By injustice November 17 November 05
Scapegoat [File photo] (Rooters)
THREE more men will be used as scapegoats for Indonesian State sanctioned terrorism and charged with involvement in last month's Bali suicide bombings that killed four Australians, Indonesian police said last night.
But you can't always believe what police say especially in Indonesia where state sanctioned terror is rampant.
False reporting
Bali bomber? Azahari dead?
Allegedly the government responsible for the two Bali bombings and an attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta cannot now be blamed because the Indonesian authorities claim to have blown up a man they blamed it on.
Azahari bin Husin, the man they claim was responsible but now cannot give any evidence contrary to what has been claimed by the authorities because they alleged to have witnessed that he was blown up.
Quite strange was the fact that the Un-Australian headlined it this morning before any alleged DNA result confirmed the death of the alleged person Azahari bin Husin. Did he even exist? Will you be satisfied with the alleged DNA testing by the Indonesian authorities? Was he the Bali bomber? Did he execute both explosions in the first Bali bombing?
Has he been dead for some time and his DNA stored?
Sorry to tell everyone out there in TV land but there is more to this than meets the air waves and because it is claimed Husin was cornered by police in East Java means you have to trust the Indonesian police?
More: http://www.geocities.com/publik18/archive05/2005d89.html
That article was written as the initial report was broadcast based on the Un-Australian's Newspaper story that morning (with a twist) of course because of the inaccurate reporting by the pro-government media source which couldn't be relied upon, even to wipe your arse!
Just like this story is based on a report from the Daily Terror this morning but unfortunately it is amongst some of the worst of the worst reporting - so it has to be re-rooted to give the reader an honest report.
Anyway, the very next day after the Un-Australian's news break it was then reported that Azahari bin Husin did not now blow himself up and that he was shot by the police instead?
This is a sure sign of a true propaganda experience my friends, let me tell you. These reports had come from numerous sources including reporters on the ground in Indonesia and police themselves???
Now these other men have been chosen as scapegoats for the State sanctioned terror and will be prosecuted under an anti-terror law that carries the death penalty for allegedly assisting the perpetrators of a bombing.
Similarly, we have a ready source of homegrown scapegoats here in Australia too, for the war on terror, home grown. The john HoWARd variety rounded up because police said that they lied during an interview with ASIO?
Man to stand trial because police said: he lied?
A Sydney man has been committed to stand trial on charges of lying to ASIO.
It wouldn't matter what it was about would it? Okay I'll tell you then!
Because police said Abdul Rakid Hasan lied to them 'twice' and now he has to prove that he didn't lie to them 'twice' by facing two charges one for each alleged lie?
The man was one of eight arrested in last week's counter-terrorism raids.
Abdul Rakid Hasan is charged with two offences of giving false or misleading information, while being interviewed by ASIO, about his association with 'alleged security risk' Willie Brigitte.
More: http://www.geocities.com/publik18/news1.html
True scapegoats Guantanamo Bay style
Officers were questioning the three suspects on Bali after bringing them to the resort island from neighbouring Java with their feet and hands chained and heads covered by a sheet.
Police Propaganda
Bali police spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Antonius Reniban said police had seized notebooks indicating the men had been planning more attacks.
He said the men were arrested in the city of Semarang last week. He declined to give details of their alleged roles in the October 1 triple suicide attacks at crowded restaurants that killed 20 people and the three bombers.
Last weeks story that was suddenly changed
Last week, police shot and killed a Malaysian militant, Azahari Husin, alleged to have helped plan the blasts.
He is believed to have been a leader of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror group and was tracked down after police identified two of the bombers.
The anti-terror law was rushed through Indonesia's Parliament after bombings in Bali in 2002 which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.
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Ed: All we need now is another report from john hoWARd the coward, alexanda drowner, mick guilty, CIA spy sydney jones or any other alleged terrorism expert that the pro-government media choose to rely upon to validate their claims. And that will ensure us scapegoats buy it and the other three scapegoats get the bullet to take the blame for Indonesian/USA/Australian - State Sanctioned Terror.
Oh! I forgot to mention the farewell video made prior the set-up.
Yeah, the story line here is that, on one tape, the three bombers explained to their families why they were about to blow themselves up in three cafes.
Therefore the authorities don't need any proof to convict them. And I didn't mention them possible being 'tortured' to own up to it 'orally' in any court but you can get the idea from the pic! And some pictures tell the real story.
