NEO-NAZI? -- OR -- NEO-CON?
Anyone who sees the photographs of the victims of the Nazi concentration camps must wonder how human beings could ever have allowed such things to happen. They must wonder how people of good will could have stood by while their government committed atrocities in their name. In the wake of that nightmarish era, people often asked, "Where were the good Germans?" - SOURCE
"New Army documents reveal that Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez ordered interrogators to "go to the outer limits" to get information from detainees [and] that senior government officials were aware of abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan before the Abu Ghraib ever scandal broke" - SOURCE.
After the publication of the long-suppressed pictures of Abu Ghraib victims and the UN findings that torture and abuse are still taking place at Guantánamo Bay, America has fashioned its own nightmare. Today, we must now ask ourselves, "Where are the good Americans?" - SOURCE |
British mercenaries with Pentagon contracts shooting Iraq civilians.A "trophy" video temporarily surfaced on the Internet showing private security contractors working for Aegis Defense Services "Victory" Group firing indiscriminately at Iraqi "civilian" motorists in Baghdad.
The video was reportedly shot by an Aegis employee, posted on an ex-Aegis employee's site, and showed Aegis mercenaries shooting civilian cars -- while Elvis Presley's "Train I Ride" played in the background. Aegis is controlled by ex-British Officer LT COL TIM SPICER, who is also a well-known international mercenary. Spicer's firm Aegis received a $293 million security contract in Iraq. Spicer's men also stand accused of "back" shooting teenager Peter McBride in Belfast, in 1992. Following that shooting incident, the Irish Caucus in Congress demanded that the Pentagon "cancel" its Aegis contract but was ignored...
Mercenary firms -- which neo-con "Newspeakers" call "Private Military Contractors," "Private Security Contractors" (PSCs), and "Personal Security Details/Detachments" (PSDs) -- are the "civilian" military forces that will protect U.S. business interests in Iraq, after next year's large withdrawal of U.S. troops.
These U.S. firms ARE NOT governed by MILITARY regulations OR international LEGAL constraints and interrogations conducted by PHOENIX, ANTEON, AND SYTEX inside Iraq must be investigated.
SYTEX needs new interrogators for Iraq and Afghanistan and, already, the interrogators charged with sexually humiliating prisoners at Guantanamo and Iraq work for ANTEON and PHOENIX -- SOURCE.
FBI CONFIRMS GITMO ABUSE"In a lawsuit, Al Qosi, a Sudanese accountant apprehended after 9/11 on suspicions of ties to Al Qaeda, charged that he and other detainees at Guantanamo Bay...were strapped to the floor an interrogations center known as the Hell Room, wrapped in "ISRAELI FLAGS", taunted by female interrogators who rubbed their bodies against them in sexually suggestive ways, and left alone in refrigerated cells for hours with deafening music blaring in their ears. Back then, Pentagon officials dismissed Al Qosi's claims...
"But in recent weeks a stack of declassified government documents (many of which came from the FBI) has given new credence to many of the claims of abuse at Guantanamo... One agent reported seeing a detainee sitting on the floor of a cell (with an "ISRAELI FLAG" around him) who was being bombarded by loud music and a strobe light -- almost exactly what Al Qosi had alleged... Another FBI agent saw a female US Army sergeant sexually humiliating a shackled male prisoner and even grabbing his genitals." IT LOOKS LIKE AL QOSI TOLD THEM "THE TRUTH" BUT THE CIA SPOOKS IGNORED HIM! AND WHY DID U. S. AGENTS USE "ISRAELI FLAGS" DURING THE INTERROGATIONS?
JEWS RUN PORNOGRAPHY INDUSTRY
Jewish involvement in pornography has a long history in the United States, as Jews have helped transform a fringe subculture into what has become a primary constituent of Americana... Though Jews make up only two percent of the American population, they have been prominent in pornography...
