1. “British journalist and historian Andy Worthington, an expert and author on Guantanamo, reports that the man who had supplied a key false tie between Iraq and al-Qaeda — after being tortured in Egypt, where he had been rendered by the U.S. — has died in a Libyan prison. “Dead of suicide in his cell,” according to a Libyan newspaper.
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Worthington concludes: “The most important question that needs asking just now, of course, is whether it was possible for al-Libi to commit suicide in a Libyan jail, or whether he was murdered. I doubt that we will ever find out the truth…Whatever al-Libi’s actual crimes, his use as a tool in a program of ‘extraordinary rendition’ and torture, exploited shamelessly not to foil future terrorist plots but to yield false information about al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, remains a low point in a ‘War on Terror’ that has few redeeming features.”
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Where he will be joining..
Gary Webb, David Kelly and Bruce Ivins for a bbq at the “Involuntary Suicide Reunion Festival”
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George W. Bush in October 2002: “[W]e’ve learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb making and poisons and gases.” Colin Powell to the UN in February 2003: This is “the story of a senior terrorist operative telling how Iraq provided training in these weapons to al-Qaeda.” Both are based on this individual’s tortured and unreliable testimony.”
http://www.911blogger.com/node/20067
2. “9/11 Mastermind: “During … My Interrogation I Gave A Lot Of False Information In Order To Satisfy What I Believed…”
[Note: The title is too long for 911blogger. The full title is "9/11 Mastermind: "'During ... My Interrogation I Gave A Lot Of False Information In Order To Satisfy What I Believed The Interrogators Wished To Hear' ".
If I could have added the word "Alleged" at the beginning, I would have. But that didn't fit even on my own blog.]
The Red Cross is the organization charged with deciding what is torture and what isn’t.
The International Committee of the Red Cross interviewed Khalid Shaikh Mohammed – the alleged 9/11 mastermind – at Guantanamo Bay.
Here’s what KSM told the Red Cross:
During the harshest period of my interrogation I gave a lot of false information in order to satisfy what I believed the interrogators wished to hear in order to make the ill-treatment stop. I later told the interrogators that their methods were stupid and counterproductive. I’m sure that the false information I was forced to invent in order to make the ill-treatment stop wasted a lot of their time and led to several false red-alerts being placed in the U.S.
Straight from the horse’s mouth:
- Torture doesn’t work; and
- The 9/11 Commission report was based on worthless confessions extracted by torture (and, as I’ve previously discussed, the witness who fingered Khalid Shaikh Mohammed as the mastermind of 9/11 was himself literally crazy)
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One of the comments that was very poignant in Vincent Bugliosi’s book “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder” was a line where Bugliosi actually says “the one thing you have to give Bush and Cheney is that they have the gonads of ten thousand elephants”.
Since it is well known by interrogators that torture can produce unreliable information due to the victim being willing to say anything to get it to stop, it is now becoming clear that torture would only be used to get people to falsely confess to things. It is now obvious that Bush and Cheney and co. used it to attempt to generate patsies for 911, false links of Iraq to Al Queda and 911, and generally to keep their resource wars disguised as a war on terror.
Torture for confessions.. It’s all part of the pattern of deceit — A misdirection to protect the perps who are the true evil doers behind 9/11.
In a false flag operation patsies have to be framed and evidence has to be fabricated. Fake OBL confession and tortured KSM ‘confession.’ Fake pancake, fake anthrax, fake yellow-cake. Fake links to Iraq. Fake blips on radar from war games. Fake stories of WMDs.“
http://www.911blogger.com/node/20066
3. “U.S. Admited Using White Phosphorous as an Offensive Weapon in 2005
People are rightly outraged that the U.S. appears to be using white phosphorous as an offensive weapon in Afghanistan.
But this is nothing new.
The U.S. admitted using white phosphorous as an offensive weapon in Iraq in 2005.
As I wrote at the time:
The Battle Book, published by the U.S. Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, contains the following sentence:
“It is against the law of land warfare to employ WP against personnel targets.”
Indeed, it is interesting to note that the U.S. previously called white phosphorous a chemical weapon when Saddam used it against the Kurds.“
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/05/us-admited-using-white-phosphourous-as.html
4. “Obama administration threatens Britain to keep torture evidence concealed
The Washington Times‘ Eli Lake reported this morning that “the Obama administration [said] it may curtail Anglo-American intelligence sharing if the British High Court discloses new details of the treatment of a former Guantanamo detainee.” Last month, when I interviewed Mohamed’s lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, he made clear just how grave of an act — a crime — such threats are, but nonetheless expressed hope that the Obama administration would repudiate those threats
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Just think how despicable that threat is: if your court describes the torture to which one of your residents was subjected while in U.S. custody, we will withhold information from you that could enable you to break up terrorist plots aimed at your citizens.
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That definitive evidence came, and it leaves no doubt that these threats to the British government are now being issued every bit as emphatically from Obama. I’ve obtained a copy of the letter excerpts submitted to the British court (.pdf – see pages 6-9), submitted by the British Government to prove that the U.S., under Obama, is continuing to make these threats.
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In other words: if you let your courts describe how we tortured Mohamed — even if your laws compel such disclosure — we may purposely leave your citizens vulnerable to future terrorist attacks by withholding information we obtain about terrorist plots. Smith re-iterated to Lake what he told me last month: that the Obama administration’s actions in issuing these threats in order to hide evidence of torture is itself a criminal act
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Independently, Article 9 of the Convention Against Torture requires that “States Parties shall afford one another the greatest measure of assistance in connection with civil proceedings brought in respect of any of the offences referred to in article 4, including the supply of all evidence at their disposal necessary for the proceedings.” If the U.S. were a country that adhered to its treaty obligations — rather than systematically ignored them whenever the mood struck — that, too, would be significant.”
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
