Guess why Berg murder and the Abu Ghraib torture/humiliation by Americans
were each recorded on the same video camera according to Kodak experts???
"Rich Travsky" <traRvEsky@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:40AC0280.BC3FC3C4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > "It's none of your business"
> >
> > Presidential wannabe John F...ing Kerry responding to an
> > American Voter during a town hall meeting, March 2004
>
> Not even a good dodge. Republicons helping Saddam and ignoring his
> gassing people IS our business.
Hey, I admit it. I am pro-Saddam. I want him back in power in the office
where he was duly elected. Saddam is a good guy like I am, and of course
the Kurds who worked for the CIA have brought this disaster on Iraq by
inviting Bush in -- and the whole gassing story may not be true.
Notice how all blame is absolved by always the same method -- finding falt
with the other fellow -- in fact they thrive on talse accusation -- false
accusation is their principle of success, they are always falsely affixing
blame on someone else -- that was the same Zionist Jew mentality that
attacked the USS Liberty, that perpetrated the 9-11 false-flag black-op
mass-murdr frame-up.
Remember -- the Pentagon has been Jewish for over 20 years-- 20 years of
murderous sell-out treason
Kodak film experts at Kodak Park in Rochester New York have compared the
digital watermarks of the torture video and the beheading video and have
determined that one of the cameras used in the Nick Berg beheading is THE
SAME CAMERA that took the prison torture video. If this turns out to be
true, then there is NO DOUBT that Berg was killed by Americans at Abu
Ghraib
prison."
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News Updates from Citizens for Legitimate Government
May 22, 2004
http://www.legitgov.org/
http://legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
Military Lawyer Asserts: Top U.S. Officer Knew of Prison Abuse: A
military lawyer for a soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib abuse case
testified that a captain at the Baghdad prison said the
highest-ranking U.S. military officer in Iraq was present during some
"interrogations and/or allegations of the prisoner abuse," according
to a recording of a military hearing obtained by The Wa****ngton Post.
The lawyer said he was told that Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez and
other senior military officers were aware of what was taking place on
Tier 1A of Abu Ghraib. The lawyer, Capt. Robert Shuck, also said a
sergeant at the prison was prepared to testify that intelligence
officers told him the abuse of detainees on the cellblock was "the
right thing to do"... "Are you saying that Captain Reese is going to
testify that General Sanchez was there and saw this going on?" asked
Capt. John McCabe, the military prosecutor. "That's what he told me,"
Shuck said. "I am an officer of the court, sir, and I would not lie.
I have got two children at home. I'm not going to risk my career."
Berg Video - SMOKING GUN? (marc.perkel.com) "There has been a
semi-secret government initiative to add digital signatures to
various digital consumer products. Photocopiers and digital cameras
store an encrypted signature to identify the unit that made the
video. This digital signature is totally unique to each device and is
more unique than a fingerprint. Today new pictures were released of
prison torture at Abu Ghraib prison. But not just still pictures.
Today video was released showing prisoners being tortured by
Americans. Apparently Kodak film experts at Kodak Park in Rochester
New York have compared the digital watermarks of the torture video
and the beheading video and have determined that one of the cameras
used in the Nick Berg beheading is THE SAME CAMERA that took the
prison torture video. If this turns out to be true, then there is NO
DOUBT that Berg was killed by Americans at Abu Ghraib prison."
================
Scott Ritter: Iraq sarin shell is not part of a secret cache -- modern
artillery
shells had a high "dud" rate -- Iraq is a WMD archaeological site, and
that
if one
digs long enough, vestiges of these past WMD programs will be uncovered.
Determining whether the discovery of the sarin artillery shell represents
such an
archaeological discovery, or is part of Saddam Hussein's alleged stockpile
of WMD,
rests with a full forensic exam of the shell. -- The key to whether the
sarin
artillery round came from an arms cache or was a derelict dud rests in the
physical
characteristics of the shell. The artillery shells in question were fitted
with ...
http://csmonitor.com/2004/0521/p09s01-coop.html
The United States is pu****ng for a new U.N. Security Council resolution
aimed at
exempting its troops from prosecution for war crimes when they serve in
any
U.N.
peacekeeping operations.
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23842
As anyone who understands the Israel/Palestine conflict knows, the
goal of Israel is to annex the West Bank and Gaza.
