Romanis marriage to "Aryans" was prohibited in Nazi Germany
Com´on.....TRY US!
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Actually, the same #¤¤¤ "tactics" as al-Qaida in Iraq - First the target and then the crowd
And we have still not got any answer when the hell al-Qaida decided to have a genocide on Iraqis..
A crime? Well... YEAH! Just as the Israeli state have massacred Palestinians for ¤%¤¤ 60 years simultaneously with Turkey massacring Kurds!
First the target and then the crowd - That´s a calculated massacre!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0aEo59c7zU&feature=fvw
Some should take a REAL GOOD LOOK AT THEMSELVES! In fact..We find it hard to believe these people are related to the Jews being massacred during Nazi Germany! And it´s the same global genocidal war-fare and banking system now as then!
A crime? Well... YEAH! Just as the Israeli state have massacred Palestinians for ¤%¤¤ 60 years simultaneously with Turkey massacring Kurds!
First the target and then the crowd - That´s a calculated massacre!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0aEo59c7zU&feature=fvw
Some should take a REAL GOOD LOOK AT THEMSELVES! In fact..We find it hard to believe these people are related to the Jews being massacred during Nazi Germany! And it´s the same global genocidal war-fare and banking system now as then!
Sanctions and "war on terrorism"...All together in the same #¤¤¤ "packet"..
http://english.rojhelat.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=564:eleven-kurdish-workers-murdered-and-injured
http://english.rojhelat.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=563:iran-continuously-hangs-social-and-political-activists
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=693
http://www.ihd.org.tr/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=14&Itemid=30
http://english.rojhelat.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=563:iran-continuously-hangs-social-and-political-activists
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=693
http://www.ihd.org.tr/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=14&Itemid=30
Well....And look at it now!
"Jews who reached high positions in the Ottoman court and administration include Mehmed II's minister of Finance ("defterdar") Hekim Yakup Pasa, his Portuguese physician Moses Hamon, Murad II's physician Ishak Pasha and Abraham de Castro, the master of the mint in Egypt."
Under a military cooperation deal in 1996, Israeli pilots have been training in Turkish skies.
Well..Yeah...On Kurds! Or WHAT?
Under a military cooperation deal in 1996, Israeli pilots have been training in Turkish skies.
Well..Yeah...On Kurds! Or WHAT?
"If you want to accuse me of genocide, you’re welcome to do so."
Bill Clinton & Richard Holbrooke Questioned on Their Support for Brutal Indonesian Dictatorship. Democracy Now! re-airs Allan Nairn’s questioning of Richard Holbrooke, who is now a senior foreign policy adviser to Hillary Clinton, and Bill Clinton on how the Carter and Clinton administrations backed Suharto despite his brutal human rights record.
Holbrooke and Zbigniew Brzezinski frustrated the efforts of congressional human rights activists and accelerated the flow of weapons to Indonesia at the height of the genocide.
And during this period, not only was the US sending in these weapons, which were used to kill the Timorese, but it was also blocking the UN Security Council from taking enforcement action on the two resolutions, which called on Indonesia to withdraw its troops without delay.
Would you be willing to facilitate the full declassification of documents regarding what the Carter administration, your administration, did in East Timor by granting a waiver under the Privacy Act? And secondly, would you favor the convening for the case of East Timor an international war crimes tribunal along the lines of what has been done in Bosnia and Rwanda, along the lines of what President Bush called for in the case of Saddam Hussein in Iraq? And would you be willing to abide by his verdict in regard to your own conduct?
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/28/the_democrats_suharto_bill_clinton_richard
Holbrooke and Zbigniew Brzezinski frustrated the efforts of congressional human rights activists and accelerated the flow of weapons to Indonesia at the height of the genocide.
And during this period, not only was the US sending in these weapons, which were used to kill the Timorese, but it was also blocking the UN Security Council from taking enforcement action on the two resolutions, which called on Indonesia to withdraw its troops without delay.
Would you be willing to facilitate the full declassification of documents regarding what the Carter administration, your administration, did in East Timor by granting a waiver under the Privacy Act? And secondly, would you favor the convening for the case of East Timor an international war crimes tribunal along the lines of what has been done in Bosnia and Rwanda, along the lines of what President Bush called for in the case of Saddam Hussein in Iraq? And would you be willing to abide by his verdict in regard to your own conduct?
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/28/the_democrats_suharto_bill_clinton_richard
Monday, August 02, 2010
Go to #¤¤¤ Hell!
Ma'an - The Jerusalem Municipality’s planning committee approved the construction of 40 housing units on Monday in an illegal settlement in occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli media reported. The approvals are part of a wider plan to construct 220 new houses in the Pisgat Ze’ev settlement, Israeli news site Ynet said, adding that 32 houses were approved last month.
The news comes as Palestinian negotiators demand an extension of the partial, temporary settlement freeze, which expires in September, as a precondition for direct talks to resume. Palestinian officials have said that Israel cannot be considered a serious partner for peace while it continues to build illegal settlements on land which would be a future Palestinian state under any peace agreement.
Ma'an – Israeli forces destroyed over 30 dunums of farmland in the Hebron village of Al-Baq'a and detained two relatives Monday, the landowner and a Palestinian faction leader said. Badran Jabir said Israeli troops ransacked his home and farm, damaging irrigation networks and seedlings. He said he and his wife were assaulted as they tried to defend their property.
