by Oui
Wed Nov 20th, 2024 at 11:44:06 AM EST
A Reminder Historic Abu Ghraib Torture Verdict
Historic Abu Ghraib verdict a stark reminder that no one is above the law | TRT World |
A civil rights attorney who represented the three Iraqi men tortured during the US's war 20 years ago explains the significance of this moment.
From EuroTrib archives ... first diary mentioning Abu Ghraib ... EPIC ... thx dood abides for your great work.
Diary with his photo's still present in Wayback Archive
"The Bush Administration Frog Walk"
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Back to dood abides ... diary of June 2005 ...
"The Bush Administration Frog Walk"
by dood abides - Jun 14th, 2005
Have you guys ever perused those photo essays (propaganda) that they post on the White House website? While they're infuriating, they are a great source of material to photoshop... I figure I'm a taxpayer and if they want to spread government propaganda, I ought to be able to take it and use it as I see fit... well, anyways, that's going to be my story if I ever have to go to trial.
[Before the photoshop artwork, a look into the future ...]
After the world economic collapse and ensuing depression of 2007, America seems to be finally recovering some of its footing and purpose as a nation three years later. However, the damage that has been done is devastating and will require generations to repair and rebuild. In this first part of a series, Future News Network examines some of the key people responsible for this disaster five years ago, and where they are now.
Many knowledgeable people still debate what some of the main causes for America's collapse were. Some credit the Democratic walkout from congress in the fall of 2005, over the controversy of pushing forward legislation to reinstate a military draft to shore up support for the failing occupation of Iraq. By the time that the last official American contingent left last year, the Iraq war was responsible for the deaths of over 5000 American servicemen, and the estimates range between 100,000 and 500,000 Iraqis.
Others credit the whole policy of historical revisionism by neo-conservatives which resulted in attempts to pursue world domination through pre-emptive aggression as well as enforced revisiting of the failed theories of "Trickle-Down Economics" from the Reagan era. Others still ascribe blame to the Bush family and affiliated corporations in conjunction with Saudi Royals for "gaming" the Oil Peak issue for profit.
Perhaps the most controversial theory of all is the exposure of the so-called "Kool-Aid Papers". This being the eventual leaking of top secret government studies examining the effects of selenium, mercury, and other heavy metal contaminants in ground water, and the resultant docility and suggestibility of the central nervous system ...
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It is perhaps a combination of factors, but the end result was catastrophe for America and the world, with profit for but a few. This story recounts the men and women of the Bush Administration who were ultimately responsible and their journey to justice.
Exactly five years to the day, after the prior conviction of Saddam Husein, George W. Bush is escorted into an Iraqi courtroom to face charges of war crimes. He passes through the very doors of the courtroom in which Hussein was subsequently found guilty and later executed.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney immediately went undercover after the fall of the administration, surfacing occasionally to give subpoenaed testimony in regards to his dealings with the now dissolved Halliburton Corporation. Halliburton and subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root were accused, in a special congressional investigation two years ago of war profiteering through no-bid contracts, which were later proven to be authorized by Vice President Cheney. America was stunned, as within weeks after convening the hearings, Halliburton dissolved overnight in an Enron-like fashion leaving small investors and employees penniless. Mr. Cheney vanished at that time, and many angry shareholders assumed that he had left the country.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, as he was arrested outside Hilton Head, SC. He was charged initially with driving while intoxicated, exceeding safe limits, reckless endangerment, and carrying a concealed weapon.
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ISIS Was Born In An American Detention Facility (And It Wasn't Gitmo) | Lawfare |
U.S. Military Now Says ISIS Leader Was Held in Notorious Abu Ghraib Prison | The Intercept |
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's presence at the prison in Iraq provides another possible key to the enigmatic leader's biography and may shed new light on the role U.S. detention facilities played in the rise of the Islamic State.
In February 2015, the Army released Baghdadi's detainee records to Business Insider, in response to a records request. They showed that coalition forces first captured Baghdadi on February 4, 2004, in Fallujah, Iraq, and held him at Camp Bucca. But a line on one of the documents also suggested that Baghdadi had been transferred to Bucca after being held elsewhere -- a detail that was not widely reported.
It turns out that Baghdadi was held at Abu Ghraib, just a stone's throw from where he was captured in Fallujah, for eight of the 10 months that he was in detention. He was only transferred to Camp Bucca, some 400 miles south of Baghdad, on October 13 -- less than two months before his release on December 9.
In the occupation's first few years, U.S. facilities like Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca developed a reputation as "jihadi universities" where hard-line extremists indoctrinated and recruited less radical inmates. Analysts have long suspected that Baghdadi took full advantage of his time at Bucca to link up with the jihadis and former Iraqi military officials who would later fill out the Islamic State's leadership.
US Iraq Asset Killed In Idlib
Baghdadi became a leader while imprisoned during US occupation of Iraq.
His jihadist militia were part of a four-pronged attack on the sovereign state of Syria under cover of the so-called insurgency started in Daraa in 2011, just north of the border from Jordan on the road to Damascus. The southern city of Daraa was called the "Cradle of the Revolution".
Turkey allowed foreign fighters to cross its border at Jisr al-Shughur into Syria, supplied by weapons transported from the Libyan tragedy and funded by ally nation Qatar of the Muslim Brotherhood. This crossing was an important trade route into the Euphrates valley.
Sunni fighters from Lebanon crossed into Syria from the West, indoctrinated by Wahhabism from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for decades. Hariri the son and the Elder were Saudi citizens and proxies for the Sunni cause in a fractured Lebanon.
Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS or the "Organization for the Liberation of the Levant") traces its beginnings to the outset of the Syrian civil war and Jabhat al-Nusra, funded and supported by U.S. and NATO allies
Idlib in NW Syria is today still a protectorate of the United States harboring the worst of the Islamic State ... a legacy of Bush-Cheney initiated War on Terror ... the state of affairs in the Western world today.
From Tajikistan to Moscow and Iran: Mapping the Local and Transnational Threat of Islamic State Khorasan | CTC @WestPoint |
Previous diary on the Khorasan Afghan terror group ...
Operation Vigilant Resolve - 1st Assault on Sunni enclave Fallujah | April 2004 |
Qasem Soleimani fought Al Qaeda and Islamic State foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq alongside the US coalition
ICCT Snapshot: Islamic State - Khorasan Province | 12 Jan 2024 |
ISKP has been the most active terrorist group in Afghanistan since 2021, and in 2022 the group was held responsible for the third most deaths worldwide after IS and Al-Shabaab. ISKP gained considerably more international attention after the attack on Kabul airport during the Afghanistan evacuations, killing 170 Afghan civilians and 13 United States servicemen.
Civilians and military targets used to be the main target in 2021, but in 2022 the ISKP transitioned to mainly targeting the Taliban, with almost 75 percent of its attacks being against the new Afghanistan leadership.
The group also started conducting foreign operations, claiming responsibility for the deadly attacks in Pakistan [Shia targets in Baluchistan province] and Iran. Responding to Qur'an burnings in the Netherlands and Sweden, ISKP has also publicly designated these countries as possible targets in the future.
My series of diaries recently after the Moscow terror strike ...
RFU OP: Tajikistan and Khorasan Deception Part 3 | 28 March 2024 |
After losing the war, the U.S. and NATO allies retreat leaving behind terror groups to continue the proxy terror attacks ... the future of Ukraine, a terror state on the Eastern front ... Biden's legacy Afghanistan/Pakistan - Iraq - Yenen - Libya - Syria. 🤬
