| Author | Message | | Alpha | | Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:58 pm Post subject: Jane's: Israeli Moles Penetrate Pentagon |
| Jane's: Israeli Moles Penetrate Pentagon
A mole called Mega
The scandal over a suspected Israeli mole in the Pentagon who allegedly passed highly sensitive policy documents on Iran to Israeli agents in Washington has rekindled suspicions long held by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and others in Washington, that Israel systematically spies on its strategic ally and benefactor.
The FBI probe currently under way goes far beyond the allegations that a lone analyst was providing the Israelis with US secrets.
Shortly before George Tenet retired as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in June, he alleged that an Israeli agent was operating in Washington. Tenet was challenged to identify the agent but for reasons that were never explained apparently did not do so. For years, the FBI has been convinced that there is at least one high-level Israeli mole in Washington.
The Tenet episode underlined growing unease in some quarters in Washington about the influence that Israel's right wing has in US President George W Bush's administration through the pro-Likud neo-conservatives, largely in the Pentagon, and the politically powerful America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and loosely associated organisations, such as the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service, is known to seek out Jews around the world to serve as informal agents, known in Hebrew as sayanim or 'helpers'.
The Israeli government and AIPAC have strenuously denied that they were involved in the current scandal. But Israel's intelligence organisations have been spying on the US and running clandestine operations since Israel was established. These operations range from spiriting an estimated 200 lbs of weapons-grade uranium for its secret nuclear arms programme in the 1960s to widescale industrial espionage.
Much of this is conducted by the secret Scientific Liaison Bureau, known by its Hebrew acronym Lakam, run by the Ministry of Defence and its equally little-known successor, Malmab (the Security Authority for the Ministry of Defence).
http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/fr/fr040929_1_n.shtml | |  | | Alpha | | Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 8:38 am Post subject: Iraq Report steers clear of interrogators' boss |
| http://www.sptimes.com/2004/05/08/Worldandnation/Report_steers_clear_o.shtml
Iraq Report steers clear of interrogators' boss
By SUSAN TAYLOR MARTIN, Times Senior Correspondent
Published May 8, 2004
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A scathing report on prisoner abuse in Iraq found that U.S. military intelligence interrogators set "physical and mental conditions" for questioning inmates that contributed to the shocking acts of abuse.
But except for one brief mention, the 55-page report contains nothing about the role of the top military intelligence officer in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast. As head of intelligence for the U.S. command in Baghdad, Fast was in charge of interrogators at Abu Ghraib, where prisoners were beaten, sodomized and photographed in sexually degrading positions.
Experts contacted by the St. Petersburg Times say strict adherence to military protocol - and a possible reluctance to delve too far into intelligence operations - have kept Fast out of the spotlight even as her boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, faces blistering criticism and calls to resign.
That the investigation into prisoner abuse was conducted by a major general may be one reason why Fast, an officer of equal rank, apparently has undergone little scrutiny, one expert says.
"The military is very conscious of rank - if you want to investigate a major general you need a lieutenant general," said Larry Korb, a former Navy captain and assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration.
"I think when they appointed a major general they never assumed it was going to go much higher - they figured it was basically a bunch of out-of-control young reservists and didn't realize the extent to which they had a problem, not the least of which was who was in charge."
Korb said he was amazed at the murky lines of authority at Abu Ghraib, which technically was run by military police, but where certain cell bocks were controlled by military intelligence officers, CIA officials and civilian contractors.
"I worked in the Pentagon, I spent four years in active duty and 20 in the reserves but I've never seen such a command-relations structure where it's so unclear who's reporting to whom," said Korb, now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington.
The investigation focused on abuse of prisoners by members of the 800th Military Police Brigade, led by Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski from last July until she was reassigned in January. The report, by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, severely faulted Karpinski's leadership and found that the reservists under her command were poorly trained and supervised.
However, the report also says military intelligence officers set the conditions for "favorable" interrogation of prisoners, including instructions on how to "loosen up" inmates so they would talk.
In a sworn statement, one reservist said prisoners "were made to do various things that I would question morally." Another said "MI" - military intelligence - "would tell us to take away their mattresses, sheets and clothes."
Over Karpinski's apparent opposition, military police units at Abu Ghraib were under the command of Col. Thomas Pappas, whose 205th Military Intelligence Brigade came under Fast's oversight.