The problem for Israel is that if it simply annexes the land with 3
million
non-Jews, it will cease to be a Jewish majority state. -- Israel today
is
perpetrating on the Palestinian people a crime that can only be branded a
Holocaust,
ie total destruction. They want the Palestinians dead or transferred so
they
can
steal those territories. To that end the slaughter of Palestinians and
the
destruction and eviction from their homes continues unabated, on the one
hand, and
the furious building of Jewish-only settlements continues on the other.
Here's the
latest UN re****t: -- GB
======
Here is the critical information needed to derive an informed
opinion of what really happened on at the Pentag on
September 11, 2001:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5
http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/Eastman/m18h05.html
INDEX OF PROOF
1. Pentagon security camera shows
a. Too short a plane
b. Smoke trail of a missile being fired
c. White-hot flash explosion consistent with a missile warhead
2. Photos show wrong crash imprint in the wall
3. Photos show and wrong flash-powder burn darkening the wall
4. Downed lampposts and witness consensus each identify
a different approach path to the Pentagon, the Boeing's
and the killer jet's and they are mutually incompatible --
(path of sighted Boeing also inconsistent with civil
engineers re****ted "50 degree- angle of entry" -- witnesses
re****ting the Boeing coming over the Sheraton Hotel, the
Naval Annex, the Citgo gas station, and the southernmost
extremity of Arlington National Cemetery -- an angle much
closer to perpendicular to the wall)
5. Wrong kind of debris
6. Single piece of right kind of debris shown to have been
found on the opposite side of the approach path from
the side of the plane where that particular piece had
to have come from.
7. Witnesses also
a. heard a missile
b. heard a sonic boom prior to blast
c. smelled burning chordite after the blast
d. saw a radar blip behaving like a jet-fighter blip
8. No photos of wreckage from inside consistent with the crash
9. Evidence of only one engine and one seat , a pilots seat.
10. A distraction plane, a four- engine plane making dives
over D.C. both photographed, videotaped and shown
on BBC, and re****ted (erroneously) by many wintesses
as the actual plane "diving at an irrecoverable angle)
11. The attack was made almost horizontally into the first-floor
level -- consistent with a countour-hugging jet-fighter attack
12. Normal rescuers were prevented from entering the building
while only certain people, including Rumsfeld himself, conducted
(screened) victims from the building
13. Rumsfeld had recently been given exclusive power to
OK air interceptions -- and yet he was in his office the whole
time the twin towers were hit, and when the Pentagon was
hit he went to oversee "rescue" instead of going to the situation
room where his interception authority could be given -- he
arrived at the situation room at about the time the Pennsylvania
plane (backup for the Pentagon) was finally shot down.
14. The various drills and practices for an air attack on the Pentagon
including some kind of simulation on 9-11-01 itself, coupled with
denials that such an attack had been considered possible.
15. Impossible stories by, for example, John Judge (regarding
his amazing stewardess friend who claims to have seen the
Boeing inside the hole, recognized the plane as the one she
always flew, recongized her stewardess friend as a victim by
a photo of her severed arm with the matching "friend****p
bracelett" they both wore; that she was passing out
doughnuts and coffee to the rescue workers with the salvation
army when the salvation army was nowhere in evidence at the
scene -- John Judge who is a professional JFK conspiracy
theory debunker and discloses that this same stewardess
friend is also a JFK theory investigator, the same
John Judge who launched the phony "People's Investigation
of 9-11 with a press conference by stating that the Pentagon
attack is not something responsible investigators should bother
investigating etc. since we "know" the Boeing hit the Pentagon
and don't want to be a laughing stock etc. -- the People's
investigation that never once reviewed any of the evidence
packages I posted to them -- the same John Judge who to this
day refuses to debate Dick Eastman on any internet forum and
whom all -- dare I use the term -- "responsible" 9-11 investigators
think is a John Judge who is working for the coverup, for
obstruction of justice, and because he does it so badly is himself
become one of the proofs of the frameup along with the known-
only-to himself flight attendant who works one of the flights that
most definitely had to have been regularly monitored by
US intelligence operatives, probably flight attendents, and
this one just happened not to take Flight 77 that day by
happenstance etc. -- so how about it, Mr. Judge?
