Tag: war criminals
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bush officials ‘will be indicted for war crimes’
from raw story: In an interview Sunday on CNN, onetime gay conservative pundit Andrew Sullivan asserted that Bush officials who worked on a memo authorizing legal use of torture “should not leave the country” because they “will be, at some point, indicted for war crimes.”
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US shame still stings 40 years after my lai massacre
from monsters & critics: The soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 11th US Army Brigade, arrived in the morning. Their mission was clear. “The orders were to shoot anything that moved,” one US army officer told journalist Seymour Hersh, the investigative journalist who broke the story in 1969. As the brigade pulled out three hours later…
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marion cotillard throws a puppy off a cliff
or, how we’re missing the forest for the trees… cotillard’s comments echo experts & public from paul joseph watson: A smear campaign against Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard is now in full swing, with the establishment media attempting to hide the fact that her comments about 9/11 echo the sentiment of hundreds of widely-respected intelligence…
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pentagon charges tortured patsies with 9/11 crimes
from ap: The Pentagon has charged six detainees at Guantanamo Bay with murder and war crimes in connection with the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and officials said Monday the United States will seek the death penalty. Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann said the charges lay out a long-term sophisticated plan by the al-Qaida terrorist network…
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recruiting, russia, nuke site, ptsd, budget & ‘condor’
US military recruiting illegal aliensfrom press tv: Mexican citizen groups claim the US army is recruiting illegal immigrants from Mexico to send them to the war in Iraq. According to Prensa Latina on Friday in Culiacan, the capital of the northern state Sinaloa, civil activist Ildefonso Ortiz Cabrera told reporters that US military officers use…
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torture, rape & videotape
‘highly likely’ bush saw torture tapesfrom thinkprogress: Larry Johnson, a former CIA agent and State Department counterterrorism official, told The Bill Press Show this morning that it was “highly likely” President Bush had viewed the videotapes of the 2002 interrogations that were later destroyed: Bill Press: You said that you believe President Bush actually saw…
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sanctions, protests, shills & bill
oil rises to record $91 a barrel on iran sanctionsfrom bloomberg: Crude oil rose to a record above $91 a barrel in New York on an unexpected drop in U.S. stockpiles and concern that supply from the Middle East may be disrupted… Inventories last week fell 5.29 million barrels to the lowest since January, the…
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blackwatergate: erik prince testifies before congress
from raw story: The chairman of Blackwater USA, which is facing intense scrutiny over the deaths of a dozen Iraqi civilians last month, defended his private security contractors working in Iraq, while Republicans worked to paint the hearing as little more than an attempt for Democrats to score partisan points. In sworn testimony Erik Prince,…
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september clearinghouse
ron paul – the internet sensation video: kevin barrett questions amy goodman on building 7 international narcotics agenda behind myanmar instability cheney to address top secret conservative policy group gun bill rewrites law to disarm more americans defense stocks hit new highs pentagon seeks $190bn war funds security company death squads timeline mukasey poised to…
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iraq: video shows blackwater overreacted
official: ‘on the tape, there was nobodyshooting at the blackwater guards’from abc: The shooting deaths of 11 Iraqis and wounding of 12 more, allegedly by private security contractors working for Blackwater USA, has become a case of “he says, she says” in Iraq. Blackwater claims that the convoy of U.S. embassy officials they were escorting…
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judge dismisses lawsuit against rumsfeld
from ap/yahoo: Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld cannot be tried on allegations of torture in overseas military prisons, a federal judge said Tuesday in a case he described as “lamentable.” U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan threw out a lawsuit brought on behalf of nine former prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said Rumsfeld…
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kissinger’s extradition sought over operation condor
from afp/raw story: An attorney for a victim of Uruguay’s 1973-1985 dictatorship has asked his government to request the extradition of former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger over his alleged role in the notorious Operation Condor. Condor was a secret plan hatched by South American dictators in the 1970s to eliminate leftist political opponents…
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Officers Blamed for Tillman Case Errors
‘You know, this war is so fucking illegal.’ – Pat Tillman from ap/yahoo: Nine officers, including up to four generals, should be held accountable for missteps in the aftermath of the friendly fire death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman in Afghanistan, a Pentagon investigation will recommend… Dozens of soldiers — those immediately around Tillman at…
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saddam hussein executed in Iraq
from bbc: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at an unspecified location outside Baghdad’s Green Zone for crimes against humanity… from wayne madsen: Iraq’s former dictator managed to avoid one of the world’s most high-tech assassination efforts during the Iraq War campaign only to be allegedly discovered by U.S. forces hiding…
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death sentence for saddam upheld
from bbc: Iraq’s Appeals Court has upheld the death sentence against ousted President Saddam Hussein. The court rejected an appeal by Saddam Hussein’s lawyers and confirmed that he would be hanged, court spokesman Raed Juhi told the BBC. The appeal was launched after an Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein to death on 5 November for…