”Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?”
(Epitaphs of War, Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936.)
THESE CRIMINALS ARE FLEEING FROM JUSTICE. THEY SPEND HUGE AMOUNTS ON LEGAL FEES AND ADVICE FROM LAWYERS JUST TO REMAIN OUT OF CUSTODY. THEY LIVE BEHIND A CONSTANT WALL OF HIGH LEVEL SECURITY ,TO KEEP REALITY AND THE PUBLIC AT BAY. THEY ARE IN EFFECT FLEEING JUSTICE BUT UNDER HOUSE ARREST
First time that war crimes charges will be heard against the two former heads of state.
On November 19-22, 2011, the trial of George W. Bush (former U.S. President) and Anthony L. Blair (former British Prime Minister) will be held in Kuala Lumpur. This is the first time that war crimes charges will be heard against the two former heads of state in compliance with proper legal process.
Charges are being brought against the accused by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC) following the due process of the law. The Commission, having received complaints from war victims in Iraq in 2009, proceeded to conduct a painstaking and an in-depth investigation for close to two years and in 2011, constituted formal charges on war crimes against Bush, Blair and their associates.
The Iraq invasion in 2003 and its occupation had resulted in the death of 1.4 million Iraqis. Countless others had endured torture and untold hardship. The cries of these victims have thus far gone unheeded by the international community. The fundamental human right to be heard has been denied to them.
As a result, the KLWCC had been established in 2008 to fill this void and act as a peoples’ initiative to provide an avenue for such victims to file their complaints and let them have their day in a court of law.
The first charge against George W. Bush and Anthony L. Blair is for Crimes Against Peace wherein:
The Accused persons had committed Crimes against Peace, in that the Accused persons planned, prepared and invaded the sovereign state of Iraq on 19 March 2003 in violation of the United Nations Charter and international law.
The second charge is for Crime of Torture and War Crimes against eight citizens of the United States and they are namely George W Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo, wherein:
The Accused persons had committed the Crime of Torture and War Crimes, in that: The Accused persons had wilfully participated in the formulation of executive orders and directives to exclude the applicability of all international conventions and laws, namely the Convention against Torture 1984, Geneva Convention III 1949, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Charter in relation to the war launched by the U.S. and others in Afghanistan (in 2001) and in Iraq (in March 2003); Additionally, and/or on the basis and in furtherance thereof, the Accused persons authorised, or connived in, the commission of acts of torture and cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment against victims in violation of international law, treaties and conventions including the Convention against Torture 1984 and the Geneva Conventions, including Geneva Convention III 1949.
The trial will be held before the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, which is constituted of eminent persons with legal qualifications.
The judges of the Tribunal, which is headed by retired Malaysian Federal Court judge Dato’ Abdul Kadir Sulaiman, also include other notable names such as Mr Alfred Lambremont Webre, a Yale graduate, who authored several books on politics, Dato’ Zakaria Yatim, retired Malaysian Federal Court judge, Tunku Sofiah Jewa, practising lawyer and author of numerous publications on International Law, Prof Salleh Buang, former Federal Counsel in the Attorney-General Chambers and prominent author, Prof Niloufer Bhagwat, an expert in Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and International Law, and Prof Emeritus Datuk Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi, prominent academic and professor of law.
The Tribunal will adjudicate and evaluate the evidence presented as in any court of law. The judges of the Tribunal must be satisfied that the charges are proven beyond reasonable doubt and deliver a reasoned judgement.
In the event the tribunal convicts any of the accused, the only sanction is that the name of the guilty person will be entered in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals and publicised worldwide. The tribunal is a tribunal of conscience and a peoples’ initiative.
The prosecution for the trial will be lead by Prof Gurdial S Nijar, prominent law professor and author of several law publications and Prof Francis Boyle, leading American professor, practitioner and advocate of international law, and assisted by a team of lawyers.
The trial will be held in an open court on November 19-22, 2011 at the headquarters of the Al-Bukhary Foundation at Jalan Perdana, Kuala Lumpur.
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27751
BREAKING: The Trial of George W. Bush and Tony Blair: Sparks Fly at the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal
by Cynthia McKinney
19 November 2011 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Today, seven judges of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal sat to hear formal charges against former President of the United States George W. Bush and former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair for Crimes Against the Peace.
Judge Bhagwat did find that no Head of State, including George W. Bush, can exempt himself from international treaty organizations.
Judge Niloufer implored the panel in Istanbul to have the courage to speak the truth. Counsel for the defendants found Judge Alfred Webre made the point that George W. Bush was served appropriately but failed to appear at the various people’s tribunals seeking justice for the victims of his Presidential decisions to take the people of the United States to war.
