Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Sunday, May 27, 2012
#Libya #MI6 Spies Paved Rebel Path To Tripoli
Please go to link provided for the British involvement in the illegal war on Africa.
http://libyaagainstsuperpowermedia.com/videos-about-libya-what-others-say-about-libya-and-qaddafis-regime/libya-documented-crimes-from-nato-bombs/exposed-mi6-spies-paved-rebel-path-to-tripoli-battlefront/
http://libyaagainstsuperpowermedia.com/videos-about-libya-what-others-say-about-libya-and-qaddafis-regime/libya-documented-crimes-from-nato-bombs/exposed-mi6-spies-paved-rebel-path-to-tripoli-battlefront/
#Libya : #NATO - Documented War Crimes By NATO In Libya.
The honorable british group “British civilians for peace in Libya” showed independent pictures of Libya, another time contradicting the officials versions told by Pro-USA/Zionist politicians and Mainstreammedia. Please go to link provided for OBAMA'S war On Africa.
http://libyaagainstsuperpowermedia.com/videos-about-libya-what-others-say-about-libya-and-qaddafis-regime/libya-documented-crimes-from-nato-bombs/
Saturday, May 26, 2012
The GUARDIAN 1991 : The Man Who Shot Yvonne Fletcher According To Nick Davis Was NOT A Diplomat - His Name Abdel Gader Tuhami
The man who killed WPC Yvonne Fletcher
The Guardian
Published June 1991 No comments... »
On Tuesday morning, April 17 1984, a 35-year-old decorator left the Rio Tinto Zinc building where he was working in St James Square, London to go to the bank to get some change for his parking meter. As he strolled across the road, he passed several dozen police officers clustered in one corner of the square and he caught the eye of a young woman constable.
“Look at all these police,” he said. “And all I want is 50 pence for the meter.”
She grinned at him. By the time he strolled back a few minutes later, the square was alive with noise. Dozens of demonstrators were shouting slogans in English and Arabic and the police had formed a cordon to keep them away from a grandiose residence in the corner, the Libyan People’s Bureau. The decorator stopped to watch.
As he stood there, another man who had stopped beside him suddenly nudged him, pointed up at a first floor window of the Bureau and said: “Fuck me, he’s got a gun.” For a couple of seconds, the decorator took in the scene: three men standing by the window, the sub-machine gun which one of them was holding, the face of the young man with the gun. He looked like Anthony Quinn, only thinner. Then the firing started and the demonstrators began to scream and the young policewoman who had grinned at him a few minutes earlier collapsed in the road.
The very public murder of WPC Fletcher caused a ten-day siege of the People’s Bureau and the end of diplomatic relations between Britain and Libya. When the Government decided to let the killers walk away from their crime, the then Home Secretary Leon Brittan dampened public anger by telling the House of Commons that although the police lacked hard evidence, “they are of the view that the murder was committed by one of two people who were in the Bureau. Both of them possessed diplomatic immunity.”
But that is not true. Which is why there was a flicker of embarrassment behind the stern face which the Foreign Office turned towards Colonel Gadafy last week when the Libyan leader finally apologised for the killing. The Foreign Office say Gadafy must hand over the killers, but if he does that, the truth finally will be put on public display.
The truth is that as a result of a bizarre police operation and with the help of the observant decorator from St James Square, the man who shot Yvonne Fletcher was rapidly idenfitied. And he is not a diplomat. He is one of eight Libyans who were trapped in the Bureau who had no diplomatic immunity and who could have been arrested quite legally as the siege ended.
Throughout the siege, the police had been arguing with the diplomats about how to handle the crisis. The police wanted to raid the Bureau and had even started analysing all the sewage from the building in an attempt to work out how many people were in the building. The police argued that the 1964 Vienna Convention allowed them to enter diplomatic property in hot pursuit of a criminal. But the Foreign Office said No. They feared that Gadafy would take revenge on British citizens and property in Libya, but since this policy was the sort of concession to terrorists which the Prime Minister had banned, they had to insist that Scotland Yard had got its law wrong.
The Foreign Office secretly tried to organise a face-saving compromise, sending a message to Gadafy which asked him to announce that the killer was a madman and to lock him up in an asylum. When Gadafy failed to play the game, the Foreign Office insisted that there was no alternative: behind the screen of diplomatic law, they must allow the killers and everyone else in the Bureau to walk free. The police obeyed their orders but secretly set out to catch the killer.
The Libyans refused to allow their possessions to be searched, so the police gave them see-through bags to carry them in. The police then persuaded them that they could prove to the British people that they were unarmed by agreeing to be frisked in St James Square as they left the Bureau. The officers who did the frisking were instructed to work from the back of each Libyan; a police photographer hidden on the far side of the square then quietly captured every face.
The police also persuaded the Libyans that for their own safety they should be taken to the Civil Service College at Sunningdale until their plane was ready. There, they were offered speedy interviews with immigration officers at tables with plastic covers. They all provided their names, addresses and dates of birth. In between interviews, the covers were changed and handed to fingerprint officers. Just in case any of the prints failed to come out, the police offered the Libyans a halal meal and then kept every plate and every stick of cutlery for scientifc examination.
Armed with this information, the police then set to work on the Bureau. On the carpet underneath a first floor window at the front of the building, they found spent 9mm parabellum cartridges of the sort which had killed Yvonne Fletcher and residue of explosives from the gun fire.
They checked the window, which according to witnesses had been opened for the first time in months for the gunman to shoot through.
