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Friday, February 8th, 2008

Context for Undersea Cable Cuts? The Pentagon’s Information Operations Roadmap

Given the recent developments regarding the recent undersea internet cable cuts, as brought to the attention of BBD reader by Brother Greg (see previous post), I thought some further documents and websites might provide some greater context, and more ammunition for the “conspiracy” minded among us.

Here are couple of initial reports (BBC) and commentaries (Information Clearinghouse) from last year regarding the Pentagon’s recently declassified “Internet Operations Roadmap”, a document created in 2003 under the watchful eye of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Extra details can be found at this very interesting wiki site regarding media and democracy called “Source Watch“. Finally, have a look at the original pentagon document, as well as a host of others stored at “IWS – The Information Warfare Site.”

So, it begs the question, is it really a “conspiracy” if the plans of the conspirators intentions have been publicly available for some time; much like the “conspiracy” which saw “the tragic events of 9/11” used as an excuse to launch a war on a Iraq that had been in the planning for 10 years prior?