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9/11 : Accused Al Qaeda operative can’t be jailed indefinitely, appeals court rules

Posted by musliminsuffer on June 14, 2007

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=== News Update ===

9/11 : Accused Al Qaeda operative can’t be jailed indefinitely, appeals court rules

In a landmark decision, a federal panel rejects Bush’s ‘enemy combatant’ policy. The Arab immigrant has been in a South Carolina military brig for four years.

By Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writer

June 12, 2007

WASHINGTON ­ In a setback for the Bush administration, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that an alleged Al Qaeda operative arrested in the United States and detained in military custody for four years cannot be held as an enemy combatant.

The 2-1 ruling by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., ordered Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri released from a South Carolina military brig’s isolation cell, where he has been held since President Bush declared him an enemy combatant. U.S. authorities have described al-Marri as an associate of Al Qaeda operations chief Khalid Shaikh Mohammed who came to the United States on Sept. 10, 2001, to help a “second wave” of sleeper agents bent on striking America.

Monday’s ruling held that neither Bush’s expanded post-Sept. 11 wartime powers nor the Military Commissions Act passed by Congress last year eliminated al-Marri’s constitutional rights to challenge the government’s allegations against him in a court of law.

“This is a landmark ruling for all individuals in this country, rejecting the administration’s unprecedented assertion that it can treat the entire world, including the United States, as a battlefield and jail people for life without charge and without trial simply because he labels them enemy combatants,” said Jonathan L. Hafetz, litigation director of the Liberty & National Security Project at the New York University School of Law and al-Marri’s lead counsel.

Habeas corpus, which is used to challenge imprisonment and enforce due-process rights, “is what stands between the United States and a police state,” Hafetz said.

However, the decision apparently applies only to al-Marri and stands a good chance of being overturned on appeal.

In her 77-page ruling for the majority, Judge Diana Gribbon Motz said al-Marri may be guilty of serious crimes, but sanctioning the indefinite detention of civilians would have “disastrous consequences for the Constitution ­ and the country.”

“Put simply,” she wrote, “the Constitution does not allow the president to order the military to seize civilians residing within the United States and detain them indefinitely without criminal process, and this is so even if he calls them ‘enemy combatants.’ “

Motz said the government can transfer al-Marri to civilian authorities to face criminal charges, initiate deportation proceedings against him, hold him as a material witness in terrorism investigations or detain him for a limited time pursuant to the Patriot Act. “But military detention of al-Marri must cease,” she wrote.

In a dissenting opinion, visiting Judge Henry E. Hudson said that “definitive precedent is admittedly sparse” but that the administration does have the right to hold al-Marri as an enemy combatant.

The Justice Department issued a statement saying that it was “disappointed with today’s divided decision” and that it would appeal the ruling to the entire appeals court.

Monday’s ruling does not have a direct effect on the 385 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, because it addresses only those held within the United States.

Al-Marri, a citizen of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, is believed to be the only person on U.S. soil held as an enemy combatant. He was first detained in December 2001 at his home in Peoria, Ill., on a material witness warrant, after moving there with his wife and children to study for a master’s degree. He was later indicted in Illinois for credit-card fraud, making false statements to the FBI and other charges. He pleaded not guilty but was designated an enemy combatant before his trial began.

Al-Marri’s lawyers said their client insists he has had nothing to do with Al Qaeda.

Al-Marri, 41, was given the news of the ruling Monday by Andrew J. Savage III, the private attorney in Charleston, S.C., who has worked most closely with him and is handling the case without charge. “When I told him, he put the phone down, got down and prayed to Allah,” Savage said. “Then he came back on the phone and expressed a lot of gratitude to everyone involved, the judge included.”

Said Steven R. Shapiro, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union: “It is difficult to imagine a more complete repudiation of the administration’s strategy of treating suspected terrorists as enemy soldiers who can be subject to indefinite detention by the military without charges or trial.”

The Justice Department said Monday that “the president has made clear that he intends to use all available tools at his disposal to protect Americans from further Al Qaeda attack, including the capture and detention of Al Qaeda agents who enter our borders.”

The department’s unsigned statement said that al-Marri trained at “Osama bin Laden’s terrorist training camp in Afghanistan” and that in the summer of 2001 he met with Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, to discuss how he could enter the United States and “explore methods of disrupting the U.S. financial system.”

Some U.S. officials and legal experts suggested that a government appeal would have a good chance of succeeding, noting that Motz and Judge Roger Gregory were nominated by President Clinton, while the overall 4th Circuit is considered among the most conservative in the country. If that appeal fails, they said, the administration is likely to take the case to another court with a conservative majority: the U.S. Supreme Court.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-terror12jun12,1,4288907.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=1&cset=true

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9/11 Crime : US told to free ‘enemy combatant’

Posted by musliminsuffer on June 14, 2007

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=== News Update ===

9/11 Crime : US told to free ‘enemy combatant’


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Al-Marri can still be tried on criminal charges in a civilian court or be deported [GALLO/GETTY]

A US appeals court has ruled that the government does not have the authority to detain on American soil an alleged al-Qaeda member who is a legal US resident, without pressing charges.

The court on Monday ordered the release of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, a Qatari national held since 2003 over the September 11 attacks, from military custody.
But al-Marri, 41, can still be tried on criminal charges in a civilian court or be deported, the three judges ruled in a split two-one decision.

The ruling is a setback for the president’s contention that in his “war on terror”, he has the power to detain people in the US without charging them.

Al-Marri is the only foreign national “enemy combatant” still in detention without charge in the US.

Indefinite military detention

“The government cannot subject al-Marri to indefinite military detention,” the court’s majority opinion said.

“For in the United States, the military cannot seize and imprison civilians, let alone imprison them indefinitely.”

“The court soundly and rightly rejected the administration’s attempt to treat the globe as a battlefield that is exempt from rule of law”
Jonathan Hafetz, lead counsel for al-Marri

Jonathan Hafetz, litigation director of the Brennan Centre’s Liberty and National Security Project, and the lead counsel for al-Marri, said the ruling was “a huge victory”.

“The court soundly and rightly rejected the administration’s attempt to treat the globe as a battlefield that is exempt from rule of law,” he said.

The US justice department said it was “disappointed” at the ruling and said it would ask the court’s full appeals panel of 13 judges to reconsider.

Citing “unrebutted evidence”, it said al-Marri had trained at a “terrorist training camp” run by al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and also met Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged architect of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the US.

The justice department said that al-Marri then entered the US “to serve as an al-Qaeda sleeper agent and to explore methods of disrupting the US financial system”.

The justice department added that George Bush, the US president, “intends to use all available tools at his disposal to protect Americans from further al-Qaeda attack, including the capture and detention of al-Qaeda agents who enter our borders”.

“We accordingly intend to seek further review of today’s decision.”

Dismissed

Al-Marri arrived in the US on September 10, 2001 with his wife and five children.

He had a visa to study in Peoria, in the state of Illinois, where he had previously been studying.

He was arrested three months later under suspicion of credit-card fraud. But in June 2003, he was declared an “enemy combatant” by US authorities who ordered his transfer to a military prison in South Carolina.

On June 4, the military judges at Guantanamo separately dismissed charges against Omar Ahmed Khadr, a young al-Qaeda member from Canada, and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni said to be Osama bin Laden’s driver.

The judges said they lacked jurisdiction because the detainees had not been classified as “unlawful enemy combatants” as stipulated by a 2006 law that established the military commissions.

source:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F8A053FB-865F-4336-9440-3318E456D77D.htm

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9/11 : Al Qaeda theory: Mumbai intellectuals blame MOSSAD, CIA

Posted by musliminsuffer on June 14, 2007

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=== News Update ===

9/11 : Al Qaeda theory: Mumbai intellectuals blame MOSSAD, CIA

Srinagar, June 12: Mumbai based group of intellectuals and human rights activists have criticized the media reports of an ‘Al-Qaeda Hind’ based in Kashmir. The group believes that the Al-Qaeda announcement was a planted story and a part of the disinformation campaign by the Indian government, so as to justify the unholy alliance between the ruling elites of India with the Zionist Apartheid Nazi Israeli state.

In a statement the spokesman of the front said that this report (presence of Al-Qaeda in Kashmir ) comes only a day after newspapers boldly announced a high powered delegation of Israeli Military Generals and Intelligence Officers, who are in the country to advice the Indian government on combating “terror” in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Mumbai based group alleged that Al-Qaeda is a front organization of CIA and MOSSAD. “There is enough evidence that the Al-Qaeda is a front organization of the CIA and MOSSAD. The Bush junta has used the bogey of terror and of Al Qaeda to justify his unending and ever expanding Global War on Terror, which is only a means of capturing the resources of the world and of establishing the sole hegemony of Israel in West Asia,” said the group of activists and intellectuals.

The group is holding a press conference in Mumbai on Wednesday to “expose the links between Al-Qaeda and the CIA-MOSSAD”.

Holding American-Israeli operation accomplices of the 9/11 attack on the WTC, the spokesman of the group said that this has been widely written about in USA and Europe itself and more than 50% of the American people and far more Europeans, now believe and are convinced about this fact.

He said that sections of the Indian ruling political and military elite are importing the same Bush-Olmert formula into India. “The increasing terror attacks only serve the cause of the Indian elite and divide the masses along communal lines. It is only the ordinary Indians who are the victims of terror either in temples, mosques, buses or trains,” he said adding that practically no political leader suffers a similar fate, where the terrorists are apprehended and killed in “encounters”.

“Every terror attack is meant to push and drag the Indian masses further into the waiting arms of Uncle Sam and the Israeli Goliath. Every terror attack spreads further hatred for Muslims and Islam and weakens the Indian Muslim community,” he said.

[Kashmir Times]

source:
http://www.kashmirwatch.com/showheadlines.php?subaction=showfull&id=1181713014&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&var0news=value0news

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FBI Terror Watch List ‘Out of Control’ : It Contains a Million Names

Posted by musliminsuffer on June 14, 2007

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=== News Update ===

FBI Terror Watch List ‘Out of Control’

June 13, 2007 8:55 AM

Justin Rood Reports:

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A terrorist watch list compiled by the FBI has apparently swelled to include more than half a million names.

Privacy and civil liberties advocates say the list is growing uncontrollably, threatening its usefulness in the war on terror.

The bureau says the number of names on its terrorist watch list is classified.

A portion of the FBI’s unclassified 2008 budget request posted to the Department of Justice Web site, however, refers to “the entire watch list of 509,000 names,” which is utilized by its Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force.

A spokesman for the interagency National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), which maintains the government’s list of all suspected terrorists with links to international organizations, said they had 465,000 names covering 350,000 individuals. Many names are different versions of the same identity — “Usama bin Laden” and “Osama bin Laden” for the al Qaeda chief, for example.

In addition to the NCTC list, the FBI keeps a list of U.S. persons who are believed to be domestic terrorists — abortion clinic bombers, for example, or firebombing environmental extremists, who have no known tie to an international terrorist group.

Combined, the NCTC and FBI compendia comprise the watch list used by federal security screening personnel on the lookout for terrorists.

While the NCTC has made no secret of its terrorist tally, the FBI has consistently declined to tell the public how many names are on its list. Because the number is classified, an FBI spokesman told the Blotter on ABCNews.com, he was unable to comment for this story.

“It grows seemingly without control or limitation,” said ACLU senior legislative counsel Tim Sparapani of the terrorism watch list. Sparapani called the 509,000 figure “stunning.”

“If we have 509,000 names on that list, the watch list is virtually useless,” he told ABC News. “You’ll be capturing innocent individuals with no connection to crime or terror.”

U.S. lawmakers and their spouses have been detained because their names were on the watch list.
Reporters who have reviewed versions of the list found it included the names of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, at the time he was alive but in custody in Iraq; imprisoned al Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui; and 14 of the 19 Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers, all of whom perished in the attacks.

“There’s a reason the FBI has a ’10 Most Wanted’ list, right? We need to focus the government’s efforts on the greatest threats. When the watch list grows to this level, it’s useless as an anti-terror tool,” Sparapani said.

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/fbi_terror_watc.html

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Body of Secrets: How America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ Eavesdrop on the World

Posted by musliminsuffer on June 14, 2007

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=== News Update ===

Body of Secrets: How America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ Eavesdrop on the World


Outing Israeli Crimes: June 1967


Clare Brandabur

June 2007


Body of Secrets: How America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ Eavesdrop on the World
James Bamford
London: Arrow Books,2002
ISBN 970099427742 (from Jan 2007) ISBN 0 09 942774 5

As we observe the fortieth anniversary of the Six-Day War of June 1967, there are few things to celebrate. One notable exception is the full exposure of the actual events of the Israeli aggression which have been carefully guarded secrets. In particular the frenzied attempts by the Israelis to sink the USS Liberty and kill its entire crew, attempts covered up at the time by order of the Johnson White House and covered up ever since by censorship and elaborate lies by Israeli and US authority figures.

