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Message: 1
From: "Dirk Adriaensens" <dirk.adriaensens@DELETETHISskynet.be>
To: <casi-analysis@lists.casi.org.uk>, <iac-discussion@lists.riseup.net>
Subject: False Casualty Figures
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:23:04 +0100
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False Casualty Figures
Kevin More - iraq2005.blogspot January 20, 2005 http://www.thetruthseeker=
.co.uk/print.asp?ID=3D2703
From the Pentagon as of January 14th 2005, figures have been released at so=
me 1361 U.S personnel killed and just over 10,000 wounded from the Iraq war=
and occupation. Is this a true reflection of the actual casualties or a ma=
nipulation of the figures ? The Iraq war from its inception was domesticall=
y and internationally unpopular especially as it went specifically against =
the will of the United Nations regarding pre-emptive war on the grounds of =
so called WMDs. The first casualty of war is always the truth. The war itse=
lf was instigated by the Neoconservatives in the U.S and it is they who con=
trol the Pentagon and military administration, Mr Rumsfield and Mr Wolfowit=
z themselves have control of the information flow out of Iraq, that will be=
inclusive of casualty figures released by Centcom. Is it in their interest=
to manipulate casualty flows ? In my opinion, most definitely, purely on t=
he reasons that the higher the casualties the greater the resolve of Americ=
as domestic population, starting to not only question the Iraq invasion but=
also the occupation and the reasons why America is still in Iraq, a harden=
ing of public opinion against occupation and grounds to call the troops hom=
e. The greater the casualties the louder the voices will become to withdraw=
. This will in effect foreclose on the PNAC doctrine of pre-emptive wars ar=
ound the world, which is the Neocons dream. Much is at stake for them. The =
true casualty figures will only be known by those at the Pentagon and a few=
selected personnel. Gauging previous articles and statements made from var=
ious individuals and organizations since March 2003,casualty figures can be=
pieced together to give a truer reflection on what the real cost in servic=
emen's lives are.
In November 2003 a Surgeon at the Ramstein medical base in Germany stated t=
hat it had received 9,500 casualties from Iraq needing surgery including ov=
er 3000 amputations. In the same month a chief administrator at Baghdad air=
port stated that it had shipped out around 22,000 injured servicemen and wo=
men. In April 2004 the Veterans association stated that it had received 26,=
633 disability claims from servicemen returning from Iraq. Two months later=
on the McLaughlin political show aired by CNN, discussion was on a casualt=
y figure centred around 27,000.That in its own confirms the other statistic=
s given above. From various blogs and articles from surgeons, doctors and m=
edical staff, it seems they were dealing with around 50 casualties a day, s=
omewhere in the region of 1,500 a month. Now here is where I have to start =
speculating and piece the information together as Sherlock Holmes would do =
.Since April 2004 Najaf exploded in violence twice and the same can be said=
for Fallujah each incident taking approximately a month to contain. Both N=
ajaf and Fallujah caused extensive resistance not only too those areas but =
extended out to other areas in Iraq, so that from that, there would be an i=
ncrease in casualties, I would put it at double the average, around 3,000 e=
ach for these 4 months totaling 12,000 casualties. From April 2004 to today=
January 2005 is ten months, using the template average of 1,500 casualties=
per month is 15,000 and adding a further 1,500 casualties per month for th=
ose four explosive months in Najaf and Fallujah gives a further 6,000. Ther=
efore that leaves a total of 21,000 casualties from April 2004 to date, add=
that to the Veterans association figures of 26,633 casualties pre April 20=
04 giving a total of 48,000 casualties. Using a rough guide of 1 soldier ki=
lled for every 8 wounded gives a figure of 6,000 killed.
In my opinion the true casualty figures of Iraq is around 6,000 servicemen =
killed and 48,000 wounded. Totaling 54,000.If my figures are accurate then =
the pentagon is only reporting, making public 20% of the casualties. Many p=
eople will state this cannot be possible. They cannot hide that amount. Vie=
tnam was a good reflection initially 6,000 Kia were reported later that ros=
e to 58,000 and later a further 40,000 were deemed missing in action .So if=
Vietnam is anything to judge, then most certainly casualty figures are man=
ipulated for public consumption
http://iraq2005.blogspot.com/2005/01/casualty-figures_20.html
NOTE
As the above report suggests, it is more than likely that US casualty figur=
es are being manipulated. So as to minimise the negative impact on public o=
pinion only the barest minimum are being reported. This has been further su=
bstantiated by reports and photographs of mass graves in Iraq, containing t=
he bodies of U.S. servicemen. This cover-up has been further assisted by th=
e fact that more than 30,000 US service personnel are not US citizens, but =
are actually serving in the US military in order to obtain US citizenship. =
That being the case with these so-called 'Green Card Soldiers', the US mili=
tary authorities are under no obligation to publicly acknowledge their deat=
hs. Indeed, concealing the real US casualty figures has now become somethin=
g of a US military tradition, as the following article reveals. Ed.
U.S. Suffered Over 20,000 More Military Dead During Vietnam War Than Previo=
usly Reported
By Ted Sampley - U.S. Veteran Dispatch, September 1998
The U.S. Veteran Dispatch has uncovered Pentagon records revealing that the=
United States suffered nearly 20,000 more fatalities during the Vietnam Wa=
r era than the 58,182 servicemen whose names are engraved on the National V=
ietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
According to a U.S. Army file called TAGCEN which contains over 293,000 Arm=
y casualty records, there are 19,644 U.S. Army servicemen who were killed o=
r died between January 1, 1965 and December 31, 1975 that are not counted a=
s Vietnam war dead because their death certificates were written in other c=
ountries, including the United States.
There are two versions of TAGCEN, one for public use and one for internal g=
overnment use.
To verify the information presented in this article, U.S. Army casualty rec=
ords were cross-referenced between the Pentagon's Combat Area Casualties Cu=
rrent File (CACCF) and the TAGCEN file dating between the years 1965 and 19=
75.
There is a difference between the files of approximately 500 Vietnam servic=
e records, which means the 19,644 number could be 500 higher.
The CACCF file contains 58,200 plus records of men from all services who ar=
e listed as died in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Those names are =
chiseled into the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.=
C. and the CACCF file is available to the public.
Of the total names in the CACCF file, 37,942 are of Army killed or missing =
during the time frame January 1, 1965 to December 31, 1975 and are listed o=
n The Wall.
When the 37,942 is subtracted from the 57,586 Army dead or missing the Pent=
agon has recorded in TAGCEN for 1965 to 1975, there is a difference of 19,6=
44 Army dead.
Casualty records and files which record the Marine Corps, Air Force, Navy a=
nd Coast Guard killed and wounded outside of the Vietnam War zone during th=
e 1965-75 time frame remain unavailable. The number of servicemen from thos=
e branches whose deaths were recorded in other countries is believed to be =
significantly high.
If casualty files for those branches were made public and added to the Army=
casualties, it is estimated that the number of fatalities could be as high=
as 30,000 more than the Vietnam-era dead claimed by the Pentagon.
It has long been known that servicemen who died outside Vietnam as a result=
of wounds they received in Southeast Asia were not counted as Vietnam war =
dead, but the exact number of those casualties has never been made public.
Even if a number of the fatalities are not related to the Vietnam combat ar=
ea, there is no way the United States lost 30,000 servicemen from 1965 to 1=
975 because of accidents, crime, health problems, etc.
From January 1965 until December 1975, Pentagon records show 57,586 U.S. Ar=
my servicemen died in the following countries:
North Vietnam - 11
South Vietnam - 37,259
Cambodia - 421
Czechoslovakia - 14
France - 31
Germany - 2,329
Italy - 36
Japan - 66
Laos - 134
Mexico - 11
Okinawa - 50
Panama - 49
South Korea - 438
Thailand - 167
United States - 16,004
Classified (CIA/Special Forces Operations)- 71
Other Countries such as Albania, Belgium, Liberia, Venezuela, etc. - 495
Total - 57,586
In June, to help further explore these findings, the U.S. Veteran Dispatch =
posted the casualty figures on several internet newsgroups which deal with =
the Vietnam War. There were a number of responses, some which challenged th=
e validity of our sources and some which offered more information.
The list below is an example of the Army casualties by year in South Vietna=
m and the United States.
Note as the number of Army personnel killed in South Vietnam began to climb=
in 1965, the Army dead in the United States increased correspondingly unti=
l 1971 when more soldiers died in the United States than in Vietnam.
Even though by 1973 the U.S. was backing out of the Vietnam War and U.S. ca=
sualties in Vietnam had dropped significantly, Army soldiers continued to d=
ie back home in the States.