On the frame, they found a fresh palm print and so Ali Jalid, a Bureau press officer, became wanted as an accessory to murder.
They still needed to identify the gunman himself.
By a means which remains secret they received a sudden flood of intelligence about activities inside the Bureau in the 24 hours leading up to the shooting.
Crucially, they heard, there had been a meeting chaired by the Bureau’s senior military intelligence officer, Moustafa Mgirbi, at which it was decided to fire on the next day’s demonstrations and to send out snatch squads to drag some of the demonstrators into the Bureau.
Mgirbi, the police learned, had given the role of gunman to a man named Abdel Gader Tuhami.
But this was not evidence that could be used in court.
It was then that the police heard of the decorator who had seen the gunman seconds before he opened fire.
They showed him their covert mugshots and without hesitation he pointed to a man with a thin face and a black moustache, a 25-year-old student with no diplomatic cover, named Abdel Gader Tuhami, who was by then safely home in Tripoli.
“Look at all these police,” he said. “And all I want is 50 pence for the meter.”
She grinned at him. By the time he strolled back a few minutes later, the square was alive with noise. Dozens of demonstrators were shouting slogans in English and Arabic and the police had formed a cordon to keep them away from a grandiose residence in the corner, the Libyan People’s Bureau. The decorator stopped to watch.
As he stood there, another man who had stopped beside him suddenly nudged him, pointed up at a first floor window of the Bureau and said: “Fuck me, he’s got a gun.” For a couple of seconds, the decorator took in the scene: three men standing by the window, the sub-machine gun which one of them was holding, the face of the young man with the gun. He looked like Anthony Quinn, only thinner. Then the firing started and the demonstrators began to scream and the young policewoman who had grinned at him a few minutes earlier collapsed in the road.
The very public murder of WPC Fletcher caused a ten-day siege of the People’s Bureau and the end of diplomatic relations between Britain and Libya. When the Government decided to let the killers walk away from their crime, the then Home Secretary Leon Brittan dampened public anger by telling the House of Commons that although the police lacked hard evidence, “they are of the view that the murder was committed by one of two people who were in the Bureau. Both of them possessed diplomatic immunity.”
But that is not true. Which is why there was a flicker of embarrassment behind the stern face which the Foreign Office turned towards Colonel Gadafy last week when the Libyan leader finally apologised for the killing. The Foreign Office say Gadafy must hand over the killers, but if he does that, the truth finally will be put on public display.
The truth is that as a result of a bizarre police operation and with the help of the observant decorator from St James Square, the man who shot Yvonne Fletcher was rapidly idenfitied. And he is not a diplomat. He is one of eight Libyans who were trapped in the Bureau who had no diplomatic immunity and who could have been arrested quite legally as the siege ended.
Throughout the siege, the police had been arguing with the diplomats about how to handle the crisis. The police wanted to raid the Bureau and had even started analysing all the sewage from the building in an attempt to work out how many people were in the building. The police argued that the 1964 Vienna Convention allowed them to enter diplomatic property in hot pursuit of a criminal. But the Foreign Office said No. They feared that Gadafy would take revenge on British citizens and property in Libya, but since this policy was the sort of concession to terrorists which the Prime Minister had banned, they had to insist that Scotland Yard had got its law wrong.
The Foreign Office secretly tried to organise a face-saving compromise, sending a message to Gadafy which asked him to announce that the killer was a madman and to lock him up in an asylum. When Gadafy failed to play the game, the Foreign Office insisted that there was no alternative: behind the screen of diplomatic law, they must allow the killers and everyone else in the Bureau to walk free. The police obeyed their orders but secretly set out to catch the killer.
The Libyans refused to allow their possessions to be searched, so the police gave them see-through bags to carry them in. The police then persuaded them that they could prove to the British people that they were unarmed by agreeing to be frisked in St James Square as they left the Bureau. The officers who did the frisking were instructed to work from the back of each Libyan; a police photographer hidden on the far side of the square then quietly captured every face.
The police also persuaded the Libyans that for their own safety they should be taken to the Civil Service College at Sunningdale until their plane was ready. There, they were offered speedy interviews with immigration officers at tables with plastic covers. They all provided their names, addresses and dates of birth. In between interviews, the covers were changed and handed to fingerprint officers. Just in case any of the prints failed to come out, the police offered the Libyans a halal meal and then kept every plate and every stick of cutlery for scientifc examination.
Armed with this information, the police then set to work on the Bureau. On the carpet underneath a first floor window at the front of the building, they found spent 9mm parabellum cartridges of the sort which had killed Yvonne Fletcher and residue of explosives from the gun fire.
They checked the window, which according to witnesses had been opened for the first time in months for the gunman to shoot through.
On the frame, they found a fresh palm print and so Ali Jalid, a Bureau press officer, became wanted as an accessory to murder.
They still needed to identify the gunman himself.
By a means which remains secret they received a sudden flood of intelligence about activities inside the Bureau in the 24 hours leading up to the shooting.
Crucially, they heard, there had been a meeting chaired by the Bureau’s senior military intelligence officer, Moustafa Mgirbi, at which it was decided to fire on the next day’s demonstrations and to send out snatch squads to drag some of the demonstrators into the Bureau.
Mgirbi, the police learned, had given the role of gunman to a man named Abdel Gader Tuhami.
But this was not evidence that could be used in court.
It was then that the police heard of the decorator who had seen the gunman seconds before he opened fire.
