http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m16017&l=i&size=1&hd=0
Kurt Nimmo, at Another Day in the Empire, has written about Iraq and Ireland:
British “Pond Life” Intel Ops Unmentioned in the Corporate Media
by Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
September 22, 2005 Jarlath Kearney, writing for the Daily Ireland, draws a crucial comparison that will of course be completely ignored by the larger corporate media. The incident in Basra, where two SAS undercover operatives were captured, dressed as Arabs and driving a car loaded with weapons and explosives, is similar to an earlier incident in Northern Ireland, where the SAS operated for years. “The incident drew parallels with the March 1988 attack on the funeral of IRA volunteer Caoimhghin Mac Bradaigh,” writes Kearney. “During that incident, two armed and undercover army intelligence operatives drove directly at the cortege in west Belfast. After firing a shot, both soldiers were subsequently captured, beaten and shot dead by the IRA.” Lucky for the British intelligence operatives in Basra, they were not murdered, although apparently beaten.
Kearney also mentions that Brigadier (in the Intelligence Corps) Gordon Kerr, who “played a key role in the activities of covert British activities in the North [of Ireland],” is “now stationed with British forces in Iraq.” Neil Mackay, Home Affairs Editor of the Sunday Herald, characterizes Kerr as “the archetypal spy; a spook’s spook and a master of dirty tricks and dirty wars,” on the same level “as pond life” (according to “regular squaddies and military brass”), “[h]ighly effective, immensely powerful and very dangerous pond life, but pond life nevertheless.” Kerr and his Force Research Unit (FRU) not only “handed packages of photographs and military reports detailing the movements and addresses of potential targets, which in turn were passed to loyalist murder gangs” in Northern Ireland (essentially organizing targeted assassinations), but also “carried out more ‘flag tours’—secret intelligence missions [in Berlin, circa 1983-85]—than the French and US military intelligence put together” and were thus described by an “officer who served with Kerr in Berlin” as “pointlessly aggressive and confrontational.” An intelligence officer who knew Kerr portrayed him as “the perfect advocate of the ends justifying the means.”
In Britain, as in America, criminals and terrorists are rewarded for their murderous behavior. In February, 2003, Kerr was “sent to the Gulf to head up British spying activities in the Middle East as part of preparations for action in Iraq,” Mackay reported for the Sunday Herald. “The move has been described as a ‘get out of jail free card’ for Kerr.” Prior to this assignment, Kerr was rewarded with a military attache position in Beijing. “The fact that Kerr seems to be playing a key role in the coming war suggests that all the activities that he was involved in were sanctioned at the highest level,” remarked Jane Winter, the director of British Irish Rights Watch.
A FRU source told Mackay in 2000 that what “was happening [in Northern Ireland] may have been occurring outside the law but the establishment [at the time, Secretary of State for Defense, George Younger, Ulster Secretary, Tom King, PM Margaret Thatcher, and General Sir John Waters, the general officer commanding in Northern Ireland] knew what was happening.” Likewise the “establishment” knows what is happening in Iraq—no doubt the sort of “dirty war” launched by the likes of Gordon Kerr and FRU is confirmed British policy (a collaborative effort with American intelligence and Rumsfeld’s Pentagon), well “outside the law.”
Naturally, all of this is simply irrelevant because the corporate media will not report it—instead, in the wake of the embarrassing revelations of SAS undercover agents posing as Arabs, the media has turned its attention toward Iran, accused (as usual) of organizing and funding the murder of British and American occupation soldiers in Iraq. In the period of a day or so, all reference to the SAS and its “dirty tricks and dirty wars,” more alluded to than actually investigated, have disappeared down the memory hole, replaced by archetypal terrorists of the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi sort.
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Friday, September 23, 2005
Thursday, September 22, 2005
US death squads in Thailand? Two US marines taken hostage and killed.
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One obstacle to American control of the Malacca Straits is Malaysia. Southern Thailand lies next to Malaysia.
Thailand, Malaysia, Malacca Straits
A secret US base on Phi Phi island 'provided protection for increased (and secretive) U.S. and British oil and gas exploration activity in the Andaman Sea off Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, and east India.'
Hundreds of US troops killed in Thailand?
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/22/news/thai.php
Nick Cumming-Bruce, in the International Herald Tribune, 20 September 2005, reported on death squads in Thailand.
According to the International Herald Tribune:
There has been violence in Thailand's mainly Muslim southern provinces bordering Malaysia.
Two marines who had been taken hostage by villagers have been killed.
More than 900 people have died in the region in the past 20 months.
The casualties include more than 100 people killed in two actions by the military last year.
Many southerners believe others have been killed by military or police death squads.
The Thaksin government has lost the Muslim population in the south," said Thittinan Ponsudhirak, a political analyst and lecturer at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University. "They are trying to contain a situation which is running out of control. We are heading for even worse trouble."
The marines, armed but working in plain clothes, were driving through the village of Tanyonglimo on Tuesday night soon after a drive-by shooting at the village tea shop in which two people were killed and three others wounded.
Villagers surrounded their car and seized the soldiers, who were then bound, gagged and blindfolded.
Thai analysts draw attention to parallels between events at Tanyonglimo and an incident last month in the village of Lahan, in the same province, when gunmen killed the local Muslim preacher.
Before he died, the preacher, Natsopa Yusof, had told villagers his killers were government troops. Local women and children then formed a cordon blocking off the village and refusing entry to security forces.
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One obstacle to American control of the Malacca Straits is Malaysia. Southern Thailand lies next to Malaysia.
Thailand, Malaysia, Malacca Straits
A secret US base on Phi Phi island 'provided protection for increased (and secretive) U.S. and British oil and gas exploration activity in the Andaman Sea off Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, and east India.'
Hundreds of US troops killed in Thailand?
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/22/news/thai.php
Nick Cumming-Bruce, in the International Herald Tribune, 20 September 2005, reported on death squads in Thailand.
According to the International Herald Tribune:
There has been violence in Thailand's mainly Muslim southern provinces bordering Malaysia.
Two marines who had been taken hostage by villagers have been killed.
More than 900 people have died in the region in the past 20 months.
The casualties include more than 100 people killed in two actions by the military last year.
Many southerners believe others have been killed by military or police death squads.
The Thaksin government has lost the Muslim population in the south," said Thittinan Ponsudhirak, a political analyst and lecturer at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University. "They are trying to contain a situation which is running out of control. We are heading for even worse trouble."
The marines, armed but working in plain clothes, were driving through the village of Tanyonglimo on Tuesday night soon after a drive-by shooting at the village tea shop in which two people were killed and three others wounded.
Villagers surrounded their car and seized the soldiers, who were then bound, gagged and blindfolded.
Thai analysts draw attention to parallels between events at Tanyonglimo and an incident last month in the village of Lahan, in the same province, when gunmen killed the local Muslim preacher.
Before he died, the preacher, Natsopa Yusof, had told villagers his killers were government troops. Local women and children then formed a cordon blocking off the village and refusing entry to security forces.
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Scotland to become richest nation in Europe?
http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/47465.html
22 September 2005.
According to Robbie Dinwoodie, chief Scottish Political Correspondent at The Herald, Scotland's oil wealth is flowing south.
This year, at least £700 for every person in Scotland will flow to Treasury coffers in England, according to a report from the SNP, 'Scotland In Surplus'.
See also:
Scotland's true oil wealth was hidden to stop independence.
Stewart Hosie, the Dundee East MP, told SNP delegates at the party's conference in Aviemore:
"Oil is back on the agenda."
According to The Herald:
Mr Hosie launched a detailed document on the state of Scotland's finances, based on official statistics and information provided by the Commons library. Using the average oil price for the first half of the financial year – $56 – this puts Scotland more than £3.5bn in the black, £700 for every adult and child in the country.
If Scotland's share of UK debt is factored in, there is still a surplus of about £660m – or more than £130 per person.
The conference unanimously passed a motion noting that "Scottish independence was not only theoretically possible but economically desirable" and condemned "the actions of successive Labour and Tory governments for concealing Scotland's true economic position from the Scottish people."
The SNP makes clear that oil is set to flow for another 30 years.
"This new document blows the lid off the argument that the union is economically beneficial," said Mr Salmond. "Only independence can allow Scotland to meet our full economic potential. Last week the unionist parties reacted to the bombshell of the oil documents by decrying them as historical. Now we have brought the issue up-to-date and proved that Scotland is in surplus."
SNP delegates have committed the SNP to ambitious targets on greenhouse gas emissions, including the "transformation of Scotland into one of the world's first all-renewable nations by developing our enormous renewable energy resources." A commission will examine how emissions can be cut by up to 80% by 2050.Richard Lochhead, the party's Holyrood energy and environment spokesman, said climate change was a greater threat than terrorism, as shown by Hurricane Katrina. "If that has not acted as a wake-up call, bringing the most powerful country in the world to its knees, then nothing will," he said.
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22 September 2005.
According to Robbie Dinwoodie, chief Scottish Political Correspondent at The Herald, Scotland's oil wealth is flowing south.
This year, at least £700 for every person in Scotland will flow to Treasury coffers in England, according to a report from the SNP, 'Scotland In Surplus'.
See also:
Scotland's true oil wealth was hidden to stop independence.
Stewart Hosie, the Dundee East MP, told SNP delegates at the party's conference in Aviemore:
"Oil is back on the agenda."
According to The Herald:
Mr Hosie launched a detailed document on the state of Scotland's finances, based on official statistics and information provided by the Commons library. Using the average oil price for the first half of the financial year – $56 – this puts Scotland more than £3.5bn in the black, £700 for every adult and child in the country.
If Scotland's share of UK debt is factored in, there is still a surplus of about £660m – or more than £130 per person.
The conference unanimously passed a motion noting that "Scottish independence was not only theoretically possible but economically desirable" and condemned "the actions of successive Labour and Tory governments for concealing Scotland's true economic position from the Scottish people."
The SNP makes clear that oil is set to flow for another 30 years.
"This new document blows the lid off the argument that the union is economically beneficial," said Mr Salmond. "Only independence can allow Scotland to meet our full economic potential. Last week the unionist parties reacted to the bombshell of the oil documents by decrying them as historical. Now we have brought the issue up-to-date and proved that Scotland is in surplus."
SNP delegates have committed the SNP to ambitious targets on greenhouse gas emissions, including the "transformation of Scotland into one of the world's first all-renewable nations by developing our enormous renewable energy resources." A commission will examine how emissions can be cut by up to 80% by 2050.Richard Lochhead, the party's Holyrood energy and environment spokesman, said climate change was a greater threat than terrorism, as shown by Hurricane Katrina. "If that has not acted as a wake-up call, bringing the most powerful country in the world to its knees, then nothing will," he said.
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Basra's governor withdraws all co-operation.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/47498.html
Michael Settle, in The Herald, 22 September 2005, reported that the 'angry Basra governor has demanded a UK apology' over the attack on the jail.
According to The Herald:
Basra's governor has withdrawn all co-operation with UK forces until the British government apologises for the clashes between its troops and Iraqi police.
The governor and his council voted to "stop dealing with British forces in Basra and not to co-operate with them because of their irresponsible aggression on a government facility".
The council demanded that Britain should apologise to local citizens and police and provide compensation for the families of people killed or wounded.
It said five died on Monday when the British Army stormed Jamiat jail to rescue two undercover soldiers.
The army said the men were handed to a militia group by police. Bayan Jabor, Iraqi interior minister, denied this and told the BBC the men had never left police custody.
Basra's governor, Mr al Waili said: "The British troops should stop these barbarian and illegal actions. I support boycotting the British troops and stopping all the co-operation with them until our demands are met."
There ,was an angry protest by about 500 police and civilians who marched through Basra to the jail, calling for the city police chief to be sacked and for the British "terrorists" to be returned to Iraqi jurisdiction.
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former foreign secretary and a contender for the Tory leadership, argued Iraq had become a bigger disaster than Vietnam. "This is the most serious foreign policy disaster for the United Kingdom in the last 60 years. Suez, in comparison, was pretty modest."
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Michael Settle, in The Herald, 22 September 2005, reported that the 'angry Basra governor has demanded a UK apology' over the attack on the jail.
According to The Herald:
Basra's governor has withdrawn all co-operation with UK forces until the British government apologises for the clashes between its troops and Iraqi police.
The governor and his council voted to "stop dealing with British forces in Basra and not to co-operate with them because of their irresponsible aggression on a government facility".
The council demanded that Britain should apologise to local citizens and police and provide compensation for the families of people killed or wounded.
It said five died on Monday when the British Army stormed Jamiat jail to rescue two undercover soldiers.
The army said the men were handed to a militia group by police. Bayan Jabor, Iraqi interior minister, denied this and told the BBC the men had never left police custody.
Basra's governor, Mr al Waili said: "The British troops should stop these barbarian and illegal actions. I support boycotting the British troops and stopping all the co-operation with them until our demands are met."
