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International, U.S.

United Police Kingdom: British military documentary justifies killing unarmed civilians

“The fact that British soldiers are reduced to watching what are effectively snuff movies shows the complete failure of the project in Afghanistan. It’s nothing to do with democracy, but a failure of war that is trickling down and resulting in a mental degradation among ground troops. Afghanistan is a dreadful situation and it is no better than it was a decade ago.”-Andrew Burgin, Stop the War Coalition

Burgin is talking about a documentary that’s being shown to British troops, called Kill TV nights, part of a three part series called Fighting on the Frontline.  Officially it’s meant to desensitize troops, but it also justifies killing civilians.

In one scene a commander is actually warning peers not to mention any of the possible war crimes they’ve just committed: “This is not for discussion with anybody else; keep it quiet about what you see up here. It’s not because we’ve done anything wrong. But we might have done.”

In another scene an Afghan woman is targeted, and you can hear the helicopter pilots call her “snake with tits”.

A voice in the documentary sums up the attitude of the evil British Red Coat military: “I have absolutely no dramas with it. None at all. I don’t really care whether they think it’s a fair fight.”

I wounder if this will be the same attitude used against the people of the United Kingdom, when the protests really get going?

 

 

 

International

United Police Kingdom: New law; no more demonstrations, period

“It is an attack on the basic democratic rights of working people in this country.”-Patrick O’Regan, Workers’ Revolutionary Party

The British government has created a new law, under the guise of stopping militant right wing groups from demonstrating: No demonstrating.

Officially the law is in effect for only 30 days, and was requested by Scotland Yard.  The police feared the militant right wing demonstrators would cause violence.

The problem is the law applies to everyone, not just militant groups.  Anyone marching can be arrested, fined, or even imprisoned.

Activists say the new law covers more than demonstrating: “They are talking about area curfews, they are talking about shutting down Facebook [and other] social network sites. They are talking about dictatorial civil war measures because what they are doing in Britain is creating a historic change, in which inevitably the majority of Britain will oppose them.”-Patrick O’Regan, Workers’ Revolutionary Party

Other activists say this is part of the government’s tippy toeing towards total authoritarianism: “Just in terms of where we are at the moment with the process of austerity being pushed through by the government, trade unions are one of the major blocs opposed to that. Public order legislation does tend to be used against striking workers.  That has been very clear and there have been some recent examples of that; people being pulled off the picket lines.  And that obviously weakens any resistance to the cuts.”-Richard Seymour, Socialist Workers Party

International, U.S.

World War 3: Syrian internet hackers find documents showing plans by Turkey, Britain, France & the U.S. to attack Syria

Unconfirmed report that the Arabic language website Syria Steps says hackers (known as Syrian Cyber Army) found documents that show that France and Britain have grand ambitions of retaking their former mandates of Syria, Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine.   I wonder if this has anything to do with the new oil and gas fields discovered off the Lebanese coast?

Apparently the French have offered Turkey guaranteed membership in the European Union, and ensure that Turkey’s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, remains in power for along time.  In exchange Turkey will help topple the Syrian government.

The documents go on to detail how the region would be split up between France, United Kingdom and United States.  Basically France and the U.K. would regain control of their old post World War 1 mandates, and the U.S. would get bases in the eastern area of Syria known as Deir ez-Zor.

The report also claims that Turkey will allow Israel to do what it wants.  This makes the report suspicious given the current relations between Turkey and Israel.  However, if the report is true it suggests that Turkey is putting on a big front acting like it’s ready to go to war with Israel, which could be a red herring operation.

 

International, U.S.

World War 3: United Kingdom says Syria’s Assad is no longer legitimate, France says it’s too late for Assad’s reforms

September 12, joining the United States, British Prime Minister David Cameron said the Syrian government was not legitimate and has no future.

This after the Syrian government announced that new elections could be held by the end of the year. But, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said it was too late for elections: “We think the regime has lost its legitimacy, that it’s too late to implement a program of reform.”

France, Britain and the U.S. are pushing for a UN Security Council resolution against Syria, but Russia is countering with their own proposal: “We are ready to support different approaches, but they must not be based on one sided condemnations of the actions of the government and President Assad.”-Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia

Business/Economics, International

Typical evil British hypocrisy: Documents reveal Gaddafi was encouraged to buy more British weapons right before the foreign backed uprisings

“Following the great success of the Libdex 2010 show we would like to invite yourself and relevant members of your staff to travel to the UK and visit Manroy Engineering so that we can demonstrate to yourself and your staff our products. This will include the full range of sniper weapons that were on show at the Libdex Show along with our other products that include our range of UK MOD machine guns.”-captured British embassy document

The British Sunday telegraph reveals documents, recovered by the media from the abandoned British embassy in Tripoli, that show the U.K. government pushed hard to get the Libyan government to buy more British made weapons, right before the foreign backed uprisings began.

The British guns were used weeks later by Libyan government forces to kill Libyan rebels.

The new revelation, shows the amount of collaboration between the United Kingdom and Gaddafi.  In fact, the two British companies, Accuracy International and Manroy Engineering, defend their sales of weapons to Gaddafi, insisting Libya/Gaddafi was a favored regime with the United Kingdom, and former Prime Minister Tony Blair personally went to Libya to make the military sales!

Britain is one of the countries that are supporting the Libyan rebels.

International, U.S.