They showed him their covert mugshots and without hesitation he pointed to a man with a thin face and a black moustache, a 25-year-old student with no diplomatic cover, named Abdel Gader Tuhami, who was by then safely home in Tripoli.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
#Libya #NoNato : #NATO BABY KILLER !
NATO caused the death of tens of thousands of Libyans in less then one year.
NAZI NATO war-crimes.
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Peace is the only means to success war should only be forced upon you ... but what would you say about those that force it on you ?
I do not believe in terrorism and neither in racism or wars that are for greed or colonialism.
I am a Muslim
On my channel freedom of speech is assured.
Due to the NATO-led Libya war i dedicate my channel to expose the Iraq war style lies that justified this new western adventure.
We will not forget! 9 Ramadan 1432 / 9 August 2011 NATO's Libya Massacre.
Reporters attended the funerals of victims and saw 28 bodies buried at the local cemetery where hundreds of people gathered and vented their anger against NATO "the spies and the traitors", an AFP correspondent said.
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ABOUT LIBYA
What makes me laugh at this war is the fact that NATO members are basing this war on the mentality of "Freedom fighters" which they have refused to grant the taliban al-qaida Hamas IRA Hisbullah mnlf and lots more armed groups that claim to be fighting self-determination or their freedom from occupation...
The Arab Islamic Religious armed group in Libya that happens to print documents stating that they will not be terrorists after they win... are innocent civilians and this is regardless of the fact that NATO is wondering at the moment what kind of weapons they don't have...
NATO and Zawahiri sitting in a tree... or in one team at least for interest sake...
It is strange to go and attack the Somali Shabbab and support the Libyan Shabbab (honestly they both use the name "Youths" shabbab)
This of course does not surprise us apparently because we the readers and viewers are content with the theory that "they are in Libya for OIL" and this in our impotent way makes us content with the situation...
I am horrified that no one notices that Qatar's Emir is an absolute monarch ... and this is stated in his constitution he also came to power by overthrowing his father in a coup... and so the majority of Arab states are dictators and ALL of the GCC gulf states... where the no-fly zone originated and they have invaded their tiny member state at their embattled kings request to quell the majority Shia population (bahrain)... and they are talking about democracy and human rights and big guns vs civilians......?
Well we can conclude that instead of attacking Libya the international community should have jumped in to make peace and not war regardless if the people in Cyrenaica (east Libya) feel that they are underrepresented and need democracy to allow them to enter Tripoli... which as you can see bolstered Gadafis loyalists from a trickle to a stream and now with NATO bombs to a sea...
In the rush to Africa some countries (people) where occupied by several countries in different areas creating social and cultural and sometimes language divisions and in Somalia and Libya this is the case... Italian British Americans French forces ruled the land in different areas.
There is a differences between Cyrenaica and Tripolitania and today the civil war is on the exact boundaries of those historic divisions...(minus the sea born invasion of Misurata) Its time to make peace or Libya will turn into a Tribal and warlord fiefdoms (somalia).
Children will be born in this civil war and cease to be civil only Al-Qaida's wins.
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No media war in the middle-east ?
Look at the NEWS media landscape.
State run NEWS channels from abroad in full arabic for free with love.
Al Hurra (USA state run)
RT Arabic (Russia state)
BBC Arabic (UK state run)
Euronews Arabic (EU state run)
DWTV (Germany state run)
France24 Arabic (France state run)
CCTV Arabic (China state run)
(all are public self declared state run)
Regional:
AlAlam (Iranian state run)
AlArabia (Saudi state run secular)
AlJazeera (Qatar state run)
TRT Arabic (Turkey state run)
Many more "private" news channels usually this means a powerful prince owns it or a politically connected businessman... or "state linked".
But the game in the media war is simple each channel has its sovereign owner and people simply go for a Saudi story to Iran because they hate them or to Qatars Jazeera because they might have a spat and so on.... but if they join forces... you can understand what a psychological force they can be.
That is what i mean by Media War.
NAZI NATO war-crimes.
------------------
Peace is the only means to success war should only be forced upon you ... but what would you say about those that force it on you ?
I do not believe in terrorism and neither in racism or wars that are for greed or colonialism.
I am a Muslim
On my channel freedom of speech is assured.
Due to the NATO-led Libya war i dedicate my channel to expose the Iraq war style lies that justified this new western adventure.
We will not forget! 9 Ramadan 1432 / 9 August 2011 NATO's Libya Massacre.
Reporters attended the funerals of victims and saw 28 bodies buried at the local cemetery where hundreds of people gathered and vented their anger against NATO "the spies and the traitors", an AFP correspondent said.
----------------------------------------------------
ABOUT LIBYA
What makes me laugh at this war is the fact that NATO members are basing this war on the mentality of "Freedom fighters" which they have refused to grant the taliban al-qaida Hamas IRA Hisbullah mnlf and lots more armed groups that claim to be fighting self-determination or their freedom from occupation...
The Arab Islamic Religious armed group in Libya that happens to print documents stating that they will not be terrorists after they win... are innocent civilians and this is regardless of the fact that NATO is wondering at the moment what kind of weapons they don't have...
NATO and Zawahiri sitting in a tree... or in one team at least for interest sake...
It is strange to go and attack the Somali Shabbab and support the Libyan Shabbab (honestly they both use the name "Youths" shabbab)
This of course does not surprise us apparently because we the readers and viewers are content with the theory that "they are in Libya for OIL" and this in our impotent way makes us content with the situation...