1965 South Vietnam - 1,080
United States - 0
1966 South Vietnam - 3,770
United States - 714
1967 South Vietnam - 6,470
United States - 1,588
1968 South Vietnam - 10,595
United States - 1,887
1969 South Vietnam - 8,192
United States - 2,068
1970 South Vietnam - 4,643
United States - 1,876
1971 South Vietnam - 2,066
United States - 2,193
1972 South Vietnam - 362
United States - 1,795
1973 South Vietnam - 26
United States - 1,508
1974 South Vietnam - 40
United States - 1,231
1975 South Vietnam - 13
United States - 1,134
http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1322.htm#002
Also see: First US Soldier Killed in Iraq Not an American
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3D677
Last updated 20/01/2005
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Message: 2
From: CharlieChimp1@DELETETHISaol.com
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:53:55 EST
Subject: Depleted Uranium
To: newsclippings@casi.org.uk, al-awda-universalist@umich.edu,
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The horror of Depleted Uranium is not limited to Iraq =E2=80=93 it may wel=
l be at
our doorsteps
James Denver
The information which some governments are concealing is presented here.
January 22, 2005
'I=E2=80=99m horrified. The people out there =E2=80=93 the Iraqis, the med=
ia and the troops
=E2=80=93 risk the most appalling ill health. And the radiation from deple=
ted
uranium can travel literally anywhere. It=E2=80=99s going to destroy the l=
ives of thousands
of children, all over the world. We all know how far radiation can travel.
Radiation from Chernobyl reached Wales and in Britain you sometimes get re=
d
dust from the Sahara on your car.=E2=80=99
The speaker is not some alarmist doom-sayer. He is Dr Chris Busby, the
British radiation expert, Fellow of the University of Liverpool in the Fac=
ulty of
Medicine and UK representative on the European Committee on Radiation Risk=
,
talking about the best kept secret of this war: the fact that, by illegall=
y
using hundreds of tons of depleted uranium (DU) against Iraq, Britain and
America have gravely endangered not only the Iraqis but the whole world. F=
or these
weapons have released deadly, carcinogenic and mutagenic, radioactive
particles in such abundance that =E2=80=93 whipped up by sandstorms and ca=
rried on trade
winds =E2=80=93 there is no corner of the globe they cannot penetrate =E2=
=80=93 including
Britain. For the wind has no boundaries and time is on their side: the
radioactivity persists for over 4,500,000,000 years and can cause cancer, =
leukaemia,
brain damage, kidney failure, and extreme birth defects =E2=80=93 killing =
millions of
every age for centuries to come. A crime against humanity which may, in th=
e
eyes of historians, rank with the worst atrocities of all time.
These weapons have released deadly, carcinogenic and mutagenic, radioactiv=
e
particles in such abundance that there is no corner of the globe they cann=
ot
penetrate =E2=80=93 including Britain.
Yet, officially, no crime has been committed. For this story is a dirty
story in which the facts have been concealed from those who needed them mo=
st. It
is also a story we need to know if the people of Iraq are to get the medic=
al
care they desperately need, and if our troops, returning from Iraq, are no=
t
to suffer as terribly as the veterans of other conflicts in which depleted
uranium was used.
A dirty Tyson
=E2=80=98Depleted=E2=80=99 uranium is in many ways a misnomer. For =E2=80=
=98depleted=E2=80=99 sounds weak.
The only weak thing about depleted uranium is its price. It is dirt cheap,
toxic, waste from nuclear power plants and bomb production. However, urani=
um
is one of earth=E2=80=99s heaviest elements and DU packs a Tyson=E2=80=99s=
punch, smashing
through tanks, buildings and bunkers with equal ease, spontaneously catchi=
ng
fire as it does so, and burning people alive. =E2=80=98Crispy critters=E2=
=80=99 is what US
servicemen call those unfortunate enough to be close. And, when John Pilge=
r
encountered children killed at a greater distance he wrote: =E2=80=98The c=
hildren=E2=80=99s skin
had folded back, like parchment, revealing veins and burnt flesh that seep=
ed
blood, while the eyes, intact, stared straight ahead. I vomited.=E2=80=99 =
(Daily
Mirror)
The millions of radioactive uranium oxide particles released when it burns
can kill just as surely, but far more terribly. They can even be so tiny t=
hey
pass through a gas mask, making protection against them impossible. Yet,
small is not beautiful. For these invisible killers indiscriminately attac=
k men,
women, children and even babies in the womb =E2=80=93 and do the gravest ha=
rm of all
to children and unborn babies.
A terrible legacy
Doctors in Iraq have estimated that birth defects have increased by 2-6
times, and 3-12 times as many children have developed cancer and leukaemia=
since
1991. Moreover, a report published in The Lancet in 1998 said that as many=
as
500 children a day are dying from these sequels to war and sanctions and
that the death rate for Iraqi children under 5 years of age increased from=
23
per 1000 in 1989 to 166 per thousand in 1993. Overall, cases of lymphoblas=
tic
leukemia more than quadrupled with other cancers also increasing =E2=80=98=
at an
alarming rate=E2=80=99. In men, lung, bladder, bronchus, skin, and stomach=
cancers showed
the highest increase. In women, the highest increases were in breast and
bladder cancer, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (.1)
On hearing that DU had been used in the Gulf in 1991, the UK Atomic Energy
Authority sent the Ministry of Defence a special report on the potential
damage to health and the environment. It said that it could cause half a m=
illion
additional cancer deaths in Iraq over 10 years. In that war the authoritie=
s
only admitted to using 320 tons of DU =E2=80=93 although the Dutch charity=
LAKA
estimates the true figure is closer to 800 tons. Many times that may have =
been
spread across Iraq by this year=E2=80=99s war. The devastating damage all =
this DU will do
to the health and fertility of the people of Iraq now, and for generations=
to
come, is beyond imagining.
The radioactivity persists for over 4,500,000,000 years killing millions o=
f
every age for centuries to come. This is a crime against humanity which ma=
y
rank with the worst atrocities of all time.
We must also count the numberless thousands of miscarried babies. Nobody
knows how many Iraqis have died in the womb since DU contaminated their wo=
rld.
But it is suggested that troops who were only exposed to DU for the brief
period of the war were still excreting uranium in their semen 8 years late=
r and
some had 100 times the so called =E2=80=98safe limit=E2=80=99 of uranium i=
n their urine. The
lack of government interest in the plight of veterans of the 1991 war is
reflected in a lack of academic research on the impact of DU but informal
research has found a high incidence of birth defects in their children and=
that the
wives of men who served in Iraq have three times more miscarriages than th=
e
wives of servicemen who did not go there.
Since DU darkened the land Iraq has seen birth defects which would break a
heart of stone: babies with terribly foreshortened limbs, with their
intestines outside their bodies, with huge bulging tumours where their eye=
s should be,
or with a single eye =E2=80=93 like Cyclops, or without eyes, or without l=
imbs, and
even without heads. Significantly, some of the defects are almost unknown
outside textbooks showing the babies born near A-bomb test sites in the
Pacific. Doctors report that many women no longer say =E2=80=98Is it a girl=
or a boy?=E2=80=99 but
simply, =E2=80=98Is it normal, doctor?=E2=80=99 Moreover this terrible lega=
cy will not end.
The genes of their parents may have been damaged for ever, and the damagin=
g
DU dust is ever-present.
Blue on blue
What the governments of America and Britain have done to the people of Ira=
q
they have also done to their own soldiers, in both wars. And they have don=
e
it knowingly. For the battlefields have been thick with DU and soldiers ha=
ve
had to enter areas heavily contaminated by bombing. Moreover, their bodies
have not only been assaulted by DU but also by a vaccination regime which
violated normal protocols, experimental vaccines, nerve agent pills, and
organophosphate pesticides in their tents. Yet, though the hazards of DU w=
ere known,
British and American troops were not warned of its dangers. Nor were they =
given
thorough medical checks on their return =E2=80=93 even though identifying =
it quickly
might have made it possible to remove some of it from their body. Then, wh=
en
a growing number became seriously ill, and should have been sent to top
experts in radiation damage and neurotoxins, many were sent to a psychiatr=
ist.
Over 200,000 US troops who returned from the 1991 war are now invalided ou=
t
with ailments officially attributed to service in Iraq =E2=80=93 that=E2=
=80=99s 1 in 3. In
contrast, the British government=E2=80=99s failure to fully assess the hea=
lth of
returning troops, or to monitor their health, means no one even knows how =
many
have died or become gravely ill since their return. However, Gulf veterans=
=E2=80=99
associations say that, of 40,000 or so fighting fit men and women who saw =
active
service, at least 572 have died prematurely since coming home and 5000 may=
be
ill. An alarming number are thought to have taken their own lives, unable =
to
bear the torment of the innumerable ailments which have combined to take
away their career, their sexuality, their ability to have normal children,=
and
even their ability to breathe or walk normally. As one veteran puts it, th=
ey
are =E2=80=98on DU death row, waiting to die=E2=80=99.