However, he made the point in defense of his colleague, Judge Bhagwat, that President Bush did not fail to appear at a Vancouver dinner at which he collected a US$150,000 speaking fee. Judge Webre stated that perhaps the Tribunal should have offered the former U.S. President a sizeable speaking fee in order to gain his attendance at the Tribunal.
Francis Boyle, a part of the prosecuting team, spoke on the matter of bias and recusal based on precedents at the International Court of Justice and the United States Supreme Court, where judges are presumed to be able to render judgments despite what might appear at first glance to be conflicst of interests.
Defense Counsel then proceeded to argue that the Tribunal lacked jurisdiction to consider the actions of the President and Prime Minister. The Prosecution anticipated this line of argument and was prepared with its counter-argument and declared that they are prepared to show that war crimes have been committed and deriving its power directly from the people who refuse to be complicit in war crimes, the people will not be silenced and conscience cannot be silenced. Francis Boyle added that complaints had already been filed at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against both Bush and Blair, but that the ICC had refused prosecution. The Tribunal is expected to overrule Defense objection based on jurisdiction and proceed to the trial of President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Cynthia McKinney is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by Cynthia McKinney
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27749
GEORGE W BUSH AND ANTHONY L BLAIR LIVE STREAMING OF WAR CRIMES TRIAL
Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal
Streaming Video: Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal –
The following URL will stream video of each session of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal within 1-2 hours after the specific session has ended. To access this streaming video please go to:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/war-is-a-crime-exhibition
Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal
Schedule of Sessions
Saturday Nov. 19, 2011 9AM – 5 PM Kuala Lumpur time;
Sunday Nov. 20, 2011 9AM – 5 PM Kuala Lumpur time;
Monday Nov. 21, 2011 9AM – 5 PM Kuala Lumpur time;
Tuesday Nov. 22, 2011 9AM – 5 PM Kuala Lumpur time;
CONVERT TO YOUR TIME ZONE:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Sessions of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal will also be online on You Tube.
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27765
FOR EXAMPLE ,PREVIOUS TRIALS ON WATERBOARDING IN WWII RESULTED IN 15 YEARS HARD LABOUR
“in 1947, the United States charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for carrying out another form of waterboarding on a U.S. civilian. The subject was strapped on a stretcher that was tilted so that his feet were in the air and head near the floor, and small amounts of water were poured over his face, leaving him gasping for air until he agreed to talk.
“Asano was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor,”
sounds to me like that japanese soldier was punished for waterboarding an american…
BUT THIS SCUMS CRIMES AS FAR FAR WORSE THAN JUST WATERBOARDING AND TORTURE ….WE HAVE THE SCUM ON THE RUN……DESPITE THIER TREASONOUS MSM PROPAGANDA OR COMPLETE SILENCE ..HEADS OF STATE ARE NOT IMMUNE FROM INTERNATIONAL LAW ..AND THEY KNOW IT!!!!……FROM MALAYSIA TO CANADA AND SPAIN FRANCE AND GERMANY THE NET IS CLOSING AROUND THESE BLOOD SOAKED MASS MURDERING MEGALOMANIACS
BLAIR FLEES MALAYSIA…….
NO CARE FREE WALK ABOUT BOOK SIGNINGS FOR THIS PIECE OF FILTH
BLAIR HAS MORE THAN JUST WAR CRIMES TO ANSWER FOR…
BUSH FLEES CANADA
Torture Victims to Initiate Private Prosecution against George W. Bush on His Arrival in Canada
Canadian Government Has Legal Obligation under UN Convention Against Torture to Prosecute Alleged Perpetrators of Torture, Rights Groups Say Prominent Individuals and Organizations Sign on in Support
October 19, 2011, Surrey, BC—Tomorrow, four individuals who allege they were tortured during George W. Bush’s tenure as president of the United States will lodge a private prosecution in Provincial Court in Surrey, British Columbia against the former president, who is due to visit Canada for a paid speaking engagement at the Surrey Regional Economic Summit on October 20. The four men will take this step after repeated calls to the Canadian Attorney General to open a torture investigation of George Bush went unanswered. Human rights groups and prominent individuals will sign on in support of the effort.
The four men, Hassan bin Attash, Sami el-Hajj, Muhammed Khan Tumani and Murat Kurnaz, each endured years of inhumane treatment including beatings, chaining to cell walls, being hung from walls or ceilings while handcuffed, lack of access to toilets, sleep, food and water-deprivation, exposure to extreme temperatures, sensory overload and deprivation, and other horrific and illegal treatment while in U.S. custody at military bases in Afghanistan and/or at the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. While three of the plaintiffs have since been released without ever facing charges, Hassan Bin Attash still remains in detention at Guantánamo Bay, though he too has not been formally charged with any wrongdoing.