“When my 15-year-old son Wadi and my son-in-law, 32-year-old Fadl Ja’bari, tried to defend myself and my wife, Israeli soldiers beat them before detaining them,” Jabir added. Locals in Hebron confirmed seeing Israeli bulldozers overturn vast areas of farmland. They destroyed several irrigation networks, locals said.
A spokesman for Israel's Civil Administration said inspectors destroyed pipes that were illegally set up and stealing water from other sources. He said no farmland was destroyed in the process. A representative from Israel's border guard unit did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
Gaza – Ma'an – Israeli warplanes targeted the home of a senior Hamas military leader in the central Gaza Strip early Monday leaving 42 civilians injured, medics said.
Al-Qassam Brigades leader Alla Ad-Danaf's home in Deir Al-Balah was destroyed along with five others by a missile from an Israeli F16 fighter jet, military medical services coordinator Adham Abu Salmiyya told Ma'an.
At least 42 civilians were injured as a result, he added, with wounds ranging from slight to moderate. The Israeli army has denied involvement, with an Israeli military spokeswoman saying there was no army or air force activity overnight.
On Saturday morning, an Al-Qassam leader was killed in an Israeli airstrike, which the Israeli army said came in response to projectile fire. The latest blast follows a weekend of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, with residents saying the raids were reminiscent of Israel's Operation Cast Lead between December 2008 and January 2009.
The news comes as Palestinian negotiators demand an extension of the partial, temporary settlement freeze, which expires in September, as a precondition for direct talks to resume. Palestinian officials have said that Israel cannot be considered a serious partner for peace while it continues to build illegal settlements on land which would be a future Palestinian state under any peace agreement.
Ma'an – Israeli forces destroyed over 30 dunums of farmland in the Hebron village of Al-Baq'a and detained two relatives Monday, the landowner and a Palestinian faction leader said. Badran Jabir said Israeli troops ransacked his home and farm, damaging irrigation networks and seedlings. He said he and his wife were assaulted as they tried to defend their property.
“When my 15-year-old son Wadi and my son-in-law, 32-year-old Fadl Ja’bari, tried to defend myself and my wife, Israeli soldiers beat them before detaining them,” Jabir added. Locals in Hebron confirmed seeing Israeli bulldozers overturn vast areas of farmland. They destroyed several irrigation networks, locals said.
A spokesman for Israel's Civil Administration said inspectors destroyed pipes that were illegally set up and stealing water from other sources. He said no farmland was destroyed in the process. A representative from Israel's border guard unit did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
Gaza – Ma'an – Israeli warplanes targeted the home of a senior Hamas military leader in the central Gaza Strip early Monday leaving 42 civilians injured, medics said.
Al-Qassam Brigades leader Alla Ad-Danaf's home in Deir Al-Balah was destroyed along with five others by a missile from an Israeli F16 fighter jet, military medical services coordinator Adham Abu Salmiyya told Ma'an.
At least 42 civilians were injured as a result, he added, with wounds ranging from slight to moderate. The Israeli army has denied involvement, with an Israeli military spokeswoman saying there was no army or air force activity overnight.
On Saturday morning, an Al-Qassam leader was killed in an Israeli airstrike, which the Israeli army said came in response to projectile fire. The latest blast follows a weekend of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, with residents saying the raids were reminiscent of Israel's Operation Cast Lead between December 2008 and January 2009.
Reality is..That while Gates speaks a whole lot of bullshit..
The most gross crimes against humanity and peace, extermination and a ongoing genocide are committed against both Kurds, Iraqis, Afghans, Iranians and all over the region and beyond AND THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL IT´S A "WAR ON TERRORISM"!
Actually he "took over" when Iraq was somewhat stabilised and mass murderous psychopaths have taken over the steamroller since!
Actually he "took over" when Iraq was somewhat stabilised and mass murderous psychopaths have taken over the steamroller since!
Assassinations by Turkish Army
01 August 2010, BATMAN, Northern Kurdistan, -- According to the news from the Northern Kurdistan we have received today a petrol station was blast, which resulted in death of four Kurdish civil and Human Rights activists. The blast took place in South Raman petrol region, 200 meters from Demirlipınar Village.
As the result of the explosion four Kurdish civilians Sadi Ozdemir former IHD Chairman, Salih Ozdamir former Peace and Democracy Party; BDP, executive committee member, Sofi Ozdamir and the former Chairman of Batman Bar association Mr Sedat Ozevin, were killed, who were involved in Human Rights and Civil activities in Northern Kurdistan and Turkey.
An eyewitness, who doesn’t want to state his name, stated that the landmine was planted by the Turkish Army, and they were the mastermind of the explosion. In addition, the eye witness stated that when the explosion occurred the Army teams, which were too close to the place of the incident, were too reluctant to take necessary measures and steps to prevent further damages and destruction to the place.
Although the assassination was committed by the Turkish Army and agents, several western newspapers and media agencies such as VOANews.Com distorted the truth by stating that the Kurdish peoples defence forces (HPG) killed four Turkish civilians.