Now, thanks to the remarkable book Body of Secrets by James Bamford, it is possible to learn not only what happened to the Liberty, but what it was Israel was so desperate to conceal from the eyes of the world, especially from the Russians and the Americans. What they were covering up, and what President Lyndon Johnson would help them continue to cover up, was war crimes and crimes against humanity, a continuation and intensification of the deliberate and calculated policy of the colonial settler state with respect to the indigenous people: genocide.

A good deal was already known about the genocidal practice of the Israelis in 1967 thanks to Arthur C. Forrest’s The Unholy Land (1971). Forrest was sent by a consortium of North American church magazines to research rumors that the Israelis were not in fact allowing the refugees back into Palestine, in spite of their carefully staged claims to the contrary. Forrest quickly learned that refugees were still fleeing across the Allenby Bridge; that many had been attacked by Israeli planes using napalm; that the camp at Jericho which had held some 65,000 refugees from 1948, had been attacked and thousands driven across the River into Jordan by planes using machine gins and napalm; that survivors from the Jordanian Army said whole field hospitals had been napalmed. Of course Forrest was bitterly attacked for daring to criticize Israel, especially for revealing the truth about Israeli use of napalm against civilians and hospitals.

One of the horror stories being told in Amman was of the experiences of fleeing refugees being sprayed with napalm. At first I didn’t believe it and shuddered at the thought of using some of the pictures of victims available in Jordan. ‘If it were pictures of Vietnam you’d publish them wouldn’t you?’ a Palestinian said. (Forrest 16)

Forrest was shocked and dubious concerning these reports, so he went to visit survivors of these attacks in Jordanian hospitals. He spoke to Mr. Sami Oweida, the father of a family who had recently crossed the Bridge and whose surviving members were still being treated in hospital in Amman

We crossed the King Hussein [Allenby] Bridge, walking. Planes were going overhead [...] We tried to avoid big crowds, thinking the planes would bomb the crowds.
Then at that moment [about 4 PM] I saw a plane come down like a hawk directly at us. We threw ourselves on the ground and found ourselves in the midst of fire. (Forrest 17)

Forrest also quotes the report of General Sir John Glubb whose interpretation of the Middle East Crisis was published in July 1967 as follows:

The greater part of the Jordan army were destroyed by napalm [.] Glubb quotes from a signed statement by a team of doctors from the American University of Beirut.[...] ‘A doctor reported that the Mobile Field Hospital, containing 350 patients, was incinerated with all its patients and staff by napalm,’ Glubb says. (Forrest 16)

Forrest took photographs of some of the burned victims, one of which he later published in the United Church Observer, his Church paper in Canada, of a little girl recovering from napalm burns. “That, I was told, proved I was anti-Semitic. To condemn napalm in Vietnam is alright. To report its use by the Israelis is considered anti-Semitic” (Forrest 17). When Forrest asked for permission to visit the three destroyed villages Yalu, Beit Nuba, and Emmaus, he was refused on grounds that “There isn’t any Beit Nuba!” (15). Nevertheless Forrest managed to travel to the devastated area. From survivors whom he asked about the destruction of these villages in retribution for their resistance in 1948 he learned that Israeli bulldozers demolished houses over the heads of the elderly who perished in the rubble (15).

Now, thanks to James Bamford’s outing of the secrets of the “Black Chamber” which housed the American NSA, (National Security Agency) and that of the British GCHQ, (Government Communications Headquarters), it is possible to reconstruct a more complete picture of the Israeli cover-up including its attack on the USS Liberty. The well planned war of 1967 was designed to take as much land as possible and to make it appear that the Arab armies had attacked Israel. This is the startling conclusion of a chapter in Bamford’s, Body of Secrets (2002) which offers a more detailed explanation for the Israeli attack on the Liberty. Bamford provides a mass of detail about the “criminal slaughter” in which the Israelis were engaged at nearby Al-Arish (201).

From the first minutes of its surprise attack, the Israeli airforce had owned the skies over the Middle East. Within the first few hours, Israeli jets pounded twenty-five Arab air bases ranging from Damascus in Syria to an Egyptian field, loaded with bombers far up the Nile at Luxor. Then, using machine guns, mortar fire, tanks, and air power, the Israeli war machine overtook the Jordanian section of Jerusalem as well as the west bank of the Jordan River, and torpedo boats captured the key Red Sea cape at Sharm al-Sheikh.

In the Sinai, Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers pushed toward the Suez Canal along all three of the roads that crossed the desert, turning the burning sands into a massive killing field. One Israeli general estimated that Egyptian casualties there ranged from 7,000 to 10,000 killed, compared with 275 of its own troops. (201)

Bamford documents the attack by Israeli tanks on a UN convoy of Indian peacekeeper soldiers on their way to Gaza, and the subsequent attack on a UN headquarters in Gaza in which fourteen UN members were killed. “One Indian officer called it deliberate, cold-blooded killing of unarmed UN soldiers” (201). Bamford then details the slaughter of hundreds of Egyptian prisoners of war who were made to dig their own graves and then machine-gunned (202-205). Body of Secrets provides the most detailed account I have seen of the USS Liberty attack, gleaned in part from recently unearthed material from the records of the National Security Agency, in part from interviews with all available Liberty survivors.

It was not in Israel’s interest nor in US interest to have its aggression against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan revealed to the world. Early in the afternoon of June 8, 1967, Israeli jets and missile boats opened fire on the USS Liberty, an American surveillance ship operating off the coast of Gaza. Struck by rockets, cannons and torpedoes, the vessel suffered extensive damage and over 200 casualties including 34 dead. Israeli forces were then engaged in the fourth day of what would soon be called the Six Day War, and, as Bamford shows, the Liberty was hit repeatedly by waves of Israeli airforce fighters loaded with 30 mm cannon ammunition, rockets, and even napalm, then assaulted from the sea by torpedoes (200-201). Though Israel claimed the attack was a “tragic mistake,” the incident has never been officially revealed to the public.

In spite of earlier exposés like that of Arthur Forrest and interviews with survivors of the USS Liberty, few people in the West even today know what Israel was doing. In subsequent investigations, however, it has emerged that those directly connected to the attack on the Liberty rejected Israeli claims the ship was attacked by accident. In his biography of President Lyndon Johnson, for example, Robert Dallek says “The highest officials of the [Johnson] administration, including the President, believed it ‘inconceivable’ that Israel’s ‘skilled’ defense forces could have committed such a gross error” Dallek. 430-31). If Israeli intention was to cover up their criminal napalm attacks on Palestinian civilians in order to drive them out of Palestine, it seems to have been a success. What Israel was covering up, by trying to sink the USS Liberty was the crime of genocide.

Arthur Forrest’s book and Bamford’s meticulous documentation are consistent with other witnesses to Israel’s use of napalm against civilians in 1967. Norman F. Dacey, who had been chairman of Volunteers for Nixon, whose open letter to then President Richard M. Nixon was published in Lebanese newspaper Al-Anwar, January 17, 1972. In it Dacey told Nixon that he would henceforth campaign for Nixon’s defeat, citing his disgust with US policies in the Middle East. “I have walked through Egyptian hospitals and seen row on row of beds of little children, their bodies burned black by American-made napalm, dropped from American-built planes in claimed ‘defense’ of Israel” (Dacey qtd in Ashiurakis 1974).

Other readers will find other parts of Bamford’s huge book (715 pages) important for what it has to reveal about US and UK intelligence roles in relation to Cuba, to Viet Nam, Germany, Russia, and China. But I think it is fitting on this fortieth anniversary of the Israeli Occupation of Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, to concentrate attention on what the book has to teach us about the Israeli assault of 1967 which, as the commentators are saying, changed the shape of the Middle East. The Palestinian refugees are more numerous and in some ways more desperate than before, as witness the conflagration that threatens to spread in Northern Lebanon, and the Israeli and American leadership remains just as intransigent as ever about the right of return of the refugees, though it was by their false promise to allow them to return that Israel gained acceptance in the United Nations.

But why, you might ask, would events of 1967 be relevant today? And why, therefore, are Bamford’s revelations so critical? Because the same program of ethnic cleansing and progressive land confiscation is still proceeding apace, and this program is at the heart of all the other major conflicts in the region, most recently the tragic waste of the US/UK invasion of Iraq which was fueled by Israeli expansionism.

In addition to its ongoing murders of Palestinians (such as the massacre of Jenin refugee camp in 2002) and the present campaign of assassination and wholesale killing in Gaza, Israel also continues its genocidal plans for the destruction of Palestinian cultural institutions. In Imperial Israel and the Palestinians (2002), Nur Masalha documents recent Israeli plans for the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, the two great mosques on the Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem (122-23), and for the “final solution” to the Palestinian problem which they hope to put into practice with the help of their American accomplices-a plan of “transfer” for which they foresaw the destruction of Iraq as a necessary step. Masalha quotes Meier Lipschitz, an Israeli developer of Jewish-only housing, as saying

A war against Iraq is a real (religious) duty. If it is possible to make provocation, we must carry this out immediately. Such a golden opportunity in a convenient international situation falls into our hand once every hundred years… No one will busy himself with the triviality of transfer which we will carry out in parallel at the same time… Who exactly will be interested in the fate of two million Palestinians, who supported the butcher of Baghdad and are settled on the lands of the little king (King Hussein)? (184)

Masalha says the gist of this argument is that war against Iraq should be provoked if only so it could be utilized for the forcible mass expulsion of the Palestinians”(185).

James Bamford’s book has a great deal more to teach us about US and UK secrets, the Cold War, and the Great Game. But on this anniversary of the second Nakbah, I hope I may be forgiven for foregrounding what Body of Secrets has to teach us about the true character of Israel as a colonial settler state which is inherently genocidal.

Selected Bibliography

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Bahour, Sam. “Israel Spinning Out of Control.” (Chris McGreal? The Guardian (UK) 24 November 2004.

Bamford, James. Body of Secrets: How America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHO Eavesdrop on the World. London: Arrow Books/Random House, 2002.

Brandabur, A. Clare. “A Reply To Amos Kennan: ‘The Legacy of Lydda’: An Interview with George Habash.” http://www.corkpsc.org/db.php?aid=59775

Carlson, Charles. “Christian Zionism and The Scofield Reference Bible.” 2006. www.whtt.org.

Carlson, Charles.”How Zionists Changed Biblical Interpretations Using Scofield & Oxford U. http://blogs.albawaba.com/Alexanderjames/2067/2006/01/20/10852-how_zionists_changed

Churchill, Ward. A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas – 1492 to the Present. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997.

Cook, Jonathan. Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State. London & Ann Arbor: Pluto Press. 2006.

Dacey, Norman F. “Open Letter to President Nixon.” in The Crime in Palestine. By Ahmed M. Ashiurakis. Tripoli, Libya: Dar Al-Farjani, 1974.

Finkelstein, Norman G. Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Forrest, Arthur C. The Unholy Land. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1971-1972.

Khoury, Elias. Gate of the Sun. [Bab al-Shams]. Tr Humphrey Davies. Brooklyn, NY, Archipelago Books, 2005.

Lemkin, Raphael. “Totally Unofficial Man”. Pioneers of Genocide Studies. Eds. Samuel Totten and Steven Leonard Jacobs. New Brunswick, USA & London: Transaction Publishers, 2002.

Lemkin, Raphael. Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government Proposals for Redress. Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1944.

Lindqvist, Sven. ‘Exterminate All the Brutes.’ Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate. London: Books, 2002.

Masalha, Nur. Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion. London: Pluto Press, 2000.

Merriman, Rima. “Denial of Entry: Rice’s Probe and the Israeli Administration.” Electronic Intifada, October 17, 2006.

Morris, Benny. The Origins of the Palestine Refugee Problem 1947-1949. Cambridge 1989.

Moyers, Bill. “There Is No Tomorrow” http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/printcgi?file=views04/1206-10.htm. Sept.02.2005.

Pappé, Ilan. “Genocide in Gaza.” http://www.electronicintifada.net/v2/article5656.shtml

Patience, Martin. “Palestinians back prisoners release call.” BBC News: Tuesday June 2006. UK. BBC Website Ramallah.

Prior, Rev. Michael. The Bible and Colonialism: A Moral Critique. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press Ltd. 1997.