There ,was an angry protest by about 500 police and civilians who marched through Basra to the jail, calling for the city police chief to be sacked and for the British "terrorists" to be returned to Iraqi jurisdiction.
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former foreign secretary and a contender for the Tory leadership, argued Iraq had become a bigger disaster than Vietnam. "This is the most serious foreign policy disaster for the United Kingdom in the last 60 years. Suez, in comparison, was pretty modest."
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005
The two soldiers were using a civilian car packed with explosives
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/19/content_3514065.htm
www.chinaview.cn 2005-09-19 22:46:55
BAGHDAD, Sept. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraqi police detained two British soldiers in civilian clothes in the southern city Basra for firing on a police station on Monday, police said.
"Two persons wearing Arab uniforms opened fire at a police station in Basra. A police patrol followed the attackers and captured them to discover they were two British soldiers," an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.
The two soldiers were using a civilian car packed with explosives, the source said.
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http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/conspiracy_theory/fullstory.asp?id=257
The occupation forces are the real perpetrators of bomb attacks in Iraq?9/14/2005
Iran’s top military commander accused the United States and Israel of planning the non-stop bomb attacks that killed thousands of civilians in Iraq.
Brigadier General Mohammad-Baqer Zolqadr, the deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), told a gathering of senior officials, that the U.S. needs those attacks to justify the continuation of its military presence in Iraq.
“The Americans blame weak and feeble groups in Iraq for insecurity in this country. We do not believe this and we have information that the insecurity has its roots in the activities of American and Israeli spies,” Zolqadr said.
“Insecurity in Iraq is a deeply-rooted phenomenon. The root of insecurity in Iraq lies in the occupation of this country by foreigners”.
“If Iraq is to become secure, there will be no room for the occupiers”.
Zolqadr also said that the U.S. forces pursue “important and strategic goals in their continuing occupation of Iraq”.
The U.S. wanted to remain in Iraq to “plunder the country’s wealth, bring the Middle East under its control, and create security for Israel, which is on the verge of annihilation”.
Zolqadr, moreover, noted that dozens of new U.S. military are being built in Iraq “for this reason they are constantly creating insecurity”.
The U.S.-occupation authority has repeatedly claimed that the Iraqi security forces are not ready yet to protect the country against rebel attacks, with the aim of defending the continued heavy presence of U.S. troops there even after an Iraqi government was elected.
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http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
Two British soldiers were captured by the Iraqi police wearing Arab clothing and driving a car packed with explosives. To complicate matters further, the Brits fired on the Iraqi police before surrendering. Then British tanks broke down the wall of the jail freeing the two British soldiers (and about 150 other prisoners). This event has confirmed in the minds of many the long-held suspicion that the so-called "insurgent" bombings are actually false-flag operations by the occupying army, and riots have resulted.
So here comes the predictable spin, downplaying the exposure of the false-flag bombers, ignoring the obvious jail-break, and attempting to place ultimate blame for the fiasco on Iran!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1788585,00.html
Yes, it's Iran that is behind the fact that the Iraqi people are fed up with being occupied by an Army that bombs the people to keep them in fear and tortures those who speak out. Of course! Were it not for Iran those Iraqis would be perfectly happy living under the American yoke. Darn that Iran, we should invade them! Twice!
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www.chinaview.cn 2005-09-19 22:46:55
BAGHDAD, Sept. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraqi police detained two British soldiers in civilian clothes in the southern city Basra for firing on a police station on Monday, police said.
"Two persons wearing Arab uniforms opened fire at a police station in Basra. A police patrol followed the attackers and captured them to discover they were two British soldiers," an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.
The two soldiers were using a civilian car packed with explosives, the source said.
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http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/conspiracy_theory/fullstory.asp?id=257
The occupation forces are the real perpetrators of bomb attacks in Iraq?9/14/2005
Iran’s top military commander accused the United States and Israel of planning the non-stop bomb attacks that killed thousands of civilians in Iraq.
Brigadier General Mohammad-Baqer Zolqadr, the deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), told a gathering of senior officials, that the U.S. needs those attacks to justify the continuation of its military presence in Iraq.
“The Americans blame weak and feeble groups in Iraq for insecurity in this country. We do not believe this and we have information that the insecurity has its roots in the activities of American and Israeli spies,” Zolqadr said.
“Insecurity in Iraq is a deeply-rooted phenomenon. The root of insecurity in Iraq lies in the occupation of this country by foreigners”.
“If Iraq is to become secure, there will be no room for the occupiers”.
Zolqadr also said that the U.S. forces pursue “important and strategic goals in their continuing occupation of Iraq”.
The U.S. wanted to remain in Iraq to “plunder the country’s wealth, bring the Middle East under its control, and create security for Israel, which is on the verge of annihilation”.
Zolqadr, moreover, noted that dozens of new U.S. military are being built in Iraq “for this reason they are constantly creating insecurity”.
The U.S.-occupation authority has repeatedly claimed that the Iraqi security forces are not ready yet to protect the country against rebel attacks, with the aim of defending the continued heavy presence of U.S. troops there even after an Iraqi government was elected.
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http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
Two British soldiers were captured by the Iraqi police wearing Arab clothing and driving a car packed with explosives. To complicate matters further, the Brits fired on the Iraqi police before surrendering. Then British tanks broke down the wall of the jail freeing the two British soldiers (and about 150 other prisoners). This event has confirmed in the minds of many the long-held suspicion that the so-called "insurgent" bombings are actually false-flag operations by the occupying army, and riots have resulted.
So here comes the predictable spin, downplaying the exposure of the false-flag bombers, ignoring the obvious jail-break, and attempting to place ultimate blame for the fiasco on Iran!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1788585,00.html
Yes, it's Iran that is behind the fact that the Iraqi people are fed up with being occupied by an Army that bombs the people to keep them in fear and tortures those who speak out. Of course! Were it not for Iran those Iraqis would be perfectly happy living under the American yoke. Darn that Iran, we should invade them! Twice!
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'The so-called "insurgent" bombings are really being carried out by UK and US operatives'; the role of the Special Reconnaissance Regiment.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
Quote from Whatreallyhappened, 19 September 2005:
"Two undercover British soldiers were caught driving a car full of explosives while dressed as Arabs. They were arrested after firing on Iraqi police. Needless to say, the extreme methods used by the British to wrest their men from the regular legal authority only underscores that they have something to hide. Of course, it's too late. This whole incident confirms that the so-called "insurgent" bombings are really being carried out by UK and US operatives."
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1964592005
From The Scotsman, 20 September 2005:
Defence sources have told The Scotsman that the soldiers were part of an undercover special forces detachment set up this year...
The troops are under the jurisdiction of the Special Reconnaissance Regiment that was formed last year by the then defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, to gather so-called human intelligence during counter-terrorist missions.
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1964592005
"A British force of more than ten tanks backed by helicopters attacked the central jail and destroyed it. This is an irresponsible act," - Province governor Mohammed al-Waili
BRITISH soldiers freed two comrades in a dramatic operation last night just hours after the men, believed to be with an undercover special forces unit, were arrested on charges of shooting two Iraqi policemen.
Witnesses and Iraqi officials claimed British troops backed by up to ten tanks smashed down the walls of the central jail in the southern city of Basra and freed the two men.
An Iraqi television cameraman who lives across the street from the jail said about 150 Iraqi prisoners also fled as British troops stormed inside and rescued their comrades.
Mohammed al-Waili, the governor of the province, described the British raid as "barbaric, savage and irresponsible"...
The Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, Sir Menzies Campbell, said the events "underlined the need for a coherent exit strategy of British forces".
Reacting to the later reports that British forces had stormed the prison, Sir Menzies said: "It is hard to see how relations between the British military and the civilian Iraqi authorities in Basra will ever be the same again.
"This is bound to be seen as a humiliation by many Iraqis - something the insurgents will use to their advantage. An operation of this kind must have gone to the highest level. I would be surprised if the Prime Minister had not been consulted."
...The MoD had earlier declined to comment on the day's events, beyond confirming that "two British military personnel were detained by Iraqi authorities".
But Iraqi officials, who had dispatched a senior judge to question the pair, were insisting that the British military in Basra had confirmed that they were on an undercover mission. Mohammed al-Abadi, an official of the Basra authorities, said their cover had been blown after local police became suspicious and approached them. "A policeman approached them and then one of these guys fired at him. Then the police managed to capture them," he said....
http://www.sundayherald.com/51372
The Sunday Herald, 21 August 2005, tells us about the monitoring of the flat in Scotia Road, Tulse Hill, in south London.The address was said to be linked to alleged bomber Hussein Osman.( Hussain Osman - arrested in Rome )Among the surveillance team in Scotia Road was a soldier from a new “special forces” regiment -the Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR).
James Cusick, in the Sunday Herald, writes:"According to security sources, SRR personnel were involved in the tailing operation that saw de Menezes leave the block of flats, board a bus, and then enter the tube station at Stockwell. SRR personnel are also believed to have been on the tube train when he was shot.
"The SRR soldier at Scotia Road (given the codename Tango 10) used equipment which sent realtime pictures of all who came and went from the flats. Those receiving the pictures could check them against footage of who they were looking for. One security source said: 'In this kind of operation you never leave. You need to pee: you use a bottle; if there’s no bottle, tough. You never leave.'
"The police account says there is no footage of de Menezes leaving because the SRR soldier had to relieve himself. The police account says he sent out a message calling the man who left [de Menezes] an 'ICI' – a white northern European...
"Hussein Osman – arrested in Rome and scheduled for deportation to the UK within the next two months – was not an ICI. The CCTV footage of Osman the police held showed an Asian/north African male.
"De Menezes took a bus to Stockwell tube station, stopping briefly at Brixton...
"It is also understood that the senior police officer in charge of the operation, Commander Cressida Dick, had ordered de Menezes at this stage to be detained before he went into the tube station and that he should be alive...
"So why was de Menezes not stopped before the station?
"Both members of the police and the mysterious second group were on the train with de Menezes. Members of the mysterious second group murdered de Menezes.
"A security agency source contacted by the Sunday Herald said: 'This take-out is the signature of a special forces operation. It is not the way the police usually do things.... this has special forces written all over it.'"
A plot by a secretive section of the military to kill De Menezes as part of a strategy of tension?
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Quote from Whatreallyhappened, 19 September 2005:
"Two undercover British soldiers were caught driving a car full of explosives while dressed as Arabs. They were arrested after firing on Iraqi police. Needless to say, the extreme methods used by the British to wrest their men from the regular legal authority only underscores that they have something to hide. Of course, it's too late. This whole incident confirms that the so-called "insurgent" bombings are really being carried out by UK and US operatives."
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1964592005
From The Scotsman, 20 September 2005:
Defence sources have told The Scotsman that the soldiers were part of an undercover special forces detachment set up this year...
The troops are under the jurisdiction of the Special Reconnaissance Regiment that was formed last year by the then defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, to gather so-called human intelligence during counter-terrorist missions.
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1964592005
"A British force of more than ten tanks backed by helicopters attacked the central jail and destroyed it. This is an irresponsible act," - Province governor Mohammed al-Waili
BRITISH soldiers freed two comrades in a dramatic operation last night just hours after the men, believed to be with an undercover special forces unit, were arrested on charges of shooting two Iraqi policemen.
Witnesses and Iraqi officials claimed British troops backed by up to ten tanks smashed down the walls of the central jail in the southern city of Basra and freed the two men.
An Iraqi television cameraman who lives across the street from the jail said about 150 Iraqi prisoners also fled as British troops stormed inside and rescued their comrades.
Mohammed al-Waili, the governor of the province, described the British raid as "barbaric, savage and irresponsible"...
The Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, Sir Menzies Campbell, said the events "underlined the need for a coherent exit strategy of British forces".
Reacting to the later reports that British forces had stormed the prison, Sir Menzies said: "It is hard to see how relations between the British military and the civilian Iraqi authorities in Basra will ever be the same again.
"This is bound to be seen as a humiliation by many Iraqis - something the insurgents will use to their advantage. An operation of this kind must have gone to the highest level. I would be surprised if the Prime Minister had not been consulted."
...The MoD had earlier declined to comment on the day's events, beyond confirming that "two British military personnel were detained by Iraqi authorities".
But Iraqi officials, who had dispatched a senior judge to question the pair, were insisting that the British military in Basra had confirmed that they were on an undercover mission. Mohammed al-Abadi, an official of the Basra authorities, said their cover had been blown after local police became suspicious and approached them. "A policeman approached them and then one of these guys fired at him. Then the police managed to capture them," he said....
http://www.sundayherald.com/51372
The Sunday Herald, 21 August 2005, tells us about the monitoring of the flat in Scotia Road, Tulse Hill, in south London.The address was said to be linked to alleged bomber Hussein Osman.( Hussain Osman - arrested in Rome )Among the surveillance team in Scotia Road was a soldier from a new “special forces” regiment -the Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR).
