Friday, January 15, 2010
PAT ROBERTSON, AMERICAN EVANGELIST, TALKS ABOUT HAITI'S CATASTROPHE
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Some articles about "THE DEVIL" in HAITI:
Killing Hope: US military and CIA interventions since WWII by William Blum
CIA asset in Haiti, death squads leader Emmanuel Constant (Toto) - responsible for extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, arbitrary arrest and detention, and rape and other torture and violence against women:
http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/former-haitian-death-squad-leader-pleads-guilty-fraud
http://www.trial-ch.org/en/trial-watch/profile/db/facts/emmanuel_constant_334.html
On YouTube: Guantánamo Guard and Ex-Prisoners Meet (via the BBC)
On January 11 and 12, 2010 the BBC’s Newsnight ran "Tales From Guantanamo", a two-part feature on America's Guantánamo Prison.
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) took former guard Brandon Neely over from the United States to UK to meet — and apologize to — former prisoners Shafiq Rasul and Ruhal Ahmed, two of “The Tipton Three,” from the West Midlands, who were freed in March 2004 and whose story was later featured in “The Road to Guantánamo”.
The two parts of Newsnight’s feature are available on the BBC website here and here,AND the blogger Rick B announced on his site Ten Percent that he has made the part in which the men meet available as a two-part video on YouTube. These parts were posted on Andy Worthington's Blog and are posted below:
Andy Worthington is the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison.
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) took former guard Brandon Neely over from the United States to UK to meet — and apologize to — former prisoners Shafiq Rasul and Ruhal Ahmed, two of “The Tipton Three,” from the West Midlands, who were freed in March 2004 and whose story was later featured in “The Road to Guantánamo”.
The two parts of Newsnight’s feature are available on the BBC website here and here,AND the blogger Rick B announced on his site Ten Percent that he has made the part in which the men meet available as a two-part video on YouTube. These parts were posted on Andy Worthington's Blog and are posted below:
Andy Worthington is the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Federal Officials Cover ups
Among their options:
- falsifying medical records
- sending a dying man to Guinea to make the case "disappear" and on..
A New York Times investigation reveals how federal officials used their role to cover up abuses and deaths to avoid embarrassing publicity.
The investigation exposes a trail of confidential memos and BlackBerry messages that show officials working to cover up their actions. The article by Nina Bernstein was published on January 2, 2010 , The New York Times .
- falsifying medical records
- sending a dying man to Guinea to make the case "disappear" and on..
A New York Times investigation reveals how federal officials used their role to cover up abuses and deaths to avoid embarrassing publicity.
The investigation exposes a trail of confidential memos and BlackBerry messages that show officials working to cover up their actions. The article by Nina Bernstein was published on January 2, 2010 , The New York Times .
Sunday, January 10, 2010
British courts issued arrest warrants for top Israeli military and political officials
January 5, 2009
Israeli officials are concerned about the possibility of being charged with war crimes in Britain and other foreign countries based on the theory of Universal Jurisdiction, which allows a country to prosecute serious Crimes Against Humanity no matter where the activity takes place. Last month, Former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni cancelled a trip to UK after a British magistrate court issued an arrest warrant for her on war crimes charges relating to Israel's Gaza offensive.
In October, Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon called off a Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that he may be arrested over his involvement in a 2002 airstrike that killed 14 civilians.
More at:
Jurist -Paper Chase:"Israel officers abandon UK visit fearing war crimes arrest"
The Raw Story : "Israeli delegation cancels UK trip over threat of arrest for war crimes"
Israeli officials are concerned about the possibility of being charged with war crimes in Britain and other foreign countries based on the theory of Universal Jurisdiction, which allows a country to prosecute serious Crimes Against Humanity no matter where the activity takes place. Last month, Former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni cancelled a trip to UK after a British magistrate court issued an arrest warrant for her on war crimes charges relating to Israel's Gaza offensive.
In October, Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon called off a Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that he may be arrested over his involvement in a 2002 airstrike that killed 14 civilians.
More at:
Jurist -Paper Chase:"Israel officers abandon UK visit fearing war crimes arrest"
The Raw Story : "Israeli delegation cancels UK trip over threat of arrest for war crimes"
Saturday, January 9, 2010
CIA DECEIVING CONGRESS AS USUAL? Why Blackwater contractors among the those in the CIA Station bombed?
Interview with Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a leading member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the chair of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, who is launching an investigation into why two Blackwater contractors were among the dead in the December 30 suicide bombing at the CIA station at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan.
Friday, January 8, 2010
BLACKWATER MERCENARIES (now "XE") ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD
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