Drug mafia, CIA blamed for sacking of Afghan governor

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Drug mafia, CIA blamed for sacking of Afghan governor

Monday January 08, 2007 (0951 PST)

KABUL: In a country flooded with narcotics traffickers and corrupt government officials, one of Afghanistan’s few remaining ‘clean’ governors, Mohammed Daud, has been removed from his position, and many are blaming the drug mafia and the CIA for his abrupt dismissal.

Daud was appointed at the request of the British government in order to oversee Helmand province, the country’s largest opium producing region.

The former governor of Helmand, Sher Muhammad Akhunzada, whom Daud replaced earlier this year, has been widely implicated in the drug trade.

Contrary to Akhunzada, “British officials regarded Mr Daud as the cleanest governor in Afghanistan and hoped that his extensive experience in development would help to win over Helmand’s population,” The Times reported.

Last month, however, the British government expressed frustration with the effort, pointing to the fact that Afghan President Hamid Karzai continued to meet with the former governor, Akhunzada. Adding further strain on the situation, Karzai appointed Akhunzada as a senator and made his brother, Amir Muhammad Akhundzada, Daud’s deputy.

“The president is undermining his own governor,” one British official told The Times. “It doesn’t help what we’re trying to do.”

It would appear U.S. officials, particularly from the Central Intelligence Agency, were influencing Karzai’s actions, undercutting the efforts of their British counterparts. Moreover, as The Independent reported, “British sources have blamed pressure from the CIA for President Hamid Karzai’s decision to dismiss Mohammed Daud as governor”.

“The Americans knew Daud was a main British ally,” one official explained to The Independent, “yet they deliberately undermined him and told Karzai to sack him.”

The U.S. apparently favors the brother of Daud’s predecessor and purported drug lord, Akhunzada.

As The Times reports, “British officials fear that Mr Daud will be replaced by his deputy, Amir Muhammad Akhunzada, the brother of Sher Muhammad Akhunzada. He is thought to have links to the drug trade and has been banned from running in elections because he refuses to disband his personal militia.”

“For the moment,” as one official told The Times, “before a new governor is named, the governor of Helmand is a drug-dealing warlord who was banned from the elections by the UN for keeping a militia and his connection to narcotics, and with whom the British have said they cannot work. Nice.”

Opium from Afghanistan provides more than 90 percent of the world’s total supply, funding international drug syndicates with billions of dollars in profits every year.

According to a recent report issued by the United Nations and the World Bank, the U.S.-installed government has established a “complex pyramid of protection and patronage, effectively providing state protection to criminal trafficking activities.”

“Around 25 to 30 key traffickers, the majority of them based in southern Afghanistan, control major transactions and transfers, working closely with sponsors in top government and political positions,” the report states.

“This year’s record harvest of 6,100 tons of opium will generate more than $3 billion in illicit revenue – equivalent to almost half of Afghanistan’s GDP,” writes Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. “Profits for drug traffickers downstream,” he notes, “will be almost 20 times that amount.”

According to Costa, “High-level collusion enables thousands of tons of chemical precursors, needed to produce heroin, to be trucked into the country. Armed convoys transport raw opium around the country unhindered. Sometimes even army and police vehicles are involved. Guns and bribes ensure that the trucks are waved through checkpoints. Opiates flow freely across borders into Iran, Pakistan, and other Central Asian countries.”

“There are many cases where honest prosecutors or police chiefs try to do something about corruption, and they say they receive phone calls from very high officials in Kabul saying to leave the people alone,” said Barnett Rubin, an expert on Afghanistan and director of studies and senior fellow at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation.

As The Washington Post has plainly summarized, “corruption and alliances formed by Washington and the Afghan government with anti-Taliban tribal chieftains, some of whom are believed to be deeply involved in the trade, [have] undercut the [counter-narcotics] effort.”

source:
http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?165264

Related Facts :
1. Afghanistan now nearly ‘a narcotics state’
More than three years after a pro-U.S. government was installed, Afghanistan has been unable to contain opium poppy production and is “on the verge of becoming a narcotics state,” according to a presidential report. The report said the area in Afghanistan devoted to poppy cultivation last year set a new record of 206,700 hectares, more than triple the figure for 2003. When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, opium production was nearly halted. So, how come the Taliban is terrorist, then!!! Now there is a bumper crop. Look for the quiz on Afghanistan further down.
http://www.infowars.net/Pages/Mar05/050305Afghanistan.html