“I lost my family, my father, my health, my education because of George Bush. Although I was completely innocent, I lost nearly 10 years of my life,” said former Guantánamo detainee and torture survivor Muhammed Khan Tumani. “I suffered greatly while detained at Guantánamo, and continue to suffer. I have restrictions on my travel and cannot travel to see my father who is ill. George Bush must face justice and be held accountable for his actions, which continue to cause me and so many harm.”
On September 29, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ) submitted a 69-page page draft indictment to Attorney General Robert Nicholson, along with more than 4,000 pages of supporting material, setting forth the case against Bush for torture. The indictment, incorporated into the criminal information lodged today, contends that by Bush’s own admission he sanctioned and authorized acts that constitute torture under the Canadian criminal code and the Convention Against Torture (CAT).
Katherine Gallagher, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) who is assisting the plaintiffs, said, “George Bush’s brazen admission to authorizing torture techniques and unlawful detentions, including enforced disappearances, must not be met with indifference. His years of impunity must come to an end. Even if the United States has failed to meet its obligations to hold torturers accountable, Canada has an opportunity and a legal obligation to position itself on the right side of history and the law.”
Matt Eisenbrandt, legal director of the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ), who will submit the filing on men’s behalf, added, “Canadian law could not be clearer. If an alleged torturer is present in Canada, the government has the power to prosecute. As a signatory of the Convention Against Torture, Canada has an obligation to initiate an investigation when Mr. Bush sets foot in this country.”
More than 50 human rights organizations from around the world and prominent individuals signed on to support the call for George W. Bush’s prosecution, including former UN Special Rapporteurs on Torture, Theo van Boven and Manfred Nowak, the International Federation for Human Rights, and the Canadian-based International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group. A number of the human rights organizations which signed on are facing the on-going harms of the “counterterrorism” policies advanced under the Bush administration and then adopted or employed in their own countries.
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak, said: “The main aim of the UN Convention Against Torture was to eradicate safe havens for persons who commit, order, or participate in acts of torture worldwide. States parties to the Convention, including Canada, have a legal obligation to arrest all persons suspected of torture with the aim of bringing them to justice. There is plenty of evidence that President Bush authorized enhanced interrogation methods against suspected terrorists, some of which clearly amount to torture, such as waterboarding.”
Last February, the Center for Constitutional Rights, along with other human rights organizations, attempted to initiate criminal proceedings against Bush during a private speaking engagement in Geneva, but he canceled after news of the planned prosecution came to light. Following the cancellation, CCR and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights released the “Bush Torture Indictment,” which can serve as the basis for country-specific indictments against Bush in any of the 147 countries that have ratified the UN Convention Against Torture or have universal jurisdiction laws for torture.
Prior to the filing of this case, CCR and the CCIJ twice (on Sept. 29, 2011 and Oct. 14, 2011) petitioned Canadian Minister of Justice and Attorney General Robert Nicholson by letter to launch a criminal investigation against Bush during his October 20 visit to Canada, but received no response. George Bush and former U.S. vice president Dick Cheney both recently made trips to Canada, without any legal consequence.
A copy of the filing can be viewed in full here. The Letter of Support is available in English and French.
The Canadian Centre for International Justice works with survivors of genocide, torture and other atrocities to seek redress and bring perpetrators to justice. The CCIJ seeks to ensure that individuals present in Canada who are accused of responsibility for serious human rights violations are held accountable and their victims recognized, supported and compensated. For more information visit www.ccij.ca
The Center for Constitutional Rights, in addition to filing the first cases representing men detained at Guantánamo, has filed universal jurisdiction cases seeking accountability for torture by Bush administration officials in Germany, France and submitted expert opinions and other documentation to ongoing cases in Spain in collaboration with ECCHR. The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change. Further details regarding the Center for Constitutional Rights’ Bush Torture Indictment can be viewed at: http://ccrjustice.org/ourcases/current-cases/bush-torture-indictment.Visit www.ccrjustice.org. Follow @theCCR.
Global Research Articles by Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27171
BUSH IN HIDING IN PARAGUAY…….?
Bush family has purchased large ranch in Paraguay??
NEWS BRIEF: “”Escape to Paraguay? Rumors of Bush Land Deal “, Political Cortex, 10/16/12006
“At least two sources, including Upsidedownworld and Prensa Latina, report rumors of a Bush family purchase of land in northern Paraguay.
“Upsidedownworld writes: “The Governor of Alto Paraguay, Erasmo Rodríguez Acosta has admitted to hearing that George Bush Sr. owns land in the Chaco region of Paraguay, in Paso de Patria. Acosta says that rumor has it that Bush owns near to 70 thousand hectares (173,000 acres) as part of an ecological reserve and/or ranch. However, the governor said he had no documents to prove the rumor.”