As the result of the explosion four Kurdish civilians Sadi Ozdemir former IHD Chairman, Salih Ozdamir former Peace and Democracy Party; BDP, executive committee member, Sofi Ozdamir and the former Chairman of Batman Bar association Mr Sedat Ozevin, were killed, who were involved in Human Rights and Civil activities in Northern Kurdistan and Turkey.
An eyewitness, who doesn’t want to state his name, stated that the landmine was planted by the Turkish Army, and they were the mastermind of the explosion. In addition, the eye witness stated that when the explosion occurred the Army teams, which were too close to the place of the incident, were too reluctant to take necessary measures and steps to prevent further damages and destruction to the place.
Although the assassination was committed by the Turkish Army and agents, several western newspapers and media agencies such as VOANews.Com distorted the truth by stating that the Kurdish peoples defence forces (HPG) killed four Turkish civilians.
Want to end what you call terror? Stop aiding it!
The Court rejected almost all of Nicaragua's case, presented by a distinguished Harvard University international lawyer, on the grounds that when the US had accepted World Court jurisdiction in 1946, it added a reservation exempting itself from charges under international treaties, specifically the Charters of the United Nations and the Organization of American States.
Accordingly, the US is self-entitled to carry out aggression and other crimes that are far more serious than international terrorism. The Court correctly recognized this exemption, one aspect of much broader issues of sovereignty and global dominance that I will put aside.
State-directed international terrorism is considered an appropriate tool of diplomacy across the political spectrum. Nevertheless, Reagan was the first modern president to employ the audacious device of concealing his resort to "the evil scourge of terrorism" under the cloak of a "war on terror."
The bombing of Libya was neatly timed for a congressional vote on aid to the US-run terrorist force attacking Nicaragua. To ensure that the timing would not be missed, Reagan made the connection explicit. In an address the day after the bombing Reagan said: "I would remind the House [of Representatives] voting this week that this arch-terrorist [Qaddafi] has sent $400 million and an arsenal of weapons and advisers into Nicaragua to bring his war home to the United States. He has bragged that he is helping the Nicaraguans because they fight America on its own ground" -- namely America's own ground in Nicaragua.
The idea that the "mad dog" was bringing his war home to us by providing arms to a country we were attacking with a CIA-run terrorist army based in our Honduran dependency was a nice touch, which did not go unnoticed. As the national press explained, the bombing of Libya should "strengthen President Reagan's hand in dealing with Congress on issues like the military budget and aid to Nicaraguan 'contras'."
This is only a small sample of Reagan's contributions to international terrorism. The most lasting among them was his enthusiastic organization of the jihadi movement in Afghanistan.
The reasons were explained by the CIA station chief in Islamabad, who directed the project. In his words, the goal was to "kill Soviet Soldiers." He also emphasized that "the mission was not to liberate Afghanistan" -- and in fact it may have delayed Soviet withdrawal, some specialists believe.
With his unerring instinct for favoring the most violent criminals, Reagan selected for lavish aid Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, famous for throwing acid in the faces of young women in Kabul and now a leader of the insurgents in Afghanistan, though perhaps he may soon join the other warlords of the western-backed government, current reports suggest.
Reagan also lent strong support to the worst of Pakistan's dictators, Zia ul-Haq, helping him to develop his nuclear weapons program and to carry out his Saudi-funded project of radical Islamization of Pakistan. There is no need to dwell on the legacy for these tortured countries and the world.
Apart from Cuba, the plague of state terror in the Western hemisphere was initiated with the Brazilian coup in 1964, installing the first of a series of neo-Nazi National Security States and initiating a plague of repression without precedent in the hemisphere, always strongly backed by Washington, hence a particularly violent form of state-directed international terrorism.
The campaign was in substantial measure a war against the Church. It was more than symbolic that it culminated in the assassination of six leading Latin American intellectuals, Jesuit priests, in November 1989, a few days after the fall of the Berlin wall.
We arrive by plane in Washington at Reagan international airport -- or if we prefer, at John Foster Dulles international airport, honoring another prominent terrorist commander, whose exploits include overthrowing Iranian and Guatemalan democracy, installing the terror and torture state of the Shah and the most vicious of the terrorist states of Central America.
The terrorist exploits of Washington's Guatemalan clients reached true genocide in the highlands in the 1980s while Reagan praised the worst of the killers, Rioss Montt, as "a man of great personal integrity" who was "totally dedicated to democracy" and was receiving a "bum rap" from human rights organizations.
I have been writing about international terrorism ever since Reagan declared a war on terror in 1981. In doing so, I have kept to the official definitions of "terrorism" in US and British law and in army manuals, all approximately the same. To take one succinct official definition, terrorism is "the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological in nature...through intimidation, coercion, or instilling fear."
Everything I have just described, and a great deal more like it, falls within the category of terror ism, in fact state-directed international terrorism, in the technical sense of US-British law.
Awful as the crime was, one can imagine worse. Suppose that al-Qaeda had been supported by an awesome superpower intent on overthrowing the government of the United States.
Suppose that the attack had succeeded: al-Qaeda had bombed the White House, killed the president, and installed a vicious military dictatorship, which killed some 50-100,000 people, brutally tortured 700,000, set up a major center of terror and subversion that carried out assassinations throughout the world and helped establish "National Security States" elsewhere that tortured and murdered with abandon.