16. The deaths of only the CIA's indepdendent intelligence
revivals , the Offices of Naval Intelligence personel, and
auditors of defense spending contracts etc. alone moved
into the "newly renovated" section that was hit -- on the side
where most of the witnesses would be the Arlington Cemetery
dead or people involved with driving their cars. Naval Intelligence
would have independently investigated 9-11 had they lived --
the investigator that no official has yet conducted -- Wolfowitz
sure bin Laden had done it and ready with the solution of invading
Afganistan on the very first day -- even as they were allegedly
taken by complete suprise only a few hours before that
determination.
See the evidence photos and witness testimony confirming all of the
above and further analysis in sup****t of these conclusions by
internationally respected American men of science here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5
and here
http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/Eastman/m18h05.html
Dick Eastman
Yakima, Wa****ngton
=============
Jews dominate American ****ography and the ACLU defense of ****ography --
we
see the
mentality at work in the handling of the Iraq, Afganistan and Palestine
occupations. Top Hollywood billionaire Jews are homo***uals and
presumably
paedophiles as well. They appear to excuse it as the national perrogative
of the
natural master over the natural slaves. For example: A Palestinian
female
freed
from Israeli detention said more than 15 fellow Palestinian women were
raped
by
Israeli interrogators to force them to confess to charges leveled against
them and
collaborate with the Israeli intelligence. "Israeli investigators and
intelligence
officers keep video tapes of the raping to blackmail the female
detainees,"
she told
IslamOnline.net, requesting anonymity. "I have been ***ually abused and
photographed. When I tried to travel to Jordan after my release and
Israeli
intelligence officer dumfounded my with the humiliating photos."
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-05/20/article03.shtml
Barghouti framed?
U.S. raids home of Rumsfled-Wolfowitz sponsored Ahmad Chalabi, taking all
do***entation of their political relation****p. American soldiers and
armed
U.S.
civilians could be seen milling about
Chalabi's compound in the city's fa****onable Mansour district. Some people
could be
seen loading boxes into vehicles. Aides said do***ents and computers were
seized
without warrants.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/20/iraq/main618637.shtml
A military intelligence analyst who recently completed duty at Abu Ghraib
prison in
Iraq said Wednesday that the 16-year-old son of a detainee there was
abused
by U.S.
soldiers to break his father's resistance to interrogators.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0405200268may20,1,4673476.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Palast re****ting from Caracas: Proving they are pawns of international
globalism
indifferent to the real effects of their policies on the people of their
own
countries, the finance ministers of every Latin American nation last week
signed on
to a resolution in principle to join the Free Trade Area of the Americas
(FTAA), the
hemispheric expansion of NAFTA. -- The walking corpse of Argentina's
economy was
there, as well as the long-deceased body of Ecuador and several other
South
American
nations whose economies were long ago mur- dered and buried by the free
trade and
free market nostrums of the World Bank and the IMF.
www.GregPalast.com
Soldiers ready to follow follow Camilo Mejia's courageous action for his
country and
right. -- A U.S. soldier who said he left his unit in Iraq to
protest an ``oil-driven'' war was convicted of desertion Friday and
sentenced to a
year in jail and a bad conduct discharge. A military jury met for about
20
minutes
before giving the maximum sentence to Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia, an infantry
squad
leader with the Florida National Guard.
``I have no regrets. Not one,'' Mejia said before his sentencing.
In his comments to the jury of four officers and four enlisted soldiers,
Mejia said
he was not afraid of going to jail. ``I will take it because I will go
there
with my
honor, knowing I have done the right thing,'' he said.
Mejia, 28, says he refused to return to his unit after a two-week furlough
in
October because he believes the war in Iraq is unjust. He turned himself
in
to the
Army in March and sought status as a conscientious objector.
'US soldiers started to shoot us, one by one' Survivors describe wedding
massacre as
generals refuse to apologise -- and this was the second wedding shot up
after the
traditional fireing of shots into the air, showing that the
Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz
Pentagon chose not to learn from the first "mistake"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1221658,00.html
Tens of thousands of people took to streets on Wednesday in Tehran and the
cities of
Mashhad, Qom, and Isfahan to protest the desecration of the holy sites in
Iraq and
called for the U.S.-led occupation forces to leave Iraq.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=5/20/2004&Cat=2&Num=022
Eye witnesses Testify that US Troops Were Complicit in the Massacre of up
to
3,000
Taliban Prisoners During the Afghan War - The Pentagon said Friday the
military
has undertaken 33 criminal investigations of deaths of detainees held by
U.S. forces
in Iraq and Afghanistan - eight more cases than it had re****ted two weeks
ago.