James Cusick, in the Sunday Herald, writes:"According to security sources, SRR personnel were involved in the tailing operation that saw de Menezes leave the block of flats, board a bus, and then enter the tube station at Stockwell. SRR personnel are also believed to have been on the tube train when he was shot.
"The SRR soldier at Scotia Road (given the codename Tango 10) used equipment which sent realtime pictures of all who came and went from the flats. Those receiving the pictures could check them against footage of who they were looking for. One security source said: 'In this kind of operation you never leave. You need to pee: you use a bottle; if there’s no bottle, tough. You never leave.'
"The police account says there is no footage of de Menezes leaving because the SRR soldier had to relieve himself. The police account says he sent out a message calling the man who left [de Menezes] an 'ICI' – a white northern European...
"Hussein Osman – arrested in Rome and scheduled for deportation to the UK within the next two months – was not an ICI. The CCTV footage of Osman the police held showed an Asian/north African male.
"De Menezes took a bus to Stockwell tube station, stopping briefly at Brixton...
"It is also understood that the senior police officer in charge of the operation, Commander Cressida Dick, had ordered de Menezes at this stage to be detained before he went into the tube station and that he should be alive...
"So why was de Menezes not stopped before the station?
"Both members of the police and the mysterious second group were on the train with de Menezes. Members of the mysterious second group murdered de Menezes.
"A security agency source contacted by the Sunday Herald said: 'This take-out is the signature of a special forces operation. It is not the way the police usually do things.... this has special forces written all over it.'"
A plot by a secretive section of the military to kill De Menezes as part of a strategy of tension?
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Monday, September 19, 2005
British 'undercover' soldiers 'carrying explosives kill Iraqi policeman'. Is Britain secretly at war with the government of Iraq?
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Is Britain secretly at war with the government of Iraq?
According to the BBC, two British 'soldiers' were stopped at a checkppoint and began shooting at the Iraqi police, but were eventually arrested. One policeman was killed. The "soldiers" were dressed as locals and the car they were driving was found to be carrying weapons, ammunition and explosives.
Were the British 'soldiers' going to use the explosives to stage some terror incident?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4262336.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article313705.ece
According to the BBC, 19 September 2005:
UK forces used tanks to break down the walls of a jail where two British soldiers were being held in the Iraqi city of Basra, according to reports.
The soldiers' arrests had sparked clashes in the city in which British tanks came under attack and two civilians were reportedly killed.
Basra's governor said the demolition was a 'barbaric act of aggression'.
British officials said the men were back in UK forces' custody but would not say how this had happened.
Civilians 'killed'
The BBC's Richard Galpin said it seemed more and more as if British forces had stormed the prison.
Witnesses told the Associated Press that around 150 prisoners escaped at the same time.
Earlier, two British tanks, sent to the police station where the soldiers are being held, were set alight in clashes.
Crowds of angry protesters hurled petrol bombs and stones injuring three servicemen and several civilians.
TV pictures showed soldiers in combat gear, clambering from one of the flaming tanks and making their escape.
A local council spokesman said two civilians were killed in the earlier clashes. Up to 15 civilians were also reported injured in the demonstrations.
Tensions have been running high in the city since the arrest of a senior figure in the Shia Mehdi Army by UK troops.
Civilian clothes
An Iraqi official in Basra said the British military had informed him the detained men were under cover soldiers.
This has not been confirmed, but pictures of two soldiers being detained in police cells show the men wearing civilian clothes.
The official said: "They were driving a civilian car and were dressed in civilian clothes when a shooting took place between them and Iraqi patrols.
"We are investigating and an Iraqi judge is on the case questioning them."
MI6 caught with explosives in BASRA?
~~
Is Britain secretly at war with the government of Iraq?
According to the BBC, two British 'soldiers' were stopped at a checkppoint and began shooting at the Iraqi police, but were eventually arrested. One policeman was killed. The "soldiers" were dressed as locals and the car they were driving was found to be carrying weapons, ammunition and explosives.
Were the British 'soldiers' going to use the explosives to stage some terror incident?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4262336.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article313705.ece
According to the BBC, 19 September 2005:
UK forces used tanks to break down the walls of a jail where two British soldiers were being held in the Iraqi city of Basra, according to reports.
The soldiers' arrests had sparked clashes in the city in which British tanks came under attack and two civilians were reportedly killed.
Basra's governor said the demolition was a 'barbaric act of aggression'.
British officials said the men were back in UK forces' custody but would not say how this had happened.
Civilians 'killed'
The BBC's Richard Galpin said it seemed more and more as if British forces had stormed the prison.
Witnesses told the Associated Press that around 150 prisoners escaped at the same time.
Earlier, two British tanks, sent to the police station where the soldiers are being held, were set alight in clashes.
Crowds of angry protesters hurled petrol bombs and stones injuring three servicemen and several civilians.
TV pictures showed soldiers in combat gear, clambering from one of the flaming tanks and making their escape.
A local council spokesman said two civilians were killed in the earlier clashes. Up to 15 civilians were also reported injured in the demonstrations.
Tensions have been running high in the city since the arrest of a senior figure in the Shia Mehdi Army by UK troops.
Civilian clothes
An Iraqi official in Basra said the British military had informed him the detained men were under cover soldiers.
This has not been confirmed, but pictures of two soldiers being detained in police cells show the men wearing civilian clothes.
The official said: "They were driving a civilian car and were dressed in civilian clothes when a shooting took place between them and Iraqi patrols.
"We are investigating and an Iraqi judge is on the case questioning them."
MI6 caught with explosives in BASRA?
~~
MI6 caught with explosives in BASRA?
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=78784
Posted by Useless_Eater, on 19 September 2005, at Rumormill News:
Two British 'soldiers' have been arrested in Basra. They were stopped at a checkppoint and began shooting at the Iraqi police, but were eventually arrested. The "soldiers" were dressed as locals and the car they were driving was found to be carrying weapons, ammunition and explosives!
The following BBC report on this incident fails to mention this crucial element of the story, and questions why the two 'soldiers' were arrested.
I am telling you about the weapons and explosives because initial reports on the BBC radio referred to them. Later reports, including the following online report, fail to mention them.
The spin is that the two were working undercover.
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4260894.stm
"Two British military personnel have been arrested in Iraq amid claims they fired at police during a second day of unrest in the southern city of Basra. The MoD could not confirm reports they were working undercover, adding the reason for their detention was unknown."
~~
Posted by Useless_Eater, on 19 September 2005, at Rumormill News:
Two British 'soldiers' have been arrested in Basra. They were stopped at a checkppoint and began shooting at the Iraqi police, but were eventually arrested. The "soldiers" were dressed as locals and the car they were driving was found to be carrying weapons, ammunition and explosives!
The following BBC report on this incident fails to mention this crucial element of the story, and questions why the two 'soldiers' were arrested.
I am telling you about the weapons and explosives because initial reports on the BBC radio referred to them. Later reports, including the following online report, fail to mention them.
The spin is that the two were working undercover.
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4260894.stm
"Two British military personnel have been arrested in Iraq amid claims they fired at police during a second day of unrest in the southern city of Basra. The MoD could not confirm reports they were working undercover, adding the reason for their detention was unknown."
~~
US military involved in one of the largest thefts in history?
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"It is possibly one of the largest thefts in history."
The money missing from all ministries under the interim Iraqi government appointed by the US in June 2004 may turn out to be close to $2bn.
According to The Independent:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article313538.ece
"Government officials in Baghdad suggest that the skill with which the robbery was organised suggests that the Iraqis involved were only front men, and 'rogue elements' within the US military or intelligence services may have played a decisive role behind the scenes."
The Independent reports:
Armoured cars purchased by Iraq turned out to be so poorly made that even a bullet from an elderly AK-47 machine-gun could penetrate their armour.
A shipment of the latest MP5 American machine-guns, at a cost of $3,500 (£1,900) each, consisted in reality of Egyptian copies worth only $200 a gun.
Other armoured cars leaked so much oil that they had to be abandoned.
A deal was struck to buy 7.62mm machine-gun bullets for 16 cents each, although they should have cost between 4 and 6 cents.
2. The money, intended to train and equip an Iraqi army, has been 'siphoned abroad in cash and has disappeared.'
3. Most of the money 'was supposedly spent buying arms from Poland and Pakistan.'
The contracts were peculiar in four ways.
A. According to Mr Allawi, they were awarded without bidding,
B. and were signed with a Baghdad-based company, and not directly with the foreign supplier.
C. The money was paid up front,
D. and, surprisingly for Iraq, it was paid at great speed out of the ministry's account with the Central Bank.
According to The Independent: "Many Iraqi soldiers and police have died because they were not properly equipped. In Baghdad they often ride in civilian pick-up trucks vulnerable to gunfire, rocket- propelled grenades or roadside bombs. For months even men defusing bombs had no protection against blast because they worked without bullet-proof vests. These were often promised but never turned up...
"The report of the Board of Supreme Audit on the defence ministry contracts was presented to the office of Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Prime Minister, in May. But the extent of the losses has become apparent only gradually. The sum missing was first reported as $300m and then $500m, but in fact it is at least twice as large. 'If you compare the amount that was allegedly stolen of about $1bn compared with the budget of the ministry of defence, it is nearly 100 per cent of the ministry's [procurement] budget that has gone Awol,' said Mr Allawi.
"The money missing from all ministries under the interim Iraqi government appointed by the US in June 2004 may turn out to be close to $2bn. Of a military procurement budget of $1.3bn, some $200m may have been spent on usable equipment, though this is a charitable view, say officials. As a result the Iraqi army has had to rely on cast-offs from the US military, and even these have been slow in coming.
"Mr Allawi says a further $500m to $600m has allegedly disappeared from the electricity, transport, interior and other ministries. This helps to explain why the supply of electricity in Baghdad has been so poor since the fall of Saddam Hussein 29 months ago despite claims by the US and subsequent Iraqi governments that they are doing everything to improve power generation.
"The sum missing over an eight-month period in 2004 and 2005 is the equivalent of the $1.8bn that Saddam allegedly received in kick- backs under the UN's oil-for-food programme between 1997 and 2003. The UN was pilloried for not stopping this corruption. The US military is likely to be criticised over the latest scandal because it was far better placed than the UN to monitor corruption.
"The fraud took place between 28 June 2004 and 28 February this year under the government of Iyad Allawi, who was interim prime minister. His ministers were appointed by the US envoy Robert Blackwell and his UN counterpart, Lakhdar Brahimi.
"Among those whom the US promoted was a man who was previously a small businessman in London before the war, called Hazem Shaalan, who became Defence Minister.
"Mr Shalaan says that Paul Bremer, then US viceroy in Iraq, signed off the appointment of Ziyad Cattan as the defence ministry's procurement chief. Mr Cattan, of joint Polish-Iraqi nationality, spent 27 years in Europe, returning to Iraq two days before the war in 2003. He was hired by the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority and became a district councillor before moving to the defence ministry.
"For eight months the ministry spent money without restraint. Contracts worth more than $5m should have been reviewed by a cabinet committee, but Mr Shalaan asked for and received from the cabinet an exemption for the defence ministry. Missions abroad to acquire arms were generally led by Mr Cattan. Contracts for large sums were short scribbles on a single piece of paper. Auditors have had difficulty working out with whom Iraq has a contract in Pakistan.
"Authorities in Baghdad have issued an arrest warrant for Mr Cattan. Neither he nor Mr Shalaan, both believed to be in Jordan, could be reached for further comment. Mr Bremer says he has never heard of Mr Cattan."
~~
"It is possibly one of the largest thefts in history."
The money missing from all ministries under the interim Iraqi government appointed by the US in June 2004 may turn out to be close to $2bn.
According to The Independent:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article313538.ece
"Government officials in Baghdad suggest that the skill with which the robbery was organised suggests that the Iraqis involved were only front men, and 'rogue elements' within the US military or intelligence services may have played a decisive role behind the scenes."
The Independent reports:
"The Iraqi Board of Supreme Audit says in a report to the Iraqi government that US-appointed Iraqi officials in the defence ministry allegedly presided over these dubious transactions.
"Senior Iraqi officials now say they cannot understand how, if this is so, the disappearance of almost all the military procurement budget could have passed unnoticed by the US military in Baghdad and civilian advisers working in the defence ministry."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article313538.ece
Patrick Cockburn, in The Independent, 19 September 2005 asks: 'What has happened to Iraq's missing $1bn?'
The Independent describes the 'one billion dollars plundered from Iraq's defence ministry' as one of the largest thefts in history.
The Independent reveals
1. Iraq's army has been given 'museum-piece weapons'. It needs the US army to defend it.
Armoured cars purchased by Iraq turned out to be so poorly made that even a bullet from an elderly AK-47 machine-gun could penetrate their armour.
A shipment of the latest MP5 American machine-guns, at a cost of $3,500 (£1,900) each, consisted in reality of Egyptian copies worth only $200 a gun.
Other armoured cars leaked so much oil that they had to be abandoned.