Whatever other factors there may be, some of their illnesses are strikingl=
y
similar to those of Iraqis exposed to DU dust. For example, soldiers have
also fathered children without eyes. And, in a group of eight servicemen w=
hose
babies lack eyes seven are known to have been directly exposed to DU dust.
They too have fathered children with stunted arms, and rare abnormalities
classically associated with radiation damage. They too seem prone to cance=
r and
leukaemia. Tellingly, so are EU soldiers who served as peacekeepers in the
Balkans, where DU was also used. Indeed their leukaemia rate has been so h=
igh that
several EU governments have protested at the use of DU.
The vital evidence
Despite all that evidence of the harm done by DU, governments on both side=
s
of the Atlantic have repeatedly claimed that as it emits only =E2=80=98low=
level=E2=80=99
radiation DU is harmless. Award winning scientist, Dr Rosalie Bertell who =
has
led UN medical commissions, has studied =E2=80=98low level=E2=80=99 radiat=
ion for 30 years.(2
)She has found that uranium oxide particles have more than enough power to
harm cells, and describes their pulses of radiation as hitting surrounding
cells =E2=80=98like flashes of lightning=E2=80=99 again and again in a sin=
gle second.(2) Like
many scientists worldwide who have studied this type of radiation, she has
found that such =E2=80=98lightning strikes=E2=80=99 can damage DNA and cau=
se cell mutations
which lead to cancer. Moreover, these particles can be taken up by body fl=
uids
and travel through the body, damaging more than one organ. To compound all
that Dr Bertell has found that this particular type of radiation can cause =
the
body=E2=80=99s communication systems to break down, leading to malfunctions=
in many
vital organs of the body and to many medical problems. A striking fact, si=
nce
many veterans of the first Gulf war suffer from innumerable, seemingly
unrelated, ailments.
In addition, recent research by Eric Wright, Professor of Experimental
Haematology at Dundee University, and others, have shown two ways in which=
such
radiation can do far more damage than has been thought. The first is that =
a
cell which seems unharmed by radiation can produce cells with diverse muta=
tions
several cell generations later. (And mutations are at the root of cancer a=
nd
birth defects.) This =E2=80=98radiation induced genomic instability=E2=80=
=99 is compounded
by =E2=80=98the bystander effect=E2=80=99 by which cells mutate in unison =
with others which
have been damaged by radiation =E2=80=93 rather as birds swoop and turn in =
unison.
Put together, these two mechanisms can greatly increase the damage done by =
a
single source of radiation, such as a DU particle. Moreover, it is now cle=
ar
that there are marked genetic differences in the way individuals respond t=
o
radiation =E2=80=93 with some being far more likely to develop cancer than=
others. So
the fact that some veterans of the first Gulf war seem relatively unharmed=
by
their exposure to DU in no way proves that DU did not damage others.
The price of truth
That the evidence from Iraq and from our troops, and the research findings
of such experts, have been ignored may be no accident. A US report, leaked=
in
late 1995, allegedly says, =E2=80=98The potential for health effects from =
DU exposure
is real; however it must be viewed in perspective... the financial
implications of long-term disability payments and healthcare costs would b=
e
excessive.(=E2=80=993)
Clearly, with hundreds of thousands gravely ill in Iraq and at least a
quarter of a million UK and US troops seriously ill, huge disability claim=
s might
be made not only against the governments of Britain and America if the har=
m
done by DU were acknowledged. There might also be huge claims against
companies making DU weapons and some of their directors are said to be ext=
remely
close to the White House. How close they are to Downing Street is a matter=
for
speculation, but arms sales makes a considerable contribution to British t=
rade.
So the massive whitewashing of DU over
the past 12 years, and the way that governments have failed to test
returning troops, seemed to disbelieve them, and washed their hands of the=
m, may be
purely to save money.
The possibility that financial considerations have led the governments of
Britain and America to cynically avoid taking responsibility for the harm =
they
have done not only to the people of Iraq but to their own troops may seem
outlandish. Yet DU weapons weren=E2=80=99t used by the other side and no o=
ther
explanation fits the evidence. For, in the days before Britain and America=
first used
DU in war its hazards were no secret.(4) One American study in 1990 said D=
U
was =E2=80=98linked to cancer when exposures are internal, [and to] chemic=
al toxicity =E2=80=93
causing kidney damage=E2=80=99. While another openly warned that exposure=
to these
particles under battlefield conditions could lead to cancers of the lung a=
nd
bone, kidney damage, non-malignant lung disease, neuro-cognitive disorders=
,
chromosomal damage and birth defects.(5)
A culture of denial
In 1996 and 1997 UN Human Rights Tribunals condemned DU weapons for
illegally breaking the Geneva Convention and classed them as =E2=80=98weap=
ons of mass
destruction=E2=80=99 =E2=80=98incompatible with international humanitarian=
and human rights law=E2=80=99.
Since then, following leukaemia in European peacekeeping troops in the Bal=
kans
and Afghanistan (where DU was also used), the EU has twice called for DU
weapons to be banned.
Yet, far from banning DU, America and Britain stepped up their denials of
the harm from this radioactive dust as more and more troops from the first=
Gulf
war and from action and peacekeeping in the Balkan and Afghanistan have
become seriously ill. This is no coincidence. In 1997, while citing experi=
ments,
by others, in which 84 percent of dogs exposed to inhaled uranium died of
cancer of the lungs, Dr Asaf Durakovic, then Professor of Radiology and Nu=
clear
Medicine at Georgetown University in Washington was quoted as saying, =E2=
=80=98The
[US government=E2=80=99s] Veteran Administration asked me to lie about the=
risks of
incorporating depleted uranium in the human body.=E2=80=99 He concluded, =
=E2=80=98uranium=E2=80=A6 does
cause cancer, uranium does cause mutation, and uranium does kill. If we
continue with the irresponsible contamination of the biosphere, and denial=
of the
fact that human life is endangered by the deadly isotope uranium, then we
are doing disservice to ourselves, disservice to the truth, disservice to =
God
and to all generations who follow.=E2=80=99 Not what the authorities wanted=
to hear
and his research was suddenly blocked.
During 12 years of ever-growing British whitewash the authorities have
abolished military hospitals, where there could have been specialized rese=
arch on
the effects of DU and where expertise in treating DU victims could have bu=
ilt
up. And, not content with the insult of suggesting the gravely disabling
symptoms of Gulf veterans are imaginary they have refused full pensions to=
many.
For, despite all the evidence to the contrary, the current House of Commo=
ns
briefing paper on DU hazards says =E2=80=98it is judged that any radiation =
effects
from=E2=80=A6possible exposures are extremely unlikely to be a contributor=
y factor to
the illnesses currently being experienced by some Gulf war veterans.=E2=80=
=99 Note
how over a quarter of a million sick and dying US and UK vets are called =
=E2=80=98some=E2=80=99
.
The way ahead
Britain and America not only used DU in this year=E2=80=99s Iraq war, they
dramatically increased its use =E2=80=93 from a minimum of 320 tons in the =
previous war to at
minimum of 1500 tons in this one. And this time the use of DU wasn=E2=80=
=99t limited
to anti-tank weapons =E2=80=93 as it had largely been in the previous Gulf=
war =E2=80=93 but
was extended to the guided missiles, large bunker busters and big 2000 pou=
nd
bombs used in Iraq=E2=80=99s cities. This means that Iraq=E2=80=99s cities=
have been
blanketed in lethal particles =E2=80=93 any one of which can cause cancer =
or deform a
child. In addition, the use of DU in huge bombs which throw the deadly par=
ticles
higher and wider in huge plumes of smoke means that billions of deadly
particles have been carried high into the air =E2=80=93 again and again an=
d again as the
bombs rained down =E2=80=93 ready to be swept worldwide by the winds.
The Royal Society has suggested the solution is massive decontamination in
Iraq. That could only scratch the surface. For decontamination is hugely
expensive and, though it may reduce the risks in some of the worst areas, =
it
cannot fully remove them. For DU is too widespread on land and water. How =
do you
clean up every nook and cranny of a city the size of Baghdad? How can they
decontaminate a whole country in which microscopic particles, which cannot=
be
detected with a normal geiger counter, are spread from border to border? A=
nd
how can they clean up all the countries downwind of Iraq =E2=80=93 and, in=
deed, the
world?
So there are only two things we can do to mitigate this crime against
humanity. The first is to provide the best possible medical care for the p=
eople of
Iraq, for our returning troops and for those who served in the last Gulf w=
ar
and, through that, minimize their suffering. The second is to relegate war=
,
and the production and sale of weapons, to the scrap heap of history =E2=
=80=93 along
with slavery and genocide. Then, and only then, will this crime against
humanity be expunged, and the tragic deaths from this war truly bring free=
dom to
the people of Iraq, and of the world.
