, you have to be a superpower…with a robust intelligence spy agency…and a formidable military.

Then, you pick out some impoverished, dust-bowl, black or brown-skinned country somewhere on the planet, that is rich in oil, gas, minerals, raw materials, rare earth elements, or other precious natural resources that you desperately desire.

It has to be a defenceless country, of course, one that is no match for your hi-tech, monolithic, well-armed forces and has no prayer of fighting back. Preferably a country with a population that is tribal, patriarchal, conservative, and devoutly or fanatically religious (eg; Wahabe Sunni or Extremist Shi’ite). It makes it easier to sell their annihilation to the West.

STEP 2: CREATE A PHANTOM THREAT

Then, you find (or concoct) some cockamamie reason (like a false-flag terrorist attack, or WMDs that don’t exist, or chemical attacks you staged, or a legitimately elected leader you want to rebrand as a tyrannical dictator) to “justify” your decision to invade, bomb, destabilise or intervene militarily in that country.

In other words, to put “boots on the ground.”

STEP 3: PUT BOOTS ON THE GROUND (AND BOMBERS IN THE SKY)

Then, you go in. You invade said country with your mega-military. And, while the innocent, peace-loving (albeit fanatically religious) peasant-farmer family man stands by and watches, you bomb his village back to the Stone Age, and blow his women and children to smithereens.

If you experience any outrage or condemnation from the public, you just turn around and tell the world you’re bringing these people “democracy and freedom” (that part’s important, to manufacture public consent) and you reframe your slaughtering of innocent women and children as “collateral damage”.

Guess what happens next…?

STEP 4: BLOWBACK

It’s called (anticipated) blowback. Sometimes laughingly and falsely called “unintended consequences“.

You see, after you wipe out his entire family, our devastated, grieving, peace-loving zealot is either approached by (or goes off to find) people like him; fellow countrymen who have also lost loved ones to US/NATO bullets, bombs and missiles. And, when he finds them, he joins them – and their armed struggle against the imperial, colonial empire that destroyed his family and his life.

That’s right, our man will snatch up an AK47, or some other weapon (usually provided, directly or indirectly by the same superpower that killed his family), and join an extremist “terrorist” militia – like AQ or ISIS. He will then jump on a camel (or Toyota truck) and ride off, waving his AK, while shrieking; “Kill the infidel! Kill the kuffaar! God is great!” Etc.

But…it doesn’t end there. It should, but it doesn’t.

You are now going to very craftily take it one phase further. And this is the tricky bit, because…right now, you’ve got an enemy of the Western empire, hell-bent on killing every infidel in the West. What he needs, is some deceptive deflection…and manipulation. He needs to be drawn like an arrow in a bow.

How does one do that?

STEP 5: SEND IN YOUR PROXIES

You send in your agents and proxies, courtesy of your Middle-East allies – like Israel, Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. These proxies and agents (which include ex-terrorists, mercenaries and general dogs of war) look the part and speak the language (but are firmly in the Western camp). They then infiltrate and control your terror cells.

They do this to ensure that this seething, raging, savage mob of anti-Western Jihadi combatants – that the West created – serves the West’s best interests. That way they can also control the blowback and direct its devastation.

You could call it a campaign of “controlled chaos,” or what journo Max Blumenthal calls (in his book) “The Management of Savagery” (which is also the name of the ISIS war bible).

The Western war machine can now manipulate that jihadist terrorist organisation to do their bidding.

And what is their bidding…?

STEP 6: A REGIONAL WRECKING BALL

In the case of ISIS, it’s using them as a well-orchestrated battering ram or wrecking ball, to destabilise countries across the Middle East – namely, Iraq and Syria.

You can also use them to target alleged “tyrannical” leaders or “despotic dictators” – like Assad – and overthrow their reign.

It’s a brilliant set-up. Because, now you’ve got hordes of radical, homicidal, jihadist Arabs slaughtering other Arabs…across the Arab world. Yes, killing their own people – for their infidel enemies – and loving it.

And the best part is, it REALLY saves (the Military-Industrial-Complex) money on battalions, bombs, bullets, body bags and homegrown cannon fodder…when you’ve got your enemy killing their own people, for you.

It’s called Divide and Conquer.

STEP 7: BROADCAST COVERAGE OF THE CARNAGE

And while your psycho proxy army of throat-cutting terrorists are out there annihilating their own people, you videotape and use the footage to put the fear of God into the broader public – by releasing it online.

If you had a problem getting money out of Congress for more war in the Middle East before that? After those videos do the rounds, you will have NO problem getting your extended, inflated military budget. Congress will literally THROW money at you to stop those scary, head-chopping, terrible terrorists.

STEP 8: ADD SMOKE, MIRRORS AND SFX

Now, if you don’t quite get the blood-splattering video shots on location (the battlefield) that you (and the Pentagon) had planned in the storyboard?

No problemo.

You can bring in a professional PR company, like Bell Pottinger (the same agency that colluded with the scandal-plagued Cambridge Analytica on a racist propaganda campaign in South Africa) and get them to shoot some pick-up scenes in a green-screen studio.

That way you’ll end up with something really slick…like that well-shot, ISIS propaganda video, with the GREAT production value (including VFX and dolly shots), of more than a dozen Egyptian Coptic Christians being beheaded on a Libyan beach. Remember that? An execution video that looked like it was directed by Tarantino, photographed by Darius Khondji and produced by Harvey Weinstein.

STEP 9: COERCE A ‘COALITION OF THE WILLING‘

Of course, after you show the world gruesome video clips of these murderous, head-chopping terrorists doing their thing on YouTube, manufacturing consent and support for a new war is going to be a cinch.

That’s right, rallying the forces and rounding up a planetary posse against evil scary “terrorists” like ISIS is going to be a no-brainer breeze. I mean…who in their right, civilised, human rights-cherishing mind…is going to say no to obliterating murderous extremist “savages” like ISIS?

STEP 10: SEIZE THE RESOURCES

Then, when the carnage is almost over, you use your mega military to secure the resources.

And, while the “well-meaning” NGOs and “humanitarian” orgs are mopping up the blood and aiding displaced refugees, you send in your multi-national corporations to mop up all that oil, gas, and any other precious resources you can get your hands on.

And that…is how you bake yourself a bona fide, bloodthirsty, extremist, Wahabist, jihadist…terrorist.

If you still can’t get your head around it and need a visual aid, here’s an excellent little five-minute animated short film that perfectly illustrates how one creates a terrorist. It’s called The Economic Hitmen, based on the book by John Perkins.

It may actually finally convince you that one man’s terrorist…is another man’s freedom fighter.