A deal was struck to buy 7.62mm machine-gun bullets for 16 cents each, although they should have cost between 4 and 6 cents.
2. The money, intended to train and equip an Iraqi army, has been 'siphoned abroad in cash and has disappeared.'
3. Most of the money 'was supposedly spent buying arms from Poland and Pakistan.'
The contracts were peculiar in four ways.
A. According to Mr Allawi, they were awarded without bidding,
B. and were signed with a Baghdad-based company, and not directly with the foreign supplier.
C. The money was paid up front,
D. and, surprisingly for Iraq, it was paid at great speed out of the ministry's account with the Central Bank.
According to The Independent: "Many Iraqi soldiers and police have died because they were not properly equipped. In Baghdad they often ride in civilian pick-up trucks vulnerable to gunfire, rocket- propelled grenades or roadside bombs. For months even men defusing bombs had no protection against blast because they worked without bullet-proof vests. These were often promised but never turned up...
"The report of the Board of Supreme Audit on the defence ministry contracts was presented to the office of Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Prime Minister, in May. But the extent of the losses has become apparent only gradually. The sum missing was first reported as $300m and then $500m, but in fact it is at least twice as large. 'If you compare the amount that was allegedly stolen of about $1bn compared with the budget of the ministry of defence, it is nearly 100 per cent of the ministry's [procurement] budget that has gone Awol,' said Mr Allawi.
"The money missing from all ministries under the interim Iraqi government appointed by the US in June 2004 may turn out to be close to $2bn. Of a military procurement budget of $1.3bn, some $200m may have been spent on usable equipment, though this is a charitable view, say officials. As a result the Iraqi army has had to rely on cast-offs from the US military, and even these have been slow in coming.
"Mr Allawi says a further $500m to $600m has allegedly disappeared from the electricity, transport, interior and other ministries. This helps to explain why the supply of electricity in Baghdad has been so poor since the fall of Saddam Hussein 29 months ago despite claims by the US and subsequent Iraqi governments that they are doing everything to improve power generation.
"The sum missing over an eight-month period in 2004 and 2005 is the equivalent of the $1.8bn that Saddam allegedly received in kick- backs under the UN's oil-for-food programme between 1997 and 2003. The UN was pilloried for not stopping this corruption. The US military is likely to be criticised over the latest scandal because it was far better placed than the UN to monitor corruption.
"The fraud took place between 28 June 2004 and 28 February this year under the government of Iyad Allawi, who was interim prime minister. His ministers were appointed by the US envoy Robert Blackwell and his UN counterpart, Lakhdar Brahimi.
"Among those whom the US promoted was a man who was previously a small businessman in London before the war, called Hazem Shaalan, who became Defence Minister.
"Mr Shalaan says that Paul Bremer, then US viceroy in Iraq, signed off the appointment of Ziyad Cattan as the defence ministry's procurement chief. Mr Cattan, of joint Polish-Iraqi nationality, spent 27 years in Europe, returning to Iraq two days before the war in 2003. He was hired by the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority and became a district councillor before moving to the defence ministry.
"For eight months the ministry spent money without restraint. Contracts worth more than $5m should have been reviewed by a cabinet committee, but Mr Shalaan asked for and received from the cabinet an exemption for the defence ministry. Missions abroad to acquire arms were generally led by Mr Cattan. Contracts for large sums were short scribbles on a single piece of paper. Auditors have had difficulty working out with whom Iraq has a contract in Pakistan.
"Authorities in Baghdad have issued an arrest warrant for Mr Cattan. Neither he nor Mr Shalaan, both believed to be in Jordan, could be reached for further comment. Mr Bremer says he has never heard of Mr Cattan."
~~
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Iraqi: "I believe it is the Americans who are doing this, pretending it is the Sunni, so there will be a civil war and they can control our wealth."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article312735.ece
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8286
From The Independent, 16 September 2005 :
Many Iraqis believe 'suicide’ bombings done by US to start a civil war.
"Ali Ghazi, a Shia from the Iraqi deep south: 'I believe it is the Americans who are doing this, pretending it is the Sunni, so there will be a civil war and they can control our wealth.'
"Many survivors lying mangled by this morning’s bombs subscribed to a conspiracy theory according to which the US wants to rule Iraq by fomenting differences between Shia and Sunni....
"Many of those wounded denied there would be a war between Shia and Sunni. Mohammed Abdul Karim, an injured Shia at Noman hospital, pointed out that he was in a Sunni district and the Sunni doctors were doing everything to help him."
~~
"The people torn apart were not the only ones to die in Iraq yesterday. In a Sunni village 10 miles north of Baghdad near Taji, men dressed as soldiers - and who possibly were soldiers - moved in just before first light and took away 17 men whom they handcuffed, blindfolded and shot. The dead included one policeman and several men who worked as drivers and construction workers at a US base.
"One of the many reasons why Iraqis are becoming more terrified by the day is that they do not know if the policemen or soldiers who wake them in the middle of the night truly work for the government or are a death squad...
"Tal Afar, a city of 200,000, is an ethnic and sectarian mosaic. About 70 per cent of its people are Sunni Turkmans, sympathetic to the insurgents, and 30 per cent Shia Turkmans supportive of the Shia-Kurdish government in Baghdad. The Iraqi soldiers that stormed the city along with US troops were mostly Kurdish and Shia. The attacks came only hours after Iraq’s President, Jalal Talabani, had stood beside President George Bush at a press conference in Washington.
"Sa’af Jabber Ajmi, a Shia labourer from Nasiriyah, lying in the Noman hospital in the Adhamiya district, with shrapnel in his leg, shoulder and back, said: 'I thought what happened was a reaction to the Iraqi President’s visit to the US.'
"In another bed was Ali Ghazi, also a Shia from the Iraqi deep south. 'I believe it is the Americans who are doing this, pretending it is the Sunni, so there will be a civil war and they can control our wealth.' Many survivors lying mangled by this morning’s bombs subscribed to a conspiracy theory according to which the US wants to rule Iraq by fomenting differences between Shia and Sunni.
~~
http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/63450
Thursday, 15 September 2005:
Al-Anbar Province.
Ar-Ramadi.
Iraqi Resistance organizations denounce call for “total war against the Shi‘ah population.”
"A group of the best-known and established Iraqi Resistance organizations, reflecting both the patriotic and the Islamic trends within the Resistance movement, issued a declaration in al-Anbar Province on Thursday, rejecting the call for 'total war on the Shi‘ah' both civilians and combatants"
~~
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/zarqawi_dead.html
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0,36-689730,0.html
Sheikh Jawad Al-Khalessi is the Shiite Imam of the Al-Kazemiya mosque, in Baghdad, and head of the religious school.
He told Le Monde on 16 September 2005:
"I do not think that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi exists as such. He is only one invention of the occupants to divide the people. He was killed in the north of Iraq at the beginning of the war while with the group Ansar Al-Islam. His family, in Jordan, even proceeded to a ceremony after his death. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is thus a toy used by the Americans, an excuse to continue the occupation."
~~
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8286
From The Independent, 16 September 2005 :
Many Iraqis believe 'suicide’ bombings done by US to start a civil war.
"Ali Ghazi, a Shia from the Iraqi deep south: 'I believe it is the Americans who are doing this, pretending it is the Sunni, so there will be a civil war and they can control our wealth.'
"Many survivors lying mangled by this morning’s bombs subscribed to a conspiracy theory according to which the US wants to rule Iraq by fomenting differences between Shia and Sunni....
"Many of those wounded denied there would be a war between Shia and Sunni. Mohammed Abdul Karim, an injured Shia at Noman hospital, pointed out that he was in a Sunni district and the Sunni doctors were doing everything to help him."
~~
"The people torn apart were not the only ones to die in Iraq yesterday. In a Sunni village 10 miles north of Baghdad near Taji, men dressed as soldiers - and who possibly were soldiers - moved in just before first light and took away 17 men whom they handcuffed, blindfolded and shot. The dead included one policeman and several men who worked as drivers and construction workers at a US base.
"One of the many reasons why Iraqis are becoming more terrified by the day is that they do not know if the policemen or soldiers who wake them in the middle of the night truly work for the government or are a death squad...
"Tal Afar, a city of 200,000, is an ethnic and sectarian mosaic. About 70 per cent of its people are Sunni Turkmans, sympathetic to the insurgents, and 30 per cent Shia Turkmans supportive of the Shia-Kurdish government in Baghdad. The Iraqi soldiers that stormed the city along with US troops were mostly Kurdish and Shia. The attacks came only hours after Iraq’s President, Jalal Talabani, had stood beside President George Bush at a press conference in Washington.
"Sa’af Jabber Ajmi, a Shia labourer from Nasiriyah, lying in the Noman hospital in the Adhamiya district, with shrapnel in his leg, shoulder and back, said: 'I thought what happened was a reaction to the Iraqi President’s visit to the US.'
"In another bed was Ali Ghazi, also a Shia from the Iraqi deep south. 'I believe it is the Americans who are doing this, pretending it is the Sunni, so there will be a civil war and they can control our wealth.' Many survivors lying mangled by this morning’s bombs subscribed to a conspiracy theory according to which the US wants to rule Iraq by fomenting differences between Shia and Sunni.
~~
http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/63450
Thursday, 15 September 2005:
Al-Anbar Province.
Ar-Ramadi.
Iraqi Resistance organizations denounce call for “total war against the Shi‘ah population.”
"A group of the best-known and established Iraqi Resistance organizations, reflecting both the patriotic and the Islamic trends within the Resistance movement, issued a declaration in al-Anbar Province on Thursday, rejecting the call for 'total war on the Shi‘ah' both civilians and combatants"
~~
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/zarqawi_dead.html
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0,36-689730,0.html
Sheikh Jawad Al-Khalessi is the Shiite Imam of the Al-Kazemiya mosque, in Baghdad, and head of the religious school.
He told Le Monde on 16 September 2005:
"I do not think that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi exists as such. He is only one invention of the occupants to divide the people. He was killed in the north of Iraq at the beginning of the war while with the group Ansar Al-Islam. His family, in Jordan, even proceeded to a ceremony after his death. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is thus a toy used by the Americans, an excuse to continue the occupation."
~~
Companies paying up to £40,000 to advertise secretly on the BBC
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1785536,00.html
Advertising is not supposed to be allowed on the BBC.
Jonathan Calvert and Gareth Welsh, at The Sunday Times, 18 September 2005, report that companies are secretly paying fees of up to £40,000 to advertise on BBC programmes.
The Sunday Times claims that there are at least 50 cases where top brands 'have bought favourable exposure on BBC television by paying specialist agents'.
SPOOKS: reportedly had eight different brands shown.
MURPHY'S LAW: had a Volkswagen Sharan driven by James Nesbitt.
'An agent boasted that the value of the car’s appearance was equal to a £30,800 commercial break.'
According to the Sunday Times (which is linked to Rupert Murdoch and SKY TV) reporters pretending to be businessmen seeking exposure for a new alcoholic drink approached agents and BBC production companies.
They found:
'The producer of a new 12-part cookery programme for BBC2 was willing to promote the drink on air in return for free accommodation and travel.
'The head of props for Hotel Babylon, a new drama starring Tamzin Outhwaite, also promised to give the drink an eye-catching position in bar scenes, contravening the BBC’s editorial guidelines.'
According to The Sunday Times:
'Placement with stars is most prized: Ricky Gervais holds a Benjys coffee cup in Extras on BBC2 and Robert Lindsay clutches a bottle of Sol beer in My Family, a BBC1 comedy.
'A new prime-time BBC2 series, The Hairy Bikers’ Cookbook, has become a target for the placement agencies.'
The Sunday Times reporters spoke to the programme’s maker offering to pay its travel and accommodation costs on location.
'In return they asked that our fictitious drink — a Mexican beer called Reds — was shown on the programme. John Stroud, managing director of Big Bear Films, said: “I don’t see a problem with that.”
'Malcolm Holt, the prop master for Hotel Babylon, was also happy to support the product. “I can do you two or three bottles on the bar — prominent, all the time,” he said.
The BBC said that it would investigate the allegations.'
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Advertising is not supposed to be allowed on the BBC.
Jonathan Calvert and Gareth Welsh, at The Sunday Times, 18 September 2005, report that companies are secretly paying fees of up to £40,000 to advertise on BBC programmes.
The Sunday Times claims that there are at least 50 cases where top brands 'have bought favourable exposure on BBC television by paying specialist agents'.
SPOOKS: reportedly had eight different brands shown.
MURPHY'S LAW: had a Volkswagen Sharan driven by James Nesbitt.
'An agent boasted that the value of the car’s appearance was equal to a £30,800 commercial break.'
According to the Sunday Times (which is linked to Rupert Murdoch and SKY TV) reporters pretending to be businessmen seeking exposure for a new alcoholic drink approached agents and BBC production companies.
They found:
'The producer of a new 12-part cookery programme for BBC2 was willing to promote the drink on air in return for free accommodation and travel.