“Prensa Latina, writing on October 13, gives a similar story but names George W. Bush rather than his father: An Argentine official regarded the intention of the George W. Bush family to settle on the Acuifero Guarani (Paraguay) as surprising, besides being a bad signal for the governments of the region…Luis D Elia, undersecretary for the Social Habitat in the Argentine Federal Planning Ministry, issued a memo partially reproduced by digital INFOBAE.com, in which he spoke of the purchase by Bush of a 98,842-acre farm in northern Paraguay, between Brazil and Bolivia.”
Now, why would President Bush buy almost 100,000 acres of ranch land in Paraguay? Conventional Wisdom has no answer for this riddle. However, once you understand the next short news segment, matters begin to clear up.
NEWS BRIEF: “Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007:
#25 – US Military in Paraguay Threatens Region”,
Project Censored
“Five hundred U.S. troops arrived in Paraguay with planes, weapons, and ammunition in July 2005, shortly after the Paraguayan Senate granted U.S. troops immunity from national and International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction.”
President Bush has always been very mindful of the possibility of being tried one day for War Crimes, so it makes sense that he might be planning to move to one of the few countries in the world which has already provided for legal protection against International War Crimes.
Do you remember that the President waited to launch his attack on Iraq until he had obtained a War Crimes exemption from the International Court?
Writing in NEWS1933, we reported on the effort of the Bush Administration to gain immunity from the World Court in 2002.
NEWS BRIEF: “US demands total impunity on war crimes:
Ultimatum to Europe in advance of Iraq war”,
World Socialist Web Site, 12 October 2002
“With the Bush administration gearing up for a ‘preemptive’ war against Iraq, Washington this week dispatched a senior US diplomat, Marisa Lino, to Europe to demand that the governments of the European Union (EU) agree to a blanket exemption of all US citizens from the jurisdiction of the newly formed International Criminal Court … it is insisting that governments around the world sign bilateral treaties agreeing not to turn over any American citizens in the event that they are indicted by prosecutors at the court. With the more impoverished and former colonial countries, Washington has threatened to cut off aid unless agreements are signed.”
In early 2003, Bush got his one-year total exemption from War Crimes for himself, for his military commanders, and for his soldiers, just in time for him to launch his war on March 20, 2003. Now that the truth of Depleted Uranium Munitions and of 655,000 Iraqi civilians being killed is beginning to unfold in the public eye, we can see why our President was so anxious about his potential criminal liability before the International Criminal Court!
Another news outlet provides even more information about President Bush’s concerted efforts to gain immunity from War Crimes, before the first American soldier attacked over Iraq’s border.
NEWS BRIEF: “Lessons in Justice: Bush’s European Nightmare”, Scoop News, 15 October 2002
“Clearly the Bush Administration has been issued legal advice that a pre-emptive strike against Iraq at this time would contravene international law and conventions protecting human rights. Could George Bush be tried for war crimes? Yes.
The recently established International Criminal Court is a headache that will not leave Bush. And over this past two weeks, the American President has directed diplomats to hammer out a deal – demand from the Europeans who preside over the court – the total exemption ‘for all Americans’ from ever being tried. If Bush is successful ‘The American People’, United States soldiers, politicians, and the President, will be exempt from being tried for war crimes, international crimes, and crimes against humanity …
the ICC specifically was set up to bring individuals to justice, including heads of state, presidents like Slobadan Milosevic, for crimes against humanity. Should global discord mount against the US post a new Iraq-US war, the President himself, Colin Powell and a host of others potentially could stand trial for war crimes resulting from the Administration’s pre-emptive strike policy.
“Clearly in war, the United States and its peoples are not immune from committing war crimes. The current Bush Administration simply refuses to be tried for them … But the International Criminal Court would by-pass a nation’s identity and seek to identify, arrest, hold in custody, and try alleged criminals – it has the authority to enforce it. The Whitehouse’s spokesperson Ari Fleischer admitted to journalists in July that the ICC already has the power to do so.” (Emphasis added)
Almost two years later, President Bush tried to get an extension of this War Crimes immunity.
NEWS BRIEF: “US wants another UN exemption from war crimes law”,
By Thalif Deen,
Inter Press Service, 24 May 2004
“”UNITED NATIONS-The United States is pushing for a new UN Security Council resolution aimed at exempting its troops from prosecution for war crimes when they serve in any UN peacekeeping operations. If granted, the request would renew an exception first permitted in 2000 and grudgingly repeated by the world body in 2003. It comes as the international community is outraged at abuse, including torture, committed by US soldiers and other personnel against prisoners in a jail in occupied Iraq ….”
The world body refused to grant the Bush Administration another exemption from War Crimes.
