zondag 24 oktober 2010

Western Terrorism 4


Let u even op de data. Ik heb deze informatie jarenlang opgestuurd naar Nederlandse parlementariers. Geen 1 van hen heeft ooit een reactie gegeven of daadwerkelijk iets in het parlement ondernomen tegen deze onthulde feiten, terwijl toch Nederlandse militairen hierbij op zijn minst indirect betrokken waren. Geen 1, niet van rechts, niet van links. 



zaterdag 25 februari 2006


Martelen 22



Onze bondgenoot in de 'war on terror' heeft zijn gevangenis in Afghanistan uitgebreid. Daar zullen binnenkort ongetwijfeld de belangrijkste gevangenen van de Nederlandse militairen in Uruzgan gemarteld worden. De New York Times bericht: 'An Afghan Prison Expands, Filling Guantánamo's Role. While an international debate rages over the future of the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the military has quietly expanded another, less-visible prison in Afghanistan, where it now holds some 500 terror suspects in more primitive conditions, indefinitely and without charges. Pentagon officials have often described the detention site at Bagram, a cavernous former machine shop on an American air base 40 miles north of Kabul, as a screening center. They said most of the detainees were Afghans who might eventually be released under an amnesty program or transferred to an Afghan prison that is to be built with American aid. But some of the detainees have already been held at Bagram for as long as two or three years. And unlike those at Guantánamo, they have no access to lawyers, no right to hear the allegations against them and only rudimentary reviews of their status as "enemy combatants," military officials said. Privately, some administration officials acknowledge that the situation at Bagram has increasingly come to resemble the legal void that led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling in June 2004 affirming the right of prisoners at Guantánamo to challenge their detention in United States courts. While Guantánamo offers carefully scripted tours for members of Congress and journalists, Bagram has operated in rigorous secrecy since it opened in 2002. It bars outside visitors except for the international red cross and refuses to make public the names of those held there. The prison may not be photographed, even from a distance. From the accounts of former detainees, military officials and soldiers who served there, a picture emerges of a place that is in many ways rougher and more bleak than its Cuban counterpart. Men are held by the dozen in large wire cages, the detainees and military sources said, sleeping on the floor on foam mats and, until about a year ago, often using plastic buckets for latrines. Before recent renovations, they rarely saw daylight except for brief visits to a small exercise yard. "Bagram was never meant to be a long-term facility, and now it's a long-term facility without the money or resources," said one Defense Department official who has toured the detention center. Comparing the prison with Guantánamo, the official added, "Anyone who has been to Bagram would tell you it's worse." Former detainees said the renovations had improved conditions somewhat, and humans rights groups said reports of abuse had declined steadily there since 2003. Nonetheless, the Pentagon's chief adviser on detainee issues, Charles D. Stimson, declined to be interviewed on Bagram, as did senior detention officials at the United States Central Command, which oversees military operations in Afghanistan. The military's chief spokesman in Afghanistan, Col. James R. Yonts, also refused to discuss detainee conditions, other than to say repeatedly that his command was "committed to treating detainees humanely, and providing the best possible living conditions and medical care in accordance with the principles of the Geneva Convention." Other military and administration officials said the growing detainee population at Bagram, which rose from about 100 prisoners at the start of 2004 to as many as 600 at times last year, according to military figures, was in part the result of a Bush administration decision to shut off the flow of detainees into Guantánamo after the Supreme Court ruled that those prisoners had some basic due-process rights under United States law. The question of whether those same rights apply to detainees in Bagram has not yet been tested in court. Until the court ruling, Bagram functioned as a central clearing house for the global fight against terror. Military and intelligence personnel there sifted through captured Afghan rebels and suspected terrorists seized in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere, sending the most valuable and dangerous to Guantánamo for extensive interrogation, and generally releasing the rest.' Lees verder:
http://nytimes.com/2006/02/26/international/26bagram.html?hp&ex=1140930000&en=5ecf85c2251c315d&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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zaterdag 18 november 2006


