< Terrorism and State-Terror (Called "War"): Stop Both

  • Oct 2021, RT (and archive.is back up)
    ...In a landmark move, the Biden administration has advised [SCOTUS] that Abu Zubaydah..who has been in US custody for nearly 20 years, can provide limited testimony for use in a Polish criminal investigation into his torture at a CIA "black site" in that country

    Before this abuse commenced, Zubaydah was interviewed by FBI operative Ali Soufan. While he was recovering from life-threatening injuries incurred during his capture by Pakistani intelligence --he had been shot in the thigh, testicles, and stomach with an assault rifle--..The FBI'ss top Al-Qaeda analyst, Dan Coleman, describes Zubaydah as a mere "safehouse keeper"with severe mental problems, who "claimed o know more about Al-Qaeda and its inner workings than he really did."he torture he suffered no doubt played a pivotal role in prompting him to make such claims[torture someone into saying things the CIA and other sthen use to justify the past and possibly future torture. Stalin/Hitler woudl approve -ED]

    In any event, Soufan was confident Zubaydah had no more secrets to tell, but the CIA claimed to be unconvinced--after all, Langley paid its Pakistani counterparts $10 million for him, and needed a greater return on that investment. When the torture finally stopped, with no further intelligence gathered, the agency was forced to conclude Soufan had been right all along.

    As the Senate Select Committee report later found, the CIA still considered its tactics a success, to be "used as a template for future interrogation of high-value captives," on the basis that such hideous treatment had "confirmed Zubaydah did not possess the intelligence" it erroneously assessed him to have.

    Other shocking excerpts reveal that a number of CIA personnel attached to the detention and interrogation program had on their personal files [info about their own backgrounds being shocking]Among them were officers who, "Among other issues, had engaged in inappropriate detainee interrogations, had workplace anger management issues, and had reportedly admitted to sexual assault"

    The agency seemed assured of its immunity from prosecution for its crimes, with several detainees having been informed they would never get out of CIA custody alive. One was told they'd be leaving only "in a coffin-shaped box," while another was warned "we can never let the world know what I have done to you" CIA officers also threatened several detainees with harm to their families should any details of their maltreatment be made public -- this included telling one that their children's s lives would be at risk, a second that his mother would be sexually abused, and a third that his mother's throat would be cut.

    ...Since September 2006, Zubaydah has been held at Guantanamo Bay, despite the CIA having acknowledged that he wasn't even a member of Al-Qaeda, let alone a significant figure within the group. The scars from his time in "black site" detention remain writ large today, with virtually perpetual headaches, an "excruciating sensitivity to sounds," frequent seizures, and an inability to recall his own father's name.

    Still, the Supreme Court permitting him to make limited disclosures about his experiences is an encouraging sign that the invocation of "state secrecy privilege" to block disclosure of key evidence related to the CIA's global post-9/11 torture program may no longer be a viable get-out for officials. This, in turn, raises the prospect that, at long last, someone might finally be held accountable for the gross human rights violations the agency and its assorted contractors inflicted on so many with such impunity for so long.


  • This war on terrorism is bogus saying "The conclusion of all this analysis must surely be that the "global war on terrorism" has the hallmarks of a political myth propagated to pave the way for a wholly different agenda - the US goal of world hegemony.." so wrote none other than Minister of Parliament Michael Meacher (environment minister from May 1997 to June 2003) in this article back in September of 2003

    After the closing statements, the panel of six senior military officers began deliberations. If convicted, Mr. Hamdan faces a possible life term. Even if acquitted, he will probably remain in custody [prison camp] as an ' 'enemy combatant' ' until the government determines [decides to declare] the war on terrorism is over - NY Times reporting on our "free" country (nother defense lawyer, Joseph M. McMillan, said the s contentions amounted to guilt by association. He noted that after World War II, s driver, Erich Kempka, Hitler's driver, was not prosecuted as a war criminal._


    Terrorism and State-Terror (Called "War"): Stop Both

    "The student is gone; the master has arrived"
    -popular Iraqi saying after the U.S. ousted Saddam Hussein.

    See: http://www.cesr.org/beyondtorture.htm
    (Quoted in full report http://www.cesr.org/beyondtorture.pdf )




  • 
    Elusive al-Qaeda mastermind Osama-bin Laden may have terrorised the
    world, but his 26-year-old son Omar wants to launch a movement of
    peace. Omar also wants his father to give up violence and find another
    way to pursue his goals.
    
    Omar, who last saw Osama in 2000 when he decided to leave al Qaeda,
    said that he did not think his father was a terrorist and was sure
    that he must have felt very sorry for the September 11 terror
    attacks..  however [Omar] expressed apprehensions that his father
    "doesn't have the power to stop the movement at this moment."
    
    .."I try and say to my father: 'Try to find another way to help or
    find your goal. This bomb, these weapons, it's not good to use it for
    anybody, "he said.
    
    
    Omar said he doesn't consider his father to be a terrorist. When his
    father was fighting the Soviets, Washington considered him a hero, he
    said. "Before they called it war; now they call it terrorism," he
    said. He said his father believes it his duty is to protect Muslims
    from attack.
    
    "He believes this is his job -- to help the people," he said. "I don't--
    			     -- think my father is a terrorist because
    			     history tells you he's not."
    
    However, Omar bin Laden said he differs greatly with his father over
    the killing of civilians.
    