Read the full article in issue 60 of Caduceus... :
_http://www.caduceus.info/backissues.htm _
(http://www.caduceus.info/backissues.htm)
References
1. The Lancet volume 351, issue 9103, 28 February 1998.
2. Rosalie Bertell=E2=80=99s book Planet Earth the Latest Weapon of War wa=
s reviewed
in Caduceus issue 51, page 28.
3._www.gulflink.osd.mil/du_ii/du_ii_tabl1.htm#TABL_ResearchRepo
rtSummaries _
(http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/du_ii/du_ii_tabl1.htm#TABL_ResearchReportSumma=
ries)
4._www.wagingpeace.org/articles/02.01/020117moret.htm _
(http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/02.01/020117moret.htm)
The secret official memorandum to Brigadier General L.R.Groves from Drs
Conant, Compton and Urey of War Department Manhattan district dated Octobe=
r 1943
is available at the website
_www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/Leuren-MoretGenGroves21feb03.htm
_ (http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/Leuren-MoretGenGroves21feb03.htm)
5._www.gulflink.osd.mil/du_iitab11.htm#tabL_researchreportsumma
ries _
(http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/du_iitab11.htm#tabL_researchreportsummaries)
:: Article nr. 9099 sent on 23-jan-2005 17:27 ECT
:: The address of this page is : _www.uruknet.info?p=3D9099_
(http://www.uruknet.info/?p=3D9099)
:: The original address of this article is :
_www.caduceus.info/articles/denver.htm_
(http://www.caduceus.info/articles/denver.htm)
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Message: 3
From: "Mark Parkinson" <mark44@DELETETHISmyrealbox.com>
To: newsclippings@casi.org.uk
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:51:32 +0100
Subject: The BBC and the middle ages
Vitriolic but in my view, the BBC has played a vital part in allowing
our rulers to destroy and conquer Iraq (from the first Gulf War
through sanctions to the current war and occupation).
By: Abu Assur, Al-Moharer
January 22, 2005 - You may ask what a title, what on earth is the
connection between these three completely different subjects, names
or items?
In the middle ages, or even in the near past, in her Majesty Union
Jack countries, starving pigs and famished swine=92s roamed the streets
with errant and vagabond ravenous dogs fighting and gnawing at each
other for some possible remains in her Majesty filthy streets looking
for waste and rubbish, to consume, to devour and to survive on.
The BBC reckons that it is still living in the middle ages and the
journalists working for Bush and Blair Corporation very short of
ideas on how to cover positively the war of aggression against Iraq,
are digging into the good old Soviet Union styles propaganda or in
the United Nations boring reporting to satisfy the hunger of their
rapacious corporate bosses. How and where from to get any ideas, any
clues? Any beautifully rapped bone will do even though it was taken
from the old filthy and dusty cupboards for a success story, using,
no problem, insidious crafts and treacherous proceedings.
They cogitate, devise and meditate. How is it possible to defend the
un-defendable? How can we represent the Iraq blunder as a success
story! How to change lies into, let's say half-truths. The BBC bosses
insist: write about what has been achieved in Mesopotamia, don't be
gloomy and negative or you will lose your job. Wall street wants us
to sell the war against Iraq and justify it.
Remember how these journalists used to despise in a paternalistic and
arrogant way the Soviet Union Pravda and the Kremlin propaganda.
Short of any carrion to survive on, desperate for any positive
achievement or declaration about Iraq, they do behave like pigs and
swines roaming London streets, searching into rubbish and filth to
satisfy their hunger and to appease their cupidity. They become
ridiculous so much enslaved to their wall streets bosses. It is a
common knowledge that most of the BBC journalists work for the MI5 or
MI6 secret services.
The only trouble, we no longer live in the middle ages. We no longer
even live in the XXth century.
BBC managers and pundits still believe that there are no other
sources of information except themselves. They still imagine that
their readers, be Arabs or Muslims, gobble every single news or
analysis as a Torah word. They become out of touch of reality and
make someone wanders if they really know what is going on in Iraq and
realizes that in fact they do it on purpose. Here are some amazing
examples.
The BBC net home page flourishes with columns named such as the
perfidious title: AFTER SADDAM, or the poisonous chapter: The power
struggle in Iraq. The latest joke, no no I am not teasing, the BBC
has become a travel agent - one way for Iraq!
War against the invaders is raging, but still the BBC wants to
promote tourism in Iraq. They very well know that no one is safe in
Iraq, but still asks this treacherous question: Why the Iraqi
(puppet) tourism minister is cautious about tourism in Iraq? Amazing!
Absolutely amazing. Sometimes tragic situations makes one burst with
laughter. The US yobs with all their military might, helped and
backed by thousands of the on-the-doll apartheid hired mercenaries,
rescued by all the electronic and satellites devices and gadgets,
assisted by all the British perfidious and experimented advice, are
not able to protect themselves in Iraq, the journalists never quits
their hotel rooms and parrot what the US military press officers
would like to hand over to them, the green zone is daily bombed and
our BBC, very intelligent journalist indeed, talks about tourists
visiting Sumerian remnants in Ur, and climbing the Ziggurat of the
Chaldeans where US gangsters army dream of having a military base.
Isn't that unbelievable? This journalist must've been very fed up
indeed to hear his director of news requiring from him every single
day some good news from Iraq. So he came up with this amazingly funny
and dumb story: Tourism in Iraq!
But what our very intelligent BBC reporter - or rather MI5 full time
employee, doesn't tell us, is that the US barbarians are destroying
the site of ancient Babylon, that the very walls of the III
millennium BC Ziggurat are sullied by the US yobs porn graffitist.
This is real tourism, Yankee style, we are invited to, by our
Embedded reporter. Whom are you kidding? Whom are you taking for a
ride now? Do you think the people in the world still live in the
XVIIIth century and are still not able to verify what you are writing
or to check your hallucinating and delirious (un) professional
journalism.
Arabs today speak many more foreign languages than any of her Majesty
subjects. They are aware of any perfidious lies and any poisonous
propaganda. They are able to analyze and to adapt to new
technologies. We live no longer in the XIX century when the BBC had
it all, and could tailor whatever lies, for the Big Game, to divide
and rule to suit her majesty civilizing and looting empire, to
promote democracy under guns, to sell Palestine, to loot the Middle
East, India, East Africa, and you name it!
One of the BBC boutique's cheap and rotten products for sale is
entitled: The struggle for Iraq. As if they didn't know who are the
real actors of this war or what are its causes and origins. The BBC
would like us to believe that Iraq is already gone; that the
insurgents are Martians fighting the Anglo-Saxon civilizers.
These journalists become the object of ridicule when they publish in
blunt and large letters a chapter named: AFTER SADDAM. They
insinuate, goodness gracious hey! that Iraq is already theirs. Let me
put it in other terms. I come to the BBC Bush house, slaughter many
journalists, chase many more and tell every body while I am still
shooting: come on chaps let's organize elections now. Ha ha ha..
Would you accept that BBC? Surely the queen wouldn't accept that..!
It is undemocratic! Then why do you encourage it and justify it in
Iraq? Try to convince me that you are not profoundly racists with or
without your knowledge!
There is no tourism in Iraq! There is no After Saddam in Iraq. Iraq
is not Fiji islands, it is not Kosovo, Iraq is not Germany neither
Japan! Iraq is Iraq! Iraq is not yours. It will never be. Iraq has
never capitulated; there was no Baghdad fall. There is an ongoing
war. There is no political process in Iraq! Saddam Hussein is still
the President of Iraq. Saddam Hussein planned, conceived and put into
practice the resistance, which is terrifying the demoralized and
defeated Anglo-Saxon stuck in the mud mercenaries. These invaders
have no idea how to get out from Iraq. They are being bled to death.
I know the whole thing makes you and your Wall Street mafia bosses,
jerk and tremble. I understand your bosses are impatient, they are
losing their heads and good senses, and they want a baby from a
eunuch, impotent and sterile US-UK couple in Iraq.
Don't be happy with the number of entries to your site. These people
who visit you, they laugh at your second-rate journalism and third
class propaganda. Your lies are so flagrant and your so called
analysis are so ideologically oriented that they seem to be more
miserable than any third world countries hailing the beloved father
of the nation. Your beloved father of the nation today is being the
Oil corporate. People who enter your site, check up your lies and
make ridicule of you: Have Your Say waste of time. The writer of this
article tried once, to send you his Say..but you suppressed the core
of his message pretexting a balanced point of view. In fact you don't
admit any thing contrary to your ideology. Don't talk from now on
about different opinions and views or about neutral journalism, we
all know it, it is another white elephant.
The Iraqi resistance revealed to the world your real face and
unmasked your patent hypocrisy. Remember the outrageous BBC reporting
from Fallujah. There we have seen the values of the West, when your
journalists were fornicating in daylight with lies, helping to
slaughter iraqi civilians, embedded as they were with the Barbarian
US aggressors. When it comes to killing for looting, the values of
the West suddenly change in nasty viperous fangs.
