Seymour Hersh: Many in Joint Spec'l Ops Command ... Kinghts of Malta

[Jan Klimkowski]

Pulitzer Prize Winner Seymour Hersh And The Men Who Are Trying to Paint Him as Crazy

Hersh cited ties between U.S. Military's Joint Special Operations Command and a secretive Catholic order called the Knights of Malta, and now he's under attack.
March 4, 2011 |

Magda - important article. Thanks for posting.

Just as US AID frequently operates as a covert arm of American intelligence, so AmeriCares appears to be a faux aid agency version of a PMC like Xe/Blackwater.

It would certainly complement the Christian fundamentalist version of the war, as prosecuted by Erik Prince, the former CEO of the military's most notorious civilian contractor Xe (formerly Blackwater). His viewsas depicted in one affidavit from the court case against himcertainly echo much of what Hersh ascribes to the JSOC and the Knights of Malta:
To that end, Mr. Prince intentionally deployed to Iraq certain men who shared his vision of Christian supremacy, knowing and wanting these men to take every available opportunity to murder Iraqis. Many of these men used call signs based on the Knights of the Templar, the warriors who fought the Crusades.
Mr. Prince operated his companies in a manner that encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life. For example, Mr. Prince's executives would openly speak about going over to Iraq to "lay Hajiis out on cardboard." Going to Iraq to shoot and kill Iraqis was viewed as a sport or game. Mr. Prince's employees openly and consistently used racist and derogatory terms for Iraqis and other Arabs, such as "ragheads" or "hajiis."

Hersh's assertions would also add context to the curious case of former U.S. deputy undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Gen. William Boykin, who drew fire during his tenure for calling the war against Islamic extremism a struggle against "a spiritual enemy called Satan."

And of course Dubya Bush smugly talked of his "crusade"....