Suppose further that the dictator brought in economic advisers who within a few years drove the economy to one of the worst disasters in its history while their proud mentors collected Nobel Prizes and received other accolades. That would have been vastly more horrendous even than 9/11.
And as we all should know, it is not necessary to imagine, because it in fact did happen: in Chile, on the date that Latin Americans sometimes call "the first 9/11," 11 September 1973. The only change I have made is to per capita equivalents, an appropriate measure. But the first 9/11 did not change history, for good reasons: the events were too normal.
In fact the installation of the Pinochet regime was just one event in the plague that began with the military coup in Brazil in 1964, spreading with similar or even worse horrors in other countries and reaching Central America in the 1980s under Reagan -- whose South American favorite was the regime of the Argentine generals, the most savage of them all, consistent with his general stance on state violence.
From hundreds of interrogations, Alexander discovered that many foreign fighters came to Iraq in reaction to the abuses at Guant‡namo and Abu Ghraib, and that they and their domestic allies turned to suicide bombing and other terrorist acts for the same reason.
The attack on Afghanistan in October 2001 is called "the good war," no questions asked, a justifiable act of self-defense with the noble aim of protecting human rights from the evil Taliban. There are a few problems with that near-universal contention. For one thing, the goal was not to remove the Taliban. Rather, Bush informed the people of Afghanistan that they would be bombed unless the Taliban turned bin Laden over to the US, as they might have done, had the US agreed to their request to provide some evidence of his responsibility for 9/11.
The request was dismissed with contempt, for good reasons. As the head of the FBI conceded 8 months later, after the most intensive international investigation in history they still had no evidence, and certainly had none the preceding October. The most he could say is that the FBI "believed" that the plot had been hatched in Afghanistan and had been implemented in the Gulf Emirates and Germany.
Three weeks after the bombing began, war aims shifted to overthrow of the regime. British Admiral Sir Michael Boyce announced that the bombing would continue until "the people of the countryÉget the leadership changed" -- a textbook case of international terrorism. It is also not true that there were no objections to the attack.
With virtual unanimity, international aid organizations vociferously objected because it terminated their aid efforts, which were desperately needed. At the time it was estimated that some 5 million people were relying on aid for survival, and that an additional 2.5 million would be put at risk of starvation by the US-UK attack. The bombing was therefore an example of extreme criminality, whether or not the anticipated consequences took place.
Shortly after, 1000 Afghan leaders gathered in Peshawar, some of them exiles, some coming from within Afghanistan, all committed to overthrowing the Taliban regime. It was "a rare display of unity among tribal elders, Islamic scholars, fractious politicians, and former guerrilla commanders," the press reported. They had many disagreements, but unanimously "urged the US to stop the air raids" and appealed to the international media to call for an end to the "bombing of innocent people."
They urged that other means be adopted to overthrow the hated Taliban regime, a goal they believed could be achieved without further death and destruction. The bombing was also harshly condemned by the prominent women's organization RAWA -- which received some belated recognition when it became ideologically serviceable to express concern (briefly) about the fate of women in Afghanistan. In short, the unquestionably "good war" does not look so good when we pay some attention to unacceptable facts.
IRA terror was a very serious matter. As long as London reacted by violence, terror, and torture, it was the "indispensable ally" of the more violent elements of the IRA, and the cycle of terror escalated. By the late '90s, London began to attend to the grievances that lay at the roots of the terror, and to deal with those that were legitimate -- as should be done irrespective of terror. Within a few years terror virtually disappeared.
I happened to be in Belfast in 1993. It was a war zone. I was there again last fall. There are tensions, but at a level that is barely detectable to a visitor. There are important lessons here. Even without this experience we should know that violence engenders violence, while sympathy and concern cool passions and can evoke cooperation and empathy.
If we seriously want to end the plague of terrorism, we know how to do it. First, end our own role as perpetrators. That alone will have a substantial effect. Second, attend to the grievances that are typically in the background, and if they are legitimate, do something about them. Third, if an act of terror occurs, deal with it as a criminal act: identify and apprehend the suspects and carry out an honest judicial process. That actually works. In contrast, the techniques that are employed enhance the threat of terror. The evidence is fairly strong, and falls together which much else.
This is not the only case where the approaches that might well reduce a serious threat are systematically avoided, and those that are unlikely to do so are adopted instead. One such case is the so-called "war on drugs." Over almost 40 years, the war has failed to curtail drug use or even street price of drugs. It has been established by many studies, including those of the US government, that by far the most cost-effective approach to drug abuse is prevention and treatment. But that approach is consistently avoided in state policy, which prefers far more expensive violent measures that have barely any impact on drug use, though they have other consistent consequences.
In cases like these, the only rational conclusion is that the declared goals are not the real ones, and that if we want to learn about the real goals, we should adopt an approach that is familiar in the law: relying on predictable outcome as evidence for intent. I think the approach leads to quite plausible conclusions, for the "war on drugs," the "war on terror," and much else. That, however, is work for another day.
Noam Chomsky
http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20100323.htm
Accordingly, the US is self-entitled to carry out aggression and other crimes that are far more serious than international terrorism. The Court correctly recognized this exemption, one aspect of much broader issues of sovereignty and global dominance that I will put aside.