Prior, Rev. Michael, ed. Western Scholarship and The History of Palestine. London: Melisende, 1998.

Rodinson, Maxime. Israel: Colonial Settler State? New York: Pathfinder, 1993.

Roy, Sara. “The Gaza Economy.” Published by The Palestine Information Center Brief #143, 2, Oct. 2006.

Roy, Sara. “Living With the Holocaust.” The Journey of a Child of Holocaust Survivors Journal of Palestine Studies Vol XXXII, No. 1, Autumn 2002, Issue 125 (http://www.ipsips.org/jps/125/roy.html)

Said, Edward W. The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination 1969-1994. New York: Random House, 1995.

Said, Edward W. The Question of Palestine. New York: Vintage Random House, 1992.

Said, Edward W. “How to Answer Palestine’s Challenge.” Mother Jones (September 1988), 13(7):16-18.

Salbuchi, Adrian. “Historical Lies As An Instrument of Domination.” Published on the Internet by the Israel Shamir List. Oct. 19, 2006. Translated from the Spanish “La Falsificacion de la Historia como Instrumento de Domino.” http://www.eltraductorradial@fibertel.com.ar

Salmon, Christian. “The Bulldozer War.” tr. Luke Sanford. Le Monde Diplomatique, Reprinted in Counterpunch. http://www.counterpunch.org/salmon0520.html

source:
http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0064965.html

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Hiroshima To Iraq – 61 Years Of Uranium Wars A Suicidal, Genocidal, Omnicidal Course

Posted by musliminsuffer on June 14, 2007

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=== News Update ===

Hiroshima To Iraq – 61 Years Of Uranium Wars A Suicidal, Genocidal, Omnicidal Course


By Leuren Moret

San Francisco Bay View

6-13-7


The conduct of secret nuclear wars since 1991, through the use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States and Great Britain with their allies, has taken place in the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan2 and Lebanon.3 It has been carried out for the express purpose of destroying the public health and mutilating the genetic future of vast populations in oil rich and/or pipeline regions.

Carpet and grid bombing with depleted uranium weaponry in Iraq, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan has guaranteed permanent radioactive terrain contamination. The recent discovery that U.S. depleted uranium bombs dropped by Israel on Lebanon in 2006 contained enriched uranium4,5 suggests covert testing of fourth generation nuclear weapons.

The United States and its allies are fully aware that this weaponry violates the Geneva and Hague Conventions and the 1925 Geneva Poison Gas Protocol.6 It meets the definition of WMD in the U.S. Code7 in two out of three categories. And its use violates U.S. military law.8 since the U.S. is a signatory to The Hague and Geneva Conventions.

The blueprint for depleted uranium radioactive poison gas weaponry ­ dirty bombs, dirty missiles and dirty bullets ­ was contained in a declassified memorandum9 dated Oct. 30, 1943. It was addressed to Gen. Leslie Groves, who was head of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. effort to build atomic bombs in World War II.

The recommendation for development of depleted uranium as kinetic energy penetrators was never mentioned in the Groves memo. It was specifically for depopulation.

The Groves memo makes it clear that in 1943, U.S. scientists recommended using radioactive poison gas weapons in order to contaminate the air, water, soil, food, environment and the blood of exposed populations. The long-term contamination is permanent, since uranium-238 has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, making contaminated areas uninhabitable for eternity.

For populations that must continue to live in contaminated areas, the long-term effects are lingering illnesses and mutilation of their DNA. Widespread depleted uranium contamination of DNA in populations results in the potential mutilation of future generations. Mutations induced in the DNA of a single egg or sperm which form a fertilized egg are expressed and repeated in every cell of the developing organism, and defects are passed on to all future generations11.

Not only are U.S. and allied soldiers exposed and civilian populations genocidally targeted, but the depleted uranium pollution is now global.12,13 In reality, we are all Gulf War veterans. Depleted uranium poison gas weaponry, used on a regional scale, meets U.S. National Security Council goals as stated in the “Global 2000 Report: Vision of a Gloomy World” (1980).14 This report recommended that depopulation in third world countries was imperative to the U.S. government purpose of securing mineral and other strategic resources.

Global atmospheric pollution from depleted uranium particulates will result in massive depopulation on a global scale. By increasing death rates and decreasing birth rates globally, more than 2 billion people will be eliminated.
Depleted uranium is the ideal weapon to bring about the New World Order, which is global depopulation. In just a few years it has turned Planet Earth into a Death Star.

Depopulation and the accumulation of capital

The following is the depopulation policy thesis set out in this paper: Intentional depopulation and massive genocide are the core policies by which ruling elites drive international relations, economic aid development, strategic weapons development and the design of engineered wars.

The operational goal of this intentional depopulation policy is the reduction of the human population. With presidential approval, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger presented 2 billion people as the desired level of reduction, but in fact the depopulation policy may seek a 2-4 billion reduction, or up to two thirds of the world’s population.

This depopulation policy is intended by the world’s ruling elite to result in control of mineral and strategic resources and water and total control of the world’s wealth. One of the most common political epithets for the depopulation policy is “The New World Order.”

“All wars are economic in origin,” said Bernard Baruch, advisor to presidents during World Wars I and II. Even the 13th century Crusades in the Middle East were not religious wars, but an attempt by special interests in Europe to restabilize and take control over the wealth and revenues of the Silk Road.15 Theology was created to eliminate the “enemies of God” in order to promote and justify the wars of the Crusades, which were fought for a hidden economic benefit. History in the Middle East repeats itself in the 21st century.

The New World Order depopulation policy was consciously accelerated during World War II with the Manhattan Project. During World War II, the Manhattan Project developed three illegal and infamous weapons of mass destruction: the atomic bombs dropped on the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, a defoliant developed as Agent Orange for the Vietnam War, and depleted uranium radioactive poison gas weaponry used in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Lebanon since 1991. These weapons of mass destruction were developed specifically for the purpose of depopulation.

After World War II, the international ruling elite ­ the Illuminati, London Money Power, Bilderberg Group, the Club of Rome, and Skull and Bones ­ and, in the U.S., the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, National Security Council and U.S. State Department have all made depopulation of 2 billion people their top priority. The purpose of this planned human mass genocide is to maximize profits and the accumulation of wealth.

Depopulation in Africa Depopulation policy has targeted Africa more heavily than any other continent and has resulted in the ruling elites looting its vast natural resources. It is a “treasure box” of minerals and precious, rare and strategic metals, with more diversity of resource wealth than any other continent.

In the book, “Tiny Rowland: The Ugly Face of Neocolonialism in Africa,”16 are details of the role that Tiny Rowland played, as agent of the British Queen, in turning the 1960s dreams of independence of the African nations into the nightmare of a dying continent, plagued by starvation and disease. Rowland was the CEO and chief architect of Lonrho, the British multinational company that was the headquarters for looting African countries through economic dirty tricks.

Through Lonrho, Rowland became the biggest Western businessman in Africa. The book also details how Rowland set up Rio Tinto Mines for the considerable private and personal uranium holdings, worth over $6 billion, of the Queen of England in former British colonies. Not bad for a German former Nazi youth corps member, who was a convicted criminal in Germany before he changed his name, moved to England and became the Queen’s buccaneer.

The depopulation policy thesis extends to international collaboration and alliance between private organizations, universities, corporations, governments, the military and quasi-governmental bodies. The concept for AIDS, a new class of bio-weapon, came out of the Club of Rome and was made in laboratories of the Department of Defense.

AIDS was one of the early “exotic” bio-weapons developed. It was developed and administered by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). Congress funded the AIDS development project, used to depopulate Africa in combination with famine, two ways known to rapidly increase death rates.
The role of universities

Universities have played a major role in the development of weapons of mass destruction and implementation of depopulation policies. Grants from the DOD increasingly are playing an important role in science research funding in the U.S. In addition to running the nuclear weapons labs, UC Berkeley began DOD-funded research developing “flying spying robotic insects,” “smart dust” and other projects prompted by the 2001 events of 911. This is benign compared to Johns Hopkins University, the largest single university recipient of DOD funding in the U.S., which receives nearly $350 million a year.17 Johns Hopkins University and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where the Manhattan Project started during World War II, have both been involved with research on another aspect of U.S. depopulation policy, the “genome project.”

The genome project is a nearly completed scientific program to map the human genome. Human genome mapping and the development of new bio-weapons go hand in hand. Secretly, and in violation of international law, exotic bio-weapons have been under intense development in more than 100 government and military laboratories in the U.S. during the past few decades.

Development of bio-weapons and expansion of the laboratories intensified under Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to unprecedented levels after 2000.18 They are cost effective, something penny pincher Donald Rumsfeld was known for, but they are nothing new. In an interview in 1948 between Heinrich Mueller, the former head of the Gestapo, and his CIA interrogator, Mueller reflected the same penny pinching cheapskate concern characteristic of fascists:

“If Stalin invades Europe … a little disease here and there would wipe out Stalin’s hoards and leave everything intact. Besides, a small bottle of germs is so much cheaper than an atom bomb, isn’t it? Why, you could hold more soldiers in your hand than Stalin could possibly command and you don’t have to feed them, clothe them or supply them with munitions. On the other hand, the threat of war … does wonders … for the economy.”19 Apparently, designing new kinds of bio-weapons for the DOD can be dangerous to a scientist’s health. More than 50 world-class scientists have been murdered since 2002 in the U.S. and the U.K. Almost all of them were microbiologists working on ethnic specific bio-weapons.20,21 When population control programs have failed in Third World countries, U.S. foreign policy has proven to be covert and vicious. After birth control and sterilization programs failed in India, it became the target of a deadly and demonic form of U.S. depopulation policy ­ involving both bio-weapons and radiation.

AIDS has now spread across the southern half of India. Depleted uranium blowing off the Himalayas, over Pakistan and the oil rich sands of Rajasthan, Utar Pradesh and Gujarat is contaminating the northern half of India and the Himalayan headwaters of nine major rivers of Asia.

Radioactive wars Heavy grid and carpet bombing with depleted uranium by the U.S. military on the eastern side of Afghanistan beginning in 2001 guaranteed heavy contamination in areas where deep snows in the mountainous regions provide water for Pakistan and parts of western India. By contaminating vital water supplies in vast regions with radioactive contaminants, a secret and invisible low level nuclear war is being carried out against Asia.

Radioactive wars with low level radiation will mutilate the DNA of all exposed living things. This is not just a war against people; it is a war against the environment. Few living things will escape the slow radioactive poisoning which mutilates DNA and is passed on to all future generations.

Biological weapons are under development and testing for population control. Forced sterilization as a means of population control has been covertly introduced in Third World countries, where women receiving vaccines were never able to have a live birth after the vaccination. This was reported in a BBC documentary on women in the Philippines and Mexico who had been used as guinea pigs for a new experimental pregnancy vaccine.22 The HCG vaccine makes a woman’s body reject new pregnancies. Black women have involuntarily been sterilized in South African hospitals with the HCG vaccine. They were told, after the birth of a baby, that “we could not leave the hospital until they had ‘this shot.’”23

Black newborns, born to parents without AIDS, were given vaccinations before they left the hospital in South Africa, and the babies were soon found to have AIDS.24 In some American Indian tribes, up to 80 percent of the women are sterile. Biopharmaceutical crops are a disaster waiting to happen. Dr. Ignacio Chapela reported that spermicidal corn was being tested by drug companies in Mexico:

“Some in Mexico are worried that biopharmaceutical corn could pollute their corn fields. Silvia Ribeiro, who heads the ETC Group’s office in Mexico City, has noted with concern that the California-based Epicyte Corp. boasts a spermicidal corn for use as a contraceptive. ‘The potential of spermicidal corn as a biological weapon is very high,’ she warned, and reminisced about the use of forced sterilizations against indigenous peoples.”25 We can no longer trust what used to be sustainers of life. The depopulation weapons of the ruling elite are in the air, in food, in vaccines, in medical procedures, in drinking water, in soils and even in our bodies to be passed on to future generations. The irony in this demonic plan is that we were never informed. The decision was made for us ­ to face genocide and the death of birth. Nuclear power

The greatest number of nuclear reactors are concentrated in Europe, North America and Japan ­ where the most democratic governments in the world are located. Understandably, democratic governments would be the first targets of the ruling elite in forming a one world corporate government.

For this reason, nuclear power has been implemented by powerful hidden forces, despite widespread and long term opposition by citizens in those “democratic” countries. The fact that nuclear power is the most costly energy technology ­ with no solution to disposal of radioactive waste ­ was ignored.