Although the number of cases was 33, they included at least 37 people who
had been
killed, officials said. Eight pending cases have been classified as
homicides
involving suspected assaults of detainees before or during interrogation
sessions, a
senior military official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/20/147230
For the rich man, lawyers exist to enable things to be done, not to uphold
either
the spirit or the letter of the law. Bush's counsel Alberto Gonzales
defends US
Israeli-culture treatment of Moslem detainees -- US had pursued a
"consistent and
humane" policy on the treatment of detainees throughout the "war on
terror",
starting with the invasion of Afghanistan. interrogations as Gonzales'
column came
just two days after Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and the Joint
Chiefs of
Staff vice chairman General Peter Pace were forced to admit to a US Senate
committee
that interrogation techniques ordered by the Pentagon in Iraq violated the
Geneva
Convention on prisoners of war, and were "not humane". During the course
of
questioning, Wolfowitz hesitated for a significant period of time before
answering
the question (which he initially attempted to avoid): do you consider
keeping a bag
over a prisoner's head for 72 hours to be humane? Grudgingly, he finally
said, "no".
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/may2004/gonz-m20.shtml
Hicks, the young man who knew too much -- Australian lawyer Stephen
Kenny
and
Terry Hicks, the father of 28-year-old David Hicks, one of two Australians
incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay, have accused the US military of torturing
detainees
in the prison camp. The allegations were made at a press conference last
week in
Australia, after former British prisoners issued an open letter to the US
government
detailing abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. -- David Hicks was
captured
in
Afghanistan by Northern Alliance forces in early
December 2001 just after the Bush administration began its military attack
on the country. Detained for 10 days, he was then handed over to the US
military and
transferred to Guantanamo Bay. Like fellow Australian Mamdouh
Habib, 48, also imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Hicks has been held
incommunicado
without charge for almost two-and-a-half years.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/may2004/hick-m21.shtml
The record is showing that Arabs tell the truth, Americans, British and
Israelis do
not. -- The US military admits that it probably
killed 40 people at Mukaradeeb but says that none of them were civilians.
So
did the "foreign fighters" include the young girl, one of several children
whose bodies were shown being buried on television? Or the Iraqi wedding
singer and his musician brother, whose funeral in Baghdad was re****ted
yesterday by Reuters? In Rafah, it is not believable that casualties on
such
a large scale - including some 50 injured as well as the dead - were
caused
by "warning shots" directed towards an unoccupied area (and since when are
tanks used to fire such shots anyhow?). As it happens, we carried
yesterday
evidence of another earlier evasion - or lie - in Rafah: our correspondent
was shown the bodies of four dead children, all with bullet wounds, whom
the
Israeli army claimed had been killed on Tuesday not by its snipers but by
Palestinian bombs.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1221511,00.html
The U.S. forces have detained scores of Iraqis on trivial claims,
misinterpretation
and Israeli-intelligence contributed list for score settling. Here are
the
observations of an Iraqi interpreter said after a nine-month work with
the
occupation army.
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-05/20/article04.shtml
In an effort to build a firewall against persecution for 9-11 complicity,
and
Israeli court established a new precident in their prosecution of
Palestinian
populist lawmaker
Marwan Barghouti. "The court ruled you can't attribute criminal
responsibility to
political leaders of organizations for acts committed by those
organizations
unless
(the leaders) were directly involved in those acts," said Israeli legal
commentator
Moshe Negbi. --But others said the trial, which drew intense
international
interest,
demonstrated due process of law in the Jewish state. -- Radical
Palestinian
group
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade said it would kidnap Israeli soldiers to secure
the
release
of Barghouti. Barghouti, a West Bank lawmaker and charismatic leader of
Arafat's
Fatah faction, said throughout the case he opposed the killing of innocent
people in
the revolt that began in2000 . In what Palestinians condemned as a show
trial, a
Tel Aviv court found Barghouti guilty on five counts of murder, but
acquitted him of
21 other killings citing insufficient evidence. The verdict cited what it
said were
Barghouti's confessions as well as testimony by alleged accomplices and
investigators from the ****n Bet security service. The court found
Barghouti
guilty
of murder and complicity in attacks that killed a Greek Orthodox monk in
the
West
Bank in 2001 , an Israeli at the Jewish settlement of Givat Zeev in 2002
and
three
people at a Tel Aviv restaurant in2002 . Lapid said Israel might well
consider
putting Arafat on trial "one of these days." A senior Israeli source said
there were
no immediate plans for prosecuting the Palestinian leader.
