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(James Corbett): In this age of
manufactured terror,

one of the most vital regions on the
global chessboard

is also an area that few in the West
know anything about:

Central Asia.

This geostrategic and resource-rich area
on the doorstep of China and Russia

finds itself in the middle of an all-out
terror campaign.

But, as key national intelligence
whistleblowers are pointing out,

these terrorists are working
hand-in-glove with NATO.

This is the GRTV Backgrounder
on Global Research TV.

Ever since the staged false flag attacks
of 9/11,

the US Government and its
complicit corporate media

have focused their attention on
fighting the shadowy,

all-pervasive, all-powerful, ill-defined,
and undefeatable al-Qaeda enemy

that is supposedly menacing the US
and its allies at home and abroad.

The term "al-Qaeda," of course, is
merely a cipher for "excuse to invade."

In the case of Afghanistan, for instance,

the US used the threat of al-Qaeda
as the excuse

for their 12-year-long invasion
and occupation of the country.

In Libya and Syria, the US and its allies

are supporting those same self-described
al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters.

The ruse has long since become obvious.

Less obvious, then,

because it has been taking place

completely under the radar of
mainstream media attention,

is another front in the so-called
"War on Terror:"

Central Asia and the Caucasus region.

Encompassing the area surrounding
the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea,

this region has long been identified
as, perhaps,

the most geostrategically vital part
of the globe.

It provides access to the exceptionally
rich Caspian oil and gas deposits,

hosts the New Silk Road -- a vital trade
route between China and Europe --

and sits on the doorstep of China
and Russia.

And, it just so happens to have
a terrorist problem.

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A gunfight in the courtyard of
a Kazan apartment block.

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Two hard-line Islamist militants and
one police officer

died in this operation last month,

in what is supposed to be a peaceful
republic in central Russia.

In July, two attacks left Tatarstan's most
senior

government-supported Muslim cleric in
hospital, and his deputy dead.

Late Thursday night,

a car that was stopped at a police
checkpoint

in the Russian republic of Dagestan:

-- in fact, the capital, Makhachkala --

detonated itself.

And then, in the ensuing chaos,

as emergency crews and firefighters
came to fight the blaze that ensued,

a second bomb went off about
20 minutes later.

It is believed that that bomb could have
been hidden in a parked car

near the same checkpoint.

And this is not new to the area.

In fact, this is an ongoing battle
in the Russian Caucasus.

The region has been suffering attacks
by Islamist terrorist groups,

international cells that Russian officials
have linked to groups like al-Qaeda

And over in Kyrgyzstan,

the security service says that two
terrorist organizations

the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
and the Islamic Jihad Union,

directly plotted and participated in the
ethnic violence

in our country's southern cities of
Osh and Jalalabad.

Officials add that supporters and the
relatives

of the ousted President Kurmanbek
Bakiyev

allegedly promised to provide $30
million US dollars to those organizations,

saying that the results of the
investigation have been confirmed

by the concerned countries.

At first blush, it may seem odd that
in this age of terror,

the American population has been
told so little

about the growing terrorist insurgency
in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

But when examined in the light
of regional geopolitics,

this deafening silence makes
perfect sense.

Indications of how and why this region is
so important

come from numerous geostrategists
including Zbigniew Brzezinski,

Obama's acknowledged mentor and a
key advisor to his administraion.

His his 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard,

Brzezinski identified the Central Asian
Caucasus region

as part of a larger area he called
the "Eurasian Balkans."

This area, he wrote, "is of importance
from the standpoint of security"

"and historical ambitions to at least
three of their most immediate"

"and more powerful neighbors, namely,
Russia, Turkey, and Iran,"

"with China also signaling an increasing
political interest in the region."

"But," he continued, "the Eurasian
Balkans are infinitely more important"

"as a potential economic prize:"

"an enormous concentration of natural gas"

"and oil reserves is located
in the region,"

"in addition to important minerals,
including gold."

Brzezinski knew very well what he
was writing about.

As National Security Adviser under
President Carter,

he had overseen Operation Cyclone,

the US Government's
since-declassified plan

to arm, train, and fund Islamic radicals
in Pakistan and Afghanistan

to draw the Soviet Union into a protracted
war in the region.

This, famously, led to the foundation

of what became known as al-Qaeda
in the 1980s,

a point that Brzezinski has since
admitted and then bragged about,

claiming that the creation of
"a few stirred-up Muslims"

helped to bring down the Soviet Union.

It is no surprise, then, that Brzezinski
went on to predict, in his 1997 book,

that the first major war of the 21st
Century would take place in this region.

Which is exactly what happened with the
NATO invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

And it is also no surprise

that even NATO's hand-picked Afghan
President, Hamid Karzai,

is now openly accusing the US of
supporting the Taliban in the country

to convince the public that they will need
US protection

after the planned troop withdrawal
date in 2014.

Further muddying Hagel's visit,

Karzai accused the United States and
the Taliban of holding daily talks,

and having a mutual interest in
destabilizing Afghanistan.

As an example, he cited yesterday's
suicide bombings

that killed 19 people.

He said, "They are trying to frighten us
into thinking that if they foreigners"

"are not in Afghanistan, we would be
facing these sorts of incidents."

Global Research contributor and "Stop
Nato International" director Rick Rozoff

appeared on the Boiling Frogs Post
Podcast in 2011

to discuss this region and the overlap
between NATO's strategic interests

and Islamic extremism.

Both Brzezinski and Wolfowitz, Libby
and company,

pointed out that the main area where any
sort of competition could ever arise...