State-directed international terrorism is considered an appropriate tool of diplomacy across the political spectrum. Nevertheless, Reagan was the first modern president to employ the audacious device of concealing his resort to "the evil scourge of terrorism" under the cloak of a "war on terror."
The bombing of Libya was neatly timed for a congressional vote on aid to the US-run terrorist force attacking Nicaragua. To ensure that the timing would not be missed, Reagan made the connection explicit. In an address the day after the bombing Reagan said: "I would remind the House [of Representatives] voting this week that this arch-terrorist [Qaddafi] has sent $400 million and an arsenal of weapons and advisers into Nicaragua to bring his war home to the United States. He has bragged that he is helping the Nicaraguans because they fight America on its own ground" -- namely America's own ground in Nicaragua.
The idea that the "mad dog" was bringing his war home to us by providing arms to a country we were attacking with a CIA-run terrorist army based in our Honduran dependency was a nice touch, which did not go unnoticed. As the national press explained, the bombing of Libya should "strengthen President Reagan's hand in dealing with Congress on issues like the military budget and aid to Nicaraguan 'contras'."
This is only a small sample of Reagan's contributions to international terrorism. The most lasting among them was his enthusiastic organization of the jihadi movement in Afghanistan.
The reasons were explained by the CIA station chief in Islamabad, who directed the project. In his words, the goal was to "kill Soviet Soldiers." He also emphasized that "the mission was not to liberate Afghanistan" -- and in fact it may have delayed Soviet withdrawal, some specialists believe.
With his unerring instinct for favoring the most violent criminals, Reagan selected for lavish aid Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, famous for throwing acid in the faces of young women in Kabul and now a leader of the insurgents in Afghanistan, though perhaps he may soon join the other warlords of the western-backed government, current reports suggest.
Reagan also lent strong support to the worst of Pakistan's dictators, Zia ul-Haq, helping him to develop his nuclear weapons program and to carry out his Saudi-funded project of radical Islamization of Pakistan. There is no need to dwell on the legacy for these tortured countries and the world.
Apart from Cuba, the plague of state terror in the Western hemisphere was initiated with the Brazilian coup in 1964, installing the first of a series of neo-Nazi National Security States and initiating a plague of repression without precedent in the hemisphere, always strongly backed by Washington, hence a particularly violent form of state-directed international terrorism.
The campaign was in substantial measure a war against the Church. It was more than symbolic that it culminated in the assassination of six leading Latin American intellectuals, Jesuit priests, in November 1989, a few days after the fall of the Berlin wall.
We arrive by plane in Washington at Reagan international airport -- or if we prefer, at John Foster Dulles international airport, honoring another prominent terrorist commander, whose exploits include overthrowing Iranian and Guatemalan democracy, installing the terror and torture state of the Shah and the most vicious of the terrorist states of Central America.
The terrorist exploits of Washington's Guatemalan clients reached true genocide in the highlands in the 1980s while Reagan praised the worst of the killers, Rioss Montt, as "a man of great personal integrity" who was "totally dedicated to democracy" and was receiving a "bum rap" from human rights organizations.
I have been writing about international terrorism ever since Reagan declared a war on terror in 1981. In doing so, I have kept to the official definitions of "terrorism" in US and British law and in army manuals, all approximately the same. To take one succinct official definition, terrorism is "the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological in nature...through intimidation, coercion, or instilling fear."
Everything I have just described, and a great deal more like it, falls within the category of terror ism, in fact state-directed international terrorism, in the technical sense of US-British law.
Awful as the crime was, one can imagine worse. Suppose that al-Qaeda had been supported by an awesome superpower intent on overthrowing the government of the United States.
Suppose that the attack had succeeded: al-Qaeda had bombed the White House, killed the president, and installed a vicious military dictatorship, which killed some 50-100,000 people, brutally tortured 700,000, set up a major center of terror and subversion that carried out assassinations throughout the world and helped establish "National Security States" elsewhere that tortured and murdered with abandon.
Suppose further that the dictator brought in economic advisers who within a few years drove the economy to one of the worst disasters in its history while their proud mentors collected Nobel Prizes and received other accolades. That would have been vastly more horrendous even than 9/11.
And as we all should know, it is not necessary to imagine, because it in fact did happen: in Chile, on the date that Latin Americans sometimes call "the first 9/11," 11 September 1973. The only change I have made is to per capita equivalents, an appropriate measure. But the first 9/11 did not change history, for good reasons: the events were too normal.
In fact the installation of the Pinochet regime was just one event in the plague that began with the military coup in Brazil in 1964, spreading with similar or even worse horrors in other countries and reaching Central America in the 1980s under Reagan -- whose South American favorite was the regime of the Argentine generals, the most savage of them all, consistent with his general stance on state violence.
From hundreds of interrogations, Alexander discovered that many foreign fighters came to Iraq in reaction to the abuses at Guant‡namo and Abu Ghraib, and that they and their domestic allies turned to suicide bombing and other terrorist acts for the same reason.