Certainly, the Bush Administration has much to fear from a trial in the International Court:
1) Use of Depleted Uranium Munitions which is killing entire populations throughout the whole Middle East — Depleted Uranium Section
2) Use of Depleted Uranium Munitions which is killing most American soldiers who have fought in Iraq — “Beyond Treason DVD: The Battlefield Disaster Created by Depleted Uranium, Toxic Vaccinations, plus Chemical and Biological Agents”
3) Killing up to 655,000 Iraqi citizens by the Coalition Force fighting machine
4) Invading a sovereign country without provocation and commencing to murder and rape its people
5) Sexual humiliations and intense torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere throughout Iraq and Afghanistan
Doubtless you can think of more grounds upon which President Bush could be tried for War Crimes. If this midterm election results in Democrats gaining control over Congress, you just might see a concerted effort to impeach President Bush. Does the script which Bush is acting out call for his impeachment?
If it does, you might see a reenactment of the President Nixon impeachment trial, where the President resigns after the House of Representatives votes to turn the matter over to the Senate.
Is this the reason President Bush has suddenly bought a 100,000-acre ranch in Paraguay — one country which would protect George W. Bush and any of his civilian and military officials whom the International Court seeks to try?
And, if Bush resigns, will he fly to Paraguay, to escape prosecution by the World Court? After all, he would be simply a private citizen after his resignation, and very vulnerable to being tried by the World Court. We can only wait to see how matters turn out, but next year could be most interesting..
RUMSFELD FLEES BOSTON AND FRANCE…..
Welcome to Boston, Mr. Rumsfeld. You Are Under Arrest
by Ralph Lopez
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been stripped of legal immunity for acts of torture against US citizens authorized while he was in office.
The 7th Circuit made the ruling in the case of two American contractors who were tortured by the US military in Iraq after uncovering a smuggling ring within an Iraqi security company. The company was under contract to the Department of Defense. The company was assisting Iraqi insurgent groups in the “mass acquisition” of American weapons. The ruling comes as Rumsfeld begins his book tour with a visit to Boston on Monday, September 26, and as new, uncensored photos of Abu Ghraib spark fresh outrage across Internet. Awareness is growing that Bush-era crimes went far beyond mere waterboarding.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters in 2004 of photos withheld by the Defense Department from Abu Ghraib, “The American public needs to understand, we’re talking about rape and murder here… We’re not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience. We’re talking about rape and murder and some very serious charges.” And journalist Seymour Hersh says: “boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has.”
Rumsfeld resigned days before a criminal complaint was filed in Germany in which the American general who commanded the military police battalion at Abu Ghraib had promised to testify. General Janis Karpinski in an interview with Salon.com was asked: “Do you feel like Rumsfeld is at the heart of all of this and should be held completely accountable for what happened [at Abu Ghraib]?”
Karpinski answered: “Yes, absolutely.” In the criminal complaint filed in Germany against Rumsfeld, Karpinski submitted 17 pages of testimony and offered to appear before the German prosecutor as a witness. Congressman Kendrick Meek of Florida, who participated in the hearings on Abu Ghraib, said of Rumsfeld:
“There was no way Rumsfeld didn’t know what was going on. He’s a guy who wants to know everything.”
And Major General Antonio Taguba, who led the official Army investigation into Abu Ghraib, said in his report:
“there is no longer any doubt as to whether the [Bush] administration has committed war crimes. The only question is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.”
Amazingly, the two American contractors in the 7th Circuit decision were known by the military to be working undercover for the FBI, to whom they had reported witnessing the sale of U.S government munitions to Iraqi rebel groups. The FBI in Iraq had vouched for Vance and Ertel numerous times before they nevertheless disappeared into military custody. They were held at Camp Cropper in Iraq where the two were tortured, one for 97 days, and the other for six weeks.
The 7th Circuit ruling is the latest in a growing number of legal actions involving hundreds of former prisoners and torture victims filed in courts around the world. Criminal complaints have been filed against Rumsfeld and other Bush administration officials in Germany, France, and Spain. Former President Bush recently curbed travel to Switzerland due to fear of arrest following criminal complaints lodged in Geneva. “He’s avoiding the handcuffs,” Reed Brody, counsel for Human Rights Watch, told Reuters.
And the Mayor of London threatened Bush with arrest for war crimes earlier this year should he ever set foot in his city, saying that were he to land in London to “flog his memoirs,” that “the real trouble — from the Bush point of view — is that he might never see Texas again.”
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief-of-Staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson surmised on MSNBC earlier this year that soon, Saudi Arabia and Israel will be “the only two countries Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest will travel to.”
What would seem to make Rumsfeld’s situation more precarious is the number of credible former officials and military officers who seem to be eager to testify against him, such as Col. Wilkerson and General Janis Karpinsky.