2. The Truth About The USA, Drugs and Afghanistan
“Before 1980, Afghanistan produced 0% of the world’s opium. But then the CIA moved in, and by 1986 they were producing 40% of the world’s heroin supply. By 1999, they were churning out 3,200 TONS of heroin a year ­ nearly 80% of the total market supply. But then something unexpected happened. The Taliban rose to power, and by 2000 they had destroyed nearly all of the opium fields. Production dropped from 3,000+ tons to only 185 tons, a 94% reduction!”
http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=13577&TagID=1

3. Who benefits from the Afghan Opium Trade?
The United Nations has announced that opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has soared and is expected to increase by 59% in 2006. The production of opium is estimated to have increased by 49% in relation to 2005. The Western media in chorus blame the Taliban and the warlords. The Bush administration is said to be committed to curbing the Afghan drug trade: “The US is the main backer of a huge drive to rid Afghanistan of opium… “
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20060921&articleId=3294

4. UN Report Says Afghan Government Protect Drug Traffickers
KABUL (AP)–Afghanistan’s criminal underworld has compromised key government officials who protect drug traffickers, allowing a record opium trade that won’t be stamped out for a generation to flourish, an ominous new U.N. report released Tuesday said.
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20061128\ACQDJON200611281353DOWJONESDJONLINE000662.htm&selected=9999&selecteddisplaysymbol=9999&StoryTargetFrame=_top&mkt=WORLD&chk=unchecked〈=&link=&headlinereturnpage=http://www.international.na

5. Afghanistan’s opium crop at an all-time high
The question is why. Under Taliban rule, which began in the late 1990s, Afghanistan just about kicked the growing habit by 2001. After five years the Taliban is slipping back in, but poppy production has grown by leaps and bounds. According to the Washington Post, “Opium production in Afghanistan, which provides more than 90 percent of the world’s heroin, broke all records in 2006, reaching a historic high despite ongoing U.S.-sponsored eradication efforts, the Bush administration reported yesterday.
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1511.shtml

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9/11 Israel ‘faked al-Qaeda presence’

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=== News Update ===

Sunday, 8 December, 2002, 01:22 GMT

Israel ‘faked al-Qaeda presence’

Israel insists al-Qaeda is operating in Gaza

Officials from the Palestinian Authority have accused the Israeli spy agency Mossad of setting up a fake al-Qaeda terrorist cell in Gaza.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said that Israel had set up the mock cell in order to justify attacks in Palestinian areas.

Raanan Gissin, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, called the allegation “sheer nonsense”.

On Thursday Mr Sharon said that members of Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terror network were at work in the Gaza Strip, aiming to attack Israel.

Israel has named al-Qaeda as the prime suspect in a suicide bombing at a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya that killed 16 people last week and an unsuccessful missile attack on a nearby Israeli passenger jet.

“It is a big, big, big lie to cover (Sharon’s) attacks and his crimes against our people everywhere,” Mr Arafat said at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Communications traced

Al-Qaeda has been blamed for the attacks in Kenya

Colonel Rashid Abu-Shbak, the Palestinian head of preventative security, said eight Palestinians had been approached from outside Gaza, and had been asked by Israeli agents to work for al-Qaeda with offers of money and weapons.

Colonel Abu-Shbak said the first approaches were made in March this year, and that all communications had been traced back to Israeli intelligence.

He cited the case of one Palestinian militant who had been approached and had been supplied with guns, and who was killed on his way to collect a second consignment of weapons.

“We are sure that Israel is behind this and that there are absolutely no groups such as al-Qaeda operating here,” Colonel Abu-Shbak said.

“We can’t say there will never be al-Qaeda here, but at least not for now,” he added.

Mr Gissin said that the Palestinian accusations were propaganda and disinformation put out by officials trying “to exonerate themselves from the allegations they are collaborating and participating with terrorists”.

US accusations

On Friday American media reported that al-Qaeda has set up a branch to help Palestinian militant groups fight Israel, according to a website US officials believe is linked to the organisation.

The new group has called for an end to inter-Palestinian feuding and has vowed to launch suicide attacks against Israeli and American targets in the Middle East, it said in a statement on the website, mojahedoon.net.

The Washington Post newspaper said United States officials believe the website speaks for al-Qaeda, and that it is being monitored by US intelligence agencies.

The Arabic-language website said al-Qaeda took responsibility for the attacks in Kenya.

The website carried a statement purportedly from the new al-Qaeda branch – the Islamic al-Qaeda in Palestine – pledging allegiance to Osama Bin Laden.

