Tuesday, August 30, 2011

11-08-30 Wikileaks US Cables Reveal Execution of Iraqi Family // Wikileaks Cables EE.UU. revelan la ejecución de la familia iraquí // Wikileaks的美国电缆揭示伊拉克家庭的执行

Comment:
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The US government must assassinate Assange! Immediately!
JZ


Wikileaks 
US Cables Reveal Execution of Iraqi Family

Women and children had their hands tied behind their back and were shot in the head in house raid, which was covered up by the military
By John Glaser

August 30, 2011 "
Anti War" --  As revealed by a State Department diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks last week, US forces committed a heinous war crime during a house raid in Iraq in 2006, wherein one man, four women, two children, and three infants were summarily executed.
The cable excerpts a letter written by Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, addressed to then Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. American troops approached the home of Faiz Harrat Al-Majma’ee, a farmer living in central Iraq, to conduct a house raid in search of insurgents in March of 2006.
“It would appear that when the MNF [Multinational Forces] approached the house,” Alston wrote, “shots were fired from it and a confrontation ensued” before the “troops entered the house, handcuffed all residents and executed all of them.” Mr. Faiz Hratt Khalaf, (aged 28), his wife Sumay’ya Abdul Razzaq Khuther (aged 24), their three children Hawra’a (aged 5) Aisha ( aged 3) and Husam (5 months old), Faiz’s mother Ms. Turkiya Majeed Ali (aged 74), Faiz’s sister (name unknown), Faiz’s nieces Asma’a Yousif Ma’arouf (aged 5 years old), and Usama Yousif Ma’arouf (aged 3 years), and a visiting relative Ms. Iqtisad Hameed Mehdi (aged 23) were killed during the raid.
Alston’s letter reveals that a US airstrike was launched on the house presumably to destroy the evidence, but that “autopsies carried out at the Tikrit Hospital’s morgue revealed that all corpses were shot in the head and handcuffed.”
The details revealed in the cable are a valuable insight into how many of these house raids turn out. The raids, often carried out in the middle of the night, have become one of the primary strategies of the US war in Afghanistan, with tens of thousands orchestrated just in the last year.
In one notable and comparable incident in February of 2010, US Special Operations Forces surrounded a house in a village in the Paktia Province in Afghanistan. Two civilian men exited the home to ask why they had been surrounded and were shot and killed. US forces then shot and killed three female relatives (a pregnant mother of ten, a pregnant mother of six, and a teenager).
Instead of calling in an airstrike to hide the evidence, US troops, realizing their mistake, lied and tampered with the evidence at the scene. The initial claim, which was corroborated by the Pentagon, was that the two men were insurgents who had “engaged” the troops, and the three murdered women were simply found by US soldiers, in what they described as an apparent honor killing. Investigations into the incident eventually forced the Pentagon to retract its initial story and issue an apology.
Civilian deaths are a common occurrence in these commonly occurring raid operations. In May, NATO killed another four civilians in a night raid, and another three in early August. No soldiers or US officials have been held to account.

11-08-29 One in seven believe U.S. government staged the 9/11 attacks in conspiracy // Uno de cada siete del gobierno de EE.UU. creen que organizó los ataques del 9 / 11 en la conspiración // 七分之一的人相信美国政府举行的9/ 11恐怖袭击阴谋

Comments:
Regardless of the subject matter, the report is of interest, since it should be seen as reflecting -
1) Trust of US mainstream media by the US and UK people, and
2) Trust of US government by US and UK people.

JZ

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One in seven believe U.S. government staged the 9/11 attacks in conspiracy

The belief is more common among younger people, with a quarter of 16 to 24-year-olds subscribing to the theory
By ALANAH ERIKSEN

Last updated at 4:53 PM on 29th August 2011 One in seven people are convinced that the U.S. government was involved in a conspiracy to stage the September 11 attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people.

A survey, which interviewed 1,000 people in the UK and the same number in the U.S., found that 14 per cent of Britons 15 per cent of Americans think the past administration was involved in the tragedy.

They were asked: 'It is generally accepted that these attacks were carried out by Al Qaeda. However some people have suggested there was a wider conspiracy that included the American government. Do you, yourself, believe that there was a wider conspiracy, or not?'
One in seven people are convinced that the American government was involved in a conspiracy to stage the September 11 attacks, which saw the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York

One in seven people are convinced that the American government was involved in a conspiracy to stage the September 11 attacks, which saw the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2031325/One-seven-believe-American-Government-staged-9-11-attacks-conspiracy.html#ixzz1WTBruyR9