In a signed declaration in support of torture plaintiffs in a civil suit naming Rumsfeld in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, Col. Wilkerson, one of Rumsfeld’s most vociferous critics, stated: “I am willing to testify in person regarding the content of this declaration, should that be necessary.” That declaration, among other things, affirmed that a documentary on the chilling murder of a 22-year-old Afghan farmer and taxi driver in Afghanistan was “accurate.” Wilkerson said earlier this year that in that case, and in the case of another murder at Bagram at about the same time, “authorization for the abuse went to the very top of the United States government.”
RUN RUMMY RUN…THOSE OLD EUROPE CHEESE EATING SURRENDER MONKIES ARE COMING TO GET YOU!!!
Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fled France today fearing arrest over charges of “ordering and authorizing” torture of detainees at both the American-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the US military’s detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, unconfirmed reports coming from Paris suggest.
US embassy officials whisked Rumsfeld away yesterday from a breakfast meeting in Paris organized by the Foreign Policy magazine after human rights groups filed a criminal complaint against the man who spearheaded President George W. Bush’s “war on terror” for six years.
Under international law, authorities in France are obliged to open an investigation when a complaint is made while the alleged torturer is on French soil.
According to activists in France, who greeted Rumsfeld shouting “murderer” and “war criminal” at the breakfast meeting venue, US embassy officials remained tight-lipped about the former defense secretary’s whereabouts citing “security reasons”.
Anti-torture protesters in France believe that the defense secretary fled over the open border to Germany, where a war crimes case against Rumsfeld was dismissed by a federal court. But activist point out that under the Schengen agreement that ended border checkpoints across a large part of the European Union, French law enforcement agents are allowed to cross the border into Germany in pursuit of a fleeing fugitive.
“Rumsfeld must be feeling how Saddam Hussein felt when US forces were hunting him down,” activist Tanguy Richard said. “He may never end up being hanged like his old friend, but he must learn that in the civilized world, war crime doesn’t pay.”
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) along with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), and the French League for Human Rights (LDH) filed the complaint on Thursday after learning that Rumsfeld was scheduled to visit Paris.
http://wor.ldne.ws/node/8596
So now we have Donald Rumsfeld for war crimes and resisting arrest.
http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/35470
DICK “DARTH” CHENEY…THE WORLDS LEAST WANTED MAN
Protesters Rally in Vancouver Demanding Arrest of Dick Cheney
Coverage of Canadian and US Media. Links to Selected Articles
by Lawyers against the War (LAW)
http://mwcnews.net/news/americas/13720-cheney-greeted.html
Cheney greeted by protesters in Vancouver
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/09/26/bc-dick-cheney-vancouver-protest.html
Cheney to spur Vancouver protest
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i05Fb6C9KkMa_zQKX0P9_hh1sJrw?docId=CNG.61fdb3c26d9af2a5d7089e64b2d243a2.501
Canadians protest ‘murderer’ Cheney’s visit
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/derrick/2011/09/why-its-important-protest-dick-cheneys-visit-canada
Why it’s important to protest Cheney’s visit to Vancouver
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Rights+group+sees+Cheney+Vancouver+visit+arrest+opportunity/5455685/story.html
Rights group sees Cheney Vancouver visit arrest opportunity
http://www.globaltvbc.com/bar+former+us+vice-president+from+canada+ndp+immigration+critic/6442489330/story.html
Barr Cheney from Canada
http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110926/bc_dick_cheney_protest_110926/20110926?hub=BritishColumbiaHome
NDP wants to bar Cheney
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2011/09/26/bar-dick-cheney-from-canada-vancouver-mp/
Bar Dick Cheney
http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article/281634–group-calls-for-dick-cheney-s-arrest
Group calls for Cheney arrest
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/1265041.html
Rights group wants Cheney charged
http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110926/bc_dick_cheney_speech_protest_110926/20110926/?hub=BritishColumbiaHome
Rowdy crowd protests Cheney’s Vancouver visit
http://www.visabureau.com/canada/news/26-09-2011/canadian-mp-calls-for-rejection-of-visa-for-former-us-vice-president.aspx
Canadian MP calls for rejection of visa
http://vancouver.openfile.ca/blog/curator-blog/curated-news/2011/dick-cheney-comes-vancouver-groups-call-his-arrest
Dick Cheney comes-vancouver groups call for his arrest
http://ozarksfirst.com/fulltext?nxd_id=528567
Dick Cheney’s visit to Vancouver draws protest
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/311973
Canadian MP calls for barring Cheney
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs/publishersplatform/2011/09/26/dick-cheney-reviled-international-rights-group-vancouver-club
Dick Cheney reviled
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/derrick/2011/09/why-its-important-protest-dick-cheneys-visit-canada
Why its important to protest Cheney’s visit
http://cfjctv.com/story.php?id=4620
MP wants former US VP banned
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/dick-cheney-unapologetic-defies-vancouver-protesters/article2181194/