The attack on Afghanistan in October 2001 is called "the good war," no questions asked, a justifiable act of self-defense with the noble aim of protecting human rights from the evil Taliban. There are a few problems with that near-universal contention. For one thing, the goal was not to remove the Taliban. Rather, Bush informed the people of Afghanistan that they would be bombed unless the Taliban turned bin Laden over to the US, as they might have done, had the US agreed to their request to provide some evidence of his responsibility for 9/11.
The request was dismissed with contempt, for good reasons. As the head of the FBI conceded 8 months later, after the most intensive international investigation in history they still had no evidence, and certainly had none the preceding October. The most he could say is that the FBI "believed" that the plot had been hatched in Afghanistan and had been implemented in the Gulf Emirates and Germany.
Three weeks after the bombing began, war aims shifted to overthrow of the regime. British Admiral Sir Michael Boyce announced that the bombing would continue until "the people of the countryÉget the leadership changed" -- a textbook case of international terrorism. It is also not true that there were no objections to the attack.
With virtual unanimity, international aid organizations vociferously objected because it terminated their aid efforts, which were desperately needed. At the time it was estimated that some 5 million people were relying on aid for survival, and that an additional 2.5 million would be put at risk of starvation by the US-UK attack. The bombing was therefore an example of extreme criminality, whether or not the anticipated consequences took place.
Shortly after, 1000 Afghan leaders gathered in Peshawar, some of them exiles, some coming from within Afghanistan, all committed to overthrowing the Taliban regime. It was "a rare display of unity among tribal elders, Islamic scholars, fractious politicians, and former guerrilla commanders," the press reported. They had many disagreements, but unanimously "urged the US to stop the air raids" and appealed to the international media to call for an end to the "bombing of innocent people."
They urged that other means be adopted to overthrow the hated Taliban regime, a goal they believed could be achieved without further death and destruction. The bombing was also harshly condemned by the prominent women's organization RAWA -- which received some belated recognition when it became ideologically serviceable to express concern (briefly) about the fate of women in Afghanistan. In short, the unquestionably "good war" does not look so good when we pay some attention to unacceptable facts.
IRA terror was a very serious matter. As long as London reacted by violence, terror, and torture, it was the "indispensable ally" of the more violent elements of the IRA, and the cycle of terror escalated. By the late '90s, London began to attend to the grievances that lay at the roots of the terror, and to deal with those that were legitimate -- as should be done irrespective of terror. Within a few years terror virtually disappeared.
I happened to be in Belfast in 1993. It was a war zone. I was there again last fall. There are tensions, but at a level that is barely detectable to a visitor. There are important lessons here. Even without this experience we should know that violence engenders violence, while sympathy and concern cool passions and can evoke cooperation and empathy.
If we seriously want to end the plague of terrorism, we know how to do it. First, end our own role as perpetrators. That alone will have a substantial effect. Second, attend to the grievances that are typically in the background, and if they are legitimate, do something about them. Third, if an act of terror occurs, deal with it as a criminal act: identify and apprehend the suspects and carry out an honest judicial process. That actually works. In contrast, the techniques that are employed enhance the threat of terror. The evidence is fairly strong, and falls together which much else.
This is not the only case where the approaches that might well reduce a serious threat are systematically avoided, and those that are unlikely to do so are adopted instead. One such case is the so-called "war on drugs." Over almost 40 years, the war has failed to curtail drug use or even street price of drugs. It has been established by many studies, including those of the US government, that by far the most cost-effective approach to drug abuse is prevention and treatment. But that approach is consistently avoided in state policy, which prefers far more expensive violent measures that have barely any impact on drug use, though they have other consistent consequences.
In cases like these, the only rational conclusion is that the declared goals are not the real ones, and that if we want to learn about the real goals, we should adopt an approach that is familiar in the law: relying on predictable outcome as evidence for intent. I think the approach leads to quite plausible conclusions, for the "war on drugs," the "war on terror," and much else. That, however, is work for another day.
Noam Chomsky
http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20100323.htm
Iraq and Iran: August 19, 1978 - Cinema Rex fire
"Islamization"....From wikipedia..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Rex_fire
October 1978.- Saddam expelled Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini from Iraq.
The Iraqis started an "Arabization" program, transferring Kurds, and moving Arabs to the oil rich areas around Kirkuk. This led to renewed clashes between the Iraqi Army and Kurdish guerrillas beginning in 1977.
In 1978 and 1979, some 600 Kurdish villages were burned or destroyed in Iraq and about 200,000 Kurds were deported to the other regions of Iraq.
October 1978.- Saddam expelled Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini from Iraq.
The Iraqis started an "Arabization" program, transferring Kurds, and moving Arabs to the oil rich areas around Kirkuk. This led to renewed clashes between the Iraqi Army and Kurdish guerrillas beginning in 1977.
In 1978 and 1979, some 600 Kurdish villages were burned or destroyed in Iraq and about 200,000 Kurds were deported to the other regions of Iraq.
During the Iran–Iraq War, the Iraqi government was convinced that Kurds were helping Iran, and undertook what can only be described as genocide against the Kurds in operation Al Anfal.
From March 29, 1987 until April 23, 1989, the Iraqi army under the command of Ali Hassan al-Majid (Chemical Ali) murdered about 182,000 Kurds or more, using poison gas to destroy Halabja and other towns. The Kurdish town of Qala Dizeh (population 70,000) was completely destroyed. The campaign also included Arabization of Kirkuk and Mosul, driving Kurds out of the oil-rich cities and replacing them with Arabs.