Stay tuned for my next article called:
How to avoid becoming a scapegoat for state sanctioned terror.
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By Friendly Fire posted 17 November 05
Evidence of chemical weapon use by US forces in their attack on Fallujah is overwhelming.
"I heard the order to pay attention because they were going to use white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military jargon it's known as Willy Pete É Phosphorus burns bodies, in fact it melts the flesh all the way down to the bone É I saw the burned bodies of women and children."
Jeff Englehart, a US marine who fought in Fallujah
The Pentagon has admitted US forces used white phosphorus during the assault last year on Fallujah. A Pentagon spokesman's comments last night appeared to contradict the US ambassador to London who said that American forces did not use white phosphorus as a weapon. The ambassador also, rather pathetically, tried to claim that napalm, aka Mk-77, was not used in the original invasion.
Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Barry Venable said that white phosphorus - which is normally used to lay smokescreens - was not covered by international conventions on chemical weapons.
But Professor Paul Rodgers of the University of Bradford department of peace studies said it would probably would fall into the category of chemical weapons if it was used directly against people.
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By Rohan Pearce posted 17 November 05
"Sean Baker, a US military guard, volunteered to wear an orange jumpsuit and pretend to be an uncooperative detainee in Guantanamo [Bay] during a training exercise in January 2003. The guards, who did not know who he was, beat and choked him to the point where he suffered permanent brain injury" -- case study from cruel. inhuman. degrades us all., a publication released by human rights group Amnesty International in August.
This is the reality of the "war on terror", which US President George Bush claimed in a speech on August 24 was being fought because "we believe in human rights, and the human dignity of every man, woman and child on this Earth". Perhaps more than any other distinguishing feature of the "war on terror", it's the willingness of the White House to rehabilitate torture as a tool of warfare that cuts across its rhetoric about defending "democracy" and "human rights".
The latest torture scandal the Bush administration has found itself embroiled in is the revelation, made in a November 2 Washington Post article, of the scope of a secret network of overseas prisons run by the CIA for the purposes of secret detentions and the torturing of prisoners captured in the "war on terror".
According to the Post's report, the secret prisons are located in eight countries, including Afghanistan, Thailand and several "democracies" (as the Post describes them) in eastern Europe. The paper declined to publish the names of the east European countries involved in the torture network at the request of "senior US officials", because doing so "might disrupt counterterrorism efforts in those countries and elsewhere and could make them targets of possible terrorist retaliation".
However, a November 2 London Financial Times report revealed the likely locations of the prisons to be Romania and Poland. The FT report quoted Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, as saying: "We do what is necessary to defend the country against terrorist attacks and win the war on terror in ways that is consistent with our values.
"The fact that [the alleged prisons] are secret, assuming there are such sites ... some people say the test of your principles is what you do when no-one is looking. The president has insisted that whether in public or private, the same principles will apply."
But given the horrific revelations of what goes on at US-run prisons in places like Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, Bagram air base in Afghanistan and Abu Ghraib in Baghdad, Hadley's assurances hold little weight.
CIA torture
The November 9 New York Times revealed that a secret CIA report issued last year warned that some of the spy agency's post-9/11 interrogation procedures "might" violate "some provisions of the international Convention Against Torture".
One of the techniques known to have been employed by the CIA that the report expressed unease about is "waterboarding" -- strapping detainees to a board then pushing them under water until they believe they're about to drown. Getting Away with Torture?, an April 2004 Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, accused George Tenet, CIA director from July 1997 until July 2004, of specifically authorising waterboarding.
Moreover, further contradicting Hadley's claims, in late October US Vice-President Dick Cheney and CIA director Porter Goss met with leading Republican Senator John McCain to make the case for a presidential waiver to be incorporated into a McCain-sponsored legislative amendment of a defence appropriations bill. The amendment would ban US forces from employing "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" against prisoners.
In a follow-up to the Washington Post's November 2 report on the CIA's "black sites", a November 7 Post article reported that over "the past year" Cheney "has waged an intense and largely unpublicized campaign to stop Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department from imposing more restrictive rules on the handling of terrorist suspects".
The text of the proposed waiver would make the provisions of the McCain amendment "not apply with respect to clandestine counterterrorism conducted abroad, with respect to terrorists who are not citizens of the Unites States, that are carried out by an element of the United States government other than the Department of Defense". The intent is to free the CIA from any legal restrictions on torturing foreigners suspected of being terrorists.
