Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Iacobucci Report, Chapter 3, paragraph 77 - "caveats are down" ... A look at CSIS/RCMP and other Canadian agencies close, very close "friends"-CIA/FBI
The O’Connor judicial Inquiry on Maher Arar's kidnapping to torture, like the Iacobucci Inquiry into the actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Abdullah Almali, Ahmad Abou-Elmaati and Muayyed Nureddin unveils a small fraction of the close relationship the Canadian agencies have with the CIA and other cases American agencies.
This fully documented video is about The History of the terrorism conducted by the CIA, since the end of the World War II . In the so called "war on terror", Canada has closely associated itself with the CIA/FBI.
This is the story of the Terrorism of the CIA - a History of Torture, kidnapping, rape, assassinations and more where "Anything Goes"...
This fully documented video is about The History of the terrorism conducted by the CIA, since the end of the World War II . In the so called "war on terror", Canada has closely associated itself with the CIA/FBI.
This is the story of the Terrorism of the CIA - a History of Torture, kidnapping, rape, assassinations and more where "Anything Goes"...
CSIS/RCMP cover-up's worse than the crimes?
"We feel there are worse secrets being held from the public than were even revealed in the Arar inquiry. On this point the government no doubt agrees with us as well, which is why an iron curtain of secrecy has enshrouded this inquiry."
"But we cannot be fearful of damaging the reputation of CSIS, the RCMP, and other Canadian agencies ..."
From "Decisons made in the shadows"- Ottawa Citizen :
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=cfba4363-17d6-4aaf-9d69-39caae605f1c&p=2 )
Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou-Elmaati and Muayyed Nureddin:subjects of the Iacobucci Inquiry.
"But we cannot be fearful of damaging the reputation of CSIS, the RCMP, and other Canadian agencies ..."
From "Decisons made in the shadows"- Ottawa Citizen :
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=cfba4363-17d6-4aaf-9d69-39caae605f1c&p=2 )
Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou-Elmaati and Muayyed Nureddin:subjects of the Iacobucci Inquiry.
"DIRECTED SOUND TO GET IN YOUR HEAD" - An Interesting Article
Advertisers using 'directed sound' to get in your head
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/19/08
WATERTOWN, Mass. — If you hear mysterious voices in your head the next time you stroll down the street, they may be trying to sell you something.
That was the case recently in New York when people walking beneath a billboard for the A&E show "Paranormal State" suddenly heard a woman's disembodied voice whisper: "Who's there? Who's there?" and "It's not your imagination."
The creepy effect was caused by technology called Audio Spotlight that projects sound in a focused beam so only people in a certain spot can hear it. That "directed sound" system is the work of Joseph Pompei, an engineer who founded Holosonic Research Labs Inc. in Watertown.
"There is an interesting perception of the sound being inside your head," Pompei said.
Thanks to the spread of digital video signs and pressure on advertisers to reach consumers in new ways, the business of directed sound has begun to take off for a handful of companies.
"The idea of directing sound was a real uphill battle when we first started, but all of a sudden people are coming to us saying, 'We have to have directional sound. We don't want all this noise in our store,' " said Woody Norris, founder of American Technology Corp. in San Diego.
Norris sells the HyperSonic Sound system, which uses the same principles as the Holosonic product.
Norris said he has sold many units for use with video screens in checkout lines in Kroger- and Meijer-owned grocery stores so audio can reach waiting customers without constantly bombarding store workers.
Court TV used Audio Spotlight in 2006 in Manhattan bookstores and a few Atlanta locations to promote a murder mystery show.
Customers who tripped a motion sensor would suddenly hear a voice whispering a 30-second message. Part of it said: "Don't turn around. Do you ever think about murder? Committing the ultimate crime? I do. All the time."
Full article at:
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/business/stories/2008/02/18/sound_0219.html
Monday, January 26, 2009
Help put a copy o Dark Days in the hands of all Canada's 308 Members of Parliament
All the books - 308 needed - must be in their hands by mid-February, when Members of Parliament will be discussing the findings of the Iacobucci Inquiry in Parliament.This is a campaign to bring awareness. Please spread the word.