The group said it rejected any peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, declaring it would accept “nothing but the full liberation of the Palestinian land”.

source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2550513.stm

Related Facts:
1. 9/11 : The Fake 2004 Bin Laden Video Tape
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape2.html

2. 9/11 : The Fake bin Laden Video Tape 2001
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape.html

3. 9/11 Al Qaeda Tapes: Direct Link To Military Psyops And Donald Rumsfeld
http://infowars.net/articles/October2006/051006Rumsfeld.htm

4. 9/11 Fake Al Qaeda : The Phony (Mossad) – Al Qaeda Cell in Palestine
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fakealqaeda.html

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Where the Bombs Are – Ever wondered where all those nukes are stored?

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=== News Update ===

Where the Bombs Are

Ever wondered where all those nukes are stored?

A new review published in the November/December issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shows that the United States stores its nearly 10,000 nuclear warheads at 18 locations in 12 states and six European countries.

The article’s authors – Hans M. Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists and Robert S. Norris of the Natural Resources Defense Council – identified the likely locations by piecing together information from years of monitoring declassified documents, officials statements, news reports, leaks, conversations with current and former officials, and commercial high-resolution satellite photos.

The highest concentration of nuclear warheads is at the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific in Bangor, Washington, which is home to more than 2,300 warheads – probably the most nuclear weapons at any one site in the world. At any given moment, nearly half of these warheads are on board ballistic-missile submarines in the Pacific Ocean.

Approximately 1,700 warheads are deployed on Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines operating in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and about 400 warheads are at eight bases in six European countries – Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and Great Britain (for more information on U.S. warheads in Europe, go to http://www.nukestrat.com/us/afn/nato.htm). The United States is the only nuclear weapon state that deploys nuclear weapons in foreign countries.

Consolidation of U.S. nuclear storage sites has slowed considerably over the past decade compared to the period between 1992 and 1997, when the Pentagon withdrew nuclear weapons from 10 states and numerous European bases. Over the past decade, the United States removed nuclear weapons from three states – California, Virginia and South Dakota, and from one European country – Greece.

The overview finds that more than two-thirds of all U.S. nuclear warheads are still stored at bases for operational ballistic missiles and bombers, even through the Cold War ended more than 16 years ago. More than 2,000 of those warheads are on high alert, ready to launch on short notice. Only about 28 percent of U.S. warheads have been moved to separate storage facilities. The largest of these, an underground vault at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, stores more than 1,900 warheads.

The 10 U.S. sites that currently host nuclear weapons are: the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific, Bangor, Washington; Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada; Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming; Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico; Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana; Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota; Pantex Plant, Texas; Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana; Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri; and the Strategic Weapons Facility Atlantic, Kings Bay, Georgia. (See map.)

Full-size map available here. Full article available from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists here.

Go on a Nuclear Google Trip

Based on the information in the Bulletin article, FAS and NRDC have created a virtual satellite image tour of the 18 nuclear weapons storage facilities in the United States and Europe. To take the tour you need to have GoogleEarth installed on your computer. (GoogleEarth is available for free here.) Once you’re set up, click here or on the link below the Google map below to begin. When GoogleEarth has finished loading, check the “Where the Bombs are, 2006″ box in the “Places” window to the left to activate the placemarks, click once on a placemark to get an overview of the nuclear weapons stored at the base, and click twice to zoom in on the facility.

Click here to open GoogleEarth nuclear facility overview

The U.S. government refuses to disclose where it stores nuclear weapons, but the researchers emphasize that all the locations have been known for years to house nuclear weapons. Safety of nuclear weapons is determined not by knowledge of their location but by the military’s physical protection of the facilities and that the weapons cannot be detonated by unauthorized personnel.

Background: Where the Bombs are, 2006 | Status of World Nuclear Forces

source:
http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2006/11/new_article_where_the_bombs_ar.php

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The Illegality of the Executions of Mr Barzan Ibrahim Al-Tikriti and Judge Awad Al-Bandar

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

STOP THE EXECUTIONS

The Illegality of the Executions of Mr Barzan Ibrahim Al-Tikriti and Judge Awad Al-Bandar

The imminent executions of Mr Barzan Ibrahim Al-Tikriti and Judge Awad Al-Bandar are illegal and violate international law, particularly international human rights law for the following reasons:

1. The Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) is illegal

• • The range of observers finding the trials before the IST unfair include international NGOs like Human Rights Watch and the Quakers to state actors such as the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers

• It was the intended consequence of an illegal war, the crime of aggression
  • US President Bush said the war was intended to kill the Iraqi leadership
  • International law requires no State recognise the consequences of an illegal action
• It was created in violation of international humanitarian law
  • Articles 54 and 64 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibit occupiers from creating special courts to try their enemies and from vetting judges for their political alliances
• The trial was unfair

“aggressor’s justice”

