Top
Secret
As kids, we all remember the familiar taunt. It went like
this. Sing along if you know it.
"I know something you don’t know."
If we were privy to the secret, we felt powerful, connected,
in charge. If we were excluded, we felt like second-class citizens.
Back then, the secrets usually had to do with Mom’s hair
color, big brother’s new girlfriend or a hush-hush ciphering system that
only club members could decode.
As adults, we still enjoy the discovery of secrets and
sharing them with a few friends. I suspect that was one reason I got into
journalism. There’s still a rush you feel when you ferret out a story and
present it to the world for its close-up examination.
I’ll never forget how privileged I felt to learn firsthand
from a former member of military intelligence that he had served in a unit
that was dropped behind the Iron Curtain. His mission was to monitor Russian
troop movements during the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The story
he told was similar to an episode of that old TV show, Mission Impossible.
If he or his team members were caught, the US embassy would disavow all
knowledge of their actions.
Years later, another acquaintance shared with me that he
served at a Texas Air Force base in the 1950’s where American flight
instructors were training Yugoslavian jet fighter pilots during the height
of the cold war. He told me they were there. He never told me why.
Another, second-hand intelligence plum fell into my lap,
last week. And, as usual, the mainstream media have yet to give the story
the time of day.
My duties as Editor of Web Today require that I search the
Internet on a daily basis for stories ignored by the networks and the New
York Times. One source I have come to highly regard is an Israeli-based
intelligence service known as the Debka Files.
Earlier this spring, Debka reported that Israeli fighters
were about to destroy Iraqi missiles that were being prepared for firing,
ostensibly in the direction of the Jewish state. Again, no mainstream media
picked up the story. Even alternative media outlets tagged the item a rumor
and treated it with disdain.
About a week later, official sources within the Israeli
government admitted the story was true.
Late last week, Debka Files struck again. They announced, at
first, that up to 15 hundred Iraqi commandos had invaded Jordan and were
about 50 miles within the Hashemite kingdom. By the next day, Debka expanded
its estimate to include up to 18-thousand Iraqi troops. The word was out
that Israeli, Jordanian and U.S. intelligence services were doing everything
within their power to kill the story. Sure enough, not a peep about it was
heard all weekend long from the Reality Impaired Media.
But one source after another, private citizens in Israel
with connections to the Knesset, the Israeli Defense Force and former high
ranking officials confirmed the story. In fact, one source even claimed that
members of the Knesset were keeping track of the westward progress of the
Iraqi armies from their seats in the government chambers.
Israel had recently launched a pair of additional
intelligence gathering satellites, bringing its fleet to three and allowing
virtually continuous surveillance capabilities over the Middle East.
Again, visitors to various Internet bulletin boards chose to
disregard the story and disparage its source. But Debka files never backed
down. World Net Daily has never backed down. And neither has Web Today.
Why would Saddam invade another Arab neighbor? Obviously, he
has to cross through Jordanian and/or Syrian territory to bring what’s
left of his military machine into the coming fray with Israel. Otherwise, he’d
be left with no option but to lob a few more Scud missiles Tel Aviv’s way,
as he did in the Gulf War.
His decision brings immediate discomfort to Jordan. The
moderate Jordanian king, who has a secret defense treaty with Israel, knows
his army is no match for the Iraqis. And if word leaked to the world that
this so-called Muslim leader were standing with the Jews against Iraq and
its Palestinian allies, the king might quickly find himself on the
unemployment line or before a firing squad.
His only other option, which may yet be exercised, is to
renounce his peace treaty with Israel and join the coming assault on the
side of Iraq. Saddam Hussein is counting on Jordan to close ranks with him
when the bullets start flying across the Jordan River…and that may be
soon.
One morning not too long from now, I suspect we will hear
that the entire Middle East has erupted in regional war. Ultimately, I
expect nuclear weapons to be used there in fulfillment of Biblical prophecy,
which is the ultimate intelligence source. You will have the advantage of
knowing how such a thing could have happened.
But let’s just keep it our little secret.