But even if you fornicate with the US, that will not help change
reality and selling your souls to the devil will not rescue the US-UK
mercenaries from Iraq hell. Playing the ostriches will not prevent
your folk from losing the war or being hated all over this planet.
The only reality and there is absolutely no other one, is the time is
on the side of the Iraqis and Iraqi resistence is the master of the
game.
British medias like the BBC or the TV channel Sky news appear to be
even more pitiful than any UN information and Public affairs
consultants. These picked up one day experts, a non entity
individuals, who don't really have any faith in what they are doing
and are not at all convinced with what they are saying, their aim
being to hold on for their ephemeral jobs, try to boost the local UN
lord, writing in depth reports on how to castrate mosquitoes, or
struggling to give viagra pills to an old misery, or put loads of
make up on an old dodderer's face.
What is going on in Iraq because of the US-UK barbarians is ugly very
ugly so why munching without any scruples whatever bones the military
press whores hand over to you?
http://www.uruknet.info?p=3D9086
Mark Parkinson
Bodmin
Cornwall
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:28:55 +0000 (GMT)
From: The Iraq Solidarity Campaign <mcr_coalition@DELETETHISyahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: MCR_Coalition@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Iraq meetings in Manchester and Liverpool!
To: MCR_Coalition@yahoo.co.uk
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Paying the Price - Saving the Children of Iraq!
Public Meeting
Over One Million Iraqi Children died, in the silent Holocaust that was the =
UN imposed Sanctions regime between the years of 1991-2003!
Paying the Price - Saving the Children of Iraq, is going to be looking at t=
he lives of the ordinary Iraqi people and their families during the Sanctio=
ns era, along with the work of those heroic people and organisations such a=
s CARE International, which was headed by Margaret Hassan and the Human Rel=
ief Foundation, who through war and the social destruction of an entire cou=
ntry, continued to go back to Iraq and help the ordinary Iraqi people in th=
eir daily struggles against poverty, starvation and the loss of an entire g=
eneration.
Paying the Price - Saving the Children of Iraq are two special public meeti=
ngs that will be addressed by award winning free-lance journalist Ms. Felic=
ity Arbuthnot, a devoted campaigner for the Iraqi people, who through telev=
ision documentaries, radio shows, endless speaking tours around the world a=
nd through newspaper articles - managed to expose to the people in the West=
ern world, the true destructive nature, that this policy has had on a part =
of the world, that is heralded as: "the cradle of civilisation".
Paying the Price - Saving the Children of Iraq!
Speaker:
Ms. Felicity Arbuthnot
Manchester Meeting!
Date: Wednesday 26th January Time: 7-30pm
Venue: The Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester
(behind the Central Reference Library)
Liverpool Meeting!
Date: Thursday 27th January Time: 7-30pm
Venue: The CASA Club, 29 Hope Street, Liverpool
(ten minutes from the Lime Street Train Station).
Organised by the Iraq Solidarity Campaign (UK),
Sponsored by the Middle East Cultural Association
and the New Internationalist
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Message: 5
From: CharlieChimp1@DELETETHISaol.com
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:50:03 EST
Subject: Fwd: [indictsharon.net] Donald Rumsfeld now the subject of universal jurisdic...
To: efreepalestine@yahoogroups.com, al-awda-universalist@umich.edu,
AlAwda@yahoogroups.com, newsclippings@casi.org.uk
[ Presenting plain-text part of multi-format email ]
In a message dated 26/01/05 00:43:14 GMT Standard Time,
lauriekingirani@yahoo.com writes:
Below is a link to, and information from, the Center for Constitutional
Rights'
website detailing a legal complaint it has filed on behalf of Iraqis
victimized at
Abu Ghraib prison. For those who have followed the Sharon case and its
aftermath in Belgium, this information will cover some familiar terrain.
The fact that Donald Rumsfeld, who played a key role in quashing Belgium's
universal jurisdiciton legislation, should now find himself accused under
the
same sort of legislation in Germany is not only ironic but instructive.
Despite considerable disappointments in the field of international criminal
prosecution over the last four years, most notably the US withdrawal from
the
Rome Treaty establishing the International Criminal Court, the launch of a
war
against Iraq in contravention of Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter,
and
the cancellation of Belgium's progressive anti-atrocity legislation, there
are
many indications that the practice, not simply the idea, of international
justice
is indeed gaining ground: The International Court of Justice ruling on
Israel's
Wall, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's statement that the Iraq invasion and
war were illegal, and renewed judicial interest in the crimes of Gen.
Augusto
Pinochet.
Thank you for your continued interest in the prosecution of humanitatian
crimes in general, and the theory and practice of universal jurisdiction in
particular. To show your support for and commitment to international
justice,
please visit the website mentioned below, and take a moment to send a letter
to the German prosecutor expressing your encouragement of Germany's
readiness to offer up its national courts for the prosecution of serious
international crimes, such as those that occurred -- and are still occurring
-- at
Abu Ghraib prison.
Laurie King-Irani
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/legal/september_11th/sept11Article.asp?ObjID=
1xiADJOOQx&Content=472
The Center For Constitutional Rights Seeks Criminal Investigation in
Germany into Culpability of U.S. Officials in Abu Ghraib Torture German
Prosecutor Asked to Meet Obligations under Law Requiring Investigation into
Torture and War Crimes. Doctrine of Universal Jurisdiction Permits
Prosecution of Suspected War Criminals Wherever They May Be Found
Opinions and Documents
Introduction to Complaint in English
Complaint in German part 1
English Translation of German Complaint
Complaint in German part 2
List of Defendants
List of Plaintiffs
Synopsis
In a historic effort to hold high-ranking U.S. officials accountable for
brutal acts
of torture including the widely publicized abuses carried out at Abu Ghraib,
on
Tuesday November 30, 2004, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and
four Iraqi citizens filed a criminal complaint with the German Federal
Prosecutor's Office at the Karlsruhe Court, Karlsruhe, Germany. Under the
doctrine of universal jurisdiction, suspected war criminals may be
prosecuted
irrespective of where they are located.
The four Iraqis were victims of gruesome crimes including severe beatings,
sleep and food deprivation, hooding and sexual abuse.
CCR President Michael Ratner, who traveled to Berlin to file the complaint,
said "From Donald Rumsfeld on down, the political and military leaders in
charge of Iraq policy must be investigated and held accountable. It is
shameful that the United States of America, a nation that purports to set
moral
and legal standards for world, refuses to seriously investigate the role of
those at the top of the chain of command in these horrible crimes."
"Indeed,"
Ratner added "the existence of 'torture memos' drafted by administration
officials and the authorization of techniques that violated humanitarian law
by
Secretary Rumsfeld, Lt. General Sanchez and others make clear that
responsibility for Abu Ghraib and other violations of law reaches all the
way to
the top."
The U.S. officials charged include Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,
Former CIA Director George Tenet, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence
Dr. Stephen Cambone, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, Major General
Walter Wojdakowski, Major General Geoffrey Miller, Brigadier General Janis
L. Karpinski, Lieutenant Colonel Jerry L. Phillabaum, Colonel Thomas
Pappas, and Lieutenant Colonel Stephen L. Jordan.
The criminal complaint was brought under the German Code of Crimes
against International Law (CCIL) and seeks an investigation into war crimes
allegedly carried out by high ranking United States civilian and military
officials, including the incidents which occurred in Iraq.
[Please join our effort! The German Prosecutor has discretion to decide
whether to initiate an investigation. It is critical that he hear from you
so he
knows that people around the world support this effort.Send a letter here]
CCR is represented in Germany by Wolfgang Kaleck, a Berlin-based lawyer
who has been involved in similar efforts on behalf of victims of the
Argentine
"dirty war."
The charges include violations of the German Code, "War Crimes against
Persons," which outlaws killing, torture, cruel and inhumane treatment,
sexual
coercion and forcible transfers. The Code makes criminally responsible
those
who carry out the above acts as well as those who induce, condone or order
the acts. It also makes commanders liable, whether civilian or military, who
fail
to prevent their subordinates from committing such acts.
The German Code of Crimes against International Law grants German Courts
what is called Universal Jurisdiction for the above-described crimes.
Article 1,
Part 1, Section 1 states: "This Act shall apply to all criminal offenses
against
international law designated under this Act, to serious criminal offences
designated therein even when the offence was committed abroad and bears
no relation to Germany." This means that those who commit such crimes can
be prosecuted wherever found: they, like pirates of old, are considered
enemies of all humankind.
