Saddam Hussein’s Stay-Behind
Many European countries possessed and may still possess, what the Turks call ‘the Deep State’, that is, a behind-the-scenes freemasonry of soldiers, spooks and others who really run things, or at least exercise a veto power. This would have grown out of the Stay-Behind networks created just after the end of the Second World War. Such programmes were intended to conduct partisan operations behind the lines of a successful Soviet invasion of Western Europe. They were recruited largely from the wartime Resistance, but also included Nazi elements for the sake of their superior knowledge of their local Communists. Now, this is precisely what Saddam Hussein did prior to the Third Gulf War (or the Second, for ethnocentric Americans); he organised his defence against overwhelming military power around the notion of a post-invasion urban guerrilla. The operations of Saddam’s Stay-Behind were termed terrorism. If we are to be consistent, therefore, we ought to admit that our own Stay-Behind cells would also have engaged in terrorism. If they had conducted guerrilla warfare behind the lines of the victorious Red Army, the Russians would have executed the participants on the spot; we would have been suitably outraged, and yet they would have been entirely right to do so under the laws of war. It also follows from the Stay-Behind concept that, if these European networks have endured until our day, and if their shadowy personnel have a disproportionate influence on their countries – that is, if there are Deep States – then these European countries are secretly being run by terrorist cells.
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