1. “Cynthia McKinney and 3 of the Gaza 21 July 4 prison call
I’m curious about why the State Department isn’t getting involved. Isn’t that their job? She’s only a former 6-term (?) Congresswoman, and former Presidential candidate for the Green Party.
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I can’t believe you can’t find this story anywhere. Even NPR hasn’t mentioned it. Not one reporter out there is questioning anyone. Not the State Dept. not the Whitehouse. Wow this is really pathetic isn’t it. If you mention the story to people they don’t believe it cause it would have been on the news. Maybe we need to petition someone like Jimmy Carter to make some noise somewhere.”
http://www.911blogger.com/node/20558#comment-211206
2. “Saudis give nod to Israeli raid on Iran
The head of Mossad, Israel’s overseas intelligence service, has assured Benjamin Netanyahu, its prime minister, that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over the kingdom during any future raid on Iran’s nuclear sites.
Earlier this year Meir Dagan, Mossad’s director since 2002, held secret talks with Saudi officials to discuss the possibility.
The Israeli press has already carried unconfirmed reports that high-ranking officials, including Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister, held meetings with Saudi colleagues. The reports were denied by Saudi officials.
“The Saudis have tacitly agreed to the Israeli air force flying through their airspace on a mission which is supposed to be in the common interests of both Israel and Saudi Arabia,” a diplomatic source said last week.
Although the countries have no formal diplomatic relations, an Israeli defence source confirmed that Mossad maintained “working relations” with the Saudis.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6638568.ece
3. “General called Gitmo translators ‘worthless,’ interrogators ‘inexperienced’
A newly released document from 2005 shows that one of the first commanders of the US-run Guantanamo Bay prison said that he found the prison bedeviled by chaotic conditions and that prison interrogators were “virtually inexperienced.”
He also called the military’s Arabic translators “worthless.”
Now retired Maj. Gen. Michael Dunleavy led Guantanamo’s interrogation operation in early 2002.
Detailing the conditions he discovered upon his arrival, Dunleavy attacked the prison for its lack of security and control over detainees — saying they often rioted and threw food, and turned welded rods and magnets into weapons.
He also said he planned to bring “a commonsense way on how to do business” to the camp.
Another general quoted in the documents — which were released to the American Civil Liberties Union under a Freedom of Information Act request — said he was troubled by some of the proposed interrogation techniques.
Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller said that some interrogation procedures proposed “went beyond what I felt comfortable with,” and that he rejected them.
A 2004 memo also says a detainee was knocked unconscious by guards. Another detainee was said to have been belted and handcuffed to the floor.
“These documents provide further evidence of the widespread and systemic abuse of prisoners conducted at Guantanamo Bay and other overseas locations,” Amrit Singh, a staff attorney with the ACLU, said in a statement. “They further underscore the need for a congressional select committee to examine the roots of the torture program as well as an independent prosecutor to investigate issues of criminal responsibility.”
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/03/revealed-general-called-gitmo-translators-worthless/
4. “Briton Michael Garveigh accused in US of impersonating MI5 agent”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6632578.ece
5. British 7/7 ‘terror attack’:
“As rumours swell that the government staged 7/7, victims’ relatives call for a proper inquiry
Central to the puzzle is which train the four Muslims caught from Luton to London on the morning of the bomb blasts – bearing in mind that the three separate Tube explosions at Edgware Road, Aldgate and King’s Cross occurred together at exactly 8.50am, followed by the red bus an hour later near Tavistock Square.
The official reports said the bombers got on the 7.40am train from Luton which would have arrived at King’s Cross in good time for them to board the Tube trains.
However, the 7.40am train never ran that morning. It was cancelled.
The Government has since corrected this information – but only after the error was raised by survivors – saying the bombers actually caught an earlier train, the 7.25am from Luton, for the 35-minute journey to King’s Cross. It was due to arrive in the capital at 8am.
Yet this throws up more questions than it answers. For this train ran 23 minutes late because of problems with the overhead line which disrupted most of the service between Luton to King’s Cross that morning. It arrived in London at 8.23am, say station officials.
According to the July Seventh Truth Campaign – another group calling for a public inquiry – this again places the official version of the bombers’ travelling times in doubt.
A still CCTV photo of the four bombers arriving at the station in Luton is the only one of the four men together on July 7. Controversially, no CCTV images, either still or moving, of them in London have ever been released.
The Luton image is also contentious: the quality is poor and the faces of three of the bombers are unidentifiable. The conspiracy theorists say it could be a fake.
This photo is timed at four seconds before 7.22am. But if this were the case, the men would have had just three minutes to walk up the stairs at Luton, buy their £22 day return tickets and get to the platform, which was packed with commuters because of the earlier travel disruptions.
The Truth Campaign group is equally sceptical about the bombers’ supposed arrival time at King’s Cross.
It takes seven minutes to walk from the Thameslink line station to the main King’s Cross station, where there is an entrance to the Tube network.
Police say the four men were seen on the main King’s Cross concourse at 8.26am, although no CCTV footage has ever been made public.
But is this possible? How had the men got there in three short minutes after getting off the Luton train at 8.23am?
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Why did the four bombers get return tickets to London if they were on a one-way suicide mission? Why are there no CCTV images of the four together in London even though the city has thousands upon thousands of such cameras in public places?
Why did so many survivors of the Tube bombings say that the explosions came upwards through the floor of the trains, not down, as would be the case if a backpack blew up inside? And why do no passengers on the London-bound Luton train clearly remember the four bombers with their huge rucksacks on that fateful morning?
By the most extraordinary coincidence – Ripple Effect says it is a billion-to-one chance – there was a mock terrorist exercise going on in London that day. This was revealed by the organiser and former Scotland Yard officer Peter Power on BBC Radio 5 in the early evening after the atrocity.
He said: ‘At half-past nine this morning we were running an exercise for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up.’”
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14233
6. Honduras:
“The other 9/11 returns to haunt Latin America
The ghost of the other, deadlier 9/11 has returned to stalk Latin America. On Sunday morning, a battalion of soldiers rammed their way into the Presidential Palace in Honduras. They surrounded the bed where the democratically elected President, Manuel Zelaya, was sleeping, and jabbed their machine guns to his chest. They ordered him to get up and marched him on to a military plane. They dumped him in his pyjamas on a landing strip in Costa Rica and told him never to return to the country that freely chose him as their head of state.
Back home, the generals locked down the phone networks, the internet and international TV channels, and announced their people were in charge now. Only sweet, empty music plays on the radio. Government ministers have been arrested and beaten. If you leave your home after 9pm, the population have been told, you risk being shot. Tanks and tear gas are ranged against the protesters who have thronged on to the streets.
For the people of Latin America, this is a replay of their September 11. On that day in Chile in 1973, Salvador Allende – a peaceful democratic socialist who was steadily redistributing wealth to the poor majority – was bombed from office and forced to commit suicide. He was replaced by a self-described “fascist”, General Augusto Pinochet, who went on to “disappear” tens of thousands of innocent people. The coup was plotted in Washington DC, by Henry Kissinger.
The official excuse for killing Chilean democracy was that Allende was a “communist”. He was not. In fact, he was killed because he was threatening the interests of US and Chilean mega-corporations by shifting the country’s wealth and land from them to its own people. When Salvador Allende’s widow died last week, she seemed like a symbol from another age – and then, a few days later, the coup came back.”
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14232
8. “Former General of all American Intelligence: An Aircraft did not hit the Pentagon on 9/11″
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14239