"This effectively made a military intelligence officer, rather than a military police officer, responsible for the MP units conducting detainee operations at that facility," the report says. "This is doctrinally unsound due to the different missions and agendas assigned to each of these respective specialties."
The report recommended Pappas be reprimanded for failing, among other things, to ensure his soldiers followed the Geneva Convention on humane treatment of prisoners of war.
Pappas was among those "either directly or indirectly responsible for the abuse at Abu Ghraib," the report said.
But Korb, the former assistant secretary of defense, said "it's a legitimate question" why the investigation stopped at Pappas' level and didn't examine the role of his superiors, including Maj. Gen. Fast, head of intelligence in Iraq.
"Whenever Rumsfeld and Myers (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) get around to reading this report, they should say, "Okay, we need to get this major general involved because obviously someone was telling Pappas what to do,"' Korb said.
An investigation into intelligence practices in Afghanistan and Iraq, including at Abu Ghraib prison, was begun April 23 by Maj. Gen. George Fay, the Army's deputy chief of staff for intelligence.
In Taguba's report, the only mention of Fast refers to her position as "detainee release authority," in charge of deciding which inmates accused of crimes against the coalition could be released.
According to Karpinski, who was formally in charge of Iraq's prison system, those detainees made up 60 percent of the prison population and were the fastest-growing segment. However, Karpinski told investigators, Fast "routinely" denied recommendations to release inmates who were no longer deemed a threat and clearly met the requirements for release.
Karpinski further complained that "the extremely slow and ineffective release process has significantly contributed to the overcrowding of the facilities," Taguba's report said.
As head of intelligence in Iraq, Fast would have been responsible for intelligence officers working inside Abu Ghraib. She also "would have been very interested in the interrogation reports coming out of that prison," says Charles Heyman, senior defense analyst for Jane's Consultancy.
"Information from the prisoners is very valuable to the intelligence community so the intelligence community is going to have someone in that the prison system," he said.
Under standard procedures, "very high-ranking" officers like Fast and Karpinski would have agreed between themselves who would be responsible for what in the prisons.
"Where it could have gone wrong," Heyman said, "is that the CIA could have wandered in and said, "Hey, we're going to park ourselves with the intelligence people' and the intelligence people didn't tell the prison system."
The scant mention of Fast in the report is likely because Taguba was told to focus on the role of the military police, not military intelligence.
"His report at the end of the day will be straight down the parameter he was given," Heyman said, "but the report is probably 20 percent of what he knows."
Neither Taguba nor Karpinski, who was the only female commander in Iraq, could be reached for comment. Fast declined to respond to an e-mailed list of questions because "an interrogation investigation is in process. It would not be appropriate at this time to answer the questions," according to a colonel who replied on her behalf.
Unlike Karpinski, whose military career probably will end because of the scandal, Fast still appears to be highly regarded and remains on active duty in Baghdad.
Fast, 50, graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in education and has a master's degree in business administration from Boston University. Before her current assignment, she was director of intelligence for U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, and deputy commander of Fort Huachuca in Arizona.
Last month, the Pentagon announced Fast will return to Fort Huachuca - to head the Army Intelligence Center.
The fort's Web site described the center as "focused on leading, training, equipping and supporting the world's premier corps of military intelligence professionals - imbued with a warrior spirit, self-discipline and mutual respect."
- Susan Taylor Martin can be contacted at susan@sptimes.com
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Sudanese minister denies 'ethnic cleansing' | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 6:23 pm Post subject: Navy Seal: CIA Roughed Up Iraqi Prisoner |
| The following stinks of Israeli involvement as General Janis Karpinski had mentioned that she met the Israeli interrogator working with US special forces at a detention facility near the Baghdad airport in Iraq:
http://www.nowarforisrael.com
http://www.nogw.com/warforisrael.html
It was in the NY times today.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The CIA interrogated and roughed up Iraqi prisoners in a ``romper room'' where a handcuffed and hooded terror suspect was kicked, slapped and punched shortly before he died last year at the Abu Ghraib prison, a Navy SEAL testified Monday.
Blood was visible on the hood worn by the prisoner, Manadel al-Jamadi, as he was led into the interrogation room at Baghdad International Airport in November 2003, the Navy commando said at a military pretrial hearing for another SEAL accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners.
