EL IV REICH, III: ASESINATOS DEL "AMERICAN DREAM"

 

"U.S. IMPERIALISM COULD, IN SUBSTANCE, REALIZE EVERYTHING SOUGHT BY HITLER WITHOUT NEEDING TO BREAK WITH DEMOCRACY FORMALLY"


George Lukacs










EL IV REICH, III:

ASESINATOS DEL "AMERICAN DREAM"

U.S. Government Assassination Plots


On June 26, 1993, the United States carried out a bombing attack on Iraq in retal­iation for an alleged Iraqi plot to assassinate former president George Bush. The attack, said President Clinton, "was essential to send a message to those who engage in state-sponsored terrorism ... and to affirm the expectation of civilized behavior among nations."


Following is a list of prominent foreign individuals whose assassination (or plan­ning for same) the United States has been involved in since the end of the Second World War. The list does not include several assassinations in various parts of the world carried out by anti-Castro Cubans employed by the CIA and headquartered in the United States.






1949 -


Kim Koo, Korean opposition leader


1950s -


CIA/Neo-Nazi hit list of more than 200 political figures in West


Germany to be "put out of the way" in the event of a Soviet invasion 1950s - Zhou Enlai, Prime minister of China, several attempts on his life 1950s, 1962 - Sukarno, President of Indonesia 1951 -


Kim II Sung, Premier of North Korea


1953 -


Mohammed Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran


1950s (mid)


Claro M. Recto, Philippines opposition leader


1955 -


Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India


1957 -


Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt


1959/63/69 -


Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia


1960 -


Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem, leader of Iraq


1950s-70s -


Jose Figueres, President of Costa Rica, two attempts on his life


1961 -


Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, leader of Haiti


1961 -


Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo


1961 -


Gen. Rafael Trujillo, leader of Dominican Republic


1963 -


Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam


1960s-90s -


Fidel Castro, President of Cuba, many attempts and plots on his life


1960s -


Raul Castro, high official in government of Cuba


1965 -


Francisco Caamafio, Dominican Republic opposition leader


1965-6 -


Charles de Gaulle, President of France


1967 -


Che Guevara, Cuban leader


1970 -


Gen. Rene Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of Army, Chile


1970 -


Salvador Allende, President of Chile


1970s, 1981 -


General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama


1972 -


General Manuel Noriega, Chief of Panama Intelligence


1975 -


Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire


1976 -


Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica


1980-1986 -

 Moammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya, several plots and attempts upon his life


1982 -


Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran


1983


Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan Army commander


1983 -


Miguel D'Escoto, Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Nicaragua


1984 -


The nine comandantes of the National Directorate of Nicaragua


1985 -


Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Shiite leader


1991 -


Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq


1998, 2001-2 -


Osama bin Laden, leading Islamic militant 1999 - Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia


2002 -


Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan Islamic leader, warlord, former US ally


2003 -


Saddam Hussein and family members