James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, both devout Mormons, the architects and teachers of American Torture Program

VANITY FAIR Article by Katherine Eban - April 17, 2009
"Torture Memos Link Lawyers and Psychologists" - HERE


ABC NEWS : "The CIA's $1000 a day torture specialists" -
By Brian Ross, Matthew Cole, Joseph Rhee- April 30, 2009

Killer of Ottawa police Const. Eric Czapnik had been decorated for bravery as an RCMP officer in Saskatchewan

Full article HERE:
"Officer slain as he sat alone in cruiser" - by

Gary Dimmock, Meghan Hurley and Maria Cook, Ottawa Citizen: Tuesday, December 29, 2009

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Kevin Gregson, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints commonly called the Mormon Church, was arrested at the Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital early Tuesday, December 29, 2009, after the Ottawa Police officer was stabbed to death while writing notes in his cruiser outside the emergency room doors. (HERE) and (HERE)

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MORE on the murder of Ottawa Police Officer by RCMP Officer at"RCMP WATCH - Who is keeping them accountable" site at http://www.rcmpwatch.com/ :


Criminologist calls for inquest in Ottawa cop-killing case

Megan Gillis (QMI Agency) – A prominent criminologist is calling for a coroner’s inquest into the “disturbing” facts surrounding the killing of Ottawa police Const. Eric Czapnik.

Irvin Waller, a former senior official with the office of Canada’s solicitor general – who is responsible for the RCMP – and now a professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa, argued Thursday that a trial can only find whether suspended RCMP officer Kevin Gregson is guilty or not.

An inquest, on the other hand, could examine whether he fell through the cracks between the mental health and criminal justice systems or if the people who have been concerned about his past behavior – including his RCMP bosses – could have stopped him.

“Clearly there are a lot of questions that need to be answered other than what will happen in a criminal trial,” said Waller, an expert on crime prevention.

“We have to ensure that something like this – however exceptional – can’t happen again.”

Gregson was stripped of his gun and badge in 2005 because supervisors in Regina said he was hostile and paranoid.

In 2006, he threatened a Mormon official with a knife and was handed a conditional discharge by a judge who cited past brain surgery in sparing him jail time.

Waller wonders if a mental-health court – like one in Ottawa that links offenders with treatment – could have helped Gregson.

Instead, he was ordered to resign from the RCMP in 2008 by an adjudication board that called him impulsive, irrational and excessive.

“I’m really raising questions from looking at the facts and saying these facts are pretty disturbing,” Waller said. “We have to make sure there’s action. Is there anything more effective in terms of prevention? Very clearly, people knew quite a lot about this guy before he (allegedly) did what he did.”

The province’s chief coroner can decide to hold an inquest if it’s in the public interest to have a public examination of the circumstances of a death, or a coroner’s jury could make recommendations that could prevent similar deaths in the future, Dr. Roger Skinner, the region’s supervising coroner, said.

But the chief coroner – whose motto is “we speak for the dead who protect the living” – doesn’t order an inquest until after the criminal process unfolds.

“It’s a possibility – certainly in this case it’s too early to say as yet,” Skinner said.

RCMP WATCH SITE:

http://www.rcmpwatch.com/criminologist-calls-for-inquest-in-ottawa-cop-killing-case/comment-page-1/#comment-3985

A Most Wanted Man - by John le Carré who was once a British agent and Consul in Hamburg

A Most Wanted Man is a thriller/espionage novel by John le Carré, who was once a British agent and Consul in Hamburg. It was published in October 2008 by Scribner in the United States and Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom.

The book is basically about extraordinary rendition, the disappearing of people who are considered an enemy of the state by secret services and sending them abroad to secret prisons for torture.

The Plot:

A young Chechen ex-prisoner arrives illegally in Hamburg, practically uneducated and destitute, but with a claim to a fortune held in a private bank. This novel is based on the contemporary themes of the so called "war on terror", money laundering and the conflicting interests of different officers and agents involved.

TRAILER about the book:


Trailer extended version:

Germany Launches Probe Into Blackwater/CIA Assassination Plot

The US pattern of conducting rendition and assassination within the borders of allied countries and more...

“Imagine if [German Intelligence] were to carry out a hit job via a front company, say in New Orleans,” says a German lawmaker. “It would be a shocking occurrence”.
Full Article:
"Germany Launches Probe Into Blackwater/CIA Assassination Plot"
Published January 7, 2010 - by Jeremy Scahill

German prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into allegations that a Blackwater-led CIA team conducted a clandestine operation in Hamburg, Germany after 9/11 ultimately aimed at assassinating a German citizen with suspected ties to al Qaeda. The alleged assassination operation was revealed last month in a Vanity Fair profile of Blackwater’s owner Erik Prince.
The magazine reported that after 9/11, the CIA used one of Prince’s homes in Virginia as a covert training facility for hit teams that would hunt al Qaeda suspects globally. Their job was find, fix, and finish: “Find the designated target, fix the person’s routine, and, if necessary, finish him off.”
According to Vanity Fair, one of the team’s targets was Mamoun Darkazanli, a naturalized German citizen originally from Syria. Darkazanli has been accused by Spain of being an al Qaeda supporter with close ties to the alleged 9/11 plotters who lived in Hamburg. The Blackwater/C.I.A. team “supposedly went in ‘dark,’ meaning they did not notify their own station—much less the German government—of their presence,” according to Vanity Fair. “[T]hey then followed Darkazanli for weeks and worked through the logistics of how and where they would take him down.” Authorities in Washington, however, “chose not to pull the trigger.”
Dieter Wiefelspütz, the domestic policy spokesperson for the parliamentary group of Germany’s center-left Social Democrats, told Der Spiegel it is irrelevant that Darkazanli’s targeted assassination was never carried out. “If it can be confirmed, then this was a murder plot,” he said. The conservative Christian Democratic Union joined the Social Democrats in calling for an official inquiry.
From Der Spiegel:

Hans-Christian Ströbele, a prominent German Green Party politician, however, said he was unconvinced. “The fact is that the CIA can, for the most part, do whatever it wants here in Germany,” the member of parliament said. “The secret prisoner transports after Sept. 11 showed that — and no one dared to do anything about it.” Try to imagine the opposite happening, he said. “Imagine if (Germany’s federal intelligence agency) the BND were to carry out a hit job via a front company, say in New Orleans. It would be a shocking occurrence,” he said.
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Ströbele said he would call for the parliamentary control committee to discuss the allegations. He said one also had to ask “where the German intelligence services were.” After all, he said, “they are supposed to find out whether other services are romping about here.”

In an interview on German TV this week, Darkazanli said he was “speechless” at the story.
This brewing scandal in Germany is the latest allegation to surface in what is a clear pattern of the US conducting clandestine rendition and assassination operations within the borders of allied countries. In November, an Italian judge convicted 23 US intelligence operatives in the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian imam from a Milan street as part of a CIA extraordinary rendition operation. Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, aka Abu Omar, was taken to Egypt, where he said he was tortured.

Jeremy Scahill is the author of the international best-seller Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
Original article: Germany Launches Probe Into Blackwater/CIA Assassination Plot

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ABOUT THE CELEBRITY CULTURE: "“Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” - Chris Hedges- aired December 18, 2009

“Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”

Erik Prince's Company BLACKWATER (NOW "XE") ACTIVITIES FOR/TO/WITH CIA: RAPE, ASSASSINATIONS, PEDOPHILIA and more

Aired August 2009

Retrospect - March 2009