America's most notorious pornographer was Reuben Sturman, the "Walt Disney" of porn. According to the US Department of Justice Sturman controlled most of the pornography circulating in the country... It was said that Sturman did not simply control the adult-entertainment industry, he WAS the industry. Eventually he was convicted of tax evasion and other crimes and died, disgraced, in prison in 1997...
Jewish involvement in porn...is the result of an atavistic hatred of Christian authority: they are trying to weaken the dominant American culture by MORAL SUBVERSION... "The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that WE THINK CHRIST SUCKS. CATHOLICISM SUCKS. We don't believe in authoritarianism." PORNOGRAPHY IS A WAY OF DEFILING CHRISTIAN CULTURE... - source. |
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND ("something wicked this way comes") |
TIP OF THE "PORNO" ICEBERG...
ABU GHRAIB AND THE WHITE HOUSE PEDOPHILE RING
The orders to take the sexually-oriented photos and videos, some of which involve teenage Iraqi boys and girls and sodomization by their guards, came directly from a pedophile and closeted male homosexual ring operating in the White House, according to the intelligence sources. Copies of the tapes and photos were sent directly to the White House for the entertainment of senior members of the Bush White House, including officials in the Vice President's office and THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT - source. |
When George W. Bush sent U.S. troops to Iraq in March 2003, he warned Iraqis about their treatment of American Prisoners Of War: "I expect them to be treated, the POWs I expect to be treated humanely, just like we're treating the prisoners that we have captured humanely. If not, the people who mistreat the prisoners will be treated as WAR CRIMINALS" - SOURCE
ABU GHRAIB TAPES OF SODOMIZED BOYS
"The worst is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking"... Seymour Hersh says there was "a massive amount of criminal wrongdoing that was covered up at the highest command out there, and higher."
FAKE REPORTER-MALE PROSTITUTE JEFF GANNON SLEPT OVER AT THE WHITE HOUSE on numerous occasions. Gannon advertised his services on the internet as a male prostitute ("top") at $1200 per weekend. White House Secret Service logs show that fake reporter Jeff Gannon (aka James Guckert) often stayed overnight at the White House -- even when press conferences or briefings were not scheduled -- GIVING THAT OLD TERM "MEDIA WHORE" A WHOLE NEW DEFINITION source.
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Let’s put Time magazine’s declaration of George Bush as the Man of the Year in "historical" perspective. In 1938, TIME gave the accolade to Adolf Hitler. A year later...to another deranged mass-murderer -- Joseph Stalin. Maybe we should applaud Time’s consistency in lowering Bush on to the same pedestal.
"TORTURE BY EXECUTIVE ORDER?" (A DRY RUN OF WHAT'S TO COME?)"Harsh interrogation methods of Iraqi prisoners went "beyond the bounds of standard FBI practice"... While the memo doesn't directly say who authorized the practices, two government officials...said the methods were approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld... Other memos detail concerns about..."torture techniques" used in Guantanamo Bay... The memo includes several references to an "executive order" signed by President Bush but...White House officials [said] the memo's reference to an EO was a mistake... "NO SUCH EXECUTIVE ORDER EXISTS OR HAS EVER EXISTED", said Frederick Jones, who is a spokesman for the National Security Council." (20 DECEMBER 2004)
"poppalon" - Mr Jones of the National Security Council is ignoring FEMA! |
FEMA was created in a series of Executive Orders. In fact, Executive Order number 12656 appointed the National Security Council as the principal body that should deploy emergency FEMA powers. A Presidential Executive Order (Constitutional or not) becomes law once printed in the Federal Registry. In fact, Executive Order Number 12148 created FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency that is to interface with the Department of Defense in case of a major foreign or "domestic" emergency.
Some people say that FEMA is the "secret government" of the United States. It is not an elected body, it does not involve itself in public disclosures, and it even has a quasi-secret budget in the billions of dollars. This government organization has more power than the President of the United States or the Congress, it has the power to suspend laws, move entire populations, arrest and detain citizens without a warrant and hold them without trial, it can seize property, food supplies, transportation systems, and can suspend the Constitution. FEMA -- the most powerful entity in the United States -- was not created under Constitutional law by Congress. Presidential Executive Orders Created It.