The German CCIL places a prosecuting duty on the German prosecutor for all
crimes that constitute violations of the CCIL, irrespective of the location
of the
person, the crime, or the nationality of the persons involved. Complaints
can
be filed with the German prosecutor to seek an investigation of specific
crimes, as was done here. While outside parties can bring complaints to the
attention of a prosecutor in the U.S., there is no duty to prosecute such
complaints and they do not become part of an official court procedure. In
Germany, the prosecutor is under a duty to determine if an investigation and
indictments are warranted; if he fails to do so, the complainants can appeal
to
the court.
According to CCR lawyers, in this case there are particularly compelling
reasons the prosecutor should exercise his duty. Three of the defendants are
present in Germany: Lt. General Sanchez and Major General Wodjakoski are
stationed in Heidelberg, and Colonel Pappas is in Wiesbaden. Others, such
as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, often travel to Germany. In
addition, the military units that engaged in the illegal conduct are
stationed in
Germany. Although such links to Germany are unnecessary for the
prosecutor to fulfill his duty, when the alleged perpetrators are actually
on
German soil the duty to investigate is even stronger. Their presence in
Germany gives the prosecutor an important avenue to investigate these
cases. Last, since the complainants are also victims, this places an
additional
duty on the prosecutor to investigate.
"We view Germany as a court of last resort," said CCR Vice President Peter
Weiss, "We file these cases here because there is simply no other place to
go.
It is clear that the U.S. government is not willing to open an investigation
into
these allegations against these officials." Weiss also pointed out that
Congress has failed to seriously investigate the abuses and none of the
various commissions appointed by the military and the Bush administration
has been willing to look unflinchingly up the chain of command to consider
what criminal responsibility lies with the military and political
leadership.
Instead, they asserted that the abuses and torture were the exclusive
responsibility of rogue lower-level military personnel.
There are no international courts or courts in Iraq that can carry out
investigations and prosecutions of the U.S. role, either: the United States
has
refused to join the International Criminal Court, thereby foreclosing the
option
of pursuing a prosecution in international courts; Iraq has no authority to
prosecute; and the U.S. gave immunity to all its personnel in Iraq from
Iraqi
prosecution. Says Weiss, "We are doing what is necessary and expected
when other systems of justice have failed: we are asking the German
prosecutors, who have available one of the most advanced universal
jurisdiction laws in the world, to begin an investigation that is required
under
its law."
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Subject: [indictsharon.net] Donald Rumsfeld now the subject of universal jurisdiction in Germany
Reply-To: indictsharon-owner@yahoogroups.com
Below is a link to, and information from, the Center for Constitutional Rights'
website detailing a legal complaint it has filed on behalf of Iraqis victimized at
Abu Ghraib prison. For those who have followed the Sharon case and its
aftermath in Belgium, this information will cover some familiar terrain.
The fact that Donald Rumsfeld, who played a key role in quashing Belgium's
universal jurisdiciton legislation, should now find himself accused under the
same sort of legislation in Germany is not only ironic but instructive.
Despite considerable disappointments in the field of international criminal
prosecution over the last four years, most notably the US withdrawal from the
Rome Treaty establishing the International Criminal Court, the launch of a war
against Iraq in contravention of Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter, and
the cancellation of Belgium's progressive anti-atrocity legislation, there are
many indications that the practice, not simply the idea, of international justice
is indeed gaining ground: The International Court of Justice ruling on Israel's
Wall, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's statement that the Iraq invasion and
war were illegal, and renewed judicial interest in the crimes of Gen. Augusto
Pinochet.
Thank you for your continued interest in the prosecution of humanitatian
crimes in general, and the theory and practice of universal jurisdiction in
particular. To show your support for and commitment to international justice,
please visit the website mentioned below, and take a moment to send a letter
to the German prosecutor expressing your encouragement of Germany's
readiness to offer up its national courts for the prosecution of serious
international crimes, such as those that occurred -- and are still occurring -- at
Abu Ghraib prison.
Laurie King-Irani
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/legal/september_11th/sept11Article.asp?ObjID=
1xiADJOOQx&Content=472
The Center For Constitutional Rights Seeks Criminal Investigation in
Germany into Culpability of U.S. Officials in Abu Ghraib Torture German
Prosecutor Asked to Meet Obligations under Law Requiring Investigation into
Torture and War Crimes. Doctrine of Universal Jurisdiction Permits
Prosecution of Suspected War Criminals Wherever They May Be Found
Opinions and Documents
Introduction to Complaint in English
Complaint in German part 1
English Translation of German Complaint
Complaint in German part 2
List of Defendants
List of Plaintiffs
Synopsis
In a historic effort to hold high-ranking U.S. officials accountable for brutal acts
of torture including the widely publicized abuses carried out at Abu Ghraib, on
Tuesday November 30, 2004, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and
four Iraqi citizens filed a criminal complaint with the German Federal
Prosecutor's Office at the Karlsruhe Court, Karlsruhe, Germany. Under the
doctrine of universal jurisdiction, suspected war criminals may be prosecuted
irrespective of where they are located.
The four Iraqis were victims of gruesome crimes including severe beatings,
sleep and food deprivation, hooding and sexual abuse.
CCR President Michael Ratner, who traveled to Berlin to file the complaint,
said "From Donald Rumsfeld on down, the political and military leaders in
charge of Iraq policy must be investigated and held accountable. It is
shameful that the United States of America, a nation that purports to set moral
and legal standards for world, refuses to seriously investigate the role of
those at the top of the chain of command in these horrible crimes." "Indeed,"
Ratner added "the existence of 'torture memos' drafted by administration
officials and the authorization of techniques that violated humanitarian law by
Secretary Rumsfeld, Lt. General Sanchez and others make clear that
responsibility for Abu Ghraib and other violations of law reaches all the way to
the top."
The U.S. officials charged include Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,
Former CIA Director George Tenet, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence
Dr. Stephen Cambone, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, Major General
Walter Wojdakowski, Major General Geoffrey Miller, Brigadier General Janis
L. Karpinski, Lieutenant Colonel Jerry L. Phillabaum, Colonel Thomas
Pappas, and Lieutenant Colonel Stephen L. Jordan.
The criminal complaint was brought under the German Code of Crimes
against International Law (CCIL) and seeks an investigation into war crimes
allegedly carried out by high ranking United States civilian and military
officials, including the incidents which occurred in Iraq.
[Please join our effort! The German Prosecutor has discretion to decide
whether to initiate an investigation. It is critical that he hear from you so he
knows that people around the world support this effort.Send a letter here]
CCR is represented in Germany by Wolfgang Kaleck, a Berlin-based lawyer
who has been involved in similar efforts on behalf of victims of the Argentine
"dirty war."
The charges include violations of the German Code, "War Crimes against
Persons," which outlaws killing, torture, cruel and inhumane treatment, sexual
coercion and forcible transfers. The Code makes criminally responsible those
who carry out the above acts as well as those who induce, condone or order
the acts. It also makes commanders liable, whether civilian or military, who fail
to prevent their subordinates from committing such acts.
The German Code of Crimes against International Law grants German Courts
what is called Universal Jurisdiction for the above-described crimes. Article 1,
Part 1, Section 1 states: "This Act shall apply to all criminal offenses against
international law designated under this Act, to serious criminal offences
designated therein even when the offence was committed abroad and bears
no relation to Germany." This means that those who commit such crimes can
be prosecuted wherever found: they, like pirates of old, are considered
enemies of all humankind.
The German CCIL places a prosecuting duty on the German prosecutor for all
crimes that constitute violations of the CCIL, irrespective of the location of the
person, the crime, or the nationality of the persons involved. Complaints can
be filed with the German prosecutor to seek an investigation of specific
crimes, as was done here. While outside parties can bring complaints to the
attention of a prosecutor in the U.S., there is no duty to prosecute such
complaints and they do not become part of an official court procedure. In
Germany, the prosecutor is under a duty to determine if an investigation and
indictments are warranted; if he fails to do so, the complainants can appeal to
the court.
According to CCR lawyers, in this case there are particularly compelling
reasons the prosecutor should exercise his duty. Three of the defendants are
present in Germany: Lt. General Sanchez and Major General Wodjakoski are
stationed in Heidelberg, and Colonel Pappas is in Wiesbaden. Others, such
as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, often travel to Germany. In
addition, the military units that engaged in the illegal conduct are stationed in
Germany. Although such links to Germany are unnecessary for the
prosecutor to fulfill his duty, when the alleged perpetrators are actually on
German soil the duty to investigate is even stronger. Their presence in
Germany gives the prosecutor an important avenue to investigate these
cases. Last, since the complainants are also victims, this places an additional
duty on the prosecutor to investigate.
"We view Germany as a court of last resort," said CCR Vice President Peter
Weiss, "We file these cases here because there is simply no other place to go.
It is clear that the U.S. government is not willing to open an investigation into
these allegations against these officials." Weiss also pointed out that
Congress has failed to seriously investigate the abuses and none of the
various commissions appointed by the military and the Bush administration
has been willing to look unflinchingly up the chain of command to consider
what criminal responsibility lies with the military and political leadership.