Testifying under a grant of immunity, the witness, identified only by his rank as a hospital corpsman, said he kicked al-Jamadi several times, slapped him in the back of the head and punched him. Five or six other CIA personnel in the room laid their hands on the prisoner, he said, but he did not provide details.
Sometime later, al-Jamadi was found dead in a shower room at Abu Ghraib less than an hour after two CIA personnel brought him into Abu Ghraib as a so-called ``ghost detainee,'' according to Army Maj. Gen. George R. Fay's report on the notorious prison. Such detainees were not listed in the normal roster of military prisoners.
The testimony about the CIA's role came during a hearing for an aviation boatswain's mate who is accused of punching al-Jamadi and posing in humiliating photos with the prisoner. The boatswain's mate allegedly twisted other prisoners' testicles and struck a prisoner in the buttocks with a wooden board.
An Article 32 hearing, the military equivalent of a civilian grand jury, was held to determine whether the boatswain's mate should be court-martialed.
The hearing concluded Monday. An investigating officer will recommend what charges, if any, the boatswain's mate should face.
The accused SEAL, who received the Purple Heart for wounds suffered in Iraq, could get up to 11 years in prison if convicted. | | | | Zofia Sochacka | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 6:09 am Post subject: Israeli Agents Believed Involved in Abu Ghraib |
| Israeli Agents Believed Involved in Abu Ghraib
Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff - May 24, 2004
Diplomatic sources in Washington tell NewsMax's U.N. correspondent Stew
Stogel that Israeli nationals are believed to be involved in the Iraq prison
controversy.
"Israelis have been to Abu Ghraib and other prisons [in Iraq]," says one
source familiar with the U.S. operations.
It was explained that the Israelis involved have been assigned as "civilian
contractors" to work with Coalition forces in interrogating Iraqi POWs.
The "contractors" are said to be veterans of Israel's domestic intelligence
unit, Shin Bet, as well as the more famous international intelligence
agency, the Mossad.
"Who has better experience in dealing with the Arabs than Israel?" one
source asked.
It was explained that several of the "interrogation" techniques used by U.S.
forces in Iraq have in fact been used by Israel "for years."
The technique of stripping Arab prisoners naked, to embarrass and humiliate
them, has been used by Israelis, according to Arab diplomats at the U.N.
It should be noted, however, that torture and mutilation are common
techniques used by Arab countries on their prisoners.
Word in NYC diplomatic circles is that some of the "civilians" seen in
recent Iraq prison photos are in fact Israeli nationals "advising" U.S.
forces.
Neither U.S. nor Iraqi diplomatic officials in NYC or Washington were
available for comment.
The charges come after an incident in April in which an Israeli Arab working
in Iraq was kidnapped and charged with spying.
Nabil George Yaakob Razouk, an Israeli Arab employed by Research Triangle
International, a North Carolina-based firm under contract to the State
Department, was abducted by Iraqi insurgents and said to be a spy.
Razouk, working on "local governance" advising, was seized in Najaf and held
for more than two weeks.
Only the personal intervention of Yassir Arafat, who acted after pleas from
the Razouk family, is believed to have saved him from execution.
The latest disclosures come as an Iraqi diplomatic team has temporarily
cancelled a visit to U.N. headquarters to consult with the Security Council
about the modalities for the transfer of power expected on July 1.
Among the Council ambassadors with whom the Iraqis are expected to meet is
U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte.
Negroponte will leave his U.N. post next month to become the new U.S.
ambassador to Iraq, once the Coalition authority is dissolved.
www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/5/24/131401.shtml
Courtesy Newswatcher26
Also see:
Torture and Petroleum: Israeli involvement at Abu Ghraib
http://s023.dyndns.org/kawther/K20040519A.html
Who is Behind the Abuse at Abu Ghraib?