FEMA's enormous powers can be triggered easily. In any form of domestic or foreign problem ("real" or politically "manufactured") emergency powers can be enacted. US President George W. Bush now has BROADER POWERS TO DECLARE MARTIAL LAW and activate FEMA's extraordinary powers. Martial law can be declared during time of increased tension overseas, economic problems within the United States (like a depression), civil unrest (such as demonstrations or scenes like the Los Angeles riots), and in a drug crisis. These Presidential powers have increased with successive Crime Bills, particularly the 1991 and 1993 Crime Bills, which increase the power to suspend the rights guaranteed under the Constitution and to seize property of those suspected of being drug dealers, to individuals who participate in a public protest or demonstration. Under emergency plans already in existence, the power exists to suspend the Constitution and turn over the reigns of government to FEMA, who appoints military commanders to run state and local governments. FEMA then would have the right to order the detention of anyone whom there is reasonable ground to believe will engage in (or probably conspire with others to engage in) acts of espionage or sabotage. The plan authorizes the establishment of concentration camps for detaining the accused -- but no trial.
FEMA can turn the United States into a virtual police state based on any real or "manufactured" crisis and has TWENTY-TWO "MORE" EXECUTIVE ORDERS FOR THE PRESIDENT TO SIGN in case there is a national emergency. What our government "really" fears is the American people, themselves. THEY CREATED FEMA TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM AN AMERICAN REBELLION.
The scenarios established that trigger FEMA -- economic collapse, civil unrest, drug problems, terrorist attacks, protests against US foreign intervention, etc -- exist TODAY and were "engineered" by the same government officials who could use FEMA's unconstitutional powers against "us". It could only be a matter of time before the Bush administration uses one of these, manufactures an "emergency" and puts FEMA in charge. And should THAT happen -- America may be DOOMED. Why? Because FEMA has
the power to suspend the US Constitution but NO PLAN for reactivating it once it has been suspended.
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND ("something wicked this way comes") |
US PRISONER ABUSE, TORTURE AND MURDER ARE NOT NEW -- THEY HAVE BEEN SUPPRESSED BY THE ISRAELI-RUN MEDIA TO DISGUISE BUSH'S "TERRORISM"
AND NOW IT'S "COMING HOME"
US WAR CRIMES BEGAN IN AFGHANISTAN |
US TROOPS MURDERED 3000 POWS Why have US television stations refused to broadcast this documentary? AFGHAN MASSACRE: THE CONVOY OF DEATH
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DOCUMENTARY CHARGES US WITH MASS KILLINGS OF POWs By Stefan Steinberg - 17 June 2002
A documentary film, Massacre in Mazar, by...Jamie Doran, was shown to selected audiences in Europe...provoking demands for an international inquiry into US war crimes in Afghanistan.
The film alleges that American troops collaborated in the torture of POWs and the killing of thousands of captured Taliban soldiers...following the November 21, 2001 fall of Konduz...in...Afghanistan. The film was shown in Berlin...to members of the German parliament on June 12. The following day it was shown to deputies and members of the press at the European parliament in Strasbourg...
"...there is prima facie evidence of serious war crimes"...
"No functioning criminal justice system can choose to ignore this evidence"...
"It’s...essential that the...mass grave is protected"..."Otherwise the evidence will disappear"...
prisoners...had apparently been shot with their hands tied...
eyewitnesses to...the slaughter of some 3,000 POWs...
Skulls...and limbs still protrude from the...sand...
While the documentary has become a major news story in Europe, it has been virtually blacked out by the American media... The...existence of the film has not even been reported by such leading newspapers as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. The film and its allegations of US war crimes have been...suppressed by the TV networks and cable news channels...
American military...participated in the armed assault and killing of several hundred Taliban prisoners...
