He claims American troops tortured him in Afghanistan by holding his head underwater, administering electric shocks to the soles of his feet, and hanging him suspended from the ceiling of an aircraft hangar and kept alive by doctors. "Every five or six hours they came and pulled me back down and the doctor came," he recalls. "He looked into my eyes. He checked my heart and when he said 'okay,' then they pulled me back up," he tells Pelley.

The U.S. Pentagon responding by e-mail says, "We treat all detainees humanely… and all credible claims are investigated thoroughly…. The abuses Mr. Kurnaz alleges are not only unsubstantiated and implausible, they are simply outlandish."

Ex-Terror Detainee Says U.S. Tortured Him

Well, Mr. The U.S. Pentagon, it is a fact that "useless enemy combatants" have been murdered in US military custody, so Kurnaz' allegations are not implausible.  Furthermore, Mr. Pentagon, such Satanic routine abuse is DESIGNED to be deniable - i.e. to leave no marks - so it is impossible for him to provide substantiation, as you might know.  It is also designed to be incredible, so that any reports from victims will seem incredible.  If the US government really wanted to get to the bottom of things, including whether someone knows anything about supposed terrorist plots, it could easily do so with "no-lie MRI."  The fact that it has not even experimented with it pretty much tells us that they want to hide the truth, and to torture for the hell of it.

Posted by fakeapoc at 8:21 PM EDT

Updated: Sunday, March 30, 2008 8:31 PM EDT

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Global Al has apparently not noticed that the truth has a way of leaking out over that internet which he created.  Now that Spring has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere, he has resumed spewing his "global warming" bilge in the mass media, insultingly assuming that we don't realize that it's Fall in the Southern Hemisphere.  (See Gore's Message To Climate Change Skeptics, which is followed by many comments which expose his lies.)  His desperation probably has something to do with the quickly-closing window of opportunity to ram fascist "green" measures down our throats, due to the onset of global cooling and the growing awareness that he's full of methane.

Posted by fakeapoc at 7:00 PM EDT

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As I wrote at the beginning of the "war" in Iraq, one of its purposes is to destroy the US military "in many ways."  So, not surprisingly, articles such as Pentagon Holds Thousands of Americans "Prisoners of War" have been appearing on the internet. This "prophecy" has been "fulfilled," and the Bush administration and the military leaders who were complicit in its crimes expect us to believe that they managed to do this through a long series of mistakes, every one of which just happened to contribute to the chaos and violence.  It was no prophecy - I just understood the real agenda, which is being disguised (as in the recent Frontline whitewash entitled Bush's War) as anything but the pure evil we see in the form of a lame excuse for "interrogating" people for five years for "timely intelligence," or classified plans to deliberately destroy Iraq's water system.

Posted by fakeapoc at 1:40 PM EDT

Updated: Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:38 PM EDT

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"We were very pleased at the beginning when the Pakistanis turned us over to American custody. We sincerely hoped that America would be sympathetic to us and help us. Unfortunately, the facts were different. Although in 2004 and 2005 we were told that we were innocent, we have been incarcerated in jail for the past six years until the present day. We fail to know why we are still in jail here."

from A Chinese Muslim's Desperate Plea From Gitmo
 by Andy Worthington

If this isn't a good reason for Muslims everywhere to decide fight America to the death (including by becoming a suicide bomber), I don't know what is. 

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from Sadr Offensive Shows Failure of Petraeus Strategy
by Gareth Porter

The escalation of fighting between Mahdi Army militiamen and their Shi'ite rivals, which could mark the end of Moqtada al-Sadr's self-imposed cease-fire, also exposes Gen. David Petraeus' strategy for controlling Sadr's forces as a failure.

Petraeus reacted immediately to Sunday's rocket attacks on the Green Zone by blaming them on Iran. He told the BBC the rockets were "Iranian provided, Iranian-made rockets," and that they were launched by groups that were funded and trained by the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Petraeus said this was "in complete violation of promises made by President [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad and other most senior Iranian leaders to their Iraqi counterparts."
[...]
The Petraeus assertion that the rocket attacks on the Green Zone were Iranian-inspired strongly implied that Iran is still providing arms to Shi'ite militias. However, Odierno told a press briefing in mid-January, "We are not sure if they're still importing [sic] weapons into Iraq."

That admission came only after many months in which U.S. officers in the border provinces were unable to find any evidence of arms coming across the border from Iran.