www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1784
Worst rape photos of Iraqi women detainees not yet officially released
www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=1861 | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:22 pm Post subject: General Contradicted Abu Ghraib Testimony |
| Anyone have the background on this General Bantz Craddock as Craddock seems like a Jewish name to me.. If so, here is a Jewish General (in Craddock) protecting another Jewish General (in Miller who was in charge of Gitmo and then went to Iraq and told senior officers there - to include General Janis Karpinski - that he was going to 'Gitmo-ize' Abu Ghraib) for the torturing of Arabs... This doesn't look good at all (especially in the Arab/Muslim world). In addition, the following conveys that Miller was in touch with Cambone, Wolfowitz and company.. See how interesting the following two URLs are now after reading that:
Read the 'Implausible Denial' and 'Implausible Denial II' articles which are linked in the right hand margin at the following 'Men from JINSA and CSP' URL:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020902&s=vest
Read the excellent article by James Petras (via the following URL) about Zionists and torture in Iraq (and at Gitmo as well):
Zionists and torture in Iraq:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2004/09/09/the-zionists-and-torture-in-iraq.php
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General Contradicted Abu Ghraib Testimony
By Stephen J. Hedges
The Chicago Tribune
Friday 15 July 2005
Transcripts reveal he briefed top officials.
Washington - An Army general who has been criticized for his role in the treatment of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has contradicted his sworn congressional testimony about contacts with senior Pentagon officials.
Gen. Geoffrey Miller told the Senate Armed Services Committee in May 2004 that he had only filed a report on a recent visit to Abu Ghraib, and did not talk to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld or his top aides about the fact-finding trip.
But in a recorded statement to attorneys three months later, Miller said he gave two of Rumfeld's most senior aides - then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Undersecretary for Intelligence Steve Cambone - a briefing on his visit and his subsequent recommendations.
"Following our return in the fall, I gave an outbrief to both Dr. Wolfowitz and Secretary Cambone," Miller said in the Aug. 21, 2004, statement to lawyers for guards accused of prisoner abuse, a transcript of which was obtained by the Tribune.
"I went over the report that we had developed and gave them a briefing on the intelligence activities, recommendations, and some recommendations on detention operations," Miller added.
Specific interrogation techniques, he said, were not discussed.
Miller's statement about the meeting, if true, suggests that officials at the very top of the Pentagon may have been more involved in monitoring activities at the prison than previously disclosed. Abu Ghraib was later at the center of a scandal surrounding prisoner abuse, which has led to punishments for soldiers.
Miller, Cambone and Wolfowitz, who is now acting director of the World Bank, each declined to respond to written questions about Miller's contradictory statements. Rumsfeld, Cambone, Wolfowitz and Miller have denied knowledge of prisoner abuse.
In the Aug. 21 statement, Miller says that he never spoke directly to Rumsfeld about his Abu Ghraib visit or his subsequent recommendations for new, tougher interrogation tactics there.
Miller's name came up again this week, when he was named in a military investigation made public Wednesday on FBI claims that detainees held by the US at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were being mistreated. The report recommended that Miller be reprimanded for not monitoring the interrogation tactics used on one detainee, Mohamed al-Qahtani, who allegedly intended to be the 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 plot.
Reprimand Overruled
Miller's superior officer, Gen. Bantz Craddock, overruled the reprimand, arguing that there was no evidence that laws had been broken.
Cambone has asserted that he was not briefed by Miller after the general returned from Abu Ghraib. During his own appearance on May 11, 2004, before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Cambone said he and Miller did not speak about Abu Ghraib after Miller's return from the September 2003 fact-finding mission.
"I was not briefed by Gen. Miller," Cambone testified. Instead, Cambone said, a military aide, Gen. William Boykin, briefed Cambone on Miller's trip.
Wolfowitz, who also testified before Congress in May 2004 about prisoner abuses, was not asked during the hearings if he was briefed by Miller.
Miller's role at Abu Ghraib has come under scrutiny since news reports first revealed that US personnel within the prison abused inmates. The mistreatment occurred from the fall of 2003 until January 2004, when a soldier reported the abuses.
Miller was sent to visit the prison in late summer 2003 at the suggestion of Cambone, who had dealt previously with Miller on issues related to the detention of terror suspects at Guantánamo. At the time, the insurgency in Iraq was growing more violent, and US commanders were keen to get intelligence from the growing number of Iraqi men detained by US troops.
The abuses at Abu Ghraib began to occur after Miller's visit, according to Pentagon inquiries, and after the arrival of so-called Tiger Team interrogation units from Guantánamo that Miller said in the August 2004 statement that he helped select.
"We tried to pick the best 10 people that we could send," Miller said.
The abuses also took place after new military police and intelligence units arrived at Abu Ghraib, and after the then-US commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, approved a set of interrogation practices recommended by Miller. Those tactics were later scaled back at the recommendation of the US Central Command.