Martelen 57





Deze misdaden worden militair en politiek gesteund door het Nederlandse kabinet.
'End Torture by the United States.
Protest military intelligence training that fosters humiliation, intimidation and torture.Sunday, November 19, 2006 - 2:30 to 4:00 PMHeadquarters for Army Intelligence Training Fort Huachuca, ArizonaNortheast Corner of Fry Avenue and Buffalo Soldier Trail in Sierra Vista, Arizona.Survivors of torture by the United States will share their stories at this protest.The Army Intelligence Training Center at Fort Huachuca educates military personnel in torture and these students go on to train people in torture all across the globe. The United States is responsible for using torture and training other governments in the most modern methods of torture. The Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual was published by Army Intelligence Training Center at Fort Huachuca. It is used to train people in torture. Abu Ghraibis only one of many places where the U.S. tortured opponents of U.S. policy. The Red Cross believes that the U.S. may have tortured Iraqis at a number of prisons as well as at Guantanamo Bay and the Bagram Control Point in Afghanistan. Activists in the United States are also tortured by people trained at Fort Huachuca.
Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast, the highest-ranking intelligence officer tied to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal is in charge of the U.S. Army's main interrogation training facility at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, formerly in charge of interrogations at Guantanamo Bay and credited in Maj. Gen. George Fay's investigation with instituting the use of dogs at Abu Ghraib, is now the senior commander in charge of detention operations in Iraq.
Two soldiers with ties to Arizona's Fort Huachuca are among 28 military personnel facing possible criminal charges in the beating death of a pair of suspects at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan two years ago. Army investigators said some of the same officers and soldiers stationed at the Bagram Control Point in Afghanistan at the time of the detainee deaths were sent to Abu Ghraib and were at the Iraq prison when the abuses occurred there.
This protest is coordinated with the actions at The United States Army School of the Americas, now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, located at Fort Benning, adjacent to Columbus, Georgia. The United States Army School of the Americas trains commissioned and non-commissioned officers from Latin American militaries. Many of its graduates have returned to their home countries and committed such atrocities as rapes, disappearances, torture, and assassination; they have organized death squads and paramilitaries to counter insurgencies and maintain power.
Sponsored by Tucson SOA Watch (National SOA Watch: www.soaw.org) For more information call 520- 620-0480 or 520- 748-8028 or toll free at 1-800-884-1136 Carpool caravan will leave Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson at 1PM. http://www.consensus.net/end_us_torture.html '

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zondag 28 oktober 2007


Martelen 84


'Taxi to the Dark SideMust Watch Award-Winning Documentary
The film documents how Rumsfeld, together with the White House legal team, were able to convince Congress to approve the use of torture against prisoners of war. Taxi to the Dark Side is the definitive exploration of the introduction of torture as an interrogation technique in U.S. facilities, and the role played by key figures of the Bush Administration in the process.
Over one hundred prisoners have died in suspicious circumstances in U.S. custody during the "war on terror". Taxi to the Dark Side takes an in-depth look at one case: an Afghan taxi driver called Dilawar who was considered an honest and kind man by the people of his rustic village. So when he was detained by the U.S military one afternoon, after picking up three passengers, denizens wondered why this man was randomly chosen to be held in prison, and, especially, without trial? Five days after his arrest Dilawar died in his Bagram prison cell. His death came within a week of another death of a detainee at Bagram. The conclusion, with autopsy evidence, was that the former taxi driver and the detainee who passed away before him, had died due to sustained injuries inflicted at the prison by U.S. soldiers. The documentary, by award-winning producer Alex Gibney, carefully develops the last weeks of Dilawar’s life and shows how decisions taken at the pinnacle of power in the Bush Administration led directly to Dilawar’s brutal death.'

Lees verder: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18635.htm

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donderdag 25 juni 2009


De Westerse Terreur 28


De BBC en Amnesty Intyernational spreken van 'abuses'. In feite gaat het om martelen dat zelfs tot de dood leidt.


Detainees Were Also Murdered at Bagram in Afghanistan

A new report documenting the torture of more than two-dozen former prisoners held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan between 2002 and 2008 comes several months after a bipartisan Congressional committee linked the murder of two detainees held at the same prison facility to policies enacted by George W. Bush and ex-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
The April report released by the Senate Armed Services Committee on the treatment of prisoners held in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan concluded that a combination of various torture techniques coupled with a series of brutal beatings administered by military interrogators caused the deaths of the two prisoners in December 2002. One of the detainees, identified in the report as Dilawar, was the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary "Taxi to the Dark Side."

According to the Armed Services Committee report, another detainee identified as Habibullah was killed two days after Rumsfeld authorized the use of "enhanced interrogation" techniques against prisoners in Afghanistan. Dilawar was murdered six days after Habibullah was killed. The report labeled their deaths homicides.

According to a detailed account in 2005 in The New York Times, Dilawar, a taxi driver, was apprehended December 5 by US forces and taken to Bagram and interrogated about a rocket attack on an American base.

Dilawar was chained by his wrists to the ceiling of his cell for four days and brutally beaten by Army interrogators on his legs for hours on end to the point where he could no longer bend them. He died on December 10, 2002.

Lt. Col. Elizabeth Rouse, an Air Force medical examiner who performed an autopsy on Dilawar, said Dilawar's leg was pummeled so badly that the "tissue was falling apart and had basically been pulpified."

"Had Dilawar lived," Rouse told Army investigators in sworn testimony, "I believe the injury to the legs are so extensive that it would have required amputation. I've seen similar injuries in an individual run over by a bus."
Lees verder: http://www.truthout.org/062509A





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