Litt gammel, men: US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and Iraq

Interrogations American Style: Først skal du si det vi vil. Så skal du holde kjeft. For alltid.

Fredsnasjonen Norges krigskamerater …

Godt vi tilhører “den siviliserte delen av verden”. Godt vi tar avstand fra overgripere og folk som forbryter seg på internasjonal lov og menneskerettigheter. Godt våre politikere ikke er noen tvetungede hyklere.

Godt det norske folk er så ansvarlige.

Og engasjerte.

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Project Censored: US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and Iraq

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released documents of forty-four autopsies held in Afghanistan and Iraq October 25, 2005. Twenty-one of those deaths were listed as homicides. The documents show that detainees died during and after interrogations by Navy SEALs, Military Intelligence, and Other Government Agency (OGA).

“These documents present irrefutable evidence that U.S. operatives tortured detainees to death during interrogation,” said Amrit Singh, an attorney with the ACLU. “The public has a right to know who authorized the use of torture techniques and why these deaths have been covered up.” . . .

VIDEO: Afghan Massacre – The Convoy of Death

Se denne sterke filmen. Er dette en krig vi virkelig ønsker å støtte? Undertegnede ønsker ikke.

Anmeldelse / review, AntiWar.com:

Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death

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Follow link for complete description (GoogleVid):

Afghan Massacre – The Convoy of Death

Produced and directed by Irish filmmaker and former BBC producer Jamie Doran, the film tells the story of thousands of prisoners who surrendered to the US military’s Afghan allies after the siege of Kunduz. According to the film, some three thousand of the prisoners were forced into sealed containers and loaded onto trucks for transport to Sheberghan prison. When the prisoners began shouting for air, U.S.-allied Afghan soldiers fired directly into the truck, killing many of them. The rest suffered through an appalling road trip lasting up to four days, so thirsty they clawed at the skin of their fellow prisoners as they licked perspiration and even drank blood from open wounds. . . .

NERVEKRIGEN – ørliten kommentar

1. Det er trist å se hvordan Den norske stat og Angrepet behandler sine hjemkomne helter. Intet nytt. Dessverre. Har selv beskuet uhumskhetene på tildels nært hold.
2. Det er fint å se norsk presse gjøre jobben sin. Keep up the good work. Aldri så liten *kremt*.

Konklusjon:

Full skjærpings over hele linja. Dette er regelrett SKAMMELIG! … og takk til TV2.

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Hjertesukk til potensielle Errorkrigdeltakere:

Våpen i seg selv er ikke farlige. De som betjener dem kan derimot være det.

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Irreversible handlinger bør overveies grundig før de begås. Muligens(?) hjelpes de som er aller minst, som det omtrentlig ble ytret i NERVEKRIGEN, men samtidig hjelpes de som er aller størst. Sånne som ikke tjener sine kroner når krigen opphører – for eksempel.

The Military-Industrial Complex and the Rise of Neo-Conservatism

Today, and in fact, for much of our recent history, our governments in the Western world have been controlled by an unseen hand. Most of us have been aware of some aspect of this hidden hand, but cannot identify who moves its fingers and controls its actions. This hidden hand goes by many names; among the more prominent being the shadow government, the iron triangle or, more accurately, the military-industrial complex. So it is necessary to now take a look back at the history and role that the military-industrial complex has played in all our lives, and continues to play today. . . .

http://www.journalof911studies.com/letters/b/MarshallMilitaryIndComplexPNAC.pdf

Perspektiv er et stikkord, tror jeg.

Samt kunnskap og samvittighet. Mener bare å være oppriktig, ikke hoven eller belærende. Misforstå meg rett.

Noen ganger kan det være fint med en påminnelse.

Tenk om vi kom dithen at ressursene som idag brukes på krig og drapsvåpen – eller fredsvåpen som det vel heter i vår ny-Orwellianske tidsalder – heller hadde blitt brukt på FRED.

Punktum.