More information at Kerry Pither's Blog at:
http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6514274233420745263
The book has a special price of $30 total(GST included) and can be bought at:
http://www.octopusbooks.ca/content/dark-days-members-parliament
or by giving them a call at 613.233.2589 to arrange to pay over the phone or by mail.
For those in Ottawa,
Saturday, January 31 at the Library and Archives Canada - an event called "The age of persecution: Perspectives on an atrocity of our time."
hosted by CBC radio's Adrian Harewood, Kerry Pither ll be speaking along with authors Monia Mazigh and Alan Cumyn.
It starts at 7:00 p.m. and admission is free.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
SECRETE SYSTEM : TRIALS AND TORTURE- CSIS/RCMP Keeping their Hands "Clean"
Rendition, torture and the allies...And Canada?
Fictions and Facts about the "Rendition Program". (click here)
As General Hayden pointed out in March 2008, thousands of intelligence reports obtained from detainees "rendered" to foreign countries, were passed to allies.
"America’s closest allies, including most NATO members, were fully informed that a program of covert rendition was in use."
Also, in most cases, CIA officials were not to be present when the most brutal "enhanced techniques" were being used to protect them from legal liability.
But this is not a new approach. The CIA has expertise in running these activities, teaching and spreading.
Some History About torture, kidnappings,secret services, lies and cover-ups.. ..somewhere else....NOT in Canada !!
In Argentina, from 1976 to 1982, the Secret Services and the Armed Forces main alleged focus was on eradicating TERRORIST. A "Secret System" was created.
It is estimated that during this period, more than thirty thousand "terrorist" were tortured and/or disappeared.The official government number is 8,960.
Bellow, some information regarding SECRET TRIAL, TORTURE,KIDNAPPING that occurred in the past ...In Argentina , Not In Canada..
In that period, USA goverment had different plans for the region other than the plans the people in the region wanted. Operation Condor was created in which several countries were "collaborators" in the torture , "extraordinary rendition" and assassination of the so called "terrorists". Most of them were dissents.
Julia was a young physician and mother-to-be kidnapped and tortured to death. She had no connection to any political movement.
Quotes from the Book: "I Remember Julia: Voices of the Disappeared by Eric Stener Carlson -
But all ARGENTINA...NOT IN CANADA...
-An Argentina Army officer speaks about the fight against terrorism/subversion, to Emilio Fermin Mignone, President of the Centre for Legal Studies; author of several books concerning the military, violence and democracy :
"We are not going to commit the same mistake as Franco or as Pinochet of shooting people publicly in the street, because the Pope himself is going to ask us not to shoot them." .
By that time, "the Argentine people were misinformed. All they knew was some neighbor, some relative, a friend, had disappeared, but they didn't know that it was a system."
"In their cowardice and ineptitude, they wanted to develop a system. General Camps said that the Argentines had discovered the correct method to put an end to the subversion...The idea was to do it secretly."
This secret activity was, above all, the work of the intelligence services. Here, in Argentina, there was an excess, an overabundance of intelligence services. The intelligence services were the ones that conceived the system. The intelligence services, all of them, all of the military, have a very partial view of reality. They believed that they could invent this plan and make it work. The STATE approved it and it was applied. They created the so called "fuerzas de tarea" groups that worked with great quantity of officials and sub officials.
The military and the secret services acted with cowardice. That is to say, they used a system, they made themselves into subversives, into guerrillas.
"They used illegal methods in making people disappear."
"More than arrogance, it was stupidity. There was arrogance as well, to believe that they were the owners of other peoples' destinies, that they could manipulate the entire society, fool the entire world"....One of the aspirations of my life...is to see the Armed Forces recognize that their situation was illegitimate and to see that they do so publicly"
Without this...we are always going to think that everyone in the secret services is a torturer and a murderer, even though he/she is not....
Some of the above are the extracts from the views of Emilio Fermin Mignone, President of the Centre for Legal Studies; author of several books concerning the military, violence, and democracy (Voices of the Disappeared by Eric Stener Carlson)
The official version by that time was that:
"There were no political prisoners, there was no repression, and of course,there were no disappearances."