Nuclear power plants deliver the same lethal fission products in their emissions over a period of months and years that a nuclear bomb delivers in a nanosecond. Chronic exposure to low level radiation in emissions released from nuclear power plants may be deadlier in many ways than one acute exposure to a nuclear bomb detonation.
Fresh fission products with very short half-lives from atmospheric tests decay in the atmosphere. But these same dangerous fission products arrive in communities within hours in emissions from nuclear power plants. Chronic exposure of populations over the past decades has caused untold suffering, public health damage and the sacrifice of generations of children ­ the future of our countries.

Radiation Radiation has a very powerful mutagenic effect, destroying DNA and the genetic future of individuals and populations chronically exposed. It also destroys brain functioning and causes many radiation related illnesses.

High rates of infertility, particularly linked to radiation, are increasing globally since 1945. Twenty years ago, 80 percent of men’s sperm globally was normal and 20 percent had DNA damage. Today, it is reversed, with only 20 percent of global sperm normal and 80 percent with damaged DNA. The goal of the New World Order is to reduce birth rates and increase death rates globally.

Dr. Ernest Sternglass and the Radiation and Public Health Project26 have independently collected over 6,000 baby teeth from children living around nuclear power plants. They found that strontium-90 radiation levels are as high or higher now in baby teeth than during atmospheric testing.

Dr. Sternglass, who was asked by President Kennedy to testify in Congress about the link between radiation from fallout and cancer in children, helped convince the Senate to sign the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963. He has recently stated, “What we’ve done is to replace the fallout from bomb testing with the so-called small permitted releases from nuclear plants.”27

Domestically, the U.S. government program to promote nuclear power as energy “too cheap to meter” under President Eisenhower had a hidden military agenda as the only known source of plutonium for nuclear weapons. In keeping with the ruling elites’ policy of depopulation, intentional genocide and maximization of profit, the nuclear power program has been used as a secret and covert strategic weapon and a very deadly form of engineered nuclear war.

Russia and Japan now have the distinction of being two of a few countries in the world where the death rates are higher than the birth rates. Does radiation in these countries have something to do with the distinction of having achieved the ultimate goal of the New World Order?

The Chernobyl accident, releasing huge amounts of fresh fission products into the atmosphere on April 26, 1986, contributed to the downfall of the Soviet Union. The radiation traveled around the world, causing breast cancer clusters wherever it rained the fission products out of the atmosphere. Russia is a sick old man from the impact of that accident.

A scientific illustrator traced the path of Chernobyl radiation across Europe by mapping defective insects under the path of the Chernobyl cloud. Today, Europe is in a pandemic of diabetes as a result of radiation from French atmospheric testing in the Sahara, Chernobyl and depleted uranium used on battlefields since 1991. Japan already has very high infertility, with a declining birth rate and an increasing death rate, as well as an epidemic of radiation related illnesses from the 56 nuclear reactors in Japan. But the opening of Rokkasho, the largest nuclear reprocessing plant in the world, on April 1, 2006, will destroy Japan. It seems prophetic that it began operating on April Fool’s Day, or maybe it’s just more CIA twisted humor.

The agreement to build the world’s first thermonuclear reactor, now located at Rokkasho in northern Japan, ironically was made in a 1985 summit between Reagan and Gorbachov. It will release the equivalent emissions in one year of 365 new nuclear reactors. There are only about 411 commercial nuclear reactors in the world. Japan will soon have the equivalent radioactive emissions of 419 nuclear reactors, in a country the size of California.

Japan has a magnitude 8 or greater earthquake every 5 years!

Governments around the world are covering up the radiation related illnesses around nuclear power plants, the Chernobyl accident and low level radiation. There are people in high places in Japan who know what the impact of Rokkasho will be on the health of the environment and public health. The information is already available in the annual vital statistics published each year by the Japanese government. So why would a government knowingly poison and destroy its own citizens? There is a very powerful international hidden nuclear alliance. Nuclear power and uranium supplies and prices are controlled globally by the Rothschild syndicate. This power and control was not at first obvious.

In a two volume series, “The Rothschilds,” Japanese journalist Takashi Hirose exposed the well-concealed mechanisms for the Rothschild syndicate’s control of nuclear power. A Rothschild serves as the business manager for the Queen of England, who privately and secretly owns massive interests in uranium holdings in Africa, Canada and Australia through Rio Tinto Mines.

Hirose’s charts of Rothschild intermarriages in his books reveal that the Rothschild syndicate has for centuries extensively intermarried with royal families and nobility globally. He also revealed that Princess Diana’s mother was a Rothschild through intermarriages several generations back. It is easy to understand how the ruling elite and London Money Power have shared common interests and goals, since they mutually benefit by forming alliances. And they know elected officials are easy to bribe.

Three secret nuclear wars With little awareness in the global community, the global ruling elite have carried out three continuous and overlapping secret nuclear wars since the end of World War II, with atmospheric testing, nuclear power plants and depleted uranium weaponry. Nuclear technologies certainly meet their depopulation policy goals and, at the same time, the maximization of profits ­ since they own the uranium sources needed for nuclear fuel and have vested interests in nuclear energy.

There are also ties to pharmaceutical companies, which further their goals of maximizing profits. They get paid to make the mess, they get paid to clean it up and they get paid to treat the illnesses they caused. It is repeat business ­ extreme capitalism at its best.

The best way to stop it is for cities, towns and villages to get off the grid. Citizens must own the energy companies and shift energy choices to renewable, passive and non-destructive forms of energy. The oil economy is a con game with extortion, racketeering and fraud thrown in.

The “peak oil” scare is a hoax, which any geologist knows because it recycles every 20 years to boost oil prices. His Excellency Shiekh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi oil minister from 1962 to 1986, believes that the oil age will end not for lack of oil but because of technology: “(T)he oil prices were destined to crash in the long term and the world would never use up the last drop of oil, because it would not need to: ‘The Stone Age did not come to an end because we had a lack of stones, and the oil age will not come to an end because we have a lack of oil.’”28 Globally, nuclear power is being cleverly promoted as “clean energy” and as a solution to global warming by establishment propaganda peddlers like Al Gore, but it is not. There is a hidden agenda and secret economic partnership between members of the ruling elite, with vested interests and huge profits to be made from promotion of nuclear power.

The hidden partnership of ruling elites, more specifically certain members of the British and U.S. economic empires, was exposed in “The Queen’s Death Star: Bush, Cheney, Howard and the Queen.”29 Close to the heart of it is the City of London-centered financier oligarchical group headed by Royal Consort Prince Philip. In faith and in practice, the Royal Consort is a great fan of genocide: “If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels,” he said.30 The Royal Consort was merely reflecting the pessimistic Malthusian economic predictions regarding the future of humanity and “population explosion” in the 18th century. The wealthy Englishman Thomas Robert Malthus expected that forces such as war, pestilence, famine and plague would eliminate a swelling population. Thoughts of depopulation policy for economic gain by the ruling elite were alive and well, even in the 18th century.

A secret new nuclear war is developing in Asia, promoted by a partnership of the same ruling elites in the British and U.S. economic empires. Recently, international relations have been driving nuclear power as a form of economic aid development in the countries known as the “Tiger Economies”: South Korea, Japan, China and India.

The rising economic power of the Tiger Economies is the greatest threat to the British and U.S. economic empires. Since 2003, nuclear power has been forced onto South Korea, Japan, China and India by President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Prime Minister Howard of Australia.

The developing British nuclear power program in Asia is a revisit to the Opium Wars in China several centuries ago. The Opium Wars were created purely for British economic gain by weakening the leading government in the world for millenia.

The hidden agenda of depopulation and weakening countries that pose a threat is being repeated by impacting the vibrant developing economies in Asia with long lingering illnesses from radiation poisoning and mutilation of the genetic future of vast populations. Nothing new, the British and U.S. economic empires are infamous for being “economic hit men” with an insatiable hunger for other people’s resources and wealth.

Privatizing nuclear weapons for the ruling elites

The nuclear weapons program in the U.K. was privatized in the 1980s. The British contractors are corporations with ties to the London Money Power. Control of nuclear weapons should always be in civilian hands, not under the control of the military, because they will use them to do their job ­ to kill people and destroy things with no responsibility for the aftermath.

But “in civilian hands” does not mean in the hands of corporations controlled by the ruling elites either. They are even more likely to use them to meet their long held goals of depopulation and accumulation of wealth.

Following in the footsteps of Britain, the U.S. nuclear weapons program has been undergoing privatization over the past four years. George Schultz, former CEO of Bechtel and former Secretary of State, helped facilitate that transition. Bechtel is one of the new corporate partners on the management contract for Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab, in partnership with the University of California, the sole unchallenged manager for 61 years. Two very important contract changes were made in the process of negotiating the new contract, which was awarded to the University and Bechtel in December 2005. Los Alamos and/or Livermore nuclear weapons labs became manufacturing facilities for production of plutonium cores for nuclear weapons.

This violates the charter of the University of California, which is to conduct basic scientific research at the nuclear weapons labs. And the second very important change in the contract, which was brought up momentarily at a UC Regents’ meeting by a sitting regent, was the contract phrase which eliminates academic freedom for scientists conducting research at Los Alamos.

The change gives the admirals in the Nuclear Weapons Program Office at the Department of Energy the right to “kill or OK” the research of individual scientists at Los Alamos. This also violates the charter of the University of California, which mandates that the nuclear weapon

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US War Crime : Deceptions and Insipid Sentiments

Posted by musliminsuffer on June 14, 2007

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In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

US War Crime : Deceptions and Insipid Sentiments


Troop Support


By Brian Cloughley


“American Special Operations forces conducted raids in the area on Friday and Sunday, and on both occasions they called in airstrikes when they encountered armed resistance, the military said. It said in a statement that it had killed 136 Taliban fighters, including some who were trying to flee across the river.”
“Aerial bombing of a valley in western Afghanistan several days ago by the American military killed at least 42 civilians, including women and children, and wounded 50 more, an Afghan government investigation found Wednesday. A provincial council member who visited the site independently put the figure at 50 civilians killed “. . . some women and children were drowned in the river, and it was maybe in the heat of the moment that the children and people wanted to escape and jumped into the water”.”
New York Times, June 3, 2007

06/13/07 “ICH” — – Who do you believe about the killing of Afghan civilians? Do you believe official US military statements, brought to us by the people who fabricated the story about Jessica Lynch and lied contemptibly at the highest levels about the killing of Pat Tillman? Or do you believe the Afghans who investigated the bombing?

The military gave a precise number for the number of supposed ‘Taliban’ killed by air strikes, so there are two points to be considered. First, in such circumstances how could they know the number and that all those killed were ‘Taliban’? That is impossible. Second, the military tell us smugly that they don’t do body counts. Then they feed the media with supposed exact figures of dead “enemy”. How can we trust people who produce such garbage? But this atrocity, like so many others, will vanish into the dust of history, speeded into oblivion by the lies of the Pentagon.

In another example of deception the military mind-benders went a bit too far. They made up identical quotes from an “Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified” concerning two entirely separate incidents. Here are the official announcements:

July 13, 2005: “The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the children and all of Iraq,” said one Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified. “They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists”.”

and

July 24, 2005: ” “The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the ISF [Iraqi Security Forces] and all of Iraq. They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists,” said one Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified.”

According to CNN “Lt. Col. Clifford Kent, spokesman for the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, said use of the quote was an “administrative error.” He said the military was looking into the matter.” Yeah, right, Colonel.

It so happened that on July 11, 2005 Bush had declared “In the face of such adversaries there is only one course of action: We will continue to take the fight to the enemy . . .”, and it looks as if the phrase lodged in what might possibly be called the minds of the Pentagon’s robots. The Department of Defense PR machine was working hard, and the lying moron who concocted the press releases and disgraced his uniform and the Constitution of the United States has probably been promoted. But he had good examples to follow.

During the barbarous obliteration of the town of Fallujah by US forces in 2004 it was stated by witnesses that in the course of their malevolent savagery US troops fired White Phosphorus (WP; what we old soldiers used to know as ‘Willy Pete’) shells which are terror explosives that kill people in the most hideous way. This was denied vehemently by Washington. One self-righteous official rebuttal was that:

” . . . some news accounts have claimed that U.S. forces have used “outlawed” phosphorus shells in Fallujah. Phosphorus shells are not outlawed. U.S. forces have used them very sparingly in Fallujah, for illumination purposes. They were fired into the air to illuminate enemy positions at night, not at enemy fighters. There is a great deal of misinformation feeding on itself about U.S. forces allegedly using “outlawed” weapons in Fallujah. The facts are that U.S. forces are not using any illegal weapons in Fallujah or anywhere else in Iraq.”