Instead, they asserted that the abuses and torture were the exclusive
responsibility of rogue lower-level military personnel.
There are no international courts or courts in Iraq that can carry out
investigations and prosecutions of the U.S. role, either: the United States has
refused to join the International Criminal Court, thereby foreclosing the option
of pursuing a prosecution in international courts; Iraq has no authority to
prosecute; and the U.S. gave immunity to all its personnel in Iraq from Iraqi
prosecution. Says Weiss, "We are doing what is necessary and expected
when other systems of justice have failed: we are asking the German
prosecutors, who have available one of the most advanced universal
jurisdiction laws in the world, to begin an investigation that is required under
its law."
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Message: 6
From: "C. Conetta - Project on Defense Alternatives" <cconetta@DELETETHIScomcast.net>
To: <newsclippings@casi.org.uk>,
<info@casi.org.uk>
Subject: report: Iraqi Election "Bait & Switch"
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 02:56:43 -0500
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Dear CASI: I have just completed the commentary linked below. I hope you f=
ind it useful and interesting. You may also receive a notice from our prom=
otions officer. If so, sorry for the duplication. Carl Conetta.
The Iraqi election "bait and switch": Faulty poll will not bring peace or U=
S withdrawal
PDA Briefing Report #17, January 2005.
HTML: http://www.comw.org/pda/0501br17.html
PDF: http://www.comw.org/pda/fulltext/0501br17.pdf
"The election as currently designed is not merely 'flawed.' It is part of a=
counterfeit process that will impede the development of a truly sovereign =
and stable Iraq."
Summary: Problems of bias, insecurity, and voter confusion have undermined =
the democratic value of the election. Nonetheless, it will win greater inte=
rnational legitimacy for the US mission and enable more vigorous counter-in=
surgency operations. US withdrawal will not soon occur. The memo examines l=
ikely electoral outcomes and the factors shaping the new Iraqi government. =
An addendum summarizes Iraqi public opinion regarding the occupation and US=
forces.
Carl Conetta
Project on Defense Alternatives
Washington DC area office
301-493-8769
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:01:11 +0000 (GMT)
From: The Iraq Solidarity Campaign <mcr_coalition@DELETETHISyahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: MCR_Coalition@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Mystery in Iraq as $300 Million is Taken Abroad
To: mcr_coalition@yahoo.co.uk
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Mystery in Iraq as $300 Million is Taken Abroad
by DEXTER FILKINS , New York Times
January 22nd, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 21 - Earlier this month, according to Iraqi officials, =
$300 million in American bills was taken out of Iraq's Central Bank, put in=
to boxes and quietly put on a charter jet bound for Lebanon.
The money was to be used to buy tanks and other weapons from international =
arms dealers, the officials say, as part of an accelerated effort to assemb=
le an armored division for the fledgling Iraqi Army. But exactly where the =
money went, and to whom, and for precisely what, remains a mystery, at leas=
t to Iraqis who say they have been trying to find out.
The $300 million deal appears to have been arranged outside the American-de=
signed financial controls intended to help Iraq - which defaulted on its ex=
ternal debt in the 1990's - legally import goods. By most accounts here, th=
ere was no public bidding for the arms contracts, nor was the deal approved=
by the entire 33-member Iraqi cabinet.
On Friday, the mysterious flight became an issue in this country's American=
-backed election campaign, when Defense Minister Hazim al-Shalaan, faced wi=
th corruption allegations, threatened to arrest a political rival.
In an interview on Al Jazeera television, Mr. Shalaan said he would order t=
he arrest of Ahmed Chalabi, one of the country's most prominent politicians=
, who has publicly accused Mr. Shalaan of sending the cash out of the count=
ry. Mr. Shalaan said he would extradite Mr. Chalabi to face corruption char=
ges of his own.
"We will arrest him and hand him over to Interpol," Mr. Shalaan thundered o=
n Al Jazeera. The charge against Mr. Chalabi, he said, would be "maligning"=
him and his ministry. He suggested that Mr. Chalabi had made the charges t=
o further his political ambitions.
Mr. Chalabi first made the allegation against Mr. Shalaan last week, on ano=
ther Arabic-language television network. He said there was no legitimate re=
ason why the Iraqi government should have used cash to pay for goods from a=
broad. He implied that at least some of the money was being used for other =
things.
"Why was $300 million in cash put on an airplane?" Mr. Chalabi asked in an =
interview this week. "Where did the money go? What was it used for? Who was=
it given to? We don't know."
The $300 million flight has been the talk of Iraq's political class, and fu=
eled the impression among many Iraqis and Western officials that the interi=
m Iraqi government, set up after the American occupation formally ended in =
June, is awash in corruption. It is not clear whether the money came from I=
raqi or American sources, or both.
"I am sorry to say that the corruption here is worse now than in the Saddam=
Hussein era," said Mowaffak al-Rubaie, the Iraqi national security adviser=
, who said he had not been informed of the details of the flight or the arm=
s deal.
That charge is echoed outside of Iraq as well. Isam al-Khafaji, the directo=
r of the New York-based Iraq Revenue Watch, said corruption had become an "=
open secret" within the Iraqi government.
"There is no legal system to bring charges against anyone not following the=
rules and not abiding by the law, especially if you're a powerful politici=
an," Mr. Khafaji said. "That's the tragedy of Iraq: Everyone runs their bus=
iness like a private fiefdom."
Mr. Shalaan did not respond to several requests for an interview, but one o=
f his aides insisted that the arms deal was legal and that the money had be=
en well spent.
Reached by telephone in Lebanon, the aide, Mishal Sarraf, said the arms dea=
l had been approved by four senior members of the Iraqi government, includi=
ng Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and Mr. Shalaan. He said it had been carried =
out quickly because of the urgency of the guerrilla war. He said he had not=
realized that the deal had been done in cash.
"We don't want to hide anything," Mr. Sarraf said.
He said the armaments themselves had been manufactured in Poland, the Czech=
Republic, Turkey, Ukraine and the United States. He said the money had bou=
ght armored personal carriers, tanks and even Humvees.
Mr. Sarraf refused to say who received the money, saying it was too dangero=
us.
"They could be killed," he said.
The public fight with Mr. Shalaan is the latest political twist for Mr. Cha=
labi, once the darling of the Bush administration and one of the main propo=
nents of the invasion of Iraq. He has since become a pariah in the United S=
tates, accused of exaggerating Mr. Hussein's prohibited weapons activities.
After a bitter falling out with the Bush administration, which accused him =
of passing secrets to the Iranian government, Mr. Chalabi has begun to mend=
fences with the Americans, and is positioning himself to make a run for th=
e prime minister's seat.
In threatening to arrest Mr. Chalabi, Mr. Shalaan appears to be trying to c=
hange the subject to Mr. Chalabi's own legal problems. In Jordan, Mr. Chala=
bi faces charges that he embezzled millions of dollars from the Petra Bank,=
which collapsed in the 1990's.
Mr. Chalabi has long maintained that the charges against him in Jordan are =
baseless, part of a vendetta being carried out for his opposition to Mr. Hu=
ssein.
Mr. Chalabi was campaigning in southern Iraq on Friday and could not be rea=
ched after Mr. Shalaan's threat to arrest him.
Details of the arms detail are still sketchy, but according to Mr. Sarraf a=
nd other Iraqi officials, it began late last year as part of the effort to =
beef up the Iraqi armed forces in the face of the relentless guerrilla insu=
rgency.
Mr. Sarraf said that though the arms deal had been approved by four senior =
cabinet members, it had not been put before the entire cabinet because of t=
he urgency in dealing with the insurgency. "It was all proper," he said.
Dr. Allawi's office did respond to repeated requests for an interview.
According to a senior Iraqi financial official with knowledge of the deal, =
who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subje=
ct, the $300 million was then transferred to the Warqa Bank, a private Iraq=
i financial institution with a capitalization of about $7 million. That ban=
k, the Iraqi official said, does not have the ability to transfer money ele=
ctronically to another account in another country. An equivalent amount of =
cash was then taken from the vault of the Central Bank of Iraq, taken to th=
e airport, loaded on an airplane and sent to Lebanon.
"The government here knows it is coming to an end," the official said. "Thi=
s is what governments do when they are coming to an end."
A second Iraqi financial official, who also spoke on the condition of anony=
mity, confirmed the transaction. The official described the arrangement as =
"unusual" and said he had ordered an investigation of the transaction.
The senior Iraqi financial official said the arms deal appeared to bypass t=
he elaborate financial mechanism set up by the Americans at the end of the =
war that was intended to help Iraqi import goods from abroad. Under that sy=
stem, Iraqi revenues intended for imports are routed through the Trade Bank=
of Iraq and are facilitated, and largely controlled, by large American fin=
ancial institutions.