http://www.aljazeerah.info/21%20n/Israel%20Convicts%20Barghouti.htm
Lakhdar Brahimi, the special UN envoy, had made it clear over a month ago
that he
would not appoint Chalabi to the caretaker government. In response,
Chalabi
has
become increasingly critical of the US. The Iraqi dealmaker, who with
his
militia
Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz had flown into Iraq last year on a Pentagon
aircraft, is
said to have been suspended from the Interim Governing Council, Ash-Sharq
al-Awsat:
Chalabi aides said that 10 computers and lots of files were carted away
from
Chalabi's house, which they turned upside down. Some Neocons have felt
betrayed by
Chalabi's inability to get Iraq to recognize Israel or provide it with
petroleum, as
he appears to have pledged to them.
http://www.juancole.com/
British Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, said
disclosing the contents of Bliar's private talks with Bush would have the
effect of
"weakening our efforts in Iraq and endangering our armed forces serving in
the
country in a multi-national coalition". Tory leader Michael Howard said
of
the
Blair government's new doctrine of confidentiality, "It means we never
know
whether or when he does disagree and it means there can be no meaningful
accountability to Parliament." Blair's ministers responded to Howard
position by
characterizing greater openness with the public as a call for "megaphone
diplomacy," "grandstanding," and " gratuitously insulting" the ally with
whom
Britain has a "special relation****p."
http://tinyurl.com/2z4kn
Nick Berg had been an OU employee during academic year 2000-2001. The OU
personnel
directory for that year listed him as a facilities attendant at the Lloyd
Noble
arena. -- The thought crosses one's mind that Berg might have been the
one
who
bought the 9/11 hijacker's airline ticket from the OU library computer
terminal. I
have not been able to ascertain whether he was ever an OU library
employee.
Most
likely, he would have been a temp. -- Still, there are things about
Berg's
story
which don't add up. Are we to believe that someone would really
voluntarily
surrender his email password to a stranger he met on the bus? This is
apparently
the story which Berg told the FBI to account for the fact that the
password and
Berg's email address were on Moussaoui's computer when they searched it,
after
9/11.
http://www.jerrypippin.com/Wright_OP.htm
Fatima Sharif Hassan fled the "Block O" neighbourhood of Rafah refugee
camp
a week ago as Israel's giant mechanical wreckers tore at the home she
shared
with her son and his family.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1221394,00.html
The great grandmother, 75, sought refugee in another section of the camp,
al-Brazil,
where her daughter lived. Mrs Hassan felt certain it was far enough away
from the
volatile Israeli security strip and Egyptian border to be safe from the
bulldozers.
-- But yesterday Mrs Hassan, who is crippled by diabetes, had to be hauled
through a
hole in the wall shortly before the building was brought cra****ng down.
--
"We
heard the Israeli bulldozers starting to demolish the house over us," she
said. "We
only escaped because the men knocked a hole in the wall and carried me
between the
buildings. We lost everything. I lost my false teeth.
I lost my money. The neighbours had to give me this scarf to cover my
head."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1221394,00.html
Former Meretz Leader Shulamit Aloni has established a reputation for her
critique of modern Israeli society. Recently, in front of hundreds of
sup****ters of Yossi Beilin, who had just been elected head of Yahad,
Shulamit Aloni - "Oum Meretz" [The Meretz Mother (in Arabic)] - settled
accounts with everyone: stylishly, sharply and in her own inimitable
style.
She warned against the disintegration of Israeli society ("gross
insensitivity"),
and rules out any comeback in politics ("I don't miss it") and states: "I
am
beginning to understand why a whole nation (the Germans) was able to say:
`We did
not know." They all copped it: the government, apathetic Israeli society,
the
army and even her left-wing colleagues who have fallen asleep at the
wheel.