Well . . . , perhaps not quite all the facts, because the US Army’s Field Artillery Magazine then recounted, embarrassingly, that :

“The munitions we brought to this fight [in Fallujah] [included] illumination and white phosphorous (WP, M110 and M825) . . . . White Phosphorus proved to be an effective and versatile munition. We used it for screening missions . . . and, later in the fight, as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes when we could not get effects on them with HE. We fired “shake and bake” missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE to take them out. . . We used improved WP for screening missions when HC smoke would have been more effective and saved our WP for lethal missions.”

The official Pentagon lie was “they were fired into the air to illuminate enemy positions” but the army inadvertently revealed that they were fired to “shake and bake”. In ordinary language that means to terrify and incinerate. A tiny morsel of WP burns instantly into flesh and cannot be stopped in its fiery chemical plunge deep into the body. There is no remedy. Victims die in shrieking agony from the effects of ammunition that the Pentagon boobies tell the world was fired “into the air to illuminate enemy positions at night, not at enemy fighters.” They lied. They are beneath contempt.

These people have forfeited all trust and credibility, especially as it seems they tell their lies for political reasons.

The military are supposed to be non-political. They owe allegiance to the Constitution. Their duty as citizens in uniform is to be representative of all Americans, no matter what politician is in the White House; no matter what political parties indulge in puerile antics in the House and Senate. But it appears that the generals have become politicized. Facts are acceptable only if they help the White House, and if convenient facts can’t be produced it’s easy enough to conjure up some cockamamie claptrap that will be believed by an amazing number of Americans, if by nobody else. Take, for example, the latest news about the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.

We are supposed to believe that a boy who was thrown into jail in Afghanistan at the age of fifteen is a major and potent enemy of the United States. It is claimed that he is guilty of “conspiracy, murder, attempted murder, spying, and proving material support for terrorism.” At fifteen years of age he was in a compound that was bombed by US aircraft. He was the only survivor and, appallingly wounded (he lost an eye), he threw a grenade at US soldiers who came in to finish things off. They beat him up and he was then subjected to the most vicious torture before being sent to the Gulag cells of Guantanamo Bay.

Don’t these people understand that by conjuring up such twaddle they are making their nation an object of ridicule and hatred?

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When the American public is urged to “support our troops” there is automatic positive reaction. There is not a US politician who would dare criticize the military, even when presented with irrefutable evidence of hideous atrocities. There is a plenty of “regret” and suchlike insipid sentiment. But you’ll never get condemnation. It is unthinkable to even hint that the military can do wrong.

There is little wonder that the military in Iraq and Afghanistan disguise facts, manipulate the truth, and tell downright lies. They have the example of the rancid Bush Administration, none of whose members have ever heard a shot fired in anger, yet have the light of battle in their steely eyes. They simply follow their leader, one of whose most absurd and blatant lies was that “We gave him [Saddam] a chance to allow the [nuclear] inspectors in, and he wouldn’t let them in.” This preposterous fabrication has not been challenged by any prominent public figure because of the deep-seated national belief in the myth of presidential probity, no matter what evidence may be presented to the contrary. It’s on exactly the same lines as the blind, mindless repetition of “support our troops”.

The lie was repeated on June 5 by Republican Mitt Romney, word for word, and was unchallenged by any other candidate for the devalued post of president of Washington-on-Oil. The commentator Larry Beihart recounts that “Wolf Blitzer, moderating the debate didn’t correct him. The so-called journalists asking questions didn’t seem to notice. The CNN post debate commentators didn’t mention it. The New York Times and The Washington Post, in today’s stories on the debate, didn’t mention it. A web search this morning [June 6] didn’t reveal any comments on Romney’s astounding statement.”

The Pentagon’s lie machine is working well, but Washington doesn’t realise how much damage is being done to the credibility of the United States. The liars might hope and imagine they are protecting their president from condemnation, but all they are doing is creating worldwide contempt, ridicule and loathing for their country. By manipulating facts and downright lying they are doing the reverse of supporting the troops. But once the leader lies, it’s downhill all the way.

Brian Cloughley is a former army officer who writes on political and military affairs. His website is www.briancloughley.com

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The US Invasion of Afghanistan was Announced Months Before the 9/11 Attacks

Posted by musliminsuffer on June 14, 2007

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

=== News Update ===

The US Invasion of Afghanistan was Announced Months Before the 9/11 Attacks


“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” Franklin D. Roosevelt


 

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Jane’s Defense – India Joined US led plan against Afghanistan in March 2001.

“India joins anti-Taliban coalition”


By Rahul Bedi


India is believed to have joined Russia, the USA and Iran in a concerted front against Afghanistan’s Taliban regime. [janes.com]
From April 2001, yet more indications that a mideast war was planned long before 9/11.

 

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India Reacts – American government told other governments about Afghan invasion IN JUNE 2001.

In this article published in India in the summer of 2001 the Indian Government announces that it will support America’s PLANNED military incursion into Afghanistan.

India in anti-Taliban military plan

India and Iran will “facilitate” the planned US-Russia hostilities against the Taliban.

By Our Correspondent

26 June 2001: India and Iran will “facilitate” US and Russian plans for “limited military action” against the Taliban if the contemplated tough new economic sanctions don’t bend Afghanistan’s fundamentalist regime.

The Taliban controls 90 per cent of Afghanistan and is advancing northward along the Salang highway and preparing for a rear attack on the opposition Northern Alliance from Tajikistan-Afghanistan border positions.

Indian foreign secretary Chokila Iyer attended a crucial session of the second Indo-Russian joint working group on Afghanistan in Moscow amidst increase of Taliban’s military activity near the Tajikistan border. And, Russia’s Federal Security Bureau (the former KGB) chief Nicolai Patroshev is visiting Teheran this week in connection with Taliban’s military build-up.

Indian officials say that India and Iran will only play the role of “facilitator” while the US and Russia will combat the Taliban from the front with the help of two Central Asian countries, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, to push Taliban lines back to the 1998 position 50 km away from Mazar-e-Sharief city in northern Afghanistan.

Military action will be the last option though it now seems scarcely avoidable with the UN banned from Taliban controlled areas. The UN which adopted various means in the last four years to resolve the Afghan problem is now being suspected by the Taliban and refused entry into Taliban areas of the war ravaged nation through a decree issued by Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar last month. [indiareacts.com]

 

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BBC – American government told other governments about Afghan invasion IN JULY 2001.

US ‘planned attack on Taleban’

The wider objective was to oust the Taleban

By the BBC’s George Arney

A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban even before last week’s attacks.

Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October.

Mr Naik said US officials told him of the plan at a UN-sponsored international contact group on Afghanistan which took place in Berlin.

Mr Naik told the BBC that at the meeting the US representatives told him that unless Bin Laden was handed over swiftly America would take military action to kill or capture both Bin Laden and the Taleban leader, Mullah Omar.

The wider objective, according to Mr Naik, would be to topple the Taleban regime and install a transitional government of moderate Afghans in its place – possibly under the leadership of the former Afghan King Zahir Shah.

Mr Naik was told that Washington would launch its operation from bases in Tajikistan, where American advisers were already in place.

He was told that Uzbekistan would also participate in the operation and that 17,000 Russian troops were on standby.

Mr Naik was told that if the military action went ahead it would take place before the snows started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the latest.

He said that he was in no doubt that after the World Trade Center bombings this pre-existing US plan had been built upon and would be implemented within two or three weeks.

And he said it was doubtful that Washington would drop its plan even if Bin Laden were to be surrendered immediately by the Taleban. [BBC]

 

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MSNBC – Afghanistan war plans were on Bush’s desk on 9/9/2001


President Bush was expected to sign detailed plans for a worldwide war against al-Qaida two days before Sept. 11 but did not have the chance before the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, U.S. and foreign sources told NBC News. … The plan dealt with all aspects of a war against al-Qaida, ranging from diplomatic initiatives to military operations in Afghanistan, the sources said on condition of anonymity. [MSNBC]

 

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In the summer of 2001, while the American media kept the people distracted with “All Condit All The Time“, the US Government was informing other governments that we would be at war in Afghanistan no later than October.

How lucky for our government that just when they are planning to invade another country, for the express purpose of removing that government, a convenient “terrorist” attack occurs to anger Americans into support for an invasion.

 

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“To be truthful about it, there was no way we could have got the public consent to have suddenly launched a campaign on Afghanistan but for what happened on September 11.”

Tony Blair. July 17, 2002 [Guardian]


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US War Crime : The Afghans are sick of our armies killing their people

Posted by musliminsuffer on June 14, 2007

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US War Crime : The Afghans are sick of our armies killing their people

The scale of civilian casualties at the hands of British and US forces is losing us the war – as I know from experience

Leo Docherty

Wednesday June 13, 2007

The Guardian

Last year in Afghanistan, while serving with the British army, I sat on the rooftop of our patrol base in the middle of Sangin, a small town in Helmand province. Surveying the skyline of flat-roofed mud homes and barren hills, I took stock of the situation. We had seized and occupied Sangin a few days previously, wresting control of the town from the Taliban. During our advance an 11-year-old boy was killed in the crossfire, shot in the head accidentally by our allies, the Afghan national army. Despite this we established our base in a local government building, the district centre, and patrolled the bazaar every day. We bought mangos and chatted to the locals – who seemed ambivalent about our presence.

Just below the surface, however, tension simmered. The boy’s death made us a threat to the local population. Despite promising development we had nothing to show for all our big talk. Crucially we had no real answers to questions about the future of the all-important poppy, the basis of Sangin’s economy. To the locals, we were clumsy, interfering foreigners, whose arrival presaged conflict and the destruction of their livelihood. Days later Sangin exploded into violence, seeing some of the fiercest fighting by British troops since the Korean war, and which continues as I write.

Sadly, many more civilians across Afghanistan have met the same end as the 11-year-old. Recently in Sangin an estimated 21 civilians were killed by bombs dropped from Nato planes after US and British soldiers were ambushed. In the eastern city of Jalalabad in March, US soldiers shot dead 19 civilians in the aftermath of a bomb attack. And yesterday seven policemen were killed by “friendly fire” in an air strike in the eastern province of Nangarhar.

The Jalalabad shootings may yet be deemed a war crime, but civilian deaths are normally tragic accidents. Often outnumbered and outgunned by militia men, the immediate response of Nato troops is to call on overwhelming firepower delivered by artillery, helicopter gunships and jets. The troops aren’t wicked, they’re just keen on staying alive. But these weapons are blunt-edged and indiscriminate. The price of overwhelming firepower is the death of nearby civilians.

But accidental or not, civilian deaths catastrophically undermine the entire Nato effort, as relatives of the dead, bent on vengeance, flock to the Taliban cause. As Pashtuns, the inhabitants of Helmand hold Badal, the pursuit of revenge, as a central concept of their social code, which is devotedly adhered to. “A Pashtun waited a hundred years for revenge,” a local saying goes, “and was pleased with such quick work.” Indeed, the Taliban are ruthlessly exploiting this mindset by deliberately engaging Nato troops from villages.

But it was never supposed to be like this. On my arrival in Afghanistan, I was optimistic about being involved in a reconstructive, nation-building endeavour. Our strategy, the Comprehensive Approach, was supposed to provide security, development and governance. The UK army was to guard a secure “inkspot” around Lashkar Gah (Helmand’s capital), inside which the Foreign Office and international development department DfID could establish an alternative to opium production and initiate development to improve the lives of ordinary Afghan people, some of the world’s poorest. Afghan hearts and minds would be won over, leaving opium traffickers and the last remnants of the Taliban marginalised.

But the Comprehensive Approach was never given a chance. Our occupation of Sangin and other towns across the north of Helmand was a wild digression away from the “inkspot”, motivated by haste and beset by ignorance. We acted as the army alone, purely as a military force, without the crucial hearts and minds-winning capabilities DfID and the Foreign Office should have provided. Far from improving Afghan lives, we have committed a terrible military blunder.

Afghans are sick of foreign armies killing their people. Their president, Hamid Karzai, has publicly criticised Nato’s methods and warned that “bad consequences” will follow if civilian deaths continue unchecked. The Afghan parliament has called for a halt to Nato military offensives, and for negotiations with Afghan members of the Taliban. In Kabul last month, I met displaced civilians from Helmand province, some of the 80,000 to 115,000 people the UN estimates have lost their homes in the fighting in southern Afghanistan. “Why do British planes kill our people?” they said. I struggled to answer.