The system was intended to stop creditors from tying up Iraqi money needed =
for imports and also to control the way in which the Iraqi government spend=
s its money.
Indeed, the Iraqi official with knowledge of the deal said he was concerned=
that the $300 million could be seized by the many creditors who have liens=
against the Iraqi government.
Mr. Khafaji of Iraqi Revenue Watch said the financial mechanism had been se=
t up to cover all government transactions dealing with imports, including a=
rms purchases.
But one American official with knowledge of the transaction said taking the=
$300 million out of the country, although unorthodox, was probably the onl=
y way for the Iraqi government to buy weapons.
The reason, according to the American official, is that the financial mecha=
nism set up after the war's major combat operation ended requires that Iraq=
i oil revenues be spent for "humanitarian" purposes. That meant that the Tr=
ade Bank of Iraq could not be used for arms purchases, thus necessitating t=
he use of cash.
That has since changed, the official said, with the signing of an executive=
order by President Bush late last year.
Jad Mouawad contributed reporting from New York for this article
The Iraq Solidarity Campaign
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Message: 8
From: CharlieChimp1@DELETETHISaol.com
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:41:22 EST
Subject: Fwd: Why I'm Willing to Defend Hussein, By Ramsey Clark, ...
To: casi-analysis@lists.casi.org.uk, AlAwda@yahoogroups.com,
al-awda-universalist@umich.edu, efreepalestine@yahoogroups.com
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In a message dated 24/01/05 17:28:39 GMT Standard Time, drymarc2003@yahoo.=
ca
writes:
Why I'm Willing to Defend Hussein
Former Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark explains his offer to help the deposed
dictator.
By Ramsey Clark
Ramsey Clark was attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
January 24, 2005
Late last month, I traveled to Amman, Jordan, and met with the family and
lawyers of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. I told them that I would=
help
in his defense in any way I could.
The news, when it found its way back to the United States, caused somethin=
g
of a stir. A few news reports were inquisitive =E2=80=94 and some were ske=
ptical =E2=80=94
but most were simply dismissive or derogatory. "There goes Ramsey Clark
again," they seemed to say. "Isn't it a shame? He used to be attorney gene=
ral of
the United States and now look at what he's doing."
So let me explain why defending Saddam Hussein is in line with what I've
stood for all my life and why I think it's the right thing to do now.
That Hussein and other former Iraqi officials must have lawyers of their
choice to assist them in defending against the criminal charges brought ag=
ainst
them ought to be self-evident among a people committed to truth, justice a=
nd
the rule of law.
Both international law and the Constitution of the United States guarantee
the right to effective legal representation to any person accused of a cri=
me.
This is especially important in a highly politicized situation, where trut=
h
and justice can become even harder to achieve. That's certainly the situat=
ion
today in Iraq. The war has caused the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi=
s
and the widespread destruction of civilian properties essential to life.
President Bush, who initiated and oversees the war, has manifested his hat=
red for
Hussein, publicly proclaiming that the death penalty would be appropriate.
The United States, and the Bush administration in particular, engineered t=
he
demonization of Hussein, and it has a clear political interest in his
conviction. Obviously, a fair trial of Hussein will be difficult to ensure =
=E2=80=94 and
critically important to the future of democracy in Iraq. This trial will w=
rite
history, affect the course of violence around the world and have an impact
on hopes for reconciliation within Iraq.
Hussein has been held illegally for more than a year without once meeting =
a
family member, friend or lawyer of his choice. Though the world has seen h=
im
time and again on television =E2=80=94 disheveled, apparently disoriented =
with
someone prying deep into his mouth and later alone before some unseen judg=
e =E2=80=94 he
has been cut off from all communications with the outside
_http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1026887.htm_
(http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1026887.htm)
To: drymarc2003@yahoo.ca
From: MA PA <drymarc2003@yahoo.ca>
Mailing-List: list anti-allawi-group@yahoogroups.com; contact anti-allawi-g=
roup-owner@yahoogroups.com
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Precedence: bulk
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:19:21 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [anti-allawi-group] Why I'm Willing to Defend Hussein, By Ramsey C=
lark, Former U.S. Atty. General
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Why I'm Willing to Defend HusseinFormer Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark explains h=
is offer to help the deposed dictator.
By Ramsey Clark
Ramsey Clark was attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
January 24, 2005
Late last month, I traveled to Amman, Jordan, and met with the family and l=
awyers of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. I told them that I would h=
elp in his defense in any way I could.
The news, when it found its way back to the United States, caused something=
of a stir. A few news reports were inquisitive =97 and some were skeptical=
=97 but most were simply dismissive or derogatory. "There goes Ramsey Clar=
k again," they seemed to say. "Isn't it a shame? He used to be attorney gen=
eral of the United States and now look at what he's doing."
So let me explain why defending Saddam Hussein is in line with what I've st=
ood for all my life and why I think it's the right thing to do now.
That Hussein and other former Iraqi officials must have lawyers of their ch=
oice to assist them in defending against the criminal charges brought again=
st them ought to be self-evident among a people committed to truth, justice=
and the rule of law.
Both international law and the Constitution of the United States guarantee =
the right to effective legal representation to any person accused of a crim=
e. This is especially important in a highly politicized situation, where tr=
uth and justice can become even harder to achieve. That's certainly the sit=
uation today in Iraq. The war has caused the deaths of tens of thousands of=
Iraqis and the widespread destruction of civilian properties essential to =
life. President Bush, who initiated and oversees the war, has manifested hi=
s hatred for Hussein, publicly proclaiming that the death penalty would be =
appropriate.
The United States, and the Bush administration in particular, engineered th=
e demonization of Hussein, and it has a clear political interest in his con=
viction. Obviously, a fair trial of Hussein will be difficult to ensure =97=
and critically important to the future of democracy in Iraq. This trial wi=
ll write history, affect the course of violence around the world and have a=
n impact on hopes for reconciliation within Iraq.
Hussein has been held illegally for more than a year without once meeting a=
family member, friend or lawyer of his choice. Though the world has seen h=
im time and again on television =97 disheveled, apparently disoriented with=
someone prying deep into his mouth and later alone before some unseen judg=
e =97 he has been cut off from all communications with the outside
http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1026887.htm
Latest in American Terror:
http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/index.cfm?m=3D1&y=3D2005
MARC PARENT
Political tags=97such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, =
liberal, conservative, and so forth=97are never basic criteria. The human r=
ace divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and tho=
se who have no such desire.
- Robert A Heinlein
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to ru=
le.
- H.L. Mencken
CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS
http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:28:55 +0000 (GMT)
From: The Iraq Solidarity Campaign <mcr_coalition@DELETETHISyahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: MCR_Coalition@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Iraq meetings in Manchester and Liverpool!
To: MCR_Coalition@yahoo.co.uk
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Paying the Price - Saving the Children of Iraq!
Public Meeting
Over One Million Iraqi Children died, in the silent Holocaust that was the =
UN imposed Sanctions regime between the years of 1991-2003!
Paying the Price - Saving the Children of Iraq, is going to be looking at t=
he lives of the ordinary Iraqi people and their families during the Sanctio=
ns era, along with the work of those heroic people and organisations such a=
s CARE International, which was headed by Margaret Hassan and the Human Rel=
ief Foundation, who through war and the social destruction of an entire cou=
ntry, continued to go back to Iraq and help the ordinary Iraqi people in th=
eir daily struggles against poverty, starvation and the loss of an entire g=
eneration.
Paying the Price - Saving the Children of Iraq are two special public meeti=
ngs that will be addressed by award winning free-lance journalist Ms. Felic=
ity Arbuthnot, a devoted campaigner for the Iraqi people, who through telev=
ision documentaries, radio shows, endless speaking tours around the world a=
nd through newspaper articles - managed to expose to the people in the West=
ern world, the true destructive nature, that this policy has had on a part =
of the world, that is heralded as: "the cradle of civilisation".
Paying the Price - Saving the Children of Iraq!
Speaker:
Ms. Felicity Arbuthnot
Manchester Meeting!
Date: Wednesday 26th January Time: 7-30pm
Venue: The Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester
(behind the Central Reference Library)
Liverpool Meeting!
Date: Thursday 27th January Time: 7-30pm
Venue: The CASA Club, 29 Hope Street, Liverpool
(ten minutes from the Lime Street Train Station).
Organised by the Iraq Solidarity Campaign (UK),
Sponsored by the Middle East Cultural Association
and the New Internationalist
For more information please call: 0161 882 0188 / 07946 783 801
E-mail: MCR_Coalition@yahoo.co.uk
Postal Address: Iraq Solidarity Campaign, C/o Bridge 5 Mill, 22a Beswick St=
reet, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 7HR, the UK.
website: www.iraqsolidaritycampaign.blogspot.com
The Iraq Solidarity Campaign
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