"Stop
being politically correct!" she lashed out. "It's time to tell the truth
to
the
people, straight to their faces!" She founded and was Chairperson of
Civil
Rights Party/Ratz 1973-95, Member
of the Knesset 1974-96. 1973-74 Minister without ****tfolio for Human
Rights,
1992-93 Minister of Education and Culture,1992-96 Member of The National
Security Council, 1993-96 Minister of Communication, Science and Art
(1995-96 Second in the Cabinet). (b. 1929- .)
http://www.thehandstand.org/archive/may2004/articles/aloni.htm
New uses for US tax dollars -- buying up the weapons in hands of Mideast
Arabs. In
their first program of its kind in Baghdad, American troops engaged in a
weapons
buyback program. Perhaps we should watch for Iraqi school children to
suddenly go
crazy and shoot-up classmates, which always seems to happen when globalist
"authorities" undertake to disarm civilian populations. (After all what
was
9-11,
but a larger version of this same strategy.) By Tuesday night hundreds
of
Iraqis
had been paid $761,357 for 56,536 items, from bullets to assault rifles to
mortars
and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, according to the military. The
soldiers set
up well-guarded sales tables at three locations - a field, a cigarette
factory and a
soccer stadium surrounded by an empty lot.
http://tinyurl.com/2qx52
British were ready to use carrier pigeons to disburse bio-warfare
substances
during
World War II
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1117708,00.html
Israel's revenge attacks are, as ever, completely dispro****tionate --
Israel's
latest outrages in Gaza have produced a rare but tiny hint of
American disapproval. For the first time since the Israeli assault on West
Bank cities two years ago, the United States has abstained on a critical
UN
resolution rather than vetoing it. And Sharone faces another problem with
his
dispro****tionate retaliation -- Thirteen Israeli soldiers have been
killed
by the
Palestinians' armed resistance in the Gaza Strip over the last three
weeks.
In spite
of the Israeli army's vastly superior fire-power and its ruthless
willingness to use
it even in crowded city streets, it cannot avoid casualties on its own
side.
http://www.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Thursday urged
Israel to
respect the rules of international humanitarian law as its three-day
military
offensive in the Gaza Strip left a trail of death and destruction in the
Rafah
camp.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/homenews/homenews5.htm
The scandal at Abu Ghraib prison was first exposed not by a digital
photograph but
by a letter. In December 2003, a woman prisoner inside the
jail west of Baghdad managed to smuggle out a note. Its contents were so
shocking
that, at first, Amal Kadham Swadi and the other Iraqi women lawyers who
had
been
trying to gain access to the US jail found them hard to believe.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,1220673,00.html
Two men were charged with threatening behaviour yesterday in connection
with
the
flour-throwing incident during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday.
http://tinyurl.com/3h99t
Paul McCann, from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
(UNRWA), condemned Israel's policy of demoli****ng entire
neighbourhoods in the refugee camps along the border with Egypt and
warned of a deepening crisis.
"The first houses to be destroyed will be empty buildings. Then
inhabited houses will be demolished. Israel will be responsible for
finding new accommodation for the evacuated people," the Israeli
public radio said Thursday.
"It's impossible to believe that every one of these houses shelters
militants or the entrance to a tunnel," McCann said in response to
the government's argument that the demolitions are aimed at
preventing the use of cross-border arms-smuggling tunnels.
He also pointed out that the "empty buildings" were only abandoned
because of the constant danger of being killed or wounded and
eventually expelled by the Israeli army.
========================
Juan Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan
http://www.juancole.com/
****ite Demonstrations in Bahrain
Violent demonstrations broke out in Bahrain protesting the US fighting in
Karbala.
"Violence broke out on Friday after police fired tear gas to disperse
thousands of mainly ****a Muslim demonstrators demanding the withdrawal of
US
forces from the southern Iraqi cities of Najaf and Karbala. One police car
was set on fire. "Death to America...death to Israel," chanted the
protesters in the pro-Western Gulf Arab state, home to the US Navy's Fifth
Fleet."
You wonder whether, when Bush gave the order to get Muqtada "dead or
alive",
initially to the Spanish and then to the US military, whether he even knew
that a majority of the population in Bahrain, where the US has a major
naval
base, is ****ite or that they would mind if the US army demolished much of
the Mukhayyam Mosque in Karbala trying to get at Muqtada's militiamen.
In all probability? No.
Could these dmonstrations in Bahrain be significant? Yes. Bahrain has a
Sunni monarchy. Lately it has taken baby steps toward democracy and more
open elections, but these did not benefit the ****ites because they wanted
even more open elections, and boycotted them. Therefore, the Sunni
fundamentalists largely won the seats (and the Sunni fundamentalists don't
even represent most Bahraini Sunnis much less the ****ites). So the
situation
there is potentially volatile. The US is doing nothing to make it less so,
and everything to exacerbate it.