American army command was complicit in the killing and disposal of a further 3,000 prisoners, out of a total of 8,000 who surrendered...
THE ATROCITIES...ARE CONFIRMED...BY THE HEAD OF THE REGIONAL RED CROSS...
3,000 prisoners were separated out from the total of 8,000...and were transported to [another] prison compound...in closed containers [without]ventilation...[with] 200 to 300 prisoners in each container...
between 150 and 160 died in each container in the course of the trip...
many of the 3,000 prisoners were not combatants, and...surviving POWs were subjected to torture and
a number were arbitrarily killed by American troops...
"I was a witness when an American soldier broke one prisoner’s neck and poured acid on others. The
Americans did whatever they wanted. We had no power to stop them"...
"They cut off fingers, they cut tongues, they cut their hair and cut their beards. Sometimes they did it for pleasure; they took the prisoners outside and beat them up and then returned them to the prison. But
sometimes they were never returned and they disappeared..."
American officers demanded the drivers take their containers full of dead and living victims to a spot in the desert and dump them. Two of the Afghan civilian truck drivers confirm that they witnessed the dumping of an estimated 3,000 prisoners in the desert. According to one of the drivers...those
prisoners still living were shot and left in the desert to be eaten by dogs...
US WAR CRIMES SPREAD TO GUANTANAMO |
US Using "Terrorist" Methods in Guantanamo
(6 MAR 2004) - Former British hostage Terry Waite, held in captivity for almost 5 years in Lebanon, said that the US was using terrorist methods in its treatment of detainees at a prison camp in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
World Press Photo of the year 2003 by French photographer Jean-Marc Bouju of the Associated Press shows a detained Iraqi man comforting his 4-year-old-son at a regroupment center for POW's near Najaf, Iraq
US GUARDS FILMED BEATINGS AT GUANTANAMO BAYIf the contents of these films are as shocking as they seem, they will form the final proof that US brutality against detainees has become an institutionalized feature of President Bush's war on terror. Furthermore, in the wake of the furor over the abuses photographed at Abu Ghraib, these Guantanamo films will prove that PRISONER ABUSE IS INDEED A SYSTEMIC PROBLEM and not, as repeatedly claimed by President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld -- "the work of a few rogue soldiers".
TORTURED POWS TRY SUICIDE - "Almost 600 prisoners are held at Guantanamo Bay...At least 30 al-Qaeda and Taleban suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay US naval base in Cuba have tried to commit suicide, doctors at the detention centre say...Over the months doctors have dealt with at least 30 incidents they see as suicide attempts. These have ranged from detainees trying to cut themselves with plastic utensils to banging their heads against walls and punching the walls. None of the detainees was able to do much damage to himself. Commander Radkee says some of this behaviour is...a sign that DETAINEES ARE SHOWING REMORSE FOR THEIR ACTIONS." (ACTUALLY, "Sensory deprivation" TORTURE is driving them "insane" - "poppalon")
(8 MAY 2005) "One detainee slashed his wrists with razors and wrote in blood on a wall: 'I committed suicide because of the brutality of my oppressors.'" - SOURCE. Does THAT sound like "remorse"?
US WAR CRIMES CARRIED TO IRAQ PRISONS |
The...Red Cross says abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers was broad and "not individual acts" contrary to President Bush's contention that the mistreatment "was the wrongdoing of a few"... Red Cross delegates saw US military intelligence [MI]...mistreating prisoners...at Abu Ghraib and collected allegations of ABUSE AT MORE THAN 10 OTHER DETENTION FACILITIES including ...Camp Cropper in Baghdad...and...Tikrit... The [FEB 2004] report...cites abuses...including brutality, hooding, humiliation and threats of "execution"... MI officers estimated that between 70 percent and 90 percent of Iraqi detainees had been "ARRESTED BY MISTAKE..."