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10. desember 2001:

3,500 Civilians Killed in Afghanistan by U.S. Bombs

. . . Professor Herold has been gathering data on civilian casualties since October 7 by culling information from news agencies, major newspapers, and first-hand accounts. “I decided to do the study because I suspected that the modern weaponry was not what it was advertised to be. I was concerned that there would be significant civilian casualties caused by the bombing, and I was able to find some mention of casualties in the foreign press but almost nothing in the U.S. press,” said Herold. . . . (Emphasis added/uthevelse tilføyet)

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/linkscopy/3500killed.html

The Dirty Little Secret of War: NERVEKRIGEN — TV2 i morgen

Rettet – gikk litt fort i dag…

Krigens skitne lille hemmelighet er at soldatene tar krigen og drepingen med seg hjem. Forsvaret, eller rettere sagt Angrepet, skrur på drapsinstinkt, men ivrer ikke etter å skru det av.

Resultatet er tikkende bomber i våre gater. Resultatet er at heltene som ofret seg for vår “sikkerhet” må leve store deler av sine resterende liv med psykiske og sosiale problem.

Posttraumatisk stress-lidelse. Angst. Depresjon.

Hvor er Moder Norge da? Hvor er de teflonbefengte tvetungene som vaker rundt på Tinget med 100% moralimmunitet? Fredselskerene som ikke trenger bevis før drepingen iverksettes. Filantropene som hauser frem demoniseringen av enorme befolkningsgrupper. Beklager språkbruken. Arg.

Gammel, men veldig god: The Big Lie – The “War” On Terrorism is a Total Fabrication

David Ratcliffe, www.ratical.org: Domestic Terrorism: The Big Lie – The “War” On Terrorism is a Total Fabrication

The government’s explanation of precisely who is the enemy has never been buttressed with facts that would stand up in a court of law. In the 2002 edition of his book The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence, Could The U.S. War On Terrorism Go Nuclear? Professor Francis Boyle describes how “the accounts provided by the United States government [of those responsible for the 9-11 bombings] simply do not add up.”

The Facts

The October 3 edition of the New York Times recounted the definitive briefing by a US ambassador to NATO officials on the alleged facts as follows:

One Western official at NATO said the briefings, which were oral, without slides or documents, did not report any direct order from Mr. Bin Laden, nor did they indicate that the Taliban knew about the attacks before they happened.

A senior diplomat for one closely allied nation characterized the briefing as containing “nothing particularly new or surprising,” adding: “It was rather descriptive and narrative rather then forensic. There was no attempt to build a legal case.”

In other words, there was no real case against Al Qaeda, Bin Laden, and the Taliban government of Afghanistan. Such was the conclusion of senior diplomats from friendly nations who attended the so-called briefing.

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. . . Our U.S. intelligence agencies, funded annually for decades with increasingly extravagant budgets, claim they were unable to prevent the 9-11 bombings due to the lack of correlated intelligence gathered. Yet within the span of less than a day, these same agencies asserted the identity of those responsible with such certainty as to preclude any serious investigation of other possible perpetrators. Whose interests are truly served by such investigations and their near instantaneous conclusions? (Emphasis added throughout/uthevelse tilføyet)

Artikkelarkiv: Afghanistan and Opium

Arkiv med MSM-artikler fra juni 2001 – mai 2004 på The Yirmeyahu Review:

Afghanistan and Opium

URL:
http://www.yirmeyahureview.com/archive/afghanistan/collection_opium.htm

Peter Dale Scott: The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

Peter Dale Scott: The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

Tajik authorities have claimed repeatedly that neither the US nor NATO exerts any pressure on the drug warlords inside Afghanistan. “There’s absolutely no threat to the labs inside Afghanistan,” said Avaz Yuldashov of the Tajikistan Drug Control Agency. “Our intelligence shows there are 400 labs making heroin there, and 80 of them are situated right along our border … Drug trafficking from Afghanistan is the main source of support for international terrorism now,” Yuldashov pointed out last year.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. The Meta-Group, the Russian 9/11, and Kosovo

• Violence and the Political Requirements of the Global Drug Traffic
• A Digression: Drugs, Meta-Groups and the Compradorial Revolution
• The “Russian 9/11″ in 1999: Bombings and Plans for War
• The Meeting in Khashoggi’s Villa, July 1999
• Khashoggi’s Interest in Chechnya
• Dunlop’s Redactions of His Source Yasenev
• The Khashoggi Villa Meeting, Drugs, and Kosovo