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/large-crowd-of-protesters-greets–dick-cheney-outside-vancouver-club-130605888.html
Crowd of protesters greet dick cheney
http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110926/bc_dick_cheney_speech_protest_110926/20110926/?hub=BritishColumbiaHome
Rowdy crowd protests Dick Cheney
http://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/65143/Barring-Cheney-from-Canada
Barring Cheney from Canada
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/26/protests-greet-cheney-event-in-vancouver
Protests greet Cheney
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Dick+Cheney+always+right/5461614/story.html
Dick Cheney always right
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Hundreds+protest+former+vice+president+Dick+Cheney+outside+Vancouver+Club/5461549/story.html
Hundreds protest VP Dick Cheney
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Photos+Anti+Cheney+protesters+outside+Vancouver+Club/5461561/story.html
Antiwar protesters outside Vancouver Club
http://www.globaltvbc.com/protesters+rally+for+dick+cheneys+arrest+outside+sold-out+event/6442489895/story.html
Protesters rally for Dick Cheney’s arrest
http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article/281789–protesters-shout-shove-chant-and-boo-outside-cheney-event
Protesters shout, shove chant and boo
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/dick-cheney-unapologetic-defies-vancouver-protesters/article2181194/
Dick Cheney, unapologetic, defies Vancouver protesters
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-politics/cheney-heads-to-vancouver-amid-ndp-call-he-be-barred-from-canada/article2180226/
BC MP calls for Cheney to be barred
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26806
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26690
In Canada: Matt Eisenbrandt, CCIJ, (604) 569-1778, meisenbrandt@ccij.ca
Djia Mambu, CCIJ, (613) 744-7667 x266, dmambu@ccij.ca
In U.S.: Jen Nessel, CCR, (212) 614-6449, press@ccrjustice.org
David Lerner, Riptide Communications, (212) 260-5000, dlerner@riptideonline.com
MEANWHILE THE NEXT GENERATION OF POLITICAL WAR CRIMINALS DESPERATELY TRY TO CHANGE THE LAW SO TO PROTECT THIER WAR CRIMINAL PARTNERS, BLACKMAILERS AND PAYMASTERS
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/uk-and-us-say-make-war-not-love-a-disgrace-british-ministers-legislate-for-war-criminals-to-walk-free-in-london-while-julian-assange-is-arrested/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/uk-government-does-what-its-israelli-masters-tell-it-again/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/will-cameron-and-hague-start-a-war-with-iran/
DEMOCRAT OBAMA TO THE REPUBLICAN TORTURERS RESCUE…THE DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN WAR MACHINE KEEPS TURNING
Obama: Torturers’ Last Defense
The prospect of Rumsfeld in a courtroom cannot possibly be relished by the Obama administration, which has now cast itself as the last and staunchest defender of the embattled former officials, including John Yoo, Alberto Gonzalez, Judge Jay Bybee, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, and others. The administration employed an unprecedented twisting of arms in order to keep evidence in a lawsuit which Binyam had filed in the UK suppressed, threatening an end of cooperation between the British MI5 and the CIA. This even though the British judges whose hand was forced puzzled that the evidence contained “no disclosure of sensitive intelligence matters.” The judges suggested another reason for the secrecy requested by the Obama administration, that it might be “politically embarrassing.”
The Obama Justice Department’s active involvement in seeking the dismissal of the cases is by choice, as the statutory obligation of the US Attorney General to defend cases against public officials ends the day they leave office. Indeed, the real significance of recent court decisions, the one by the 7th Circuit and yet another against Rumsfeld in a DC federal court, may be the clarif ication the common misconception that high officials are forever immune for crimes committed while in office, in the name of the state. The misconception persists despite just a moment of thought telling one that if this were true, Hermann Goering, Augusto Pinochet, and Charles Taylor would never have been arrested, for they were all in office at the time they ordered atrocities, and they all invoked national security.
Judge Kessler’s findings point to yet another even more alarming aspect of the Bush-era crimes for which Rumsfeld is now being pursued for his part. And that is the emerging evidence that the tortures perpetrated were not designed to protect national security at all, but to obtain false confessions in order to score propaganda points for the War on terror.
The UK Guardian writes:
“The sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison was not an invention of maverick guards, but part of a system of ill-treatment and degradation used by special forces soldiers that is now being disseminated among ordinary troops and contractors who do not know what they are doing, according to British military sources. The techniques devised in the system, called R2I – resistance to interrogation – match the crude exploitation and abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad.
“One former British special forces officer who returned last week from Iraq, said: ‘It was clear from discussions with US private contractors in Iraq that the prison guards were using R2I techniques, but they didn’t know what they were doing.’”