The British command in Helmand should heed the president’s warning. The Taliban now control 50% of Helmand province. Development is happening nowhere, and opium production has reached record levels. Unless we immediately de-escalate the level of violence and prevent further civilian deaths, all of Helmand will be lost.

In Sangin today the district centre is a battle-scarred fortified position where more than a dozen British troops have been killed fighting from trenches. Soldiers no longer sit on the roof to enjoy the view. The town lies in ruins, with little trace left of the once thriving bazaar. A peaceful, developed Helmand cannot be won by the sword, and the longer we try, the greater the tragedy.

· Leo Docherty served with the British Army in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the author of Desert of Death: A Soldier’s Journey from Iraq to Afghanistan

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Body of Secrets: How America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ Eavesdrop on the World

Posted by musliminsuffer on June 14, 2007

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=== News Update ===

Body of Secrets: How America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ Eavesdrop on the World


Outing Israeli Crimes: June 1967


Clare Brandabur

June 2007


Body of Secrets: How America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ Eavesdrop on the World
James Bamford
London: Arrow Books,2002
ISBN 970099427742 (from Jan 2007) ISBN 0 09 942774 5

As we observe the fortieth anniversary of the Six-Day War of June 1967, there are few things to celebrate. One notable exception is the full exposure of the actual events of the Israeli aggression which have been carefully guarded secrets. In particular the frenzied attempts by the Israelis to sink the USS Liberty and kill its entire crew, attempts covered up at the time by order of the Johnson White House and covered up ever since by censorship and elaborate lies by Israeli and US authority figures.

Now, thanks to the remarkable book Body of Secrets by James Bamford, it is possible to learn not only what happened to the Liberty, but what it was Israel was so desperate to conceal from the eyes of the world, especially from the Russians and the Americans. What they were covering up, and what President Lyndon Johnson would help them continue to cover up, was war crimes and crimes against humanity, a continuation and intensification of the deliberate and calculated policy of the colonial settler state with respect to the indigenous people: genocide.

A good deal was already known about the genocidal practice of the Israelis in 1967 thanks to Arthur C. Forrest’s The Unholy Land (1971). Forrest was sent by a consortium of North American church magazines to research rumors that the Israelis were not in fact allowing the refugees back into Palestine, in spite of their carefully staged claims to the contrary. Forrest quickly learned that refugees were still fleeing across the Allenby Bridge; that many had been attacked by Israeli planes using napalm; that the camp at Jericho which had held some 65,000 refugees from 1948, had been attacked and thousands driven across the River into Jordan by planes using machine gins and napalm; that survivors from the Jordanian Army said whole field hospitals had been napalmed. Of course Forrest was bitterly attacked for daring to criticize Israel, especially for revealing the truth about Israeli use of napalm against civilians and hospitals.

One of the horror stories being told in Amman was of the experiences of fleeing refugees being sprayed with napalm. At first I didn’t believe it and shuddered at the thought of using some of the pictures of victims available in Jordan. ‘If it were pictures of Vietnam you’d publish them wouldn’t you?’ a Palestinian said. (Forrest 16)

Forrest was shocked and dubious concerning these reports, so he went to visit survivors of these attacks in Jordanian hospitals. He spoke to Mr. Sami Oweida, the father of a family who had recently crossed the Bridge and whose surviving members were still being treated in hospital in Amman

We crossed the King Hussein [Allenby] Bridge, walking. Planes were going overhead [...] We tried to avoid big crowds, thinking the planes would bomb the crowds.
Then at that moment [about 4 PM] I saw a plane come down like a hawk directly at us. We threw ourselves on the ground and found ourselves in the midst of fire. (Forrest 17)

Forrest also quotes the report of General Sir John Glubb whose interpretation of the Middle East Crisis was published in July 1967 as follows:

The greater part of the Jordan army were destroyed by napalm [.] Glubb quotes from a signed statement by a team of doctors from the American University of Beirut.[...] ‘A doctor reported that the Mobile Field Hospital, containing 350 patients, was incinerated with all its patients and staff by napalm,’ Glubb says. (Forrest 16)

Forrest took photographs of some of the burned victims, one of which he later published in the United Church Observer, his Church paper in Canada, of a little girl recovering from napalm burns. “That, I was told, proved I was anti-Semitic. To condemn napalm in Vietnam is alright. To report its use by the Israelis is considered anti-Semitic” (Forrest 17). When Forrest asked for permission to visit the three destroyed villages Yalu, Beit Nuba, and Emmaus, he was refused on grounds that “There isn’t any Beit Nuba!” (15). Nevertheless Forrest managed to travel to the devastated area. From survivors whom he asked about the destruction of these villages in retribution for their resistance in 1948 he learned that Israeli bulldozers demolished houses over the heads of the elderly who perished in the rubble (15).

Now, thanks to James Bamford’s outing of the secrets of the “Black Chamber” which housed the American NSA, (National Security Agency) and that of the British GCHQ, (Government Communications Headquarters), it is possible to reconstruct a more complete picture of the Israeli cover-up including its attack on the USS Liberty. The well planned war of 1967 was designed to take as much land as possible and to make it appear that the Arab armies had attacked Israel. This is the startling conclusion of a chapter in Bamford’s, Body of Secrets (2002) which offers a more detailed explanation for the Israeli attack on the Liberty. Bamford provides a mass of detail about the “criminal slaughter” in which the Israelis were engaged at nearby Al-Arish (201).

From the first minutes of its surprise attack, the Israeli airforce had owned the skies over the Middle East. Within the first few hours, Israeli jets pounded twenty-five Arab air bases ranging from Damascus in Syria to an Egyptian field, loaded with bombers far up the Nile at Luxor. Then, using machine guns, mortar fire, tanks, and air power, the Israeli war machine overtook the Jordanian section of Jerusalem as well as the west bank of the Jordan River, and torpedo boats captured the key Red Sea cape at Sharm al-Sheikh.

In the Sinai, Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers pushed toward the Suez Canal along all three of the roads that crossed the desert, turning the burning sands into a massive killing field. One Israeli general estimated that Egyptian casualties there ranged from 7,000 to 10,000 killed, compared with 275 of its own troops. (201)

Bamford documents the attack by Israeli tanks on a UN convoy of Indian peacekeeper soldiers on their way to Gaza, and the subsequent attack on a UN headquarters in Gaza in which fourteen UN members were killed. “One Indian officer called it deliberate, cold-blooded killing of unarmed UN soldiers” (201). Bamford then details the slaughter of hundreds of Egyptian prisoners of war who were made to dig their own graves and then machine-gunned (202-205). Body of Secrets provides the most detailed account I have seen of the USS Liberty attack, gleaned in part from recently unearthed material from the records of the National Security Agency, in part from interviews with all available Liberty survivors.

It was not in Israel’s interest nor in US interest to have its aggression against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan revealed to the world. Early in the afternoon of June 8, 1967, Israeli jets and missile boats opened fire on the USS Liberty, an American surveillance ship operating off the coast of Gaza. Struck by rockets, cannons and torpedoes, the vessel suffered extensive damage and over 200 casualties including 34 dead. Israeli forces were then engaged in the fourth day of what would soon be called the Six Day War, and, as Bamford shows, the Liberty was hit repeatedly by waves of Israeli airforce fighters loaded with 30 mm cannon ammunition, rockets, and even napalm, then assaulted from the sea by torpedoes (200-201). Though Israel claimed the attack was a “tragic mistake,” the incident has never been officially revealed to the public.

In spite of earlier exposés like that of Arthur Forrest and interviews with survivors of the USS Liberty, few people in the West even today know what Israel was doing. In subsequent investigations, however, it has emerged that those directly connected to the attack on the Liberty rejected Israeli claims the ship was attacked by accident. In his biography of President Lyndon Johnson, for example, Robert Dallek says “The highest officials of the [Johnson] administration, including the President, believed it ‘inconceivable’ that Israel’s ‘skilled’ defense forces could have committed such a gross error” Dallek. 430-31). If Israeli intention was to cover up their criminal napalm attacks on Palestinian civilians in order to drive them out of Palestine, it seems to have been a success. What Israel was covering up, by trying to sink the USS Liberty was the crime of genocide.

Arthur Forrest’s book and Bamford’s meticulous documentation are consistent with other witnesses to Israel’s use of napalm against civilians in 1967. Norman F. Dacey, who had been chairman of Volunteers for Nixon, whose open letter to then President Richard M. Nixon was published in Lebanese newspaper Al-Anwar, January 17, 1972. In it Dacey told Nixon that he would henceforth campaign for Nixon’s defeat, citing his disgust with US policies in the Middle East. “I have walked through Egyptian hospitals and seen row on row of beds of little children, their bodies burned black by American-made napalm, dropped from American-built planes in claimed ‘defense’ of Israel” (Dacey qtd in Ashiurakis 1974).

Other readers will find other parts of Bamford’s huge book (715 pages) important for what it has to reveal about US and UK intelligence roles in relation to Cuba, to Viet Nam, Germany, Russia, and China. But I think it is fitting on this fortieth anniversary of the Israeli Occupation of Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, to concentrate attention on what the book has to teach us about the Israeli assault of 1967 which, as the commentators are saying, changed the shape of the Middle East. The Palestinian refugees are more numerous and in some ways more desperate than before, as witness the conflagration that threatens to spread in Northern Lebanon, and the Israeli and American leadership remains just as intransigent as ever about the right of return of the refugees, though it was by their false promise to allow them to return that Israel gained acceptance in the United Nations.

But why, you might ask, would events of 1967 be relevant today? And why, therefore, are Bamford’s revelations so critical? Because the same program of ethnic cleansing and progressive land confiscation is still proceeding apace, and this program is at the heart of all the other major conflicts in the region, most recently the tragic waste of the US/UK invasion of Iraq which was fueled by Israeli expansionism.

In addition to its ongoing murders of Palestinians (such as the massacre of Jenin refugee camp in 2002) and the present campaign of assassination and wholesale killing in Gaza, Israel also continues its genocidal plans for the destruction of Palestinian cultural institutions. In Imperial Israel and the Palestinians (2002), Nur Masalha documents recent Israeli plans for the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, the two great mosques on the Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem (122-23), and for the “final solution” to the Palestinian problem which they hope to put into practice with the help of their American accomplices-a plan of “transfer” for which they foresaw the destruction of Iraq as a necessary step. Masalha quotes Meier Lipschitz, an Israeli developer of Jewish-only housing, as saying

A war against Iraq is a real (religious) duty. If it is possible to make provocation, we must carry this out immediately. Such a golden opportunity in a convenient international situation falls into our hand once every hundred years… No one will busy himself with the triviality of transfer which we will carry out in parallel at the same time… Who exactly will be interested in the fate of two million Palestinians, who supported the butcher of Baghdad and are settled on the lands of the little king (King Hussein)? (184)

Masalha says the gist of this argument is that war against Iraq should be provoked if only so it could be utilized for the forcible mass expulsion of the Palestinians”(185).

James Bamford’s book has a great deal more to teach us about US and UK secrets, the Cold War, and the Great Game. But on this anniversary of the second Nakbah, I hope I may be forgiven for foregrounding what Body of Secrets has to teach us about the true character of Israel as a colonial settler state which is inherently genocidal.

Selected Bibliography

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Bahour, Sam. “Israel Spinning Out of Control.” (Chris McGreal? The Guardian (UK) 24 November 2004.

Bamford, James. Body of Secrets: How America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHO Eavesdrop on the World. London: Arrow Books/Random House, 2002.

Brandabur, A. Clare. “A Reply To Amos Kennan: ‘The Legacy of Lydda’: An Interview with George Habash.” http://www.corkpsc.org/db.php?aid=59775

Carlson, Charles. “Christian Zionism and The Scofield Reference Bible.” 2006. www.whtt.org.

Carlson, Charles.”How Zionists Changed Biblical Interpretations Using Scofield & Oxford U. http://blogs.albawaba.com/Alexanderjames/2067/2006/01/20/10852-how_zionists_changed

Churchill, Ward. A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas – 1492 to the Present. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997.

Cook, Jonathan. Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State. London & Ann Arbor: Pluto Press. 2006.

Dacey, Norman F. “Open Letter to President Nixon.” in The Crime in Palestine. By Ahmed M. Ashiurakis. Tripoli, Libya: Dar Al-Farjani, 1974.

Finkelstein, Norman G. Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Forrest, Arthur C. The Unholy Land. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1971-1972.

Khoury, Elias. Gate of the Sun. [Bab al-Shams]. Tr Humphrey Davies. Brooklyn, NY, Archipelago Books, 2005.

