LIFE IS BIGGER ......"It is bigger than you!!!" - R.E.M. : Losing My Religion - Canada (2001)

Black Ops Mercenaries servicing the Canadian military

The Nation Magazine - September 15, 2010
by Jeremy Scahill

The article at:
http://www.thenation.com/article/154739/blackwaters-black-ops

Interview:

Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism by Sherene H. Razack

Sherene H. Razack is also the author of :

Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslins from Western Law and Politics
2008 - Sherene Razack - ISBN 978-0802094971
Sherene H. Razack looks at how "race thinking" supports the idea that the suspension of rights for racialized groups is warranted in the interests of national security. She points out to "race thinking" as being a structure of thought that divides up the world between the deserving and undeserving according to racial descent.

'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'
George Santayana , 1905 - Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense, Scribner's, 1905, page 284

The "Somalia Affair" (1993) Revisited

The Somalia Affair was a 1993 military scandal that was later dubbed "Canada's national shame".

Shidane Abukar Arone was a Somali teenager who was tortured and beaten to death by Canadian soldiers in the Canadian Base in Somalia, on 17 March 1993.

Arone was caught on March 16 attempting to steal supplies from the Canadian base. Two members of the Canadian Military Base, Master Corporal Clayton Matchee and Private Kyle Brown, bound Arone and tortured him over the next several hours. Ultimately, he died of his injuries.

While the military initially claimed Matchee and Brown had acted alone, it was later revealed that sixteen others had visited the tent while Arone was captive, including superior officers.

At first DND officials told the media that Arone had likely died from natural causes. It took several weeks for the Canadian people to become aware of the actual events in Somalia.

An inquiry officially known as The Somalia Commission of Inquiry began in 1994 after public outcry.

The military disengagement from accountability and evasion strategies permeated the inquiry where Air Force General Jean Boyle blamed his subordinates for wrong doing.

It ran until 1997 when it was cut short by the government in the months before the 1997 election.The inquiry was never able to examine top level governmental decision-making, nor did it actually examine the alleged events in Somalia.

"Conspicuously absent from the report is anything on the most sensitive aspect of the Somalia affair — the torture and murder of Shidane Arone."
[Somalia debacle a high-level cover-up - The CBC Digital Archives Website- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - [Page consulted on May 23, 2009.] -
WATCH HERE

See Rex Murphy's piece: The Somalia affair-
"Macho thuggery," scapegoating, blockading requests for information, and evasive testimony taint the noble pursuit of peacekeeping."

The CBC Digital Archives - WATCH HERE
[Page consulted on May 23, 2009.]


"We promised them peacekeepers,and in some cases, we sent them thugs."

Reference: "Bloody and contemptuous images"- The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Digital Archives Website.

[Page consulted on May 23, 2009.]

WATCH HERE

The Somalia Inquiry heard from witness who testified that the lack of accountability sent the wrong message to the troops and that military police were deliberately stalled from investigating a shooting by Canadian soldiers of unarmed Somalins in the back, killing one Somalian and wounding another that took place just 12 days before the torture and murder of Shidane Arone.

"Somalia investigation hit 'inexplicable delay'" - Broadcast Date: March 10, 1997

The CBC Digital Archives- WATCH HERE - [Page consulted on May 23, 2009.]


References:
The Killing Of a Somali Jars Canada - The New York Times - Feb 11, 2006 - by CLYDE H. FARNSWORTH
[Page consulted on May 23, 2009.]
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/11/world/the-killing-of-a-somali-jars-canada.html

Final Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Deployment of Canadian Forces to Somalia- [Page consulted on May 23, 2009.]
http://www.dnd.ca/somalia/somaliae.htm

CBC Archives - The Somalia Affair - http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/peacekeeping/topics/723/
[Page consulted on May 23, 2009.]

Somalia Cover-Up; A Commissioner's Journal 1997 by Peter Desbarats - Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (November 15, 1997)- ISBN-10: 0771026846

John le Carré - his final interview to BBC Channel 4 - Sep 13 2010

Carré talks about how he likes writing about interrogation. He talks about his position on "the other sort of interrogation"...

" I have complete contempt for the other sort of interrogation"

The chilling truth behind the book "The Man who Stare at Goats" - From the Hawaiian Islands to Fort Bragg , Abu Ghraib and the world

A look at the revelations about a top-secret wing of the U.S. military and the real men and real events that inspired Jon Ronson's book "The Men Who Stare at Goats". From music as a form of torture to "terminal human experiments", Project MKULTRA, Project Artichoke and more.




PS: Jim Channon, Sergeant Glenn Wheaton and Major Ed Dames were all living in the Hawaiian Islands when they were interviewed for the book.
More about Jon Ronson's book "The Men Who Stare at Goats" at:

Psychic Spies, Acid Guinea Pigs, New Age Soldiers: the True Men Who Stare at Goats - by David Humbling - Wired- Danger Room - Nov 6, 2009
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/11/psychic-spies-acid-guinea-pigs-new-age-gis-the-true-men-who-stare-at-goats/

Inside the Army's Far-Out Acid Tests - by David Humbling - Wired- Danger Room - Nov 5, 2009
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/11/inside-the-armys-far-out-acid-tests/

"Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the all-highest?" CIA agent George White's resignation letter to Sidney Gottlieb, one of the architects of Projects Mkultra and Artichoke

American Torture Program: Former CIA agent implicated in torture returns to CIA as contractor and instructor

Associated Press reveals that former FBI and ex-CIA Officer Accused Of Electric-Drill Torture is now Training CIA Operatives As A Contractor:

The former CIA officer accused of revving an electric drill near the head of an imprisoned terror suspect has returned to U.S. intelligence as a contractor. The now instructor at the CIA is an Egyptian descent man who was a FBI agent in New York before joining the CIA.

AP sources: Former FBI man implicated in CIA abuse - Boston.com

More at:

The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/07/ex-cia-electric-drill-contractor-training-operatives_n_708085.html

Former FBI man implicated in CIA abuse is now training CIA operatives:
By Adam Goldman
Associated Press Write
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/09/07/ap_sources_former_fbi_man_implicated_in_cia_abuse/

‘Evil’ Eric - Google's Wi-Spy Scandal

The video is part of a Consumer Watchdog (USA) lobbying effort to stop Google's spying acivities. The creepy creature driving the ice cream truck is a caricature of Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Read More http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/google-mocked/#ixzz0yW7KSQBz

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