I am horrified that no one notices that Qatar's Emir is an absolute monarch ... and this is stated in his constitution he also came to power by overthrowing his father in a coup... and so the majority of Arab states are dictators and ALL of the GCC gulf states... where the no-fly zone originated and they have invaded their tiny member state at their embattled kings request to quell the majority Shia population (bahrain)... and they are talking about democracy and human rights and big guns vs civilians......?
Well we can conclude that instead of attacking Libya the international community should have jumped in to make peace and not war regardless if the people in Cyrenaica (east Libya) feel that they are underrepresented and need democracy to allow them to enter Tripoli... which as you can see bolstered Gadafis loyalists from a trickle to a stream and now with NATO bombs to a sea...
In the rush to Africa some countries (people) where occupied by several countries in different areas creating social and cultural and sometimes language divisions and in Somalia and Libya this is the case... Italian British Americans French forces ruled the land in different areas.
There is a differences between Cyrenaica and Tripolitania and today the civil war is on the exact boundaries of those historic divisions...(minus the sea born invasion of Misurata) Its time to make peace or Libya will turn into a Tribal and warlord fiefdoms (somalia).
Children will be born in this civil war and cease to be civil only Al-Qaida's wins.
----------------------------------------------------
No media war in the middle-east ?
Look at the NEWS media landscape.
State run NEWS channels from abroad in full arabic for free with love.
Al Hurra (USA state run)
RT Arabic (Russia state)
BBC Arabic (UK state run)
Euronews Arabic (EU state run)
DWTV (Germany state run)
France24 Arabic (France state run)
CCTV Arabic (China state run)
(all are public self declared state run)
Regional:
AlAlam (Iranian state run)
AlArabia (Saudi state run secular)
AlJazeera (Qatar state run)
TRT Arabic (Turkey state run)
Many more "private" news channels usually this means a powerful prince owns it or a politically connected businessman... or "state linked".
But the game in the media war is simple each channel has its sovereign owner and people simply go for a Saudi story to Iran because they hate them or to Qatars Jazeera because they might have a spat and so on.... but if they join forces... you can understand what a psychological force they can be.
That is what i mean by Media War.
#Iraq #Basra : #NATO Gave Us Child Prostitutes !
Basra’s child prostitutes: ‘People I have sex with are generous and kind’
Source: Niqash | Saleem al-WazzanStudies by human rights groups in Iraq have found that there are a growing number of child prostitutes among Iraq's many displaced persons. NIQASH went to Basra’s markets where the underage sex workers ply their unhappy trade.
Naji is a porter in the markets in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. His job involves loading his heavy iron trolley with shoppers’ goods, then pushing them from the marketplace to the nearest taxi stand. Naji is a heavy smoker, addicted to both nicotine and narcotics – habits picked up when he first started working as a porter here. Looking tired, he says that these days he also works as a male prostitute.Naji is 15 years old; he’s been working here since he was 12.
They are kind hearted and they love me
“The people I have sex with are generous and kind though,” Naji insists. “They are kind hearted and they love me. They bring me clothes and gifts and sometimes give me cigarettes. In return I give them my company and the joy of sex.”A 2008 study undertaken by the well known Iraqi human rights organization, Al Amal (Hope), found that 72 percent of children of displaced families residing in Nasiriya, near Basra, were engaged in work inappropriate to their age, often more than seven hours per day, such as street cleaning and portering. The study, which surveyed 411 families with a total of around 1,200 children, also found that a lot of the child labourers were selling drugs or their own bodies.
Basra human rights activist, Sami Toman, believes that things are not that different in Basra. “That’s despite the fact that Basra is the richest city in the country with regard to resources and oil,” he added.
It is difficult to ascertain how widespread child prostitution is in Iraq – a lot of the children involved won’t talk about it because they have been threatened by those who use them.
But observers believe child prostitution is particularly widespread among Iraq’s displaced families – that is, families who have been forced to flee to other areas due to sectarian or other violence in their hometowns. And there are an estimated one million displaced persons in the thriving southern province.
“Child abuse is a new phenomenon and it has emerged over the past three decades in Iraq, due to the abnormal circumstances here,” Toman explained. “And these children cannot escape the conditions their families live in. They’re victims of this disintegrating society. They’re doomed to a miserable life.”Naji explains that he works as a prostitute so that he can provide for his family – he has three younger brothers, his father died in 2003 and his mother struggles alone. Often Naji will simply leave the house for work and won’t come back for days at a time – yet nobody seems to miss him.
“And when I return home, I come back with money. When they see the money they just take it and they don’t ask me where I got it from,” Naji adds.And the teenager is not the only child working as a prostitute in the Basra markets. You can see plenty of other children, in ragged clothes, with dirty faces, touring the market place – some of them beg, others sell nylon bags and many fight over left over scraps of food.
$5-$10
One of Naji’s friends, Ahmed, is in a similar situation. The skinny 14-year-old, from a family that had to leave the Babel province during 2006’s violent sectarian conflict, sells himself for between US$5 and US$10.The pair addresses each other as “mister” as though they were adults.
“When my father passed away, none of our relatives would help us. So I was forced to leave school and start working as a porter in this market,” Ahmed says.
I have to work
Ahmed and his mother live in the slums that surround Basra city. Much of their neighbourhood is home to other displaced Iraqis, all of whom fled their homes in search of a better, more peaceful life and employment in oil-rich Basra.The slums are known as Hawasem. It means “decisive” in Arabic and is the word that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein used to use to describe the war he said he would fight against the US military. Now it’s used in an ironic way, to describe the slums and also a variety of illegal acts.
