The Watada Mistrial: Here’s What Really Happened By Bill Simpich t r u t h o u t | Report
Thursday 08 February 2007
First Lt. Ehren Watada knew exactly what his case was about - and that scared the judge.
There was absolutely no reason to stop the Watada trial.
The judge’s claim that Lt. Watada did not fully understand a document he signed admitting to elements of the charges is completely untrue (see Melanthia Mitchell, AP, 2/8/07).
The military seized (…)
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The Watada Mistrial: Here’s What Really Happened
10 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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Libby’s Trial Crafted to Protect Bush-Cheney Gang
18 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
"The best way to hide something is to place it in open view." - Dr. John Coleman, author and an ex-member of British MI6.
Irving “Scooter” Libby went on trial this week in the nation’s capital on charges of perjury, making false statements and obstruction of justice for lying to the FBI and to a Grand Jury. The case centers on a leak of a CIA operative’s name—Valerie Plame— to the media. If the Special Prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, had also added a conspiracy count in the indictment (…) -
Rally anti-US near the U.S. embassy in Manila - January 8, 2007
8 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentU.S. Marines Accused of Rape
A Filipino protester wears a mask of U.S. President George W. Bush as he sits in front of a pictures of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in a dogs body during a rally at the University of the Philippines in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, on Sunday Jan. 7, 2007. Philippine official, Zozimo Paredes, Visiting Forces Agreement executive director, said he has decided to resign his post after disagreeing with a government decision to abruptly (…) -
Silencing Conscience
6 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
January 5, 2007
Silencing Conscience Monica Benderman
In the Military Courts –Martial of Sgt. Kevin Benderman, having filed a Conscientious Objector application after ten years of honorable service in the Army including a combat tour in Iraq:
“COMES NOW THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, by and through its counsel, and files this Motion in Limine.
The Government moves this Court to grant the following relief:
(ii) Preclude the Defense from raising irrelevant issues to the Trier of (…) -
America’s Culpability in the Video of Saddam’s Hanging Can Not be Washed Away
3 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsIraq has been under American occupation and rule since March 2003 when it invaded. America has total control over Iraq and does whatever it pleases and wherever it pleases. Americans and the British are totally involved in the Sectarian violence and are actually promoting it by using hired thugs from both the Sunni and Shia communities.
American and British soldiers have been caught red handed on several occasions disguised as Arabs with vehicles laden with explosives and remote controls. (…) -
Anti-USA demonstration in Manila - January 3, 2007
3 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Philippines court, minister back transfer of US marine rapist
Anti-US demonstrators burn copies of the US flag near the US embassy in Manila, 02 January 2007, to protest against the transfer of US Marine Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, convicted of rape, from a Manila jail to the US embassy. Philippine international credibility was restored when Manila turned over Smith, despite unpopularity at home.
Philippine international credibility was restored when Manila turned over a US marine (…) -
U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson has been arrested in Germany Dec. 30/06
2 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsU.S. TREASURY SECRETARY ARRESTED IN GERMANY PAULSON AND CHENEY SUBPOENAED BY TRIBUNAL Saturday 30 December 2006 20:05
U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY HENRY M. PAULSON HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN EUROPE
SENTENCING INFLICTS EXTREME DISGRACE UPON THE UNITED STATES GENERALLY
U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY SEIZED AND BROUGHT BEFORE ’AD HOC’ TRIBUNAL IN GERMANY ON A SUBPOENA HANDED OUT BY THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE [OR ’WORLD COURT’] ON CHARGES OF MONEY-LAUNDERING, NON-PAYMENT OF THE WANTA $4.5 TRILLION (…) -
30 December 2006 - a day of infamy
2 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
by Gabriele Zamparini
30 December 2006 will be remembered as a day of infamy. In violation of international law and human decency, the quisling government of occupied Iraq, a puppet, sectarian regime installed by the American occupation and supported by Iran, assassinated the legitimate President of the Republic of Iraq, Saddam Hussein.
It’s been reported that after his execution the assassins shouted: “Long live Muqtada, Long live Muqtada” [Moqtada Al-Sadr]
It’s also been reported (…) -
Full video of Saddam Hussein execution - Robert Fisk: He takes his secrets to the grave. Our complicity dies with him
2 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
14 commentsHow the West armed Saddam, fed him intelligence on his ’enemies’, equipped him for atrocities - and then made sure he wouldn’t squeal
by Robert Fisk
We’ve shut him up. The moment Saddam’s hooded executioner pulled the lever of the trapdoor in Baghdad yesterday morning, Washington’s secrets were safe. The shameless, outrageous, covert military support which the United States - and Britain - gave to Saddam for more than a decade remains the one terrible story which our presidents and prime (…) -
Execution Video Meant to Cause Shia-Sunni Conflict
1 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
The leaking of the videotape of hanging of Saddam and the dialogue that was exchanged between Saddam and his executioners, handpicked by Americans, and the subsequent planting of stories in mainstream media that Saddam’s hanging will be seen by Shia’s as a welcome sacrifice on one of the Holiest days of Islam was a deliberate act meant to create a backlash by Muslims and a Shia-Sunni conflict in the Muslim world.
Americans have perfected the art of movies in which actors act out the (…)