The other shoe? Will the ****ites of al-Hasa in Eastern Arabia, where the
oil
is and where there are 90,000 Americans at Dhahran, be the next to riot?
It is most unwise for the US miitary to fight in downtown Najaf and
Karbala
near the shrines. I say it again.
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A witness who told ABCNEWS he believed the military was
covering up the extent of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison was today
stripped of his security clearance and told he may face prosecution
because
his comments were "not in the national interest."
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Investigation/abu_ghraib_cover_up_040521-
1.html
Sgt. Samuel Provance said in addition to his revoked security clearance,
he
was transferred to a different platoon, and his record was officially
"flagged," meaning he cannot be promoted or given any awards or honors.
Provance said he was told he will face administrative action for failing
to
re****t what he knew at the time and for failing to take steps to stop the
abuse.
"I see it as an effort to intimidate Sgt. Provance and any other soldier
whose conscience is bothering him, and who wants to come forward and tell
what really happened at Abu Ghraib," said his attorney Scott Horton.
Provance Alleges Cover-Up
A key witness in the military investigation into prisoner mistreatment at
Abu Ghraib, Provance told ABCNEWS earlier this week that dozens of
soldiers - in addition to the seven military police reservists who have
been
charged - were involved in the abuse at the prison, and he said there is
an
effort under way in the Army to hide it.
"There's definitely a cover-up," Provance said. "People are either telling
themselves or being told to be quiet."
Provance, 30, was part of the 302nd Military Intelligence Battalion
stationed at Abu Ghraib last September. He spoke to ABCNEWS despite orders
from his commanders not to.
"What I was surprised at was the silence," said Provance. "The collective
silence by so many people that had to be involved, that had to have seen
something or heard something."
Provance, now stationed in Germany, ran the top-secret computer network
used
by military intelligence at the prison.
He said that while he did not see the actual abuse take place, the
interrogators with whom he worked freely admitted they directed the MPs'
rough treatment of prisoners.
"Anything [the MPs] were to do legally or otherwise, they were to take
those
commands from the interrogators," he said.
Top military officials have claimed the abuse seen in the photos at Abu
Ghraib was limited to a few MPs, but Provance says the ***ual humiliation
of
prisoners began as a technique ordered by the interrogators from military
intelligence.
"One interrogator told me about how commonly the detainees were stripped
****d, and in some occasions, wearing women's underwear," Provance said.
"If
it's your job to strip people ****d, yell at them, scream at them,
humiliate
them, it's not going to be too hard to move from that to another level."
According to Provance, some of the physical abuse that took place at Abu
Ghraib included U.S. soldiers "striking [prisoners] on the neck area
somewhere and the person being knocked out. Then [the soldier] would go to
the next detainee, who would be very fearful and voicing their fear, and
the
MP would calm him down and say, 'We're not going to do that. It's OK.
Everything's fine,' and then do the exact same thing to him."
Provance also described an incident when two drunken interrogators took a
female Iraqi prisoner from her cell in the middle of the night and
stripped
her ****d to the waist. The men were later restrained by another MP.
Pentagon Sanctions Investigation
Maj. Gen. George Fay, the Army's deputy chief of staff for intelligence,
was
assigned by the Pentagon to investigate the role of military intelligence
in
the abuse at the Iraq prison.
Fay started his probe on April 23, but Provance said when Fay interviewed
him, the general seemed interested only in the military police, not the
interrogators, and seemed to discourage him from testifying.
Provance said Fay threatened to take action against him for failing to
re****t what he saw sooner, and the sergeant said he feared he would be
ostracized for speaking out.
"I feel like I'm being punished for being honest," Provance told ABCNEWS
on
Tuesday. "You know, it was almost as if I actually felt if all my
statements
were shredded and I said, like most everybody else, 'I didn't hear
anything,
I didn't see anything. I don't know what you're talking about,' then my
life
would be just fine right now."
In response, Army officials said it is "routine procedure to advise
military
personnel under investigative review" not to comment. The officials said,
however, that Fay and the military were committed to an honest, in-depth
investigation of what happened at the prison.
But Provance believes many involved may not be as forthcoming with
information.
"I would say many people are probably hiding and wi****ng to God that this
storm p***** without them having to be investigated [or] personally looked
at," he said.
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