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Marighella's revenge in Iraq.(Insider Report)
In his Mini-Manual for Urban Guerrillas, Brazilian Marxist Carlos Marighella prescribed a strategic formula for insurgents seeking to seize total power. Marighella's manual has been a standard text for terrorists since the 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana, Cuba.
"First the urban guerrilla must use revolutionary violence to identify with popular causes and so win a popular base," wrote Marighella. "Then, the government has no alternative except to intensify repression. The police roundups, house searches, arrests of innocent people make life in the city unbearable. The general sentiment is that the government is unjust, incapable of solving problems, and resorts purely and simply to the physical liquidation of its opponents. The political situation is transformed into a military situation in which the militarists appear more and more responsible for errors and violence." The eventual result is the complete collapse of order and the seizure of power by the most violent, power-hungry revolutionary faction.
As recent news reports from Iraq illustrate, the terrorist attacks and the U.S. response fit Marighella's blueprint perfectly.
"As the guerrilla war against Iraqi insurgents intensifies, American soldiers have begun wrapping entire villages in barbed wire," reported the December 6 New York Times. "In selective cases, American soldiers are demolishing buildings thought to be used by ...
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...safe by encircling it in a wall of barbed wire, Lt Colonel Nathan Sassaman, battalion commander of the forces occupying Abu Hishma, Iraq, said the following: "With a healthy dose of fear and violence, and a lot of money for projects, I think we can...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek Zakaria, Fareed November 24, 2003 700+ words
...address this problem. In fact, it exacerbates it. The purpose of guerrilla warfare, the Brazilian guerrilla leader Carlos Marighella once explained, is to force the occupying army to militarize its presence, to engage in reprisals and roundups, to show...
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- Newspaper article from: Indian Express August 5, 2008 700+ words
...logic.Barring planes and trains, terrorism is an urban phenomenon.Naxalite violence is somewhat different.This is Carlos Marighella in his1969 Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla: "The government has no alternative except to intensify its repression...
- Crown of Slaves.(Book Review)
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...opposing political views, they have managed, in a rare and impressive display bipartisanism, to blend Edmund Burke and Carlos Marighella into an intriguing synthesis that should appeal to readers of both persuasions. This outstanding effort transcends the...
- Conquering with fear.(No Comment)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Progressive February 1, 2004 700+ words
"With a healthy dose of fear and violence, and a lot of money for projects, I think we can convince these people that we are here to help them," Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Sassaman told The New York Times. His unit oversees the Iraqi village of Abu Hishma.
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 24, 2005 700+ words
...But all those things miss the point, just like our media is compelled to do now: Regarding the conduct of several GIs in Abu Hishma, the paper of record asks, "How much more serious was it to throw an Iraqi civilian into the Tigris, which was not approved...
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- Magazine article from: Air & Space Power Journal Crane, Conrad C. December 22, 2007 700+ words
...of empires following World War II. Along with the propagation of ideas from Mao Tse-tung, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Carlos Marighella, and Vo Nguyen Giap came a corresponding attempt by counterinsurgents to develop their own set of practices and principles...
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- Magazine article from: The American Enterprise Zinsmeister, Karl April 1, 2004 700+ words
...Around Tikrit, the 4th Infantry Division completely ringed in razor wire Saddam's birthplace of Auja, the village of Abu Hishma (a source of many attacks on Americans), and other locales, cutting off these hubs of insurgency from the rest of the...
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- News wire article from: Interpress Service May 15, 2007 700+ words
...the dramatic experiences of the five Dominican friars, who formed a support group for National Liberation Action leader Carlos Marighella. Information extracted under duress from Friars Fernando and Ives by Inspector Sergio Fleury -- one of the military dictatorship...
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- Magazine article from: The New American September 5, 2005 700+ words
...A body shot very seldom kills instantly." It's worth remembering that one objective of terrorism, as described in Carlos Marighella's Mini-Manual for the Urban Guerrilla, is to provoke law enforcement agencies "to intensify repression. The police...
Source: HighBeam Research, Marighella's revenge in Iraq.(Insider Report)