Making of suicide bombers

By

Dr Ghayur. Ayub

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 Bhakar, traced the culprit to a Mullah in DIK who had links with Waziristan. The most disturbing part of the investigation showed that suicide bombers are randomly sold for Rs 1 million to Rs 1.5 million. The question is; are 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 WWII and beginning of ‘Cold War’, President Truman authorized ‘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, 765 scientists, engineers, and technicians were brought to the US under Paperclip and similar programs.”

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 program 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 programs remained active under ‘Mksearch’. In 1973, tipped off about forthcoming investigations, 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 brain wave 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 practiced 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 recognize 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 recognize 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 psychtronic weapons of mass mind-control were tested by 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. Using this technology, inaudible acoustic or vibrational desired messages are conveyed in very low; very high audio frequencies; or in ultrasonic frequency for inducement into the subconscious mind through the use of loudspeakers, earphones, or piezoelectric transducers. In layman's terms, this device, allows for the unwarranted implantation of specific messages, thoughts, emotions, and even prescribed physical actions into unsuspecting human beings. In other words, it has the ability to turn human beings into mere puppets in the hands of their "controllers”.

This technology falls in ‘behavioural modification program, in which subjects go through three stages; pre-screen evaluation; process of standardisation; and process of extreme. Without going into details of each stage, it works out as follows;

A full study of the subject's religious, superstitions, fears, and insecurities is made through standard subliminal interrogation techniques and behavioural observation. After having full control over the subject; his physical and mental condition is depleted by arresting his ability to communicate concisely, and making him dishonoured in the sight of local and federal law enforcement agencies to assure the subject's testimony becomes questionable. Meanwhile, depending on the leanings of the subject, whether religious or non-religious, coincidence is used to create a perception that supernatural events are beginning in his life. A combination of posthypnotic commands and pre-information awarded to him prior to an upcoming experience that gives him a feeling that "God" or some other supernatural being is taking an interest in his life. The subject is then given a posthypnotic suggestion that a feeling of dread or loss is welling up inside him and he is directed to think of a particular loved one. With repetitions, he starts believing that he has special powers, insights, or communications from God or other super entities, which come as ‘voices’. In actual fact such voices may be transmitted as posthypnotic script at a pre-specified time from a nearby building. And what about those who are detained in places such as Bagram Base or Guantanamo Bay? 

To quote an example; a declassified CIA document dated 7 January 1953 with a section heading “Outline of Special H Cases” describes the creation of multiple personalities in two 19-year old girls. “These subjects have clearly demonstrated that they can pass from a fully awake state to a deep hypnotic state by telephone, by receiving written matter, or by the use of code, signal, or words and that control of those hypnotized can be passed from one individual to another without great difficulty. It has also been shown by experimentation with these girls that they can act as unwilling couriers for information purposes.”G.H. Estabrooks was the only mind control doctor who publicly acknowledged in his book Spiritism that experiments were done to create multiple personalities. In another book, Hypnotism, he states that the creation of experimental multiple personality for operational use in military subjects, whom he refers to as super spies, is ethical because of the demands of war. In a 1971 article in Science Digest, he claimed to have created hypnotic couriers and counterintelligence agents for operational use.

Now, here is an interesting point I want to put forward. On October 27, 1992, the ‘Squad’ technology was patented for "privatization" commercial applications by Dr. Lowery, opening the door to private defence contractors to develop their own "intelligence systems". No wonder the public showed concerns about Xe or Backwater Security Firm taking over buildings in Islamabad and other cities of the country and fortifying them. And what about the secret boxes delivered to the Marriot Hotel, Islamabad, without being checked just before a suicide bomber with a truckload of ammunition blasted himself? The next day, Rehman Malik linked the bomber with Waziristan.  

Finally, a declaration, in a neuroscientist conference sponsored by the UN at Tokyo in 1999, read: "Today we have intellectual, physical and inancial resources to master the power of the brain itself, and to develop devices to touch the mind and even control or erase consciousness...We wish to profess our hope that such pursuit of knowledge serves peace and welfare” The question is; are the religious custodians and non-religious political gurus around the world use such fantastic resources for the benefit of religious synchronization and global political stability; or to gain  immoral supremacy, through intrigues, strife and wars? And isn’t it shameful that they pick up innocent youth, brainwash them and then turn them into suicide bombers. 

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