II. The Meta-Group, Drugs, Salafist Islam, and America

• The Role of Anton Surikov: The Dunlop and Yasenev Versions
• Surikov, Muslim Insurrectionism, and Drug Trafficking
• Allegations of Drug-Trafficking and Far West, Ltd
• Far West, Ltd, Halliburton, Diligence LLC, New Bridge, and Neil Bush
• The U.S. Contribution to the Afghan-Kosovo Drug Traffic
• How the U.S. Restored Narco-Barons to Power in Afghanistan, 2001

III. The Meta-Group, the War on Terror, and 9/11

• U.S. Geostrategic Goals and Chechnya
• The Meta-Group’s Geostrategic Goal: Maintain the War of Terror
• Concluding Question: The Meta-Group and the United States Government
• The False Dilemmas of 9/11 Theories

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Revidert, men oppstykket versjon (revised update):

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/d324.html

9/11-kommisjonens rapport om al Qaida og narkohandel: Godt dokumentert forvirrende

KEAN-KOMMISJONEN om al Qaida, bin Laden og narkohandel:

While the drug trade was a source of income for the Taliban, it did not serve the same purpose for al Qaeda, and there is no reliable evidence that Bin Laden was involved in or made his money through drug trafficking. (s. 171)

http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf

4. oktober 2001 offentliggjorde 10 Downingstreet “The Powell/Blair White Paper” (som legitimerte invasjonen av Afghanistan, men som ikke “purport to provide a prosecutable case against Usama Bin Laden in a court of law.”) hvor følgende kan leses:

• “Usama Bin Laden and Al Qaida have been based in Afghanistan since 1996, but have a network of operations throughout the world. The network includes training camps, warehouses, communication facilities and commercial operations able to raise significant sums of money to support its activity. That activity includes substantial exploitation of the illegal drugs trade from Afghanistan.

• Usama Bin Laden’s Al Qaida and the Taleban régime have a close and mutually dependent alliance. Usama Bin Laden and Al Qaida provide the Taleban régime with material, financial and military support. They jointly exploit the drugs trade. The Taleban régime allows Bin Laden to operate his terrorist training camps and activities from Afghanistan, protects him from attacks from outside, and protects the drugs stockpiles. …” (Uthevelse tilføyet)

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/linkscopy/page3554.html

Powell/Blair-dossieret utgjør altså “no reliable evidence” ifølge Kean-kommisjonen.

Noen som ser et problem her?

Mer “upålitelig bevis”:

• US ’seizes al-Qaeda drugs ship’ (BBC)

  A boat containing drugs possibly linked to al-Qaeda has been seized in the Gulf, the US military says.

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  Twelve people on board were detained after it was found to be carrying almost two tons of hashish valued at up to $10m, a Centcom statement said.

  There were “clear ties” between the shipment and al-Qaeda, it added.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3335183.stm

• Afghan/Pakistani Drug Connections

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&financing_of_al-qaeda:_a_more_detailed_look=drugs

• CIA Director George Tenet tells a Senate committee in open session that (…) “There is ample evidence that Islamic extremists such as Osama bin Laden use profits from the drug trade to support their terror campaign.” (Uthevelse tilføyet)

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a020200furtherblows#a020200furtherblows

Om kildene over holder vann, er det forunderlig at 9/11-kommisjonen flagrant omgår bevis for koblingen mellom bin Laden og narkohandel.

Om de ikke holder vann, har vi behov for en annen debatt – som vi må ta uansett.

Man trenger ikke være konspirasjonsteoretiker for å mene det.

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En informativ artikkel av Peter Dale Scott:

Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the Northern Alliance, and drug-trafficking
URL:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/q3.html

Narco Aggression: Russia accuses the U.S. military of involvement in drug trafficking out of Afghanistan

Vladimir Radyuhin, Global Research/Frontline: Narco Aggression: Russia accuses the U.S. military of involvement in drug trafficking out of Afghanistan

Could it be that the American military in Afghanistan is involved in drug trafficking? Yes, it is quite possible, according to Russia’s Ambassador to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov.

