Mirjam Sterk (CDA en PAX…) oorlog robots in handen van Assad zijn een grote bedreiging……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

CDA leeghoofd Sterk heeft zich blijkbaar ingelikt bij PAX, het voormalige Pax Christi. Gistermiddag was Sterk te horen in ‘Ask me Anything’ op BNR, waar ze door presentator Raymann werd behandeld als was ze het orakel van Delfi…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Bij het zoeken naar de combinatie Sterk – PAX, zag ik dat ze zich voor haar wereldbeeld verlaat op flapdrollen als de Wijk met zijn militair-industrieel complex lobbycentrum HCSS, dat bovendien lobbyt voor de NAVO, de oorlogshond van de VS…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Let wel, achter het PAX logo op de site (van PAX) staat te lezen: ‘Vrede Wie Durft?‘……… Ja en dan met de mening van oorlogshitsers als de Wijk op de proppen komen….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Dat bleek gisteren al vrij snel, men sprak over autonoom opererende robots voor de oorlogsindustrie, dus robots die middels gezichtsherkenning e.d. een ‘terreurverdachte’ standrechtelijk executeren, dus vermoorden, zonder tussenkomst van een mens………

Dergelijke oorlog robots (‘warbots’) worden nu al ontwikkelt, althans men is bezig kunstmatige intelligentie te ontwikkelen, die bruikbaar moet zijn in dergelijke robots…….. Israël zou overigens al een prototype hebben ontwikkeld………

Volgens orakel Sterk zijn dergelijke wapens vooral gevaarlijk in de handen van dictators als Assad…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Ten eerste ‘heeft Assad’ dergelijke wapens niet, ten tweede is Assad in 2014 nog altijd democratisch gekozen door een grote meerderheid (73%) van het Syrische volk en dat in door internationale waarnemers als eerlijk bestempelde verkiezingen!!

Als we nu eens gaan kijken wie de voorloper van deze wapens, drones misbruikt voor grootschalige terreur, is dat de VS!! Bij deze VS terreuraanvallen met drones, is meer dan 90% van de slachtoffers niet eens verdacht (veelal vrouwen en kinderen)!! Kijk dat vinden Sterk, PAX en vele andere oplichters geen probleem, het gaat tenslotte om de VS, het imperium dat zij trouw dienen……….. Hetzelfde Imperium dat vanaf WOII al verantwoordelijk is voor meer dan 22 miljoen doden in Zuidoost-Azië, Zuid en Midden-Amerika, Afrika en het Midden-Oosten (uiteraard inclusief Afghanistan) en dat in illegale oorlogen, geheime illegale militaire acties o.l.v. de CIA en met het organiseren van opstanden door de CIA, met de bedoeling VS onwelgevallige regimes omver te werpen (zoals in Iran (Perzië), Indonesië, Chili, Guatemala, Oekraïne, Libië en Syrië)…………. Maar voor Sterk is vooral Assad een gevaar……….

Ach ja, je kan van hufter Sterk niet verwachten, dat ze de inmiddels meerdere keren doorgeprikte leugens over inzet van gifgas door Assad, eindelijk als zodanig afdoet…… Wat dat betreft zou je bijna gaan denken dat ze zelf ook lobbyt voor het militair-industrieel complex en de NAVO…..

Trouwens nogal een belachelijke opmerking, voor iemand die PAX vertegenwoordigt (althans dat stelde Raymann), immers in welke handen zou je zo’n autonome oorlogsrobot wel vertrouwen?

Ben van der Burg deed ook mee aan het gesprek en hier liet hij weer een fikse steek vallen, door te stellen, dat deze robots nooit autonoom zonder mens zullen werken, er zal altijd iemand zijn die akkoord moet gaan met het doden van mensen……. Lekker naïef, reken  maar dat dergelijke systemen wel degelijk autonoom ingezet zullen gaan worden……. Trouwens welke garantie is er dan met een mens aan de knoppen? Zie het hiervoor genoemde feit dat meer dan 90% van de slachtoffers van drone-aanvallen niet eens verdacht wordt van een misdaad………