'The head of props for Hotel Babylon, a new drama starring Tamzin Outhwaite, also promised to give the drink an eye-catching position in bar scenes, contravening the BBC’s editorial guidelines.'
According to The Sunday Times:
'Placement with stars is most prized: Ricky Gervais holds a Benjys coffee cup in Extras on BBC2 and Robert Lindsay clutches a bottle of Sol beer in My Family, a BBC1 comedy.
'A new prime-time BBC2 series, The Hairy Bikers’ Cookbook, has become a target for the placement agencies.'
The Sunday Times reporters spoke to the programme’s maker offering to pay its travel and accommodation costs on location.
'In return they asked that our fictitious drink — a Mexican beer called Reds — was shown on the programme. John Stroud, managing director of Big Bear Films, said: “I don’t see a problem with that.”
'Malcolm Holt, the prop master for Hotel Babylon, was also happy to support the product. “I can do you two or three bottles on the bar — prominent, all the time,” he said.
The BBC said that it would investigate the allegations.'
~
New Labour revealed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/18/nblur18.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/09/18/ixportaltop.html
Lance Price worked for Tony Blair as deputy head of Downing Street Communications.
According to Lance Price's book 'The Spin Doctor's Diary':
1. Blair 'relished' sending British soldiers off to war
2. Blair referred to "the f***ing Welsh".
3. Blair promised Rupert Murdoch that the Government would not change its policy on Europe without telling him first.
According to The Sunday Telegraph, the Government forced Price to remove sections of the diary before publication.
But the full version is revealed in the Mail on Sunday, 18 September 2005.
A diary entry by Price from Christmas 1998 after Mr Blair sent British forces into Iraq:
"I couldn't help feeling TB (Blair) was relishing his first blooding as PM, sending the boys into action. Despite all the necessary stuff about taking action 'with a heavy heart', I think he feels it is part of his coming of age as a leader."
The censored account reads: "I couldn't help feeling TB had mixed emotions about sending the boys into action."
( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/18/nirq18.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/09/18/ixportaltop.html
According to the Sunday Telegraph 18 September 2005: Secret plans by the Government to reduce troop numbers in Iraq have been shelved - and there is now no official date for the withdrawal of British soldiers.
So far, operations in Iraq are estimated to have cost Britain £5 billion and, since the American-led invasion in 2003, 95 British troops have been killed there.)
In a censored section, Mr Price claims that the Government consulted Mr Murdoch on its policy on the single currency. "Apparently we've promised News International we won't make any changes to our Europe policy without talking to them." This was changed to: "Apparently News International were under the impression we won't make any changes without asking them."
Blair is said to have been furious when it appeared that Labour could lose the first elections to the Welsh Assembly in 1999. Mr Price wrote: "F***ing Welsh repeated many times by TB."
The doctored version reads: "TB f-ing and blinding about the whole thing."
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article313465.ece
Andy McSmith, in the Independent 18 September 2005, reports that, during a private conversation with Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair criticised the BBC's anti-American coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
According to McSmith, this 'speaks volumes about where the Prime Minister's loyalties lie...
There are, rather, two transatlantic special relationships that have dominated Tony Blair's 11-year leadership of the Labour Party. One is with the US government; the other is with the naturalised US citizen Rupert Murdoch.'
McSmith reminds us:
1. 'In the early 1990s, Blair and senior aides flew across the world and back to address an annual conference that Murdoch and his senior executives were holding at the Australian resort of Hayman Island.'
2. 'In March 1998, when Murdoch made a £4bn offer to buy an Italian television station from Silvio Berlusconi, a Turin newspaper reported that Blair had contacted the Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, to ask if the government in Rome would block the deal.
To say the least, it was odd that the British Prime Minister should concern himself with an Australian-American billionaire's interest in an Italian television station.'
http://www.sundayherald.com/51832
Paul Hutcheon, in the Sunday Herald, 18 September 2005, has a report on Charles Gordon who is the Labour Party's candidate in the Glasgow Cathcart by-election (Scottish Parliament)
Labour's Charles Gordon is the favourite to win the seat vacated by disgraced Labour peer Mike Watson.
The Sunday Herald reveals that Gordon said:
Labour MSP and former culture minister Frank McAveety was “thought of as a daft boy” who “wasn’t really rated” by anybody when he was leader of Glasgow City Council.
“Frank’s got the attention span of a goldfish. I’d be sitting here saying ‘Frank, there’s a complicated point about the capital programme that I need to explain to you’ … and he’d be strumming away on his guitar.”
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1572727,00.html
Martin Bright, in the Observer 18 September 2005, reveals more information on Labour minister Blunkett.
1. Last week Lord Stevens, the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, accused Blunkett of being 'duplicitous and intimidating' and his biographer, Stephen Pollard, said: 'Whatever else he may be, Blunkett is indeed a liar.'
2. As Home Secretary, he had to resign because of his poor recollection of details of the visa application for the nanny of his former lover, Kimberly Quinn.
An inquiry by the former senior civil servant, Sir Alan Budd, last year found 'a chain of events' linking the Home Secretary to the visa application.
3. After Blunkett resigned as Home Secretary, 'a friend' of the MP rang the Observer and said:
'If you had actually planted her [Quinn] it would be a sort of Secret Service plot. Get someone as close as possible [to someone] in one of the high offices of state and then pull them down.'
The Observer reported the source's comments.
The Labour party issued a categorical denial of the story.
The Observer "has now decided to publish evidence that the Labour statement was untrue. The call from the source was made at 8.27am on Saturday 18 December 2004, and the words were recorded on voicemail. This newspaper still has the recording of that message and a later conversation with the same source. In the later conversation, the source asked for the comments to be off the record. We agreed. We will not reveal our source, but there is no doubt David Blunkett knows who it is.
"Yet Blunkett must have agreed, later that evening when the story appeared, to the Labour statement, which read: 'Neither David Blunkett or anyone who speaks with his authority has said this.'
"The statement was emailed to The Observer at 10.47pm by a party press officer, Matthew Doyle. He is now Blunkett's special adviser and was fielding calls last week about separate claims that Blunkett intervened over his son's exam results.
"In a flurry of phone calls that continued late that night, The Observer made clear to Doyle that if the Labour party continued to disown the comments, we would release the voicemail tape and the subsequent conversation. Labour withdrew the statement that evening.
"Doyle confirmed this weekend that the original statement to The Observer, in which Blunkett denied that he or anyone authorised to speak for him had made the comments, was 'modified' to reflect our objections and 'was not given to other newspapers'. There is no suggestion that Doyle has done anything wrong.
"The Observer did not publish details of the subsequent exchange with the party because the comments were off the record. In addition, Blunkett had resigned from high office.
"However, after the election he was appointed Work and Pensions Secretary after less than six months in the wilderness. Now he is tipped for a return to the Home Office. In a week in which Blunkett has been called duplicitous by one of the country's most respected former police chiefs and a liar by his biographer, The Observer has decided to reveal these details."
~~~
Lance Price worked for Tony Blair as deputy head of Downing Street Communications.
According to Lance Price's book 'The Spin Doctor's Diary':
1. Blair 'relished' sending British soldiers off to war
2. Blair referred to "the f***ing Welsh".
3. Blair promised Rupert Murdoch that the Government would not change its policy on Europe without telling him first.
According to The Sunday Telegraph, the Government forced Price to remove sections of the diary before publication.
But the full version is revealed in the Mail on Sunday, 18 September 2005.
A diary entry by Price from Christmas 1998 after Mr Blair sent British forces into Iraq:
"I couldn't help feeling TB (Blair) was relishing his first blooding as PM, sending the boys into action. Despite all the necessary stuff about taking action 'with a heavy heart', I think he feels it is part of his coming of age as a leader."
The censored account reads: "I couldn't help feeling TB had mixed emotions about sending the boys into action."
( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/18/nirq18.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/09/18/ixportaltop.html
According to the Sunday Telegraph 18 September 2005: Secret plans by the Government to reduce troop numbers in Iraq have been shelved - and there is now no official date for the withdrawal of British soldiers.
So far, operations in Iraq are estimated to have cost Britain £5 billion and, since the American-led invasion in 2003, 95 British troops have been killed there.)
In a censored section, Mr Price claims that the Government consulted Mr Murdoch on its policy on the single currency. "Apparently we've promised News International we won't make any changes to our Europe policy without talking to them." This was changed to: "Apparently News International were under the impression we won't make any changes without asking them."
Blair is said to have been furious when it appeared that Labour could lose the first elections to the Welsh Assembly in 1999. Mr Price wrote: "F***ing Welsh repeated many times by TB."
The doctored version reads: "TB f-ing and blinding about the whole thing."
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article313465.ece
Andy McSmith, in the Independent 18 September 2005, reports that, during a private conversation with Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair criticised the BBC's anti-American coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
According to McSmith, this 'speaks volumes about where the Prime Minister's loyalties lie...
There are, rather, two transatlantic special relationships that have dominated Tony Blair's 11-year leadership of the Labour Party. One is with the US government; the other is with the naturalised US citizen Rupert Murdoch.'
McSmith reminds us:
1. 'In the early 1990s, Blair and senior aides flew across the world and back to address an annual conference that Murdoch and his senior executives were holding at the Australian resort of Hayman Island.'
2. 'In March 1998, when Murdoch made a £4bn offer to buy an Italian television station from Silvio Berlusconi, a Turin newspaper reported that Blair had contacted the Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, to ask if the government in Rome would block the deal.
To say the least, it was odd that the British Prime Minister should concern himself with an Australian-American billionaire's interest in an Italian television station.'
http://www.sundayherald.com/51832
Paul Hutcheon, in the Sunday Herald, 18 September 2005, has a report on Charles Gordon who is the Labour Party's candidate in the Glasgow Cathcart by-election (Scottish Parliament)
Labour's Charles Gordon is the favourite to win the seat vacated by disgraced Labour peer Mike Watson.
The Sunday Herald reveals that Gordon said:
Labour MSP and former culture minister Frank McAveety was “thought of as a daft boy” who “wasn’t really rated” by anybody when he was leader of Glasgow City Council.
“Frank’s got the attention span of a goldfish. I’d be sitting here saying ‘Frank, there’s a complicated point about the capital programme that I need to explain to you’ … and he’d be strumming away on his guitar.”
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1572727,00.html
Martin Bright, in the Observer 18 September 2005, reveals more information on Labour minister Blunkett.
1. Last week Lord Stevens, the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, accused Blunkett of being 'duplicitous and intimidating' and his biographer, Stephen Pollard, said: 'Whatever else he may be, Blunkett is indeed a liar.'
2. As Home Secretary, he had to resign because of his poor recollection of details of the visa application for the nanny of his former lover, Kimberly Quinn.
An inquiry by the former senior civil servant, Sir Alan Budd, last year found 'a chain of events' linking the Home Secretary to the visa application.
3. After Blunkett resigned as Home Secretary, 'a friend' of the MP rang the Observer and said:
'If you had actually planted her [Quinn] it would be a sort of Secret Service plot. Get someone as close as possible [to someone] in one of the high offices of state and then pull them down.'
The Observer reported the source's comments.
The Labour party issued a categorical denial of the story.
The Observer "has now decided to publish evidence that the Labour statement was untrue. The call from the source was made at 8.27am on Saturday 18 December 2004, and the words were recorded on voicemail. This newspaper still has the recording of that message and a later conversation with the same source. In the later conversation, the source asked for the comments to be off the record. We agreed. We will not reveal our source, but there is no doubt David Blunkett knows who it is.
"Yet Blunkett must have agreed, later that evening when the story appeared, to the Labour statement, which read: 'Neither David Blunkett or anyone who speaks with his authority has said this.'
"The statement was emailed to The Observer at 10.47pm by a party press officer, Matthew Doyle. He is now Blunkett's special adviser and was fielding calls last week about separate claims that Blunkett intervened over his son's exam results.
"In a flurry of phone calls that continued late that night, The Observer made clear to Doyle that if the Labour party continued to disown the comments, we would release the voicemail tape and the subsequent conversation. Labour withdrew the statement that evening.
"Doyle confirmed this weekend that the original statement to The Observer, in which Blunkett denied that he or anyone authorised to speak for him had made the comments, was 'modified' to reflect our objections and 'was not given to other newspapers'. There is no suggestion that Doyle has done anything wrong.
"The Observer did not publish details of the subsequent exchange with the party because the comments were off the record. In addition, Blunkett had resigned from high office.
"However, after the election he was appointed Work and Pensions Secretary after less than six months in the wilderness. Now he is tipped for a return to the Home Office. In a week in which Blunkett has been called duplicitous by one of the country's most respected former police chiefs and a liar by his biographer, The Observer has decided to reveal these details."
~~~
Saturday, September 17, 2005
Abou Moussab Al-Zarkaoui est mort.
