24 de octubre de 2008

British Judges Threaten Intervention in Gitmo Torture Case

In other news from Britain, the British High Court has condemned the Bush administration for refusing to turn over documents in the case of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who says he was tortured in US custody. The prisoner, Binyam Mohamed, alleges his confession to terrorism charges was given only after he had his penis sliced by a blade. The State Department has previously warned releasing the documents would cause “serious and lasting damage” to security relations between the US and Britain and jeopardize British “national security.” In a new ruling, the British judges say they might intervene to compel the White House to hand over the documents to Mohamed’s lawyers.

23 de octubre de 2008

68 niños palestinos fueron asesinados en un período de doce meses

En los Territorios Ocupados, un destacado grupo palestino de derechos humanos dice que documentó los asesinatos de 68 niños palestinos perpetrados por las Fuerzas Armadas israelíes durante un período de doce meses. El Centro Palestino para los Derechos Humanos dice que en todos los casos los soldados israelíes utilizaron “fuerza letal desmesurada y excesiva”. Aproximadamente 900 niños palestinos han sido asesinados desde el comienzo de la segunda Intifada palestina, hace ocho años.

14 de octubre de 2008

West Bank Settlers Attack Palestinian Olive Pickers

In the West Bank, the annual olive harvest is underway. On Saturday, Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian farmers with stones near Nablus as they began picking the olives. One of the olive pickers, Mustafa Najjar, said the Israeli army supported the settlers.

Mustafa Najjar: “Around twenty to twenty-five settlers attacked from the top of the hill, and worse, the (Israeli) army were supporting the settlers. They started throwing stones at us, so we went up the hill and started pulling the women and children back so they would not get hurt. Six soldiers stood behind the settlers and started firing their rifles at us. We started retreating to the back with the women and children and the rest of the belongings. I was hit with a stone on my head, arm and leg.”

10 de octubre de 2008

Coup d'Etat in USA / Golpe de Estado en EEUU

Part 2
New Documents Reveal “Effort to Create a Gitmo Inside the United States”

Newly released military documents show a US Naval officer warned the Pentagon in 2002 that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation in a US military brig. The detainee, Yaser Hamdi, was one of two US citizens held on a Navy brig in South Carolina for years without charge after the Sept. 11 attacks. The documents show that the US military exported the brutal interrogation techniques from Guantanamo prison to the US jail housing Hamdi and Jose Padilla. The techniques included sleep and sensory deprivation, prolonged isolation and death threats. Jonathan Hafetz of the ACLU said, "These documents are the first clear confirmation of what we’ve suspected all along, that the brig was run as a prison beyond the law. There was an effort to create a Gitmo inside the United States.”

9 de octubre de 2008

Coup d'Etat in USA / Golpe de Estado en EEUU

Part 1
Thousands of troops are deployed on U.S. streets ready to carry out "Crowd Control".
George Bush struck down the Posse Comitatus Law of 1878 Posse and led changes to the 1807 Insurrection Act, thus making it legal for military to patrol the U.S.
The President has now powers to arrest, charge or kill anyone he wants through the military, including members of the Congress.

Miles de tropas están desplegadas en las calles de EEUU, listas para llevar a cabo el "control de muchedumbre".
Bush ha anulado la Ley Posse Comitatus de 1878 y modificado el Acta de Insurrección de 1807 con el fin de legalizar el uso de militares para patrullar dentro de EEUU.
El Presidente tiene ahora poderes para arrestar, acusar o matar a quién quiera por medio de la fuerza militar, inclusive a miembros del Congreso.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/101958/
Members of the House were threatened with martial law within a week if they did not pass the bailout bill.
Miembros de la Casa de Representantes fueron amenazados con ley marcial en una semana si no aceptaban el plan de recuperación financiera.

30 Civilians Died in Afghan Raid, U.S. Inquiry Finds

An investigation by the military has concluded that American airstrikes on Aug. 22 in a village in western Afghanistan killed far more civilians than American commanders there have acknowledged, according to two American military officia30 Civilians Died in Afghan Raid, U.S. Inquiry Finds (published Wednesday, 08 October 2008 09:42)

An investigation by the military has concluded that American airstrikes on Aug. 22 in a village in western Afghanistan killed far more civilians than American commanders there have acknowledged, according to two American military officials.

The military investigator’s report found that more than 30 civilians — not 5 to 7 as the military has long insisted — died in the airstrikes against a suspected Taliban compound in Azizabad.

The investigator, Brig. Gen. Michael W. Callan of the Air Force, concluded that many more civilians, including women and children, had been buried in the rubble than the military had asserted, one of the military officials said. ls.

The military investigator’s report found that more than 30 civilians — not 5 to 7 as the military has long insisted — died in the airstrikes against a suspected Taliban compound in Azizabad.

The investigator, Brig. Gen. Michael W. Callan of the Air Force, concluded that many more civilians, including women and children, had been buried in the rubble than the military had asserted, one of the military officials said.

Maryland, USA Police Put Activists' Names On Terror Lists

The Maryland State Police classified 53 nonviolent activists as terrorists and entered their names and personal information into state and federal databases that track terrorism suspects, the state police chief acknowledged yesterday.

Police Superintendent Terrence B. Sheridan revealed at a legislative hearing that the surveillance operation, which targeted opponents of the death penalty and the Iraq war, was far more extensive than was known when its existence was disclosed in July.

The surveillance took place over 14 months in 2005 and 2006, under the administration of former governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R). The former state police superintendent who authorized the operation, Thomas E. Hutchins, defended the program in testimony yesterday. Hutchins said the program was a bulwark against potential violence and called the activists "fringe people."

TVNL Comment: This is a classic sign of fascism.

5 de octubre de 2008

Peace in Iraq is an Option

Le Feyt Declaration

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10319

by International Anti Occupation Network

Gobierno estadounidense respalda venta a Israel de cazas a reacción por 15 mil millones de dólares

El gobierno de Bush aprobó una nueva venta por 15 mil millones de dólares de cazas a reacción militares al gobierno israelí. Con la ayuda del financiamiento de Estados Unidos, Israel comprará 25 aeronaves Joint Strike Fighter construidos por el contratista militar Lockheed Martin.

Embajador del Reino Unido: ocupación de Afganistán es un “fracaso”

El embajador británico en Afganistán admitió en privado que piensa que la ocupación de la OTAN es un fracaso. Según un diplomático francés, el embajador Sherard Cowper-Coles dijo en una reunión en Kabul a principios de mes: “La estrategia estadounidense está destinada a fracasar. La presencia de la coalición (en particular, la presencia militar) es parte del problema, no la solución”. Cowper-Coles dijo que enviar más tropas de la OTAN tendría un “efecto perverso. Nos identificaría aún más claramente como una fuerza de ocupación y multiplicaría la cantidad de blancos [para los insurgentes]”. También afirmó que el gobierno de Hamid Karzai, respaldado por Estados Unidos, tenía tan poco apoyo público que Afganistán estaría mejor dentro de cinco a diez años bajo el régimen de lo que denominó “un dictador aceptable”.

2 de octubre de 2008

Bush Had No Plan to Catch Bin Laden after 9/11

New evidence from former U.S. officials reveals that the George W. Bush administration failed to adopt any plan to block the retreat of Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders from Afghanistan to Pakistan in the first weeks after 9/11.

That failure was directly related to the fact that top administration officials gave priority to planning for war with Iraq over military action against al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

As a result, the United States had far too few troops and strategic airlift capacity in the theatre to cover the large number of possible exit routes through the border area when bin Laden escaped in late 2001.