The report said the Red Cross found evidence supporting prisoners' allegations [including] burns, bruises and other injuries... [and] emphasized that the report was only a summary of its repeated attempts in person and in writing from MARCH 2003 TO NOVEMBER 2003 to get US officials to stop abuses. [NOTE: The pentagon waited until JANUARY OF 2004 to investigate, when the "photos" went public.]
 The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld...
American intelligence [says] the Pentagon [sic RUMSFELD]...encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners...to generate...intelligence... A senior CIA official...said [it] stemmed from Rumsfeld's...desire to wrest control of...clandestine and paramilitary operations from the CIA.
Rumsfeld, during appearances...before Congress...about Abu Ghraib...conveyed the message that he was telling the public all that he knew... He said, "Any suggestion that there is not a full, deep awareness of what has happened, and the damage it has done, I think, would be a misunderstanding." The senior CIA official, asked about Rumsfeld's testimony and that of Stephen Cambone, his Under-Secretary for Intelligence, said -- "SOME PEOPLE THINK YOU CAN BULLSHIT ANYONE."
BUSH REGIME "STONEWALLING" ABU GHRAIB 30 JUNE 2004
While piously declaring its determination to unearth the truth about Abu Ghraib, the Bush administration has spent nearly two months obstructing investigations by the Army and members of Congress.
It has delayed the Army's inquiry, withheld crucial government documents, and stonewalled senators over Red Cross reports on the horrible mistreatment of Iraqis at American military prisons.
- It took the Pentagon more than two weeks to appoint a replacement for Maj. Gen. George Fay, who was not senior enough to question Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the commander in Iraq.
- The Pentagon has also not turned over the "missing" 2000 pages from Gen. Taguba's 6000-page Abu Ghraib report -- pages which include documents on interrogation techniques in Iraq.
- Rumsfeld's behavior exemplifies the administration's bad faith over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. On May 7, the Senate asked Rumsfeld for "40" Red Cross reports on US abuses in Iraq prisons. Rumsfeld assured the committee that he would turn them over, if the Red Cross agreed. The International Red Cross gave its consent within 24 hours of Mr. Rumsfeld's empty promise, and has repeated it several times. To this day, Rumsfeld and his aides have not handed over the reports but offered up the rather absurd excuse that they were still "collecting" the documents -- some of which have been VIEWABLE ON THE INTERNET FOR SEVERAL WEEKS.
- The Bush administration has no intention of cooperating. Republicans must STOP covering for the White House and compel the administration to turn over all documents relating to Abu Ghraib -- starting with the 2000 "missing" pages of Gen Taguba's report and the "40" Red Cross reports.
SOURCE (paraphrased)
US WAR CRIMES RETURNING TO AMERICA |
Bush's New Patriot Act Provides The Death Penalty For Any Federal Crime Punishable By Over One Year In Jail
27 APR 2004 - "The Patriot Act itself cannot be tied to any terrorism "convictions"...other than the fact that it defines "terrorism" so broadly that my writing this article equals a terrorist act. Ergo, traveling to a "terrorist" country before September 11 makes you a terrorist... The...legislation would do two things: (1)It would make 23 crimes eligible for the death penalty, (2)It would create a "catch-all" death penalty. The ACLU said...protestors...risk being sentenced to death for participating in...civil disobedience events if they involved a federal crime punishable by over a year in prison and...death of 1 of the participants" |
("something wicked this way comes") US protests are becoming WAR CRIMES under Bush's Patriot Act |
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND ("something wicked this way comes") |
Bush's America is controlled by the ZIONIST STATE OF ISRAEL, Bush treats POWs like Israel has treated Palestinians since 1948, and WE THE PEOPLE ARE NEXT.