Commenting on reports that the United States military transport aviation is used for shipping narcotics out of Afghanistan, the Russian envoy said there was no smoke without fire.

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“The Americans are working hard to keep narco business flourishing in both countries,” says Mikhail Khazin, president of the consultancy firm Niakon. “They consistently destroy the local infrastructure, pushing the local population to look for illegal means of subsistence. And the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] provides protection to drug trafficking.”

U.S. freelance writer Dave Gibson recalled in an article published in American Chronicle in December what a U.S. foreign intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told NewsMax.com in March 2002 of the CIA’s record of involvement with the international drug trade. The official said: “The CIA did almost the identical thing during the Vietnam War, which had catastrophic consequences – the increase in the heroin trade in the USA beginning in the 1970s is directly attributable to the CIA. The CIA has been complicit in the global drug trade for years, so I guess they just want to carry on their favourite business.”

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US prepares to increase occupation forces in Afghanistan

by Joe Kay

Global Research, December 27, 2007

The Bush administration is preparing to significantly increase US troop levels in Afghanistan in an attempt to quell growing popular hostility to the US and NATO occupying forces. It is doing so with full confidence that it will face no significant opposition from the Democratic-controlled Congress.

On the contrary, much of the criticism from leading Democrats of the administration’s conduct of the war in Iraq has been based on the charge that the US preoccupation with Iraq has diverted troops and resources from what they claim is the real center of the “war on terror”—namely, Afghanistan. Leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have pledged, if elected, to increase US troop levels in Afghanistan.

The entire American political establishment supports an indefinite US presence in the country, which occupies a critical geo-strategic position bordering Iran and Pakistan.

These preparations were underscored at a press conference held December 21 by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright. Gates insisted, “NATO’s efforts to rebuild and secure [Afghanistan] must be sustained and expanded into next year and beyond.” He indicated that about 7,500 more troops were needed to bolster the occupation.

Karzai, Bush pledges to reduce Afghan Poppy turn out to be just one more Pipedream

by Sherwood Ross

Global Research, July 8, 2007

Just a little over two years ago, at a White House press conference on May 23, 2005, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan said his country’s poppy crop was shrinking and, “if this trend continues, we’ll have no poppies, hopefully, in Afghanistan in another five or six years.”

“That’s a promise we have given to the world and to the Afghan people,” Karzai added, “and that’s a promise that we will deliver on. Hold us accountable on that.” President Bush chimed in that President Karzai was “very forthcoming” about the desire to eradicate the poppy, the raw ingredient of heroin.

Yet, far from reducing, much less eradicating, the poppy crop, and in defiance of U.S. and NATO military pressure, Afghan farmers planted about 400,000 acres of opium poppies last year, a 59% increase over 2005, while the war swirling around the opium harvest has also grown — in intensity. Looking back, the Bush-Karzai conference turns out to be just one more pipedream.

According to author Jon Lee Anderson in the July 9th “The New Yorker” magazine, “The debilitating and corrupting effects of the opium trade on the government of President Karzai is a significant factor in the Taliban’s revival.” Another factor aiding the Taliban is the rise in U.S. and NATO air strikes. Reuters reported July 7th that in Farah province the district leader lamented an air attack in Bala Boluk that killed 108 civilians. Reuters said, “Western unwillingness to accept casualties among their own soldiers and a shortage of ground troops means commanders often turn to air power to beat the Taliban, and that almost inevitably leads to civilian deaths.”

The situation in Afghanistan is reminiscent of U.S. and British air strikes against Nazi targets in occupied France during World War II. These killed an estimated 70,000 French civilians, so many the Nazis put up posters of a smirking President Roosevelt dropping bombs on a small French girl clutching a doll. The French resistance begged to be allowed to take out German targets from the ground.

Who benefits from the Afghan Opium Trade?

by Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, September 21, 2006

The United Nations has announced that opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has soared and is expected to increase by 59% in 2006. The production of opium is estimated to have increased by 49% in relation to 2005.

The Western media in chorus blame the Taliban and the warlords. The Bush administration is said to be committed to curbing the Afghan drug trade: “The US is the main backer of a huge drive to rid Afghanistan of opium… “

Yet in a bitter irony, US military presence has served to restore rather than eradicate the drug trade.