Lemkin, Raphael. “Totally Unofficial Man”. Pioneers of Genocide Studies. Eds. Samuel Totten and Steven Leonard Jacobs. New Brunswick, USA & London: Transaction Publishers, 2002.

Lemkin, Raphael. Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government Proposals for Redress. Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1944.

Lindqvist, Sven. ‘Exterminate All the Brutes.’ Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate. London: Books, 2002.

Masalha, Nur. Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion. London: Pluto Press, 2000.

Merriman, Rima. “Denial of Entry: Rice’s Probe and the Israeli Administration.” Electronic Intifada, October 17, 2006.

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Rodinson, Maxime. Israel: Colonial Settler State? New York: Pathfinder, 1993.

Roy, Sara. “The Gaza Economy.” Published by The Palestine Information Center Brief #143, 2, Oct. 2006.

Roy, Sara. “Living With the Holocaust.” The Journey of a Child of Holocaust Survivors Journal of Palestine Studies Vol XXXII, No. 1, Autumn 2002, Issue 125 (http://www.ipsips.org/jps/125/roy.html)

Said, Edward W. The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination 1969-1994. New York: Random House, 1995.

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Said, Edward W. “How to Answer Palestine’s Challenge.” Mother Jones (September 1988), 13(7):16-18.

Salbuchi, Adrian. “Historical Lies As An Instrument of Domination.” Published on the Internet by the Israel Shamir List. Oct. 19, 2006. Translated from the Spanish “La Falsificacion de la Historia como Instrumento de Domino.” http://www.eltraductorradial@fibertel.com.ar

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Secret memo shows Israel knew Six Day War was illegal

Posted by musliminsuffer on June 14, 2007

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=== News Update ===

Secret memo shows Israel knew Six Day War was illegal


By Donald Macintyre


Published: 26 May 2007


A senior legal official who secretly warned the government of Israel after the Six Day War of 1967 that it would be illegal to build Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories has said, for the first time, that he still believes that he was right.

The declaration by Theodor Meron, the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s legal adviser at the time and today one of the world’s leading international jurists, is a serious blow to Israel’s persistent argument that the settlements do not violate international law, particularly as Israel prepares to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the war in June 1967.

The legal opinion, a copy of which has been obtained by The Independent, was marked “Top Secret” and “Extremely Urgent” and reached the unequivocal conclusion, in the words of its author’s summary, “that civilian settlement in the administered territories contravenes the explicit provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention.”

Judge Meron, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia until 2005, said that, after 40 years of Jewish settlement growth in the West Bank – one of the main problems to be solved in any peace deal: ” I believe that I would have given the same opinion today.”

Judge Meron, a holocaust survivor, also sheds new light on the aftermath of the 1967 war by disclosing that the Foreign Minister, Abba Eban, was ” sympathetic” to his view that civilian settlement would directly conflict with the Hague and Geneva conventions governing the conduct of occupying powers.

Despite the legal opinion, which was forwarded to Levi Eshkol, the Prime Minister, but not made public at the time, the Labour cabinet progressively sanctioned settlements. This paved the way to growth which has resulted in at least 240,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank today.

Judge Meron, 76, is now an appeal judge at the Tribunal. Speaking about his 1967 opinion for the first time, he also tells tomorrow’s Independent Magazine: “It’s obvious to me that the fact that settlements were established and the pace of the establishment of the settlements made peacemaking much more difficult.”

Blaming restrictions on Palestinian movement for the devasatation of the Palestinian economy, the World Bank earlier this month acknowledged Israeli security concerns but added that many of the restrictions were aimed at ” enhancing the free movement of settlers and the physical and economic expansion of the settlements at the expense of the Palestinian population.” The settlements and their “jurisdictions” effectively control about 40 per cent of the area of the West Bank.

The argument that the settlements are illegal, stated in successive UN resolutions, and by the International Court of Justice advisory opinion condemning the separation barrier in 2004, is reinforced by such an authoritative source. It strengthens the political case in any “final status” negotiations on borders with the Palestinians for genuinely equitable land swaps of Israeli territory to a future Palestinian state if Israel is to retain settlement blocks.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon secured a promise in 2004 from President George Bush that large Israeli “population centres” in the West Bank could remain in Israel in any such negotiations. In a subsequent letter to the Palestinians, the President promised that final borders had to be subject to agreement by negotiation.

Judge Meron’s memorandum was obtained from the Israel State Archives. His subsequent defence of it amounts to a direct challenge to Israel’s continuing contention that the Geneva Convention’s provisions on settling people in occupied territory did not apply to the West Bank because its annexation by Jordan between 1949 and 1967 had been unilateral.

The memorandum was written in September 1967 as the Eshkol government was already considering Jewish settlements in the West Bank and the Golan Heights, seized from Syria during the Six Day War. It says that the international community had already rejected the “argument that the West Bank is not ‘normal occupied territory’.”

It pointed out that the British ambassador to the United Nations, Lord Caradon, had already asserted that Israel’s position was that of an occupier. It added that a decree from the army command saying that military courts would “fulfil Geneva provisions” indicated that Israel thought so too.

Judge Meron also says in his interview that such an argument would not in any case have applied to the Golan Heights which had been undisputed as sovereign Syrian territory prior to the Six Day War.

While the Olmert government has so far rejected calls for peace negotiations by Syria’s President Bashir Assad, it has been weighing a welter of internal advice proposing that it explores talks seeking an end to Syrian support for Hizbollah and Hamas in return for restoring the Golan Heights to Syria.

The memorandum, details of which were published by the Israeli writer Gershom Gorenberg last year, also says settlements built on private land would explicitly contravene the 1907 Hague Convention.

The only implicit acknowledgement of the Meron memorandum – which Mr Gorenberg established also went to Moshe Dayan, the triumphant Defence Minister during the Six Day War – was that one of the first West Bank settlements, Kfar Etzion, was initially called a “military outpost” although it was already, in effect, a civilian settlement. The memorandum said there was no legal prohibition against military posts in occupied territory.

Ehud Olmert fought the Israeli election last year on a programme of unilateral withdrawal from parts of the West Bank – usually thought to mean dismantling settlements east of the separation barrier, which cuts deep into the West Bank in places. But this strategy was abandoned after the Lebanon war.

Mark Regev, the foreign ministry spokesman, said yesterday: “We do not accept that the West Bank is occupied in the classic sense.” He added that it was not sovereign Jordanian territory before 1967 and it had not enjoyed legal status since the British mandate, which had the remit, underpinned by the League of Nations, of establishing a Jewish national home.

He added: “That said we accept the principle of two states living side by side and obviously in the creation of this state settlements will be coming down. I would point anyone who says that is impossible to what happened in Gaza less than two years ago.”

Mr Regev also said that in some settlements – like Hebron where Jews left after a massacre by Arabs in 1929 – Jews had a long history of residence preceding the War of Independence in 1948.

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‘Kill Anyone Still Alive’: American Special Ops in Somalia

Posted by musliminsuffer on June 14, 2007

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=== News Update ===

‘Kill Anyone Still Alive’: American Special Ops in Somalia


Written by Chris Floyd

Wednesday, 13 June 2007

by Chris Floyd

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How many people did American forces actually kill when they attacked refugees fleeing from the U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia last January? We know from reports by Oxfam, the Guardian, the Associated Press and Reuters that dozens of innocent civilians were slaughtered near the Kenyan border, including villagers and nomadic tribesmen hit by American gunships seeking to kill alleged al Qaeda operatives who may or may not have been among the refugees. But a new story in Esquire magazine ­ detailing the creation of America’s most recent military satrapy, the Africa Command ­ provides disturbing indications that the post-invasion killing by American operatives in Somalia was far more extensive ­ and deliberate ­ than previously known. [Extensive background on the war in Somalia can be found here.]

The Esquire piece, by Thomas Barnett, is a mostly glowing portrait of the Africa Command, which, we are told, is designed to wed military, diplomatic, and development prowess in a seamless package, a whole new way of projecting American power: “pre-emptive nation-building instead of pre-emptive regime change,” or as Barnett describes it at another point, “Iraq done right.” Although Barnett’s glib, jargony, insider piece ­ told entirely from the point of view of U.S. military officials ­ does contain bits of critical analysis, it is in no way an expose. The new details he presents on the post-invasion slaughter are thus even more chilling, as they are offered simply as an acceptable, ordinary aspect of this laudable new enterprise.

Barnett reveals that the gunship attacks on refugees were just the first part of the secret U.S. mission that was “Africa Command’s” debut on the imperial stage. Soon after the attacks, “Task Force 88, a very secret American special-operations unit,” was helicoptered into the strike area. As Barnett puts it: “The 88′s job was simple: Kill anyone still alive and leave no unidentified bodies behind.”

Some 70,000 people fled their homes in the first wave of the Ethiopian invasion. (More than 400,000 fled the brutal consolidation of the invasion in Mogadishu last spring.) Tens of thousands of these initial refugees headed toward the Kenyan border, where the American gunships struck. When the secret operation was leaked, Bush Administration officials said that American planes were trying to hit three alleged al Qaeda operatives who had allegedly been given sanctuary by the Islamic Councils government decapitated by the Ethiopians. But Barnett’s insiders told him that the actual plan was to wipe out thousands of “foreign fighters” whom Pentagon officials believed had joined the Islamic Courts forces. “Honestly, nobody had any idea just how many there really were,” Barnett was told. “But we wanted to get them all.”

Thus the Kenyan border area ­ where tens of thousands of civilians were fleeing ­ was meant to be “a killing zone,” Barnett writes:

America’s first AC-130 gunship went wheels-up on January 7 from that secret Ethiopian airstrip. After each strike, anybody left alive was to be wiped out by successive waves of Ethiopian commandos and Task Force 88, operating out of Manda Bay. The plan was to rinse and repeat ‘until no more bad guys, as one officer put it.

At this point, Barnett ­ or his sources ­ turn coy. We know there were multiple gunship strikes; and from Barnett’s account, we know that the “88s” did go in at least once after the initial gunship attack to “kill anyone still alive and leave no unidentified bodies behind.” But Barnett’s story seems to suggest that once active American participation in the war was leaked, the “killing zone” was abandoned at some point. So there is no way of knowing at this point how many survivors of the American attacks were then killed by the “very special secret special-operations unit,” or how many “rinse-and-repeat” cycles the “88s” were able to carry out in what Barnett called “a good plan.”

Nor do we know just who the “88s” killed. As noted, the vast majority of refugees were civilians, just as the majority of the victims killed by the American gunship raids were civilians. Did the “88s” move in on the nomadic tribesmen decimated by the air attack and “kill everyone still alive”? Or did they restrict themselves to killing any non-Somalis they found among the refugees?

Concerning the latter, evidently it is now a capital crime, worthy of instant death by special ops or air raid or drone-fired missile, for any Muslim of any nationality to visit or take part in an Islamic regime which the U.S. government dislikes ­ even if, like Somalia’s Islamic Councils government, that regime is not at war with the United States and strenuously denies any connection to al Qaeda. This is borne out by the “good plan” to kill “thousands of foreign fighters” who had, allegedly, come to the aid of the Islamic Courts government (just like the thousands of foreign fighters who joined the American-backed jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan). There was an automatic, unquestioned assumption by the Pentagon that these people were to be wiped out to the last man. This does not seem to jibe very well with “Africa Command’s” professed intent to win the hearts and minds of Africa’s Muslims and prevent encroachment by extremists there.

But then, none of Bush’s “Terror War” policies seem designed to produce their ostensible goal. Indeed, a cynic might be forgiven for suspecting that the formenting of extremism, violence and endless, ever-profitable war was in fact the actual aim of these policies.

UPDATE: Bush’s Terror Warriors are planning more airstrikes in Somalia, this time in the northern region of Puntland, a follow-up to shelling by American warships in the area last week, AFP reports. (Via Raw Story)

US warplanes are overflying the northern Somali region of Puntland in preparation for air-strikes against suspected Al-Qaeda fugitives, more than a week after US warships shelled the area, officials said Tuesday. The semi-autonomous regional government had authorised the overflights to pursue Al-Qaeda members believed to be hiding in the moutainous area, Puntland’s security minister Ibrahim Artan Ismail told reporters.
“The warplanes are looking for Al-Qaeda hideouts and when they get them, they will bomb them,” he said, adding that the air operation covers areas where intelligence shows Al-Qaeda elements are hiding.