Those officers also found no trace of the alleged presence of the IRGC personnel in Iraq. Last November, the French weekly news magazine Le Point quoted Maj. Scott A. Pettigrew, the military intelligence chief in Diyala province on the Iranian border, as saying, "I have never seen any activity or presence of the Quds Force. I see nothing here that resembles a proxy war with Iran." [end excerpt]

It should be obvious to any thinking person that this represents Cheney's latest attempt to lie us into an invasion of Iran, not coincidentally just as the Fed launches its offensive against the US economy in the interests of its owners, Cheney's masters.  As I've written before, the violence in Iraq is being orchestrated to a large degree by the Cheney gang to suit their needs of the moment in their self-perpetuating "war."

Posted by fakeapoc at 11:21 AM EDT

Updated: Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:29 AM EDT

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KABUL, Mar 26 (IPS) - Jumakhan Said Muhammad was working on his land when he first heard the planes. "I looked up," the farmer from Musa Qala, in the southern Helmand province, says. "Suddenly a plane flew by and I saw smoke rising from my house, which was down the road."

Muhammad ran towards his home, where dozens of villagers were shouting his name as they surrounded his house. "The house was split in half by the bomb," he recalls. "The walls were collapsed and crumbled. Blood was pouring from my nephew (seven-years-old) like it was water. He had shrapnel in his brain and stomach. I then saw my sister's headscarf peeking out from underneath the rubble and so we raced desperately to save her. When we pulled her out from the wreckage I saw her body -- she was cut completely in half. I started to scream."

Muhammad's sister and nephew are among a steady flow of civilian casualties caused by NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) bombardment, residents say. When such casualties started to rise last year -- bombers destroyed Muhammad's house in November -- coalition forces pledged to change their tactics and ensure that civilians were not caught in such attacks.

But Helmand residents say that they are often still caught in the crossfire and that fighting has been particularly intense in March -- locals claim that aerial bombing killed over 40 civilians in the last two weeks alone.

Helmand residents allege that 13 civilians were killed two weeks ago in a NATO air-strike, and last week lawmaker Nasima Niyazi claimed that dozens of civilians were killed when coalition forces bombed a popular picnic spot in the Sangin district. U.S.-led forces recently admitted to killing six civilians in a house raid in eastern Afghanistan, including two children.

from
Terrified Civilians Flee NATO Bombings
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41734

"Strategic Bombing" - More Lessons from the Fascists

The Italian fascists and the Nazis were also the inspiration of another weapon of mass mental and physical destruction for British imperialist mad "scientists." This is what the British euphemistically called "strategic bombing." Soon enough the British passed this new "ultimate weapon" on to their American patrician counterparts.

During the 1920's, Fascist Italy's Commissioner of Aviation, General Guilio Douhet, introduced the doctrine that "command of the air" would guarantee victory in the wars of the future.

He argued that such preponderance would give a country the ability to launch massive strategic bombing attacks on enemy population and industrial centers. Not only would this cause enormous physical suffering and great economic dislocation, but Douhet claimed more importantly that it would have such enormous psychological impact that it would destroy the enemy nation's will to resist. Douhet had been impressed to this effect by the psychological and military effects of German World War I air raids and attacks on Italy, Britain and other nations.

As a result of Douhet's tremendous influence Italy was the first power to emphasize the air arm. However, it was the British who were the first to create an independent air service, the Royal Air Force (RAF). The RAF was established in 1917, as a response to two German daylight air raids on London.

Under the leadership of Chief of Staff Lord Hugh Trenchard (1918-29) by the late 1920's, the RAF had adopted Douhet's position in behalf of the massive bombing of enemy urban and industrial centers as part of their official doctrine although the RAF barely understood the psychological side of Douhet's thesis. In fact, Trenchard's close friend, P.R.C. Groves, Director of Flying Operations (1918), had written several articles in behalf of a reductionist military notion of "strategic bombing" even before Douhet's The Command of the Air appeared in 1921. Meanwhile, U.S. General Billy Mitchell thumped for the "strategic bombing" in United States Army Air Corps.

The Nazis were even more blunt than their Italian Fascist allies about the true nature of the saturation bombing missions on which they sent the Luftwaffe. They labeled this kind of bombing simply "Terrorangriff."

The British leadership scarcely needed the inspiration of Luftwaffe attacks on London and the earlier Italian air terror campaigns in the Spanish Civil War to prepare their own cruder experiments in "terror bombing" under the rubric of their "strategic bombing" doctrine.
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One possible amplification or Reesian innovation would be to utilize limited "strategic bombing" or the mere threat of such bombing primarily for the attainment of psychological victories that soften up the opponent for the kill:

"Continuous heavy bombing of the same communities did not produce decreases in morale proportional to the amount of bombing, The biggest drop in morale was apparent in a comparison between unbombed towns and the only lightly bombed. The morale in towns subjected to the heaviest bombing was no worse than that in towns of the same size receiving much lighter bomb loads....