2. The IST’s judgment and executions violate Iraqi law

• Iraqi law requires trials be fair. This trial was unfair. Even the Statute of the IST requires the trial be fair. See Report entitled “A Travesty of Justice” at http://international-lawyers.org (under “cases”) for details
  • Example: Although Judge Bandar claimed he could prove proceedings in 1982-84 ­ the essence of prosecution case ­ were fair, he was denied 350+ pages of court papers by the IST and prosecution

3. The IST’s judgment and the executions violate international human rights law

• The United States and Iraq have ratified the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights that in Article 14 provides for the right to a fair trial. For a list of specific rights violated see “A Travesty of Justice” at http://international-lawyers.org (under “cases”)
• International law prohibits the imposition of the death penalty following an unfair trial

ANY EFFORTS TO BRING THE ILLEGALITY OF THE IMMINENT EXECUTIONS OF MR TIKRITI AND JUDGE BANDAR TO THE ATTENTION OF GOVERNMENT LEADERS TO TRY TO STOP THESE EXECUTIONS IS WELCOMED.

THE MORE PEOPLE THAT TELL THEIR GOVERNMENTS TO HALT THESE ILLEGAL EXECUTIONS, THE MORE CHANCE WE HAVE OF PREVENTING THESE SERIOUS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS.

Summary of Some of the Most Important Violations of Fair Trial in Dujail Proceedings

Right to be judged by an independent and impartial tribunal (GCIII, art. 84(2) and ICCPR, art. 14(1) and ADRDM, art. XVIII)

• IST under US control as illustrated by fact that US as an occupying power set up IST, vetted the judges, paid all court officials, including judges, trained the judges, and explicitly ordered the judges to make decisions in some cases
• Judge Abdel Rahman claimed that the chief defendant should be executed without trial before becoming a judge of the court
• Judges were politically vetted

Right to be informed of charges (GCIII, art. 104 and ICCPR, art. 14(3)(a))

• No formal or adequately defined charges until seven months into the trial at the end of prosecution case in May 2006.

Right to adequate facilities and time to prepare defense [equality of arms](GCIII, art. 99 and 105 and ICCPR, art. 14(3)(b))

• Prosecution had 130,000 US military, two years and over 200 million US dollars to prosecute case; defense lawyers were volunteers Iraqi lawyers were chosen by US-backed Iraqi authorities, senior defense lawyers had no access to clients, there were no confidential meetings with clients, request for know exculpatory evidence were rejected, request to visit Dujail were rejected

Right to lawyer (GCIII, art. 99 and 105 and ICCPR, art. 14(3)(d))

• US-backed Iraqi authorities choose defense lawyers, lawyers defendants asked for were denied access or given only very limited access, four defense lawyers were killed, others threatened, arrested and assaulted.
• US interrogated defendants for months without allowing defense lawyers to be present and likely used this information at trial.

Right to public trial and judgment, (ICCPR, art. 14)

• No transcript from proceedings despite US strict video and audio coverage of proceedings with dozens of cameras and release of version of trial to media that was edited to reflect defense in worse light.

Tribunal must be established in accordance with law (ICCPR, art. 14(1), GCIV, art. 54 and 64)

• IST established after illegal invasion (crime of aggression) and occupation
• IST established when courts already existed after political vetting of judges as extraordinary court in violation of international humanitarian law.

Right to presumption of innocence (ICCPR, art. 14(2))

• Trial judge, US and Iraqi heads of state , numerous Iraqi politicians said defendants guilty before trial and that they should be hung.

Right to trial without delay (ICCPR, art. 14(3)(c))

• Defendants held for almost two years before trial started and denied access to a court to challenge their detention during this time.

Right to examine witnesses and to call witnesses under same conditions as prosecution (ICCPR, art. 14(3)(e))

• Defense witness led-by court employees, beaten, arrested, threatened, and defense stopped from presenting witnesses

Right of appeal (ICCPR, art. 14(3)(5))

• For 3 of 4 weeks of time for appeal trial court refused to provide written judgment, no substantive consideration of main grounds of appeal.

Right to communicate with lawyer of own choosing (ICCPR, art. 14(3)(b))

• Senior lawyers were denied right to meet defendants until trial had started and then frequently intimidated or prevented from meeting defendants

Right to transmit correspondence (ICCPR, art. 17 and 19 and ADRDM, art. X)

• Legal papers were vetted and often defense lawyers could not provide them to clients

Treaties: (1) (Third Geneva) Convention Relating to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (GCIII) [legally binding on US], (2) International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) [Legally binding on US and continues to apply in Iraq as no US derogation], (3) American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man (ADRDM) [This has been found by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to reflect the customary international law that is legally binding on the US].

source:
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m29636&hd=&size=1&l=e

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George Bush should come under the same scrutiny as Saddam Hussein

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
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=== News Update ===

By Ben Guyatt, Stoney Creek

The Hamilton Spectator(Jan 8, 2007)

So Saddam has been executed. He was no hero or humanitarian, but a despot and butcher. However, he is the same man who received U.S. military backing (including chemical weapons) when Iraq fought Iran. He was accused of killing thousands, and his sentence is apt.