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0,36-689730,0.html
"Abou Moussab Al-Zarkaoui est mort. Son nom est utilisé par les occupants pour rester en Irak"
LE MONDE 16.09.05
Sheikh Jawad Al-Khalessi est imam chiite de la mosquée Al-Kazemiya, à Bagdad, et doyen de l'école religieuse attenante. Il est de passage à Paris après la rencontre interreligieuse de Sant'Egidio, à Lyon.
Abou Moussab Al-Zarkaoui a déclaré la "guerre totale" aux chiites et perpétré le massacre le plus sanglant à Bagdad, mercredi 14 septembre, depuis le début de la guerre en Irak. Que pensez-vous de cette déclaration ?
Je ne pense pas qu'Abou Moussab Al-Zarkaoui existe en tant que tel. C'est seulement une invention des occupants pour diviser le peuple car il a été tué dans le nord de l'Irak au début de la guerre alors qu'il se trouvait avec le groupe d'Ansar Al-Islam, dans le Kurdistan. Sa famille, en Jordanie, a même procédé à une cérémonie après sa mort. Abou Moussab Al-Zarkaoui est donc un jouet utilisé par les Américains, une excuse pour poursuivre l'occupation. C'est un prétexte pour ne pas quitter l'Irak.
Mais pourquoi déclarer la "guerre totale" aux chiites ?
Afin de les rapprocher des forces d'occupation. De cette manière, les chiites vont trouver refuge auprès des Américains plutôt que de rejoindre la résistance. Car les chiites participent à la résistance au sud, comme en témoignent les récents attentats commis, notamment, à Bassora.
Pourtant, il vient d'être annoncé que Nadjaf était passée sous le contrôle des forces irakiennes et que d'autres villes du Sud allaient suivre ?
Ce n'est pas vrai. C'est juste un effet d'annonce pour les médias. En réalité, les forces irakiennes ne contrôlent pas la situation et les troupes d'occupation restent à la périphérie pour intervenir dès qu'il y a des problèmes.
Le projet de Constitution adopté sera soumis à un référendum le 15 octobre. Qu'en pensez-vous ?
C'est un texte adopté à la hâte pour répondre à l'agenda des Américains. Il ne reflète pas les espoirs du peuple irakien, qui est plus préoccupé par sa survie au jour le jour et sa sécurité. Le projet a été concocté dans la "zone verte", à Bagdad, sous la houlette de l'ambassadeur américain. Comme l'a dit un spécialiste britannique de l'Irak : "La Constitution, c'est comme si on s'occupait de ranger les transats sur le pont du Titanic en train de couler" . Or l'Irak est en train de sombrer.
Le référendum sera-t-il un succès, comme l'ont été les élections du 30 janvier ?
Personnellement, j'appelle au boycottage, mais si mes concitoyens décident d'aller voter "non", nous ne nous y opposerons pas. De toute façon, -George- Bush a déja préparé sa déclaration affirmant que cette consultation a été un succès et un progrès sur le chemin de la démocratie. Mais qu'est-ce que cela va changer pour l'Irak ?
Quelle est la position du grand ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani sur ce référendum ?
Il n'a pas encore pris position. Ceux qui sont en faveur du processus vont tenter de l'utiliser pour inciter la population à voter. Il peut dire "oui" ou ne pas parler. Pour le 30 janvier, il avait soutenu les élections, mais le peuple irakien n'en pas tiré les effets escomptés et les promesses n'ont pas été tenues. Depuis, la situation n'a fait qu'empirer. Ceux qui ont été élus sont plus préoccupés par leur place et par leur bien-être que par celui du peuple. La corruption est généralisée. Même le budget de la reconstruction n'a pu commencer à être réalisé.
Ibrahim Al-Jaafari est un mauvais premier ministre comme il est un mauvais docteur. Ce n'est pas comme votre Pétain, qui a été un bon général avant d'être un mauvais politicien...
Alors, Ă votre avis, quelles sont les solutions pour sauver l'Irak ?
Première chose : un calendrier de retrait des troupes. Deuxièmement : mettre les compétences nationales sous la supervision de l'ONU au service du pays, et non plus des politiciens. Troisièmement : un dialogue national avec l'organisation d'élections sous supervision internationale. Si l'occupation continue, la situation ne va qu'empirer et les irakiens rejoindront de plus en plus la résistance.
Propos recueillis par Michel BĂ´le-Richard
~
"Abou Moussab Al-Zarkaoui est mort. Son nom est utilisé par les occupants pour rester en Irak"
LE MONDE 16.09.05
Sheikh Jawad Al-Khalessi est imam chiite de la mosquée Al-Kazemiya, à Bagdad, et doyen de l'école religieuse attenante. Il est de passage à Paris après la rencontre interreligieuse de Sant'Egidio, à Lyon.
Abou Moussab Al-Zarkaoui a déclaré la "guerre totale" aux chiites et perpétré le massacre le plus sanglant à Bagdad, mercredi 14 septembre, depuis le début de la guerre en Irak. Que pensez-vous de cette déclaration ?
Je ne pense pas qu'Abou Moussab Al-Zarkaoui existe en tant que tel. C'est seulement une invention des occupants pour diviser le peuple car il a été tué dans le nord de l'Irak au début de la guerre alors qu'il se trouvait avec le groupe d'Ansar Al-Islam, dans le Kurdistan. Sa famille, en Jordanie, a même procédé à une cérémonie après sa mort. Abou Moussab Al-Zarkaoui est donc un jouet utilisé par les Américains, une excuse pour poursuivre l'occupation. C'est un prétexte pour ne pas quitter l'Irak.
Mais pourquoi déclarer la "guerre totale" aux chiites ?
Afin de les rapprocher des forces d'occupation. De cette manière, les chiites vont trouver refuge auprès des Américains plutôt que de rejoindre la résistance. Car les chiites participent à la résistance au sud, comme en témoignent les récents attentats commis, notamment, à Bassora.
Pourtant, il vient d'être annoncé que Nadjaf était passée sous le contrôle des forces irakiennes et que d'autres villes du Sud allaient suivre ?
Ce n'est pas vrai. C'est juste un effet d'annonce pour les médias. En réalité, les forces irakiennes ne contrôlent pas la situation et les troupes d'occupation restent à la périphérie pour intervenir dès qu'il y a des problèmes.
Le projet de Constitution adopté sera soumis à un référendum le 15 octobre. Qu'en pensez-vous ?
C'est un texte adopté à la hâte pour répondre à l'agenda des Américains. Il ne reflète pas les espoirs du peuple irakien, qui est plus préoccupé par sa survie au jour le jour et sa sécurité. Le projet a été concocté dans la "zone verte", à Bagdad, sous la houlette de l'ambassadeur américain. Comme l'a dit un spécialiste britannique de l'Irak : "La Constitution, c'est comme si on s'occupait de ranger les transats sur le pont du Titanic en train de couler" . Or l'Irak est en train de sombrer.
Le référendum sera-t-il un succès, comme l'ont été les élections du 30 janvier ?
Personnellement, j'appelle au boycottage, mais si mes concitoyens décident d'aller voter "non", nous ne nous y opposerons pas. De toute façon, -George- Bush a déja préparé sa déclaration affirmant que cette consultation a été un succès et un progrès sur le chemin de la démocratie. Mais qu'est-ce que cela va changer pour l'Irak ?
Quelle est la position du grand ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani sur ce référendum ?
Il n'a pas encore pris position. Ceux qui sont en faveur du processus vont tenter de l'utiliser pour inciter la population à voter. Il peut dire "oui" ou ne pas parler. Pour le 30 janvier, il avait soutenu les élections, mais le peuple irakien n'en pas tiré les effets escomptés et les promesses n'ont pas été tenues. Depuis, la situation n'a fait qu'empirer. Ceux qui ont été élus sont plus préoccupés par leur place et par leur bien-être que par celui du peuple. La corruption est généralisée. Même le budget de la reconstruction n'a pu commencer à être réalisé.
Ibrahim Al-Jaafari est un mauvais premier ministre comme il est un mauvais docteur. Ce n'est pas comme votre Pétain, qui a été un bon général avant d'être un mauvais politicien...
Alors, Ă votre avis, quelles sont les solutions pour sauver l'Irak ?
Première chose : un calendrier de retrait des troupes. Deuxièmement : mettre les compétences nationales sous la supervision de l'ONU au service du pays, et non plus des politiciens. Troisièmement : un dialogue national avec l'organisation d'élections sous supervision internationale. Si l'occupation continue, la situation ne va qu'empirer et les irakiens rejoindront de plus en plus la résistance.
Propos recueillis par Michel BĂ´le-Richard
~
Government lab withheld evidence that no ricin had been found in 'Ricin Plot'. Men found not guilty to be deported to Algeria.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article313000.ece
Robert Verkaik, in the Independent 17 September 2005, reported that vital evidence in the 'Ricin Plot' was withheld by Britain's top chemical weapons laboratory at Porton Down.
The Independent relates that tests demonstrating that no ricin was found at a flat linked to a gang suspected of planning a poison attack on the London Underground in January 2003 were not disclosed to police and ministers by officials at Porton Down.
The Ricin Plot suspects were found not guilty.
The case was used by Blair and Colin Powell in the weeks leading up to the decision to go to war with Iraq.
A spokeswoman for the Defence Science and Technological Laboratory (DSTL), where the tests were done, said that because of a "breakdown in communication" information was not passed to the police.
In April 2005 eight men were cleared of involvement in the alleged ricin plot.
Now, Blair's Home Secretary Charles Clarke has ordered the arrest and deportation of seven men, including some of those cleared of the plot, hours before unveiling new plans to hold terror suspects without charge for up to three months.
Gareth Peirce, solicitor for the men, accused the Government of abandoning the rule of law. She said all the men were innocent and had been properly cleared by a British court. She said they faced torture if they were sent back to Algeria.
She added: "[This Government's] actions make a mockery of jury trials and verdicts, of judicial decisions and of guarantees intended to be inalienable."
ALGERIA Fake terror in Algeria; the US military in Algeria; oil in Algeria.
ALGERIA UK Was the Ricin plot organised by the security services?
~~~
Robert Verkaik, in the Independent 17 September 2005, reported that vital evidence in the 'Ricin Plot' was withheld by Britain's top chemical weapons laboratory at Porton Down.
The Independent relates that tests demonstrating that no ricin was found at a flat linked to a gang suspected of planning a poison attack on the London Underground in January 2003 were not disclosed to police and ministers by officials at Porton Down.
The Ricin Plot suspects were found not guilty.
The case was used by Blair and Colin Powell in the weeks leading up to the decision to go to war with Iraq.
A spokeswoman for the Defence Science and Technological Laboratory (DSTL), where the tests were done, said that because of a "breakdown in communication" information was not passed to the police.
In April 2005 eight men were cleared of involvement in the alleged ricin plot.
Now, Blair's Home Secretary Charles Clarke has ordered the arrest and deportation of seven men, including some of those cleared of the plot, hours before unveiling new plans to hold terror suspects without charge for up to three months.
Gareth Peirce, solicitor for the men, accused the Government of abandoning the rule of law. She said all the men were innocent and had been properly cleared by a British court. She said they faced torture if they were sent back to Algeria.
She added: "[This Government's] actions make a mockery of jury trials and verdicts, of judicial decisions and of guarantees intended to be inalienable."
ALGERIA Fake terror in Algeria; the US military in Algeria; oil in Algeria.
ALGERIA UK Was the Ricin plot organised by the security services?
~~~
Friday, September 16, 2005
BAE and Suharto
http://jakartass.blogspot.com/
The following is taken from jakartass.blogspot:
The only surprise in the news that "Britain's biggest arms firm, BAE Systems, has been identified on US banking records as secretly paying more than £1m to General Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator" is that it was only £1m.
After all, BAE paid Suharto's daughter, Tutut, a lot more ~ £16.5m.
They are also accused of running a £60m slush fund to pay members of the ruling family in Saudi Arabia, friends of the Bush/Cheney oligarchy.
That these payments were authorised by the British government is well documented so I can't be too sanctimonious about the endemic corruption here, (there and everywhere).Of course, all this is connected to the lucrative arms trade.
Fellow Londoners should be aware that there is an International Arms Fair currently being held in the Docklands. Amonst the items advertised for sale are "leg irons, stun guns, and stun batons - banned for export under British law."The leg irons are of "all-steel construction", with a "rust-resistant nickel finish" and "sturdy, loadable, foot chain".
Isn't it nice that both ex-dictators can feel the benefits?
~~~
The following is taken from jakartass.blogspot:
The only surprise in the news that "Britain's biggest arms firm, BAE Systems, has been identified on US banking records as secretly paying more than £1m to General Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator" is that it was only £1m.
After all, BAE paid Suharto's daughter, Tutut, a lot more ~ £16.5m.
They are also accused of running a £60m slush fund to pay members of the ruling family in Saudi Arabia, friends of the Bush/Cheney oligarchy.
That these payments were authorised by the British government is well documented so I can't be too sanctimonious about the endemic corruption here, (there and everywhere).Of course, all this is connected to the lucrative arms trade.