What the reports fail to acknowledge is that the Taliban government was instrumental in implementing a successful drug eradication program, with the support and collaboration of the UN.

Implemented in 2000-2001, the Taliban’s drug eradication program led to a 94 percent decline in opium cultivation. In 2001, according to UN figures, opium production had fallen to 185 tons. Immediately following the October 2001 US led invasion, production increased dramatically, regaining its historical levels.

The Vienna based UN Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that the 2006 harvest will be of the order of 6,100 tonnes, 33 times its production levels in 2001 under the Taliban government (3200 % increase in 5 years).

Cultivation in 2006 reached a record 165,000 hectares compared with 104,000 in 2005 and 7,606 in 2001 under the Taliban (See table below).

Opium – en samling artikler

Oversettelse av John Golds artikkel Opium

Her er alle artiklene jeg har samlet om opiumsproduksjon i Afghanistan etter vår invasjon. Flere har spekulert i om opiumsproduksjon var en av hovedårsakene til at vi invanderte Afghanistan. Tanken er at det hvitvaskes en stor mengde narkopenger gjennom det usamerikanske banksystemet, såvel som gjennom Wall Street. Senator Carl Levin uttalte engang:

“Current estimates are that $500 billion to $1 trillion in illegal funds are laundered through banks worldwide each year, with about half going through U.S. financial institutions.“

I tiden rundt vår invasjon var opiumsproduksjonen i Afghanistan på et bunnivå fordi Taliban hadde klart å ødelegge en stor andel av opiumsavlingene.

Mullah Omar sa imidlertid at om USA invanderte, ville bøndene få lov til å dyrke opium.

Så heldig for usamerikanske finansinstitusjoner.

Jeg anbefaler Peter Dale Scotts arbeid om narkohandelen.

White House/U.S. Gov’t Presiding Over ‘Narcotics State’

Karzai Rejects Criticism Over Opium Trade

U.K. Under Fire Over Afghan Opium

Study Proposes Opium Licensing For Afghanistan

Rekordstor opiumsavling i det sørlige Afghanistan

Record opium crop in southern Afghanistan

by Richard Norton-Taylor

Global Research, June 28, 2007
The Guardian

· Region set to become world’s biggest supplier
· Cocaine consumption up in Europe, says UN report

Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, where some 7,000 British troops are based, is on the verge of becoming the world’s biggest drugs supplier, cultivating more opium than entire countries such as Burma, Morocco, or even Colombia, the UN warned yesterday.

The region was largely responsible for a huge increase last year in Afghanistan’s opium poppy harvest, the origin of most of the heroin on the streets of Britain and mainland Europe. And Helmand’s poppy harvest is expected to increase again this year, according to the latest annual report of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.

“Curing Helmand of its drug and insurgency cancer will rid the world of the most dangerous source of its most dangerous narcotic and go a long way to bring security to the region,” said Antonio Maria Costa, the UN agency’s executive director.

Heroin is “Good for Your Health”: Occupation Forces support Afghan Narcotics Trade

Multibillion dollar earnings for organized crime and Western financial Institutions

by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, April 29, 2007

The occupation forces in Afghanistan are supporting the drug trade, which brings between 120 and 194 billion dollars of revenues to organized crime, intelligence agencies and Western financial institutions.

The proceeds of this lucrative multibllion dollar contraband are deposited in Western banks. Almost the totality of revenues accrue to corporate interests and criminal syndicates outside Afghanistan.

The Golden Crescent drug trade, launched by the CIA in the early 1980s, continues to be protected by US intelligence, in liason with NATO occupation forces and the British military. In recent developments, British occupation forces have promoted opium cultivation through paid radio advertisements.

“A radio message broadcast across the province assured local farmers that the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) would not interfere with poppy fields currently being harvested.

“Respected people of Helmand. The soldiers of ISAF and ANA do not destroy poppy fields,” it said. “They know that many people of Afghanistan have no choice but to grow poppy. ISAF and the ANA do not want to stop people from earning their livelihoods.” ( Quoted in The Guardian, 27 April 2007)