My question is this, since there are no weapons of mass destruction and more than 600,000 Iraqi civilian deaths post the U.S. invasion, when will George W. Bush face the same scrutiny? Will he walk the 13 steps?

Do not expect equal justice. The United States is the same country that does not support the International Criminal Court, yet appeals to it when it suits its purpose. The travesty in Iraq proves that those with the military might rule with their false reasoning, fronting vested interests, and are not subject to the same morality and standards which they espouse.

What a joke of a war, a mess, a shame. What a sad world we live in. George W. Bush, this is your legacy. History will not remember you kindly.

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http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_=c63c262978b3c196&pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1168212908302

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VIDEO: President Saddam Hussein was slaughtered after his death

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
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=== News Update ===

VIDEO: President Saddam Hussein was slaughtered after his death

January 8, 2006

WARNING EXTREMELY GRAPHIC: Uruknet has never published the videos of the assassination of President of Iraq Saddam Hussein by members of the Mahdi Army or any images of Saddam Hussein’s body after the lynching. We thought that the respect due to the assassinated President of Iraq was more important than speculating with images already largely in public domain. We publish extremely graphic images only when they absolve the function to inform and bring new facts and highlight the truth. The only images we posted of the assassination of President Saddam Hussein were linked to the statements of two eyewitnesses and of one of Saddam Hussein’s lawyers according to which one of the two executioners was Motqada al-Sadr ( http://www.uruknet.info/?p=29513
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m29619 ) . We have hesitated before publishing the following video that brings new elements of knowledge. The video shows that President of Iraq Saddam Hussein was literally slaughtered (they cut his throat) on the first day of Eid Al-Adha (or Feast of Sacrifice) in what now can be called literally a human sacrifice . Just before the precise moment of the slaughter of the lamb, the first sacrificed lamb was the President of Republic of Iraq, Saddam Hussein.

Uruknet.info

New video of Saddam’s corpse on Internet

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/world/16412380.htm

QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Janaury 8, 2006 – A new video of Saddam Hussein’s corpse, with a gaping neck wound, was posted on the Internet early Tuesday, the second leaked release of clandestine pictures from the former leader’s hanging.

The video appeared to have been taken with a camera phone, like the graphic video of the hanging which showed guards taunting Saddam in the final moments of his life.

The footage pans up the shrouded body of the former leader from the feet. It apparently was taken shortly after Saddam was executed and placed on a gurney. He was hanged shortly before dawn on Dec. 30.

As the panning shot reaches the head region, the white shroud is pulled back and reveals Saddam’s head and neck.

His head is unnaturally twisted at a 90 degree angle to his right. It shows a gaping bloody wound, circular in shape, about an inch below his jaw line on the left side of his neck. His left cheek is marked with red blotches, and there is blood on the shroud where it covered his head.

The newest video leak was likely to increase the angry reaction over the way the execution was carried out. There already has been a global outcry about the undignified manner in which the Shiite-dominated government hanged Saddam, a Sunni.

The 27-second video was posted on an Iraqi news Web site that is known to support Saddam’s outlawed Baath Party.

“A new film of the late immortal martyr, President Saddam Hussein,” the web site said in a headline over a link to the video.

Voices could be heard on the video. As the shroud is pulled back, one voice says, “Hurry up, hurry up. I’m going to count from one to four. One, two … . Hurry up you’re going to get us into a catastrophe.”

Then another voice, apparently the man taking the pictures, says, “Just one second, just one second, Abu Ali. I’m about finished.”

Then a third voice says, “Abu Ali, you take care of this.”

It was the second clandestine video to have leaked, the first showing Saddam being taunted in his final moments. That clandestine video showed the former leader dropping through the gallows floor as he offered chanted prayers. It ends with his dead body swinging at the end of a rope.

The hanging video was in sharp contrast with an official video that was broadcast not long after Saddam’s execution which showed him standing silently on the gallows as the noose was put around his neck. The official video was muted.