(BEFORE 9/11/2001)"SHARON is conducting a vicious psychological operation inside Israel, to secure popular support for a war by staging continuous terror scares... the scares are in almost all cases hoaxes, perpetrated to traumatize the public into accepting any anti-Arab military actions." - source
(AFTER 9/11/2001)"BUSH is conducting a vicious psychological operation inside the U.S.A., to secure popular support for a war by staging continuous terror scares... the scares are in almost all cases hoaxes, perpetrated to traumatize the public into accepting any anti-Arab military actions." - ("poppalon")
"TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PALESTINIANS WHO HAVE SERVED TIME IN ISRAELI PRISONS...SEE STRIKING SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ISRAELI TREATMENT OF PALESTINIAN PRISONERS AND AMERICAN TREATMENT OF IRAQI DETAINEES" SOURCE
"The USA needed help conducting mass interrogations of Arabic-speaking detainees [and] employed Israeli security service (Shin Bet) experts to help...'break' their captives" - SOURCE |
CONTRACTORS, "R2I" AND ABU GHRAIB
The sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison was not an invention of maverick guards but part of a system of ill-treatment and degradation used by special forces soldiers... The techniques devised in the system, called R2I (RESISTANCE TO INTERROGATION) match the crude exploitation and abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad...by US contractors [and] guards...
FORMER SPECIAL FORCES SOLDIERS ARE BEING REHIRED AS PRIVATE CONTRACTORS ...commercial firms...supplying interrogators...in Iraq...boast of hiring former special forces soldiers...
THE INTERROGATORS INCLUDED ISRAELIS
"According to a political appointee within the Bush administration and US intelligence sources, the interrogators at Abu Ghraib included a number of Arabic-speaking Israelis who also helped US interrogators develop the R2I (RESISTANCE TO INTERROGATION) techniques. Many of the torture methods were developed by the Israelis over many years of interrogating Arab prisoners on the occupied West Bank and in Israel itself." -- Perhaps, THAT FACT explains why...
NO CONTRACTORS/COMMANDERS CHARGED
Military intelligence officers directed military guards in preparing for interrogations... Several US soldiers are awaiting courts-martial for alleged prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib but so far none of their superior commanding officers or intelligence officers assigned to the prison have been charged in the scandal. |
"The Pentagon employs 700,000+ private contractors...and...$33 billion of the $416 billion in military spending overwhelmingly approved by the Senate will go to private military contractors" - SOURCE
AMERICA'S "HIRED-KILLER" MILITARYPRIVATE CONTRACTORS PAY "SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE" $4000 PER MONTH IN IRAQ...There are about 15,000 paid contractors ("MERCENARIES") in Iraq. The mercenary-to-US troop ratio was about 1 in 50 during Gulf War I (1991), increased to one in 10 in Bosnia (1996), and is now about one in eight in Gulf War II (2004) -- the highest level since Bush Sr began hiring "corporate" soldiers. CORPORATE SOLDIERS, CONTRACTORS, AND MERCENARIES CONTROL OUR MILITARY. THESE HIRED GUNS OBEY THEIR "PAYMASTERS" NOT US, OR THE U.S. CONSTITUTION.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE RUMSFELD WANTS TO PRIVATIZE THE ENTIRE US MILITARY
"If Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has his way, the vaunted U.S. military of the future will be transformed into...corporate-owned units... Rumsfeld has already outsourced much of the logistics and supply functions of the military to private firms, especially to Cheney's old employer Halliburton. There are now 90-odd companies competing to provide private soldiers from places like Fiji and Nepal...
CONTRACT SOLDIERS LOOK LIKE A REGULAR ARMY BUT WEAR NO NAME TAGS... Laws that require officials to disclose war information to Congress don't apply to [HIRED GUNS]"
[I think Bush is using mercenaries - not US troops - to turn Iraq into a new West Bank and Gaza Strip. Bush and Rumsfeld "mercenaries" treat Iraqis the same way Israeli troops have treated the Palestinians. Also, as he deploys our reserves overseas, he is replacing them with "contract" soldiers here, at home. Should "alleged terrorists" hit the US anytime in the future, Bush can activate FEMA, suspend the U.S. Constitution, declare martial law, and use "hired mercenaries" to arrest anyone who protests his actions.