Fellow Londoners should be aware that there is an International Arms Fair currently being held in the Docklands. Amonst the items advertised for sale are "leg irons, stun guns, and stun batons - banned for export under British law."The leg irons are of "all-steel construction", with a "rust-resistant nickel finish" and "sturdy, loadable, foot chain".
Isn't it nice that both ex-dictators can feel the benefits?
~~~
Fake terror in Algeria; the US military in Algeria; oil in Algeria.
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:AfnRtvQ9VwwJ:www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp%3Fedition_id%3D10%26categ_id%3D2%26article_id%3D5402+algeria+military+terror&hl=en
The United States is building a huge military surveillance base at Tamanrasset in Algeria.
US forces are training the Algerian military. Washington wants to provide Algiers with pilot-less drone planes.
This military base is a result of agreements signed between Washington and Algiers for oil industry development.
In addition, the United States has worked to include Algeria in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and considers this North African country one of its most important allies outside of NATO.
'For the US, Morocco is important because of its relations with Israel, but Algeria is heading toward having better economic relations with Washington because of the Algerian oil reserve and natural resources.'
~
Ah! Algeria is where wicked Moslem extremists kill people and oppose democracy, isn't it?
Well no, not exactly!
The 'Islamic terror' in Algeria is reportedly organised by the Algerian government which is close ally of the USA, UK and France.
Before 1991, Algeria had a 'corrupt and unpopular dictatorship'.
In 1991 the Islamic Party known as FIS won a landslide in the country's first FREE multiparty elections.
Many moderate people had turned to the FIS because they were fed up with the corrupt regime which had held power for so long.
The USA was not happy about FIS; and the corrupt Algerian elite were not happy.
So the army took over.
Then the killings began.
More than 100,000 people have died.
But is it the Moslem extremists who are causing the problems? Or is the terror organised by the government?
In February 2001, 'The Dirty War', by Habib Souaidia, a former Algerian army officer, was published.
It tells of the part played by the Algerian army in the killing of tens of thousands of Algerians.
Habib writes:"I have seen colleagues burn alive a 15-year-old child.
"I have seen soldiers disguising themselves as terrorists and massacring civilians.
"I have seen colonels kill mere suspects in cold blood.
"I have seen officers torture fundamentalists to death...."
~~~~~
Robert Fisk in The Independent, January 1998, wrote about killings in certain villages in Algeria.
Many of the dead were women and children; some were burned alive; some were decapitated or disembowelled.
The villagers at Ouled Sahnine, Kherarba, El Abadel and Ouled Tayeb were Islamists and had voted in the 1991 elections for the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) .The killers used knives, wire and portable guillotines to butcher civilians.Whole families were herded into 'killing rooms' to have their throats cut, with shovels as well as knives. .
~~~
The GIA are the so-called Islamic terrorists. Reportedly the GIA are organised by the security services.
http://www.listener.co.nz/default,1457.sm
"The details of French/Algerian collusion with the GIA are even more disturbing. It is not simply that Algerian death squads would impersonate the GIA and carry out massacres or create local militias – the so-called Patriotes – to do likewise.
In recent years, firm evidence has begun to emerge from Algerian military sources and leading academics that the dreaded GIA has been – perhaps from the outset and certainly under Zitouni's bloody leadership – a dummy, or "screen" organisation managed by French/Algerian counter-intelligence.
Where was the terrorist threat in fact coming from, Le Monde asked rhetorically in November 2002, during its preview of a 90-minute Canal+ television documentary on the Metro bombings, and then cited the right-wing MP and former French counter-intelligence chief Alain Marsaud in reply.
"State terrorism uses screen organisations," Marsaud said. "In this case [the GIA] a screen organisation in the hands of the Algerian security services … it was a screen to hold France hostage."
Two recent books by former Algerian military officers have given chapter and verse about the "turning" of the GIA. Last year, the feared Algerian general Khaled Nezzar sued one of the authors (Habib Souaida) in a Paris court for libel – and lost, largely due to compelling testimony by the star witness, the former Algerian colonel Mohammed Samraoui."
Was the Ricin plot organised by the security services?
~~~
The United States is building a huge military surveillance base at Tamanrasset in Algeria.
US forces are training the Algerian military. Washington wants to provide Algiers with pilot-less drone planes.
This military base is a result of agreements signed between Washington and Algiers for oil industry development.
In addition, the United States has worked to include Algeria in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and considers this North African country one of its most important allies outside of NATO.
'For the US, Morocco is important because of its relations with Israel, but Algeria is heading toward having better economic relations with Washington because of the Algerian oil reserve and natural resources.'
~
Ah! Algeria is where wicked Moslem extremists kill people and oppose democracy, isn't it?
Well no, not exactly!
The 'Islamic terror' in Algeria is reportedly organised by the Algerian government which is close ally of the USA, UK and France.
Before 1991, Algeria had a 'corrupt and unpopular dictatorship'.
In 1991 the Islamic Party known as FIS won a landslide in the country's first FREE multiparty elections.
Many moderate people had turned to the FIS because they were fed up with the corrupt regime which had held power for so long.
The USA was not happy about FIS; and the corrupt Algerian elite were not happy.
So the army took over.
Then the killings began.
More than 100,000 people have died.
But is it the Moslem extremists who are causing the problems? Or is the terror organised by the government?
In February 2001, 'The Dirty War', by Habib Souaidia, a former Algerian army officer, was published.
It tells of the part played by the Algerian army in the killing of tens of thousands of Algerians.
Habib writes:"I have seen colleagues burn alive a 15-year-old child.
"I have seen soldiers disguising themselves as terrorists and massacring civilians.
"I have seen colonels kill mere suspects in cold blood.
"I have seen officers torture fundamentalists to death...."
~~~~~
Robert Fisk in The Independent, January 1998, wrote about killings in certain villages in Algeria.
Many of the dead were women and children; some were burned alive; some were decapitated or disembowelled.
The villagers at Ouled Sahnine, Kherarba, El Abadel and Ouled Tayeb were Islamists and had voted in the 1991 elections for the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) .The killers used knives, wire and portable guillotines to butcher civilians.Whole families were herded into 'killing rooms' to have their throats cut, with shovels as well as knives. .
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The GIA are the so-called Islamic terrorists. Reportedly the GIA are organised by the security services.
http://www.listener.co.nz/default,1457.sm
"The details of French/Algerian collusion with the GIA are even more disturbing. It is not simply that Algerian death squads would impersonate the GIA and carry out massacres or create local militias – the so-called Patriotes – to do likewise.
In recent years, firm evidence has begun to emerge from Algerian military sources and leading academics that the dreaded GIA has been – perhaps from the outset and certainly under Zitouni's bloody leadership – a dummy, or "screen" organisation managed by French/Algerian counter-intelligence.
Where was the terrorist threat in fact coming from, Le Monde asked rhetorically in November 2002, during its preview of a 90-minute Canal+ television documentary on the Metro bombings, and then cited the right-wing MP and former French counter-intelligence chief Alain Marsaud in reply.
"State terrorism uses screen organisations," Marsaud said. "In this case [the GIA] a screen organisation in the hands of the Algerian security services … it was a screen to hold France hostage."
Two recent books by former Algerian military officers have given chapter and verse about the "turning" of the GIA. Last year, the feared Algerian general Khaled Nezzar sued one of the authors (Habib Souaida) in a Paris court for libel – and lost, largely due to compelling testimony by the star witness, the former Algerian colonel Mohammed Samraoui."
Was the Ricin plot organised by the security services?
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Thursday, September 15, 2005
George Galloway - Government engineered terrorism
http://prisonplanet.com/Pages/Sept05/130905Galloway.htm
The following is taken from:
Steve Watson & Alex Jones / Prisonplanet September 13 2005
On Friday 9th September Alex Jones was joined on air by member of Parliament and prominent antiwar activist George Galloway for a riveting one on one interview....
Government Engineered Terrorism
Previously Mr Galloway has suggested that there is a very real danger of the government engineering a situation where terror attacks can be manufactured and seized upon to forward the pre-planned agenda abroad and at home. On Friday Mr Galloway elaborated on these comments:
"There is a very real danger because you have elements within the state, you have the Richard Pearle 'axis of evil' snarling 'you're next' at this country or that country and yet the circumstance on the ground, the political collapse of the Bushites in the United States, the resistance in Iraq having taken such a terrible toll...is making the idea of another war simply ridiculous...and yet there are those in this Neo-Con, Zionist, Christian Fundamentalist axis that really are itching to get as much of this agenda pushed on whilst they still have the reins of power. So you cannot discount some kind of provocation being staged by those elements who want to propel the US into an even more disastrous invasion"
Mr Galloway suggests that it is not beyond the realms of imagination for a situation to arise where the power hungry elite in the US uses staged provocation to drag Iran into a geopolitical set-to, using Israel as the hammer. If this were to happen, the consequences could be as far reaching as to start a third world war which would be devastating for humanity.
This would provide the authorities with the perfect excuse to set up a police state domestically to regulate the activities of everyone and have complete control.
"...That's right, it's Orwellian, it's 1984, the permanent division of the world into warring blocs, for the profit of a few at the cost of the misery of the many, and we have to refuse this in every way we can." Galloway states.
Of course, the past masters of government sponsored terrorism were the Zionists, who created the condition in the Arab countries, and in some European countries to stampede the Jewish populations out of the countries they had been living in for many hundreds years and get them into a Zionist state. Galloway comments:
"Suddenly Jewish people who had been the victims of Christian persecution suddenly saw their Synagogues being blown up, their countries being attacked and all kinds of provocations being staged so packed their bags and moved to occupied Palestine, then to be called Israel."
The Neo-Con War mentality
It's well documented that the United States has adopted such provocation "dirty tricks" before and during the Vietnam war and ever since.
"It's always the case that in a big and complex State machine, there are all sorts of elements, they don't have to be endorsed by all of the political leadership, they can be people representing a trend in the political leadership." Galloway states. He went on to once again lambaste the disgusting Neo-Conservative war crazed movement that had recently attempted to falsify documents to implicate Mr Galloway in the very corruption that they consistently revel in:
"I 've already mentioned this hideous character Richard Pearle. I saw him the other day actually snarling 'you're next', threatening people with American military power, a man who couldn't punch his own way out of a wet paper bag, but ready to fight to the last with other people's last drop of blood. These people make my blood boil and they ought to make every right thinking person feel that way. We deserve better than to be governed by these gangsters."
Mr Galloway went on to describe how it is always the elite draft dodging spoon-fed weaklings that strive for this kind of dominance over all, sacrificing the lives of others whilst swaggering around in their own bomber jackets playing up to the act.
Returning to staged terrorism and Zionism Mr Galloway pointed out that Zionism has nothing to do with Jewishness. The Zionist movement, as it is well documented, funded Hitler before World War Two and many of the figurehead of Zionism were not and are not Jews.
"The reality is these people have used Jewish people, and they have used them with this ideology of Zionism, to create this little Hitler State on the Mediterranean, to act as an advance guard for their own interests in the Arab world, and we're all paying for it, the Palestinians have paid for it, the Arabs have paid for it, and now the American people are paying for it, and why should we? We don't want to live our lives in a permanent state of warfare and division."
The danger in the Arab world is that the people their know we are not evil and corrupt like our governments are, but they also know that we democratically elect our governments, Galloway goes on to decree. They are supposed to act on our behalf and that's why this corrupt version of "democracy" is being flatly rejected across the Arab world.
Mr Galloway concluded by asserting that we do have the power to change things, we are in the majority:
"The United States was a country built out of nothing and a country that went to the stars. The people of the United States are great 'can-do' people and they ought to be able to use the Constitution which the founding fathers gave them to organise their political power to change things."
~~
The following is taken from:
Steve Watson & Alex Jones / Prisonplanet September 13 2005
On Friday 9th September Alex Jones was joined on air by member of Parliament and prominent antiwar activist George Galloway for a riveting one on one interview....
Government Engineered Terrorism
Previously Mr Galloway has suggested that there is a very real danger of the government engineering a situation where terror attacks can be manufactured and seized upon to forward the pre-planned agenda abroad and at home. On Friday Mr Galloway elaborated on these comments:
"There is a very real danger because you have elements within the state, you have the Richard Pearle 'axis of evil' snarling 'you're next' at this country or that country and yet the circumstance on the ground, the political collapse of the Bushites in the United States, the resistance in Iraq having taken such a terrible toll...is making the idea of another war simply ridiculous...and yet there are those in this Neo-Con, Zionist, Christian Fundamentalist axis that really are itching to get as much of this agenda pushed on whilst they still have the reins of power. So you cannot discount some kind of provocation being staged by those elements who want to propel the US into an even more disastrous invasion"
Mr Galloway suggests that it is not beyond the realms of imagination for a situation to arise where the power hungry elite in the US uses staged provocation to drag Iran into a geopolitical set-to, using Israel as the hammer. If this were to happen, the consequences could be as far reaching as to start a third world war which would be devastating for humanity.