The leaked hanging video, however, was shot from the floor of the gallows chamber, looking up at Saddam. Voices could be heard taunting him with cries of “Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada,” referring to radical anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of the Shiite Mahdi Army militia and a key support of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

The prime minister pushed for Saddam to be executed before the end of 2006 and just four days after the death sentence was upheld by the appeals court. U.S. official sought to delay the execution.

source:
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m29644&hd=&size=1&l=e

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US Terrorize The World – 19 Dhul-Hijjah 1427 H (9.1.07)

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=== News Update ===

Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America’s Rape Of Iraq – At Least 655,000 + +

 

http://tinyurl.com/usq4x

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s Rape Of Iraq 3,014
http://icasualties.org/oif/

The Rape of Iraq Costs $356,661,812,429 – See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

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VIDEO: President Saddam Hussein was slaughtered after his death

WARNING EXTREMELY GRAPHIC: Uruknet has never published the videos of the assassination of President of Iraq Saddam Hussein by members of the Mahdi Army or any images of Saddam Hussein’s body after the lynching. We thought that the respect due to the assassinated President of Iraq was more important than speculating with images already largely in public domain. We publish extremely graphic images only when they absolve the function to inform and bring new facts and highlight the truth. The only images we posted of the assassination of President Saddam Hussein were linked to the statements of two eyewitnesses and of one of Saddam Hussein’s lawyers according to which one of the two executioners was Motqada al-Sadr ( http://www.uruknet.info/?p=29513
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m29619 ) .

We have hesitated before publishing the following video that brings new elements of knowledge. The video shows that President of Iraq Saddam Hussein was literally slaughtered (they cut his throat) on the first day of Eid Al-Adha (or Feast of Sacrifice) in what now can be called literally a human sacrifice . Just before the precise moment of the slaughter of the lamb, the first sacrificed lamb was the President of Republic of Iraq, Saddam Hussein.

Uruknet.info
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m29644&hd=&size=1&l=e

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Saddam lawyers claim his body was abused

Lawyers of deposed Iraqi leader say they will sue Iraqi government at International Court of Justice over abuses by executioners during and after execution. She claimed that Muqtada al-Sadr was present at the execution.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3349346,00.html

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STOP THE EXECUTIONS : The Illegality of the Executions of Mr Barzan Ibrahim Al-Tikriti and Judge Awad Al-Bandar

Your urgent attention is respectfully drawn to the imminent execution of Mr. Barzan Tikriti and Judge Awwad Bandar. The Iraqi authorities with the cooperation of the United States government plan to execute both of these men after having provided them an unfair trial before the extraordinary Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST).
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m29636&hd=&size=1&l=e

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Mahathir wants to criminalise war

George Bush and Tony Blair are war criminals worse than Saddam Hussein, Mahathir Mohamad, the former Malaysian prime minister has said.
http://tinyurl.com/y5mdxb

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Saddam’s Hanging – Why Arabs Are Angry

On the first day of Eid Al-Adha, Arabs of the Middle East and North Africa awoke to news that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had been executed as per a death sentence handed down by an Iraqi court stemming from a guilty verdict for crimes against humanity.
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1165994402675&pagename=Zone-English-Muslim_Affairs%2FMAELayout

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George Bush should come under the same scrutiny as Saddam Hussein

So Saddam has been executed. He was no hero or humanitarian, but a despot and butcher. However, he is the same man who received U.S. military backing (including chemical weapons) when Iraq fought Iran. He was accused of killing thousands, and his sentence is apt.
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_=c63c262978b3c196&pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1168212908302

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War Criminal : No Honor among Murderers

President George W. Bush broke his silence on the unprovoked killing of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians by US Marines in the town of Haditha more than six months after the event, some two months after he was briefed on the atrocity by his national security adviser, and two months after a detailed account appeared in Time magazine, by muttering he was “troubled by the initial news stories.”

The murderer-in-chief, US President George Bush, promptly called Saddam’s execution ”the kind of justice he denied the victims of his brutal regime.”

How about calling out the hangman again for the justice denied to Haditha victims?
http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/2007/01/no-honor-among-murderers.html

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US “whore” Media : Hang ‘em high

Undaunted, al-Rubaie went out of his way to portray the hanging as dignified, telling CNN: “The whole process from A to Z has been videoed, and it’s kept in a safe place, and there was absolutely no humiliation to Saddam Hussein when he was alive, and after he was executed. So there was no — there was all respect to him, when he was alive, and after the execution when he was like a body, if you like … I’m honestly proud of the way it was executed. It was done in a proper way, in all the international standards and the Islamic standards, and Iraqi standards. I’m really proud of the way it went on.”

