IJ@ International Journal of Anarchism IFA-Solidaritet - folkebladet - © ISSN 0800-0220 - no 4 (31) editor H. Fagerhus, e-mail [1]ifa@anarchy.no THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TERRORISM 2001 11.09.2001 The IAT wrote to the international newsmedia and anarchists: The International Anarchist Tribunal (IAT) has investigated the terrorism in New York and Washington 11.09.2001. If anybody in the media think this is done by anarchists, IAT can confirm that this is not true. We denounce these authoritarian doings, but we have no ideas of what kind of group is behind (i.e. the IAT had a superficial suspicion, but no proof). If anyone would like to discuss this matter with the international anarchist movement, please write an e-mail to [2]ifa@anarchy.no. Then it was a conference and discussion internationally among anarchists and others about terrorism in this case, and generally. (The IFA-secretariate in Oslo has since 15-17 October 1982 been officially mandated to ... "organizar actividades comunes, entre otras, congresos, conferencias, tribunas anarquistas, simposios, seminarios, encuentros estivales y actividades culturales". See Bulletin C.R.I.F.A. no 42 novembre-février 1982, p.4 and decisions of later congresses, see [3]http://www.anarchy.no/anarchy/ifadok.html . The Bulletin C.R.I.F.A. was the official organ of IFA -IAF at that time.) The conclusion, among other things, was the following: "The network of Osama bin Laden - al-Quaeda (the base, chief command), a suspicious group, is using black flags similar to anarchists, but they have nothing to do with anarchism, anarchist(s), or anarchy. They are muslim hierarchists. Al-Quaeda is located to the muslim hierarchical patriarchal state of Taliban and the Mujahedin guerilla, in Afghanistan. This network also includes the Haakat ul-Mujahedin, with the guerilla al-Faran, who in 1995 killed, say, the Norwegian Hans Christian Ostrø, - and all organizations doing jihad, islamist "holy" war, in several countries all over the world. Osama bin Laden is called emir (i.e. plutarchist and hierarchist overlord) of al-Quaeda. The muslim terrorist network is however not a highly centralized organization. It is a decentralized oligarchical network. Thus, it is a polyarchical organization, based on local, secret, cells. Such polyarchical organizations are not easy to pull down and crush. It is however necessary not to go soft on these terrorists, but to fight them down, to liberate the Arabian and muslim people from fundamentalism, statism and capitalism and lack of birth-control, to get a peaceful, say, Palestinian country, and less authoritarian Arabian and muslim countries broadly defined. The muslim hierarchists are convinced that USA is the Great Satan, and Israel the Small Satan. Israel must of course give up the occupations on Palestinian land. However, it must be possible for some Jews to live in the Palestinian areas, as well as Palestinian Arabs today live rather well in Israel. The present PLO-state of Arafat, based on statism, corruption, militarism and muslim hierarchy, is a plague to the Palestinian people. A few anarchists, say, as Noam Chomsky, i.e. mainly left wing anarchist collectivists - close to marxism, seem to have gone soft on muslim hierarchist terrorists, talking of "understanding". This is quite similar to the hesitating position of the Norwegian marxist left party, SV. The anarchist criticism of USA, EU, NATO and UN should always be proportional to reality, and not more or less be an echo of marxist propaganda and statist ideology; i.e. Leninist, Trotskyite, Maoist, "anti-imperialist", "leftist" or other. Say, USA and NATO have done several authoritarian errors, as pointed out by, say, Noam Chomsky, but sometimes exaggerated and seen out of context. It must not be forgotten that the nazis still probably would have ruled Europe if USA had not joined the Allies to fight fascism in second world war. And the marxist-leninist Serbian militarists and the others, would probably still have continued with ethnic cleansing on Balkan, if NATO and USA had not put up their antimilitarist forces in the area. Although the use of nuclear bombs in 1945 and the - probably not deliberate - bombing of some non-military targets in Serbia, may perhaps be questioned from anarchist human rights perspective: These errors must be seen in the context of ending the militarist dictatorships, to get a proportional realistic judgement.The acts of terrorism in New York and Washington 11.09.2001 are deliberately directed against a lot of civilians, in peace times, and thus is quite something else. The terrorist acts against the WTC and Pentagon demonstrate beyond all doubt that violent symbolic actions against "capitalism" and "statism", are authoritarian, basically marxist, and not anarchist. That these acts also are supported by national socialists (neonazis) and a former RAF-member in Germany, should be of little surprise. "Tell me what your friends are, and I will tell you what you are!" - is a good old anarchist word of wisdom. These statements also apply to the Gothenburg and Genoa events and similar, where authoritarian and semilibertarian marxists and neonazis did violent symbolic "anticapitalist" acts, although these events were just chaotic and ochlarchic, and not really terrorist. We, mainly the international anarchists that joined this conference and discussion on terrorism, understand the muslim hierarchist terrorism - and their statist and/or fascist ideology, very well. To defend the people of the world, also including muslim people broadly defined (and not their authorities), it is necessary to fight this authoritarian evil down, however not violating anarchist human rights. Thus - we are only supporting the US, EU, NATO and UN actions against the muslim terrorists as far as that. And before any actions are taken, there must be proof of guilt, beyond reasonable doubt. But also earlier acts of terrorism, say as the Ostrø-case, and the series of attempts and terrorist acts on USA from 1992 and later, should be considered in this connection. All forms of terrorism, i.e. red/brown, green/brown, dark brown and blue/brown, should be considered in a general fight against terrorism. By the way, the present ochlarchy against innocent muslims - i.e. non muslim state hierarchists doing jihad - and look alikes, in the USA and other places, it is denounced by the anarchists, and must be stopped immediately. However - all main religions today - and especially the fundamentalist versions- are evil alienations used in the service of capitalism and statism, militarism and patriarchism included - and should be denounced, and gotten rid of in the long run. Atheism, with a touch of agnostisism - is the only 100% anarchist belief. Anarchists should also unite in the fight against more authoritarian laws and more of an Orwellian "1984" police state, introduced as means against terrorism." __________________________________________________________________ More news and information about the Anarchy of Norway, Brown Cards from The International Anarchist Tribunal, etc. at: [4]http://www.anarchy.no/anarchy/ The Tampa case is discussed at: [5]http://www.anarchy.no/anarchy/ija131.html The situations before and after the Stortings election in Norway are discussed in IJA 2(31) and IJA 3(31), available at: [6]http://www.anarchy.no/anarchy/ija231.html [7]http://www.anarchy.no/anarchy/ija331.html The economical political map used for analysis is presented at: [8]http://www.anarchy.no/anarchy/a_e_p_m.html General information about the International Journal of Anarchism at [9]http://www.anarchy.no/anarchy/ija.html References 1. mailto:ifa@anarchy.no 2. mailto:ifa@anarchy.no 3. http://www.anarchy.no/anarchy/ifadok.html 4. http://www.anarchy.no/anarchy/ 5. http://www.anarchy.no/anarchy/ija131.html 6. http://www.anarchy.no/anarchy/ija231.html 7. http://www.anarchy.no/anarchy/ija331.html 8. http://www.anarchy.no/anarchy/a_e_p_m.html 9. http://www.anarchy.no/anarchy/ija.html