More evil in the U.S. War on Terror: British Man cleared by Bush Jr still detained and tortured at GITMO

“Inhumane treatment is taking place at the hospital among other areas, especially affecting the sick and those who are on (hunger) strike and our deprivation of real treatment, health, diet and appropriate clothing which are not provided to us, nor we are allowed to provide them for ourselves.”-Shaker Aamer, statement obtained by BBC Radio 5 live’s Victoria Derbyshire program

Shaker Aamer, a resident of the United Kingdom, was sent to Guantanamo Bay (GITMO) prison in 2002.  In 2007, U.S. President George W. Bush admitted there was no evidence against Aamer, and cleared him for release.  September 10, 2011, Aamer is still being held at GITMO!!!

Aamer has a wife and two children waiting for him in London.

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

War on Terror cover for Global Economic War: Invasion of Afghanistan IS about oil, Afghanistan has 80 million barrels of oil, now it all goes to China

State-owned China National Petroleum Corporation won the first oil and natural gas exploration contracts in Afghanistan since the U.S. led invasion in 2001.

It’s estimated that there are 1.6 billion barrels of crude oil in Afghanistan.  The oil fields of Bazarkhami, Kashkari and Zamarudsay (areas under contract with CNPC) contain an estimated 80 million barrels.

In 2007 China got the rights to mine copper in Afghanistan.  Isn’t nice that the U.S. led War on Terror is allowing other countries to get contracts to mine minerals and oil?

International, U.S.

World War 3: More proof the U.S. & U.K. were paying Gaddafi to torture suspects in the U.S. led War on Terror

“When I was in China in 2004, the British approached me through an intermediary. They said they would allow me to return to Britain but they just wanted to speak to me at the British Consulate in Hong Kong to check my political views.  I was expecting to meet the British, but I and my whole family were arrested at the airport and ended up on an airplane taking us to Libya.”-Sami Saadi, anti-Gaddafi dissident

What’s really strange is that this man was not anti-western, he was anti-Gaddafi!!!  Yet the British rounded him and his family up, and shipped them off to be tortured by Gaddafi’s security agents.

According to documents recently found by Human Rights Watch, the U.S. CIA offered to pay for expenses relating to the detention of Sami Saadi.

Saadi ended up spending six years in prison, during that time he was interrogated by British intelligence officials.  Then he was arrested for not denouncing this years Libyan rebellion. He escaped prison after rebel forces took Tripoli.

Ironic; Saadi spent years in prison because of the United States and United Kingdom, but then is freed by rebels supported by the United States and United Kingdom!

International, U.S.

World War 3: Kurdish rebels in Iran admit they are being armed by the United States

In an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Iranian channel, BBC Persian, Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi admitted they are conducting military action against Iran with the help of the United States.

Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi is the boss of the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) terrorist group.

He said the PJAK had built tunnels into Iran from Iraq.  They also received new weapons and equipment, including 120mm mortars, from the U.S. consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil.

Currently Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) is in battle with the PJAK.  This follows attempts by Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to mediate between the Iranian Kurdish rebels (PJAK) and Iranian government.  The mediation failed after PJAK forces killed two Kurds: “But the PJAK terrorist group paid no heed to the KRG’s appeals and mediation (and) martyred two local Kurdish forces… and this proved to the KRG that the terrorists had ignored its requests.”-Hamid Ahmadi, IRGC Colonel

 

International, U.S.

Proof the U.S. backed democratic rebellion in Libya is a Lie: Human Rights Watch finds document after document showing U.S. support of Gaddafi right to the end, proof that rebels are connected to Al Qaeda! Proof that the U.S. is in bed with Al Qaeda?

Human Rights Watch has come across nearly 300 pages of documents, found in the offices of Libya’s external security services, along with ten of thousand of documents found in the abandoned British Embassy in Tripoli.  The documents show how the United States and the United kingdom supported Gaddafi right up until sanctions were imposed.

Those documents also show that Gaddafi tortured terror suspects sent to him by the U.S. and U.K.  One of those tortured on the request of the U.S. and Britain is now a rebel leader!

Abdel Hakim Belhadj (also known as Abdullah al-Sadiq), the military commander who led the revolutionary forces into the Libyan capital Tripoli, is now demanding an apology from the U.S. and British governments over that torture.

In 2004, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detained Abdel Hakim Belhadj in Malaysia, over suspicions of having links to Al-Qaeda.  He applied for asylum to the British government, but instead the British renditioned him to Libya, where he was tortured in the name of the U.S. led War on Terror.

Now Abdel Hakim Belhadj is a major rebel leader in Libya, do you really think he and his followers are going to do what the U.S. wants?  This is potentially a case of “blowback” in the making.

The documents also show that French and U.K. intelligence agents, and even Scotland Yard, worked to protect Gaddafi’s sons from assassination.  Here’s an interesting coincidence; the assassin was from Qatar. Qatar is now the biggest Arab supporter of the current rebel TNC!

One should wonder why NATO allies worked hard to protect Gaddafi’s son Saif from assassination, as recently as 2004, and now they’re trying to blow him up!  Is this action against the Gaddafi family really some kind of effort to cover up war crimes committed by Gaddafi, at the behest of the U.S., and allies, in the War on Terror?

Other documents show that Gaddafi is probably hiding by using military technology he recently got from the British!  In 2007 Britain supplied Libya with the most up-to-date command and control systems made by General Dynamics UK, which is similar to Bowman Systems used by the British Army.  One of the features is that it allows you to communicate electronically without being tracked.

Other documents show Libyan militant groups are connected to Al-Qaeda.  One group known as LIFG (Libyan Islamic Fighting Group), was directly linked to Al-Qaeda. The former LIFG leader, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, is now current leader of the rebel Tripoli Military Council!  Is this proof that the U.S. and U.K. are in bed with Al-Qeada?

With thousands more documents still to be analyzed, the true extent of the relationship between the United States, Britain, Al-Qaeda and Libya has yet to be revealed!