BUSH AND RUMSFELD SUPPORT "HIRED KILLERS" -- NOT OUR MILITARY - "poppalon."] |
BUSH AND RUMSFELD'S GOONS HAVE ABUSED AND TORTURED "THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS" INCLUDING UNDERCOVER GI'S |
STOP! I'M AN AMERICAN -- LIKE YOU!The prison abuse scandal refuses to die because soothing White House explanations keep colliding with [dead bodies, the TRUTH,] and newly discovered victims -- like Sean Baker.
If Sean Baker doesn't sound like an Iraqi name, it isn't. Specialist Baker, 37, is an American.., an Air Force veteran.., member of the Kentucky National Guard.., served in the first gulf war and...as a military policeman at Guantánamo Bay... In January 2003, a Guantanamo officer asked him to pretend to be a prisoner in a training drill.., put on an orange prison jumpsuit over his uniform, and [crawl] under a bunk in a cell so an "internal reaction force" could practice extracting an uncooperative inmate. The five US soldiers [involved] were told he was a genuine detainee and had...assaulted a sergeant.
"They grabbed my arms, my legs.., and got up on my back...while I was face down. Then...reached around and began to choke me and press my head down against the steel floor... When I couldn't breathe...I gave the code word...to stop the exercise -- RED... That individual slammed my head against the floor and continued to choke me. Somehow...I muttered...`I'm a U.S. soldier"... Then the soldiers noticed that he was wearing a US uniform under the jumpsuit... Mr. Baker was taken to a military hospital for treatment of his head injuries, then flown to a Navy hospital... But Mr. Baker began suffering seizures, so the military sent him to the Walter Reed...for treatment of a traumatic brain injury. He stayed at the hospital for 48 days...and was finally given a medical discharge...
Meanwhile, a military investigation concluded that there had been no misconduct involved in Mr. Baker's injury...[and] says it can't find a videotape...believed to have been made of the incident. Most appalling, when Mr. Baker told his story...the military lied...to undermine his credibility. Maj. Laurie Arellano...told reporters his medical discharge was unrelated to the injuries he had suffered...
In fact...the Physical Evaluation Board...stated..: "The TBI [Traumatic Brain Injury] was due to soldier playing role of detainee who was non-cooperative and being extracted from detention cell in Guantanamo Bay...during a training exercise." Mr. Baker, who is married and has a 14-year-old son, is now unemployed, taking nine prescription medications and still suffering frequent seizures...
If the US military treats one of its own soldiers this way - allowing him to be battered and then lying to cover it up - imagine what happens to Afghans and Iraqis. President Bush attributed the problems...at Abu Ghraib to "a few American troops who dishonored our country." Mr. Bush...[you are WRONG]. |
HUMILIATING-ABUSING-TORTURING-KILLING "SENSORY-DEPRIVED" PRISONERS
 
 
 
 
["poppalon" - Most of the pictures of prisoners in Cuba, Iraq, and Afghanistan have routinely shown these people in SENSORY DEPRIVATION HOODS, MASKS AND BLINDFOLDS since 2001. Even TODAY, in their heated investigations into recently exposed prisoner abuses -- no representative, no senator, no general, and neither Secretary Rumsfeld nor President Bush has dared mention this fact:
SENSORY DEPRIVATION IS INHUMANE, TANTAMOUNT TO TORTURE, AND ILLEGAL.]
"The liberators are worse than the dictators"..."(Americans) said Saddam committed crimes against the people, now they are committing more vicious crimes in front of the whole world"..."These soldiers are being touted as the saviours of the Iraqi people and America claims to be the moral leader of the world, but ... they have been exposed, the whole world sees them as they really are" - SOURCE
| "Sensory Deprivation is...torture... [W]e regard the deliberate destruction of a man's ability to control his own mind with revulsion [and] reserve a special place in our catalogue of moral crimes for...thought control and brainwashing. Any interrogation procedure which [causes] a malfunction or breakdown of...mental processes constitutes as grave an assault on the inherent dignity of the human person as more traditional techniques of physical torture." |
  "The former head of Abu Ghraib prison [Gen Janis Karpinski] has accused US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld of directly authorizing Guantanamo Bay-style interrogation tactics."