But this is all Argentina.....NOT CANADA !!! Or has Canada perfected the "system" ?
The Iacobucci Report mentions "indirect torture"...INDIRECT...
And there are the cases like that of ABOUSFIAN ABDELRAZIK in which documents tell a lot about the Canadian Secret Service (CSIS) in one of its officials statement regarding his torture :
"We judge it unlikely that, should Abdelrazik's detention in Sudan become public knowledge, there would be the same sort of outcry that surrounded Maher Arar's arrest and deportation from the USA"..
Has "perfection" been reached in Canada?
Or simply "There were no political prisoners, there was no repression, and of course,there were no disappearances, no torture."?
More on Argentinian "non-perfect yet" System of Fighting "TERRORISM":
THE DISAPPEARED - by Peter Sands
"The Disappeared" relives the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War (1976-83) through the experience of Horacio Pietragalla, a young man raised by the maid of the officer who kidnapped him after the military brutally murdered his parents, labelled as "TERRORISTS" by the government. The film follows Horacio as he reconstructs the cause for which his real parents gave their lives, and, through this search, reclaims his true identity. This personal journey internalizes the tragedy that ravaged the country for seven years and exposes polarized views on state-driven terrorism in groundbreaking interviews with top officials and military figures.
Fictions and Facts about the "Rendition Program". (click here)
As General Hayden pointed out in March 2008, thousands of intelligence reports obtained from detainees "rendered" to foreign countries, were passed to allies.
"America’s closest allies, including most NATO members, were fully informed that a program of covert rendition was in use."
Also, in most cases, CIA officials were not to be present when the most brutal "enhanced techniques" were being used to protect them from legal liability.
But this is not a new approach. The CIA has expertise in running these activities, teaching and spreading.
Some History About torture, kidnappings,secret services, lies and cover-ups.. ..somewhere else....NOT in Canada !!
In Argentina, from 1976 to 1982, the Secret Services and the Armed Forces main alleged focus was on eradicating TERRORIST. A "Secret System" was created.
It is estimated that during this period, more than thirty thousand "terrorist" were tortured and/or disappeared.The official government number is 8,960.
Bellow, some information regarding SECRET TRIAL, TORTURE,KIDNAPPING that occurred in the past ...In Argentina , Not In Canada..
In that period, USA goverment had different plans for the region other than the plans the people in the region wanted. Operation Condor was created in which several countries were "collaborators" in the torture , "extraordinary rendition" and assassination of the so called "terrorists". Most of them were dissents.
Julia was a young physician and mother-to-be kidnapped and tortured to death. She had no connection to any political movement.
Quotes from the Book: "I Remember Julia: Voices of the Disappeared by Eric Stener Carlson -
But all ARGENTINA...NOT IN CANADA...
-An Argentina Army officer speaks about the fight against terrorism/subversion, to Emilio Fermin Mignone, President of the Centre for Legal Studies; author of several books concerning the military, violence and democracy :
"We are not going to commit the same mistake as Franco or as Pinochet of shooting people publicly in the street, because the Pope himself is going to ask us not to shoot them." .
By that time, "the Argentine people were misinformed. All they knew was some neighbor, some relative, a friend, had disappeared, but they didn't know that it was a system."
"In their cowardice and ineptitude, they wanted to develop a system. General Camps said that the Argentines had discovered the correct method to put an end to the subversion...The idea was to do it secretly."
This secret activity was, above all, the work of the intelligence services. Here, in Argentina, there was an excess, an overabundance of intelligence services. The intelligence services were the ones that conceived the system. The intelligence services, all of them, all of the military, have a very partial view of reality. They believed that they could invent this plan and make it work. The STATE approved it and it was applied. They created the so called "fuerzas de tarea" groups that worked with great quantity of officials and sub officials.
The military and the secret services acted with cowardice. That is to say, they used a system, they made themselves into subversives, into guerrillas.
"They used illegal methods in making people disappear."
