Making of suicide bombers
DR GHAYUR AYUB
ARTICLE (June 20 2010): There is general consensus about how suicide bombers are brainwashed in religious seminaries. They attack groups belonging to the opposite religious sects and supporters of American interests. But what about those who bomb innocent people in the market places, who have no religious or political inclinations? An investigative report following the carnage at Bhakkar, traced the culprit to a Mullah in DIK, who had links with Waziristan.
The most disturbing part of the investigation showed that the suicide bombers are randomly sold for Rs 1 million to Rs 1.5 million. The question is; do these bombers the culprits or themselves victims caught in the cobweb spread by their brutal handlers?
Brainwashing takes different forms. I remember a psychiatrist, who treated heroin addicts, telling me that the principle of his therapy was to replace addiction with addition. I didn't know what he was talking about until I learned about how the treatment ran in sessions. First, the patient was detoxified followed by replacing heroin with a milder short-acting sedative; followed, again, by 'Minimum Insulin Therapy (MIT)' to help the addict gain weight and feel good about himself.
After that, he was given a list of religious books to read. This was the most fascinating part of the therapy as at the end of finishing a book, the psychiatrist would discuss it with him and find out what he found interesting in it. Then he would do the same with the second book and the third and it went on and on for some time. Now and again, he would ask a religious scholar to join them in the discussions.
According to him, it had a remarkable effect on the addict as he not only gave up heroin, but also turned to religion. On my enquiry, he explained, "I replace one type of addiction with another; first hard drugs with milder drug and later milder drug with religion" It was then I realised, how skilfully he brainwashed his patients without hypnotising them in a conventional way.
Generally speaking, hypnosis is the main tool in brainwashing. As opposed to conventional brainwashing by the psychiatrists in medical fields; evidence is available where it is carried out in the fields of warfare. At the end of World War II and beginning of 'Cold War', President Truman authorised 'Project Paperclip' to exploit German scientists in detainment for American research in this field.
These intellectuals, though ardent Nazis, were considered so vital to the "Cold War" effort, that they were taken to the US and Canada to deny the Soviet Union from such vital resources. That's how mind-control experimentation started secretly on a grand scale. It was at that time that James Forrestal, the US Secretary of Defence, pushed for the CIA to begin a 'secret war' against the Soviets.
In 1947, it was decided that the communist threat should be given priority over constitutional rights. It is interesting to find, that this theory was applied again in 2001 at the onset of the war against terrorism. Forrestal's initiative led to the execution of psychological warfare operations (psy-ops) in Europe, using military bases to hide covert activities. A 1999 report to the Senate and the House said "between 1945 and 1955, a total of 765 scientists, engineers, and technicians were brought to the US under Paperclip and similar programmes."
A declassified CIA document 'Hypnotic Experimentation and Research, 10 February 1954' talks of creation of unsuspecting assassins through mind-control. According to the report, the agency originated its first programme in 1950 under the name of 'Bluebird', which was changed to 'Artichoke Mkultra' after Britain and Canada were included in it.
It was closed officially in 1964, but some of its programmes remained active under 'Mksearch'. In 1973, tipped off about forthcoming investigations, the CIA Director ordered the destruction of 'Mkultra' records, some of which survived and surfaced as part of 16,000-page documents in the Agency's financial history.
According to Senator Frank Church, who led the congressional investigations of the CIA's unlawful actions in 1976, the agency was "a rogue elephant operating above the law as it plotted assassinations, illegally spied on thousands of Americans, and even drugged our own citizens in its effort to develop new weapons for its covert arsenal."
Apparently, those weapons were hypnotic techniques, operated through drugs and sensory deprivation, to split one's personality followed by preparing subjects to respond to a post-hypnotic trigger and perform acts which they wouldn't remember later. A typical case was shown by P Janet, who asked a "deeply hypnotised female to commit several murders before a distinguished group of judges, stabbing some victims with a rubber dagger and poisoning others with sugar tablets". She did it without hesitation.
In this way, research centres were developed making high power, very low frequency acoustic beam weapons that projected acoustics to produce 'voices in the head' akin to schizophrenic patients. The aim was to devise a system stimulating specific brainwave rhythms and alter the state of consciousness of individual subjects.
They were exposed to extreme REM sleep deprivation added, sometimes, with selective drugs that make them incapable of resisting "suggestions". With further work, such 'suggestions' were converted to "commands" with devastating consequences such as accepting to kill or be killed. It is known that REM sleep deprivation causes; reduced protein synthesis, loss of short term memory, confusion, impulsiveness, anger, frustration, diminished self-esteem, reduced productivity, apathy, depression and increased suggestibility.
We know that the subconscious mind plays a pivotal role in brainwashing by accepting 'suggestions'. These suggestions are conveyed through acoustics or visuals or both. And this became the principle of brainwashing in scientific way used in warfare. This type of brainwashing is different to the one practised by the psychologists and psychiatrists.
They use phonation as a 'suggesting tool' while scientists use visuals and acoustics for the purpose. For example, in case of visuals, 'suggestions' are conveyed to subconscious brain through rapid movement of frames at the speed of 30 per second. At this speed, the conscious mind cannot recognise the message, but the subconscious mind can with clarity. Thus a subject can be brainwashed while wide awake.
Similarly, the subconscious mind operates at a speed of about 1200 to 1400 words per minute. This is many times faster than the conscious mind that operates at 250 to 450 WPM (words per minute). It means that at a higher speed, the conscious mind cannot recognise a message, but the subconscious mind not only recognises it, but reads it clearly and gets sensitised to it. This part of acoustic transmission has its own history.
In the mid-1950s, certain psychotropic weapons of mass mind-control were tested by the US military intelligence with the code name 'the Sound of Silence'. It was perfected during the 70s and used extensively in the 90s. This mind-altering covert weapon is based on subliminal carrier technology called the Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (SSSS), also nicknamed S-Quad or "Squad" in military jargon. It was developed by Dr Oliver Lowery of Norcross, Georgia.
Making of suicide bombers
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