US INTELLIGENCE RULED ABU GHRAIB PRISON
The American officer who commanded the troops charged with abusing Iraqi inmates in the Abu Ghraib jail told a court..."military intelligence" and "other government agencies"[OGA] had directed his soldiers. "I controlled the MPs inside but it was run by the MI [military intelligence] folks," Capt Donald Reese told a preliminary hearing at Camp Victory, a United States military base outside Baghdad. "They had the ultimate say-so as to what went on there." Capt Reese recounted details of an incident in which an inmate was apparently MURDERED DURING AN INTERROGATION and a colonel tried to cover up what had happened... Reese named Col Thomas Pappas, commander of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, as saying "I'M NOT GOING TO GO DOWN ALONE FOR THIS" during a discussion about what to do with the body. Capt Reese said, "the OGA [ie CIA] were visibly upset this had happened."[President GW Bush controls Donald Rumsfeld, the CIA, and US Military Intelligence - "poppalon"] |
RUMSFELD IS A DANGEROUS HYPOCRITE"The Guantanamo prisoners have had their beards forcibly shaven off, a violation of their human dignity... And, they have been photographed by the press in shackles and with hoods over their heads... at the same time, Rumsfeld maintains the prisoners don't have any rights under the Geneva Conventions because they are 'UNLAWFUL COMBATANTS' -- the 'unlawful combatants' category is one of RUMSFELD'S INVENTIONS and not found in any international treaty. Under Article 5 of the Third Geneva Convention, military tribunals - not Rumsfeld - should determine which prisoners should be prosecuted...and which [assigned] POW status..."
Bush team 'knew of abuse' at Guantánamo - Evidence of prisoner abuse and possible war crimes at Guantánamo Bay reached the highest levels of the Bush administration as early as autumn 2002, but Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, chose to do nothing about it.
US troops face new torture claims - Allegations that American soldiers routinely tortured and maltreated detainees have emerged from a third Iraqi city, renewing fears that abuse similar to that inflicted in Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad has been systematic and widespread.
Rumsfeld's dirty war on terror - In an explosive extract from his new book, Seymour Hersh reveals how, in a fateful decision that led to the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, the US defence secretary gave the green light to a secret unit authorised to torture terrorist suspects |
 

 

| "Sensory Deprivation...is prohibited under every...international legal document. The Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949 forbids torture...whether the conflict is international or internal. Thus in a civil war situation no claim of domestic jurisdiction can be invoked...to deny the international illegality of torture. Similarly, Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 26 of the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man, Article 5 of the Declaration of the Citizen's Rights in the Arab States and Countries, Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and Article 5 of the American Convention on Human Rights all prohibit torture. Moreover, although the last 3 treaties do allow derogations of some rights, the right not to be subjected to torture is one from which no derogation is permitted." |
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BACK TO BASICS
The system of injustice that, since 9/11, we've...organized globally -- from Guantanamo, Cuba, to... Afghanistan -- is by its nature also a SYSTEM OF TORTURE. It was designed...to be a Bermuda Triangle of injustice, existing in an extrajudicial darkness beyond "our" sight or oversight. There... in...military-controlled prisons, the "WAR ON TERRORISM" could...by whatever ways and by whatever methods..."break" whatever prisoners we had... Now, in the post-Soviet era, our government...wants to dominate the world. (Remember when THIS is what we swore THEY wanted to do?) It wants to control an extrajudicial penal system for its enemies...shielded from prying eyes of any sort...
This is the world according to PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH...from which those photos emerged...


When running for Texas Governor in 1993, Bush was asked at a news conference if he believed Jesus was the only way to heaven. In response --
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