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Trump's travel ban is a psychological operation: Analyst

Wednesday, 22 February 2017 6:42 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 23 February 2017 12:09 PM ]

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US President Donald Trump’s recent executive order that bans citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the country is a "psychological operation" and won’t make Americans safer, says a political analyst.

Walt Peretto, a writer and sociopolitical psychologist in Washington made the remarks while discussing the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

Trump signed an executive order on January 27, which was put on hold by federal courts, restricting the entry of citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

The Trump administration said the measure was aimed at keeping what it called “radical Islamic terrorists” out of the US.

“This notion is a psychological operation, it is not a practical operation” Peretto told Press TV on Wednesday.

"Rulers rule their flocks by instilling fear in their subjects. The events of September 11, 2001 instilled a lot of fear in a lot of people," he added.

The September 11, 2001 attacks, also known as the 9/11 attacks, were a series of strikes in the US which killed nearly 3,000 people and caused about $10 billion worth of property and infrastructure damage.

US officials assert that the attacks were carried out by al-Qaeda, whose leader Osama bin Laden was living in Afghanistan then, but many experts have raised questions about the official account. They believe that rogue elements within the US government orchestrated or at least encouraged the 9/11 attacks in order to accelerate the US war machine and advance the Zionist agenda.

"I find it interesting that the most violent and destructive countries in the Middle East are not on the travel ban including Saudi Arabia, Israel, Qatar, and Bahrain to name a few. But they are allies with the United States and all their elites thirst for a one-world government," Peretto said.

“The seven countries indicted by the West as fomenting terrorism are countries that have been targeted for hegemony since 9/11 was in the planning stages,” the analyst said.

The analyst warned that everyone needs to conduct research and think when it comes to the corporate-controlled western media. “We must always be aware of news items that aren't always what they appear to be on the surface. Even Donald Trump is using the term "fake news" these days.”

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