Pentagon officials and several investigative reports conducted by the Army and a civilian panel chosen by Rumsfeld have concluded that the abuses were the actions of lower-ranking soldiers, and were not ordered by senior officers.
7 GIs Convicted in Scandal
So far, seven soldiers have been convicted on charges related to the abuses. Two senior officers, an Army colonel and an Army Reserve brigadier general, have been reprimanded.
When he appeared before the Armed Services Committee on May 19, 2004, to explain his role at Abu Ghraib, Miller said that he had no contact with Cambone or others in Rumsfeld's office after he returned from Iraq in September 2003.
"I submitted the report up to SOUTHCOM [US Southern Command, where Miller was attached in 2003]," Miller told the committee. "I had no direct discussions with Secretary Cambone."
Miller made the same claim in a signed, sworn statement he gave to Army investigators on June 19, 2004. In his Aug. 21, 2004, statement to defense attorneys, though, Miller said he and Cambone discussed "how we could improve the flow of intelligence from Iraq through and in interrogations."
Also present, he told the attorneys, were two top Army officers, Gens. Ron Burgess, the head of intelligence for the Pentagon's Joint Staff, and William Caldwell, the military aide to Wolfowitz.
Miller said there was one other participant in the briefing, but he could not recall who it was.
A spokeswoman for Caldwell, who is now commander of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, said, "All the meetings and briefs that our commanding general took part in during a previous assignment he considers private and confidential."
Burgess also declined to respond to written questions about Miller's statements.
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Military Lawyers Fought Policy on Interrogations
By Josh White
The Washington Post
Friday 15 July 2005
JAGs recount objections to definition of torture.
Three top military lawyers said yesterday that they lodged complaints about the Justice Department's definition of torture and how it would be applied to interrogations of enemy prisoners captured by US forces, the first time they have publicly acknowledged that they objected to the policy as it was being developed in early 2003.
At a Senate hearing yesterday, the judge advocate generals (JAGs) for the Army, Air Force and Marines said they expressed their concerns as the policy was being hashed out at the Pentagon in March and April 2003. Though their letters to the Defense Department's general counsel are classified, sources familiar with them said the lawyers worried that broadly defined, tough interrogation tactics would not only contravene long-standing military doctrine - leaving too much room for interpretation by interrogators - but also would cause public outrage if the tactics became known.
"We did express opposition," said Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Romig, the Army's top lawyer. "It was accepted in some cases, maybe not in all cases. It did modify the proposed list of policies and procedures."
Sen. Lindsay O. Graham (R-S.C.), who chaired the Armed Services subcommittee hearing yesterday, said he was concerned that the JAG objections may have fallen on deaf ears, and that the policy that emerged may have opened the door to abuses at US detention facilities around the world.
"If they had listened to you from the outset, we wouldn't have a lot of the problems we've dealt with" over the past two years, Graham said.
Considerable internal debate accompanied the development of the policy on treatment and interrogation of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The US policy allowing some harsh techniques has been widely criticized by human rights groups and attorneys for detainees.
While sources had previously discussed the nature of the JAG concerns in media reports, their viewpoints have remained classified and some of the relevant memos have been kept from members of Congress.
In 2002, the State Department's legal adviser expressed concerns that the Bush administration had ignored the Geneva Conventions in deciding how to treat captured members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Because such captives have been categorized as "enemy combatants" and not prisoners of war, the administration has said the conditions of their detention are not governed by the Geneva Conventions, though they would be treated humanely.
A military investigation into allegations of abuse at Guantánamo Bay reported this week that a number of specific interrogation tactics - such as forced nudity and the use of military working dogs - were employed at Guantánamo Bay to extract information from a high-value detainee. They were considered "authorized" by the Army field manual and Defense Department guidance and were therefore not considered abusive. Identical tactics were later used at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison by military police officers who were not authorized to employ them.
According to senators at the hearing yesterday who cited military investigations into abuse, the JAG concerns ultimately were overruled by the general counsel's office. Pentagon spokesman Lawrence T. Di Rita said yesterday their concerns were weighed along with discussion from intelligence and policy officials and that the result was a collaborative document.
Sen. Carl M. Levin (Mich.), ranking Democrat on the committee, asked the JAGs if they felt the tactics recently reported by investigators were consistent with Geneva Conventions prohibitions on torture. Air Force Maj. Gen. Jack Rives said he believed they were inconsistent. Levin also asked the generals if they would want US prisoners of war treated that way.