    "I don't think 9/11 was right personally, but it happened," he
    said. "I don't think ... [the war] in Vietnam was right. I don't think
    what's going on in Palestine is right. I don't think what's going on
    in Iraq is right." [notice how this last phrase was self-censored 
    out in australian
    version of this story; see link below for fuller story]
    
    He said he left al Qaeda because he did not want to be associated with
    killing civilians. He said his father did not try to dissuade him from
    leaving al Qaeda. "My father is a very kind man," Omar told ABC. "And
    he very sorry when he does something like September 11."
    
    "He believes if he put two buildings down, maybe some people will
    die," explained Omar. "But millions other will be saved. He believed
    that." [source interview]
    
    [Sounds like George Bush's excuses for killing Iraqis, except Bush
    killed not 3,000 but over 300,000! -ED]
    
    
    
    Asked why he did not protest more strongly to his father's role in the
    killing of civilians, he said it is up to the religious clerics close
    to his father to tell Osama bin Laden to change tactics in the name of
    Islam. And even if that most unlikely scenario were to occur, he said,
    al Qaeda would not stop. "My father doesn't have the power to stop the
    movement at this moment."
    
    .."I still love him, so much, with all my heart," he said, adding "if
    you ask Bush's daughter if she loves her father, sure she will love him."


  • NEW CESR REPORT DOCUMENTS EXTENSIVE U.S. WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ Purported "Transfer of Sovereignty" Condemned as Farce, Despite UN Resolution
  • Hypocrisy of the mainstream US establishment
  • IRAQ: WMD "GAME" IS *ALREADY* OVER -- let's not miss the obvious
  • U.S. COMMITS WAR CRIMES: USES WMD IN IRAQ
  • The Deceptive Phrase "Support Our Troops": Don't Fall for It
  • The BIG LIE: "IRAQ WAS A THREAT"
  • Bush's Increasingly Transparent Motives Or, "Bush's Iraq Motives: A play in four acts"
  • UN RESOLUTION 377: LITTLE-KNOWN WAY TO STOP THE WAR? (READ THIS!)
  • BUSH IS A THREAT, NOT IRAQ (talking points)
  • Anti-War Movement Must TAKE INITIATIVE NOW (Strategy)
  • Iraq is not a threat; Bush's war plans are
  • Washington's War Record and Powell's Bluff
  • How to stop Bush's War (STRATEGY + TACTIC)
  • Weapons of Mass Distr(a)ction: "Disarming" Public Debate
  • How to Get Rid of Saddam without A War on Iraq's People



  • Peace-Not-War.Org and free fax to congress
  • PROTESTING IS NOT ENOUGH ( strategies/tactics) (Also Znet on Strategy/tactics)
  • Scott Ritter and audio of Ritter uncensored A Republican who voted for Bush in 2000, and former head of Iraq weapons inspections, speaks out on Washington "has no intention of allowing new weapons inspections to succeed in Iraq, and instead wants to wage war in the Middle East in order to" grab power and oil in the middle east.
  • Does the Truth Matter? Responses to pro-war commentator
  • Our own: "Bush's Speech: Oiled with Lies" and see also Eight Washington Lies about Iraq by Jon Basil Utley.
  • NOW AVAILABLE: STRATEGIES TO STOP BUSH'S WAR and CALL YOUR SENATOR: TALKING POINTS
  • SADDAM-HATING IRAQI DEFECTOR OPPOSES BUSH'S MILITARY ASSAULT PLANS
  • NOW AVAILABLE: IRAQ: PART II of ANTI-WAR TALKING POINTS
    (see also Part I below under Q/A)
  • Leaked Internal Document on Bush's Global Domination Plans Several *major* revelations from leaked internal Bush document, reported by UK's Sunday Herald. Frightening reading. Although titled "Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming President" and containing this major revelation -- there are many more powerful revelations: this is nothing short of a blueprint for Washington's military rule over the entire planet. Also (finally) admitted: it's not about Saddam; Bush wants to control Iraq and its oil if Saddam wasn't there. Wide dissemination encouraged.
    Newer Articles:
  • NOT JUST OIL: The REAL Reason Bush Wants to Attack Iraq
  • BBC Shocker: Taleban warned US about Al-Qaeda's 9/11 plot
    & dissecting "But we didn't MEAN to kill Afghani civilians" line. (9/02)[keyword:bombshell]
  • BBC SHOCKER #2: REAL story about 9/11 revealed by insiders
  • Iraq: Anti-War Talking Points (Q/A) HB, Sept 2002
  • Bush's Nuclear Madness
  • The 'Inspectors were expelled' Myth
  • Chomsky: To End Terrorism,
          Drain the Swamp
  • Texan's Open Letter to Bush
  • Mandela: Bush is Threat to World Peace
  • Aug 29 02 Chomsky iv'w
  • Soldiers: Do what Bush did!
  • Replies to ProWar side, point by point
  • Previous Articles:
    1. Have we learned NOTHING? by Harel B (Sept 2001)
    2. Responding to "Rogue States" by Harel B (Sept 2001)
    3. On True Patriotism by Harel B (Sept 2001)
    4. A Golden Opportunity
    5. Smoking Guns and the "Guilty Secret" (John Pilger et al, with additional analysis)
    6. BIN LADEN TAPE: 10 POINTS (An extensive response)
    7. My response to major terrorist attack against Israel (Nov/Dec 01).
  • War On Afghanistan "a bigger terrorist act"
  • Steve Shalom interviews Noam Chomsky (Jan 02)
  • Five Arguments Against War (S. Shalom/M. Albert)
  • Kim Hill interviews London Independent's Robert Fisk
  • Fisk: How can US Bomb Tragic People?
  • Chomsky: On the Bombings

    For more see Zmag.org
  • Howard Zinn Nov 01 talk