Within eighteen hours, the scenario described above would prove to be, using sophisticated legal terminology, horseshit. A cell phone tape of the execution would surface both on Arab TV and the internet revealing the event to be something as dignified as a frat blow-out and possessing all the judicial gravitas of a public lynching.
http://mkanejeeves.com/?p=255

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Big Lies, Small Lies and False Flags Waving

It never fails to amaze me, this daily stream of lies and half-truths- this couching of suggestive and subliminal acupressure upon the human mind. From the shit-shillers to the acrobatic word whores, everywhere you look someone is being paid to lie about something.
http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/

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Iraq war could cost US over $2 trillion, says Nobel prize-winning economist
The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1681119,00.html

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US twists civilian arms to fill Fortress Baghdad

The embassy compound being built inside Baghdad’s Green Zone covers 104 acres, making it six times larger than the United Nations compound in New York. A city within a city for more than 1,000 people, it will have its own water, sewers and electricity, six apartment buildings, a Marine barracks, swimming pool, shops and some walls 15 feet thick.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/44bb3006-9e80-11db-ac03-0000779e2340.html

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Pelosi: Dem’s will not cut off Iraq funding

WASHINGTON (CNN) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told CNN Wednesday a Democratic congress would not use their power of the purse to alter President Bush’s strategy in Iraq.
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/11/pelosi-dems-will-not-cut-off-iraq.html

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Many more sons will die while the Democrats do nothing to stop the war

They have failed to take on the principal reason they were elected and, tragically, the US public is unlikely to force them to.
http://tinyurl.com/yydw5x

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US military says 5 troops killed in Iraq; British military cites 1 death

BAGHDAD, Iraq: Three U.S. airmen and two soldiers were killed in Iraq, the U.S. military said Sunday.

A car bomb in Baghdad on Sunday killed three airmen assigned to the 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron’s Explosive Ordnance Division, the military said in a statement. One airman was also injured in the explosion.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/07/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Troops-Killed.php

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 7 January 2007.

• As strains of occupation intensify, US troops in ar-Ramadi wipe out family of five in reported cold-blooded killing.
• Resistance sharpshooter kills puppet policeman in al-Fallujah.
• US forces stage mass raids, arrests near al-Qa’im Saturday night – Sunday morning.
• Two US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing near al-Qa’im Sunday morning.
• Resistance bomb destroys American Humvee in ‘Anah Sunday morning.
• Saudi paper reports US command banning American troops from using camera phones.
• US forces arrest journalists participants who attended Samarra’ march in protest against assassination of Iraqi President Saddam Husayn.
• US imposes curfew on Samarra’ to prevent protest demonstrations.
• Resistance bomb destroys US Humvee in Samarra.
• Resistance blasts US “Camp Anaconda” with Katyusha rockets Sunday morning.
• Resistance blasts joint US-Iraqi puppet base with heavy mortars Sunday noon.
• Puppet “Provincial Assemblyman” wounded in Resistance assault Sunday morning.
• US soldier reported killed in Tall ‘Afar Sunday morning.
• Resistance sharpshooter reportedly kills US soldier in al-Mawsil Sunday morning.
• US soldier reported killed in Resistance bombing in Sinjar Sunday morning.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0107/iraqiresistancereport_070107.htm

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This Road is for Jews Only – Yes, There is Apartheid in Israel

Jewish self-righteousness is taken for granted among ourselves to such an extent that we fail to see what’s right in front of our eyes. It’s simply inconceivable that the ultimate victims, the Jews, can carry out evil deeds. Nevertheless, the state of Israel practises its own, quite violent, form of Apartheid with the native Palestinian population.
http://www.counterpunch.org/aloni01082007.html

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Condi’s Savage War on the Palestinians

In the coming weeks, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will cluck regretfully about the violence unfolding in the Palestinian territories as if the chaos in Gaza has as little to do with her as, say, the bizarrely warm winter weather in New York. And much of the U.S. media will concur by covering that violence as if it is part of some inevitable showdown in the preternaturally violent politics of the Palestinians. But any honest assessment will not fail to recognize that the increasingly violent conflict between Hamas and Fatah is not only a by-product of Secretary Rice’s economic siege of the Palestinians; it is the intended consequence of her savage war on the Palestinian people – a campaign of retribution and collective punishment for their audacity to elect leaders other than those deemed appropriate to U.S. agendas. Moreover, the fact that the conflict is now coming to a head is a product of Rice’s micromanagement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s political strategy – against his own better instincts.
http://tonykaron.com/2007/01/07/condis-savage-war-on-the-palestinians/

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Hamas warns: Abbas responsible for bloodshed

Statement issued by six armed factions affiliated with Hamas slams Palestinian president’s decision to dissolve government’s special security force. ‘Anyone who tries to take such action will be held accountable for the consequences,’ groups declare
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3349542,00.html

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9/11 : Israel ‘faked al-Qaeda presence’

Israel insists al-Qaeda is operating in Gaza. Officials from the Palestinian Authority have accused the Israeli spy agency Mossad of setting up a fake al-Qaeda terrorist cell in Gaza.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said that Israel had set up the mock cell in order to justify attacks in Palestinian areas.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2550513.stm

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9/11 : UK Government Manipulating 9/11 Petition Data?