"No, Senator, we would not," Rives said.
Graham and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) argued that perhaps Congress should legislate the definitions of enemy combatants and their official legal status, as well as the legal process for adjudicating their cases. They said the delays that have kept hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay without a single prosecution need to end. The military is currently waiting on federal court decisions about how to proceed.
A law enacted in 1994 bars torture by US military personnel anywhere in the world. But the Pentagon working group's 2003 report, prepared under the supervision of general counsel William J. Haynes II, said that "in order to respect the President's inherent constitutional authority to manage a military campaign . . . [the prohibition against torture] must be construed as inapplicable to interrogations undertaken pursuant to his Commander-in-Chief authority."
Haynes - through Daniel J. Dell'Orto, principal deputy general counsel for the Defense Department - wrote a memo March 17 that rescinded the working group's report, and Dell'Orto confirmed that withdrawal yesterday at the hearing. According to a copy of the memo obtained by The Washington Post, the general counsel's office determined that the report "does not reflect now-settled executive branch views of the relevant law."
"I determine that the Report of the Working Group on Detainee Interrogations is to be considered a historical document with no standing in policy, practice, or law to guide any activity of the Department of Defense," said the memo, which is signed by Dell'Orto for Haynes.
The memo also refers to the fact that the JAGs proposed a new department-wide interrogation policy in late January this year, calling it an "excellent starting point for discussion" and a "profoundly important issue."
Dell'Orto declined to answer questions about the memo as he was leaving the hearing yesterday.
Di Rita said that there is a department-wide interrogations policy being developed and that it will "reflect the input of everyone who has a stake in it." The Army is also reworking its field manual instructions on interrogations, he said. | | | | fordm | | Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:41 pm Post subject: |
| MY SO DEAR ALPHA WORDS CAN NOT EXPRESS OUR ADMIRATIONS OUR RESPECTS OUR PROFOUND THANKS TO YOU FOR ALL YOUR EXCELLENT POSTS AND RESEARCHES, WE LEARN A LOT FROM YOU,THANK YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN ,KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK
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FORDM | | | | readhard | | Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:52 pm Post subject: |
| 
The actual interrogators accused of encouraging U.S. troops to abuse Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail were working for at least one company with extensive military and commercial contacts with Israel. The head of an American company whose personnel are implicated in the Iraqi tortures, it now turns out, attended an "anti-terror" training camp in Israel and, earlier this year, was presented with an award by Shaul Mofaz, the right-wing Israeli defense minister.
According to J.P. London's company, CACI International, the visit of London -- sponsored by an Israeli lobby group and including U.S. congressmen and other defense contractors -- was "to promote opportunities for strategic partnerships and joint ventures between U.S. and Israeli defense and homeland security agencies."
The Pentagon and the occupation powers in Iraq insist that only U.S. citizens have been allowed to question prisoners in Abu Ghraib but this takes no account of Americans who may also hold double citizenship. The once secret torture report by U.S. Gen. Antonio Taguba refers to "third country nationals" involved in the mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq.
We know the Pentagon asked Israel for its "rules of engagement" in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Israeli officers have briefed their U.S. opposite numbers and, according to The Associated Press, "in January and February of 2003, Israeli and American troops trained together in southern Israel's Negev desert ... Israel has also hosted senior law enforcement officials from the United States for a seminar on counter-terrorism." [source] | | | | readhard | | Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:02 pm Post subject: |
| | Taguba said, "'Specifically I suspect that Col. Thomas M. Pappas, Lt. Col. Steve L. Jordan, Mr. Steven Stephanowicz and Mr. John Israel were either directly or indirectly responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib and strongly recommend immediate disciplinary actions ..." | | | | fordm | | Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:12 pm Post subject: |
| these zionists are more than evil,they are criminals,this illegal war was planned by them and they pushed america to destroy iraq for the security of their terrorist criminal racist fascist apartheid illegal nazisrael.
look here who supervise abu graib prison
look at this zionist israeli criminal mossad agent here,what is he doing in abu graib prison??
Brigadier-General Janis Karpinski, who was responsible for military jails in Iraq,yes k a r p i n s k i
and here is the zionist criminal wolfowitz
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