Torture Now Aimed at Americans, Programs Designed to Obtain False Confessions, Not Intelligence
The worst of the worst is that Rumsfeld’s logic strikes directly at the foundations of our democracy and the legitimacy of the War on Terror. The torture methods studied and adopted by the Bush administration were not new, but adopted from the Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape program (SERE) which is taught to elite military units. The program was developed during the Cold War, in response to North Korean, Chinese, and Soviet Bloc torture methods. But the aim of those methods was never to obtain intelligence, but to elicit false confessions. The Bush administration asked the military to “reverse engineer” the methods, i.e. figure out how to break down resistance to false confessions.
In the 2008 Senate Armed Services Committee report which indicted high-level Bush administration officials, including Rumsfeld, as bearing major responsibility for the torture at Abu Gharib, Guantanamo, and Bagram, the Committee said:
“SERE instructors explained “Biderman’s Principles” – which were based on coercive methods used by the Chinese Communist dictatorship to elicit false confessions from U.S. POWs during the Korean War
This could go far toward explaining why the Bush administration seemed so tone-deaf to intelligence professionals, including legendary CIA Director William Colby, who essentially told them they were doing it all wrong. A startling level of consensus existed within the intelligence community that the way to produce good intelligence was to gain the trust of prisoners and to prove everything they had been told by their recruiters, about the cruelty and degeneracy of America, to be wrong.
But why would the administration care about what worked to produce intelligence, if the goal was never intelligence in the first place? What the Ponzi scheme of either innocent men or low-level operatives incriminating each other DID accomplish, was produce a framework of rapid successes and trophies in the new War on Terror.
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/what-a-blackmailed-credit-card-thief-looks-like-and-a-protector-of-paedophiles/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/the-rich-get-richer-the-poor-get-the-picture/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/mission-accomplished-bin-laden-goal-is-to-bankrupt-u-s/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/a-short-history-of-global-domination-or-rockefella-rothschild-and-the-capitalist-communist-nwo-con/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/bank-corruption-and-fraudthe-who-the-how-and-the-why-and-the-simple-solution/
TO ALL THOSE HEROES CHASING DOWN THESE SCUM, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK AND GOOD HUNTING!!!
REMEMBER THESE SCUM HAVE TO SPEND THIER LIVES BEHIND SECURITY CORDONS AND HAVE TO TAKE EXPENSIVE LEGAL ADVICE ANY TIME THEY PLAN TO TRAVEL,ALL THANKS TO PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELVES……AND THOSE AROUND THEM ARE ONLY THERE FOR THE MONEY ,THE POWER OR THE BLACKMAIL AND WILL DESERT THEM LIKE RATS FROM A SHIP AS SOON AS THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL….THERE IS NO HONOUR AMOUNGST THIEVES ,MURDERERS AND BLACKMAILERS…EVEN THESE SCUM KNOW THIS ,AND THAT IS WHY THEY WILL NOT BE SLEEPING WELL AT NIGHT AND WILL SEE EVERY PLACARD AND ANGRY MOB NO MATTER HOW HARD THEY TRY AND IGNORE IT!!
WALK ON WITH HOPE IN YOUR HEART ,COS YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE
PROTEST AND SURVIVE!!
CRY HAVOC AND UNLEASH THE DOGS OF WAR CRIMES!!!
THERE’S NO JUSTICE , THERE’S JUST US!!
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/33/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/a-short-history-of-global-domination-or-rockefella-rothschild-and-the-capitalist-communist-nwo-con/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/are-us-wars-in-iraq-and-afghanistan-well-intended-mistakes-what-we-now-know-from-the-evidence/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/iranian-oil-bourse-the-real-reason-for-war-with-iran/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/tony-blair-liar-and-traitor-and-eu-reject/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/blair-and-bush-and-co-war-criminals-named-and-shamed-now-lets-hunt-them-down-like-the-dogs-they-are/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/tony-blair-admits-war-crimes/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/us-government-making-a-killing-on-war/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/is-this-the-most-repungant-man-on-earth-tony-blair-the-anti-hippyall-he-is-saying-is-give-war-a-chance/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/tony-blair-war-criminal-and-front-runner-for-eu-president-a-man-that-no-one-wants/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/us-government-terrorists-still-in-power-iran-contra-to-911/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/uk-government-blackmailed-into-war-blair-covers-mps-paedophile-ring-and-the-dunblane-massacre/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/usa-harbouring-terrorists-should-the-un-declare-war-on-this-rogue-terrorist-nation/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/where-have-all-the-burger-eating-war-monkeys-gone-cry-havoc-and-unleash-the-dogs-of-war-crimes/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/raoul-moat-tony-blair-or-the-police-who-is-the-biggest-murderer/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/bonuses-for-dummies-or-the-bonus-myth/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/dying-for-drugs-drugs-war-finance-and-your-government-representative/
https://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/how-do-we-achieve-freedom-liberty-and-democracy-without-fuss-or-bloodshed/