“We live in one room in a house that we share with three other families,” Ahmed relates. “My mother says I have to work every day and if I don’t get some money then I am not allowed to sleep inside the house.”
Ahmed also carries a knife around with him in a leather holster. “I need it because there are other young guys here who will try and take my spot in the market. It’s dangerous to move around the market at night,” he explains.
'We don't care anymore'
A lot of the scruffy children in the market are ill treated by more fortunate locals. But Ahmed and Naji are used to the verbal abuse.“We don’t care anymore,” Ahmed says. “Working as porters, we didn’t make enough money. And I need to bring my mother money every day.”In Iraqi law penalties for anyone who sexually abuses children are severe, and can even amount to capital punishment. The child prostitutes themselves can also be arrested and incarcerated in special juvenile detention centres for long periods. However the law mostly isn’t applied.
“Although the law is very strict, there really is nobody to protect these children,” local legal expert and council member, Tariq al-Abarseem, notes. “The police don’t take their responsibility toward the children seriously, and they don’t apply the law.”At one stage, the local government planned a community policing initiative to try and help solve this problem and protect the children. Similar schemes run in Baghdad and elsewhere around Iraq. However soon after the first community policing station opened in the Zubair district in February, it was closed again.
The community police has a role that sits somewhere between the ordinary citizen and the regular police; they were supposed to find neighbourhood solutions when there were problems between neighbours, tribal leaders and family groups. But they became unpopular in Basra almost immediately when they began asking about religious backgrounds and, according to locals, interfering in people’s private lives. In March, the community policing idea was abandoned.
Everyone knows the abusers
Still, it does sound as though it would not have been too hard to do something about the child sex workers. According to merchants who work in the market everybody knows who the locals are, who are using the child prostitutes.“But nobody wants to interfere because some of them are powerful people,” the owner of a store selling dairy foods told NIQASH. “And the government doesn’t want to take any action either.”
“Some of these people come here by car or by motorcycle.
They take the children during the day and night to certain places, where they abuse them and use them for prostitution, for selling drugs or for stealing,” the store owner said.“I have a good relationship with a couple of the merchants in the market,” under-age prostitute Ahmed admits. “One of them takes me to his house and I stay there for one or two days. He sometimes brings his friends too. And he’s become a friend of my family.”
“Some of those people are dangerous. And,” he added, “there are also a bunch of local merchants who abuse the children.
They talk about it when they’re sitting around together and they boast about the number of children they’ve abused.”
Lawyer al-Abarseem says that if someone is caught abusing children then the matter is usually settled in a tribal way, away from any official channels. “For example, a person was found guilty of child abuse in Zubair a few days ago. But the matter was solved in a tribal manner,” al-Abarseem says.
Although religious or political figures may get involved, usually the “tribal process” centres on mediation between the two conflicted parties by a family elder, or tribal leader. The mediator determines the facts of the case and works out what sort of reparation is suitable, according to tribal legal codes before enacting some kind of communal reconciliation. In the recent Zubair case, the abuser was forced to move away and pay money to the victim’s family.
The social welfare system has not managed to help the child prostitutes either. Social welfare payouts for a family of five work out to be around IQD120,000 (around US$100) per month.
All of which means that for the time being children like Naji and Ahmed will be forced to continue their unhappy work in Basra’s marketplace. Ask them about their thoughts on the future today and they’ll just tell you that, for the time being, they don’t think about the future.
The best they can do at the moment, they’ll tell you, is just to get through each day.
http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/children/c-mid-east/c-iraq/2324-basras-child-prostitutes.html#.T5M4ennya1s.twitter
#Libya:Independent British Journalist Lizzie Phelan Speaks To Son of former senior Libyan official who faces assassination.
Independent journalist Lizzie Phelan who has been covering the Libyan crisis since it began speaks to Hamid Dorda, the son of Dr Abuzed Dorda.
#Libya: #Lockerbie Target - Bernt Carlsson The UN Commissioner For Namibia
by Patrick Haseldine
http://www.michaelmeacher.info/weblog/2009/10/lockerbie-the-truth-is-finally-coming-out/
http://www.michaelmeacher.info/weblog/2009/10/lockerbie-the-truth-is-finally-coming-out/
- The agenda for this urgently-needed United Nations Inquiry into the murder of UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, in the 21 December 1988 Lockerbie bombing is likely to include:
1. An analysis of the ten-year delay in the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 435 of 29 September 1978, which called for South Africa’s immediate withdrawal from its illegal occupation of Namibia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_435 ).
2. A review of the Settlement Proposal which led to the signature of the New York Accords at UN headquarters on 22 December 1988 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_Proposal ).
3. An investigation into the travel arrangements for the 23-strong delegation of South African negotiators heading for New York. Direct flights to US airports by South African Airways were banned ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Anti-Apartheid_Act ) so the whole delegation, led by Foreign Minister Pik Botha, were booked on Pan Am Flight 103. Their SAA flight arrived early at Heathrow, having cut out a scheduled stopover at Frankfurt, and six of the party – including Botha – were rebooked on the morning Pan Am Flight 101. The remainder of the party cancelled the PA 103 booking, and returned to Johannesburg ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_talk:REUTERS12NOV94.jpg ).
4. UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, was returning to New York for the signing ceremony and had been invited to speak to the European Parliament’s Development Committee in Brussels on 20 December 1988 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernt_Carlsson ). Carlsson cancelled his Sabena flight from Brussels to JFK and, instead, travelled to Heathrow by BA 391, arriving at 11:00am on 21 December 1988. He was met there by a representative of De Beers, and was driven to London. Carlsson was back at Heathrow by 17:30, in good time for the scheduled 18:00 departure of Pan Am Flight 103 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_talk:IDAG(1)12MAR90.jpg ).
5. Scottish police, in what seems to have been a cursory investigation into Bernt Carlsson’s murder, were unaware of this background. Detective Constable John Crawford stated in his 2002 book (The Lockerbie Incident: A Detective’s Tale, pages 88-89):
“We even went as far as consulting a very helpful lady librarian in Newcastle who contacted us with information she had on Bernt Carlsson. She provided much of the background on the political moves made by Carlsson on behalf of the United Nations. He had survived a previous attack on an aircraft he had been travelling on in Africa. It is unlikely that he was a target as the political scene in Southern Africa was moving inexorably towards its present state….I discounted the theory as being almost totally beyond the realms of feasibility” ( http://books.google.com/books?id=Nh9_p8RjikQC&pg=PP1&dq=Lockerbie+Incident:+A+Detective%27s+Tale#v=onepage&q=&f=false ). The same DC John Crawford was highly critical of Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill’s decision to grant compassionate release on 20 August 2009 to Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, saying:
“I think the compassion angle was all wrong. It was inevitable that people would use it against the decision he made as it was so obvious that Megrahi did not show one jot of compassion when he cold bloodedly went about his business of killing 270 innocent people” ( http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/2009/08/lockerbie-detective-macaskill-was-naive.html ).
Conclusion- It is obvious that apartheid South Africa had the means, motive and opportunity to target Bernt Carlsson in the Lockerbie bombing. Only a United Nations Inquiry has the power to uncover all the incriminating evidence and to determine whether the apartheid regime was primarily responsible – perhaps in collusion with other countries – for the execution of this crime.
#Libya :#Lockerbie - #Cameron What Is he Hiding Over Megrahi?
Cameron’s refusal to hold a proper UK inquiry into the conviction of al-Megrahi for the Lockerbie atrocity on the grounds that “there was a proper process, a proper court proceeding” simply doesn’t stand up to even the slightest scrutiny.
The most crucial evidence concerns the metal coatings and the circuit board of the timer fragment used in the bombing which was different from the timer which the Libyans believed was made exclusively for them.
Then there was the extreme unreliability of the only witness who claimed to identify Megrahi, the Maltese shopkeeper Tony Gucci, whose evidence was profoundly compromised by the fact that the US offered him a reward of $2 million and that he changed his story many times. Then there was the security guard at Heathrow who challenged the court’s conclusion that the bomb was transferred from a flight from Frankfurt by revealing that there had been a break-in to Pan Am’s baggage 17 hours before the bombing.
Hardly any of this has been tested in court, so Cameron’s sweeping aside a full inquiry is either naive or is concealing information he would rather not see exposed. But there are still more questions which need to be answered....read more
http://www.michaelmeacher.info/weblog/2012/05/what-is-cameron-hiding-over-megrahi/
The most crucial evidence concerns the metal coatings and the circuit board of the timer fragment used in the bombing which was different from the timer which the Libyans believed was made exclusively for them.
Then there was the extreme unreliability of the only witness who claimed to identify Megrahi, the Maltese shopkeeper Tony Gucci, whose evidence was profoundly compromised by the fact that the US offered him a reward of $2 million and that he changed his story many times. Then there was the security guard at Heathrow who challenged the court’s conclusion that the bomb was transferred from a flight from Frankfurt by revealing that there had been a break-in to Pan Am’s baggage 17 hours before the bombing.
Hardly any of this has been tested in court, so Cameron’s sweeping aside a full inquiry is either naive or is concealing information he would rather not see exposed. But there are still more questions which need to be answered....read more
http://www.michaelmeacher.info/weblog/2012/05/what-is-cameron-hiding-over-megrahi/
Monday, May 21, 2012
#Iraq #Afghanistan : #NATO Massacre - US war veterans tossing medals back at Nato was a heroic act
Nato summit leaders should have been forced to watch the moving protest of the former troops chucking their medals away
Nato summit leaders 'were busy posing for photo ops' as war veterans staged protest. Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
"No amount of medals, ribbons, or flags can cover the amount of human suffering caused by this war."
"I have only one word, and it is shame."
"This is for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan."
"Mostly, I'm sorry. I'm sorry to all of you. I am sorry…"
Operation Iraqi Freedom medal. Tossed. Global War on Terror medal. Thrown. National Defense medal. Pitched. Marine Corps Good Conduct medal. Flung. Navy and Marine Corps medal. Chucked.
Most of the reporting of the demonstrations that met the summit will focus on the minor violence, on the few clashes between protesters and police, on the blood, on everything that happened after the peaceful march was over. In our sad world of spectacle, the pushing and shoving will be all that gets our attention. It is a pity.
Many of these men and women urged us to do something to set straight the havoc that we have wreaked in these various occupations. Some mentioned a memorial for the tens of thousands of civilians killed in Afghanistan or more than 100,000 civilians killed in Iraq. Others offered their apologies. Still others shared their pain, their torments, their nightmares. All of them spoke truth. Perhaps that was their greatest gift of peace.
If only the Nato leaders had listened.
These courageous women and men, these veterans brought to a close a remarkably peaceful anti-Nato march with more than 10,000 protesters – supported by so many more who chanted with them along the route.
"I am returning my medal today because I want to live by my conscience, rather than be a prisoner of it."