Turkey..
1978, December 25 - Turkish fascists massacre hundreds of Kurds in Marash.
1978, December 28 - Proclamation of Martial Law in 15 provinces of Northern Kurdistan prohibiting for years any information about the suffering of the Kurdish people.
1978, December - 110 Kurds are massacred in the Northern Kurdistan, city of Kahramanmaras.
1979, December to 1980, September - Conflicts between the PKK and the Turkish state provided a distinctively ethnic source of violence. Thousands Kurds were killed (mostly civilians) in different incidents.
1980, July - An outbreak of violence erupts in Corum, central Anatolia, causing 30 deaths and a mass exodus of terrified Alevis from the region.
1983 - A law banned the use, either in speech or in uniting, of any language not recognized as the official language of another country (in effect, Kurdish).
1984 - Turkey shuts off the supply of water from the Alkuwik river which originates from Turkey and reaches the south of Allepo, Syria, leading to the desertification of the area after its plains dried out.
1988, February - A pogrom night is organized to Armenian population in Baku and Sumgait regions with a replica organization of the terror night of Constantinople in 1955.
1989 - Passage of arbitrary Turkish law establishing Turkish "Search and Rescue" rights over half of the Aegean, in direct violation of ICAO rules.
1991, August to December - The Turkish Air Force and Army attacks the PKK groups in Southern Kurdistan with continuous bombing of Kurdish villages. More than 100 Kurds, including women and children, perished and 150 were injured.
1992 - Ankara builds the "Ataturk" dam on the river Euphrates and severely decreases its flow to Iraq and Syria, thus threatening the agriculture and economic survival of both nations.
1992, January to 1993, October - Turkish bombing of Kurdish villages. 4,800 are injured among which 2,000 eventually perish.
1994, May to August - Renewed Turkish raids on Kurds claim the lives of 400 Kurdish villagers and injure more than 200.
1995 - A pogrom night is organized by the Turkish government at Gari Osman Pascha district in Istanbul against the Alewi, a religious population.
1995, March 20 – 35,000 Turkish soldiers enter Southern Kurdistan under the pretext of fighting the PKK groups that, according to Ankara, had taken refuge there. Through indiscriminate bombing, torture and forced marches on PKK minefields, 200 Kurds are killed, most of whom were non-combatants. More than 50,000 Turkish troops moved into Southern Kurdistan. Along four routes, a 335 kilometres long border was breached and eyewitnesses noted that advanced Turkish teams were sent some 40 kilometres inside South Kurdistan. Civilian Kurds have been killed and refugee camps have been bombarded from the air.
1996, January 31 - The Turkish army lands some of its men on the smaller of the Imia islets which constitutes an integral part of Greek territory according to international treaties and agreements dating back to 1923. It is the first time that Turkey openly lays claims over actual Greek territory.
1996, May 6 - After a renewed, intensive six-week military campaign, Turkey withdraws its last soldiers from southern Kurdistan. The final number of the Kurdish casualties is more than 400. The injured are even more.
1996, August - During a week of peaceful demonstrations on the borders of occupied Nicosia, the Turkish troops opened fire on the demonstrators killing two people and injuring forty.
1997, February - Ankara responds to the Cypriot government's plans to purchase air-defence systems by threatening to invade and occupy the free areas. A threat often adopted since 1974.
1999 - The death toll of Kurds killed in Turkish military operations rises to over 40,000 and according to the figures published by Turkeys own parliament, 6,000 Kurdish villages were systematically evacuated of all inhabitants and 3,000,000 Kurds have been displaced.
Reference
Chomsky, Noam, ‘Alpaslan Isikli to Noam Chomsky – Email Conversations’ archived at: http://www.universite-toplum.org/text.php3?id=61 (22nd October 2006)
Levene, Mark, Creating a Modern "Zone of Genocide": The Impact of Nation- and State-Formation on Eastern Anatolia, 1878–1923, Holocaust Genocide Studies 12: 393-433. Archived at: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/12/3/393 (22nd October 2006)
Koivunen, Kristiina, ‘The Invisible War in North Kurdistan’, p.27 archived: http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/val/sospo/vk/koivunen/theinvis.pdf (22nd October 2006)
Lord Avebury, House of Lords, 22nd January 1996
occidentalis.com, The Turkish crime of our century, 22 October 2006, http://www.occidentalis.com/article.php?sid=1939&thold=0
1978, December 28 - Proclamation of Martial Law in 15 provinces of Northern Kurdistan prohibiting for years any information about the suffering of the Kurdish people.
1978, December - 110 Kurds are massacred in the Northern Kurdistan, city of Kahramanmaras.
1979, December to 1980, September - Conflicts between the PKK and the Turkish state provided a distinctively ethnic source of violence. Thousands Kurds were killed (mostly civilians) in different incidents.
1980, July - An outbreak of violence erupts in Corum, central Anatolia, causing 30 deaths and a mass exodus of terrified Alevis from the region.
1983 - A law banned the use, either in speech or in uniting, of any language not recognized as the official language of another country (in effect, Kurdish).
1984 - Turkey shuts off the supply of water from the Alkuwik river which originates from Turkey and reaches the south of Allepo, Syria, leading to the desertification of the area after its plains dried out.