"The Bush administration is now the only government in the world to claim a legal justification for mistreating prisoners during interrogations", HRW claimed on October 26. "While other governments practice torture and other forms of mistreatment and have records of abuse far worse than the United States, no other government currently claims that such abuse is legally permissible..."
'Rendition'
The CIA "black sites" are just one link in the Bush administration's post-9/11 terror network. Other key pieces in Washington's torture jigsaw are the practice of "rendition" (kidnapping people and transporting them to countries with pro-US regimes such Egypt and Afghanistan for torture) and the ongoing torturing and abuse of detainees in Pentagon-run prisons.
For example, a 14-year-old boy was arrested in Karachi, Pakistan, in October 2001. According to cruel. inhuman. degrades us all., he "was taken to a prison and allegedly suspended from his wrists. He says that for around three weeks he was held in this position for between 10 and 16 hours a day, always blindfolded apart from some five minutes a day when he ate.
"In late November 2001 he was transferred into US custody, and his nightmare continued. He says that he was put into blue overalls, hooded, shackled, beaten, threatened with death, and repeatedly called 'nigger', a word he had never heard before. He was then flown to the US airbase in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he says he was assaulted, kept naked, doused in freezing water, and told that his penis would be cut off with scissors."
Early in 2002 he was moved to a prison camp at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "where he says he was hung by the wrists for up to eight hours at a time, beaten, subjected to sleep deprivation, strobe lighting and extreme cold, and racially abused. In 2003 an interrogator allegedly burned his arm with a cigarette. His arm still has scars." The boy has been a prisoner for over four years, in US custody for three and half of them, and has not been charged with any crime.
The exemption from anti-torture provisions for the CIA sought by Cheney is a near-explicit admission that the agency actively employs torture.
More insidious, though, has been the legal redefinition of "prisoner of war" status -- the Bush regime has claimed that those detained by the US military in the "war on terror" are "unlawful combatants" -- and what acts by US forces legally constitute torture.
'Redefining' torture
According to Amnesty, torture techniques used by the US and its "war on terror" allies include prolonged isolation, sleep deprivation, sensory manipulation (such as exposure to bright lights and loud music), sexual and other forms of humiliation, the use of dogs, mock executions and other threats, being forced to stand motionless or in stressful positions for hours on end, beatings, exposure to extreme heat and cold, verbal abuse (particularly racial and religious), prolonged handcuffing, hooding and blinding.
Many of these techniques most likely fall outside the new, narrower definitions of torture devised by Washington since the "war on terror" began. An August 1, 2002, US Justice Department memo argued that "acts must be of an extreme nature to rise to the level of torture". The memo, produced by the department's Office of Legal Counsel, further concluded that "certain acts may be cruel, inhuman or degrading, but still not produce pain and suffering of the requisite intensity to fall within [US federal law's] proscription against torture."
For the infliction of "physical pain" to be considered "torture", it "must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death. For purely mental pain or suffering to amount to torture... it must result in significant psychological harm or significant duration, e.g., lasting for months or even years... We conclude that the statue, taken as a whole, makes plain that it prohibits only extreme acts."
The memo was supposedly superseded by a December 2004 memo from the same office, but according to Amnesty, revised guidelines still leave plenty of scope for the torture of prisoners.
In addition to "legal" and "semi-legal" forms of torture and abuse, it is well-known that beatings, rape and other forms of sexual abuse have occurred in US-run prisons in occupied Iraq and Afghanistan -- most notoriously at Abu Ghraib and Bagram.
No-one living in countries under US military occupation, or living within the borders of Washington's despotic "anti-terror" allies like Pakistan, is safe. In May 2002, a Palestinian man, Hussain Youssouf Mustafa, was arrested in Pakistan and flown to Bagram air base. According to his account, quoted in the March-April edition of Mother Jones, while he was at Bagram three US soldiers took him from his cell and held him down while a fourth raped him with a stick.
While the Pentagon has claimed that the torture and sadistic abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US guards at Abu Ghraib were unauthorised by the White House, according to Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, these gross violations of the Geneva Conventions and US laws emanated from directives and memos issued by Cheney's office.
Wilkerson told the US National Public Radio's November 2 Morning Edition program that Powell, the then US secretary of state and a retired general, had assigned him to investigate the matter after reports emerged in the media about US troops abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. "It was clear to me that there was a visible audit trail from the vice-president's office through the secretary of defence down to the commanders in the field", he told NPR.
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