"I apologise to the Iraqi and Afghani people for destroying your countries."
"I don't want these anymore."
"I have only one word, and it is shame."
"This is for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan."
"Mostly, I'm sorry. I'm sorry to all of you. I am sorry…"
In the shadow of the Nato summit, under the watchful eyes of a phalanx of full-black-clad riot police, dozens of former servicemen and women in uniform, veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, threw away their medals, with apologies. It was one of the most moving experiences many of us had witnessed in our lives. It is hard to describe in words. I couldn't get the lump out of my throat. Out of the corner of my eye, I caught a woman next to me crying. Their words, their voices, crackling under the emotion of their courageous act, breaking under the weight of the pain, the trauma, their anger, sadness, and hope – theirs was a heroic and beautiful act, a moving ceremony. It was a privilege to be there with these women and men who served in our wars.
Most of the reporting of the demonstrations that met the summit will focus on the minor violence, on the few clashes between protesters and police, on the blood, on everything that happened after the peaceful march was over. In our sad world of spectacle, the pushing and shoving will be all that gets our attention. It is a pity.
Because what was truly remarkable today was the American servicewomen and men tossing their medals back at Nato. In a mixture of sadness, shame, anger, and pride, of trauma, sorrow, and pain, some looking back at their time in Iraq and Afghanistan, some healing from PTSD, others chanting Occupy slogans, these men and women showed a type of courage that the Nato leaders should have been forced to watch. Tragically, our leaders were busy posing for photo ops. They should have been forced to listen to these courageous men and women, to their veterans. It is their loss, ultimately.
If only the Nato leaders had listened.
These courageous women and men, these veterans brought to a close a remarkably peaceful anti-Nato march with more than 10,000 protesters – supported by so many more who chanted with them along the route.
"I am returning my medal today because I want to live by my conscience, rather than be a prisoner of it."
"I apologise to the Iraqi and Afghani people for destroying your countries."
"I don't want these anymore."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/may/21/us-war-veterans-medals-nato-heroic-act?CMP=twt_gu
#Syria: Lies And Truths On The Media War.
For eight months, Western leaders and some public media have been agitating for a war in Syria. The extremely serious accusations leveled against Assad intimidate those who question the justification for a new military intervention. But not everyone, because - on the initiative of Voltaire Network - some came to Syria to investigate for themselves and were able to measure the extent of NATO’s propaganda. Thierry Meyssan reports on the state of the media war....read more
http://www.voltairenet.org/Lies-and-truths-about-Syria
#libya:#UK Worked With #Gaddafi - the first sign that the British went much further than being merely complicit, and were directly involved in rendition to a country where the victim could expect to be tortured.
Libyan papers show UK worked with Gaddafi in rendition operation
A secret CIA document shows that British and Libyans worked together to arrange the removal of a terror suspect to Tripoli
Documents found in Tripoli suggest that MI6 enjoyed a close relationship with Gaddafi's intelligence services. Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian
Evidence that British intelligence agencies mounted their own "rendition" operation in collaboration with Muammar Gaddafi's security services has emerged with the discovery of a cache of Libyan government papers in an abandoned office building in Tripoli.
A secret CIA document found among the haul shows that the British and Libyans worked together to arrange for a terrorism suspect to be removed from Hong Kong to Tripoli – along with his wife and children – despite the risk that they would be tortured. The wording of the document suggests the CIA was not involved in the planning of the rendition operation, but was eager to become engaged during its execution and offered financial support.
Other papers found in the building suggest MI6 enjoyed a far closer working relationship with Gaddafi's intelligence agencies than has been publicly known, and was involved in a number of US-led operations that also resulted in Islamists being consigned to Gaddafi's prisons.
On Sunday, one of the victims, Abdul Hakim Belhaj – now commander of the anti-Gaddafi militia in Tripoli – demanded an apology from London and Washington and said he was considering suing over his rendition to Tripoli and subsequent torture.
For several years, senior MI5 and MI6 officers have sought to deny that their agencies have been guilty even of complicity in the rendition operations mounted by the US after 9/11, and the subsequent torture of the victims.
The discovery of the papers suggests that on one occasion, at least, the British ran their own "rendition to torture" operation. The victim was named by the CIA as Abu Munthir. He is thought to have been a man who used this nom de guerre while living in the UK, where he is said to have encouraged a group of British Muslims to mount a bomb attack on an unspecified target in the south-east of England. The plotters were under surveillance by MI5 and counterterrorism detectives at the time that Abu Munthir was detained in Hong Kong in March 2004 before being sent to Libya.
The papers were discovered by staff of Human Rights Watch, the New York-based NGO, in the unmarked offices of Libya's external security agency. A number of the documents detail meetings between the British and Libyans during the period of rapprochement that followed the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when Gaddafi was being persuaded to abandon his nuclear weapons programme.
The fact that MI6 and Libyan intelligence enjoyed a close relationship at this time is known: the Secret Intelligence Service made no secret of its role in the successful WMD negotiations, and when Gaddafi's former intelligence chief Moussa Koussa defected last March, MI6 organised the flight. The papers show that Sir Mark Allen, the former head of counterterrorism at MI6, played a key role in nurturing this relationship.
The documents also show that British intelligence agencies provided intelligence reports on individuals of interest to Tripoli, helped the Libyans identify at least one organisation using particular telephone numbers in the UK, and were intimately involved in a number of US operations that saw Islamist terrorist suspects rendered to Libya. Since the ousting of Gaddafi it has become apparent that the regime's enemies were tortured routinely while imprisoned, and at least one rendition victim, Ibn Sheikh al-Libi, later died in what the Libyans claimed was a suicide.
