In addition to my SWAG in post #1804, I offer the following quote and it's source:
From Russia With Terror- An interview with Ion Mihai Pacepa, former acting chief of Communist Romania’s espionage service:
"Pacepa: In the early 1970s, the Kremlin established a “socialist division of labor” for persuading the governments of Iraq and Libya to join the terrorist war against the US. KGB chairman Yury Andropov (who would later become the leader of the Soviet Union), told me that either of those two countries could inflict more damage on the Americans than could the Red Brigades, the Baader-Meinhof group and all other terrorist organizations taken together. The governments of those Arab countries, Andropov explained, not only had inexhaustible financial resources (read: oil), but they also had huge intelligence services that were being run by “our razvedka advisers” and could extend their tentacles to every corner of the earth. There was one major danger, though: by raising terrorism to the state level we risked American reprisal. Washington would never dispatch its airplanes and rockets to exterminate the Baader-Meinhof, but it might well deploy them to destroy a terrorist state. We therefore were also tasked to provide those countries secretly with weapons of mass destruction, because
Andropov concluded that the Yankees would never attack a country that could retaliate with such deadly weapons."
A good read.
If a larger organization is putting this whole thing together, what is the final goal?...everyone killing everyone else?
If a larger organization is putting this whole thing together, what is the final goal?...everyone killing everyone else?