Once again, we see the identification of any Muslim on the outs with the Bushists and their allies as “al Qaeda.” First, the Bush Administration said there were three al Qaeda operatives in Somalia ­ the ones they killed 70 or more innocent civilians trying to get in January airstrikes. As we’ve seen in the Esquire story above, the aim was actually to kill thousands of Muslims who had joined with the now-deposed Islamic Courts Council government in Somalia, which had strenuously denied ties to al Qaeda. It’s now apparent that anyone who ever fought for the Islamic Courts Council, whether foreign or Somali, will be tarred with the “al Qaeda” brush.

No doubt, the brutal destruction of the broad-based Courts government ­ which had brought Somalia its first measure of stability in more than 15 years of violent anarchy ­ will in fact spur the rise of al Qaeda-related groups in Somalia, feeding on the chaos and despair engendered by the Bush-backed invasion. Thus, American forces will always have a handy excuse for striking Somalia whenever they please, as they strive to “project dominance” over Africa.

With the new airstrikes coming in Puntland, however, the questions arise: How many innocent civilians will be murdered by the blunderbuss assault? And will these attacks too be followed by the “88s” dropping in to kill everyone still alive? Is this another “rinse and repeat” cycle from Africa Command?

source:
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1784/81/

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US Terrorize The Whole World by “War on Terror” – 28 Jumadil Awal 1428 H (14.6.07)

Posted by musliminsuffer on June 14, 2007

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

=== News Update ===

 

US Can Hit Anywhere on Earth with ICBMs, “Cans of Whup-Ass” Only in 60 Minutes


The Pentagon doesn’t just want to blast any target on Earth, in an hour. The military wants to strike everywhere and anywhere, just about instantly, with “cans of whup-ass.”

Cbu97_32 Let me explain. For the last few years, the Defense Department has been dissatisfied with how fast they can smack enemies overseas. It can take hours and hours for cruise to hit, for example. And there will be instances when there aren’t hours and hours to spare. So the Pentagon has been searching for ways to, in the words of U.S. Strategic Command’s Lt. Gen. C. Robert Kehler, “strike virtually anywhere on the face of the Earth within 60 minutes.” The boys at Stratcom call the concept “Prompt Global Strike,” or PGS.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/06/global_strike_p.html

 

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US 9/11 Crime : FBI Terror Watch List ‘Out of Control’


Fbi_terror_watc_mn A terrorist watch list compiled by the FBI has apparently swelled to include more than half a million names.

Privacy and civil liberties advocates say the list is growing uncontrollably, threatening its usefulness in the war on terror.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/fbi_terror_watc.html

 

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US 9/11 Crime : Accused Al Qaeda operative can’t be jailed indefinitely, appeals court rules


In a landmark decision, a federal panel rejects Bush’s ‘enemy combatant’ policy. The Arab immigrant has been in a South Carolina military brig for four years.

WASHINGTON — In a setback for the Bush administration, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that an alleged Al Qaeda operative arrested in the United States and detained in military custody for four years cannot be held as an enemy combatant.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-terror12jun12,1,4288907.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=1&cset=true

 

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9/11 Crime : US told to free ‘enemy combatant’


A US appeals court has ruled that the government does not have the authority to detain on American soil an alleged al-Qaeda member who is a legal US resident, without pressing charges.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F8A053FB-865F-4336-9440-3318E456D77D.htm

 

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9/11 Al Qaeda theory: Mumbai intellectuals blame MOSSAD, CIA


Srinagar, June 12: Mumbai based group of intellectuals and human rights activists have criticized the media reports of an ‘Al-Qaeda Hind’ based in Kashmir. The group believes that the Al-Qaeda announcement was a planted story and a part of the disinformation campaign by the Indian government, so as to justify the unholy alliance between the ruling elites of India with the Zionist Apartheid Nazi Israeli state.
http://www.kashmirwatch.com/showheadlines.php?subaction=showfull&id=1181713014&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&var0news=value0news

 

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War criminal : Powell urges US to close Guantanamo


He said the detention facility for foreign terror suspects posed a “major problem” for the country’s international image.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6B193663-79CB-4516-B9C6-989844209187.htm

 

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War Criminal : ‘Kill Anyone Still Alive’: American Special Ops in Somalia


How many people did American forces actually kill when they attacked refugees fleeing from the U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia last January? We know from reports by Oxfam, the Guardian, the Associated Press and Reuters that dozens of innocent civilians were slaughtered near the Kenyan border, including villagers and nomadic tribesmen hit by American gunships seeking to kill alleged al Qaeda operatives who may or may not have been among the refugees. But a new story in Esquire magazine — detailing the creation of America’s most recent military satrapy, the Africa Command — provides disturbing indications that the post-invasion killing by American operatives in Somalia was far more extensive — and deliberate — than previously known. [Extensive background on the war in Somalia can be found here.]
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1784/81/

 

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US War Crime : Hiroshima To Iraq – 61 Years Of Uranium Wars A Suicidal, Genocidal, Omnicidal Course


The conduct of secret nuclear wars since 1991, through the use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States and Great Britain with their allies, has taken place in the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan2 and Lebanon.3 It has been carried out for the express purpose of destroying the public health and mutilating the genetic future of vast populations in oil rich and/or pipeline regions.
http://www.rense.com/general76/hiro.htm

 

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Iraq WMD forgery gets Venice art spotlight

VENICE (Reuters) – Can bad intelligence make for good art?

Well, the art elite gathered in Venice are rolling out the red carpet for German artist Thomas Demand’s tribute to bogus pre-war intelligence on Iraq.

Hanging from one of the buildings in the lagoon city is a massive image by Demand portraying the Niger embassy in Rome — a suspected origin of forged documents claiming Saddam Hussein had sought uranium for a weapons program from Niger.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/10/AR2007061000440_pf.html

 

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I Accuse The Bush Administration Of Terrorism


All US officials that have visited Iraq asked the Iraqi government to pass the oil act, from extremist Vice-President Dick Cheney to the moderate Robert Gates. On the other hand, all Iraqi officials that have visited the US, from President Jalal Talabani and downward, listened to the same demand. President George Bush and the Democratic-controlled Congress disagreed over everything except the Iraqi oil when they considered passing the oil act a sign of progress in Iraq.
http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/OPED/06-2007/Article-20070612-1ead3a0c-c0a8-10ed-01b1-69967e329857/story.html

 

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Genocide in Iraq and Why The World Does Nothing


All the following posts about Iraq and the genocidal policies of BOTH the US and Iran, working in tandem in a Fascist coalition and their completely illegitimate, criminal governments in Iraq, Iran and the US, http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m33610&hd=&size=1&l=e and
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m33628&hd=&size=1&l=e
and www.uruknet.de/?p=m33633&hd=&size=1&l=e

http://karlmarxwasright.blogspot.com/2007/06/genocide-in-iraq-and-why-world-does.html

 

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Iraq : Collateral genocide


Two elements are necessary to commit the crime of genocide: 1) the mental element, meaning intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, and 2) the physical element, which includes any of the following: killing or causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group’s physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births; or forcibly transferring children to another group.
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2072.shtml

 

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The Siege of Baghdad


A new and perhaps last chapter has begun, new in the names and places but as old as war itself. The military is well aware of the coming checkmate and are fired for their candor in saying so only the media and the madman soldier on. Fighting on not to achieve victory or even to forestall defeat but to sacrifice the blood of innocents on all sides but to preserve protect and defend the fragile ego of the leader.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17871.htm

 

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High on Hate?


Left without a pretext for a military assault on Iran, the Bush administration finds itself in a position where it needs to prepare the world opinion for mass genocide with a compelling reason. With its control over the media, it is accomplishing this by denouncing Iran as the killer of American troops while causing civil unrest in Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17877.htm

 

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Troop Support : Deceptions and Insipid Sentiments


There is little wonder that the military in Iraq and Afghanistan disguise facts, manipulate the truth, and tell downright lies. They have the example of the rancid Bush Administration, none of whose members have ever heard a shot fired in anger, yet have the light of battle in their steely eyes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17873.htm

 

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How the Neocons Misread Machiavelli


While the Neo-Cons now assert that we must stubbornly remain in Iraq for many, many years to come, Machiavelli would most certainly call the troops home. For, this faltering campaign–coupled with the growing disaster in Afghanistan–offends his principles gravely.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17868.htm

 

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For Democracy, We Must Consider Impeachment


The United States democracy is in a struggle for its life. A growing number of writers, generals and other opinion leaders are speaking up to inform and encourage an inattentive public to understand and to make a stand to protect our nation from enemies within and without.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17872.htm

 

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Of Crazies, Neocons and the Enemy Within


If the media will not expose them, then we will. If the state will not prosecute them, then we should. If their peers will not shame them, then we most definitely will. Karma and justice should follow these crazies and criminals wherever they go, wherever they appear. If America no longer suits them thanks to our actions, then they are welcome to move elsewhere. We do not want them in our nation anymore. They are not welcome, for they have brought nothing but war, death, destruction, fear, terror, decadence and manipulations.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17869.htm

 

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Secret UN report condemns US for Middle East failures


Envoy’s damning verdict revealed as violence takes Gaza closer to civil war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17875.htm

 

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Broken Lives and Broken Hearts


With the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq in its fifth year, one leading study estimates that more than 655,000 Iraqis have been killed — with no end to the violence yet in sight. Left behind are loved ones who continue to mourn their loss, as well as what might have been.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38065

 

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3 U.S. troops killed in Iraq


Roadside bombs killed two U.S. soldiers in separate incidents in Baghdad, and a U.S. Marine was killed in combat in Anbar province, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-06-13-troop-deaths_N.htm

 

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 12 June 2007

  • American helicopter gun ship blasts secondary school in al-Baghdadi, killing seven students taking final exams Tuesday.
  • As Shi‘i sectarian torture, murder spree continues, 26 bodies found dumped around Baghdad.
  • Iraqi Resistance blasts third strategic bridge since Sunday in attack near al-Haswah.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0607/iraqiresistancereport_120607.htm

 

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The US Invasion of Afghanistan was Announced Months Before the 9/11 Attacks


Jane’s Defense – India Joined US led plan against Afghanistan in March 2001. “India joins anti-Taliban coalition”

India is believed to have joined Russia, the USA and Iran in a concerted front against Afghanistan’s Taliban regime. [janes.com]

From April 2001, yet more indications that a mideast war was planned long before 9/11.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/preplanned.html

 

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U.S. occupation troops mistakenly kills 8 Afghan cops


Mistaking each other for the enemy, Afghan police fired four dozen grenades and U.S.-led coalition troops fought back with helicopter gunships in a fierce battle that left eight officers dead before dawn Tuesday, officials said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070612/ap_on_re_as/afghan_violence

 

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The Afghans are sick of our armies killing their people


The scale of civilian casualties at the hands of British and US forces is losing us the war – as I know from experience
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2101516,00.html

 

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Taliban claim to have abducted foreign occupation soldier


U.S. and NATO officials have only said the soldier was part of the U.S.-led coalition forces in the southern province of Helmand and is considered missing.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/06/13/taliban-kidnap.html

 

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Outing Israeli Crimes: June 1967


As we observe the fortieth anniversary of the Six-Day War of June 1967, there are few things to celebrate. One notable exception is the full exposure of the actual events of the Israeli aggression which have been carefully guarded secrets. In particular the frenzied attempts by the Israelis to sink the USS Liberty and kill its entire crew
http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0064965.html

 

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Secret memo shows Israel knew Six Day War was illegal


A senior legal official who secretly warned the government of Israel after the Six Day War of 1967 that it would be illegal to build Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories has said, for the first time, that he still believes that he was right.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2584164.ece

 

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Israeli MP arrested at airport with tens of thousands in cash and checks


Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Wednesday opened an investigation in collaboration with the National Fraud Investigative Unit into MK Haim Amsalam (Shas). Amsalam was arrested in the early hours of Monday morning by tax agents at Ben-Gurion International Airport while carrying a suitcase that contained $40,000 in cash and checks totaling over 130,000 Euros.
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/06/israeli-mp-arrested-at-airport-with.html

 

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The 16th Amendment was not ratified! The Income Tax is therefore illegal


Document 100.0.8.0 # 20 of 38 …The 16th Amendment was not ratified! The Income Tax is therefore illegal. Note: As goes our nation in the push by the Socialist Council on Foreign Relations, so goes the rest of the “free” world. The CFR through its enforcement arm, the Communist United Nations, will eventually eliminate all
freedom in this world. Only you and I can stop it. Removing the funding provided directly by the US Taxpayer (all of our income taxes go out of the country) will be a huge blow to the Elitists who seek to be the world dictator thru the UN.
http://www.apfn.net/Doc-100_bankruptcy20.htm

 

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