The fax goes on to explain that although Hong Kong had no wish to see a Libyan aircraft land on its territory, "to enable you to assume control of Abu Munthir and his family", the operation would work if the Libyans were to charter an aircraft registered in a third country, and that the US would assist with the cost. The Hong Kong authorities were also insisting that the Libyans offer an assurance that the family's human rights would be respected, but human rights groups would say that such assurances were worthless.
Whitehall officials on Sunday defended the actions of the intelligence agencies and their links with Libya, saying this was "ministerially authorised government policy". They said there were genuine fears some Libyan dissidents living in the UK posed a potential threat to national security, because of the group's links to Islamic extremists. They were cut in 2009.
MI5 and MI6 have continued to maintain they have not been complicit in torture and rendition despite the emergence of a growing body of evidence to the contrary. For example, the last Labour government tried, unsuccessfully, to prevent the high court disclosing evidence that MI5 knew Binyam Mohamed was being tortured in Pakistan before an officer was sent to interrogate Also, a secret telegram signed by Jack Straw while he was foreign secretary, which was disclosed in a second court case, showed that the government had decided a number of British nationals should be sent to Guantánamo Bay, but only after MI5 had interrogated them in Afghanistan.
Despite this, the agencies have continued to insist they were guilty only of being "slow to detect the emerging pattern" of rendition by the US, a defence that was accepted by the intelligence and security committee, the Westminster body that was established to offer political oversight of the agencies.
Abu Munthir was thought to be the link man between a group of British jihadists, whom he had met in Luton, and Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi, who has been accused of being a senior figure in al-Qaida.
A month after Abu Munthir's detention in Hong Kong and removal to Tripoli, 18 men were arrested in police raids across the south of England. Two other men were arrested in New York and Ottawa and several were seized in Pakistan. It was alleged at a trial at the Old Bailey that Abu Munthir had encouraged members of the group to mount attacks in the UK, rather than wage jihad in Afghanistan.
The questioning of Amin by the ISI, under torture, appears to have been co-ordinated with the questioning of other suspects held by Scotland Yard at Paddington Green police station in west London. It now appears that it was also co-ordinated with the questioning – quite possibly also under torture – of Abu Munthir in Tripoli.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
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#Libya: #Lockerbie 'Bomber' Was Innocent . New Documents EXPOSE The Obvious.
New documents shed further doubt over the evidence used to convict a Libyan man for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland, on December 21, 1988.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, who was convicted in 2001 and released on bizarre “compassionate grounds” in 2009 amidst rumors of oil deals, was the only person to serve prison time for the crime.
This new evidence and a review of the case makes it almost certain he was innocent.
Among the wreckage of the plane, which was carrying mainly US and UK passengers on route to JFK International, were small fragments of a circuit-board alleged to be part of the bomb’s timer, which were found in a wooded area many miles from the immediate scene. The prosecution, using supposed CIA and FBI experts, asserted that the fragment examined was an exact match of a series of Timer’s sold to the Libyan Government. However newly released documents have revealed that the fragment was actually quite different. Instead of the tin and lead compound found on the Libyan circuit-boards, the fragment contained “pure tin”. It was not an exact match.
The evidence was discovered by a British Ministry of Defence scientist, but was never passed on to Megrahi’s lawyers, implying that the Libyan had been deliberately set-up.
In response to the new findings an MOD spokesperson told Al Jazeera that the board was likely modified before use, and this explains the difference. However this was never explored in the trial or backed up by any independent analysis.
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Evidence of a set-up:
This is not the first claim that the circuit-board evidence was fraudulent. Even the UK Guardian reported in 2007 that the fragment was a probable fake. This however didn’t stop the mainstream media invoking Lockerbie to win public support for the disastrous campaign against Gaddafi in 2011.
Edwin Bollier the now elderly former owner of the company that created the Timers, told the Guardian:
“Two years before Lockerbie, we sold 20 MST-13 timers to the Libyan military. FBI agents and the Scottish investigators said one of those timers had been used to detonate the bomb.”
He became a defence witness because of unease about the fragments he was shown. They did not match the circuit-boards his company produced.
“I was shown fragments of a brown circuit board which matched our prototype. But when the MST-13 went into production, the timers contained green boards. I knew that the timers sold to Libya had green boards.”
He further claims during the trial that the evidence had been tampered with.
“…the trial was so skewed to prove Libyan involvement that the details of what I had to say was ignored. A photograph of the fragments was produced in court and I asked to see the pieces again. When they were brought to me, they were practically carbonised. They had been tampered with since I had seen them in Dumfries.”
The Star Witness:
The prosecution’s star witness at the trial was a man named Tony Gauci, a shop owner from Malta. He identified Megrahi as a man who had bought clothing and an umbrella from him on December 7, 1988 – remnants of which were later recovered from debris at the scene.
The 2007 Scottish Criminal Case Review Commission (SCCRC) investigation, which has almost been completely ignored by the media, supported an appeal by Megrahi, citing Gauci’s testimony as unreliable. It was established that the only date Megrahi could have purchased the clothes was on December 7, but they determined that there was “no reasonable basis in the trial court’s judgment for its conclusion that the purchase of the items from Mary’s House, took place” on that day. .....read more
http://wideshut.co.uk/lockerbie-bomber-hypocrisy-and-conspiracy/
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