"More than arrogance, it was stupidity. There was arrogance as well, to believe that they were the owners of other peoples' destinies, that they could manipulate the entire society, fool the entire world"....One of the aspirations of my life...is to see the Armed Forces recognize that their situation was illegitimate and to see that they do so publicly"
Without this...we are always going to think that everyone in the secret services is a torturer and a murderer, even though he/she is not....
Some of the above are the extracts from the views of Emilio Fermin Mignone, President of the Centre for Legal Studies; author of several books concerning the military, violence, and democracy (Voices of the Disappeared by Eric Stener Carlson)
The official version by that time was that:
"There were no political prisoners, there was no repression, and of course,there were no disappearances."
But this is all Argentina.....NOT CANADA !!! Or has Canada perfected the "system" ?
The Iacobucci Report mentions "indirect torture"...INDIRECT...
And there are the cases like that of ABOUSFIAN ABDELRAZIK in which documents tell a lot about the Canadian Secret Service (CSIS) in one of its officials statement regarding his torture :
"We judge it unlikely that, should Abdelrazik's detention in Sudan become public knowledge, there would be the same sort of outcry that surrounded Maher Arar's arrest and deportation from the USA"..
Has "perfection" been reached in Canada?
Or simply "There were no political prisoners, there was no repression, and of course,there were no disappearances, no torture."?
More on Argentinian "non-perfect yet" System of Fighting "TERRORISM":
THE DISAPPEARED - by Peter Sands
"The Disappeared" relives the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War (1976-83) through the experience of Horacio Pietragalla, a young man raised by the maid of the officer who kidnapped him after the military brutally murdered his parents, labelled as "TERRORISTS" by the government. The film follows Horacio as he reconstructs the cause for which his real parents gave their lives, and, through this search, reclaims his true identity. This personal journey internalizes the tragedy that ravaged the country for seven years and exposes polarized views on state-driven terrorism in groundbreaking interviews with top officials and military figures.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Guantanamo prosecutor Darrel Vandeveld - His Shame for His Complicity in Torture
GUANTANAMO BAY CHILD SOLDIERS - TORTURE and the Canadian Complicity.
...OH, Canada...!!!
Full article can be read at:
http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2009/01/22/the-shame-of-a-guantanamo-prosecutor/
"I Was Slow to Recognize the Stain of Guantanamo"
By Darrel J. Vandeveld
Washington Post -
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Prosecutor Vandeveld was the prosecutor for one of the two "child-soldiers" being tortured in Guantanamo - a young Afghan named Mohammed Jawad, who was 16 when sent to that prison.
The other is Omar Khadr. Khadr was 15 when he was taken into American custody. As Jawad, he was also at Bagram, and BEFORE THE ABOVE "INTERVIEW" he was put in the "frequent flier" torture program, (sleep deprivation) being prepared for the visit of CSIS OFFICIALS...He is the only Western left in Guantanamo...
"From June 2007 through September 2008, I worked as a prosecutor for the Office of Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. .....The chief military prosecutor, Col. Morris Davis...eventually resigned..."
"My experience with the Jawad case led me to file a declaration in federal court this week stating that it is impossible to prepare a fair prosecution against detainees at Guantanamo Bay. I had concluded that the system of handling evidence is a haphazard farce."
"Evidence from U.S. Army criminal investigators — taken in the course of investigating homicide charges at Bagram air base — showed that while in U.S. custody in Afghanistan, Jawad had been hooded, slapped repeatedly across the face and then thrown down at least one flight of stairs. Detainee records show that once at Guantanamo, he was subjected to a sleep deprivation regime during which he was moved to different cells 112 times over a 14-day period — an average of every 2 1/2 hours. It was called the frequent flier program."
"Eventually I learned of evidence from field reports suggesting that he was innocent. The reports indicated that he had been recruited by terrorists who drugged him and lied to him."
" I tried to negotiate an agreement to have Jawad rehabilitated and sent back to Afghanistan, where he could be reunited with his family."