It appears the British Government are removing names and web sites from an on line petition calling for further investigation into the events of 9/11, posted on Tony Blair’s’ web site.
http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/is-the-uk-government-manipulating-911-petition-data

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9/11 : David Hicks enters his sixth year of detention at Guantánamo Bay

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jan2007/dhic-j08.shtml

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9/11 : CIA kidnap victim offered $2 million In hush money

Feb. 17, 2003, is when Abu Omar vanished while walking down a side street in Milan, Italy. Prosecutors in Milan charge that he was kidnapped by the CIA and flown to Egypt, where he has been imprisoned for most of the time since then.
http://tinyurl.com/y3j35l

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Drug mafia, CIA blamed for sacking of Afghan governor

KABUL: In a country flooded with narcotics traffickers and corrupt government officials, one of Afghanistan’s few remaining ‘clean’ governors, Mohammed Daud, has been removed from his position, and many are blaming the drug mafia and the CIA for his abrupt dismissal.
http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?165264

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22 to a cell – life in a notorious Afghan prison

She shares a bunk-lined room with 11 other women and 10 children.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,1984837,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12

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Sniper celebrates with cigar after killing “Taliban officer”

A ROYAL Marine sniper from Edinburgh has described marking his first kill with a cigar after “slotting” a Taliban commander from more than 1000 metres.
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=39472007

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Where the Bombs Are: Ever wondered where all those U.S. nukes are stored?

A new review published in the November/December issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shows that the United States stores its nearly 10,000 nuclear warheads at 18 locations in 12 states and six European countries
http://tinyurl.com/y9zzqw

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Is Bush’s War Winding Down or Heating Up?

The US media is totally unreliable. It cannot go against Israel, and it will wrap itself in the flag just as it did for the invasion of Iraq. The American public has been deceived (again) and believes that Iran is on the verge of possessing nuclear armaments to be used to wipe Israel off the map.
http://tinyurl.com/w7xve

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Experts Suggest the CIA, Not Kim Jong-il, is Counterfeiting Dollars

“Sources allege that the CIA prints the falsified ‘Supernotes’ at a secret facility near Washington to fund covert operations without Congressional oversight.”

http://www.watchingamerica.com/frankfurterallgemeine000008.shtml

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Bush Senior Early CIA Ties Revealed

Newly released internal CIA documents assert that former president George Herbert Walker Bush’s oil company emerged from a 1950′s collaboration with a covert CIA officer.
http://realnews.org/rn/content/zapata.html

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Defense Team: Iran offered $100 million for not talk about Halabja

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

Defense Team: Iran offered $100 million for not talk about Halabja

 

Roads to Iraq

January 7, 2007

- Khalil Dulaimi [head of Saddam defense team] revealed that Iranian officials met with the lawyer Hatem Shaheen, and some members of the defense to offer them $ 100 million for not talk about Halabja.

Al-Dulaimi said he owns documents and evidence which prove that the Halabja attack was done by the Iranian army, American intelligence has sent a team led by one of the generals, and I do not want to mention his name, who took soil samples and found that that Iraq does not possess this gas.

- With the media reported that Maliki announced a new plan for Baghdad security and Militias crack down.

Haq agency says that Maliki brook records in the number of security plans:

What happening in Iraq is s that all these plans are revenge against Sunni Muslim in the country through by Shiite militias with government forces involving abductions, torture, murder, and the displacement of Sunni Muslims.

Salih Al-Mutalq agreed and said:

The plan aimed to empty Baghdad of its people, and leaving it to the mob.

- Two very important statements by Baath Party on Al-Arabiya satellite channel.

Baath Party spokesman said, in an exclusive statement to Arabyia.

The party will revenge for the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with an armed operations against the American forces, through the military wing of the party and coordination with other armed factions in Iraq except” Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.”

Iraqi political thinker and former Baathists “Hassan Al-Allwi” said to the same satellite channel that the execution of Saddam Hussein was in the context of a political deal between the Iraqi government and a Iraqi Baath Party wing. to hold Saddam responsible for every act committed by the party against Iraq in return for the of the Baath Party and to allow the participation in power.

source:
http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2007/01/07/defense-team-iran-offered-100-million-for-not-talk-about-halabja/

See also:
What happened in Kurdish Halabja?
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=-4&bh=2

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-muslim voice-
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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW