tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81314599882221426552024-03-12T23:35:44.645+00:00Unreported World ReviewSummary and links to revealing news reports not widely covered by the mainstream media - plus pointers to open source evidence challenging historical orthodoxyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131459988222142655.post-12155974999224312132012-11-22T12:44:00.000+00:002014-09-07T11:46:13.051+01:00Home<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;">See: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2005/10/libya-2011.html">http://urwreview.blogspot.com</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Summaries & links to published/broadcast world news & analysis </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>that wasn't much reported. E</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>ssential information to knowing our world better. Warning, URWReview makes no claim that all the information posted is absolute fact. Nevertheless the info is in the public domain and is posted as reference for the readers inquiry into key issues and events</b></span></div>
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<b>With many "authorities", both East and West, warning of war between Russian and NATO over Eastern Ukraine's desire for self determination, I'm looking to the Green Party for a rational constructive statement on this extremely dangerous situation.</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">Posted 10th Dec. 2012</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><i>Posted 1Nov 2012</i></span><br />
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However, it should be noted thatNATO-backed terrorists operating inside of Syria have been openly given advanced communication equipment (also here and here) by Western nations, including the United States, allowing militants to create their own, independent communication networks. This includes radio, satellite, and cell networks, as well as the under-reported existence of “suitcase Internets” (also here and here).</div>
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The looming confrontation will be even harsher that the previous ones. U.S. forces have been withdrawing from Europe and disengaging from the Middle East. They are currently clustering around China and developing a ballistic missile shield which - should it actually prove effective some day - would enable Washington to strike Beijing without fear of reprisal. [<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/china-bmd.html" target="_blank">More</a>]</div>
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<em>On October 3, 2012 the Turkish military launched repeated mortar shellings inside Syrian territory. The military action, which was used by the Turkish military, conveniently, to establish a ten-kilometer wide no-man’s land “buffer zone” inside Syria, was in response to the alleged killing by Syrian armed forces of several Turkish civilians along the border.</em></div>
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<em>There is widespread speculation that the one Syrian mortar that killed five Turkish civilians well might have been fired by Turkish-backed opposition forces intent on giving Turkey a pretext to move militarily, in military intelligence jargon, a ‘false flag’ operation.<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001B1IZJZtsu8EzRJIYeZEbzO2Rfofz_a6FzAlPi3ManD25LwPoOlBTwQ4hU4Z3679wbYkWMJtPeImAt3iz2TPpElzQctikfqLfx_HWiwFBtGqrK1m4bJzqe56ORNwj9urNzR_VNdpbbim2m0UhgoeZAvJQsRlvMzPrONdXpdPGV16GMxHMvf0qbI5oyQdR38flNdFNlboqsExCEkYvKHb6UA==" target="_blank" title="">[1]</a> </em><b>[<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/energy-war-syria-iran.html" target="_blank">More</a>]</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">Last week in an interview with the <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=o8b4necab&et=1109012546494&s=36933&e=001Ctiz43AHj3T1ivg53_WZwM1fB3LikcK4ztVWKY-16-cUW-3N1-dxiGbpDrwFPkVIPOpiiv7lOn_SEoJJ8SJmOga1TDXfaQaSujXyLxoCtl6kRyVbjk_ybyUT6sT7z3tChYq6dcdZinRFRTkBiuqRfYxemsjmNPmcgL6SdGDPIMv0_1kFQlb7LCF208RJqHIlJrnXly4YXh8="><span style="color: #173aee; text-decoration: underline;">CBS Evening News</span></a>, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said that "despite the efforts to disrupt the Iranian nuclear program, the Iranians have reached a point where they can assemble a bomb in a year or potentially less."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">Never mind that the U.S.-controlled International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has not discovered a so-called "secret facility," or that two National Intelligence Estimates produced by all 16 U.S. secret state agencies, the latest one this year, reported there is not a shred of credible evidence supporting claims that Iran has diverted uranium towards the development of a bomb. Read more:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">TEHRAN, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari on Thursday announced the upcoming launch of ten - day massive naval exercises in the international waters, the local satellite Press TV reported. Sayyari said at a press conference on Thursday that the naval maneuvers dubbed Velayat 90 will start on Saturday and will cover an area of 2,000 (1,250-mile) km stretching from the east of the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Aden, the report said. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">This is the first time that Iran's Navy carries out naval drills in such a vast area</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">The news was given in a report by the country's Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).
IRNA had said yesterday that three people were injured when an earlier US missile struck an oil depot in Abadan. The state-run news agency also said British and American jets had entered Iranian airspace several times. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">The two rockets hit Manyuhi village near the border with Iraq's Al-Faw Peninsula, an Iranian military commander told IRNA. He gave no details of casualties or damage. "In the border city of Arvand-Kenar, the invading American and British airplanes violated the airspace of the Islamic Republic of Iran three times," the commander said. "In two cases, two rockets... hit the Manyuhi village." The governor of Abadan told IRNA that three people, including a guard at the oil depot, had been released from hospital after receiving treatment. Iran has strongly condemned the US-led military assault on Iraq.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Independent Newspaper <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;"><b>By <a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/author/jody-mcintyre/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #7b7b7b; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts by Jody McIntyre">Jody McIntyre</a></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Mic Righteous controversy. The BBC censored the words ‘Free Palestine’ from his freestyle on 1Xtra radio. Just one day after the BBC released an official response to the hundreds of complaints over the drowning out of the term ‘Free Palestine’, a further case of censorship has emerged. Days later on the same radio programme, ‘Fire in the Booth’, rapper Bigz made a guest appearance. Over a commercial hip-hop beat, he rhymes:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Whoever wants to nail IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has really pulled out all the stops. Their agents have been rummaging through diaries, hotel registries, phone records, yearbooks, yada, yada, yada. The UK Telegraph even paid a visit to a high-priced DC knocking shop to get a little dirt from Madame Botox; whatever it takes to make a randy banker look like the South Hill rapist. And they're doing a pretty good job, too. The cops have made sure that the "Great Seducer" always appears handcuffed and dressed in a "pervie" raincoat with 3-days stubble before they parade him in front of the media. [<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2010/02/strauss-kahn-torpedo-dollar.html">Read more</a>]</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">A week ago <a href="http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article13366204/Iranische-Raketenbasis-in-Venezuela-in-Planungsphase.html"><span style="color: #1e439a;">Die Welt reported </span></a>that, in what may soon be a repeat of the Cuban missile crisis, US arch-enemy Iran, following a secret agreement signed on October 19, 2010 of strategic cooperation, Venezuela has allowed Iran to commence construction of a missile base on Venezuelan soil.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">The base, which will be located on the northernmost peninsula de Paraguana, 120 kilometers from the Colombian border, has recently been visited by a group of leading engineers from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard-owned construction company Khatam al-Anbia, is unofficially designed "to help develop an infrastructure to protect against air attack.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">In cooperation with its Venezuelan partners, Iran also intends to build missile silos at a depth of about 61 ft. Venezuela has told Iran, that it will be granted use of the base when completed: "According to the secret agreement between the two countries, Venezuela pledged to Iran that it will be able to strike its enemies from the joint missile base.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">Iran is attempting to boost its strategic threat to the U.S., similar to the Soviet strategy in Cuba during the 1960s." Skeptics may say that the base located about 2,400 miles from DC has no chance in striking the US capitol, the reality is that the Iranian long-range ballistic missiles <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahab-6"><span style="color: #1e439a;">Shahab 5 and 6</span></a>, are rumored to be a three-stage system, which has a range of anywhere between 3,000 and 10,000 miles. So with missile base supplies most likely to come by sea (Venezuela is a few hundred miles away from Cuba), is a recreation of the 1961 Cuban missile crisis the next big political diversion?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><em>Media coverage has focussed on the Syrian police and armed forces, which are accused of indiscriminately shooting and killing unarmed "pro-democracy" demonstrators. While these police shootings did indeed occur, what the media failed to mention is that among the demonstrators there were armed gunmen as well as snipers who were shooting at both the security forces and the protesters.</em></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">Reports of radioactive contamination and a potential meltdown at the complex have many Americans wondering how prepared our own government would be in the event something similar occurred here. More specifically, could the the health of residents living near a severely damaged nuclear reactor in the U.S. be ensured?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">Thanks to the advanced work of the men and women who develop our nation’s military medicine, the answer is yes – but only if the government now takes the necessary steps. [<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2010/02/ex-rad-wonder-drug.html"><span style="color: #173aee; text-decoration: underline;">Read more</span></a>]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><i>*Anorak notes warning, I've often wondered if the powers that be might just have a secret trick to protect themselves as the world slowly gets contaminated with plutonium etc. </i><b><i>But</i></b><i> just because Fox News say's it, does not make it true. There are some elaborate public disinformation programmes under way in the world - particularly in the US. Some may say this is part of a programme to make people feel safe and secure with nuclear power development being pushed and as fake as the 50's duck and cover exercises "in case of nuclear attack".</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"><i><b>The Japanese government can afford its enormous debt because it owns the bank that is its principal creditor. </b></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But competitors are attempting to force the bank’s privatization. If they succeed, they could propel the country into debt servitude along with other credit-strapped nations</span></b></i><span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2010/01/posted-26th-april-2011-pub.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Read more</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">]</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Large amounts of surplus dollars are pouring into the rest of the world.Central banks have recycled these dollar inflows towards the purchase of U.S. Treasury bonds, which serve to finance the federal U.S. budget deficit. Underlying this process is the military character of the U.S. payments deficit and the domestic federal budget deficit. Strange as it may seem and irrational as it would be in a more logical system of world diplomacy, the "dollar glut" is what finances America’s global military build-up. It forces foreign central banks to bear the costs of America’s expanding military empire: effective "taxation without representation". [<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2010/01/us-military-funded-by-central-banks.html">Read more</a>]</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The national government is the object of the protest movement.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The slogans in Egypt are "</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Down with Mubarak, Down with the Regime"</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. No anti-American posters have been reported... The overriding and destructive influence of the USA in Egypt and throughout the Middle East remains unheralded.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">The 1945-2010 era of relatively open trade, capital movements and foreign exchange markets is being destroyed by a predatory financial opportunism that is breaking the world economy into two spheres: a dollar sphere in which central banks in Europe, Japan and many OPEC and Third World countries hold their reserves the form of U.S. Treasury debt of declining foreign-exchange value; and a BRIC-centered sphere, led by China, India, Brazil and Russia, reaching out to include Turkey and Iran, most of Asia, and major raw materials exporters that are running trade surpluses.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Mervyn King, the governor of the <a href="http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/" style="color: #1f527b; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Bank of England</a>, has tonight made a big intervention into the debate on banking reform. In a speech at Buttonwood, New York, he describes the Basel III bank regulations as inadequate and proposes a much more radical structural breakup of the banks:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Stunningly, Mervyn King imagines the "abolition of fractional reserve banking" </i></b> <a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2009/11/mervyn-king-end-fiat-money.html">[Read more]</a></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Posted 22.9.2010 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Published </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">September 13, 2010</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">On Wednesday 15th September, immediately after Prime Minister's Questions, Douglas Carswell MP will be introducing a moderate and conservative ten-minute rule bill which would bring sound property rights and contract to monetary deposits. It is potentially of profound importance. <a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2009/11/carswell-leads-on-bank-money-reform.html">[Read more]</a></span></div>
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<i>Last week, Britain's new government said it would introduce the austerity measures required to pay down its estimated $1 trillion in debts. That means cutting public spending, laying off workers, reducing consumption, and increasing unemployment and bankruptcies. It also means shrinking the money supply, since virtually all "money" today originates as loans or debt. Reducing the outstanding debt will reduce the amount of money available to pay workers and buy goods, precipitating depression and further more economic pain.</i></div>
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The central banks charged with maintaining the banking business insist on a "stable currency" at all costs, even if it means slashing services, laying off workers, and soaring debt and interest burdens. For the financial business to continue to boom, governments must not be allowed to create money themselves, either by printing it outright or by borrowing it into existence from their own government-owned banks.</div>
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Bankers are in the debt business, and if governments are allowed to create enough money to keep themselves and their constituents out of debt, lenders will be out of business. <a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2009/11/huffington-post-june-28-2010-this-is.html">[Read more]</a></div>
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PULLMAN, Wash. –Earth-friendly perennial grain crops, which grow with less fertilizer, herbicide, fuel, and erosion than grains planted annually, could be available in two decades, according to researchers writing in the current issue of the journal <em>Science</em>.</div>
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The U.S. military is funding a massive protection racket in <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/afghanistan.html?nav=el"><span style="color: #001279;">Afghanistan</span></a>, indirectly paying tens of millions of dollars to warlords, corrupt public officials and the Taliban to ensure safe passage of its supply convoys throughout the country, according to congressional investigators. <a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2005/10/us-funding-taliban-warlords.html">[Read more]</a></div>
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Targeting Whistleblowers: ‘Transparent’ Obama wants to Imprison Any Gov. Employee who Exposes Waste & Graft, Civilian Killings, Assassinations, Human Experimentation, etc., etc. Read:-<br />
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WASHINGTON — The US has discovered $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.<br />
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The previously unknown [<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;"><a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2005/10/masters-of-war-for-profit.html">URWR Editors note: Can this be</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;"><a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2005/10/masters-of-war-for-profit.html"> true?</a></span>] deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2000/03/geopolitical-game-changer.html">http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2000/03/geopolitical-game-changer.html</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-GB">The most glaring indication of the IAEA’s appeasement of </span><st1:country -region="-region"><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">US</span></st1:place></st1:country><span lang="EN-GB"> belligerence over the latter’s allegations of Iranian nuclear ambitions, and therefore the need for further punitive UN sanctions, is the gaping omission from the agency’s report of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;">the </span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;">Tehran</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;"> nuclear fuel swap declaration.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Credit Storm in Europe</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Obama Threatens 14 Governors With Immediate Arrest</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-style: italic;">Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer, is a contributing editor to The American Conservative and a fellow at the American Conservative Defense Alliance.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">He believes Israel will try to force Obama into a war against Iran before the summer is out</span><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dr Peter Bowman, tutor at School of Economic Science, and member of the Council of Management of Henry George Foundation reflects on Karl Polanyi's 1943 book "Great Transformations" which explores what happened to sow the seeds of self-destruction in our present monetary system. Polanyi's thesis is that it was a </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">deception</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It was the pretence that the primary elements of the economy, namely land, labour and credit, are commodities that can be traded in the market in the same way that actual commodities can. He pointed out that these primary elements of the economy are patently not commodities in that they are not man-made goods. </span><a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2000/02/transforming-economy.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">[Read more]</span></a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The insane drive for American hegemony threatens life on earth.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The morons in Washington are pushing the envelope of nuclear war.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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The looming confrontation will be even harsher that the previous ones. U.S. forces have been withdrawing from Europe and disengaging from the Middle East. They are currently clustering around China and developing a ballistic missile shield which - should it actually prove effective some day - would enable Washington to strike Beijing without fear of reprisal.</div>
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To read the mainstream Western media, one would conclude that China has become an economic giant now intent on flexing its military muscle and making a massive arms buildup to do so. China’s designated new President, Xi Jinping, has just won both the top Communist party post from predecessor Hu Jintao as well as the head of the powerful Central Military Commission, giving Xi a full takeover of party and armed forces.</div>
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A recent <i>BBC</i> analysis, in an article titled “<i>China extending military reach</i>,” is typical of Western media coverage of China’s military program: “<i>China’s first aircraft carrier will begin sea trials later this year. Late last year, the first pictures were leaked of the prototype of Beijing’s new "stealth" fighter. And US military experts believe that China has begun to deploy the world’s first long-range ballistic missile capable of hitting a moving ship at sea.</i>“ [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb1" id="nh1" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Jonathan Marcus, China extending military reach, 14 June 2011">1</a>]</div>
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In Japan, nationalist politicians like politically ambitious Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara and Toru Hashimoto, the mayor of Osaka, are gaining popularity with anti-China rhetoric and by claiming Japan must develop capacities to oppose Chinese military ascendency. In May the authoritative <i>New York Times</i> ran an alarming story to the effect that China announced a “double-digit increase” in military spending. In the actual text of the article they report an 11% increase over the previous budget, far less than even the rate of inflation.</div>
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However, when we examine in detail the actual redeployment and military moves of US Armed Forces in the Asia region following President Obama’s announcement of a new “Asia Pivot” refocus of US military capacities from Western Europe to the Asia region, it becomes clear China is re-acting, in order to attempt to deal with quite real threats to its future sovereignty rather than acting in an aggressive posture.</div>
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The mere fact that a standing President, Obama, during nationally televised Presidential debates labeled China as an “adversary” is indicative of the US military posture change. The depth and nature of the US pivot to China is crystal clear when one takes a closer look at the recent developments in an Asian US Missile Defense deployment, clearly aimed at China and no other.</div>
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China officially spent barely 10% of what the US does on its defense, some $90 billion, or if certain defense-related arms import and other costs are included, perhaps $111 billion a year. Even if the Chinese authorities do not publish complete data on such sensitive areas, it’s clear China spends a mere fraction of the USA and is starting from a military-technology base far behind the USA.</div>
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The US defense budget is not just by far the world’s largest. It dominates everyone else, completely independent of any perceived threat. In the nineteenth century, the British Royal Navy built the size of its fleet according to the fleets of Britain’s two most powerful potential enemies; America’s defense budget strategists declare it will be "doomsday" if the United States builds its navy to anything less than five times that of China and Russia combined. [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb2" id="nh2" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Winslow Wheeler, The Military Imbalance: How The US Outspends the World, (...)">2</a>]</div>
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If we include the spending by Russia, China’s strongest ally within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, their combined total annual defense spending is barely $142 billion. The world’s ten top defense spending nations in addition to the USA as largest, and China as second largest, include the UK, France, Japan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Germany, India and Brazil. In 2011 the military spending of the United States totaled a staggering 46% of total spending by the world’s 171 governments and territories, almost half the entire world. [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb3" id="nh3" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Ibid.">3</a>]</div>
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Clearly, for all its rhetoric about peace-keeping missions and “democracy” promotion, the Pentagon is pursuing what its planners refer to as “Full Spectrum Dominance,” the total control of all global air, land, ocean, space, outer-space and now cyberspace. [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb4" id="nh4" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="F. William Engdahl, Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the (...)">4</a>] It is clearly determined to use its military might to secure global domination or hegemony. No other interpretation is possible.</div>
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China today, because of its dynamic economic growth and its determination to pursue sovereign Chinese national interests, merely because China exists, is becoming the Pentagon new “enemy image,” or adversary, now replacing the no longer useful “enemy image” of Islam used after September 2001 by the Bush-Cheney Administration to justify the Pentagon’s global power pursuit.</div>
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After almost two decades of neglect of its interests in East Asia, in 2011, the Obama Administration announced that the US would make “a strategic pivot” in its foreign policy to focus its military and political attention on the Asia-Pacific, particularly Southeast Asia, that is, China.</div>
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Part II: ‘Obama Doctrine’ and Asian BMD</h3>
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To date the heart of the initial stages of the China Pivot involve building a massive anti-Ballistic Missile Defense ring around China to neutralize China’s nuclear strike potential. During the final months of 2011 the Obama Administration clearly defined a new public military threat doctrine for US military readiness in the wake of the US military failures in Iraq and Afghanistan. During a Presidential trip to the Far East, while in Australia, the US President unveiled what is being termed the Obama Doctrine. [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb5" id="nh5" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="President Barack Obama, Remarks By President Obama to the Australian (...)">5</a>]</div>
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The following sections from Obama’s speech in Australia are worth citing in detail:</div>
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<i>With most of the world’s nuclear power and some half of humanity, Asia will largely define whether the century ahead will be marked by conflict or cooperation…As President, I have, therefore, made a deliberate and strategic decision — …the United States will play a larger and long-term role in shaping this region and its future…I have directed my national security team to make our presence and mission in the Asia Pacific a top priority... We will preserve our unique ability to project power and deter threats to peace…The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay. Indeed, we are already modernizing America’s defense posture across the Asia Pacific. ..We see our new posture here in Australia…I believe we can address shared challenges, such as proliferation and maritime security, including cooperation in the South China Sea</i>. [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb6" id="nh6" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Ibid.">6</a>]</div>
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On August 24, 2012 the New York <i>Wall Street Journal</i>reported that the Obama Administration as part of its newly-announced policy of China Pivot, will expand its missile-defense shield, Ballistic Missile Defense or BMD as it is known in the military, in the Asia-Pacific region. [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb7" id="nh7" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Brian Spegele et al, US Missile Shield Plan Seen Stoking China Fears, The (...)">7</a>]</div>
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The official reason given by the Pentagon for its new BMD deployment to the Asian theater is to protect Japan, South Korea and other US allied countries in the region against a North Korean nuclear missile attack. That argument doesn’t stand close scrutiny.</div>
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In reality, according to numerous reports, Washington has decided to invest in a major Ballistic Missile Defense network using Japan, South Korea and Australia. The real target of the BMD system is not North Korea, but rather the Peoples’ Republic of China, the only power in the region possessing even a potential nuclear threat with serious long-range delivery capabilities. It is part of the new Pentagon strategy of imposing full control over the future development of China.</div>
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The Washington BMD offensive has to be viewed as well in the light of the well-timed Japanese government decision to deliberately provoke tension with China over the disputed Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea, a region believed to be vastly rich in natural gas reserves. [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb8" id="nh8" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Kazunori Takada, Japanese firms shut China plants, US urges calm in islands (...)">8</a>]</div>
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Part III: Japan Missile Defense Key</h3>
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In September 2012, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the United States and Japan had reached a major agreement to deploy a second major advanced missile-defense radar on Japanese territory. [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb9" id="nh9" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Thom Shanker and Ian Johnson, US Accord With Japan Over Missile Defense (...)">9</a>] In his announcement Panetta declared, "The purpose of this is to enhance our ability to defend Japan. It’s also designed to help forward-deployed US forces and it also will be effective in protecting the US homeland from the North Korean ballistic missile threat." [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb10" id="nh10" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Chris Carroll, US, Japan Announce Expanded Missile Defense System, (...)">10</a>] A glance at the map shows the nuclear holes in Panetta’s statement. Chinese missile sites are just across the Korean border, well in range of the US-Japan new BMD installation.</div>
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The Washington decision to place advanced BMD infrastructure in Japan was made long ago as part of a US strategy of global military dominance. The BMD cooperation with Japan began in earnest on December 19, 2003, when the Japanese government issued the cabinet decision "On Introduction of Ballistic Missile Defense System and Other Measures." Ever since, establishing a robust missile defense system has been a Japan national security priority.</div>
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Under the current Japanese government’s interpretation of Article 9 of Japan’s Constitution, Japan’s participation in collective self-defense is prohibited, as is using missile defense capabilities to defend a third country—even an ally such as the United States. Shinzo Abe, head of the Liberal Democratic Party, almost certain to become Prime Minister after the December 16 Lower House elections, is a strong advocate of BMD and of changing Article 9. That means we can expect a major shift to a more militant anti-China military posture from Tokyo. [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb11" id="nh11" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Masako Toki, Missile defense in Japan, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, (...)">11</a>]</div>
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According to US military press accounts, the most important feature of the new Japanese BMD project will be installation of a powerful early-warning radar, ‘X-band’, made by Raytheon Co. It’s “a large, phased-array fire control sensor, featuring precision discrimination and interceptor support,” designed to counter threats from ‘rogue states.’ It will be installed on an unnamed southern Japanese island. [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb12" id="nh12" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="RT, Shield revealed US spreads missile defenses East, Russia Today, 24 (...)">12</a>]</div>
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Japan’s defense minister Satoshi Morimoto confirmed that Tokyo and Washington "have had various discussions over missile defenses, including how to deploy the US’s X-Band radar system." [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb13" id="nh13" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Brian Spegele, et al, US Missile Shield Plan Seen Stoking China Fears, Wall (...)">13</a>] Japan already hosts one X-Band radar in the northern prefecture of Aomori, since 2006. It’s heavily opposed by local residents who fear, not without good reason, that the presence of the radar makes them a target for potential enemy attacks. [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb14" id="nh14" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Ibid.">14</a>]</div>
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Part IV: BMD across Asia</h3>
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The US move to prioritize its BMD installation in Asia involves not only Japan. Washington is also helping India improve its new missile defense system. The Indians want to build a multi-layer missile defense network with US help. Publicly India’s government cites Pakistan as the reason. Privately, it’s China. India test-fired its Agni-V intermediate range ballistic missile earlier this year and the Indian press openly cited the system’s ability to strike anywhere in China as the most important feature. [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb15" id="nh15" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Trefor Moss, Asia’s New Arms Race: Missiles, Missile Defenses, August 27, (...)">15</a>]</div>
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According to Steven Hildreth, a missile-defense expert with the Washington Congressional Research Service, the USA is "laying the foundations" for a region-wide missile defense system that would consist of US ballistic missile defenses combined with those of regional powers, particularly Japan, South Korea and Australia. Although supposedly aimed at containing threats from North Korea, Hildreth also stated, "the reality is that we’re also looking longer term at the elephant in the room, which is China." According to a report in the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> the X-band arc would allow the US to ‘peer deeper’ into China, in addition to North Korea. [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb16" id="nh16" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="RT, op. cit.">16</a>]</div>
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As well, there are reports from unnamed US Defense Department officials that a third X-Band radar would be positioned in the Philippines, allowing the Pentagon to accurately track ballistic missiles launched from North Korea but also from large parts of China. [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb17" id="nh17" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Brian Spegele, op. cit.">17</a>]</div>
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In addition to Japan, Washington has invited South Korea and Australia to join the Asian BMD program. The official Chinese English language daily, <i>Global Times</i>, pointed out, “Among the nuclear powers, China has the smallest number of nuclear weapons. It is also the only country to make a ’no first use’ commitment. Installing a missile defense system in Asia disrespects China’s nuclear policy.”</div>
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The <i>Global Times</i> article notes further, “If Japan, South Korea and Australia join the system, a vicious arms race in Asia may follow. It is not what China wants to see, but it will have to deal with it if the arms race happens. The US is creating waves in Asia. The region may see more conflicts intensify in the future. China should make utmost efforts to prevent it, but prepare for the worst.” [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb18" id="nh18" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="US missile shield fosters Asian arms race, Beijing, Global Times, March 29, (...)">18</a>]</div>
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Part V: BMD encourages Nuclear First Strike</h3>
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The US BMD strategy in Asia follows a decision by the Bush and Obama Administrations to first deploy BMD in a ring surrounding Russia with installations in Poland, the Czech Republic and Turkey, aimed at Russia’s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile arsenal. As prominent retired US military officers have warned, deploying Ballistic Missile Defense against a potential nuclear opponent, whether Russia or China or North Korea or Iran is madness in strict military strategy terms.</div>
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With even a primitive missile defense shield, the US could launch a first strike attack against Russian or Chinese missile silos and submarine fleets with less fear of effective retaliation; the few remaining Russian or Chinese nuclear missiles would be unable to launch a response sufficiently destructive.</div>
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During the Cold War, the ability of the Warsaw Pact and NATO to mutually annihilate one another had led to a nuclear stalemate dubbed by military strategists, MAD—Mutually Assured Destruction. It was scary but, in a bizarre sense, more stable than what would come with a unilateral US pursuit of nuclear primacy. MAD was based on the prospect of mutual nuclear annihilation with no decisive advantage for either side; it led to a world in which nuclear war had been ‘unthinkable.’</div>
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Now the US, with BMD in Europe against Russia and in Asia against China, is pursuing the possibility of nuclear war as ‘thinkable.’ That is really and truly ‘mad.’</div>
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The first nation with a ballistic missile ‘defense’ shield (BMD) would de facto have ‘first strike ability,’ making BMD not defensive but offensive in the extreme. Lt. Colonel Robert Bowman, Director of the US Air Force Missile Defense Program during the Reagan era, recently called missile defense, “the missing link to a First Strike.” [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb19" id="nh19" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="F. William Engdahl, Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the (...)">19</a>] BMD gives an incentive to make a first nuclear strike, something never before imaginable owing to the lack of certainty one’s nation would not become nuclear radioactive rubble. In military terms, BMD is offensive, not defensive contrary to the name, and should properly be named Ballistic Missile Offense.</div>
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Bowman further notes:</div>
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<i>Under Reagan and Bush I, it was called the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO). Under President Clinton, it became the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO). Now Bush II made it the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and has given it the freedom from oversight and audit previously enjoyed only by the black or top secret programs. If Congress doesn’t act soon, this new independent agency may take their essentially unlimited budget and spend it outside of public and Congressional scrutiny on weapons that we won’t know anything about until they’re in space. In theory, then, the space warriors would rule the world, able to destroy any target on earth without warning. Will these new super weapons bring the American people security? Hardly.</i> [<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nb20" id="nh20" rel="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Ibid., p. 161.">20</a>]</div>
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Washington’s major deployment of BMD across Asia is a major reason likely for the sudden decision to delay the 18th Party Congress until after the US elections to see whether China faced a President Romney or President Obama. What has materialized in terms of US military decisions in the few months since Obama first proclaimed his Asia Pivot and Obama Doctrine makes clear why China is increasingly nervous about Obama ‘pivots.’</div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh1" id="nb1" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 1">1</a>] Jonathan Marcus, <a class="spip_out" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13761711" rel="external" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;">China extending military reach</a>, <i>14 June 2011</i></div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh2" id="nb2" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 2">2</a>] Winslow Wheeler, <a class="spip_out" href="http://www.iiss.org/publications/military-balance/the-military-balance-2012/press-statement/figure-comparative-defence-statistics/" rel="external" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;">The Military Imbalance: How The US Outspends the World</a>, <i>March 16, 2012</i>.</div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh3" id="nb3" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 3">3</a>] <i>Ibid</i>.</div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh4" id="nb4" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 4">4</a>] F. William Engdahl, Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order, 2010, edition.engdahl, Wiesbaden.</div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh5" id="nb5" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 5">5</a>] President Barack Obama, <a class="spip_out" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/11/17/remarks-president-obama-australian-parliament" rel="external" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;">Remarks By President Obama to the Australian Parliament</a>, <i>November 17, 2011</i>.</div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh6" id="nb6" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 6">6</a>] <i>Ibid.</i></div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh7" id="nb7" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 7">7</a>] Brian Spegele et al, <a class="spip_out" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444082904577609054116070694.html" rel="external" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;">US Missile Shield Plan Seen Stoking China Fears, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i></a>, August 24, 2012.</div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh8" id="nb8" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 8">8</a>] Kazunori Takada, <a class="spip_out" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/17/uk-china-japan-idUSLNE88G01A20120917" rel="external" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;">Japanese firms shut China plants, US urges calm in islands row</a>, <i>Reuters, September 17, 2012</i> .</div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh9" id="nb9" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 9">9</a>] Thom Shanker and Ian Johnson, <a class="spip_out" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/world/asia/u-s-and-japan-agree-on-missile-defense-system.html?pagewanted=all" rel="external" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;">US Accord With Japan Over Missile Defense Draws Criticism in China</a>, The <i>New York Times, September 17, 2012</i></div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh10" id="nb10" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 10">10</a>] Chris Carroll, <a class="spip_out" href="http://www.military.com/daily-news/2012/09/17/us-japan-announce-expanded-missile-defense-system.html" rel="external" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;">US, Japan Announce Expanded Missile Defense System</a>, September 17, 2012, Stars and Stripes.</div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh11" id="nb11" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 11">11</a>] Masako Toki, <a class="spip_out" href="http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/missile-defense-japan" rel="external" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;">Missile defense in Japan, <i>Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists</i></a>, <i>16 January 2009</i></div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh12" id="nb12" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 12">12</a>] <i>RT</i>, <a class="spip_out" href="http://rt.com/news/us-missile-defense-asia-432/" rel="external" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;">Shield revealed US spreads missile defenses East</a>, <i>Russia Today</i>, 24 August, 2012.</div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh13" id="nb13" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 13">13</a>] Brian Spegele, et al, <a class="spip_out" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444082904577609054116070694.html" rel="external" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;">US Missile Shield Plan Seen Stoking China Fears</a>, <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, August 24, 2012</div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh14" id="nb14" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 14">14</a>] <i>Ibid</i>.</div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh15" id="nb15" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 15">15</a>] Trefor Moss, <a class="spip_out" href="http://thediplomat.com/flashpoints-blog/2012/08/27/asias-new-arms-race-missiles-missile-defenses/" rel="external" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;">Asia’s New Arms Race: Missiles, Missile Defenses</a>, August 27, 2012.</div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh16" id="nb16" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 16">16</a>] <i>RT</i>, <i>op. cit</i>.</div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh17" id="nb17" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 17">17</a>] Brian Spegele, <i>op. cit</i>.</div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh18" id="nb18" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 18">18</a>] <a class="spip_out" href="http://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/ID/702623/US-missile-shield-fosters-Asian-arms-race.aspx" rel="external" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;">US missile shield fosters Asian arms race</a>, Beijing, <i>Global Times</i>, March 29, 2012.</div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh19" id="nb19" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 19">19</a>] F. William Engdahl, <i>Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order</i>, edition.engdahl, Wiesbaden, 2009, p. 162.</div>
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[<a class="spip_note" href="http://www.voltairenet.org/article176673.html#nh20" id="nb20" rev="footnote" style="color: #ac1111; text-decoration: none;" title="Footnotes 20">20</a>] <i>Ibid</i>., p. 161.</div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">From Diana Moore / April 2015</span></div>
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TRIDENT</div>
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He’s supportive of Trident reinstatement (I have a letter to that effect). </div>
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PFI</div>
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As health minster he used PFI to privatise cancer, acute and other NHS services and as environment minster he used PFI to build incinerators and deliver waste services.</div>
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FRACKING</div>
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He wouldn’t vote for a moratorium or ban on fracking & promoted the Labour amendments to this (weak) – which Labour abandoned when it got the HOL so Jenny Jones had to defend their amendments then I understand he abstained on the final infrastructure act (i.e. supported it)<br />
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SYRIA / LIBYA</div>
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Strong support for US /NATO intervention. Now shown to have been based on false or unproven accusations. This is a very big issue especially for GB passport holders who bear responsibility for our governments actions.</div>
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See Bradshaw's Guardian article and his personal web site plus news reports. I have high lighted paragraphs to draw swift attention to evidence challenging statements made.</div>
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This revolves around the mind control programme nurturing acquiescence to continuous war in the name of peace and human rights. </div>
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Now framed as R2P Responsibility to Protect. “Terrorism” is the emotional “hot button” key word. This is key to a big lie, one instilled by repetition as Goebbles and many other manipulators have revealed: <span style="font-family: Times;">“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times;">Bradshaw on Libya</span><br />
<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/bradshaw-on-libys.html">http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/bradshaw-on-libys.html</a><br />
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A less report view on Syria affairs<br />
<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/syria-file.html">http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/syria-file.html</a><br />
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A less report view on Syria affairs<br />
<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2005/10/libya-2011.html">http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2005/10/libya-2011.html</a></div>
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<b>(Ben Bradshaw</b> is a classic example of how myths and lies are constantly reinforced by those in authority)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The truth however is -</i></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Without a free media it is hard to get people to think critically. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Association with known and trusted sources is a start in freeing conditioned minds.</span></b></div>
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<b>The BBC promotes the work of Adam Curtis.</b></div>
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In Power of Nightmares, episode 3 Curtis states that al Qaeda came into mythical existence in a US court to allow the prosecution of bin Laden for various crimes pro-ported as being committed by a single organisation of which he was claimed to be the leader.</div>
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In a column for the Guardian four weeks before his death, Cook caused a stir when he described <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda#Alleged_CIA_involvement">Al-Qaeda as a product of a western intelligence</a>:</div>
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“Bin Laden was a product of Western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA">CIA</a> and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaida">Al-Qaida</a>, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians”</div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">This use of Islamic fighters has continued to this day, now known as al Nusra or ISIS. Names and character need to change to maintain control of myths. The fear needs to be constantly reinforced and ramped-up.</span></b></div>
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The pages on Unreported World Review provide links to voluminous reports that can accurately be described as “admissible” in any honest court of law/justice. See:</div>
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<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/al-cia-us-nato-israeli-manufactured.html" target="_blank">al CIA: US / NATO / Israeli - Manufactured "terrorism" </a></div>
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Ban K Moon, Secretary General to the United Nations, UNDOF reports and reviews of same.</div>
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<a href="http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2014/859">For the period from 4 September to 19 November 2014</a><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica;"></span><span style="color: black;"> of 1 December 2014</span></div>
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<a href="http://untribune.com/un-peacekeepers-observe-idf-interacting-al-nusra-golan/">http://untribune.com/un-peacekeepers-observe-idf-interacting-al-nusra-golan/</a></div>
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UN REPORTS CONTINUING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN IDF AND ARMED GROUPS IN GOLAN</div>
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<span style="color: #18426d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2014/859">For the period from 4 September to 19 November 2014</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span>Ban’s report also said that trucks, some mounted with anti-aircraft guns, crossed over to the Israeli side and that packages were loaded onto a number of trucks before returning to the Syrian side. The report added that injured individuals were also transported to the Israeli side.<br />
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<span style="color: #18426d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2014/665">For the period from 29 May to 3 September 2014</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">of 12 September 2014 </span>“In some instances, wounded individuals were handed over from the Bravo [Syrian] side to the Alpha [Israeli] side. During the evening of 20 January, in the area north of observation post 54, UNDOF observed two trucks crossing from the Bravo side to the Alpha side, where they were received by IDF personnel. The trucks were loaded with sacks before returning to the Bravo side,” Ban wrote.</div>
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“On at least four occasions in February, United Nations personnel at observation post 54 saw vehicles, including small trucks, crossing the ceasefire line from the Bravo side and approaching the technical fence,” the UN chief added. “On one such occasion, several vehicles, including some with anti-aircraft guns mounted on the back, were seen parked next to the technical fence.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: x-large;">The Laws
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: large;"><i>The essential facts about the laws
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Chris Coverdale
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Why publish this material ? 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Introduction 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">A short history of war law 6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Laws prohibiting war 7
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The General Treaty for the Renunciation of War [Kellogg-Briand Pact] 8</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Nuremburg Judgement 9</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The United Nations Charter 11</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Nuremburg Principles 12</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 13</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The International Criminal Court Act 2001 14
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Laws governing the conduct of war 19</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Geneva Conventions 20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Chemical, Biological and Toxin Weapons Conventions 20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Landmines Convention 20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Convention against Torture 20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"> The law prohibiting Conspiracy 20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Offences against the Person Act 1861 21</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Accessories and Abettors Act 1861 21
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 22</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Warfare Code – A summary of war law 26</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Enforcing War Law 27
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Holding leaders to account for their actions 28</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Holding Government to account 28</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Co-opting your MP 29</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Impeachment 29</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Reporting crimes to the Police 30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Reporting crimes to the International Criminal Court 30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Private Criminal Prosecution 30
Obtaining an Injunction 30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Applying for Judicial Review 31</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Committing a crime to prevent a greater evil 32</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Withholding tax 32
Refusing Orders 32
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">False Legal Advice on the legality of the war with Iraq 33</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Correct Legal Advice – What the Attorney General should have said 34</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Memorandum to the Prime Minister 34</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The legal grounds against waging war 35</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Implications 41</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Recommendations 41</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Bibliography and Acknowledgements 42
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 19.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">“I deeply believe that no individual can
experience true happiness or tranquillity
until we turn humankind away from its
obsession with war. War has held us in its
irrevocable grip throughout history; it is the
source of all evil. War normalises
insanity, destroying human beings like so
many insects, tearing all that is human and
humane to shreds.”
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 27.000000pt;">Why publish this material?
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">This booklet sets out to explain the laws of armed conflict to decision makers in
Britain so that if they are ever again asked to support or condone warfare or military
conflict, they can identify whether their involvement is lawful.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The need for this material arose in March 2003 when Britain’s Prime Minister took
the nation into a war with Iraq on the false assertion that it would be legal. Because so
few people in Britain know or understand the laws that prohibit war, we failed to
recognise the dishonest nature of the legal advice provided by the Prime Minister and
the Attorney General.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">As a result of their deception over the legality of the war and the
fictitious claim that Saddam Hussein was about to use weapons of mass destruction,
Parliament voted in favour of war and Britain joined America in invading and occupying
Iraq. The result of the decision to wage war is that at least 1,000,000 totally innocent
Iraqi men, women and children have been killed and the State of Iraq virtually destroyed.
These actions and the resulting deaths violated international treaties, breached the laws
of war and constituted the most serious crimes known to mankind, genocide and a crime
against humanity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Every British citizen associated with the planning and conduct of the
war with Iraq is criminally responsible in law for each and every death that took place.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">It should not be possible in a democracy for a Government to deceive the people
over such a fundamental issue as war. Having given firm undertakings to the world
that Britain would never wage a war of aggression, never use armed force to threaten or
attack another country, never kill or harm human beings, settle international disputes
peacefully, respect human rights, uphold and enforce the rule of law and act towards
one another in a spirit of brotherhood and co-operation, the British and American
governments ignored these binding promises and embarked on the world’s worst crime,
a war of aggression.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Citizens expect their leaders to operate lawfully at all times, especially when making
life and death decisions. The decision to take a nation to war is the most important a
leader will ever have to take. He or she is personally responsible in law for the
consequences of the decision and all the deaths and injuries that take place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">With the
lives of thousands of men, women and children in their hands, politicians must be able to
uphold the laws of war and explain to the families of those they have killed why they had
to die and what cause is so important that it overrides the right to life. It is therefore
essential that our political, civil and military leaders have a faultless understanding of war
law before they take decisions that lead to the violent deaths of totally innocent men,
women and children.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">I hope that you find this material useful and that having read it you will do all you can
to compel Britain’s political, civil and military leaders to uphold international treaties and
enforce the laws of war. We all have a duty to future generations to uphold, maintain
and reinforce the values of justice, equality and the rule of law espoused by the United
Nations.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">There is no better introduction to the law of war than these extracts from the
judgement of The Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal in 1946 when Germany’s leaders
were tried and convicted as war criminals for waging wars of aggression.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">“In the opinion of the Tribunal, those who wage aggressive war are doing that
which is equally illegal, and of much greater moment than a breach of one of the
rules of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Convention" target="_blank">Hague Convention</a>. In interpreting the words of the </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">[Kellogg-Briand]
</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Pact, it must be remembered that international law is not the product of an
international legislature, and that such international agreements as the Pact have
to deal with general principles of law, and not with administrative matters of
procedure. <span style="color: blue;">The law of war is to be found not only in treaties, but in the customs
and practices of states which gradually obtained universal recognition, and from
the general principles of justice applied by jurists and practiced by military courts.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Crimes against international law are committed by men, not by abstract entities,
and only by punishing individuals who commit such crimes can the provisions of
international law be enforced.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the
belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of
aggression therefore, is not only an international crime," </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: oblique;"><span style="font-size: large;">"it is the supreme
international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within
itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal 1946
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 27.000000pt;">A short history of war law
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">“War between nations was renounced by the signatories of the Kellogg-Briand
Treaty. This means that it has become throughout practically the entire world an
illegal thing. Hereafter, when nations engage in armed conflict, either one or
both of them must be termed violators of this general treaty law.... We denounce
them as law breakers."
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Henry Stimson, USA Secretary of State 1932
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The horrors of the First World War were such that statesmen were determined to end
warfare once and for all. The General Treaty for the Renunciation of War was signed in
1928 and eventually ratified by 62 States including France, America, Britain, Germany,
Japan and Italy. It became known as the Kellogg-Briand Pact after its main proponents
the American Secretary of State Frank Kellogg and France’s foreign minister Aristide
Briand. This was the first treaty prohibiting the waging of war and it formed the legal
basis for the convictions of Germany’s leaders at Nuremburg after World War II.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><span style="color: blue;">In 1945 The United Nations was founded to eliminate warfare</span>, promote human
rights, uphold justice and international treaties and advance the economic and social
interests of humankind. One of its first actions was to set up an International Law
Commission to draw up statute war laws based on the judgments of the Nuremburg and
T okyo War Crimes Tribunals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">In 1950 the General Assembly accepted the
Commission’s proposals and enacted seven new war laws to be known as the<span style="color: blue;">
Nuremburg Principles</span>. In 1948 the Genocide Convention was enacted, to prevent a
repeat of the Holocaust and ensure that no-one would ever again attempt to destroy a
national, ethnic, racial or religious group. But for the persistence of Senator William
Proxmire the USA might never have ratified this law, but eventually in 1988 under
President Reagan the Genocide Convention Implementation Act [The Proxmire Act]
became law in America.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The fifty year period after the signing of the Genocide Convention saw the signing of
several important war laws with additions to the Geneva Conventions, a treaty outlawing
torture, conventions governing the manufacture, trading and use of chemical, biological
and toxin weapons; and in 1998 the world outlawed the use of landmines. In 2002
with the ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the world’s
first international law enforcement authority was set up in The Hague with jurisdiction
over the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Although the world community has made strenuous efforts to outlaw war, it
encounters great difficulty in enforcing the law. National leaders tend to ignore and
violate war law as and when it suits their interests. Only when a leader of a major
nation is convicted of war crimes in court will the world be in a position to eradicate
warfare and armed conflict once and for all.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 27.000000pt;">The Laws Prohibiting War
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt; font-style: oblique;">“the solemn renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy
necessarily involves the proposition that such a war is illegal in
international law; and that those who plan and wage such a war, with its
inevitable and terrible consequences, are committing a crime in so doing.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">INTERNATIONAL LAW<br />
</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">The General Treaty for the Renunciation of War [Kellogg-Briand Pact]
The United Nations Charter<br />
The Nuremburg Judgement<br />
The Nuremburg Principles<br />
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">DOMESTIC UK LAW<br />
</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">The International Criminal Court Act 2001
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Just or unjust war
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt;">The legal terms </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-style: oblique;">jus ad bellum </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt;">and </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-style: oblique;">jus in bello </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt;">which distinguish between laws governing
the resort to war and laws governing the conduct of war are not used in this volume to
avoid any inference of a just war. Since 1928, when warfare was made illegal, there
has been no such thing as a justifiable war. All armed conflict is illegal. The sole
exception occurs when a nation is under armed attack and needs to defend itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">The General Treaty for the Renunciation of War 1928</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">(The Kellogg-Briand Pact)
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">This solemn and binding treaty unconditionally condemned and renounced recourse to
war as an instrument of national policy, and promised that henceforth all international
disputes would be settled peacefully. This treaty is still in force and together with the
London Charter provided the legal basis for the trial of Germany’s leaders at Nuremburg
after the Second World War.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE I The High Contracting Parties solemnly declare in the names of their
respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of
international controversies, and renounce it, as an instrument of national policy in
their relations with one another.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE II The High Contracting Parties agree that the settlement or solution
of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be,
which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means.
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Comment
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The main purpose of this treaty was to outlaw warfare as a method of conducting
international affairs. The horrifying effects of the First World War in which millions were
killed and maimed had convinced public opinion that such a war must never happen
again. It was no longer acceptable for civilised nations to use armed force to achieve
their objectives. Although the terms of this treaty were crystal clear, it included no
enforcement method or punishment for those who violated it. Later this loophole in law
enforcement enabled the leaders of Germany, Italy and Japan to initiate what was to
become the Second World War in which nearly twenty million people were killed.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Fortunately for the rule of law, President Roosevelt refused to bow to the demands of
Churchill and Stalin for the summary executions of the Axis nations’ leaders, and
insisted on holding them to account for their crimes in court. As a result Germany’s
leaders were convicted of waging wars of aggression in violation of the Kellogg-Briand
Pact at the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials in 1946.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">The Judgement of the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">As the world’s first major war crimes trial, the Nuremburg Tribunal confirmed the
principles and tenets that now form the bases of customary international war law.
Germany’s leaders were convicted in 1946 of crimes against peace and humanity for
waging wars of aggression against eleven nation states in violation of the Kellogg-Briand
Pact. The judgement highlighted the principles governing conflict between nations, and
the responsibilities of individuals in preventing war.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">“After the signing of the Pact, any nation resorting to war as an instrument of
national policy breaks the Pact. In the opinion of the Tribunal, the solemn
renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy necessarily involves the
proposition that such war is illegal in international law; and that those who plan
and wage such a war with its inevitable and terrible consequences are
committing a crime in so doing...
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">It was submitted </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">[by the defendants] </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">that international law is concerned with the
action of sovereign states, and provides no punishment for individuals; and
further, that where the act in question is an act of state, those who carry it out are
not personally responsible, but are protected by the doctrine of the sovereignty of
the State. In the opinion of the Tribunal, both these submissions must be
rejected. That international law imposes duties and liabilities upon individuals as
well as upon States has long been recognised...
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">The very essence of the </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">[London] </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Charter is that individuals have international
duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience imposed by the
individual State. He who violates the laws of war cannot obtain immunity while
acting in pursuance of the authority of the State, if the State in authorising action
moves outside its competence under international law...
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">That a soldier was ordered to kill or torture in violation of the international law of
war has never been recognised as a defence to such acts of brutality, though, as
the Charter here provides, the order may be urged in mitigation of the
punishment. The true test, which is found in varying degrees in the criminal law
of most nations, is not the existence of the order, but whether moral choice was
in fact possible...
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Comment
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal was the first occasion in modern history when
political leaders were held to account for their crimes in a court of law. The essence of
the trials was that individual leaders and officials could not shelter behind their duty to
the state, when the state was in breach of international law. As Germany had ratified
the Kellogg-Briand Pact, its leaders, by breaching the Pact, had committed serious
crimes for which they were personally responsible and for which they were convicted
and punished.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Nuremburg trials are important in that they provide the first example of the rule
of international war law in action and the judgment gave a lucid account of the laws
against war and the principles which underpin relations between states. The
International Law Commission used the Nuremburg judgment as the basis for the
statutory laws against war agreed in 1950 by the UN General Assembly which were
entitled the Nuremburg Principles in recognition of their source.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The single most important development derived from the Nuremburg judgment is the
focus on the responsibility of the individual in matters of international warfare.
Individuals who start, support, condone or take part in a war are criminally liable for the
resulting deaths and injuries and are to be held to account for their crimes in court.
Historically national leaders such as Kaiser Wilhelm or Napoleon Bonaparte who were
responsible for waging wars causing the deaths of millions had escaped the ultimate
penalty for their crimes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Nuremburg judgement made it clear that not only could
Heads of State be indicted, tried and convicted as war criminals, but so too could all
those individuals who were responsible for planning, supporting, condoning, funding or
taking part in a war of aggression.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The main legal principle derived from Nuremburg is that every citizen has a duty to
humankind to exercise a moral choice and to take action to prevent their leaders and
governments from violating the laws of war and waging a war of aggression.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">The United Nations Charter.
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The United Nations Charter sets out to prevent war and promote peace, justice and
the rule of law throughout the world. Its articles clearly prohibit the use of armed force:
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">2.3 All members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such
a manner that international peace, security and justice are not endangered.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">2.4 All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use
of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in
any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">41 The Security Council may decide what measures not involving the use of
armed force</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 7.000000pt; font-style: oblique; vertical-align: 5.000000pt;">1 </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">are to be employed to give effect to its decisions, and it may call upon
members of the United Nations to apply such measures. These may include
complete or partial interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, postal,
telegraphic, radio and other means of communication, and the severance of
diplomatic relations.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">42 Should the Security Council consider that measures provided for in Article 41
prove to be inadequate, it may take such action by air, sea or land forces as may
be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security. Such action
may include demonstrations, blockade and other operations by air, sea, or land
forces.
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Comment
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The main legal principles in the UN Charter relating to warfare are that (1)
International disputes must be settled by peaceful means, (2) Member States must
never threaten or use force against the territorial integrity or political independence of
any State, (3) The Security Council must keep the peace and may not use armed force,
(4) The only legal use of armed force is individual or collective self defence.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">As the United Nations does not possess a law enforcement body it cannot enforce
its rules on its members, especially the permanent members of the Security Council.
Member States are therefore responsible for policing their own actions and holding their
own representatives to account for breaches of the rules. The British and American
Governments are amongst the worst in breaching the UN Charter and interpreting the
rules to suit themselves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The latest example of British Government duplicity was the
false claim that the 2003 Iraq war was authorised by UN Security Council resolutions
678, 687 and 1441. The Security Council can never authorise the use of armed force
and must always adopt a peacekeeping approach. By invading and occupying Iraq and
killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians, America, Britain and their Coalition allies
violated the rule that disputes must be settled peacefully and breached the prohibition
on the threat or use of force.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">The Nuremberg Principles
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">These are the seven fundamental principles of international war law derived from the
Nuremburg and Tokyo War Crimes Tribunals by the International Law Commission
which were adopted as statute war law by the United Nations General Assembly in
1950.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">I. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international
law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">II. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">The fact that internal law does not impose a penalty for an act which constitutes
a crime under international law does not relieve the person who committed the act
from responsibility under international law.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">III. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under
international law acted as Head of State or responsible Government official does
not relieve him from responsibility under international law.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">IV. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a
superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided
a moral choice was in fact possible to him.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">V. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Any person charged with a crime under international law has the right to a fair
trial on the facts and law.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">VI. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under international
law:
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">(a) </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">Crimes against peace:<br />
</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">(i) Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;<br />
(ii) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">any of the acts mentioned under (i).<br />
(b) </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">War crimes: </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave-labor or for any
other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or ill
treatment of prisoners of war, of persons on the seas, killing of hostages,
plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or
villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">(c) </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">Crimes against humanity: </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Murder, extermination, enslavement,
deportation and other inhuman acts done against any civilian population, or
persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds, when such acts are
done or such persecutions are carried on in execution of or in connection
with any crime against peace or any war crime.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">VII</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">. Complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a war crime, or a
crime against humanity as set forth in Principle VI is a crime under international
law.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">In July 1998 Britain became a founding signatory to the inter-governmental treaty
known as the Rome Statute. This treaty set up the world’s first permanent international
criminal court in The Hague, and ceded ultimate jurisdiction over the universal crimes of
‘genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes’ to the Court.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">This new system of
international criminal law came into force in July 2002 when Australia became the
sixtieth state to ratify the treaty, and for the first time in 1600 years every British citizen
or resident became subject to international criminal law and an external law enforcement
authority.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">25.(3) In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible
and liable for punishment for a crime </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">[genocide, a crime against humanity and a
war crime] </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">(a) Commits such a crime, whether as an individual, jointly with another or
through another person, regardless of whether that other person is criminally
responsible;<br />
(b) Orders, solicits or induces the commission of such a crime which in fact
occurs or is attempted;
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">(c) For the purpose of facilitating the commission of such a crime, aids,
abets or otherwise assists in its commission or its attempted commission,
including providing the means for its commission;<br />
In any other way contributes to the commission or attempted commission of
such a crime by a group of persons acting with a common purpose...
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">27.(1) This Statute shall apply equally to all persons without any distinction
based on official capacity. In particular, official capacity as a Head of State, a
member of a Government or parliament, an elected representative or a
government official shall in no case exempt a person from criminal responsibility
under this Statute, nor shall it, in and of itself constitute a ground for reduction of
sentence.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Comment
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">This treaty is the culmination of fifty years of efforts by the world community to
introduce an international system of war law enforcement. As wars are started by
political leaders and never by a nation’s citizens, it was held to be essential that the
world possessed law enforcement processes strong enough to hold the most powerful
leaders to account for their war crimes in court. Although to date the USA has refused
to ratify this treaty, 105 nations have done so, making it the most important treaty
against warfare and the mistreatment of human beings yet devised. As this is the first
attempt to set up a system designed to hold world leaders to account for their war
crimes, it behoves us all to do everything in our power to support its operation and
compel political, civil and military leaders to pursue the interests of humanity rather than
the illusory and limited benefits of wealth, power and world domination.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">The International Criminal Court Act 2001.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Britain’s Parliament ratified the Rome Statute by enacting The International Criminal
Court Act 2001. This new law incorporated the crimes of ‘genocide, crimes against
humanity, and war crimes’ into UK criminal law whilst ceding ultimate authority over
these crimes to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The Act holds that:
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">It is an offence against the law of England and Wales for a person to commit
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">genocide, a crime against humanity or a war crime, or to engage in conduct ancillary
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">to such an act. This applies to acts committed in England or Wales or outside the
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">United Kingdom by a UK national, resident or person subject to UK service
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 7.000000pt; font-style: oblique;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">jurisdiction .
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">For the purposes of this Statute </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">“Genocide” </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">means any of the following acts
committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or
religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or
mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions
of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing
measures intended to prevent births within the group; forcibly transferring children of
the group to another group.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">For the purposes of this Statute </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">“Crime against humanity” </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">means any of the
following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed
against any civilian population with knowledge of the attack: murder; extermination;
enslavement; deportation or forcible transfer of population; imprisonment or other
severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international
law; torture; rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced
sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity; persecution
against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic,
cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are
universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with
any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
enforced disappearance of persons; the crime of apartheid; other inhumane acts of a
similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to
mental or physical health.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">(a) </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">“Attack directed against any civilian population” </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">means a course of conduct
involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any
civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to
commit such attack; (b) </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">“Extermination” </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">includes the intentional infliction of
conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated
to bring about the destruction of part of a population; (c) </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">“Enslavement” </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">means the
exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over a person
and includes the exercise of such power in the course of trafficking in persons, in
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<span style="font-family: Times;">This is a summary. For the complete definition of the offences refer to Sections 50 – 78</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">The particular women and children; (d) </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">“Deportation or forcible transfer of
population” </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">means forced displacement of the persons concerned by expulsion or
other coercive acts from the area in which they are lawfully present, without grounds
permitted under international law; (e) </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">“Torture” </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">means the intentional infliction of
severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, upon a person in the custody or
under the control of the accused; except that torture shall not include pain or
suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions; (f) </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">“Forced
pregnancy” </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">means the unlawful confinement of a woman forcibly made pregnant,
with the intent of affecting the ethnic composition of any population or carrying out
other grave violations of international law; (g) </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">“Persecution” </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">means the intentional
and severe deprivation of fundamental rights contrary to international law by reason
of the identity of the group or collectivity; (h) </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">“The crime of apartheid” </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">means
inhumane acts of a character similar to those referred to in paragraph 1, committed
in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination
by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the
intention of maintaining that regime; (i) </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">“Enforced disappearance of persons”
</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">means the arrest, detention or abduction of persons by, or with the authorization,
support or acquiescence of, a State or a political organization, followed by a refusal
to acknowledge that deprivation of freedom or to give information on the fate or
whereabouts of those persons, with the intention of removing them from the
protection of the law for a prolonged period of time.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">3. For the purpose of this Statute, it is understood that the term </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">“gender” </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">refers to
the two sexes, male and female, within the context of society. The term “gender”
does not indicate any meaning different from the above.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">For the purposes of this Statute </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">“war crimes” </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">means:
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">(a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of
the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the
relevant Geneva Convention: (i) Wilful killing; (ii) Torture or inhuman treatment,
including biological experiments; (iii) Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury
to body or health; (iv) Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not
justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly; (v) Compelling
a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power;
(vi) Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair
and regular trial; (vii) Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement; (viii)
Taking of hostages.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">(b) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed
conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the
following acts: (i) Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such
or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities; (ii) Intentionally
directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military
objectives; (iii) Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations,
material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping
mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long as they are
entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under the international
law of armed conflict; (iv) Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that
such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian
objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment
which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">advantage anticipated; (v) Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns,
villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military
objectives; (vi) Killing or wounding a combatant who, having laid down his arms or
having no longer means of defence, has surrendered at discretion; (vii) Making
improper use of a flag of truce, or of the flag or of the military insignia and uniform of
the enemy or of the United Nations, as well as of the distinctive emblems of the
Geneva Conventions, resulting in death or serious personal injury; (viii) The transfer,
directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population
into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the
population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory; (ix) Intentionally
directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or
charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and
wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives; (x) Subjecting
persons who are in the power of an adverse party to physical mutilation or to medical
or scientific experiments of any kind which are neither justified by the medical, dental
or hospital treatment of the person concerned nor carried out in his or her interest,
and which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such person or
persons; (xi) Killing or wounding treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile
nation or army; (xii) Declaring that no quarter will be given; (xiii) Destroying or seizing
the enemy’s property unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded
by the necessities of war; (xiv) Declaring abolished, suspended or inadmissible in a
court of law the rights and actions of the nationals of the hostile party; (xv)
Compelling the nationals of the hostile party to take part in the operations of war
directed against their own country, even if they were in the belligerent’s service
before the commencement of the war; (xvi) Pillaging a town or place, even when
taken by assault; (xvii) Employing poison or poisoned weapons; (xviii) Employing
asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or
devices; (xix) Employing bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body,
such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core or is
pierced with incisions; </span><span style="font-family: 'Times'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">....... </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">(xxi) Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in
particular humiliating and degrading treatment; (xxii) Committing rape, sexual
slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy as defined in article 7, paragraph
2(f), enforced sterilisation, or any other form of sexual violence also constituting a
grave breach of the Geneva Conventions; (xxiii) Utilizing the presence of a civilian or
other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from
military operations; (xxiv) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material,
medical units and transport, and personnel using the distinctive emblems of the
Geneva Conventions in conformity with international law; (xxv) Intentionally using
starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects
indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided
for under the Geneva Conventions; (xxvi) Conscripting or enlisting children under the
age of fifteen years into the national armed forces or using them to participate
actively in hostilities.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">(c) In the case of an armed conflict not of an international character, serious
violations of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949,
namely, any of the following acts committed against persons taking no active part in
the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms
and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention or any other
cause: (i) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation,
cruel treatment and torture; (ii) Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">particular humiliating and degrading treatment; (iii) Taking of hostages; (iv) The
passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgement
pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all judicial guarantees which
are generally recognised as indispensable.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">(d) Paragraph 2(c) applies to armed conflicts not of an international character and
thus does not apply to situations of internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots,
isolated and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">(e) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in armed conflicts not
of an international character, within the established framework of international law,
namely, any of the following acts: (i) Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian
population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
(ii) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and
transport, and personnel using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in
conformity with international law; (iii) Intentionally directing attacks against personnel,
installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or
peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long
as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under the
international law of armed conflict; (iv) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings
dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic
monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected,
provided they are not military objectives; (v) Pillaging a town or place, even when
taken by assault; (vi) Committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced
pregnancy, as defined in article 7, paragraph 2(f), enforced sterilization, and any
other form of sexual violence also constituting a serious violation of article 3 common
to the four Geneva Conventions; (vii) Conscripting or enlisting children under the age
of fifteen years into armed forces or groups or using them to participate actively in
hostilities; (viii) Ordering the displacement of the civilian population for reasons
related to the conflict, unless the security of the civilians involved or imperative
military reasons so demand; (ix) Killing or wounding treacherously a combatant
adversary; (x) Declaring that no quarter will be given; (xi) Subjecting persons who
are in the power of another party to the conflict to physical mutilation or to medical or
scientific experiments of any kind which are neither justified by the medical, dental or
hospital treatment of the person concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and
which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such person or persons;
(xii) Destroying or seizing the property of an adversary unless such destruction or
seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of the conflict.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">(f) Paragraph 2(e) applies to armed conflicts not of an international character and
thus does not apply to situations of internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots,
isolated and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature. It applies to
armed conflicts that take place in the territory of a State when there is protracted
armed conflict between governmental authorities and organized armed groups or
between such groups.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">“Conduct ancillary” </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">means: aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the
commission of an offence, inciting a person to commit an offence, attempting or
conspiring to commit an offence, assisting an offender or concealing the offence.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">A person is regarded as committing such an act or crime if the material elements
are committed with intent and knowledge. A person has </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">‘intent’ </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">where he means
to engage in the conduct or where he means to cause the consequence or where
he is aware that it will occur in the ordinary course of events. ‘Knowledge’ means
awareness that circumstances exist or will occur in the ordinary course of events.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Implications
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">For the first time in English law we have an Act of Parliament that takes
precedence over the Royal Prerogative and binds the Crown and everyone in the public
service of the Crown. By enacting this war law, Parliament blocked the legal loopholes
that have enabled past British leaders to commit war crimes with impunity. Criminal
responsibility for the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes now
lies with those who commit them, those who commission them and those who condone
or support them, and all such persons can be held to account for these crimes in court.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Article 25 of the Rome Statute and sections 51 and 52 of the International
Criminal Court Act 2001 not only place criminal responsibility for the deaths caused by
war on the Monarch, the Prime Minister, members of the Cabinet, senior civil servants,
MPs and the military commanders responsible for commissioning acts of war; but
equally place criminal responsibility on the servicemen and women, arms manufacturers,
suppliers and taxpayers who aid, abet, incite or facilitate the commission of these
crimes. No longer can individuals evade joint responsibility for crimes committed by our
political leaders.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">All military personnel, taxpayers and ordinary citizens who support, obey or
condone the orders of their government or Parliament to wage aggressive war in which
people are killed, are not only criminally liable for a crime against peace under the
Nuremburg Principles, but under this new legislation they become accessories to the
crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes and render themselves
liable to prosecution in Britain or The Hague.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">It is a common error in Britain to believe that the law is different or somehow
suspended in times of war. This is not the case. That the nation is at war provides no
legal protection, excuse or defence to these crimes. This means that since 2002, if one
or more persons is injured or killed through the deliberate action of Britain’s military
forces against a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, then a crime of genocide has
been committed and those responsible for it are criminally liable and may be indicted and
tried for the offence. So for example if an RAF officer under orders fires a rocket or
drops a bomb that causes death or injury to men, women and children in Iraq, then he or
she together with the political, civil and military commanders who commissioned the
bombing can be charged with a war crime. If any member of HM armed forces
intentionally kills or injures one or more persons who are members of a national, ethnic,
racial or religious group, as part of a widespread or systematic attack on that group, then
both the individual killer and all those in the chain of command responsible for giving the
orders to attack, are criminally responsible for the crimes of ‘genocide’ or ‘conduct
ancillary to genocide’.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">The principle of international law, which under certain circumstances protects the
representatives of a state, cannot be applied to acts which are condemned as </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-style: oblique;">criminal by international law. The authors of these facts cannot shelter
themselves behind their official position in order to be freed from punishment in
appropriate proceedings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 27.000000pt;">Laws governing the conduct of
war
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">The Geneva Conventions
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">The Chemical, Biological and Toxin Weapons Conventions
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">The Landmines Convention
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">The Convention against Torture
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">The law prohibiting Conspiracy
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">The Offences against the Person Act 1861
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">The Accessories and Abettors Act 1861
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">This section provides a brief description of the main laws that have been adopted and
ratified by Britain and a majority of the world’s nation states to protect humanity and
guarantee civilized non-violent peaceful behaviour between nation states.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">The Geneva Conventions.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The first Geneva Convention protecting the sick and wounded in war was signed in
1864. In 1949 four further Conventions were signed followed by two Protocols in 1977.
These consolidated the protections and prohibitions of earlier conventions and extended
them to civilians. They govern the conduct of military affairs and regulate such things
as the treatment of civilians, prisoners of war, wounded, sick and shipwrecked persons;
free passage for the Red Cross, obligations to record deaths and inform relatives,
prohibitions on attacks on hospitals, water supplies and water treatment plants and the
types of weapons that may or may not be used. These prohibitions are now
incorporated as war crimes in the Rome Statute and the International Criminal Court Act
2001.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">The Chemical, Biological and Toxin Weapons Conventions
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">These international treaties were ratified by Britain with the enactment of The
Chemical Weapons Act in 1996 and The Biological Weapons Act in 1974. These Acts
of Parliament incorporate the obligations arising from the treaties into domestic law and
forbid the manufacture, possession and use of chemical, biological and toxin weapons.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">The Landmines Convention
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Stimulated by Princess Diana and the horrific deaths and injuries inflicted on
children, the International Landmines Convention was agreed in 1997 forbidding the
manufacture, possession or use of landmines and anti-personnel explosives. This
treaty was ratified by Britain in 1998 with the enactment of the Landmines Act.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">The Convention against Torture
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The International Treaty Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading
Treatment which prohibits all forms of torture, came into effect in 1985 and was
incorporated into British legislation in section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">The Law prohibiting Conspiracy
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Criminal Law Act 1977 introduced conspiracy into Statute law:
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">“If a person agrees with any other person or persons that a course of conduct
shall be pursued which amounts to or involves the commission of any offence or
offences by one or more of the parties to the agreement, he is guilty of
conspiracy to commit the offence or offences in question.”
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The crime of conspiracy applies to all criminal offences. It therefore applies to the
planning and preparation of wars of aggression, genocide, crimes against humanity, war
crimes, murder and any of the other crimes associated with war and military conflict. If
anyone takes part in the planning, commissioning or support of any of these crimes they
become criminally liable for conspiracy to commit the crime.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">The Offences Against the Person Act 1861
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">“Whosoever shall solicit, encourage, persuade, or endeavour to persuade, or
shall propose to any person, to murder any other person, whether he be a subject
of Her Majesty or not, and whether he be within the Queen’s dominions or not,
shall be guilty of an offence, and being convicted thereof shall be liable to
imprisonment for life.”
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">This means that any MP, serviceman, journalist, political advisor, commentator, taxi
driver, after dinner speaker or visitor to Britain who says or does anything in support of a
war of aggression or an armed attack that results in the death of one or more persons,
commits a serious crime. This applies at all times, and the fact that we are at war
provides no legal excuse or defence to offenders.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">The Accessories and Abettors Act 1861
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Whosoever shall aid, abet, counsel, or procure the commission of any indictable
offence, whether the same be an offence at common law or by virtue of any Act
passed or to be passed, shall be liable to be tried, indicted and punished as a
principal offender.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">This law applies to every adult in this country and to all domestic and international
war laws. If anyone aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission of any of the
offences mentioned in this volume, then they become an accessory to the crime and will
be treated in exactly the same way as if they were the person who started the wars,
dropped the bombs or committed the war crimes. They too will become war criminals.
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 21.000000pt;">The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">In 1948, the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. As the forerunner to the European Convention on Human Rights and Britain’s
Human Rights Act 1998, the Declaration recognised that the equal and inalienable rights
of all members of the human family are the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in
the world, and that basic human rights and freedoms must be protected by the rule of
law.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">WHEREAS recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable
rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and
peace in the world, WHEREAS disregard and contempt for human rights have
resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and
the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and
belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest
aspiration of the common people, WHEREAS it is essential, if man is not to be
compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and
oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law, WHEREAS it
is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,
WHEREAS the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their
faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person
and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social
progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, WHEREAS Member States
have pledged themselves to achieve, in cooperation with the United Nations, the
promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and
fundamental freedoms, WHEREAS a common understanding of these rights and
freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge, now
therefore proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a
common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that
every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in
mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights
and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure
their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples
of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their
jurisdiction.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 1 All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They
are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a
spirit of brotherhood.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 2 Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political,
jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person
belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other
limitation of sovereignty.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 3 Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 4 No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave
trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 5 No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 6 Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before
the law.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 7 All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination
to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any
discrimination in violation of the Declaration and against any incitement to such
discrimination.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 8 Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent
national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the
constitution or by law.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 9 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 10 Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an
independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and
obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 11 (1) Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be
presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he
has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense. (2) No one shall be held
guilty of any penal offense on account of any act or omission which did not
constitute a penal offense, under national or international law, at the time it was
committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was
applicable at the time the penal offense was committed.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 12 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy,
family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation.
Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or
attacks.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 13 (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence
within the borders of each state. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country,
including his own, and to return to his country.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 14 (1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries
asylum from persecution. (2)This right may not be invoked in the case of
prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to
the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 15 (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality. (2) No one shall be
arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 16 (1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race,
nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the
intending spouses. (3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of
society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 17 (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in
association with others. (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 18 Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and
religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom,
either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his
religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 19 Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression: this
right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive
and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 20 (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and
association. (2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 21 (1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his
country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. (2) Everyone has the
right of equal access to public service in his country. (3) The will of the people shall
be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic
and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be
held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 22 Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and
is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co- operation and
in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic,
social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of
his personality.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 23 (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to
just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring
for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and
supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. (4) Everyone has
the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 24 Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable
limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 25 (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the
health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing
and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the
event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of
livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. (2) Motherhood and childhood are
entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of
wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 26 (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at
least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be
compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally
available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of
merit. (2)Education shall be directed to the full development of the human
personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental
freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all
nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United
Nations for the maintenance of peace. (3) Parents have a prior right to choose the
kind of education that shall be given to their children.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 27 (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the
community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its
benefits. (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material
interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is
the author.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 28 Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the
rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 29 (1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free
and full development of his personality is possible. (2) In the exercise of his rights
and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined
by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights
and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of mortality, public
order and the general welfare in a democratic society. (3) These rights and
freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of
the United Nations.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE 30 Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any
State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act
aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">It is a sorry truth that successive British Governments have conspicuously failed to
inform and educate the people of Britain of their individual and collective duty to </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">promote
respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and
international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both
among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories
under their jurisdiction. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">As a result few if any of our political, civil and military leaders
know, understand or uphold these fundamental rights.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt; font-style: oblique;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">“Humanity has paid a heavy price for the lesson that nothing is
more tragic and cruel than war. I believe that we have as our
first priority an obligation to our children to open a clear and
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">reliable path to peace in the twenty first century.”
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">Daisaku Ikeda - Buddhist Leader
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 27.000000pt; font-style: oblique; font-weight: 700;">THE WARFARE CODE
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">The laws of war apply to everyone regardless of their official role or position and aim to prevent
harm or the loss of life and ensure that international disputes are settled peacefully. The main
laws governing warfare and the use of armed force are the General Treaty for the Renunciation
of War [Kellogg-Briand Pact], the UN Charter, the Nuremburg Principles, the Genocide
Convention, the Geneva Conventions, the Weapons Conventions and the Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court. In essence the laws of war state that:
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<li style="font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;"><span style="color: blue;">All international disputes must be settled peacefully without the use of armed force.
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</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">War between nation states is prohibited and is illegal.
</span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">The only circumstance in which the use of armed force is lawful occurs in defence of a state
under attack.
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</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is
responsible therefor and liable to punishment.
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</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">That a person who commits a crime under international law acts as Head of State, a
Member of Parliament or a responsible Government official does not relieve him from
responsibility under international law.
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</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">That a person acts on an order of Government or a superior does not relieve him from
responsibility under international law provided a moral choice is in fact possible to him.
</span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Planning, initiating or taking part in a war of aggression or an armed attack on another state
is illegal and constitutes ‘a crime against peace’.
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</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">The action of wilfully killing or harming a person is a crime.
</span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">The action of torturing a person is a crime.
</span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against
humanity is a crime under international law.
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</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Setting out to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part, is a
crime of genocide.
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</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Aiding, abetting, assisting or supporting fatal armed attacks on members of a national,
ethnic, racial or religious group is a crime of conduct ancillary to genocide.
</span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">The manufacture, possession or use of chemical, biological or toxin weapons is a crime.
</span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">The manufacture, possession or use of landmines or anti-personnel explosives is a crime.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 27.000000pt;">Enforcing War Law
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Holding leaders to account for their actions
Holding Government to account for war crimes
Co-opting your MP<br />
Impeachment
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Reporting crimes to the Police<br />
Reporting crimes to the International Criminal Court
Private Criminal Prosecution<br />
Obtaining an Injunction<br />
Applying for Judicial Review<br />
Withholding tax<br />
Refusing Orders
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Law is worthless if it is not enforced. The benefit derived from Nuremburg was the
knowledge that leaders can be tried, convicted and punished as war criminals. At last it
was possible to hold national leaders to account for their war crimes in court. So far
however this principle has only been applied to a few leaders on the losing side.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">If President Lyndon Johnson had been tried and convicted of war crimes for the
bombing of Vietnam, Prime Ministers Anthony Eden for the Suez debacle, Margaret
Thatcher for the sinking of the Belgrano, Saddam Hussein for gassing the Kurds and
George Bush Snr for the Baghdad road massacre, it is unlikely that George Bush Jnr
and Tony Blair would have contemplated waging war against Iraq.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The following section outlines preventive actions that can be taken by MPs, law
enforcement authorities, servicemen and women and taxpayers to ensure that our
political leaders and government officers uphold and enforce war law and never again
involve Britain in an illegal war or the killing of innocent people.
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Holding leaders to account for their actions
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Judgement of the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal propounded and reinforced
the doctrine of individual responsibility. Every citizen has an overarching duty to
mankind to prevent their government from waging a war of aggression.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">“The very essence of the Charter is that individuals have international duties
which transcend the national obligations of obedience imposed by the individual
State. He who violates the laws of war cannot obtain immunity while acting in
pursuance of the authority of the State, if the State in authorising action moves
outside its competence under international law.”
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">All wars are started by political leaders and never by the people. Since 1946 it has
been a legal duty for citizens to disobey the orders of any political leader, military
commander, law enforcement officer, judge or government official who violates the laws
of war. Unfortunately few if any British citizens understand that they have a legal duty to
disobey the British Government when it breaches the international laws against war.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">If German citizens had stood up in numbers to prevent Hitler from waging wars of
aggression, the Second World War would never have occurred. If Britons had refused
to obey the illegal orders of Parliament and the Prime Minister in March 2003, then
Britain would never have got involved in the war with Iraq. If MPs had known of and
upheld the laws of war they would not have voted in favour of the illegal invasion and
occupation. If the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee had properly scrutinized the
actions of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and our representatives at the United
Nations, the possibility of involvement in armed conflict would never have arisen. If
taxpayers had refused to handover taxes to the British and American Governments to
enable them to pay for the war, it would not have taken place.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The following suggestions are some of the non-violent ways in which MPs and
citizens can prevent leaders from initiating or waging wars of aggression.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Holding Government to account
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">A primary duty of an MP is to hold the executive to account for their actions. When
elected to Parliament, MPs appointed to a role in government often discover that they
have a conflict of interest between their duty to represent their constituents’ interests,
their duty to revise and uphold the law, their duty to scrutinise government action, their
duties in government, their duty to their political party, and their duty to their party leader,
their duty to the monarch and their duty to the nation. Unfortunately Britain’s flawed
governance system causes many of them to give their duties to their constituents a
lower priority than their desire to acquiesce to Ministerial commands.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">In matters of war and the use of armed force, Ministers may need to be reminded by
MPs of their legal duties. If they forget those duties, they should be reminded that in
war, thousands of human lives are at risk and that their primary duty to mankind under
the Nuremburg law is to prevent their government from waging war and killing people.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">The very essence of the </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">[London] </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Charter is that individuals have international
duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience imposed by the
individual State. He who violates the laws of war cannot obtain immunity while
acting in pursuance of the authority of the State, if the State in authorising action
moves outside its competence under international law...
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">It may be necessary to remind MPs and Ministers of the serious implications for them
as individuals if they take part in or support a violation of the laws of war.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Co-opting your MP
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">In a Parliamentary democracy the official channel open to citizens enabling them to
challenge the actions or decisions of government is through their MP. MPs have a
duty to represent the interests of all their constituents, regardless of their political
persuasion or affiliation. In the event of a war or involvement in armed conflict,
approach your MP and demand that they uphold the law and inform the government of
the illegality of its actions. If an MP fails to do so, remind them of their duty under the
Nuremburg law and let them know that should they condone or support the
Government’s plans, they render themselves criminally liable as an accessory to
genocide and war crimes under section 52 of The International Criminal Court Act.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Impeachment by Parliament
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">It is more than 150 years since the last successful impeachment in Britain of a
Minister of State. Despite recent valiant efforts by Plaid Cymru and Scottish Nationalist
MPs the chances of successfully impeaching the Prime Minister for waging a war of
aggression and crimes against peace are slim, but this should not stop MPs from the
attempt. In theory no-one, even the Queen or the Prime Minister, is above the law.
Unfortunately Britain’s law enforcement authorities have become corrupt over the years
and are refusing to investigate war crimes committed by The Prime Minister, the Queen,
and members of Britain’s political, civil and military establishment. This abject failure of
law enforcement in Britain means that impeachment by Members of Parliament may be
the only method available of holding our political leaders to account to the nation for their
war crimes.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Reporting crimes to the police
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The first act for MPs and citizens if they discover war crimes in preparation or taking
place is to report the information to the police. This applies to war crimes in exactly the
same way as it applies to offences such as burglary, assault or fraud. Unfortunately
most police officers are ignorant of war law and fail to understand or handle complaints
against Ministers of State. If this is the case then refer them to this document pointing
out offences that are taking place or about to take place. It may help to remind the
Police, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Courts that they have a duty under the
Rome Statute and international law to enforce war law and to initiate criminal
proceedings against all offenders regardless of their role, rank or position.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Reporting crimes to the International Criminal Court
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The primary responsibility for initiating criminal proceedings for the offences of
genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and conduct ancillary to such crimes lies
with the law enforcement authorities of the State whose nationals have committed the
offences. Only if domestic law enforcement authorities prove unwilling or unable to
prosecute leaders responsible for the crimes, can the Prosecutor of the International
Criminal Court in The Hague take over the proceedings. Police or private citizens
wishing to initiate criminal proceedings against British leaders should approach the
Attorney General for his consent to the proceedings, and only if he declines to give his
consent should the ICC in The Hague be approached. Even though the chances of the
ICC summoning up the courage to prosecute British war criminals are slim, it is
important to persist. The world will never eradicate warfare if political leaders are able
to violate these laws at will. When the day arrives that the International Criminal Court
indicts, prosecutes and convicts a Head of State of the stature of Bush, Blair, Sharon or
Putin, for a crime against humanity, the world will immediately become a safer place.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Initiating a Private Criminal Prosecution
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">If approaches to the Police, Crown Prosecution Service and Courts have failed, it is
open to anyone to bring a private criminal prosecution in Britain. Although it is an
unusual remedy, it is not impossible. It will depend upon the difficult task of finding a
judge with both integrity and probity.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Obtaining an injunction
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Another remedy open to citizens wishing to prevent ministers of state from taking
illegal action, is to apply to the courts for an injunction preventing them from doing so.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Applying for a judicial review
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">A further remedy available to anyone wishing to prevent warfare is to request a
judicial review of the relevant government decision(s). A judicial review is the process
whereby government decisions are challenged in court. Unfortunately at present
Britain’s High Court judges are not prepared to grant permission for a judicial review of
issues related to the legality of war and the country’s foreign affairs, claiming incorrectly
that such issues are non-justiciable and not open to challenge through the courts. This
outdated and undemocratic support for warmongers and abuse of the rule of law
provides a substantial challenge to anyone wishing to pursue this route, but don’t let that
put you off. One day a judge with both integrity and probity will challenge the status quo
and in doing so will bring Britain’s outdated justice system striding forward into the 19</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 7.000000pt; vertical-align: 5.000000pt;">th
</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">century.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Committing a minor crime to prevent a greater evil
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">It might seem inappropriate when advocating the rule of law to suggest committing a
criminal offence, but the horrific nature of the crimes of waging war or committing
genocide demand a forceful response. When all other approaches have failed it may be
necessary to commit a criminal offence to attempt to prevent the government from
waging war or committing serious crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity or
war crimes. It is a defence in law</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 7.000000pt; vertical-align: 5.000000pt;">3 </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">to use reasonable force to prevent crime. If a
person commits what would otherwise be a crime in order to prevent ‘a greater evil’ such
as death or serious injury to a person, they have a valid defence of ‘lawful excuse’. War
and military conflict is a prime example of ‘a greater evil’.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Not only are law-abiding citizens obliged under the Nuremburg law to disobey the
instructions and commands of a government when it violates the laws of war, but we are
obliged by the tenets of morality to breach lesser laws in the interests of preventing the
deaths of innocent men, women and children. If you immobilise military equipment,
break into a military base or disable weapon delivery systems with the purpose of halting
or preventing war and you do it without harming another person you have a valid
defence in law should you be brought before a court.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Withholding tax
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">An effective way of halting war is to stop the money that pays for war. It is a little
known fact that since July 1</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 7.000000pt; vertical-align: 5.000000pt;">st </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">2002 it has been a criminal offence in every State that has
ratified the Rome Statute to provide the means for the commission of the offences of
genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes [Article 25]. This implies that it is a
crime of ‘conduct ancillary to genocide’ in Britain to handover tax payments to the Inland
Revenue and thereby facilitate the commission of genocide. If as a taxpayer
[individuals or businesses] you have evidence that members of the government are
committing any one of the six ICCA crimes, you are duty bound in law to refuse to
handover any taxes, duties, fines or loans that could be used by the government to
facilitate the crimes. For many years courageous activists have made the moral choice
to withhold a portion [10%] of their taxes from the government as a matter of conscience,
but now, with the ratification of the Rome Statute, they have the criminal law on their
side. Every taxpayer has a duty in law to refuse to withhold tax from the Government,
IF the Government uses it to facilitate the commission of genocide, crimes against
humanity or war crimes.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Refusing Orders
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">All service personnel have a legal duty to refuse to obey manifestly illegal orders</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 7.000000pt; vertical-align: 5.000000pt;">4</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.
Unfortunately because of widespread ignorance of war law only a few courageous
individuals do so. If you do not know when an order is illegal, you cannot know which
order to disobey. Ignorance of war law pervades every rank in Britain’s Armed Forces.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">If Admiral Boyce had been better informed of domestic and international war law, it is
likely that he would have refused to initiate the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq,
and the mass murder which ensued would never have occurred.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">As the people most at risk and with the most to lose [their lives] from abuses of war
law, servicemen and women as well as their families must be informed of war law so that
they know and understand precisely when an order is legal or illegal. If they decide
that what they are being asked to do could harm another individual or even put that
person’s life at risk, then they must refuse the order. Equally it is up to every member of
society to support the individual serviceman or woman who takes the decision to refuse
illegal orders. Unless they are rewarded for their courage in upholding the law and
protected from prosecution by the government, society will never be able to uphold
international war law against the forces of evil at the heart of Government.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Every citizen has a duty to refuse illegal orders. If for example you are working in an
armaments factory manufacturing cluster bombs then it is your legal duty to refuse to do
so. Not only is your company breaching the Landmines Act 1998, but any use of those
landmines by Britain’s Armed Forces in which innocent men, women or children are
killed or injured, constitutes a criminal offence under the International Criminal Court Act
and makes you an accessory to the offence. You may then be charged and convicted
with ‘conduct ancillary to genocide, a crime against humanity or a war crime’. Every
individual has a duty to check that their activities or work responsibilities are entirely
legitimate and in no way breach the laws of war.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 27.000000pt;">False Legal Advice
</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">on the legality of the war with Iraq
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">In March 2003 the Prime Minister received and passed on false legal advice on the
legality of the proposed war with Iraq. Tony Blair’s false assurances that the war would
be legal deceived Parliament and the nation into supporting America in waging an illegal
war of aggression. The subsequent armed invasion and occupation of Iraq, which
killed and injured tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis, breached all the international laws
against war and violated the world’s most important treaties.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Not only was the legal advice false and wrong in law, but it omitted all mention of the
international treaties, conventions and laws against war. Instead of warning MPs and
Peers that military action would be illegal; the Attorney General provided a false legal
rationale to the Prime Minister basing his claim on the spurious argument of the revival
of a 12 year old Security Council Resolution relating to the expulsion of Iraq from Kuwait.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Deceptions in the legal advice included the lies that armed force can be authorised
by the Security Council, that it can be used to avert overwhelming humanitarian
catastrophe or even to pre-empt an attack. In their advice to the Foreign Affairs
Committee, the FCO made the false claim that Security Council resolution 1441 revived
an earlier authorisation for the use of force. This was another lie; resolution 1441 did no
such thing.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">If in the future, Cabinet Ministers, MPs, Peers, military officers and others are to
make legitimate decisions relating to warfare and military conflict, they must be briefed
correctly on international war law and the rights and wrongs inherent in military conflict.
To this end we have developed an example of the correct legal advice which should
have been provided by government legal officers to the Prime Minister and MPs prior to
the war with Iraq. As we cannot trust the Prime Minister, the Attorney General or
Government law officers to provide us with correct legal advice on the legality of war, we
recommend that decision makers use this material to help them determine for
themselves whether planned military conflict complies with or violates international law.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">We recommend that this document or a similar publication becomes required reading
for MPs, peers, military officers and senior civil servants prior to taking up their position.
If they are to make valid decisions about waging war, which are the most important
decisions a leader or government officer ever has to make, they must be fully and
correctly informed on the law and the personal implications should they breach it. It
would also help if the media publish this document in full in the event that Britain is ever
again involved in preparations for war. No citizen or taxpayer should fund war or get
involved in the use of armed force without fully understanding their legal position and the
implications of unwittingly becoming an accessory to the world’s worst war crimes.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 27.000000pt;">Correct Legal Advice
</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">On the illegality of the war with Iraq
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">[Or what the Attorney General should have said in his legal advice to the Prime
Minister if he had been doing his job correctly]
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">To: The Prime Minister
From: The Attorney General
March 2003
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Military action against Iraq
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">You asked me for advice on the legality of military action against Iraq.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Be advised that the proposed armed attack on Iraq is illegal in international and
domestic law, will violate major international treaties and render all those
involved with the decision liable to prosecution for the most serious criminal
offences in law. Under no circumstances should you entertain such a course of
action.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">If Britain joins America and invades Iraq we will be operating illegally. The use of
sophisticated weapons to attack Iraq killing its citizens violates the General
Treaty for the Renunciation of War, the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions
and the Rome Statute, constitutes the crimes of ‘genocide, crimes against
humanity and war crimes’ under the International Criminal Court Act 2001, a
crime against peace under the Nuremburg Principles as well as the common law
crime of ‘murder’.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I attach a report detailing the grounds on which this advice is based. I
recommend that every member of the Cabinet, every MP, senior civil servant,
judge and military officer reads it and understands its implications before making
decisions or publishing statements associated with the use of armed force.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Finally, I have included recommendations for a lawful non-violent approach to
solving the problem of Saddam Hussein and for escaping from the commitments
you made to George Bush. I hope this is of help, and remind you that I cannot
support the proposal for war under any circumstances.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Attorney General
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 23.000000pt;">THE LEGAL GROUNDS AGAINST
WAR<br />
</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 19.000000pt;">[</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 19.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Ten reasons to avoid a war with Iraq</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 19.000000pt;">]
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">1. All war is illegal</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Wars of aggression were outlawed by the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War in
1928. This treaty, known as the Kellogg-Briand Pact, was the result of a decade of
negotiations to prevent war and was motivated by the tragedy of World War I. The
world’s major nations, including Britain, America, France, Germany and Japan signed
and ratified the Pact, condemning recourse to war as an instrument of national policy
and agreeing to settle all disputes by peaceful means. The treaty is still in force.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE I The High Contracting Parties solemnly declare in the names of their
respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of
international controversies, and renounce it, as an instrument of national policy in
their relations with one another.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">ARTICLE II The High Contracting Parties agree that the settlement or solution
of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be,
which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The proposed attack on Iraq will violate this solemn and binding treaty which formed the
legal basis for the convictions of the German leaders at Nuremburg after the Second
World War. Should you go ahead with the invasion of Iraq, we will all be personally
liable for the same crime of waging a war of aggression for which Hitler’s colleagues
were convicted and hanged in 1946.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">2. Armed attacks on another State are illegal</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">When we signed and ratified the UN Charter we made a binding agreement with all UN
Member States never to threaten or attack them and to settle all disputes peacefully.
The main terms are laid out in the Preamble and Articles 1 and 2 of the Charter, of which
2.3 and 2.4 outline the main agreements forbidding the use of armed force.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">2.3 All members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in
such a manner that international peace, security and justice are not endangered.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">2.4 All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use
of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in
any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Both the Pact of Paris and the UN Charter were intended to eliminate the indiscriminate
slaughter of human beings and to ensure that in future all international disputes would
be solved peacefully through the application of the rule of law. An armed attack on Iraq
would breach this agreement and could put our membership of the Security Council at
risk.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Warfare is illegal in customary international law
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Judgment of the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials is the main customary international
law relating to armed conflict between nations. When convicting the German leaders,
the judges confirmed the illegality of war describing it as the supreme international
crime.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">“After the signing of the </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">[Kellogg-Briand] </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Pact, any nation resorting to war as an
instrument of national policy breaks the Pact. In the opinion of the Tribunal, the
solemn renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy necessarily
involves the proposition that such war is illegal in international law; and that those
who plan and wage such a war with its inevitable and terrible consequences are
committing a crime in so doing.”
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">“The charges in the indictment that the defendants planned and waged
aggressive wars are charges of the utmost gravity. War is essentially an evil
thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect
the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression therefore, is not only an
international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing only from other
war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">These statements are crystal clear. The proposed armed invasion of Iraq will constitute
a war of aggression, will be illegal and will comprise the supreme international crime.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">The removal of Saddam Hussein by force would be illegal.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Action taken against Saddam Hussein or his regime must be conducted according to
international law. If you wish to stop his repression and cruelty to his people, then do so
by legal means. This can be done by supporting concerted non-violent action under
Security Council auspices to arrest him and place him on trial for his crimes. As I have
mentioned before, to threaten or use armed force to bring about ‘regime change’ is
illegal under the terms of the UN Charter.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Unilateral or bilateral action is illegal</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Chapter VII (Articles 39 - 51) of the UN Charter governs the activities of the Security
Council. Article 39 makes it absolutely clear that it is the Security Council that must
determine the existence of a threat to the peace, not its individual members. The
proposed Coalition with America breaches the terms of the UN Charter.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">39. The Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the
peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression and shall make
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">recommendations, or decide what measures shall be taken in accordance with
Articles 41 and 42, to maintain or restore international peace and security.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Pre-emptive attacks are illegal.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Pre-emptive attacks were made illegal 150 years ago as a result of Britain’s underhand
pre-emptive attack on an American vessel “The Caroline” at Niagara. Article 51 of the
UN Charter also makes it quite clear that the only circumstance in which a State may
use armed force is after it has been attacked and before the Security Council has
implemented its own measures to maintain peace and security.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">51. Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or
collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United
Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain
international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of
this right of self defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and
shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council
under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary
to maintain or restore international peace and security.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The law is clear. A pre-emptive attack on Iraq would be illegal. The only legitimate use
of armed force against Iraq would be to defend ourselves if we were under attack.
Should this occur we may legitimately use proportionate force to defend ourselves, but
we may do so only until the point at which the Security Council implements measures to
resolve the conflict and keep the peace. Should you attack Iraq, Iraq is legally entitled
to defend itself and to call upon the UN Security Council for help in defending itself.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">The Security Council cannot authorise war or the use of armed force.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The UN Security Council is a PEACEKEEPING body and it cannot authorise an armed
military intervention into another country’s affairs. Articles 41 and 42 govern Security
Council affairs and specify the measures it can take to diffuse conflict.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">41. The Security Council may decide what measures not involving the use of
armed force are to be employed to give effect to its decisions, and it may call upon
members of the United Nations to apply such measures. These may include
complete or partial interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, postal,
telegraphic, radio and other means of communication, and the severance of
diplomatic relations.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">42. Should the Security Council consider that measures provided for in Article 41
would be inadequate or have proved to be inadequate, it may take such action by
air, sea or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international
peace and security. Such action may include demonstrations, blockade and other
operations by air, sea or land forces of Members of the United Nations.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Be advised that in international law neither Britain nor America can decide the measures
to employ against Saddam Hussein. Only the Security Council is authorised to decide
such measures, and whatever they decide it must NOT involve the use of armed force.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">8 Killing or injuring people is illegal
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The willful killing of any person is a crime and is never countenanced, condoned or ‘right’
in law. The Human Rights Act 1998 makes this clear and specifies that the only
exception occurs when a person is accused of a capital crime, arrested and tried in a
duly constituted court of law and convicted of an offence for which the pre-ordained
sentence is death. Then and only then is it legal to kill that person.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">2.1 “Everyone’s right to life shall be protected by law. No-one shall be deprived
of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his
conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided in law.”
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">In war, if a serviceman is attacked and their life is threatened then they may use a
weapon to halt the attack and disable their attacker, but deliberately killing their attacker,
even if that person is wearing a uniform and classified as an enemy, is a crime under the
Rome Statute and the Geneva Conventions. It is never legal for members of HM
armed forces to use a weapon to kill another person. Just as it is a crime for the IRA to
set off a bomb in a pub, or for Al Qaeda to fly planes into the World Trade Centre, it is a
criminal offence to cause the death of another human being by ordering armed forces to
fire a cruise missile into Baghdad, drop a cluster bomb in Basra or shoot a suspected
bomber.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">If an Iraqi dies as a result of the actions of Coalition forces, then all those responsible for
giving or transmitting the orders that caused the death commit a criminal offence and
can be prosecuted for murder and conspiracy to murder. These are crimes under the
Accessories and Abettors Act, the Offences Against the Person Act, the Criminal Law
Act 1977, and the Criminal Attempts Act 1981. Law that applies to one applies to all
even in times of war. It will be wise for anyone involved in a decision to use armed
force, to acquaint themselves with the criminal offences contained in these Statutes and
the sentences that can be imposed on those convicted of an offence.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">9. Killing Iraqis will constitute an act of Genocide.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Genocide is the most serious crime in international and domestic law. Under Article 25
of the Rome Statute and Section 51 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001, any
British resident who intentionally kills members of a national, ethnic, racial or religious
group commits genocide</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The legal definition of genocide is.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">For the purpose of this Statute “genocide” means any of the following acts
committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnical, racial or
religious group, as such: (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious
bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the
group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole
or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e)
forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">When we enacted The International Criminal Court Act in 2001 we incorporated the
crimes of ‘genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes’ into domestic criminal
law.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">It is an offence against the law of England and Wales for a person to commit
genocide, a crime against humanity or a war crime, or to engage in conduct
ancillary to such an act. This applies to acts committed in England or Wales
or outside the United Kingdom by a UK national, resident or person subject to
UK service jurisdiction.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Should you go ahead with the decision to attack Iraq and cause the death of one or
more Iraqi nationals, all those Britons involved in making, supporting or implementing the
decision will be liable for crimes of ‘genocide’ or ‘conduct ancillary to genocide’ and
subject to the sanctions of criminal law. The proposed invasion implies that you will
almost certainly commit genocide. You may argue that you are not setting out with
</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">intent </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">to destroy a national group, but as the legal meaning of “intent” is clearly defined
in the legislation you will find it difficult to escape culpability. Anyone who chooses to
use indiscriminate high explosive weapons such as cruise missiles, rockets and cluster
bombs in place of the large number of non-violent alternatives available for dispute
resolution demonstrates their intent to kill.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">66. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">A person has intent in relation to ‘conduct’ where he means to engage in the
conduct, and in relation to a consequence, where he means to cause the
consequence or is aware that it will occur in the ordinary course of events.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">You have acknowledged in public that casualties would be inevitable if the invasion goes
ahead. This means that you are aware that deaths and serious injuries to Iraqi citizens
[members of a national group] will ensue in the ordinary course of events. This public
admission is proof of your intent to destroy part of a national group. It makes no
difference if American, British, Australian or Spanish forces do the killing. In law
everyone in the Coalition will be jointly and severally responsible for every Iraqi death
resulting from the violence. It is important to remember that although the Americans
have not ratified the Rome Statute and are not subject to its jurisdiction, Britain, Australia
and Spain have ratified the Statute and their citizens can be held to account in The
Hague for deaths caused by Coalition forces. If the ICC decides to prosecute us for one
or more of these crimes, UK law enforcement authorities are legally obliged to arrest us
and hand us over for trial in The Hague.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">10. Leaders are responsible for the crimes of their subordinates</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 14.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Article 27 of the Rome Statute makes it quite clear that we will all be criminally liable
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">regardless of our position in Government or Parliament.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">This Statute shall apply equally to all persons without any distinction based on
official capacity. In particular, official capacity as Head of State or
Government, a member of a Government or Parliament, an elected
representative or a government official shall in no case exempt a person from
criminal responsibility under this Statute, nor shall it in and of itself, constitute a
ground for reduction of sentence.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Immunities or special procedural rules which may attach to the official capacity of
a person, whether under national or international law, shall not bar the Court
from exercising its jurisdiction over such a person.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">All British residents are subject to this law. The Queen, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord
Chief Justice, the Cabinet, every MP, peer, military officer, civil servant, journalist or
taxpayer who does anything to condone, support or take part in the use of armed force
in which one or more persons are killed is bound by this law and subject to the sanctions
of the court. It is our duty to inform everyone involved in the proposed war of the terms
of this Act and the likelihood of their prosecution should any Iraqis be killed or injured.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">[NB. It will be important to explain this law and its implications to Her Majesty Queen
Elisabeth as I am reasonably certain that she is not aware of the serious implications it
would have for her if she signs an order for HM Forces to take part in military conflict, let
alone an illegal invasion and occupation of a member state of the United Nations.]
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Sections 65 and 78 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001 make it clear that
regardless of who launches the rockets, fires the cruise missiles, drops the cluster
bombs or deploys depleted uranium shells, the ultimate responsibility for the resulting
deaths, injuries or destruction lies with those who ordered the attack to take place.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">65. Responsibility of commanders and other superiors. A military commander, or a
person effectively acting as a military commander, is responsible for offences
committed by forces under his effective command and control or his effective
authority and control... A person responsible under this section for an offence is
regarded as aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of the offence.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">78. Crown Application. This Act binds the Crown and applies to persons in the
public service of the Crown.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 23.000000pt;">IMPLICATIONS
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">As the proposed invasion and occupation of Iraq violates the laws against war, it will
render those involved criminally liable in both domestic and international law. In the
event that you go ahead with the invasion and Iraqi casualties ensue, British residents
involved in aiding, abetting, counseling or procuring the commission of offences against
the Iraqi people are liable to be charged with ‘conduct ancillary to genocide, crimes
against humanity and war crimes’ under Section 52 of the ICC Act. Although it is never
possible to arrest and try everyone responsible for war crimes, it is quite possible that up
to 1000 political, civil and military leaders, including every member of the Cabinet and
many of our colleagues in Parliament will be prosecuted for the world’s most serious
crimes.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 23.000000pt;">RECOMMENDA TIONS
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">I advise that you abide by this country’s obligations and duties and confine international
affairs to the legal and legitimate path outlined by the UN Charter. We must not allow
the Bush Administration’s illegitimate interventions on the international stage to drag this
country into an illegal war.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">I suggest that you turn down George Bush’s invitation to join a coalition, informing him
that as founding signatories to the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War and the
UN Charter both our nations are constrained by international law to operate under the
auspices of the Security Council and to settle the Saddam problem by legal and peaceful
means. You might also remind him that under Article VI of the American Constitution
international treaties are American law, and that if he invades Iraq he not only violates
the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the UN Charter, the Nuremburg Judgement, the Nuremburg
Principles and the Genocide Convention, but he violates the American Constitution as
well as committing the world’s most serious crimes. If he still insists on attacking Iraq,
remind him that if Iraqi nationals are killed it will constitute an act of ‘genocide’ which is a
crime in American domestic law under the Proxmire Act 1988.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">I suggest that it will help Britain’s international reputation, if at the same time that you
refuse to support America’s illegal proposal, you publicly reaffirm our determination to
support the UN, assist the Weapons Inspectorate’s efforts in finding and destroying
Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, uphold international treaties and support the
International Criminal Court. As a lawyer, it will be in your interest to be seen to be
upholding the rule of law. Turning down George Bush’s illegal proposal provides
excellent opportunities to reinforce our ethical foreign policy initiative and remind
America and the world that warfare and military conflict have been outlawed for
decades. Refusing George Bush at this stage may be difficult, but by repeating in
public that we are committed to the maintenance of a fair, just and equitable world for
future generations, you will appeal to the vast majority of world opinion and be seen as a
statesman of integrity, probity and stature. By adopting this peacekeeping approach,
your place in history will be assured as the leader who caused the world to eliminate
war, rather than Britain’s first convicted war criminal.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt; font-style: oblique;">Attorney General
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">Acknowledgements
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">I wish to express my appreciation to the following people for their help, encouragement
or inspiration in bringing this booklet to fruition: Joel Coverdale, Ben Coverdale, Peter
Doraisamy, Ray Bradshaw, Michael and Amanda Culver, Brian Haw, Maria Gallastegui,
Eric Levy, Barbara Tucker, Carolyn Emerson, Bill Beckley, Olwen Haslam, Romy
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Jane Taylor, Lesley Docksey, Isobel McMillan, Michael Hardern, Anthea Illingworth,
Sarah Pauffley, Sally Coverdale, Peggy Davis, John Davis, Harriet Comben, Elie
Dervonte, Nike Williams, Margaret Bloomer, Unity Cantwell, Richard Finchell, John
Pilger, Mark Curtis, Sarah Wilkinson, Pat Haward, Christine Titmus, Fred Starkey, Annie
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Kalmanovitz, Giorgio Riva, Ben Martin, Selma James, Nina Lopez and members of
Payday and the Global Women’s Strike.
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">The Author
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Chris Coverdale is a behavioural scientist, governance consultant, memetic engineer,
war law lawyer and peace activist investigating corruption in business and government.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">© Chris Coverdale, Wimbledon, October 2007 </span></div>
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EXETER MP Ben Bradshaw has said the cost of doing nothing in Libya would have been "catastrophic".</div>
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RAF Tornado jets joined the operation to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya and Mr Bradshaw said: "The world could not stand idly by and watch while Gaddafi used his superior weaponry to slaughter his own people and crush the popular uprising of the Libyan people."</div>
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 — Libya — No Fly Zone — 21 Mar 2011 at 21:42</div>
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Ben Bradshaw MP, Exeter voted to support the establishment of a no-fly zone in Libya.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131459988222142655.post-73922126194937975592012-11-19T14:33:00.000+00:002015-04-26T15:06:14.814+01:00Reflection on Bradshaw's support for War<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 20px;">
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Articles by Bradshaw on Syria / Libya<br />
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An overview of some of Bradshaw's politics - mostly on his hawkish military stance<br />
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On US / NATO unprovoked wars on UN members nations since Libya, 2011, Bradshaw's record is of an enthusiastic supporter of actions that have destroy successful, stable, multi ethnic, multi-racial societies. Under the absurdity of <a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/responsibility-to-protect-r2p.html" target="_blank">“Responsibility to Protect”</a>, R2P, Bradshaw supported action against Libya, Syria and now ISIS in Iraq.</div>
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The compiler of this Unreported World Review is not supporting any leader, be it Gadaffi or Assad. The Review is to convey information, admissible in any honest court of law that challenges the statements of the US / NATO / Israeli et al military alliance waging criminal wars.</div>
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Check out the history of US intervention in the 20th century as a comparison. Millions of innocents have been murdered - Vietnam, Laos, South American - research the deaths by US drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan described as “collateral damage”.</div>
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Regarding Bradshaw’s support for the new claim (2005) of western nations “international duty” to human rights, there is clear evidence of the age old excuse of belligerent nations waging war for political, economic and resources advantage called - war for peace.</div>
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R2P is in absolute breach of previous international agreements on the illegality of wagging war unless under direct military attack of a home land.</div>
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On chemical weapons use by the Assad government this is, in absolute terms, unproven. Regarding the East Ghouta, there is a large body of evidence indicating that the only source of the weapons was the areas held by insurgents supported by the West (plus Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel etc.)</div>
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As with al Qaeda there is voluminous evidence that ISIS / al Nusra has been fostered, nurtured, trained, armed, protected and directed by the US / NATO / Israeli alliance. ISIS and al Nusra casualties are regularly reported as being transported into Israel for medical treatment. Even Ban K Moon, Secretary General of the UN, has stated this in UNDOF reports in 2014 although not identifying the groups by name.</div>
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Libya has been <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/massacres-that-matter-responsibility-to-protect-in-egypt-libya-and-syria-part-1/5347125" target="_blank">bombed into the dark ages</a>. Black people have murdered in their thousand for being black. Women, who were equal under the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, are now third class citizens and oppressed and abused under extreme religious cultures. The gold and oil that gave Libyans one of the best standards of living in Africa, prior too western intervention, has passed into nefarious hands.</div>
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Many extreme Sunni fighters from the Benghazi region are widely reported as having been transported via Turkey into Syria to destablise the secular government of Asssad. The story is to long for this article but many reports can be sourced here <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/massacres-that-matter-responsibility-to-protect-in-egypt-libya-and-syria-part-1/5347125" target="_blank">Global Research</a></div>
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That the UN has been manipulated by the power of the US empire is a contentious assertion. However, what is comprehendible to those that are committed to peace and justice is the fact of International Law prohibiting military action unless in self defence. In the 20th century the principle agreements are <a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-lawsprohibitingwar-essential-facts.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131459988222142655.post-54095492817623810002012-11-19T14:27:00.000+00:002015-04-26T14:27:48.250+01:00al CIA: US / NATO / Israeli - Manufactured "terrorism" Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131459988222142655.post-45460622500366747132012-11-19T11:45:00.000+00:002015-04-26T14:06:51.302+01:00Bradshaw on war / absurdities high-lighted<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">
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Ex-minister says Ed Miliband was right to oppose rush to war but says party must 'do difficult things' to stand up to dictators</div>
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The Labour party will have no future if it refuses to "do difficult things" to stand up to dictators, a former cabinet minister has said in a strongly worded intervention in which he calls for an urgent and deep reflection about last week's Commons votes on Syria.</div>
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Ben Bradshaw urged the party leadership to give clear and unambiguous answers over its policy direction on Syria, in a sign of the deep unease at all levels of the party about the impact of the government's defeat, which killed off the possibility of military intervention.</div>
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In an article for the Guardian, the former culture secretary writes: <span style="color: magenta;">"The Labour party is internationalist or we are nothing. We have a strong and proud tradition of supporting humanitarian intervention and being prepared to do difficult things with other liberal democracies to uphold global norms and stand up to dictators."</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">(Ask yourself about the dictators we have supplied with arms, chemical weapons, money, - ask yourself about our support for apartheid, for the war in Vietnam, for the overthrow and murder of democratically elected Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973 - just for a start) ... (Then ask yourself what have we done in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria - what have we allowed Israel to do to the Palestinians?)</span></span></div>
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Bradshaw accuses David Cameron of "grotesque mishandling" of the Commons vote and says Ed Miliband was right to "put a brake on Cameron's rush to war". The Labour leader forced the prime minister to amend his original Commons motion to beef up the role of the UN and to ensure that parliament would have a second vote to authorise any military intervention.</div>
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Bradshaw criticises Cameron for the way he ruled out any military involvement within minutes of the vote. He says most MPs were not voting to rule this out. But he indicates that he fears that Miliband's response to the vote this week – calling for more talks with Iran and a greater focus on humanitarian action – is mistaken.</div>
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"A considerable number of Labour MPs (many more than have so said so publicly) feel deeply uneasy about this. Where do we stand if Democrat America, Socialist France, Turkey and the Arab League go ahead with strikes? What is our view of how Britain should vote in the UN security council?," he writes.</div>
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"How should we respond in the unlikely event that Putin was speaking the truth when he said he'd change his mind <span style="color: magenta;">if it was proved Assad was responsible for the chemical attacks?</span> Does being nice to Iran and talking about Britain's now diminished diplomatic and humanitarian role constitute a foreign policy? Labour needs to have clear and unambiguous answers to these questions."<br />
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Bradshaw praises the Labour amendment in the Commons that sought to provide a <span style="color: magenta;">proper legal footing</span> <span style="color: blue;"> (Read the <a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-lawsprohibitingwar-essential-facts.html" target="_blank">Laws Prohibiting War</a> and the reality of the 2005 policy <a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/responsibility-to-protect-r2p.html" target="_blank">"Responsibility to Protect"</a> R2P) </span>for military strikes by giving the UN a greater role and insisting on definitive proof linking the Assad regime to apparent chemical attacks. But he is concerned that Labour seems to be hardening its conditions following the government's defeat in the Commons, after the party said it would only countenance a military strike if there was a "very significant change" on the ground.</div>
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"Instead of sticking to this sensible and measured approach, we seem to have abandoned it because of the incompetence of a Tory prime minister. We have allowed Labour foreign policy to be dictated by the government," Bradshaw writes.</div>
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Bradshaw reinforces his message about the importance of being prepared to act on the international stage, recalling his decision to abandon a BBC career for parliament. He writes: <span style="color: magenta;">"I came back from being an observer of politics as a BBC journalist to being an active Labour party member and then an MP because of my disgust at the Tory government's inaction in the Balkans in the 1990s</span>. It was thanks to the 1997 Labour government working with President Clinton that Milosevic's rampage of slaughter and ethnic cleansing was stopped."</div>
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The former cabinet minister warns of the dangers of deciding foreign policy on the basis of the Iraq war a decade ago. "The prism of Iraq was used to explain last Thursday's votes, not least by senior Conservatives reaching for an excuse for their failure. The problem with prisms is they distort. Leadership is about learning the right not the wrong lessons from the past, judging each case on its merits and deciding accordingly."</div>
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The intervention by Bradshaw, who served as a foreign office minister under Tony Blair and who was promoted to culture secretary by Gordon Brown, comes amid growing unease among Tory MPs over the government's handling of Syria. William Hague, the foreign secretary, faced what were described as "blunt" questions from backbenchers at a meeting of the Tory 1922 committee on Wednesday evening.</div>
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One MP who was in attendance said: "The meeting was conciliatory. But William was asked about the misjudgments in No 10 about the Labour party's voting intentions, about the misjudgments about the US plans – there must have been a skin-deep understanding of Washington – and about the misjudgments in presenting the case. How could the prime minister say you could drop bombs on the assets of the Syrian regime and say that is not taking sides?"<br />
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Last night the Commons voted against Britain taking military action – by accident. It may be an outcome supported by a majority of the public, but it was not what any of the main parties or their leaders wanted.</div>
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David Cameron, in an act of terrible miscalculation, tried to bounce MPs into supporting military action in principle before they or the country were ready. Ed Miliband – who was very clear he did not rule out supporting action – felt the evidence – not least that from the UN weapons inspectors due in the next two days – should come before the decision.</div>
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If Cameron had supported Labour’s sensible and measured amendment or waited until next week, the vote would have gone through. Instead, both leaders seem now to have ruled out supporting military action, regardless of what the weapons inspectors say and Presidents Obama, Hollande and others decide to do.</div>
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This is an extraordinary moment for British Foreign policy and, I’m inclined to agree with the former Lib Dem MP, Paddy Ashdown, a worrying one. <span style="color: magenta;">Britain has said dictators can use chemical weapons, killing thousands, and we will do nothing.</span></div>
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Cameron and the Government did precious little to prepare the public or MPs for this week’s rush to decision. But, public opinion is fickle. More reports like last night’s on the BBC of an appalling attack on a Syrian primary school could quickly change the public mood.</div>
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I voted for Labour’s amendment (below) because it mapped out a sensible process for making a decision. I abstained on the Government’s motion because I felt Britain should keep our options open. Both those approaches now appear closed. It is now left to France, America and others to uphold international law, human decency and the principle of humanitarian intervention.</div>
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This house expresses its revulsion at the killing of hundreds of civilians in Ghutah, Syria on 21 August 2013; believes that this was a moral outrage; recalls the importance of upholding the worldwide prohibition on the use of chemical weapons; makes clear that the use of chemical weapons is a grave breach of international law; agrees with the UN Secretary General that the UN weapons inspectors must be able to report to the UN Security Council and that the Security Council must live up to its responsibilities to protect civilians; supports steps to provide humanitarian protection to the people of Syria but will only support military action involving UK forces if and when the following conditions have been met that:</div>
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(f) the Prime Minister reports further to the House on the achievement of these conditions so that the House can vote on UK participation in such action, and that any such vote should relate solely to efforts to deter the use of chemical weapons and does not sanction any wider action in Syria.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131459988222142655.post-59875271313182690762012-11-18T22:25:00.000+00:002015-04-26T13:47:35.140+01:00Plan to FRAME SYRIA<div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: justify;">
<i>http://americanfreepress.net/?p=8544</i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">HACKERS EXPOSE U.S. FALSE FLAG TO FRAME SYRIA</span></b></div>
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FEBRUARY 13, 2013 </div>
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- See more at: http://americanfreepress.net/?p=8544#sthash.0BmMr1SR.dpuf</div>
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<i>• Mercenary emails indicate U.S. may have proposed “false flag” chemical attack</i></div>
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Hacked emails from a British mercenary company were posted online, leading to claims Washington was backing a dirty war against Syria in which a chemical attack on Syria could be blamed on the Syrian regime, thereby strengthening the case for immediate intervention on the part of the United States military.</div>
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British mercenary company, <a href="http://www.britamdefence.com/">Britam Defence</a>, has since admitted it was hacked but claimed the hacker, who posted his online name as “JAsIrX,” had maliciously and cleverly used hacked material to generate forgeries to destroy the company’s reputation and make it look like it was involved in shocking behavior.</div>
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According to a spokesman for the company, it was really a “risk management firm” and not a mercenary company like those hired by the U.S. Defense Department to carry out military operations in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.</div>
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However, the sheer volume of hacked documents from Britam demonstrates that the UK firm has a hand in more than just paper-pushing. It is clearly a company with tentacles that reach into all parts of the military-industrial complex in the UK and overseas.</div>
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One of the hacked emails that has resulted in the most embarrassment for the U.S. government concerned Syria. The email reads as follows:</div>
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Phil, we’ve got a new offer. It’s about Syria again. Qataris propose an attractive deal and swear that the idea is approved in Washington. We’ll have to deliver a CW to Homs, a Soviet origin g-shell [sic] from Libya similar to those that Assad should have. They want us to deploy our Ukrainian personnel that should speak Russian and make a video record. Frankly, I don’t think it is a good idea but the sums proposed are enormous. Your opinion?</div>
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The “Phil” referred to in the email is purported to be Philip Doughy, Britam’s founder. The “David” is the director of development, David Goulding. The “CW” in the email refers to Chemical Weapon and the “g-shell” implies a gas-warfare-type shell.</div>
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The company claims the email was a forgery. Nevertheless, its release coincided with warnings by Israel and the Obama White House that Syrian leader Bashar al Assad was liable to use his chemical weapons on the Arab revolutionaries and Islamist militias trying to overthrow his government. Israel has insisted it reserves the right to attack Syria’s chemical sites and the issue has encouraged neocons to argue it is time for the U.S. and its allies to get more directly involved in overthrowing Assad. Russia has insisted Assad has given it an assurance he will not use chemical weapons on his people.</div>
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In all, 423 megabytes of zip files were hacked from Britam. Aside from the one on Syria, there were others related to Iran that have caused considerable controversy.</div>
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For example, one file folder contained outlines of plans for varying types of military actions to be undertaken as part of an attack on Iran. The topics listed in the files were under headings such as “Fix enemy forces and lure them to the killing zones.” Another had the title, “Move from their garrisons to occupy AA at Grid (1556) (IAW Movement Order).” The IAW stands for “in agreement with.”</div>
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The hacker, who posted the files, said he hacked Britam’s website after discovering it was on a Malaysian server and that its files indicated it had plans for the invasion of Syria and Iran. He described it as a private military company. To prove his case, he also released copies of emails and files with titles such as “WMM Baghdad 5” and “Iran issue” with the date, 24-01-2013.</div>
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One file contained a listing of many of Britam’s clients, including Halliburton with which it has an ongoing $16M contract for what it terms “risk assessment, planning and close protection of personnel” in oilfields in parts of Iraq. A similar contract worth $11M is with BP.</div>
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In response to media coverage of the hacking, a spokesman for Britam insisted the company was more of a “commercial private security” company as distinct from the private contractor outfits like Blackwater that operated during the Bush and Obama presidencies. Blackwater subsequently changed its name to XE after it was accused of murdering Iraqi civilians.</div>
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ALSO: Wikileaks on Stratfor on long term plan to depose Assad<br />
<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/wikileaks.htm">http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/wikileaks.htm</a>l</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131459988222142655.post-57242755889930118322012-11-18T22:22:00.000+00:002015-04-26T13:54:15.684+01:00Turkish Police / Sarin / al Nusra<div style="color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica;">
Turkish Police find Chemical Weapons in the Possession of Al Nusra Terrorists heading for Syria</div>
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Global Research, May 30, 2013</div>
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<span style="color: #362f2d;">Region: <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/region/middle-east"><span style="color: #3a4c83;">Middle East & North Africa</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #362f2d;">Theme: <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/theme/us-nato-war-agenda"><span style="color: #3a4c83;">US NATO War Agenda</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #362f2d;">In-depth Report: <span style="color: #3a4c83;"><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/indepthreport/syria-nato-s-next-war">SYRIA: NATO'S NEXT WAR?</a></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #362f2d;">According to a report in </span><span style="color: blue;">Turkey’s state media agency Zaman</span><span style="color: #362f2d;">, agents from the Turkish General Directorate of Security (Emniyet Genel Müdürlüğü) seized 2 kg of sarin gas in the city of Adana in the early hours of yesterday morning. The chemical weapons were in the possession of Al Nusra terrorists believed to have been heading for Syria</span></i></div>
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The EGM identified 12 members of the AL Nusra terrorist cell and also ceased fire arms and digital equipment. This is the second major official confirmation of the use of chemical weapons by</div>
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Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria after UN inspector Carla Del Ponte’s recent statement confirming the use of chemical weapons by the Western-backed terrorists in Syria.</div>
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The Turkish police are currently conducting further investigations into the operations of Al-Qaeda linked groups in Turkey.[1]</div>
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This further confirmation that the Syrian ‘rebels’ are using chemical weapons while also using Turkey as a base of terrorist operations against Syria, could cause further domestic problems for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu has called the ‘chief of the terrorists’.[2]<br />
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The Syrian National Coalition abroad has persisted in accusing the Syrian government of using chemical weapons. The Syrian National Coalition Head of Media Khaled Saleh told Al Jazeera on May 26th that Turkish authorities were certain about the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government.</div>
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Saleh also claimed that he was in contact with several ‘brigades’ fighting in Syria. Perhaps, Mr. Saleh should be advised to consult the Turkish police now that one of his ‘brigades’ has been arrested in possession of chemical weapons.[3]<br />
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Unsurprisingly, this Turkish report failed to make international headlines. From the beginning of the Syrian war, the international press agencies have attempted to portray the Al-Qaeda invasion of Syria as a ‘popular revolution’, which started out as a ‘peaceful protest’ against a ‘brutal regime’. The fact that there was never a modicum of evidence to support such claims has not hindered the avalanche of vituperation and demonization of Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad and the Syrian Arab Republic.</div>
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France’s daily Le Monde published an ‘exclusive’ report on the 27th of May 2013 which claimed to have ‘proof’ that the Syrian government was using chemical weapons ‘against its own people’. However, the report simply relied on statements by ‘activists’ and ‘rebels’, who most serious commentators have described as unreliable sources of information.</div>
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Le Monde’s report came just in time as the French government was pushing the European Union to lift the embargo on arms to the terrorists in Syria. The confirmation by previous articles in Le Monde that the opposition in Syria is in fact Al Qaeda [4],</div>
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together with the reluctance of EU partners Germany, Austria, and other countries to openly back the terrorists, has isolated Paris and London, exposing the British and French governments as state sponsors of terrorism.</div>
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In January 2013, Russian television station RT published leaked documents from British corporation Britam Defense, which revealed a plan by Qatar to deliver chemical weapons to Homs in Syria, with the aid of Britam Defense. The British company was to provide Ukrainian personnel to act as Russian military advisors in order to implicate the Russian government in the crime. The email suggested that the Qataris were providing ‘enormous’ amounts of money for the plan and that it was approved by Washington. [5]</div>
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The Japhat Al-Nosra terrorist organization has not hidden its desire to gas the Alawite minority in Syria. A video was posted on U Tube on December 4th 2012 showing terrorists testing chemical weapons on rabbits, while vowing to exterminate Alawite Syrians in a similar fashion.[6]</div>
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As the Western-backed terrorists lose ground to government forces in Syria, the likelihood of further massacres committed by the terrorists and blamed on the Syrian government grows. However, as more and more reports contradict the official media narrative on the Syrian war, the voices of truth are acquiring critical mass, threatening to bring down once and for all NATO’s oppressive media empire.</div>
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<span style="color: #362f2d;">[1] <a href="http://www.zaman.com.tr/gundem_adanada-el-kaide-operasyonu-12-gozalti_2094730.html"><span style="color: #3a4c83;">http://www.zaman.com.tr/gundem_adanada-el-kaide-operasyonu-12-gozalti_2094730.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #362f2d;">[2]<a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/blogNewsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=316623&columnistId=142"><span style="color: #3a4c83;">http://www.todayszaman.com/blogNewsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=316623&columnistId=142</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #362f2d;">[3] <a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2013/05/27/armes-chimiques-en-syrie-le-debat-escamote_3417923_3210.html"><span style="color: #3a4c83;">http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2013/05/27/armes-chimiques-en-syrie-le-debat-escamote_3417923_3210.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #362f2d;">[4]<a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/frances-media-admits-that-the-syrian-opposition-is-al-qaida-then-justifies-french-government-support-to-the-terrorists/5331289"><span style="color: #3a4c83;">http://www.globalresearch.ca/frances-media-admits-that-the-syrian-opposition-is-al-qaida-then-justifies-french-government-support-to-the-terrorists/5331289</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #362f2d;">[5]<a href="http://libyanfreepress.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/8345/"><span style="color: #3a4c83;">http://libyanfreepress.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/8345/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #362f2d;">[6]<a href="http://libyanfreepress.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/8345/"><span style="color: #3a4c83;">http://libyanfreepress.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/8345/</span></a></span></div>
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<b>"Military Intervention In Syria", US Training "Rebels" Since 2011 And The Complete Grand Plan - The March 2012 Leak</b></div>
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Submitted by <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden"><span style="color: #19409e;">Tyler Durden</span></a> on 08/25/2013 </div>
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For all those still shocked by the "developing events" in Syria, here is the full rundown as it was orchestrated back in 2011, and as it was released in March 2012 by Wikileaks.</div>
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From Wikileaks, <a href="https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1671459_insight-military-intervention-in-syria-post-withdrawal.html"><span style="color: #19409e;">released 3/6/2012</span></a>, typos and grammar errors as in original.</div>
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<b>INSIGHT - military intervention in Syria, post withdrawal status of forces</b></div>
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I spent most of the afternoon at the Pentagon with the USAF strategic studies group - guys who spend their time trying to understand and explain to the USAF chief the big picture in areas where they're operating in. It was just myself and four other guys at the Lieutenant Colonel level, including one French and one British representative who are liaising with the US currently out of DC.</div>
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They wanted to grill me on the strategic picture on Syria, so after that I got to grill them on the military picture. <b>There is still a very low level of understanding of what is actually at stake in Syria, what's the strategic interest there, the Turkish role, the Iranian role, etc. </b>After a couple hours of talking, <b>they said without saying that SOF teams (presumably from US, UK, France, Jordan, Turkey) are already on the ground focused on recce </b>[ZH: "recce" means reconnaissance] <b>missions and training opposition forces. </b>One Air Force intel guy (US) said very carefully that there isn't much of a Free Syrian Army to train right now anyway, but all the operations being done now are being done out of 'prudence.' The way it was put to me was, 'look at this way - the level of information known on Syrian OrBat this month is the best it's been since 2001.' They have been told to prepare contingencies and be ready to act within 2-3 months, but they still stress that this is all being done as contingency planning, <b>not as a move toward escalation</b>.</div>
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<b>I kept pressing on the question of what these SOF teams would be working toward, and whether this would lead to an eventual air camapign to give a Syrian rebel group cover. </b>They pretty quickly distanced themselves from that idea, saying that the idea 'hypothetically' <b>is to commit guerrilla attacks, assassination campaigns, try to break the back of the Alawite forces, elicit collapse from within.</b> There wouldn't be a need for air cover, and they wouldn't expect these Syrian rebels to be marching in columns anyway.</div>
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They emphasized how the air campaign in Syria makes Libya look like a piece of cake. <b>Syrian air defenses are a lot more robust and are much denser, esp around Damascus and on the borders with Israel, Turkey. </b>THey are most worried about mobile air defenses, particularly the SA-17s that they've been getting recently. It's still a doable mission, it's just not an easy one.</div>
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<b>The main base they would use is Cyprus, hands down. Brits and FRench would fly out of there. </b>They kept stressing how much is stored at Cyprus and how much recce comes out of there. The group was split on whether Turkey would be involved, but said Turkey would be pretty critical to the mission to base stuff out of there. <b>EVen if Turkey had a poltiical problem with Cyprus, they said there is no way the Brits and the FRench wouldn't use Cyprus as their main air force base. </b>Air Force Intel guy seems pretty convinced that <b>the Turks won't participate </b>(he seemed pretty pissed at them.)</div>
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There still seems to be a lot of confusion over what a military intervention involving an air campaign would be designed to achieve. <b>It isn't clear cut for them geographically like in Libya, and you can't just create an NFZ over Homs, Hama region. </b>This would entail a countrywide SEAD campaign lasting the duration of the war. <b>They dont believe air intervention would happen unless there was enough media attention on a massacre, like the Ghadafi move against Benghazi. </b>They think <b>the US would have a high tolerance for killings as long as it doesn't reach that very public stage. </b>Theyre also questiioning the skills of the Syrian forces that are operating the country's air defenses currently and how signfiicant the Iranian presence is there. Air Force Intel guy is most obsessed with the challenge of taking out Syria's ballistic missile capabilities and chem weapons. With Israel rgiht there and the regime facing an existential crisis, he sees that as a major complication to any military intervention.</div>
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The post 2011 SOFA with Iraq is still being negotiated. These guys were hoping that during Biden's visit that he would announce a deal with Maliki, but no such luck. They are gambling ont he idea that the Iraqis remember the iran-iraq war and that maliki is not going to want to face the threat of Iranian jets entering Iraqi air space. THey say that most US fighter jets are already out of Iraq and transferred to Kuwait. <b>They explained that's the beauty of the air force, the base in Kuwait is just a hop, skip and jump away from their bases in Europe, ie. very easy to rapidly build up when they need to. </b>They don't seem concerned about the US ability to restructure its forces to send a message to Iran. They gave the example of the USS Enterprise that was supposed to be out of commission already and got extended another couple years to send to the gulf. <b>WHen the US withdraws, we'll have at least 2 carriers in the gulf out of centcom and one carrier in the Med out of EuCom. </b>I asked if the build-up in Kuwait and the carrier deployments are going to be enough to send a message to Iran that the US isn't going anywhere. They responded that Iran will get the message if they read the Centcom Web Site. STarting Jan. 1 expect them to be publishing all over the place where the US is<br />
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The French representative was of hte opinion that Syria won't be a libya-type situation in that France would be gung-ho about going in. Not in an election year. The UK rep also emphasized UK reluctance but said that the renegotiation of the EU treaty undermines the UK role and that UK would be looking for ways to reassert itself on the continent ( i dont really think a syria campaign is the way to do that.) <b>UK guy mentioned as an aside that the air force base commander at Cyprus got switched out from a maintenance guy to a guy that flew Raptors, ie someone that understands what it means to start dropping bombs. </b>He joked that it was probably a coincidence.</div>
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Prior to that, I had a meeting with an incoming Kuwaiti diplomat (will be coded as KU301.) His father was high up in the regime, always by the CP's/PM's side. The diplo himself still seems to be getting his feet wet in DC (the new team just arrived less than 2 weeks ago,) <b>but he made pretty clear that Kuwait was opening the door to allowing US to build up forces as needed. </b>THey already have a significant presence there, and a lot of them will be on 90-day rotations. He also said that the SOFA that the US signs with Baghdad at the last minute will be worded in such a way that even allowing one trainer in the country can be construed to mean what the US wants in terms of keeping forces in Iraq. Overall, I didnt get the impression from him that Kuwait is freaked out about the US leaving.</div>
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Everyhting is just getting rearranged. The Kuwaitis used to be much better at managing their relations with Iran, but ever since that spy ring story came out a year ago, it's been bad. He doesn't think Iran has significant covert capabililiteis in the GCC states, though they are trying. Iranian activity is mostly propaganda focused. <b>He said that while KSA and Bahrain they can deal with it as needed and black out the media, Kuwait is a lot more open and thus provides Iran with more oppotunity to</b> <b>shape perceptions (he used to work in inforamtion unit in Kuwait.</b>) He says there is a sig number of kuwaitis that listen to Iranian media like Al Alam especially.</div>
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On the Kuwaiti political scene - the government is having a harder time dealing with a more emboldened opposition, but the opposition is still extremely divided, esp among the Islamists. The MPs now all have to go back to their tribes to rally support for the elections to take place in Feb. Oftentimes an MP in Kuwait city will find out that he has lost support back home with the tribe, and so a lot of moeny is handed out.<b>The govt is hoping that with a clean slate they can quiet the opposition down. </b>A good way of managing the opposition he said is to refer cases to the courts, where they can linger forever. <b>good way for the govt to buy time.</b> He doesnt believe the Arab League will take significant action against Syria - no one is interested in military intervention. they just say it to threaten it.</div>
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Syrian rebels have made use of the deadly nerve agent sarin in their war-torn country's conflict, UN human rights investigator Carla del Ponte has said.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">"We still have to deepen our investigation, verify and confirm (the findings) through new witness testimony, but according to what we have established so far, it is at the moment opponents of the regime who are using sarin gas," she added.</span></div>
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She stressed that the UN commission of inquiry on Syria, which she is a part of, had far from finished its investigation.</div>
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Turkish authorities are carrying out blood tests on Syrians who have fled the fighting at home to determine if they have been victims of chemical weapons, a medical source said Monday.</div>
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"Samples have been taken from people wounded in Syria who have been transported to Turkey," the source said on condition of anonymity, adding that the results were not yet known.</div>
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Western nations have raised concerns about the use of chemical weapons in the escalating conflict between the regime of President Bashar al-Assad and rebels fighting to oust him.</div>
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Top UN rights investigator Carla del Ponte said Sunday that according to testimony, rebels have been using sarin gas.</div>
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US President Barack Obama has refused to rule out any options, but has said he did not foresee deploying US troops if Assad's regime is proved to have used chemical weapons.</div>
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a one-time Syria ally, on Sunday branded Assad a "butcher" and a "murderer" who would pay a heavy price for the killings in Syria.</div>
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed Sunday for restraint to avoid an escalation in Syria's civil war, expressing "grave concern" over Israeli air raids.</div>
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Israel launched air strikes earlier that hit three military sites near Damascus, the second such reported attack in a 48-hour period targeting the transfer of arms to Lebanon-based Hezbollah, raising fresh concerns of a regional spillover.</div>
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"The secretary-general calls on all sides to exercise maximum calm and restraint, and to act with a sense of responsibility to prevent an escalation of what is already a devastating and highly dangerous conflict," Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky said in a statement.</div>
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Nesirky said the United Nations was unable to independently verify the raids, and had no details about them, but Ban "expresses grave concern over reports of air strikes in Syria by the Israeli Air Force."</div>
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Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. In some instances, he omitted important intelligence, and in others he presented assumptions as facts. Most significant, he failed to acknowledge something known to the US intelligence community: that the Syrian army is not the only party in the country’s civil war with access to sarin, the nerve agent that a UN study concluded – without assessing responsibility – had been used in the rocket attack. In the months before the attack, the American intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports, culminating in a formal Operations Order – a planning document that precedes a ground invasion – citing evidence that the al-Nusra Front, a jihadi group affiliated with al-Qaida, had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it in quantity. When the attack occurred al-Nusra should have been a suspect, but the administration cherry-picked intelligence to justify a strike against Assad.</div>
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In his nationally televised speech about Syria on 10 September, Obama laid the blame for the nerve gas attack on the rebel-held suburb of Eastern Ghouta firmly on Assad’s government, and made it clear he was prepared to back up his earlier public warnings that any use of chemical weapons would cross a ‘red line’: ‘Assad’s government gassed to death over a thousand people,’ he said. ‘We know the Assad regime was responsible … And that is why, after careful deliberation, I determined that it is in the national security interests of the United States to respond to the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons through a targeted military strike.’ Obama was going to war to back up a public threat, but he was doing so without knowing for sure who did what in the early morning of 21 August.</div>
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He cited a list of what appeared to be hard-won evidence of Assad’s culpability: ‘In the days leading up to August 21st, we know that Assad’s chemical weapons personnel prepared for an attack near an area where they mix sarin gas. They distributed gas masks to their troops. Then they fired rockets from a regime-controlled area into 11 neighbourhoods that the regime has been trying to wipe clear of opposition forces.’ Obama’s certainty was echoed at the time by Denis McDonough, his chief of staff, who told the <i>New York Times</i>: ‘No one with whom I’ve spoken doubts the intelligence’ directly linking Assad and his regime to the sarin attacks.</div>
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But in recent interviews with intelligence and military officers and consultants past and present, I found intense concern, and on occasion anger, over what was repeatedly seen as the deliberate manipulation of intelligence. One high-level intelligence officer, in an email to a colleague, called the administration’s assurances of Assad’s responsibility a ‘ruse’. The attack ‘was not the result of the current regime’, he wrote. A former senior intelligence official told me that the Obama administration had altered the available information – in terms of its timing and sequence – to enable the president and his advisers to make intelligence retrieved days after the attack look as if it had been picked up and analysed in real time, as the attack was happening. The distortion, he said, reminded him of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, when the Johnson administration reversed the sequence of National Security Agency intercepts to justify one of the early bombings of North Vietnam. The same official said there was immense frustration inside the military and intelligence bureaucracy: ‘The guys are throwing their hands in the air and saying, “How can we help this guy” – Obama – “when he and his cronies in the White House make up the intelligence as they go along?”’</div>
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The complaints focus on what Washington did not have: any advance warning from the assumed source of the attack. The military intelligence community has for years produced a highly classified early morning intelligence summary, known as the Morning Report, for the secretary of defence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; a copy also goes to the national security adviser and the director of national intelligence. The Morning Report includes no political or economic information, but provides a summary of important military events around the world, with all available intelligence about them. A senior intelligence consultant told me that some time after the attack he reviewed the reports for 20 August through 23 August. For two days – 20 and 21 August – there was no mention of Syria. On 22 August the lead item in the Morning Report dealt with Egypt; a subsequent item discussed an internal change in the command structure of one of the rebel groups in Syria. Nothing was noted about the use of nerve gas in Damascus that day. It was not until 23 August that the use of sarin became a dominant issue, although hundreds of photographs and videos of the massacre had gone viral within hours on YouTube, Facebook and other social media sites. At this point, the administration knew no more than the public.</div>
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Obama left Washington early on 21 August for a hectic two-day speaking tour in New York and Pennsylvania; according to the White House press office, he was briefed later that day on the attack, and the growing public and media furore. The lack of any immediate inside intelligence was made clear on 22 August, when Jen Psaki, a spokesperson for the State Department, told reporters: ‘We are unable to conclusively determine [chemical weapons] use. But we are focused every minute of every day since these events happened … on doing everything possible within our power to nail down the facts.’ The administration’s tone had hardened by 27 August, when Jay Carney, Obama’s press secretary, told reporters – without providing any specific information – that any suggestions that the Syrian government was not responsible ‘are as preposterous as suggestions that the attack itself didn’t occur’.</div>
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The absence of immediate alarm inside the American intelligence community demonstrates that there was no intelligence about Syrian intentions in the days before the attack. And there are at least two ways the US could have known about it in advance: both were touched on in one of the top secret American intelligence documents that have been made public in recent months by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor.</div>
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On 29 August, the <i>Washington Post</i> published excerpts from the annual budget for all national intelligence programmes, agency by agency, provided by Snowden. In consultation with the Obama administration, the newspaper chose to publish only a slim portion of the 178-page document, which has a classification higher than top secret, but it summarised and published a section dealing with problem areas. One problem area was the gap in coverage targeting Assad’s office. The document said that the NSA’s worldwide electronic eavesdropping facilities had been ‘able to monitor unencrypted communications among senior military officials at the outset of the civil war there’. But it was ‘a vulnerability that President Bashar al-Assad’s forces apparently later recognised’. In other words, the NSA no longer had access to the conversations of the top military leadership in Syria, which would have included crucial communications from Assad, such as orders for a nerve gas attack. (In its public statements since 21 August, the Obama administration has never claimed to have specific information connecting Assad himself to the attack.)</div>
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The <i>Post</i> report also provided the first indication of a secret sensor system inside Syria, designed to provide early warning of any change in status of the regime’s chemical weapons arsenal. The sensors are monitored by the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency that controls all US intelligence satellites in orbit. According to the <i>Post</i> summary, the NRO is also assigned ‘to extract data from sensors placed on the ground’ inside Syria. The former senior intelligence official, who had direct knowledge of the programme, told me that NRO sensors have been implanted near all known chemical warfare sites in Syria. They are designed to provide constant monitoring of the movement of chemical warheads stored by the military. But far more important, in terms of early warning, is the sensors’ ability to alert US and Israeli intelligence when warheads are being loaded with sarin. (As a neighbouring country, Israel has always been on the alert for changes in the Syrian chemical arsenal, and works closely with American intelligence on early warnings.) A chemical warhead, once loaded with sarin, has a shelf life of a few days or less – the nerve agent begins eroding the rocket almost immediately: it’s a use-it-or-lose-it mass killer. ‘The Syrian army doesn’t have three days to prepare for a chemical attack,’ the former senior intelligence official told me. ‘We created the sensor system for immediate reaction, like an air raid warning or a fire alarm. You can’t have a warning over three days because everyone involved would be dead. It is either right now or you’re history. You do not spend three days getting ready to fire nerve gas.’ The sensors detected no movement in the months and days before 21 August, the former official said. It is of course possible that sarin had been supplied to the Syrian army by other means, but the lack of warning meant that Washington was unable to monitor the events in Eastern Ghouta as they unfolded.</div>
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The sensors had worked in the past, as the Syrian leadership knew all too well. Last December the sensor system picked up signs of what seemed to be sarin production at a chemical weapons depot. It was not immediately clear whether the Syrian army was simulating sarin production as part of an exercise (all militaries constantly carry out such exercises) or actually preparing an attack. At the time, Obama publicly warned Syria that using sarin was ‘totally unacceptable’; a similar message was also passed by diplomatic means. The event was later determined to be part of a series of exercises, according to the former senior intelligence official: ‘If what the sensors saw last December was so important that the president had to call and say, “Knock it off,” why didn’t the president issue the same warning three days before the gas attack in August?’</div>
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The NSA would of course monitor Assad’s office around the clock if it could, the former official said. Other communications – from various army units in combat throughout Syria – would be far less important, and not analysed in real time. ‘There are literally thousands of tactical radio frequencies used by field units in Syria for mundane routine communications,’ he said, ‘and it would take a huge number of NSA cryptological technicians to listen in – and the useful return would be zilch.’ But the ‘chatter’ is routinely stored on computers. Once the scale of events on 21 August was understood, the NSA mounted a comprehensive effort to search for any links to the attack, sorting through the full archive of stored communications. A keyword or two would be selected and a filter would be employed to find relevant conversations. ‘What happened here is that the NSA intelligence weenies started with an event – the use of sarin – and reached to find chatter that might relate,’ the former official said. ‘This does not lead to a high confidence assessment, unless you start with high confidence that Bashar Assad ordered it, and began looking for anything that supports that belief.’ The cherry-picking was similar to the process used to justify the Iraq war.</div>
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The White House needed nine days to assemble its case against the Syrian government. On 30 August it invited a select group of Washington journalists (at least one often critical reporter, Jonathan Landay, the national security correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers, was not invited), and handed them a document carefully labelled as a ‘government assessment’, rather than as an assessment by the intelligence community. The document laid out what was essentially a political argument to bolster the administration’s case against the Assad government. It was, however, more specific than Obama would be later, in his speech on 10 September: American intelligence, it stated, knew that Syria had begun ‘preparing chemical munitions’ three days before the attack. In an aggressive speech later that day, John Kerry provided more details. He said that Syria’s ‘chemical weapons personnel were on the ground, in the area, making preparations’ by 18 August. ‘We know that the Syrian regime elements were told to prepare for the attack by putting on gas masks and taking precautions associated with chemical weapons.’ The government assessment and Kerry’s comments made it seem as if the administration had been tracking the sarin attack as it happened. It is this version of events, untrue but unchallenged, that was widely reported at the time.</div>
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An unforseen reaction came in the form of complaints from the Free Syrian Army’s leadership and others about the lack of warning. ‘It’s unbelievable they did nothing to warn people or try to stop the regime before the crime,’ Razan Zaitouneh, an opposition member who lived in one of the towns struck by sarin, told <i>Foreign Policy</i>. The <i>Daily Mail</i> was more blunt: ‘Intelligence report says US officials knew about nerve-gas attack in Syria three days before it killed over 1400 people – including more than 400 children.’ (The number of deaths attributable to the attack varied widely, from at least 1429, as initially claimed by the Obama administration, to many fewer. A Syrian human rights group reported 502 deaths; Médicins sans Frontières put it at 355; and a French report listed 281 known fatalities. The strikingly precise US total was later reported by the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> to have been based not on an actual body count, but on an extrapolation by CIA analysts, who scanned more than a hundred YouTube videos from Eastern Ghouta into a computer system and looked for images of the dead. In other words, it was little more than a guess.)</div>
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Five days later, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence responded to the complaints. A statement to the Associated Press said that the intelligence behind the earlier administration assertions was not known at the time of the attack, but recovered only subsequently: ‘Let’s be clear, the United States did not watch, in real time, as this horrible attack took place. The intelligence community was able to gather and analyse information after the fact and determine that elements of the Assad regime had in fact taken steps to prepare prior to using chemical weapons.’ But since the American press corps had their story, the retraction received scant attention. On 31 August the <i>Washington Post</i>, relying on the government assessment, had vividly reported on its front page that American intelligence was able to record ‘each step’ of the Syrian army attack in real time, ‘from the extensive preparations to the launching of rockets to the after-action assessments by Syrian officials’. It did not publish the AP corrective, and the White House maintained control of the narrative.</div>
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So when Obama said on 10 September that his administration knew Assad’s chemical weapons personnel had prepared the attack in advance, he was basing the statement not on an intercept caught as it happened, but on communications analysed days after 21 August. The former senior intelligence official explained that the hunt for relevant chatter went back to the exercise detected the previous December, in which, as Obama later said to the public, the Syrian army mobilised chemical weapons personnel and distributed gas masks to its troops. The White House’s government assessment and Obama’s speech were not descriptions of the specific events leading up to the 21 August attack, but an account of the sequence the Syrian military would have followed for any chemical attack. ‘They put together a back story,’ the former official said, ‘and there are lots of different pieces and parts. The template they used was the template that goes back to December.’ It is possible, of course, that Obama was unaware that this account was obtained from an analysis of Syrian army protocol for conducting a gas attack, rather than from direct evidence. Either way he had come to a hasty judgment.</div>
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The press would follow suit. The UN report on 16 September confirming the use of sarin was careful to note that its investigators’ access to the attack sites, which came five days after the gassing, had been controlled by rebel forces. ‘As with other sites,’ the report warned, ‘the locations have been well travelled by other individuals prior to the arrival of the mission … During the time spent at these locations, individuals arrived carrying other suspected munitions indicating that such potential evidence is being moved and possibly manipulated.’ Still, the <i>New York Times</i> seized on the report, as did American and British officials, and claimed that it provided crucial evidence backing up the administration’s assertions. An annex to the UN report reproduced YouTube photographs of some recovered munitions, including a rocket that ‘indicatively matches’ the specifics of a 330mm calibre artillery rocket. The <i>New York Times</i> wrote that the existence of the rockets essentially proved that the Syrian government was responsible for the attack ‘because the weapons in question had not been previously documented or reported to be in possession of the insurgency’.</div>
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Theodore Postol, a professor of technology and national security at MIT, reviewed the UN photos with a group of his colleagues and concluded that the large calibre rocket was an improvised munition that was very likely manufactured locally. He told me that it was ‘something you could produce in a modestly capable machine shop’. The rocket in the photos, he added, fails to match the specifications of a similar but smaller rocket known to be in the Syrian arsenal. The <i>New York Times</i>, again relying on data in the UN report, also analysed the flight path of two of the spent rockets that were believed to have carried sarin, and concluded that the angle of descent ‘pointed directly’ to their being fired from a Syrian army base more than nine kilometres from the landing zone. Postol, who has served as the scientific adviser to the chief of naval operations in the Pentagon, said that the assertions in the <i>Times</i> and elsewhere ‘were not based on actual observations’. He concluded that the flight path analyses in particular were, as he put it in an email, ‘totally nuts’ because a thorough study demonstrated that the range of the improvised rockets was ‘unlikely’ to be more than two kilometres. Postol and a colleague, Richard M. Lloyd, published an analysis two weeks after 21 August in which they correctly assessed that the rockets involved carried a far greater payload of sarin than previously estimated. The <i>Times</i> reported on that analysis at length, describing Postol and Lloyd as ‘leading weapons experts’. The pair’s later study about the rockets’ flight paths and range, which contradicted previous <i>Times</i> reporting, was emailed to the newspaper last week; it has so far gone unreported.</div>
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The White House’s misrepresentation of what it knew about the attack, and when, was matched by its readiness to ignore intelligence that could undermine the narrative. That information concerned al-Nusra, the Islamist rebel group designated by the US and the UN as a terrorist organisation. Al-Nusra is known to have carried out scores of suicide bombings against Christians and other non-Sunni Muslim sects inside Syria, and to have attacked its nominal ally in the civil war, the secular Free Syrian Army (FSA). Its stated goal is to overthrow the Assad regime and establish sharia law. (On 25 September al-Nusra joined several other Islamist rebel groups in repudiating the FSA and another secular faction, the Syrian National Coalition.)</div>
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The flurry of American interest in al-Nusra and sarin stemmed from a series of small-scale chemical weapons attacks in March and April; at the time, the Syrian government and the rebels each insisted the other was responsible. The UN eventually concluded that four chemical attacks had been carried out, but did not assign responsibility. A White House official told the press in late April that the intelligence community had assessed ‘with varying degrees of confidence’ that the Syrian government was responsible for the attacks. Assad had crossed Obama’s ‘red line’. The April assessment made headlines, but some significant caveats were lost in translation. The unnamed official conducting the briefing acknowledged that intelligence community assessments ‘are not alone sufficient’. ‘We want,’ he said, ‘to investigate above and beyond those intelligence assessments to gather facts so that we can establish a credible and corroborated set of information that can then inform our decision-making.’ In other words, the White House had no direct evidence of Syrian army or government involvement, a fact that was only occasionally noted in the press coverage. Obama’s tough talk played well with the public and Congress, who view Assad as a ruthless murderer.</div>
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Two months later, a White House statement announced a change in the assessment of Syrian culpability and declared that the intelligence community now had ‘high confidence’ that the Assad government was responsible for as many as 150 deaths from attacks with sarin. More headlines were generated and the press was told that Obama, in response to the new intelligence, had ordered an increase in non-lethal aid to the Syrian opposition. But once again there were significant caveats. The new intelligence included a report that Syrian officials had planned and executed the attacks. No specifics were provided, nor were those who provided the reports identified. The White House statement said that laboratory analysis had confirmed the use of sarin, but also that a positive finding of the nerve agent ‘does not tell us how or where the individuals were exposed or who was responsible for the dissemination’. The White House further declared: ‘We have no reliable corroborated reporting to indicate that the opposition in Syria has acquired or used chemical weapons.’ The statement contradicted evidence that at the time was streaming into US intelligence agencies.</div>
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Already by late May, the senior intelligence consultant told me, the CIA had briefed the Obama administration on al-Nusra and its work with sarin, and had sent alarming reports that another Sunni fundamentalist group active in Syria, al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI), also understood the science of producing sarin. At the time, al-Nusra was operating in areas close to Damascus, including Eastern Ghouta. An intelligence document issued in mid-summer dealt extensively with Ziyaad Tariq Ahmed, a chemical weapons expert formerly of the Iraqi military, who was said to have moved into Syria and to be operating in Eastern Ghouta. The consultant told me that Tariq had been identified ‘as an al-Nusra guy with a track record of making mustard gas in Iraq and someone who is implicated in making and using sarin’. He is regarded as a high-profile target by the American military.</div>
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On 20 June a four-page top secret cable summarising what had been learned about al-Nusra’s nerve gas capabilities was forwarded to David R. Shedd, deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. ‘What Shedd was briefed on was extensive and comprehensive,’ the consultant said. ‘It was not a bunch of “we believes”.’ He told me that the cable made no assessment as to whether the rebels or the Syrian army had initiated the attacks in March and April, but it did confirm previous reports that al-Nusra had the ability to acquire and use sarin. A sample of the sarin that had been used was also recovered – with the help of an Israeli agent – but, according to the consultant, no further reporting about the sample showed up in cable traffic.</div>
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Independently of these assessments, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assuming that US troops might be ordered into Syria to seize the government’s stockpile of chemical agents, called for an all-source analysis of the potential threat. ‘The Op Order provides the basis of execution of a military mission, if so ordered,’ the former senior intelligence official explained. ‘This includes the possible need to send American soldiers to a Syrian chemical site to defend it against rebel seizure. If the jihadist rebels were going to overrun the site, the assumption is that Assad would not fight us because we were protecting the chemical from the rebels. All Op Orders contain an intelligence threat component. We had technical analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, weapons people, and I & W [indications and warnings] people working on the problem … They concluded that the rebel forces were capable of attacking an American force with sarin because they were able to produce the lethal gas. The examination relied on signals and human intelligence, as well as the expressed intention and technical capability of the rebels.’</div>
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There is evidence that during the summer some members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were troubled by the prospect of a ground invasion of Syria as well as by Obama’s professed desire to give rebel factions non-lethal support. In July, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, provided a gloomy assessment, telling the Senate Armed Services Committee in public testimony that ‘thousands of special operations forces and other ground forces’ would be needed to seize Syria’s widely dispersed chemical warfare arsenal, along with ‘hundreds of aircraft, ships, submarines and other enablers’. Pentagon estimates put the number of troops at seventy thousand, in part because US forces would also have to guard the Syrian rocket fleet: accessing large volumes of the chemicals that create sarin without the means to deliver it would be of little value to a rebel force. In a letter to Senator Carl Levin, Dempsey cautioned that a decision to grab the Syrian arsenal could have unintended consequences: ‘We have learned from the past ten years, however, that it is not enough to simply alter the balance of military power without careful consideration of what is necessary in order to preserve a functioning state … Should the regime’s institutions collapse in the absence of a viable opposition, we could inadvertently empower extremists or unleash the very chemical weapons we seek to control.’</div>
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The CIA declined to comment for this article. Spokesmen for the DIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence said they were not aware of the report to Shedd and, when provided with specific cable markings for the document, said they were unable to find it. Shawn Turner, head of public affairs for the ODNI, said that no American intelligence agency, including the DIA, ‘assesses that the al-Nusra Front has succeeded in developing a capacity to manufacture sarin’.</div>
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The administration’s public affairs officials are not as concerned about al-Nusra’s military potential as Shedd has been in his public statements. In late July, he gave an alarming account of al-Nusra’s strength at the annual Aspen Security Forum in Colorado. ‘I count no less than 1200 disparate groups in the opposition,’ Shedd said, according to a recording of his presentation. ‘And within the opposition, the al-Nusra Front is … most effective and is gaining in strength.’ This, he said, ‘is of serious concern to us. If left unchecked, I am very concerned that the most radical elements’ – he also cited al-Qaida in Iraq – ‘will take over.’ The civil war, he went on, ‘will only grow worse over time … Unfathomable violence is yet to come.’ Shedd made no mention of chemical weapons in his talk, but he was not allowed to: the reports his office received were highly classified.</div>
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A series of secret dispatches from Syria over the summer reported that members of the FSA were complaining to American intelligence operatives about repeated attacks on their forces by al-Nusra and al-Qaida fighters. The reports, according to the senior intelligence consultant who read them, provided evidence that the FSA is ‘more worried about the crazies than it is about Assad’. The FSA is largely composed of defectors from the Syrian army. The Obama administration, committed to the end of the Assad regime and continued support for the rebels, has sought in its public statements since the attack to downplay the influence of Salafist and Wahhabist factions. In early September, John Kerry dumbfounded a Congressional hearing with a sudden claim that al-Nusra and other Islamist groups were minority players in the Syrian opposition. He later withdrew the claim.</div>
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In both its public and private briefings after 21 August, the administration disregarded the available intelligence about al-Nusra’s potential access to sarin and continued to claim that the Assad government was in sole possession of chemical weapons. This was the message conveyed in the various secret briefings that members of Congress received in the days after the attack, when Obama was seeking support for his planned missile offensive against Syrian military installations. One legislator with more than two decades of experience in military affairs told me that he came away from one such briefing persuaded that ‘only the Assad government had sarin and the rebels did not.’ Similarly, following the release of the UN report on 16 September confirming that sarin was used on 21 August, Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the UN, told a press conference: ‘It’s very important to note that only the [Assad] regime possesses sarin, and we have no evidence that the opposition possesses sarin.’</div>
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It is not known whether the highly classified reporting on al-Nusra was made available to Power’s office, but her comment was a reflection of the attitude that swept through the administration. ‘The immediate assumption was that Assad had done it,’ the former senior intelligence official told me. ‘The new director of the CIA, [John] Brennan, jumped to that conclusion … drives to the White House and says: “Look at what I’ve got!” It was all verbal; they just waved the bloody shirt. There was a lot of political pressure to bring Obama to the table to help the rebels, and there was wishful thinking that this [tying Assad to the sarin attack] would force Obama’s hand: “This is the Zimmermann telegram of the Syrian rebellion and now Obama can react.” Wishful thinking by the Samantha Power wing within the administration. Unfortunately, some members of the Joint Chiefs who were alerted that he was going to attack weren’t so sure it was a good thing.’</div>
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The proposed American missile attack on Syria never won public support and Obama turned quickly to the UN and the Russian proposal for dismantling the Syrian chemical warfare complex. Any possibility of military action was definitively averted on 26 September when the administration joined Russia in approving a draft UN resolution calling on the Assad government to get rid of its chemical arsenal. Obama’s retreat brought relief to many senior military officers. (One high-level special operations adviser told me that the ill-conceived American missile attack on Syrian military airfields and missile emplacements, as initially envisaged by the White House, would have been ‘like providing close air support for al-Nusra’.)</div>
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The administration’s distortion of the facts surrounding the sarin attack raises an unavoidable question: do we have the whole story of Obama’s willingness to walk away from his ‘red line’ threat to bomb Syria? He had claimed to have an iron-clad case but suddenly agreed to take the issue to Congress, and later to accept Assad’s offer to relinquish his chemical weapons. It appears possible that at some point he was directly confronted with contradictory information: evidence strong enough to persuade him to cancel his attack plan, and take the criticism sure to come from Republicans.</div>
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The UN resolution, which was adopted on 27 September by the Security Council, dealt indirectly with the notion that rebel forces such as al-Nusra would also be obliged to disarm: ‘no party in Syria should use, develop, produce, acquire, stockpile, retain or transfer [chemical] weapons.’ The resolution also calls for the immediate notification of the Security Council in the event that any ‘non-state actors’ acquire chemical weapons. No group was cited by name. While the Syrian regime continues the process of eliminating its chemical arsenal, the irony is that, after Assad’s stockpile of precursor agents is destroyed, al-Nusra and its Islamist allies could end up as the only faction inside Syria with access to the ingredients that can create sarin, a strategic weapon that would be unlike any other in the war zone. There may be more to negotiate.</div>
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A new <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1006045-possible-implications-of-bad-intelligence.html#storylink=relast"><span style="color: #be1900;">report and analysis</span></a> on the deadly chemical-weapon attack in Syria last August — blamed on the Assad regime by warmongering Western governments and Sunni Arab dictators — offers further evidence that the Obama administration almost certainly used deception in its failed bid to more deeply embroil the United States and its military in Syria’s ongoing war. Congress and a public uproar eventually slammed the brakes on overt intervention in Syria by U.S. armed forces, but the experts behind the latest study say the implications surrounding the use of bogus “intelligence” to start wars are massive. </div>
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Based on the latest findings of two prominent experts, which appear to <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/16577-u-s-military-document-syrian-rebels-had-chemical-weapons"><span style="color: #be1900;">confirm other reports and investigations</span></a>, it would have been impossible for the Assad dictatorship to have perpetrated the chemical attack outside Damascus as outlined by Obama and other Western officials. Instead, it seems that the more likely culprits of the attack were foreign-backed “rebel” groups hoping to overthrow the relatively secular regime and <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/17195-syrian-rebel-groups-may-join-assad-regime-against-jihadists"><span style="color: #be1900;">install an Islamist dictatorship</span></a> based on sharia law. Estimates suggest almost 1,500 people died in the attack, including more than 400 children. </div>
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The new report, entitled “<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1006045-possible-implications-of-bad-intelligence.html#storylink=relast"><span style="color: #be1900;">Possible Implications of Faulty U.S. Technical Intelligence</span></a>,” was published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Science, Technology, and Global Security Working Group. It was written by former United Nations weapons inspector Richard Lloyd and MIT Science, Technology, and National Security Policy Professor Theodore Postol. Among other major concerns, the two experts in the field found that despite official claims and “intelligence,” the August 21 nerve-agent attack in East Ghouta “could not possibly” have come from the center or even the Eastern edge of regime-controlled territory.</div>
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Indeed, the crude rockets with chemical agents on them only had a range of about two kilometers — a far cry from the five to ten kilometers required for them to have been fired from the heart of Damascus. Those findings concur with the conclusions of <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/15308-un-investigator-claims-evidence-syrian-rebels-used-sarin-gas"><span style="color: #be1900;">other investigators</span></a>, including those of the UN independent assessment of the range of the chemical munitions. “We don't know the weight, or a few other factors, but two kilometers is a good estimate,” UN weapons inspector Åke Sellström told reporters. Military experts <a href="http://www.dw.de/analysts-question-us-intel-on-syria-chem-attack/a-17371081"><span style="color: #be1900;">quoted</span></a> in German media reports agreed with the findings as well. </div>
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Other primary policy issues raised in the report include the fact that the “mistaken intelligence” could have led to an “unjustified U.S. military action based on false intelligence.” According to the authors, “a proper vetting of the fact that the munition was of such short range would have led to a completely different assessment of the situation for the gathered data.” Regardless of the reasons for what the authors called the “egregious errors in the intelligence,” the source of the errors needs to be explained, they said. </div>
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“If the source of these errors is not identified, the procedures that led to this intelligence failure will go uncorrected, and the chances of a future policy disaster will grow with certainty,” the report concluded. In other words, if the obvious problems in the so-called “intelligence” juggernaut are not fixed, the prospect of even more wars based on lies — or “faulty intelligence,” as some apologists for never-ending U.S. government interventionism refer to it — will continue to escalate. </div>
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Citing alleged “intelligence,” Obama and multiple top administration officials claimed repeatedly that the Assad regime had perpetrated the attack. In response to crossing the “red line,” the administration argued, the U.S. government must start raining missiles down on Syria. The dictatorship denied having deployed chemical weapons in the war, and as <i>The New American</i> <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/16419-doubts-grow-about-perpetrators-behind-chemical-attack-in-syria"><span style="color: #be1900;">documented extensively</span></a>, vast amounts of evidence emerged in the days and weeks after the attack suggesting that it had actually been perpetrated by rebel forces. Such attacks are often referred to as “false flags.”</div>
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While the report is not conclusive evidence that the regime was not in fact responsible for the attack, it does demolish multiple claims made by the Obama administration. Indeed, according to the MIT study, based on the estimated range of the rockets involved and their landing spots, all possible launch points for the primary weapons would have been inside rebel-held territory. Maps of the area provided by the White House showing what areas were under whose control were used to illustrate the conclusions in the report. The authors also noted that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s claim that “satellite images” had shown the location of impacts were probably not true. </div>
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“My view when I started this process was that it couldn’t be anything but the Syrian government behind the attack,” MIT Professor Postol was <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/01/15/214656/new-analysis-of-rocket-used-in.html"><span style="color: #be1900;">quoted as saying</span></a> by the McClatchy news service after an interview about the findings. “But now I’m not sure of anything. The administration narrative was not even close to reality. Our intelligence cannot possibly be correct.” He also pointed out that the “Syrian rebels most definitely have the ability to make these weapons.” In fact, he added, “I think they might have more ability than the Syrian government.” Based on its disclosures, the Syrian regime does not even possess such weapons. “What, exactly, are we spending all this money on intelligence for?” Postol asked. </div>
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Of course, the implosion of the Obama administration’s apparently bogus narrative on Syria follows a long pattern of deceptive so-called “intelligence” being cited by U.S. presidents to wage unconstitutional and unwise wars. The most obvious example is Iraq, where the Bush administration continually cited claims and "intelligence" about “Weapons of Mass Destruction” that were never found. Former President Bush later joked about the non-existent WMDs, although few others found humor in the loss of life and treasure that followed the war based on “flawed intelligence.” In Libya, Obama also <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/africa/item/8365-libya-now-what"><span style="color: #be1900;">cited erroneous “intelligence”</span></a> to justify an unconstitutional war without so much as approval from Congress.</div>
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Perhaps weary of bogus information being used to spark more wars, Americans were outraged, with a deafening public outcry and congressional opposition following Obama’s demand for war in Syria — likely putting an end to the plot to overtly inject the U.S. military into Syria’s civil war. However, from the start, the Obama administration and other foreign powers have been <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/16402-reports-us-led-rebels-sent-into-syria-before-chemical-attack"><span style="color: #be1900;">crucial</span></a> to the jihadist rebels’ cause — <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/14750-reports-u-s-personnel-arming-and-training-syrian-rebels"><span style="color: #be1900;">supplying weapons, funding, training, and international cover</span></a> in the <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/12084-us-backed-syrian-opposition-linked-to-bilderberg-cfr-goldman-sachs-george-soros"><span style="color: #be1900;">establishment’s bid</span></a> to secure “regime change” in Damascus. The fruits of those machinations are now clear to see: Over 100,000 dead, <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/17229-world-turns-away-as-rebel-massacres-of-syrian-christians-intensify"><span style="color: #be1900;">minorities being targeted for extermination</span></a>, millions displaced, and more. </div>
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As more and more evidence continues to demolish the administration’s supposed “intelligence,” however, U.S. officials are sticking to their story. “The body of information used to make the assessment regarding the August 21 attack included intelligence pertaining to the regime’s preparations for this attack and its means of delivery, multiple streams of intelligence about the attack itself and its effect, our post-attack observations, and the differences between the capabilities of the regime and the opposition,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence claimed in a statement quoted in press reports. “That assessment made clear that the opposition had not used chemical weapons in Syria.”</div>
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However, as <i>The New American</i> and numerous other publications have documented, the assertion that foreign-backed rebels in Syria have not used chemical weapons is contradicted by growing mountains of evidence — including <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/16577-u-s-military-document-syrian-rebels-had-chemical-weapons"><span style="color: #be1900;">video footage, leaked government documents</span></a>, <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/16419-doubts-grow-about-perpetrators-behind-chemical-attack-in-syria"><span style="color: #be1900;">expert analysis, Turkish investigations, and more</span></a>. UN investigators have also pointed to evidence <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/15308-un-investigator-claims-evidence-syrian-rebels-used-sarin-gas"><span style="color: #be1900;">suggesting</span></a> that rebels had almost certainly deployed chemical weapons. According to the MIT report, the rockets in question could have been produced by anyone with “access to a machine shop with modest capabilities.” The sarin agents, meanwhile, have been <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/obama-called-for-war-based-on-bogus-intel/"><span style="color: #be1900;">described</span></a> by experts as “kitchen” grade. </div>
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With the U.S. government’s gargantuan so-called “intelligence community” consistently producing alleged “intelligence” purporting to justify whatever wars the administration is hoping to get involved with, analysts say it is time for Congress to take action. It is hardly unreasonable to suggest that a pattern is emerging indicating that the “mistakes” are more likely deliberate lies. As the MIT report explains, if the systemic failures in “intelligence” gathering are not addressed, the American people might well be duped into more disastrous military misadventures.</div>
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<i>Alex Newman is a correspondent for </i>The New American<i>, covering economics, politics, and more. He can be reached at</i> <a href="mailto:anewman@thenewamerican.com"><span style="color: #be1900;">anewman@thenewamerican.com</span></a>.</div>
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<a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/11693-as-war-propaganda-implodes-calls-for-syria-intervention-grow">As War Propaganda Implodes, Calls for Syria Intervention Grow</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/12084-us-backed-syrian-opposition-linked-to-bilderberg-cfr-goldman-sachs-george-soros">U.S.-backed Syrian Opposition Linked to Bilderberg, CFR, Goldman Sachs & George Soros </a><span style="color: #323333;"> </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/8577-doubts-grow-in-whistle-blower-suicide">Doubts Grow In Whistle-blower "Suicide" </a><span style="color: #323333;"> </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131459988222142655.post-58557619600487940712012-11-18T21:56:00.000+00:002015-04-26T14:04:19.747+01:00Syria / Who used chemical weapons?<br />
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Syrian rebels have made use of the deadly nerve agent sarin in their war-torn country's conflict, UN human rights investigator Carla del Ponte has said.</div>
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<span style="color: #362f2d;">In-depth Report: <span style="color: #3a4c83;"><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/indepthreport/syria-nato-s-next-war" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">SYRIA: NATO'S NEXT WAR?</a></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #362f2d;">According to a report in </span><span style="color: blue;">Turkey’s state media agency Zaman</span><span style="color: #362f2d;">, agents from the Turkish General Directorate of Security (Emniyet Genel Müdürlüğü) seized 2 kg of sarin gas in the city of Adana in the early hours of yesterday morning. The chemical weapons were in the possession of Al Nusra terrorists believed to have been heading for Syria.</span></i></div>
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Former United Nations weapons inspector Richard Lloyd and MIT Science, Technology, and National Security Policy Professor Theodore Postol. Among other major concerns, the two experts in the field found that despite official claims and “intelligence,” the August 21 nerve-agent attack in East Ghouta “could not possibly” have come from the center or even the Eastern edge of regime-controlled territory.</div>
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Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. In some instances, he omitted important intelligence, and in others he presented assumptions as facts. Most significant, he failed to acknowledge something known to the US intelligence community: that the Syrian army is not the only party in the country’s civil war with access to sarin, the nerve agent that a UN study concluded – without assessing responsibility – had been used in the rocket attack. In the months before the attack, the American intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports, culminating in a formal Operations Order – a planning document that precedes a ground invasion – citing evidence that the al-Nusra Front, a jihadi group affiliated with al-Qaida, had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it in quantity. When the attack occurred al-Nusra should have been a suspect, but the administration cherry-picked intelligence to justify a strike against Assad.</div>
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Hacked emails from a British mercenary company were posted online, leading to claims Washington was backing a dirty war against Syria in which a chemical attack on Syria could be blamed on the Syrian regime, thereby strengthening the case for immediate intervention on the part of the United States military.</div>
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The “evidence” upon which the West is propping up its narrative of the Syrian government using chemical weapons against large numbers of civilians hinges so far entirely on claims made by “Doctors Without Borders.” In the New York Times article, “<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0019xXexlWvAR-apJpHoDtvCin-zhPC-HuHWJjhu8bIjaS_KACxwOAD-HG10FPR5rIazIS2KiFXTD1x6rqGGp12od7q-3zZ7XwTynLPrOAPbgwYkTHr4wk9wOhUs2yTpjDv6jPWWbfDLCQUTOW1W6DR5634KkXO2hpCUgC9mYdnVgPJ89CzfXvJnm9hyWGUv3wDIh3hIK33T0nX9bTqHT_QVEVeJvkLwi9HpnGuzHTChPE="><span style="color: #0430f4;">Signs of Chemical Attack Detailed by Aid Group</span></a>,” it is reported:</div>
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An international aid group said Saturday that medical centers it supported near the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack near Damascus received more than 3,000 patients showing symptoms consistent with exposure to toxic nerve agents on the morning of the reported attack.</div>
Of those, 355 died, said the group, Doctors Without Borders.<br />
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The statement is the first issued by an international organization working in Syria about the attack on Wednesday in the suburbs northeast of Damascus, the capital.</div>
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While it is often described by the Western media as “independent,” nothing could be further from the truth.</div>
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To begin with, Doctors Without Borders is fully funded by the very same corporate financier interests behind Wall Street and London’s collective foreign policy, including regime change in Syria and neighboring Iran. Doctors Without Borders’ <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0019xXexlWvAR9Fz53wQffovafDI4vzy7ntiXZDan-TLIOmICdYdNjtWQj_PNatqVRTbFOCPT9Wvw4qflcIyJ-f33Gb5evp3hg0er7EQKhwic2qVZf_CGuatFEod7HIGoxiWKo0JPcgKalmnJew-qahKgit55soNs6WYPXuhmf-xJDJIbSB8JDKZn1Z0LCF_i2dqnBxmw9Lk2idqIbsYTnWmA=="><span style="color: #0430f4;">own annual report</span></a> (<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0019xXexlWvAR9tNycAbT1RQ0kDd3NcE5vnpOGOKqpWe7CWus-a2TLRhOZOGMur9kjakIQHP6kfx7FlEEpNQay20xcj3khpWiPlPNWEUR8TCkEs5uiVSTwCKDOs8EHrojoFa4LJlYyMWE4VYKNtGjtfQT0CyrLMuLKb374s_fk2jDgDNV8UXJja-ZDLGRswFkzW2m7Fk5haao1RG-eckMkDfVlrS7SfnSTB"><span style="color: #0430f4;">2010 report can be accessed here</span></a>), includes as financial donors, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital, and a myriad of other corporate-financier interests.</div>
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Doctors Without Borders also features bankers upon its Board of Advisers including Elizabeth Beshel Robinson of Goldman Sachs.</div>
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Complicating further Doctors Without Borders so-called “independ” and “aid” claims is the fact that their medical facilities are set up in terrorist held regions of Syria, especially along Syria’s northern border with NATO-member Turkey. <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0019xXexlWvAR96amaR8GS_GLoFCh9xFtGoEhabYStXjXZnyKyvm7InULw3M6M6cuFj2j2L7XPT6VXZR0tewrA7fVjFxToap8_5qul7lDRBkFqJT7wwLlcbwfln1RrWbyaCQQ4FWbW_DSvTOBjAXUorXXzLvTXXYbSxK8OI1YmUQCOJ3OMuJ-GBUAqnwKqeQyGkiLIVjpYa3M4mzPSvEH3kVg=="><span style="color: #0430f4;">In an interview with NPR</span></a>, Doctors Without Borders’ Stephen Cornish revealed the nature of his organization’s involvement in the Syrian conflict, where he explains that aid is being sent to regions outside of the Syrian government’s control, and that his organization is in fact setting up facilities in these areas. Cornish admits [emphasis added]:</div>
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Over the past months, we’ve had a surgery that was opened inside a cave. We’ve had another that was opened in a chicken farm, a third one in a house. And these structures, we’ve tried to outfit them as best as we can with enough modern technology and with full medical teams. <b>They originally were dealing mainly with combatant injuries and people who were – civilians who were directly affected by the conflict.</b></div>
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In other words, the Wall Street-funded organization is providing support for <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0019xXexlWvAR9AmZP7VtQI_ihULs6K1zR0oR-fcQ5eJtFkckSjPDgYT5xRiDGXl6P_-1j89M4c8FRaxqBKrEU2FQXh2_hcd81qVhdbBSex0EfrQ8CnvdyquE_3udhvlmv7heMKebTjbbUw7uzc87NUAUUEC8hkqQOHEvNeIXQWO7FqV_uofJyYuBXWGZUBmeWOByzMlgnALKM="><span style="color: #0430f4;">militants armed and funded by the West and its regional allies</span></a>, most of whom are revealed to be foreign fighters, affiliated with or directly belonging to Al Qaeda and its defacto political wing, the Muslim Brotherhood. This so-called “international aid” organization is in actuality yet another cog in the covert military machine being turned against Syria and serves the role as a medical battalion.</div>
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The “hospitals” in Damascus being supported by Doctors Without Borders are in areas now under threat of being retaken by government forces, and it’s these facilities that the Western media is drawing on for “evidence” that first, a chemical attack took place, and second, that it was the government who carried it out. What the Western media is not telling their audiences, is that even Doctors Without Borders admits their own team members are not present at these medical facilities and have only been sending supplies to them – in other words, this evidence is hearsay emanating from terrorist held areas, merely dressed up and spun as actual evidence from a so-called “reputable” international organization.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">In <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0019xXexlWvAR84vSRH_2rXBUE3UaTtG3AA863mwazpDv67nT_DhejUk8qCePrYF8CiWh8ly1PcAmMG1AYpeoC5aqMcAjgRlhMcDpLgcw-ChCABKnfps9PmwVy34ObAQW_Q-aOoOq3D60SB4EKameZ1hzQVt1WQL5rYsrbspoyZZBLtZ4ghwnYJ-khpqfU11V6-mzpZqLDHQz9SBPcYTxRq7w==">Doctors Without Borders’ own official statement</a>, it was reported that:</span></div>
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Since 2012, MSF has built a strong and reliable collaboration with medical networks, hospitals and medical points in the Damascus governorate, and has been providing them with drugs, medical equipment and technical support. Due to significant security risks, MSF staff members have not been able to access the facilities.</div>
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“MSF can neither scientifically confirm the cause of these symptoms nor establish who is responsible for the attack,” said Dr. Janssens.</div>
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It is most likely hoped that the vast majority of those reading their news simply take the compromised Western media for their word and never bother to read what Doctors Without Borders actually is doing in Syria or what they even really said regarding the most recent incident.</div>
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A similar routine was used in Libya where Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International spent their legitimacy <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0019xXexlWvAR_3QjoacZfNtLBtioctEg-TDyiBpnZlBi9XGafLbxBZQkjiDih5qmWZ3QwE6nS2qcGlYc8xqGCRMVSk9b6_GO6JL5Lc6pZGcCAfnQ8OTo__gaJpzu9WReTrytnLI8S50DsHFEFMEJkQB-rBYqWzY94uEYc0ezURbV2ZTbCAgboNMl33xgdcJTJmpues70UhZxI="><span style="color: #0430f4;">attempting to create a pretext for Western military intervention there</span></a>.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131459988222142655.post-46255067554393760272012-11-18T21:28:00.000+00:002015-04-26T12:16:33.185+01:00US Uses Chemical Weapons<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
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Submitted by Michael Krieger of <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/09/05/10-chemical-weapons-attacks-the-u-s-government-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about/"><span style="color: #19409e;">Liberty Blitzkrieg blog</span></a>,</div>
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A couple of weeks ago I highlighted the fact that declassified documents analyzed by Foreign Policy proved that the <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/08/26/foreign-policy-cia-documents-show-the-u-s-helped-saddam-hussein-use-chemical-weapons/"><span style="color: #19409e;">U.S. government knew about Saddam Hussein’s egregious use of chemical weapons</span></a> and in fact we helped him be more effective in their deployment. Well unfortunately that’s just the tip of the American chemical weapons iceberg.</div>
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From white phosphorus and depleted uranium (DU) usage in Iraq, to secret radioactive tests in poor black neighborhoods within the U.S. itself (something <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2012/09/26/documents-show-the-u-s-military-sprayed-radioactive-zinc-cadmium-sulfide-on-poor-people-in-st-louis/"><span style="color: #19409e;">I previously covered here</span></a>), the list is pretty horrific. While you might be able to say that this is the reality of war, then what the heck are we doing entering a civil war in a country where chemical weapons are being used that poses no threat to us? Absolutely insane and criminal.</div>
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I summarized the Top 10 list here, but I highly suggest also checking out <a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/62023/10-chemical-weapons-attacks-washington-doesn-t-want-you-to-talk-about"><span style="color: #19409e;">the entire post with pictures from PolicyMic.</span></a> Summary below:</div>
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Washington doesn’t merely lack the legal authority for a military intervention in Syria. It lacks the moral authority. We’re talking about a government with a history of using chemical weapons against innocent people far more prolific and deadly than <a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/61295/media-tells-us-that-syria-used-chemical-weapons-but-look-what-the-un-says"><span style="color: #19409e;">the mere accusations Assad faces</span></a> from a trigger-happy Western military-industrial complex, bent on stifling further investigation before striking.</div>
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<b>1. The U.S. Military Dumped 20 Million Gallons of Chemicals on Vietnam from 1962 – 1971</b></div>
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Vietnam <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/last-ghost-of-the-vietnam-war/article1057457/?page=all"><span style="color: #19409e;">estimates</span></a> that as a result of the decade-long chemical attack, 400,000 people were killed or maimed, 500,000 babies have been born with birth defects, and 2 million have suffered from cancer or other illnesses.</div>
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<b>2. Israel Attacked Palestinian Civilians with White Phosphorus in 2008 – 2009</b></div>
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In 2009, <a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/37761/israel-claims-syria-used-chemical-weapons-but-israel-has-used-white-phosphorus"><span style="color: #19409e;">multiple human rights groups</span></a>, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and International Red Cross reported that the Israeli government was attacking civilians in their own country with chemical weapons.</div>
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The Israeli military denied the allegations at first, but <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus#Gaza_War_.282008.E2.80.932009.29"><span style="color: #19409e;">eventually admitted they were true</span></a>.</div>
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<b>3. Washington Attacked Iraqi Civilians with White Phosphorus in 2004</b></div>
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In 2004, journalists embedded with the U.S. military in Iraq <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_use_in_Iraq"><span style="color: #19409e;">began reporting</span></a> the use of white phosphorus in Fallujah against Iraqi insurgents. First <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4483690.stm"><span style="color: #19409e;">the military lied and said</span></a> that it was only using white phosphorus to create smokescreens or illuminate targets. Then <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2005/11/16/phosphorus-fallujah051116.html"><span style="color: #19409e;">it admitted to</span></a> using the volatile chemical as an incendiary weapon.</div>
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<b>4. The CIA Helped Saddam Hussein Massacre Iranians and Kurds with Chemical Weapons in 1988</b></div>
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<b>5. The Army Tested Chemicals on Residents of Poor, Black St. Louis Neighborhoods in The 1950s</b></div>
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In the early 1950s, the Army set up motorized blowers on top of residential high-rises in low-income, mostly black St. Louis neighborhoods, including areas where as much as 70% of the residents were children under 12. The government told residents that it was experimenting with a smokescreen to protect the city from Russian attacks, but <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/10/03/army-secret-chemical-testing-in-st-louis-neighborhoods-during-cold-war-raising/"><span style="color: #19409e;">it was actually pumping the air full</span></a> of hundreds of pounds of finely powdered zinc cadmium sulfide.</div>
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The savage violence of the police against Occupy protesters in 2011 was well documented, and<a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/police-said-to-fire-tear-gas-at-protesters-in-oakland-calif/"><span style="color: #19409e;">included the use of tear gas</span></a> and other chemical irritants. Tear gas <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2003-04-06/news/0304060110_1_chemical-weapons-convention-tear-gas-gas-to-save"><span style="color: #19409e;">is prohibited for use against enemy soldiers</span></a> in battle by the Chemical Weapons Convention.</div>
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<b>7. The FBI Attacked Men, Women, and Children With Tear Gas in Waco in 1993 </b></div>
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At <a href="http://www.policemisconduct.net/the-waco-incident-20-years-later/"><span style="color: #19409e;">the infamous Waco siege</span></a> of a peaceful community of Seventh Day Adventists, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege#Final_assault"><span style="color: #19409e;">the FBI pumped tear gas</span></a> into buildings knowing that women, children, and babies were inside. The tear gas was highly flammable and ignited, engulfing the buildings in flames and killing 49 men and women, and 27 children, including babies and toddlers.</div>
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In Iraq, the U.S. military has littered the environment with thousands of tons of munitions <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-considine/us-depleted-uranium-as-ma_b_3812888.html"><span style="color: #19409e;">made from depleted uranium</span></a>, a <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/depleted-uranium-far-worse-than-9-11/2374"><span style="color: #19409e;">toxic and radioactive nuclear waste product</span></a>. As a result, more than half of babies born in Fallujah from 2007 – 2010 <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/iraq-records-huge-rise-in-birth-defects-8210444.html"><span style="color: #19409e;">were born with birth defects</span></a>. Some of these defects have never been seen before outside of textbooks with photos of babies born near nuclear tests in the Pacific.</div>
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<b>9. The U.S. Military Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Japanese Civilians with Napalm from 1944 – 1945</b></div>
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Napalm is a sticky and highly flammable gel which has been used as a weapon of terror by the U.S. military. In 1980, <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v496/n7443/full/496029a.html"><span style="color: #19409e;">the UN declared</span></a> the use of napalm on swaths of civilian population a war crime. That’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo"><span style="color: #19409e;">exactly what the U.S. military did</span></a> in World War II, dropping enough napalm in one bombing raid on Tokyo to burn 100,000 people to death, injure a million more, and leave a million without homes in the single deadliest air raid of World War II.</div>
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<b>10. The U.S. Government Dropped Nuclear Bombs on Two Japanese Cities in 1945</b></div>
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<b>“I join President Song in urging the immediate release of the ICC staff members who have now been detained in Libya for more than one week. This deplorable situation affecting our sister institution is wholly unacceptable – immunity of staff on official mission of an international court is of paramount importance to that court’s ability to properly function. I stand ready to assist in any way that may be requested in order to help ensure the safe return of the detained ICC staff members.”</b></div>
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In March 2011, the London Telegraph reported that Libya’s rebels had direct ties to Al Qaeda and that both leaders and fighters had spent time in both Iraq and Afghanistan combating US troops. </div>
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The article titled, “Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links” featured Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, who had been captured by the US after fighting Americans in Afghanistan, returned to Libya, and released under a bargain for Hasidi and his Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) militants to abandon extremism and become productive members of society. Quite obviously, and with the US, UK, and NATO’s help, Hasidi and his men went back on this bargain and are now sowing murder and mayhem across Libya. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=26381">Full article & live links at Global Research</a></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">The [Libyan Arab Jamahiriya] has had a high standard of living and a robust per capita daily caloric intake of 3144. The country has made strides in public health and, since 1980, child mortality rates have dropped from 70 per thousand live births to 19 in 2009. Life expectancy has risen from 61 to 74 years of age during the same span of years. (FAO, Rome, Libya, Country Profile,) <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26686">For more & live links go to Global Research article.</a></span></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8650436/The-headless-corpse-the-mass-grave-and-worrying-questions-about-Libyas-rebel-army.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8650436/The-headless-corpse-the-mass-grave-and-worrying-questions-about-Libyas-rebel-army.html</a></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 130%;">The five corpses floated disfigured and bloating in the murky bottom of the water tank. Wearing green soldiers' uniforms, the men lay belly down, decomposing in the putrid water.</span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><b>By Ruth Sherlock, Al-Qawalish</b></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 100%;"><b>July 21, 2011 "</b><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8650436/The-headless-corpse-the-mass-grave-and-worrying-questions-about-Libyas-rebel-army.html" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #173aee;"><b>The Telegraph</b></span></a><b>" - -The streaks of blood,</b> smeared along the sides of this impromptu mass grave suggested a rushed operation, a hurried attempt to dispose of the victims.</span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Who the men were and what happened to them, close to the Libyan rebels' western front line town of Al-Qawalish in the Nafusa Mountains, remains unknown.</span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But the evidence of a brutal end were clear. One of the corpses had been cleanly decapitated, while the trousers of another had been ripped down to his ankles, a way of humiliating a dead enemy. The green uniforms were the same as those worn by loyalists fighting for Col. Muammer Gaddafi in Libya's civil war. [</span><a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2005/10/questions-about-libyas-rebel-army.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Read more</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">]</span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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On the 15th April 2011, sub-munitions of a MAT-120 cluster bomb were shown to Human Rights Watch (HRW) and C.J. Chivers, a journalist for the New York Times, in Misrata. On that evening, during ongoing clashes between rebel and loyalist forces, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcFoHLBhRDo&feature=related"><span style="color: #071a80;">Human Rights Watch workers </span></a>witnessed 3 or 4 cluster munitions landing in residential areas of Misrata. HRW attest to further subsequent such bombings.</div>
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Both HRW and C.J. Chivers immediately blamed these attacks on the Gaddafi regime and the news has been a front page and first item on the television news around the world. There is another unreported side to this story [<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2005/10/cluster-bombing-us-not-qadhafi.html">Read more</a>]</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">Libya: it wasn't supposed to be like this in free Benghazi - <span style="color: #3f3f3f; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia;"><b>By </b><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/rob-crilly/"><span style="color: #224b7b;"><b>Rob Crilly</b></span></a><b>, Benghazi</b></span><span style="color: #282828; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Georgia;"> </span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;"> 23 Mar 2011</span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">The young gunmen at the roadblock took no chances. They put a knife to the throat of the driver before hauling the three men and one woman from the car, dragging them through the street into a nearby mosque for a rough round of interrogation. [<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2005/10/wasnt-supposed-to-be-like-this.html">Read more</a>]</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Posted 25th April <span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana;">- <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/"><span style="color: #071a80; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; text-decoration: underline;">Global Research</span></a></span>, April 3, 2011</span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"Our Man in Tripoli": US-NATO Sponsored Islamic Terrorists Integrate Libya's Pro-Democracy Opposition</span></b></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky</span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.phpcontext=va&aid=24096</span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i></i></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;">Concepts are Turned Upside Down: The US-NATO military alliance is supporting a rebellion integrated by Islamic terrorists, in the name of the "War on Terrorism"... [Read more]</span></i></b><span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Lucida Grande';"><br /></span><i>There are various factions within the Libyan opposition: </i><i>Royalists, defectors from the Qadhafi regime including the Minister of Justice and more recently the Foreign Minister, Moussa Koussa, members of the Libyan Armed Forces, the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL) and the National Conference for the Libyan Opposition (NCLO) which acts as an umbrella organization.</i></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Rarely acknowledged by the Western media, Al-Jamaa al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi Libya, the Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), is an integral part of the Libyan Opposition.</b> [<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2005/10/us-nato-sponsored-islamic-terrorists.html">Read more</a>]</i></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Tribal chiefs, fundamentalist clerics and monarchists in the East have been active in a “holy war” against Gaddafi welcoming arms and air support from the Anglo-French-US “crusaders” - just like the mullahs and tribal chiefs welcomed the arms and training from the Carter-Reagan White House to overthrow a secular regime in Afghanistan.</span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Once again, imperial intervention is based on ‘alliances’ with the most retrograde forces. [<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2005/10/al-qaeda-backbone-of-libyan-rebel.html">Read more</a>]</b></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<b>Human Rights Watch claims cluster bombs used on "rebel" civilians.</b></div>
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The Orwellian Main Stream Media spews more un confirmed tales to paint the Libyan military as civilian killers. Human Rights Watch is a tool of the MONEY POWER, it would be naive in the extreme if one does not question HRW honesty -funded as it has been by George Soros, the Rockefella & Ford Foundations and indirectly by British & US governments i.e. "the usual suspects".</div>
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It may just be that a cluster bomb has been fired by Libyan forces though it is extremely doubtful. What is not in doubt is the serial holocausts inflicted on women, children and men - mostly civilians, from Dresden and Hiroshima through to the deluge of depleted uranium munitions used on civilians across Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza, Lebanon etc. and now Libya, by American and European imperial powers. The audacity in hypocrisy in epic. The fact is that a sophisticated lie if told repeatedly passes as truth for the unquestioning..</div>
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See [<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2005/10/human-rights-watch-researched.html">Human Rights Watch Researched</a>]</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Posted 16th April Published 13 April 2011</span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27880.htm"></a><br /><b>April 13, 2011 "Pravda" -- The law is the law, and it is crystal clear. Under the UN Charter and Resolutions 1970 and 1973 it would be illegal for any entity to arm the "rebels" in Libya and in so doing, this would constitute a breach of international law, leaving the perpetrators open to criminal liability. And has anyone researched the history of the "rebel" movement?</b></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising. This suggests we have a bit more than a rag tag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences. [<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.com/2005/10/libya-all-about-oil-or-central-banking.html">Read more</a>]</span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></blockquote>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;">Lots of links to public domain documents. This article covers many important hidden histories of Western intervention in Libya, including the present one. <i>Anorak notes</i></span></b></span></span></span></i></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Since the beginning of the crisis in Libya, the media has taken sides in favor of the rebels. The media relies almost solely on the rebellion’s claims, while totally dismissing information emanating from the Gaddafi government.</span></span></span></span></i></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"></span></span></span></i></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Since the beginning of the insurrection in Libya, Muammar Gaddafi accused Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. He thus claimed several times that the terrorist network manipulated the insurgents. This Tuesday, James Stavridis, the commander of NATO’s forces in Europe, has partly confirmed these claims. </span></span></span></span></i></span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">British intelligence paid large sums of money to an al-Qaeda cell in Libya in a doomed attempt to assassinate Colonel Gadaffi in 1996 and thwarted early attempts to bring Osama bin Laden to justice.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The latest claims of MI6 involvement with Libya's fearsome Islamic Fighting Group, which is connected to one of bin Laden's trusted lieutenants, will be embarrassing to the Government, which described similar claims by renegade MI5 officer David Shayler as 'pure fantasy'.</span></div>
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Many critics of the ongoing Euro-US wars in the Middle East and, now, North Africa, have based their arguments on clichés and generalizations devoid of fact. The most common line heard in regard to the current US-Euro war on Libya is that it’s “all about oil” – the goal is the seizure of Libya’s oil wells. On the other hand Euro –U.S, government spokespeople defend the war by claiming it’s “all about saving civilian lives in the face of genocide”, calling it “humanitarian intervention”.</div>
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<b><i>These arguments are without foundation and belie the true nature of US-UK-French imperial power, expansionist militarism, as evidenced in all the ongoing wars over the past decade (Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc.). </i></b></div>
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<b>The big lie about Syria's chemical weapons: won't get fooled again?</b><br />
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Robert Fisk & Alex Thomson<br />
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THE BIGGER THE LIE the more people will believe it. We all know who said that – but it still works. Bashar al-Assad has chemical weapons. He may use them against his own Syrian people. If he does, the West will respond.<br />
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We heard all this stuff last year – and Assad's regime repeatedly said that if – if – it had chemical weapons, it would never use them against Syrians.<br />
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But now Washington is playing the same gas-chanty all over again. Bashar has chemical weapons. He may use them against his own people. And if he does…<br />
Well if he does, Obama and Madame Clinton and Nato will be very, very angry. But over the past week, all the usual pseudo-experts who couldn't find Syria on a map have been warning us again of the mustard gas, chemical agents, biological agents that Syria might possess – and might use.<br />
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And the sources? The same fantasy specialists who didn't warn us about 9/11 but insisted that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction in 2003: "unnamed military intelligence sources". Henceforth to be acronymed as UMIS.<br />
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And now, the coup de théâtre. Someone from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation called me up this week to talk about the use of chemical weapons by Hafez al-Assad in Hama during the Sunni Muslim uprising in the city in 1982. Their sources were the same old UMIS. But I happened to have got into Hama in February 1982 – which is why the Canadian was calling me – and while Hafez's Syrian army was very definitely slaughtering its own people (who were, by the way, slaughtering regime officials and their families), no one ever used chemical weapons.<br />
Not a single soldier I saw in Hama carried a gas mask. No civilians carried gas masks. The dangerously perfumed air which I and my colleagues smelt after chemicals were used by our (then) ally Saddam against Iranian soldiers in the 1980s was not present. And none of the dozens of civilian survivors I have interviewed in the 30 years since 1982 ever mentioned the use of gas.<br />
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But now we are to believe that it was used. And so the infantile new fairy tale has begun: Hafez al-Assad used gas against his own people in Hama 30 years ago. So his son Bashar may do the same again. And wasn't that one of the reasons we invaded Iraq in 2003 – because Saddam had used gas against his own people already and may do so again?<br />
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Yes, the bigger the lie, the better. Certainly we journos have done our duty in disseminating this bunkum. And Bashar – whose forces have committed quite enough iniquities – is about to be accused of another crime which he has not yet committed and which his father never did commit. Yup, chemical weapons are bad news, folks. That's why the US supplied Saddam with the components for them, along with Germany (of course).<br />
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That's why, when Saddam first used gas on Halabja, the UMIS told CIA officers to blame Iran. And yes, Bashar probably does have some chemicals in rusting bins somewhere in Syria. Madame Clinton has been worrying that they may "fall into the wrong hands" – as if they are presently "in the right hands". But the Russians have told Bashar not to use them. Would he piss off his only superpower ally?<br />
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And by the way, which was the first army to use gas in the Middle East? Saddam? Nope. The Brits, of course, under General Allenby, against the Turks in Sinai in 1917. And that's the truth.<br />
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Once more, weapons of mass destruction could become weapons of mass deception at screaming high volume these past few days. From the western media who, in the heated atmosphere pre-Iraq and under pressure from Bush and Blair, brought us the Baghdad WMD story, now we have the "Damascus chemical weapons threat".<br />
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William Hague has said any use of chemical weapons would invite an immediate western military response. The Americans too.<br />
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The US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said : “The president of the United States has made very clear that there will be consequences. There will be consequences if the Assad regime makes a terrible mistake by using these chemical weapons on their (sic) own people.”<br />
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And the president: “A red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilised. That would change my calculus.” Well, that was Obama back in August, and recent days have only ramped up the bottom line: you use chemical weapons – we bomb you.<br />
But just to be old fashioned: what’s the evidence of any threat? What’s the basis for all this? What, in short, are they all talking about? Yes, by all accounts Syria has nerve and chemical agents. But possession does not mean threat of use. Israel is not credibly threatening to use nuclear weapons against Iran, despite possessing them.<br />
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Equally, as yet there simply is little credible evidence Syria is threatening to use chemical or nerve agents against its own people. Finally, after days of evidence-free rhetoric from the US government and their ever-obedient Westminster franchise, it was left to UN boss Sec-Gen Ban Ki Moon to point out that there is, as yet, no confirmation that Syria is preparing to use them.<br />
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“Recently we have been receiving alarming news that the Syrian government may be preparing to use chemical weapons. We have no confirmed reports on this matter,” Ban said after visiting a Syrian refugee camp in Turkey. Vague US “intelligence reports” are routinely and often unquestioningly trotted out in US papers as the basis for Obama, Panetta and Clinton wagging their fingers at Damascus.<br />
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This then gets taken up elsewhere, and the story built upon nothing is soon accepted as global fact when it’s nothing of the kind. After Iraq and WMD, if the CIA or MI6 say it’s cold at the north pole, any sensible person would seek at least a couple more sources or would fly there and check. So they should look to produce the evidence that Syria has begun mixing chemicals as a preparation for use (and thus an excuse for the west to consider bombing) or perhaps stop theregular calls for it to be stopped.<br />
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We should question why, and why now, there is suddenly a supposed chemical weapons “threat”? Where’s the proof? What is the evidence? The past should be a lesson to us all.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131459988222142655.post-85201513790249399492012-11-18T18:17:00.000+00:002015-04-26T14:39:37.364+01:00 ‘Responsibility to protect’ (R2P)<div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px;">The specious absurdity of Responsibility to Protect would be a belly laugh if it had remained a speech writer's spin and paper promise of politicians. After millions died in wars in the 19th and 20th Century, legal experts, war crimes prosecutors and heads of state signed numerous treaties to prevent repeats of the suffering and butchery increasingly inflicted on civilian populations. Million of soldiers died too believing they were fighting just causes. Only the MONEY POWER benefited.</span></div>
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The Responsibility to Protect expresses the world’s responsibility to protect populations from <b>genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity</b>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">‘Responsibility To Protect’ In Egypt, Libya And Syria</span></div>
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The ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P), <a href="http://www.responsibilitytoprotect.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=398" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">formulated</a> at the 2005 UN World Summit, is based on the idea that state sovereignty is not a right but a responsibility. Where offending states fail to live up to this responsibility by inflicting genocide, ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity on their own people, the international community has a responsibility to act. Economic sanctions and the use of military force can thus be employed as ‘humanitarian intervention’.</div>
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A second version of R2P, proposed by the [Gareth] Evans Commission, goes much further. It <a href="http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20091029.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">authorises</a> ’regional or sub-regional organisations’ such as Nato to determine their ‘area of jurisdiction’ and to act in cases where ‘the Security Council rejects a proposal or fails to deal with it in a reasonable time’.</div>
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Gareth Evans – described by the BBC as someone ‘who has championed the doctrine that the international community has a responsibility to protect civilians’ – has an interesting CV. John Pilger <a href="http://johnpilger.com/articles/australia-ignores-the-plight-of-the-east-timorese-but-keeps-a-watchful-eye-on-their-oil-and-gas" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">wrote</a> in 2000:</div>
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‘One of the nauseating moments of the East Timor tragedy was in 1989, when Gareth Evans, the then Australian foreign minister, raised his champagne glass to his Indonesian equivalent, Ali Alatas, as they flew over the Timor Sea in an Australian aircraft, having signed the Timor Gap Treaty. Below them was the small country where a third of the population had died or been killed under Suharto.’</div>
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Pilger <a href="http://johnpilger.com/articles/east-timor-a-lesson-in-why-the-poorest-threaten-the-powerful" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">added</a>:</div>
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‘Thanks largely to Evans, Australia was the only western country formally to recognise Suharto’s genocidal conquest. The murderous Indonesian special forces known as Kopassus were trained in Australia. The prize, said Evans, was “zillions” of dollars.’</div>
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president Bashar al-Assad. </div>
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What is missing from the debate on
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<strong>Obama Uses Syria To Extend State Of Emergency</strong></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Friday condemned "in the strongest terms" four deadly suicide bombings in Syria's largest city after Syria requested the condemnation. [<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/un-condemns-rebel-suicide-bombing.html" target="_blank">More</a>]</span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"The recent statement of a ‘rebel commander’ in Aleppo that 70 per cent of the population remains loyal to the government probably means that 90 to 95 per cent support the government and not just in Aleppo, where local Christians have been forming armed groups to defend themselves.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></i></div>
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<em style="font-style: normal;"><span lang="en-us">A "humanitarian" military intervention modeled on Libya is contemplated. NATO Special Forces from Britain, France, Qatar and Turkey are already on the ground inside Syria in blatant violation of international law. </span>Reports from British military sources (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">November 2011</span>) confirm that: [<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/syria-next-humanitarian-war.html" target="_blank">More</a>]</em></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In light of the weight of the foregoing evidence, little if any doubt remains that President Obama is knowingly providing “substantial support” to al-Qaeda and associated forces operating in Syria. He is thereby violating Section 1021 of the NDAA and is subject to indefinite detention by the armed forces of the United States. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In fairness, however, President Obama is not alone in this unlawful endeavor. <a href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-03-06/news/31127430_1_military-intervention-syrian-national-council-assad"><span style="color: #173aee; text-decoration: underline;">Congressional leaders calling for U.S. military intervention</span></a> in Syria on behalf of the rebels — whose ranks are rife with al-Qaeda militants — are complicit in the propping up of our supposed enemy in the never-ending War on Terror and should rightfully be apprehended and detained until the end of these hostilities. [<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/obama-violating-ndaa.html" target="_blank">More</a>]</span></div>
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<em><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Responsibility to Protect" crumbles as Western-armed terror front slaughters civilians while foreign sponsors attempt to tie hands of Syrian security forces. </span></strong></em><br />
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Global Research, July 30, 2012<br />
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<i>The dubious justification for waging a "humanitarian war" on Syria
hinges upon the West's "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) the Syrian
people against their own government, which allegedly is involved in the
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<i>* </i>According to the leaked Arab League Observer Mission
Report: which had initially been commissioned by the Arab League at
Washington's behest:<br />
"In Homs, Idlib and Hama, the Observer Mission
witnessed acts of violence being committed against Government forces and
civilians that resulted in several deaths and injuries. Examples of
those acts include the bombing of a civilian bus, killing eight persons
and injuring others, including women and children. ... Such incidents
include the bombing of buildings, trains carrying fuel, vehicles
carrying diesel oil and explosions targeting the police, members of the
media and fuel pipelines. Some of those attacks have been carried out by
the Free Syrian Army and some by other armed opposition groups." (<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001boRqmcU5ARnZBIdg4RqNE3aVAPZMd5Puh6bBuYbJBifLJGt4cnJOHbgt1WtJgYf6cAFHV5jfOEqsezli4IYgtiKwYph08nce4euvdbNtdVUPm8hvk0OtA6_G7RxIRuBTXrTa6f76v5SQFsjpR98dXGcC7Slr2k9ceCxkJypy6uE=" target="_blank">League
of Arab States Observer Mission to Syria, Report of the Head of the
League of Arab States Observer Mission to Syria for the period from 24
December 2011 to 18 January 2012</a><strong>,</strong><br />
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confirms that the Western backed "opposition forces" rather than the Al
Assad government are responsible for countless atrocities:<br />
"The Syrian soldiers in fact, continue to face
foreign fighters, mercenaries Libyans, Lebanese militants from the Gulf,
Afghans, Turks. "The Sunni Salafist militants - says the Bishop -
continue to commit crimes against civilians, or to recruit fighters with
force. The fanatical Sunni extremists are fighting a holy war proudly,
especially against the Alawites. When terrorists seek to control the
religious identity of a suspect, they ask him to cite the genealogies
dating back to Moses. And they ask to recite a prayer that the Alawites
removed. The Alawites have no chance to get out alive." (<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001boRqmcU5ARn7QbtPIYL975uDpZr9mouGTwRlAAmjSMVhjrsSd5Xslqt4HT7Ejku5rZVIq9U_A09cgs-dxvmS88U3osekfcD2M94hq8kL3wU0rh7ePpnxQiiyr0dYAu4ZV_W9HnmL-Jr6CJS6SNahwxvvuXQzBlIcck__qWz5T4LRwOEW-hFRWA==" target="_blank">Agenzia Fides, Vatican News Service, 4 June 2012</a>)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This is the story of the Syrian war, but there is another story to be told. A tale less bloody, but nevertheless important. This is a story about the storytellers: the spokespeople, the "experts on Syria", the "democracy activists". The statement makers. The people who "urge" and "warn" and "call for action" [<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/syrian-opposition-whos-doing-talking.html" target="_blank">More</a>]</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">July 12, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- Within the past week, fellows at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies have used rather unfortunate analogies to describe the plight of Syria’s besieged Alawite minority. The comparison of the Alawites to two of the region’s least popular interlopers in Arab and Muslim memory was hardly calculated to endear them to an already resentful Sunni majority. [<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/is-israel-inciting-genocide-against.html" target="_blank">More</a>]</span></div>
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WASHINGTON — A small number of <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/central_intelligence_agency/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #034376; text-decoration: underline;">C.I.A.</span></a> officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers. [<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/cia-steering-arms-to-syrian-opposition.html" target="_blank">More</a>]</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Global Research Editor's Note: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"> </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This incisive report by independent Russian journalist Marat Musin dispels the lies and fabrications of the Western media. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Lucida Grande';"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The report is based on a chronology of events as well as eyewitness accounts. Entire pro-government families in Houla were massacred. The terrorists integrated by professional mercenaries were not pro-government militia as conveyed in chorus by the mainstream media, they were in large part mercenaries and professional killers operating under the auspices of the self-proclaimed Free Syrian Army (FSA): </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">Attempts have been made to discredit the testimony of Mother Agnès-Mariam de la-Croix of the St. James Monastery in Qara, Syria. This article records more eye witness accounts and answers the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">challenge to the credibility of Rainer Hermann’s report in the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"><i>Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"> (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"><i>FAZ</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for an R2P humanitarian military intervention in Syria to curb the atrocities allegedly ordered by the government of president Bashar Al Assad. In a twisted logic, Clinton recognizes that while "opposition forces" are integrated by Al Qaeda affiliated terrorists, the government rather than the terrorists is held responsible, without a shred of evidence, for the ongoing massacre of civilians.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Amply documented, these sectarian killings and atrocities are being committed by foreign mercenaries and militia which are armed and supported by the Western military alliance. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The killings are carried out quite deliberately as part of a diabolical covert operation. The enemy is then blamed for the resulting atrocities. The objective is to justify a military agenda on humanitarian grounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">June 11, 2012 "<a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #173aee;">Information Clearing House</span></a>" --</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">A Syrian documentary aired on June 9, and a June 7 report by Germany's leading broadsheet provide more evidence. Both refutes Western media misinformation. More on the latter below. On May 10, suburban Damascus suicide bombings killed 55 and injured hundreds. The attack happened near Syria's military intelligence complex. Children were killed. So were drivers and others heading for work.</span></div>
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Western reports spuriously blamed Assad. On June 10, SANA state media's <a href="http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2012/06/10/424423.htm" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #0f44c3; text-decoration: underline;">documentary</span></a> discussed the Damascus incident. It named Western-recruited Jabhet al-Nasra terrorists responsible. They also carried out earlier attacks. [<a href="http://urwreview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/faz-again-massacres-in-syria.html" target="_blank">More</a>]</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Challenging this "official truth", independent observers and "whistleblowers" are providing solid evidence that reveals the "humanitarian" Right to Protect policy, cited by western authority, is manufactured from an ocean of disinformation and deceit.</span></div>
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<b>The shameless audacity of the magnitude of lies and disinformation being spread is sobering. Where is the peace movement, the traditional "left", or simply patriots questioning? The "Big Lie" promotes the comfortable assumption that "we" are giving humanitarian assistance to fellow humans in need and it seems to have fogged the minds of those who previously would be alert to the dangers.</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The facts in the public domain reveal that "we" are funding, equipping, training and leading gangs of Sunni Jihadists, "al Qaeda elements" and mercenary fighters. The military and intelligence services of the US, Israeli and the European "alliance" are bringing our sworn enemies - al Qaeda militias - from Iraqi, Afghanistan, Libyan etc. to invade Syria in support of Syrian ethnic and religious factions linked to the US NATO war machine. This is planned to cause mayhem and to provoke internecine warfare and the destruction of the multicultural society that offered freedom of religious practice.</span></div>
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The hasbara (propaganda) that is spread throughout the Zionist-owned mainstream media is identical in nature to a house of cards. No matter how imposing the house may be, remove one card from the structure, and it shall immediately collapse in an almost glorious fashion. It is due to its foundation; its towering essence is overshadowed by its flimsiness. The Zionist media imposes its hasbara in terrorizing fashion; like the usurping Israeli entity’s bombs falling upon illegally besieged Gaza or Lebanon, the hasbara enters the psyche as an F-16 bombardment. But unlike the bombs, which are so unstoppably and menacingly destructive, the hasbara is weaker than the web of a spider coming in contact with a machete. Remove just one element, one detail from a news story laced with hasbara, like the house of cards, the aforesaid story will crash to the ground, broken and dismembered.</div>
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This house of cards is what has been built upon the events unfolding in Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad is facing an uprising not seen since his father’s days. The Zionist media, in partnership with ‘Arab’ media giant Al-Jazeera, painted a rosy picture of heroic, peaceful demonstrators rising up against the dictatorship that has ruled their nation repressively for more than four decades. But that is all that it is, a picture; a story not rooted in reality or fact. Al-Jazeera has finally admitted, that the opposition has lied and exaggerated about casualties and protest numbers (1), to ‘further its cause,’ of course, in typical hasbara fasion, but this small admission, this small card removed from the frame, brings the house of cards crashing down.</div>
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Al-Jazeera’s admission only gives further credence to what has already been exposed: the Zionist entity and the House of Saud, allied with the US, Turkey and Jordan, have launched a full-scale destabilization operation against Bashar al-Assad and his government. Mobilizing its forces from certain ‘hotspots,’ or joint operations rooms, the Zionist-Saudi axis has used its agents ex-Syrian VP Abdel-Halim Khaddam, AIPAC member Farid al-Ghadry, Brookings Institution Fellow Ammar AbdulHamid, State Dept giant Jeffrey Feltman and multiple Syrian Muslim Brotherhood leaders to fund, incite, train, guide, organize and direct its agents within Syria to drive the Assad leadership into the ground in hopes of replacing it with an anti-Iran, anti-Hezbollah regime subservient to the Zionist-Saudi axis. With weapons being provided by Jordan and armed operations initiated by Zionist agent Muthanna al-Dhari, Syria has been plunged into chaos (2). Feltman’s role is crucial, as he developed the final phase of this plot with Saudi National Security Advisor ‘Prince’ Bandar bin Sultan, spending $2 billion in the process (3).</div>
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The Zionist entity’s hopes of prolonging the ‘kiss of democratic death’ destablization operation and weakening Syria, prior to invading it, destroying it and colonizing it as it did with 13 years of sanctions against (occupied) Iraq, seem to have died down. It seems the next phase has already arrived. Events in the last week have spun out of control at lightning speed and Zionist mobilization has kicked into high gear.</div>
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Amnesty International (AI) has a long, disturbing history of collaborating with globalist powers to foment illegal wars and conquer indigenous resources and territory. A corporate member of the Chatham House and bankrolled by Zionist billionaire war criminal George Soros, AI is a ruthless organization that has fooled a great deal of people due to the mask of ‘human rights’ that it parades around in. Most infamously, in the ‘incubator babies’, [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_(testimony)" target="_blank">the Nayirah Testimony scandal</a>], it represented an integral wing of the Zionist operation against Iraq just prior to the criminal Gulf War, disseminating horrific propaganda across the globe, portraying Iraqis as animals and baby killers to justify the invasion. The story was revealed to be false on absolutely every level, but AI’s mission had already been accomplished: the Zionist war against Iraq had begun. Over the years, AI has directed mountains of hasbara against Syria, specifically towards Bashar al-Assad’s father, the late Hafez al-Assad (4). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_(testimony)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_(testimony)</a></div>
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On June 6th 2011, Amnesty International accused the Syrian government, under the direction of Bashar al-Assad and his top officials, of committing crimes against humanity in the town of Tell Kalakh. AI stated that ‘scores of men’ were arbitrarily arrested, tortured and at least 9 had died in custody. Seemingly infuriated, AI thundered in its report that the Syrian regime would respond to nothing but ‘concrete international measures.’ The report was a call to the UN Security Council and International Criminal Court to take action against Bashar al-Assad. A very gripping account indeed; one that pulls right at the heart strings in a whirlwind of emotion. A civilian population under siege at the hands of a monstrous dictator and his security apparatus. But a problem exists within this account; a very prominent, drastic problem. AI obtained all of the information from ‘eyewitnesses’ in Lebanon in addition to telephone conversations (5).</div>
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First and foremost, how can ‘crimes against humanity’ accusations be made without any physical evidence provided? Secondly, how can an ‘independent’ NGO have such power that it can demand action to be taken against the nation it is accusing of such crimes from the highest international bodies on earth and be taken seriously? Thirdly, with Amnesty International’s track record of fabricating ‘humanitarian crises’ for the benefit of Zionist hegemony, how can such accusations even be considered credible?</div>
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With that said, who are these so-called ‘eyewitnesses’ that AI met in Lebanon? And why were the meetings held in Lebanon? Why not Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, the Zionist regime itself or any other neighboring entity? Were these ‘eyewitnesses’ provided to AI? If so, by whom? The reason why these particular questions are so vital, is because former Lebanese Prime Minister Sa’ad Hariri’s Future Movement has worked closely with Zionist Near East Affairs asset Jeffrey Feltman and US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro in organizing the press campaign against Syria (8), shaping public opinion in the region, and it would by no means be out of the ordinary if AI’s ‘Lebanese sources’ were provided by the Feltman-Hariri-Shapiro coordination, considering AI’s history of collaborating with Zionism and the role being played in Syria by the aforementioned three men.</div>
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Yet again, Amnesty International has been exposed manipulating and fabricating information to justify a take-down of what the Israeli entity and its allies commonly refer to as a ‘hostile environment.’ Yet again, Amnesty International shows that its true colors are not its typical yellow, but Israeli blue and white.</div>
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There is another element that the US State Department did not reveal to the public. An element behind the curtain, behind the ‘solidarity.’ The primary reason why US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford traveled to Hama was to deliver tapping devices to the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood-dominated opposition. The devices were meant to capture images of their protests to later be amplified prior to airing them with the international Zionist media. The devices were also meant to spy on Syrian security forces, including the army and police in anti-Assad areas. While Syrian security forces dismantled a good deal of these apparatuses, many of them still exist in the Saudi-Zionist-backed opposition’s strongholds (10).</div>
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US Ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford.</div>
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This is simply another example of foreign powers meddling in the internal affairs of Syria to accomplish the mission of toppling Bashar al-Assad and replacing him with a puppet that will happily bow before the international dominance of Zionism. It is excessively important to document that this batch of incitement, while blatant, is nothing but the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Weapons, monies, intelligence and military support have been provided to the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoots by the Zionist-occupied governments in the EU, US and Jordan to drown out the cries of the peaceful reformists who have been fully acknowledged by the Assad leadership (11).</div>
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The Ambassadors’ incitement and delivery of materials represents the culmination of more than 3 months of destabilization at the Zionist-led coalition’s hands; an overt act of subversion on top of all of the various covert operations. This infuriated the Syrian people, who have marched in the millions over the last few months in support of the Bashar al-Assad’s Resistance government (12). Their fury was expressed in the streets as hundreds marched to the US and French embassies in Damascus. Protesters broke the embassies’ windows and thunderously chanted against the Western regimes’ meddling (13).</div>
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Hillary Clinton, seen here bowing before AIPAC, says that Bashar al-Assad has 'lost legitimacy.'</div>
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In the aftermath, avid Zionist and murderous war criminal Hillary Clinton responded to the rage of the Syrian people and sharpened her sword of rhetoric. She explicitly stated, “He (Bashar al-Assad) has lost legitimacy, he has failed to deliver on the promises he’s made, he has sought and accepted aid from the Iranians as to how to repress his own people. He is not indispensable (14).” The arrogance of Clinton is nauseating; as if she and her government, who take their orders from the Zionist regime that has stolen al-Quds, have the right to dictate who will or who will not lead Syria; as if the majority of the Syrian people who support the Assad government and its Resistance don’t exist.</div>
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If the elements of the ‘Syrian Revolution’ that are calling for Bashar al-Assad’s ouster were actually indigenous, legitimate, honest, ‘pro-democracy’ protesters and not a militia-type force that is being armed and directed by an axis of foreign powers led by the Zionist entity and Saudi Arabia, why did they welcome the US and French Ambassadors to Syria with roses? Why would those who claim to represent the typical Resistance-based mindset that the righteous, dignified and strong Syrian people tend to have, show solidarity with nations that are enemies of Syria and are actively pursuing its downfall? And knowing that Syria has been a target perpetually locked in the crosshairs of Zionism and its allies, why would these ‘protesters’ pander to such powers? The answers to these questions are of course, rhetorical.</div>
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President Barack Obama, who has served the Zionist entity so well since being placed into office he has had an illegal settlement named after him (15), echoed the words of Hillary Clinton on July 13th as Western governments work closely to fight Russian and Chinese blocks and pass a resolution in the UN to take action against Syria (16). Though it would be an utterly devastating scenario for the Syrian people, it seems that another ‘humanitarian’ invasion is right around the corner.</div>
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Zionist asset Bernard-Henri Lévy helped bring about a campaign of destruction in Libya and is now looking to produce the same result in Syria.</div>
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The French ‘intellectual and philosopher’ Bernard-Henri Lévy is no stranger to anti-Zionist writers and solidarity activists. He is known from one end of the globe to the next for infamously and disgracefully stating, “I have never seen such a democratic army (IOF), which asks itself so many moral questions (17).” Needless to say, Lévy is an ardent Zionist who is wholeheartedly dedicated to defending the criminal existence of the Israeli ‘state.’</div>
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Most recently, Lévy has been seen in Libya, playing an exceedingly prominent role, if not the most prominent role of all, in getting the West ‘involved’ in the murderous bombing of the oil-rich North African nation. Lévy single-handedly secured meetings for the CIA-proxy Libyan rebels with Zionist French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Hillary Clinton. He warned Sarkozy that if the West didn’t intervene, there would be a ‘bloodbath in Benghazi,’ Libya’s second largest city (18).</div>
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Thanks to the efforts of Lévy and the Zionists of the Foreign Policy Initiative who ordered President Obama to attack Libya (19), there isn’t just a bloodbath in Benghazi but a bloodbath across Libya. The NATO coalition led by the US, France and Britain has murdered at least 1,108 Libyan civilians and wounded over 4,537 others since the genocidal, colonial effort began at the end of March (20). Lévy, who is very good friends with mass murderer and Zionist war criminal (Israeli Prime Minister) Benjamin Netanyahu, conveyed to his friend that the Libyan rebels are ready to recognize the Zionist entity as a legitimate state and that they will be ‘concerned with Israeli security (21).’ Lévy’s high-level meddling in Libya has led to a scenario right out of Qaddafi’s worst nightmare: the CIA-proxy, Israeli-advised rebels are prepared to let the Zionist regime establish a base in eastern Cyrenaica on a 30-year lease (22). These activities confirm that Lévy is no mere Zionist; he is a high-level sayan (helper) doing the bidding of Tel Aviv.</div>
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With Libya now in complete disarray at the hands of NATO and Israel, the globetrotting Zionist Lévy has set his sights on Bashar al-Assad and Syria. Lévy led a conference last week in Paris’s Cinema St. Germaine against the Assad government, likening Bashar al-Assad’s ‘crackdown on pro-democracy protesters’ to that of the Nazis. The conference was comprised of Zionists, former French officials, Syrian opposition figures and a Syrian Muslim Brotherhood representative. The point of Lévy’s conference was to mobilize the ex-French regime officials to lobby Russia and China in dropping their support for the Syrian Resistance government and getting both nations behind Libya-like resolutions against Bashar al-Assad. Lévy demanded that Syria be referred to an international tribunal (23).</div>
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Ammar Qurabi; fake human rights activist, closet Zionist.</div>
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The most disturbing of the attendees of Lévy’s meddlesome conference is a ‘Syrian opposition figure’ named Ammar Qurabi (24). Qurabi is the main source of information, statistics and rumors throughout the media institutions owned by the sheikhdoms of Qatar and Saudi Arabia and has repeatedly delivered fraudulent information and inflated protest numbers to the Zionist media (25). Qurabi’s wife writes for the London-based Saudi Arabia propaganda outlet, Elaph (26). He is frequently quoted as a ‘credible source’ by Western wire services like Reuters and AFP in regards to the ‘civilian death toll’ of the ‘Syrian Revolution.’ Qurabi however, is anything but credible. If the information initially presented doesn’t indicate that he is a stooge of the House of Saud, Qatar and Zionism, the following revelation most certainly will.</div>
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Prior to establishing Syria’s National Organization for Human Rights, Ammar Qurabi worked for Human Rights Watch and the Syrian Human Rights Committee. Human Rights Watch, handsomely funded to the tune of $100 million by billionaire Zionist war criminal George Soros, has a long history of working with Zionist think tanks and intelligence agencies in fostering war propaganda, specifically against the now ravaged nation of (occupied) Iraq. The Syrian Human Rights Committee is a promoter of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International and an affiliate of the Patriotic Union Of Kurdistan, a Mossad-linked Zionist political party in northern Iraq with a militia trained by IOF (27). Do all ‘human rights activists’ work with elements of the Zionist war machine? Clearly, Qurabi is no ‘Syrian human rights advocate.’ He is an agent of the Zionist-Saudi axis’ destabilization operations against Syria.</div>
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With Ammar Qurabi keeping the lies flowing throughout Eastern and Western media and Tel Aviv’s ‘man in France’ Bernard-Henri Lévy upping the ante on the international front, Syria just cannot get a break from the Zionist entity’s mobilization.</div>
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The most diabolical character in Israel’s plot to take down Syria is the government of Turkey. In the two-part series on Syria preceding this piece, this author laid waste to the theory that Turkey represented Resistance in the region and exposed the Ankara regime as a willing participant in the ongoing destabilization operation in Syria, providing intelligence, military support, safe havens and meeting grounds to Syrian Muslim Brotherhood fighters, leaders and operatives and also facilitating contact between the Zionist-occupied American government and the Brotherhood. This treacherous, duplicitous behavior is part of a 1993 Turkish-Israeli Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that unites the two entities in military-intelligence cooperation on a large scale. The focus of this cooperation is to undermine Syria, Iran and Iraq; all enemies of the Zionist entity. The Zionist-run operations are funded with the billions in annual Turkish-Israeli bilateral trade (28).</div>
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As documented in the previous sections with the vital role of Bernard-Henri Lévy and the incitement operation in Hama carried out by the French Ambassador to Syria, as well as in the aforementioned series with France leading the European charge in sanctioning Syria, the government of Nicolas Sarkozy has played a major part in fomenting the violent unrest in Syria. Sarkozy did excessive spy work for Mossad in the 1980s and remains a high-level sayan to this day (29); his allegiance to Zionism is undeniable. Multiple sources have now confirmed to Mask of Zion that the French and Turkish governments have drawn up their own MOU, to strengthen the 1993 Turkish-Israeli MOU and to focus more intimate cooperation in toppling Bashar al-Assad. The leaked MOU document was initially provided to Mask of Zion in French and then translated by a second source. The French-Turkish MOU is between PM Erdogan himself and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé.</div>
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Below is the document in its entirety, which fully corroborates the evidence revealed in the ‘Kiss of Democratic Death’ series:</div>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">France, through its Foreign Minister Alain Juppé, attentively views that Turkey joining the European Union will greatly serve an important role in the Middle East. Only France has decided to provide the necessary support to the entry of Turkey into the European Union. This support was to be provided after a documented promise was made via the implementation of this agreement which serves the regional and international interests of Turkey, France and the European Union.</em></div>
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The document clearly (and disturbingly) speaks for itself. It is interesting to note, that like Turkish-Israeli trade, French-Israeli trade is just as lucrative, with annual profits skyrocketing to over 2 billion Euros ($2.8 billion) last year (30). The money funding the operations of the Tel Aviv-Ankara-Paris axis in Syria is awash in innocent blood, as every cent of it has passed through Zionist hands. Undoubtedly paid for by this blood money and as per number 5 in the Juppé-Erdogan Agreement, Turkey recently hosted yet another Syrian opposition conference in Istanbul on July 13th, 2011. While spouting usual, malicious rhetoric against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Lebanese Resistance movement of Hezbollah, this meeting soared to new heights and is arguably the most dangerous to date, as attendees flamboyantly called on the Syrian armed forces to turn on Bashar al-Assad and help ‘the people’ overthrow the regime (31). As the Juppé-Erdogan Agreement and all of the evidence provided here display, it is not ‘the people’ doing anything, but a murderous nexus with the illegitimate Israeli regime sitting at its head.</div>
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13-year old Hamza Ali al-Khatib; the story of his death as reported by the Zionist media is a grossly exaggerated farce.</div>
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Over the course of the last several months, one story that has permeated nearly all of the Zionist media’s coverage on Syria is that of 13-year old Hamza Ali al-Khatib, the first boy in this ‘tale of two children.’ He has become the ‘face of the Syrian Revolution,’ as many news outlets, including Zionist-created Al-Jazeera, have declared. The story goes something like this: seeking freedom and dignity like every other Syrian participating in the ‘peaceful, pro-democracy’ protests in the Dara’a Governorate, little 13-year old Hamza Ali al-Khatib hit the streets of Saida Village on April 29th, or the streets of Jiza Village, as ‘eyewitnesses’ can’t seem to be able to make up their minds. He was picked up by Syrian security forces in a routine ‘crackdown’ operation and tortured in custody for almost a month before being delivered back to his family with lacerations, bruises and burns to his elbows, face, knees, chest and feet, bullet wounds and castrated (32). Another sensational, shocking tragedy brought to the world by the Syrian Revolution.</div>
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The information, extracted from a Youtube video, is said to be congruent with reports from Human Rights Watch (HRW) about the types of torture used by Syrian security forces. HRW, all of its media glory and hype aside, has been exposed as nothing more than a tool of Zionist-globalist hegemony, fabricating reports whenever the Zionist entity and its allies need justification to prepare an ‘enemy’ country for regime change (as aforementioned), so how can any claim made by such an organization be taken seriously?</div>
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How can this Soros-funded band of propagandists and liars possess an almost infallible credibility when the foundation of its ‘legitimacy’ rests on pure illusion? In simpler terms, reports from HRW can’t be congruent with anything because HRW doesn’t tell the truth. The nail in HRW’s coffin comes with placing its senior researcher on Syrian Affairs, Nadim Houry, under a microscope: he’s also done work for the Rothschild-founded mega think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations, and he previously worked for the law firm Sherman and Sterling LLP, a group admittedly dedicated to furthering the interests of international bankers through privatization and globalization (33). What kind of human rights advocate also works for organizations solely dedicated to wiping out human rights worldwide through criminal wars and occupations? That is yet another rhetorical question.</div>
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Beyond that, a closer look at the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7flXwSv9aQ0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1a7bc6; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Youtube video</strong></a> reveals that there is no evidence of torture at all, and most certainly not at the hands of Syrian security forces. The body is so discolored and disfigured from the discoloration, that one cannot be sure that it is even the body of 13-year old Hamza. It certainly looks to be someone else entirely. The video is definitely graphic, but at no point does the video show that the body has been castrated. Most bizarrely, the Arabic-speaking narrators of the video continue repeating ridiculous slogans about freedom and dignity. Where is the emotion and outrage of what has supposedly been done to the child? Where is the indignation? And casting further doubt on the entire matter, at the end of the video, the narrators call on the UN and Amnesty International to take action against Syria. Suspicious does not begin to describe this footage.</div>
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Contrary to reports in the Zionist Western press and Al-Jazeera, this is NOT the body of Hamza Ali al-Khatib.</div>
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There is an alternative view of what happened to Hamza Ali al-Khatib, a view that has not even been given a fraction of the coverage that the mainstream (i.e. Zionist) view has. The alternative view is: Hamza indeed did take part in ‘pro-reform’ protests in the Dara’a Governorate and was indeed killed. However, the boy was not ‘murdered’ by Syrian security forces. He was caught in the crossfire of Saudi-Zionist-trained armed fighters and Syrian security officials at the Saida military housing compound. The armed brigade captured several children, including Hamza, and led them to the compound at gunpoint. They then opened fire on army, police, security forces and civilians. In the April 29th battle, a Syrian security chief was gunned down along with several others. Hamza’s body was taken to the hospital and once he was identified, he was transferred back to his family. Bashar al-Assad himself traveled to the family’s home to offer his condolences. The body in the now-infamous Youtube video belonged to that of a still unidentified man in his 20s, which was photographed and taped by Syrian opposition members (34).</div>
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This information is quite congruent with previous documentation regarding opposition attacks on Syrian government targets. This information would also mean that the opposition lied about Hamza Ali al-Khatib, which is also congruent with previous documentation. Zionist-backed Syrian opposition forces have already played this game before by faking the death of a 10-year boy named “Ayham al-Ahmad.” The video quality was so poor however that the international media did not pay it any mind (35). A week and a half after the Ayham story failed, the news of Hamza, much more brutal, sensational and heart-wrenching, emerged on the international scene. Psychological warfare is the name of the game and it must not be forgotten that Mossad’s psychological warfare unit, LAP, maintains a cozy working relationship with the Zionist media (36).</div>
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14-year old Malik Ahmed Suleiman after he was strangled to death for supporting Bashar al-Assad.</div>
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The second boy in this ‘tale of two children,’ is one that the greater majority of those who follow mainstream news and even those claim to be activists have never heard of. This boy isn’t marketable, nor is he profitable and unlike Hamza, his story cannot be manipulated, mutated and transformed into a media fiasco. This boy’s name is <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%86%D8%A7-%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86/152280821507808" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1a7bc6; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Malik Ahmed Suleiman</a></strong>. He was only 14 years old. Young Malik was from the city of Homs, a major battleground between the Zionist-Saudi axis’ destablization operatives and supporters of President Bashar al-Assad. He was the <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.champress.net/index.php?q=ar%2FArticle%2Fview%2F91675" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1a7bc6; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">son of Syrian Army Colonel Ahmed Suleiman</a></strong>, a supporter of President Assad and a staunch Syrian nationalist. On May 29th, while the world was incessantly clamoring about the false stories regarding Hamza al-Khatib, Malik Ahmed Suleiman was <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.alkhabarpress.com/SiteNews/details.php?docId=2401" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1a7bc6; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">strangled to death</a></strong> with a belt in front of his home for holding up a picture of Bashar al-Assad during an anti-government protest.</div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Malik.Ahmad.Suleman" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1a7bc6; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Young Malik</strong></a> was targeted because his family had rejected the ‘Syrian Revolution’ and stood in solidarity with the majority of the Syrian people in their support for Bashar al-Assad. Why hasn’t this heinous murder been spoken about by mainstream media? Firstly, because the Suleiman family stands with the Resistance. And secondly, because Malik Ahmed Suleiman’s tragic story would invalidate the Zionist narrative regarding Syria’s ‘peaceful revolution.’</div>
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Al-Jazeera: An 'island' of Zionist propaganda.</div>
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What about Al-Jazeera? Why hasn’t Al-Jazeera reported on this horrific crime? Because Al-Jazeera is nothing more than the Arab wing of the Zionist media and since 2004 alone, it has suppressed hundreds of stories of Zionist atrocities in occupied Palestine and it deliberately ignored the Zionist regime’s admission of dropping millions of cluster bombs on Lebanon during the genocidal July War (37). Ghassan Bin Jeddo, who stepped down from his post as Al-Jazeera’s Beirut Bureau Chief because the network launched a ‘smear campaign against Syria,’ said, “Al-Jazeera has resorted to gutter journalism. It is now an operations room for incitement and mobilization (38).” Malik Ahmed Suleiman doesn’t help Al-Jazeera ‘incite and mobilize’ against Syria, he blocks it.</div>
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What unites Malik Ahmed Suleiman and Hamza Ali al-Khatib is that they are both victims of a deadly, ominous destabilization campaign launched against Syria by the Zionist entity and the House of Saud. It is a campaign that has claimed the lives of police, civilians and soldiers alike and like a shark that smells blood in the water, it will not stop until it reaches its prey: Bashar al-Assad.</div>
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Malik Ahmed Suleiman before he was murdered by Zionist-Saudi destablization forces.</div>
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The Zionist end game is to fracture Syria into multiple states of ethnic-sectarian distinction (39), ripping apart the unified fabric of the society that has prospered under the leadership of the Assad family for decades. The means of achieving this end lies within the savage opposition, a creature of Zionist-Saudi cooperation. This creature must be exposed for the Israeli-engineered beast that it is and the plot that it represents now more than ever as Zionist mobilization continues its climb towards all-out invasion. It must be exposed for Malik. It must be exposed for Hamza. And it must be exposed for the millions of other Syrians and their children whose lives are very much at stake. It is up to the people of conscience to reject the status quo, break free from the mainstream shackles and do so.</div>
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(1) The Syrian Propaganda War by Listening Post, Al-Jazeera English</div>
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(2) Kiss Of ‘Democratic’ Death: Israel’s Plot To Take Down Syria I; Section – The Syrian Revolution: 100% Manufactured by Israel and Saudi Arabia by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion</div>
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(3) US Seeks To Exploit Anti-Assad Movement In Syria by Jean Shaoul, World Socialist Web Site</div>
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(4) Kiss Of ‘Democratic’ Death: Israel’s Plot To Take Down Syria I; Section – History On The Fly I: The 1976-1982 ‘Uprising’ by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion</div>
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(5) Report Reveals Crimes Against Humanity In Syrian Town by Amnesty International</div>
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(6) Kiss Of ‘Democratic’ Death: Israel’s Plot To Take Down Syria II; Section – Media Manipulation: Zionism and Al-Jazeera Unite by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion</div>
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(7) Interior Ministry Source: 2 Security Members Martyred, 7 Injured By Extremist And Terrorist Groups In Daraa And Tall Kalakh by Syrian Arab News Agency</div>
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(8) Syria, In The Eye Of The Storm – Part II by Nidal Hmedeh and translated by Eslam al-Rihani, Al-Manar</div>
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(9) U.S. Ambassador Greeted With Roses By Syrian Protesters In Hama by Robert Mackey, The New York Times</div>
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(10) U.S. Ambassador Smuggles Tapping Devices To Opposition In Syria by Al-Manar</div>
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(11) Lining The Chessboard Against The Resistance Bloc: War With Syria, Iran And Lebanon In The Works? by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Voltaire Network</div>
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(12) Kiss Of ‘Democratic’ Death: Israel’s Plot To Take Down Syria II; Section – Media Manipulation: Zionism and Al-Jazeera Unite by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion</div>
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(13) Mobs Storm U.S., French Embassies In Syria by The Raw Story</div>
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(14) Clinton Says Syria’s Assad Has Lost Legitimacy by Andrew Quinn and Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Reuters</div>
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(15) Israel Creates ‘Obama’ Settlement, More Obstacles For Viable Palestinian State by Saleh Naami, Al-Ahram Online</div>
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(16) West Piles Pressure For UN Action On Syria by Ma’an News Agency</div>
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(17) Bernard-Henri Levy: I Have Never Seen An Army As Democratic As The IDF by Or Kashti, Haaretz</div>
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(18) By His Own Reckoning, One Man Made Libya A French Cause by Steven Erlanger, The New York Times</div>
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(19) US Neo-Cons Urge Libya Intervention by Jim Lobe, Al-Jazeera English</div>
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(20) 1,108 Libyans Killed In NATO Attacks by Press TV</div>
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(21) Libyan Rebels Will Recognise Israel by Global Research</div>
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(22) NATO’s Alternative Universe In Libya by Wayne Madsen, The San Francisco Bay View</div>
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(23) Syria Opposition And Pro-Israeli Confab by Press TV</div>
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(24) Ammar Qurabi July 07, 2011 by As’ad Abu Khalil, The Angry Arab News Service</div>
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(25) Syrian Muslim Brotherhood And Zionism: Who Is Ammar Qurabi? by As’ad Abu Khalil, The Angry Arab News Service</div>
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(26) Ammar Qurabi July 06, 2011 by As’ad Abu Khalil, The Angry Arab News Service</div>
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(27) Kiss Of ‘Democratic’ Death: Israel’s Plot To Take Down Syria I; Section – History On The Fly I: The 1976-1982 ‘Uprising’ by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion</div>
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(28) Kiss Of ‘Democratic’ Death: Israel’s Plot To Take Down Syria II; Section – Turkey: The Beast Of Two Faces Emerges by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion</div>
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(29) Sarkozy Accused Of Working For Israeli Intelligence by Gamal Nkrumah, Global Research</div>
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(30) France Seeks To Boost Trade With Israel by Brett Kline, Globes</div>
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(31) Syrian Exiles Call For Army To Side With People by Simon Cameron-Moore, Reuters</div>
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(32) Tortured And Killed: Hamza Al-Khateeb, Age 13 by Hugh Macleod and Annasofie Flamand, Al-Jazeera English; Torture Of The Child Martyr: ‘Rebel,’ 13, Shot, Kneecapped And Had Genitals Removed Before Being Killed By Syria’s Sadistic Regime by Liz Hazelton, The UK Daily Mail</div>
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(33) Globalist Infiltration Of International Rights Groups: Nadim Houry’s Syrian Propaganda by Scott Creighton, American Everyman</div>
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(34) The True Story Of Hamza Al-Khateeb’s Death Belies Media Fabrications by Syrian Arab News Agency</div>
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(35) NEDA Revisited: Another Staged CIA Martyr This Time In Syria by Scott Creighton, American Everyman</div>
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(36) Libya: The Zionist Dragon And The Drums Of War by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion</div>
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(37) Pro-Israeli Editors Seek To Influence Al-Jazeera International English Satellite TV by Khalid Amayreh, The Electronic Intifada</div>
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(38) Kiss Of ‘Democratic’ Death: Israel’s Plot To Take Down Syria II; Section – Media Manipulation: Zionism and Al-Jazeera Unite by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion</div>
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(39) Kiss Of ‘Democratic’ Death: Israel’s Plot To Take Down Syria I; Section – History On The Fly II: Oded Yinon, A Clean Break and Direct Israeli Aggression by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233;">The BBC reports, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">quoting Amnesty:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233;"> "Images from Anadan revealed more than 600 probable artillery impact craters from heavy fighting between Syrian armed forces and armed opposition groups."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Scroll for Amnesty reference. Note that Robert Ford was a key note speaker at Amnesty International AGM in Denver</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"> 2012. A little about Ford's history [Here]</span></div>
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