-- understand: we're not talking
about threat;

we're not talking about anyone who
would even seriously challenge,

but perhaps might offer some modicum
of resistance

to plans of the United States and its
NATO allies

to maintain this unprecedented
global dominace

that this would occur in the former
Soviet Union,

in what Sibel was referring to as earlier
-- or yourself, perhaps, Peter --

as the Commonwealth of Independent States

that was formed after the dissolution of
the Soviet Union in 1991.

These are 12 of the 15 former Soviet
republics,

excluding the three Baltic states.

And it's been the intent, since the
mid-1990s,

to undermine even that.

It's basically a loose trade association
more than anything,

or economic association,

but the United States and other
Western leaders

set up an alliance known by the acronym
of GUAM,

that's Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan,
and Moldova.

For a short while, there were two "U"s
in GUUAM,

the second one being Uzbekistan
-- which subsequently withdrew.

But then now the European Union
has come up with an equivalent,

what's called the Eastern Partnership,

which is to increasingly wean

all the non-Central-Asian former
Soviet Republics

away from the Commonwealth
of Independent States

and towards the European Union --

which is, in terms of foreign policy
and, certainly, military policy,

indistinguishable from NATO.

And those countries that I'm talking
about, of course,

your Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova,
Georgia, Azerbaijan, and...

who am I leaving out? Armenia?

I mean, there's every attempt
to isolate Russia,

to destroy even the residual components
of the former Soviet Union.

It has long been understood that the
terror operation in Chechnya

and other key parts of the Central Asia
and Caucasus region

have been supported, funded, and
protected by NATO

to help destabilize the region

surrounding their main geopolitical
rivals, Russia and China,

in an operation very simliar to
Operation Cyclone in the '70s and '80s.

This has, until now, remained mostly
within the realm of speculation,

but in a recent groundbreaking series
of interviews on The Corbett Report,

FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds
has confirmed that this is, in fact,

exactly what is happening.

And with NATO...

and this is extremely important for
people who really want to underatnd this

-- and again we are looking at
a small percentage of people

who see the extreme importance
of these points we've been discussing --

is the correlation when you talk about

taking these nations

and make them official NATO members.

Azerbaijan, OK?

-- and you and I have discussed this --

and they went from spending

something like $30, $40 million dollars

on their defense, to today

$4, $5 billion dollars that

they have to give the United States.

Which is actually... a lot of it is

our money given to them as aid,

and then it comes back here

-- the same, our money --

and then buys this from Northrop Grumman,

or General Dynamics, or whatever.

But then you're looking at,

not official members, but partner members

and all the offices that NATO

has been opening -- where? --

United [Arab] Emirates.

I mean, "North Atlantic," OK? "NATO."

What was the purpose of NATO when it was

established after World War II?

What was the region...

there were some specifics.

All those today are irrelevant.

It's moot.

NATO should have been dissolved,

if that was what their mission

-- I mean, that was what the
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in 1989, 1990, after the Berlin Wall,

after the Soviet Union's collapse.

And as neocons' and even
neoliberals' hero Francis Fukuyama said,

"The End is in. It is it, finished."

"Now we're gonna be one global,
one happy world;"

"everybody loves everybody,
and the end of all wars."

And NATO should have been dissolved;

NATO has been expanding, OK?

So you have all these countries

such as Azerbaijan:

they are looking at Kazakhstan.

They conceive Kazakhstan to be...

become a very, very important,

a strategic member of NATO.

Again, look at the location: Kazakhstan.

Then turn around: look at China.

So, it's those; but then:

all these offices we have been putting

in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait

and all these different countries,

the little nations within

the United [Arab] Emirates,

and say... I mean,

"What is going on here?"

And that goes back to what we have

been talking about since the beginning,

the Plan B.

And then you're looking at

the Islamization of Central Asia/Caucasus

and using Islam by NATO

for carrying some of these operations

and bringing these states within

their sphere of influence;

while you are looking at some of

the helpers, partners they have had,

which has come from Saudi Arabia,

Kuwait, and the United [Arab] Emirates...

And then again, you look at some of

the partnership that's being established

between those nations and some

of the Central Asian and Caucasus.

And I have, again, been covering those

within my nightly news episodes:

and that is, OK, here is Saudi Arabia,

$200 -- whatever -- million dollar agreement

with Azerbaijan on this project.

And you've got to really

keep a close eye on it.

I mean, really:

look at it and analyze it.

You don't have to even spend hours:

once you do it for a while,

then all you have to do

is see the headlines,

read the first paragraph, and you know

how this links to everything else

we have been talking about.

If it is true that the people perish for
lack of knowledge,

perhaps it is nowhere more true

than in the phony NATO-created
War of Terror.

Without the understanding created
by Edmonds and others

in identifying the Central Asia/Caucasus
terror campaign as a NATO proxy war,

the entire concept of Islamic terrorism

becomes inscrutable to
geopolitical analysis.

As this information will never
be disseminated

by the complicit corporate media,

it is vitally important that the people
take this task into their own hands

by sharing this information with others
and contributing to the analysis

of the terror campaign being waged
in the region

The seeds of the next great world conflict
are being sown in Central Asia,

on the doorstep of Russia and China,

and regardless of whether or not this
conflict too

is being manipulated and managed
behind the scenes,

the lives of countless millions hang
in the balance

of the specter of that all-out war.

Only an understanding of NATO's
active complicity

in fostering and protecting these
Muslim extremists

can help break the tool of propaganda

by which they will try to convince
their populations

to acquiesce to such a war.

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