This would provide the authorities with the perfect excuse to set up a police state domestically to regulate the activities of everyone and have complete control.
"...That's right, it's Orwellian, it's 1984, the permanent division of the world into warring blocs, for the profit of a few at the cost of the misery of the many, and we have to refuse this in every way we can." Galloway states.
Of course, the past masters of government sponsored terrorism were the Zionists, who created the condition in the Arab countries, and in some European countries to stampede the Jewish populations out of the countries they had been living in for many hundreds years and get them into a Zionist state. Galloway comments:
"Suddenly Jewish people who had been the victims of Christian persecution suddenly saw their Synagogues being blown up, their countries being attacked and all kinds of provocations being staged so packed their bags and moved to occupied Palestine, then to be called Israel."
The Neo-Con War mentality
It's well documented that the United States has adopted such provocation "dirty tricks" before and during the Vietnam war and ever since.
"It's always the case that in a big and complex State machine, there are all sorts of elements, they don't have to be endorsed by all of the political leadership, they can be people representing a trend in the political leadership." Galloway states. He went on to once again lambaste the disgusting Neo-Conservative war crazed movement that had recently attempted to falsify documents to implicate Mr Galloway in the very corruption that they consistently revel in:
"I 've already mentioned this hideous character Richard Pearle. I saw him the other day actually snarling 'you're next', threatening people with American military power, a man who couldn't punch his own way out of a wet paper bag, but ready to fight to the last with other people's last drop of blood. These people make my blood boil and they ought to make every right thinking person feel that way. We deserve better than to be governed by these gangsters."
Mr Galloway went on to describe how it is always the elite draft dodging spoon-fed weaklings that strive for this kind of dominance over all, sacrificing the lives of others whilst swaggering around in their own bomber jackets playing up to the act.
Returning to staged terrorism and Zionism Mr Galloway pointed out that Zionism has nothing to do with Jewishness. The Zionist movement, as it is well documented, funded Hitler before World War Two and many of the figurehead of Zionism were not and are not Jews.
"The reality is these people have used Jewish people, and they have used them with this ideology of Zionism, to create this little Hitler State on the Mediterranean, to act as an advance guard for their own interests in the Arab world, and we're all paying for it, the Palestinians have paid for it, the Arabs have paid for it, and now the American people are paying for it, and why should we? We don't want to live our lives in a permanent state of warfare and division."
The danger in the Arab world is that the people their know we are not evil and corrupt like our governments are, but they also know that we democratically elect our governments, Galloway goes on to decree. They are supposed to act on our behalf and that's why this corrupt version of "democracy" is being flatly rejected across the Arab world.
Mr Galloway concluded by asserting that we do have the power to change things, we are in the majority:
"The United States was a country built out of nothing and a country that went to the stars. The people of the United States are great 'can-do' people and they ought to be able to use the Constitution which the founding fathers gave them to organise their political power to change things."
~~
A witness hears 'explosives being used to destroy the Industrial Canal in New Orleans'
http://www.total411.info/2005/09/video-earwitness-tells-abc-explosives.html
Total411.info has obtained video of an ABC News report featuring an earwitness to explosives used to destroy the Industrial Canal in New Orleans.
DAVID MUIR, ABC NEWS: This is the actual levee that runs along the canal on the eastern side of the city. And when the hurricane hit, the water came through at such force, it was apparently too much. You can see the massive breach here, and when you look around the corner you can see what the water did to the Lower Ninth Ward. It compleetley destoryed neighborhoods.
JOE EDWARDS, JR., 9TH WARD RESIDENT: I heard something go BOOM!
MUIR: Joe Edwards rushed to get himself and as many neighbors as possible into his truck. They drove to this bridge, where they've been living ever since
EDWARDS: My house broke in half. My mother's house just disintegrated. It was a brick house. All the houses down there floated down the street like somebody's guiding 'em
MUIR: Was it solely the water that broke the levee, or was it the force of this barge that now sits where homes once did? Joe Edwards says neither. People are so bitter, so disenfranchised in this neighborhood, they actually think the city did it, blowing up the levee to save richer neighborhoods like the French Quarter.
MUIR: So you're convinced . . .
EDWARDS: I know this happened!
MUIR: . . . they broke the levee on purpose?
EDWARDS: They blew it!
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Total411.info has obtained video of an ABC News report featuring an earwitness to explosives used to destroy the Industrial Canal in New Orleans.
DAVID MUIR, ABC NEWS: This is the actual levee that runs along the canal on the eastern side of the city. And when the hurricane hit, the water came through at such force, it was apparently too much. You can see the massive breach here, and when you look around the corner you can see what the water did to the Lower Ninth Ward. It compleetley destoryed neighborhoods.
JOE EDWARDS, JR., 9TH WARD RESIDENT: I heard something go BOOM!
MUIR: Joe Edwards rushed to get himself and as many neighbors as possible into his truck. They drove to this bridge, where they've been living ever since
EDWARDS: My house broke in half. My mother's house just disintegrated. It was a brick house. All the houses down there floated down the street like somebody's guiding 'em
MUIR: Was it solely the water that broke the levee, or was it the force of this barge that now sits where homes once did? Joe Edwards says neither. People are so bitter, so disenfranchised in this neighborhood, they actually think the city did it, blowing up the levee to save richer neighborhoods like the French Quarter.
MUIR: So you're convinced . . .
EDWARDS: I know this happened!
MUIR: . . . they broke the levee on purpose?
EDWARDS: They blew it!
~
Anglo-American fascism: military, government and business links revealed; Pinochet and BAE
~
Fascism involves torture and terror. Fascism is used to keep the rich elite in power. Fascism involves an alliance of the politicians, the military and big business.
On 9 11 1973, the CIA toppled Chile's president Allende and replaced him with the fascist dictator, General Pinochet.
"It is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup," reads a CIA document from October 1970. "It is imperative that these actions be implemented clandestinely and securely so that the USG (US government) and American hand be well hidden."
Two days after this document was written, top CIA officials proposed a terrorist campaign to stun the Chilean people into accepting a military regime. http://www.guardian.co.uk/chile/story/0,13755,1038615,00.html
Pinochet's government tortured, terrorised and murdered its opponents. http://www.trentu.ca/~mneumann/pinochet.html
In 1998 Pinochet was arrested in London. A Spanish judge was behind this arrest.
Tony Blair's Home Secretary Jack Straw claimed that Pinochet was unfit to stand trial. Pinochet was allowed to leave Britain.
The senior medical expert who examined General Augusto Pinochet refuted Home Secretary Jack Straw's claim to the Commons that his team reported the former Chilean dictator to be unfit to stand trial. http://www.guardian.co.uk/chile/story/0,13755,1026649,00.html
According to David Leigh and Rob Evans in the Guardian, 15 September 2005, US banking records show that links between the UK arms firm BAE systems and ex-dictator Pinochet continued until last year. http://www.guardian.co.uk/chile/story/0,13755,1570335,00.html
http://www.tercera.cl/lt2/portada/0,4427,3255_5658,00.html
The Guardian explains that BAE Systems secretly payed more than £1m to General Pinochet.
"A Guardian investigation has revealed some of the money was listed as being paid through a front company in the British Virgin Islands, which BAE has used to channel commission on arms deals.
"Covert payments to Pinochet-linked groups are listed on documents compiled by the Chilean authorities and obtained by the Guardian. They record large payments from BAE as recently as last year.
BAE Systems "is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office on suspicion of money laundering and false accounting, after allegations of a £60m Saudi 'slush fund'."
A Chilean judge, Sergio Muñoz obtained banking records which showed "huge sums of cash flowing into banks including the then Miami branch of Coutts."
According to the Chilean documents, "BAE made payments into Coutts accounts under its own name, and under that of Red Diamond Trading, an offshore entity which does not appear on BAE's published accounts. Documents obtained by the Guardian show it has been used since 1998 to funnel covert commission payments for aerospace deals to Argentina.
"The BAE payments went to offshore firms - also registered in the British Virgin Islands - controlled, the Chilean authorities say, by Gen Pinochet's financial adviser, Oscar Aitkin, described in a US senate committee investigation this year as a conduit for payments to Gen Pinochet."
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The Chilean daily newspaper La Tercera
Fascism involves torture and terror. Fascism is used to keep the rich elite in power. Fascism involves an alliance of the politicians, the military and big business.
On 9 11 1973, the CIA toppled Chile's president Allende and replaced him with the fascist dictator, General Pinochet.
"It is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup," reads a CIA document from October 1970. "It is imperative that these actions be implemented clandestinely and securely so that the USG (US government) and American hand be well hidden."
Two days after this document was written, top CIA officials proposed a terrorist campaign to stun the Chilean people into accepting a military regime. http://www.guardian.co.uk/chile/story/0,13755,1038615,00.html
Pinochet's government tortured, terrorised and murdered its opponents. http://www.trentu.ca/~mneumann/pinochet.html
In 1998 Pinochet was arrested in London. A Spanish judge was behind this arrest.
Tony Blair's Home Secretary Jack Straw claimed that Pinochet was unfit to stand trial. Pinochet was allowed to leave Britain.
The senior medical expert who examined General Augusto Pinochet refuted Home Secretary Jack Straw's claim to the Commons that his team reported the former Chilean dictator to be unfit to stand trial. http://www.guardian.co.uk/chile/story/0,13755,1026649,00.html
According to David Leigh and Rob Evans in the Guardian, 15 September 2005, US banking records show that links between the UK arms firm BAE systems and ex-dictator Pinochet continued until last year. http://www.guardian.co.uk/chile/story/0,13755,1570335,00.html
http://www.tercera.cl/lt2/portada/0,4427,3255_5658,00.html
The Guardian explains that BAE Systems secretly payed more than £1m to General Pinochet.
"A Guardian investigation has revealed some of the money was listed as being paid through a front company in the British Virgin Islands, which BAE has used to channel commission on arms deals.
"Covert payments to Pinochet-linked groups are listed on documents compiled by the Chilean authorities and obtained by the Guardian. They record large payments from BAE as recently as last year.
BAE Systems "is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office on suspicion of money laundering and false accounting, after allegations of a £60m Saudi 'slush fund'."
A Chilean judge, Sergio Muñoz obtained banking records which showed "huge sums of cash flowing into banks including the then Miami branch of Coutts."
According to the Chilean documents, "BAE made payments into Coutts accounts under its own name, and under that of Red Diamond Trading, an offshore entity which does not appear on BAE's published accounts. Documents obtained by the Guardian show it has been used since 1998 to funnel covert commission payments for aerospace deals to Argentina.
"The BAE payments went to offshore firms - also registered in the British Virgin Islands - controlled, the Chilean authorities say, by Gen Pinochet's financial adviser, Oscar Aitkin, described in a US senate committee investigation this year as a conduit for payments to Gen Pinochet."
~
The Chilean daily newspaper La Tercera
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Mystery surrounds floodwall breaches
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola
_tporleans/archives/2005_09_13.html#079207
John McQuaid, at nola.com/newslogs, wrote:
Mystery surrounds floodwall breaches
"One of the central mysteries emerging in the Hurricane Katrina disaster is why concrete floodwalls in three canals breached during the storm, causing much of the catastrophic flooding, while earthen hurricane levees surrounding the city remained intact...
"Floodwalls were breached in the 17th Street Canal, at two places in the London Avenue Canal, and at two places in the Industrial Canal, said Joseph Suhayda, (a retired LSU coastal engineer who examined the breaches last week)...
"Army Corps of Engineers project manager Al Naomi... said last week that one of the Industrial Canal breaches likely was caused by a loose barge that broke through it.
"Suhayda said that his inspection of the debris from the 17th Street Canal breach suggests the wall simply gave way. "It looks to have been laterally pushed, not scoured in back with dirt being removed in pieces," he said. "You can see levee material, some distance pushed inside the floodwall area, like a bulldozer pushed it."
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_tporleans/archives/2005_09_13.html#079207
John McQuaid, at nola.com/newslogs, wrote:
Mystery surrounds floodwall breaches
"One of the central mysteries emerging in the Hurricane Katrina disaster is why concrete floodwalls in three canals breached during the storm, causing much of the catastrophic flooding, while earthen hurricane levees surrounding the city remained intact...
"Floodwalls were breached in the 17th Street Canal, at two places in the London Avenue Canal, and at two places in the Industrial Canal, said Joseph Suhayda, (a retired LSU coastal engineer who examined the breaches last week)...
"Army Corps of Engineers project manager Al Naomi... said last week that one of the Industrial Canal breaches likely was caused by a loose barge that broke through it.
"Suhayda said that his inspection of the debris from the 17th Street Canal breach suggests the wall simply gave way. "It looks to have been laterally pushed, not scoured in back with dirt being removed in pieces," he said. "You can see levee material, some distance pushed inside the floodwall area, like a bulldozer pushed it."
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