"These observations of the diminishing returns from heavy bombing point to the practical conclusion that the maximum morale effects of dropping a given tonnage of bombs on Germany would have been attained by lighter raids as widely distributed as possible rather than by concentrated heavy bombing in limited areas....

"It appears that the raids did not have to be directed against a particular area in order to affect adversely the morale of the population in that area. The news of the raids in other places was effective in depressing morale because it intensified both fears of losing the war and feelings of helplessness, and also created anxiety about future raids against the local area." [21]

from The Shaping of the Anglo-American SS by War

Posted by fakeapoc at 8:20 PM EDT

Updated: Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:50 PM EDT

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The British have evidently concluded that "war on terror" won't be sufficient to destroy the entirety of civilization, so ...

British Launch 'Great Eurasian War' Drive

(I'm sure Jack van Impe can find it somewhere in "prophecy.")

In light of this act (Act II of the Apocalypse Show, which opened with a bang - 9/11), the timing of the following "mistake" is most interesting:

Bush Calls Fuse Delivery a Mistake

(Just like the transport of several nuclear-tipped missiles over the US  was a "mistake" - perhaps Cheney's warning to Congress what "the terrorists" will do if Congress doesn't keep following his orders.)

Posted by fakeapoc at 6:48 PM EDT

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The New York Post's Ralph Peters summarized the posture of the Maliki government inside the Green Zone bluntly: "Iraq's government isn't much help – none, as far as Haifa Street's revival is concerned." The American military commander on Haifa Street told him that the U.S. was relying on "spontaneous economic development" – local citizens were expected to develop the area through their own efforts, with the help of a limited number of "micro-loans" (a few hundred dollars each) from the military's meager non-combat funds. It was no surprise, then, that, aside from a few food markets, there was no economy to speak of.

from How to Disintegrate a City

"Spontaneous development" ("Human action but not human design") is the fundamental premise of the free-market fairy tale about some fantasy world where entire war machines are manufactured in home businesses, and strong economies in general arise without any thought given to the overall configuration of the economy or any large-scale cooperation to implement the resulting plans.  One purpose of this lie is to paint the financial oligarchy out of the picture and attribute its macroeconomic control to "the invisible hand."

Assuming that this was a candid admission on the part of a Cheney gangster, this would mean, not surprisingly, that there are no plans to redevelop Iraq.  But then, didn't Paul Wolfowitz say that the US would "end states harboring terrorism?"  In other words, just utterly destroy a country, and turn it into a no-man's land?  Isn't that what we're doing to Iraq, based on the discredited assertion that Saddam was harboring Al Qaeda?  (But wouldn't that leave it more suited as a hideout for AQ?  Oh, what a tangled web....)

But, considering that "free trade" is economic warfare against mankind, it is eminently fitting to hear "free market philosophy" from a commander in a war which have made the Mongol horde wretch.

Posted by fakeapoc at 8:52 PM EDT

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BRUSSELS, Belgium - As fuel prices soar to record highs and airlines struggle to maintain profitability, the unglamorous but fuel-efficient turboprop regional airliner is making a remarkable comeback.

from Cost of fuel prompts turboprop comeback

On top of that, the airlines are only concerned with making a buck, not with making a strong economy.  The costs of air travel to the public are very high, when all of the costs are taken into consideration, especially with the "war on terror" raging.

It's a pity we haven't built any maglev rail lines, even though the technology has been available for a few decades. (See Maglev: Transport Mode For the 21st Century)  This is what we get for letting the "free market" (British financial oligarchy - the same bunch we fought during the Revolution) dictate our nation's macroeconomic configuration, via the "Federal" Reserve (a private bank given a "free trade" monopoly on the issuance of credit - a power which belongs to the federal government, to use for the good of the nation, not for its destruction, as Greenspan, a disciple of Ayn Rand, has used it).  (If you follow the previous link, keep in mind that the "Illuminati" is a red herring created by British Intelligence agent John Robison, to distract us from the true culprits.)  The basic idea was to make us dependent on cheap gas, and keep gas cheap until they no longer needed us to help them destroy civilization.  That time is here, and unless we declare independence again very soon with LaRouche's HBPA, mankind is doomed.

Posted by fakeapoc at 10:53 PM EDT

Updated: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:04 PM EDT

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Well, kiss his ass by starting another war, for starters.  Rohatyn's Madam, Pelosi, ran off to visit the Dalai Lama shortly after British-instigated riots in Tibet killed a bunch of people, in an attempt to put the US, Britain, and Europe on a war-footing with China.  They'll eventually probably end up suspending the elections and making him President officially - the first one to wear a crown.

Posted by fakeapoc at 10:53 AM EDT

Updated: Monday, March 24, 2008 5:18 PM EDT

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