"Later that month, I made my final appearance before the military commissions at Guantanamo, not as a gung-ho prosecutor, but as a reluctant but determined witness for the defense."
"I am ashamed that it took me so long to recognize the stain of Guantanamo, not simply on America’s standing in the world, but as part, now, of a history we cannot undo. We have kept human beings in solitary confinement for as long as seven years, even though they have never been charged with any crime. In other places, we have beaten hooded, shackled prisoners, at least two of whom died as a result."
PS: This is the very SAME torture method of sleep deprivation dubbed "frequent flyer program" that was used to "prepare" Omar Khadr for the visit of the Canadian Officials"...This is the same Guantanamo "JUSTICE" to which a Canadian child was "delivered to"...
Omar Khadr will probably "be returned" to Canada...Will his torture in Guantanamo be denied? Will Canada take responsibility for the complicity in torture of a child?
Or will Canada call him "just another terrorist"? Still to be seen since Canada is still in the BUSH ERA
...OH, Canada...!!!
The Canadian Complicty in Torture is even worse - it is denied, covered-up and the "terrorist label" justifies it...
Americans are getting ashamed ...
...OH, Canada...!!!
Full article can be read at:
http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2009/01/22/the-shame-of-a-guantanamo-prosecutor/
"I Was Slow to Recognize the Stain of Guantanamo"
By Darrel J. Vandeveld
Washington Post -
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Prosecutor Vandeveld was the prosecutor for one of the two "child-soldiers" being tortured in Guantanamo - a young Afghan named Mohammed Jawad, who was 16 when sent to that prison.
The other is Omar Khadr. Khadr was 15 when he was taken into American custody. As Jawad, he was also at Bagram, and BEFORE THE ABOVE "INTERVIEW" he was put in the "frequent flier" torture program, (sleep deprivation) being prepared for the visit of CSIS OFFICIALS...He is the only Western left in Guantanamo...
"From June 2007 through September 2008, I worked as a prosecutor for the Office of Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. .....The chief military prosecutor, Col. Morris Davis...eventually resigned..."
"My experience with the Jawad case led me to file a declaration in federal court this week stating that it is impossible to prepare a fair prosecution against detainees at Guantanamo Bay. I had concluded that the system of handling evidence is a haphazard farce."
"Evidence from U.S. Army criminal investigators — taken in the course of investigating homicide charges at Bagram air base — showed that while in U.S. custody in Afghanistan, Jawad had been hooded, slapped repeatedly across the face and then thrown down at least one flight of stairs. Detainee records show that once at Guantanamo, he was subjected to a sleep deprivation regime during which he was moved to different cells 112 times over a 14-day period — an average of every 2 1/2 hours. It was called the frequent flier program."
"Eventually I learned of evidence from field reports suggesting that he was innocent. The reports indicated that he had been recruited by terrorists who drugged him and lied to him."
" I tried to negotiate an agreement to have Jawad rehabilitated and sent back to Afghanistan, where he could be reunited with his family."
"Later that month, I made my final appearance before the military commissions at Guantanamo, not as a gung-ho prosecutor, but as a reluctant but determined witness for the defense."
"I am ashamed that it took me so long to recognize the stain of Guantanamo, not simply on America’s standing in the world, but as part, now, of a history we cannot undo. We have kept human beings in solitary confinement for as long as seven years, even though they have never been charged with any crime. In other places, we have beaten hooded, shackled prisoners, at least two of whom died as a result."
PS: This is the very SAME torture method of sleep deprivation dubbed "frequent flyer program" that was used to "prepare" Omar Khadr for the visit of the Canadian Officials"...This is the same Guantanamo "JUSTICE" to which a Canadian child was "delivered to"...
Omar Khadr will probably "be returned" to Canada...Will his torture in Guantanamo be denied? Will Canada take responsibility for the complicity in torture of a child?
Or will Canada call him "just another terrorist"? Still to be seen since Canada is still in the BUSH ERA
...OH, Canada...!!!
The Canadian Complicty in Torture is even worse - it is denied, covered-up and the "terrorist label" justifies it...
Americans are getting ashamed ...
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