1988, February - A pogrom night is organized to Armenian population in Baku and Sumgait regions with a replica organization of the terror night of Constantinople in 1955.
1989 - Passage of arbitrary Turkish law establishing Turkish "Search and Rescue" rights over half of the Aegean, in direct violation of ICAO rules.
1991, August to December - The Turkish Air Force and Army attacks the PKK groups in Southern Kurdistan with continuous bombing of Kurdish villages. More than 100 Kurds, including women and children, perished and 150 were injured.
1992 - Ankara builds the "Ataturk" dam on the river Euphrates and severely decreases its flow to Iraq and Syria, thus threatening the agriculture and economic survival of both nations.
1992, January to 1993, October - Turkish bombing of Kurdish villages. 4,800 are injured among which 2,000 eventually perish.
1994, May to August - Renewed Turkish raids on Kurds claim the lives of 400 Kurdish villagers and injure more than 200.
1995 - A pogrom night is organized by the Turkish government at Gari Osman Pascha district in Istanbul against the Alewi, a religious population.
1995, March 20 – 35,000 Turkish soldiers enter Southern Kurdistan under the pretext of fighting the PKK groups that, according to Ankara, had taken refuge there. Through indiscriminate bombing, torture and forced marches on PKK minefields, 200 Kurds are killed, most of whom were non-combatants. More than 50,000 Turkish troops moved into Southern Kurdistan. Along four routes, a 335 kilometres long border was breached and eyewitnesses noted that advanced Turkish teams were sent some 40 kilometres inside South Kurdistan. Civilian Kurds have been killed and refugee camps have been bombarded from the air.
1996, January 31 - The Turkish army lands some of its men on the smaller of the Imia islets which constitutes an integral part of Greek territory according to international treaties and agreements dating back to 1923. It is the first time that Turkey openly lays claims over actual Greek territory.
1996, May 6 - After a renewed, intensive six-week military campaign, Turkey withdraws its last soldiers from southern Kurdistan. The final number of the Kurdish casualties is more than 400. The injured are even more.
1996, August - During a week of peaceful demonstrations on the borders of occupied Nicosia, the Turkish troops opened fire on the demonstrators killing two people and injuring forty.
1997, February - Ankara responds to the Cypriot government's plans to purchase air-defence systems by threatening to invade and occupy the free areas. A threat often adopted since 1974.
1999 - The death toll of Kurds killed in Turkish military operations rises to over 40,000 and according to the figures published by Turkeys own parliament, 6,000 Kurdish villages were systematically evacuated of all inhabitants and 3,000,000 Kurds have been displaced.
Reference
Chomsky, Noam, ‘Alpaslan Isikli to Noam Chomsky – Email Conversations’ archived at: http://www.universite-toplum.org/text.php3?id=61 (22nd October 2006)
Levene, Mark, Creating a Modern "Zone of Genocide": The Impact of Nation- and State-Formation on Eastern Anatolia, 1878–1923, Holocaust Genocide Studies 12: 393-433. Archived at: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/12/3/393 (22nd October 2006)
Koivunen, Kristiina, ‘The Invisible War in North Kurdistan’, p.27 archived: http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/val/sospo/vk/koivunen/theinvis.pdf (22nd October 2006)
Lord Avebury, House of Lords, 22nd January 1996
occidentalis.com, The Turkish crime of our century, 22 October 2006, http://www.occidentalis.com/article.php?sid=1939&thold=0
Actually..
We REALLY suggest the Turkish state end it´s assassinations, extermination, wanton destruction and genocide and let out the political prisoners, human rights prisoners etc...and the "Gold Calf" and start talking!
It would be a good idea of the Iranian regime to try start taking themselves and the Iranian nation out of Hell as well!
Occupied into their so called "justice system", torture chambers, jails, forces and "special forces" ..etc..etc..
And wash that #¤¤¤ American/Israeli flags out of Tehran!
None of you want to end up like #¤¤¤ Milosovich..Or DO YOU? Or...Maybe some really, really deserve it...Anyway we will make damn sure some will not be "without company"!
Yeah..We wondered why the Hell some are chasing "African rebels" while others can go on and on and on for decades and decades and decades!
Actually, NONE with get away with anything by jailing and assassinate human rights activist and persons and there is no way in Hell it´s a "war on terrorism"!
It would be a good idea of the Iranian regime to try start taking themselves and the Iranian nation out of Hell as well!
Occupied into their so called "justice system", torture chambers, jails, forces and "special forces" ..etc..etc..
And wash that #¤¤¤ American/Israeli flags out of Tehran!
None of you want to end up like #¤¤¤ Milosovich..Or DO YOU? Or...Maybe some really, really deserve it...Anyway we will make damn sure some will not be "without company"!
Yeah..We wondered why the Hell some are chasing "African rebels" while others can go on and on and on for decades and decades and decades!
Actually, NONE with get away with anything by jailing and assassinate human rights activist and persons and there is no way in Hell it´s a "war on terrorism"!
Checkmate! ..........Amateurs................
Hitler and Lenin..Or...Fascism and communism working hand in hand..http://bilder.vgb.no/14097/4col/img_4656dd81a393a.jpg
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