Nog even over Sterk en PAX, Sterk is te dom om echt uit te zoeken hoe de VS al vanaf 2006 een opstand voorbereidde tegen Assad. Het lijkt godverdomme wel of Assad in z’n eentje Afghanistan, Irak en Libië illegaal heeft platgegooid i.p.v. de grootste terreurentiteit op onze aarde, de VS……….. Het viel me nog mee, dat Sterk niet enthousiast was over oorlog robots en deze min of meer afwees. Die mening zal omslaan, als Nederland zo’n onding aanschaft., immers eerder stelde ze dat dergelijke wapens vooral een gevaar zijn in handen van landen als Syrië…….. Ach ja, eens een leeghoofd……

En PAX? PAX is weer als Pax Christi onder oorlogshitser Mient Jan Faber* op oorlogspad………… Het instituut werkt nu o.a. samen met de EO…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Ofwel: wat wil je nog meer???

Oorlog robots die autonoom zullen opereren, zijn alleen te voorkomen als de mensheid massaal in opstand komt en dan nog……. Israël zal niet malen om de mening van de wereldbevolking, zoals het militair-industrieel complex daar schijt aan heeft en gewoon door zal gaan met de ontwikkeling van een moordmachine, die niemand zou moeten willen…….

* Dezelfde Faber, die als voorzitter van Pax Christi, nog steeds durfde te zeggen, dat de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen Irak in 2003, volkomen terecht was (dat houdt hij tot op de dag van vandaag vol!)……… Dit na de meer dan 500.000 omgekomen kinderen door VS sancties tegen het Irak van Saddam Hoessein (nog voor de illegale VS oorlog tegen Irak in 2003) en de meer dan 1 miljoen vermoorde Irakezen ten gevolge van die illegale oorlog, die de VS in 2003 tegen Irak begon……. (intussen is dat laatste aantal opgelopen tot meer dan 1,5 miljoen vermoorde Irakezen……..)

Noord-Korea verkeerd begrepen: het land wordt bedreigd door de VS, dat alleen deze eeuw al minstens 4 illegale oorlogen begon……..

In het volgende artikel van Darius Shahtahmasebi, gisteren gepubliceerd op Anti-Media, analyseert hij de situatie waarin Noord-Korea zich bevindt.

Noord-Korea hetzelfde land in de Koreaanse oorlog al volledig plat werd gebombardeerd door de VS en wel op zo’n manier, dat het VS oppercommando in 1953 letterlijk geen doelen meer kon vinden om te bombarderen, waarna men dammen ging bombarderen, zodat o.a. de rijstoogst totaal mislukte en grote delen van het platteland en steden onder water kwamen te staan (een enorme oorlogsmisdaad!!)….

Even wat VS oorlogsmisdaden begaan tegen Noord-Korea: in de Koreaanse oorlog bombardeerde de VS: 1.000 ziekenhuizen, 8.700 fabrieken, 5.000 scholen en 600.000 huizen/wooncomplexen……….. Bij die bombardementen werd naar schatting 20% van de bevolking vermoord…..

Kortom Noord-Korea heeft alle redenen om bang te zijn voor de VS en vooral door te gaan met de ontwikkeling van kernwapens (volgens Shahtahmasebi heeft Noord-Korea deze al, maar dat is maar zeer de vraag*). Zeker gezien eerdere illegale oorlogen van de VS, zoals die tegen Irak en Libië: landen die ondanks het opgeven van programma’s voor het ontwikkelen van kernwapens en andere massavernietigingswapens (onder druk van NB de VS!), alsnog bijna geheel werden vernietigd door de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, dezelfde VS……..

Kortom, ondanks dat Noord-Korea geen ander land aanvalt en de VS voortdurend niet anders doet**, wordt door het overgrote deel van de westerse politici en de reguliere (massa-) media juist Noord-Korea als de grote agressor voorgesteld……… Vergeet daarbij niet, dat de VS en Zuid-Korea jaarlijks grootscheepse oefeningen houden langs de grenzen van Noord-Korea, inclusief het afschieten van raketten, waarbij o.a. de landing op Noord-Koreaanse bodem wordt gesimuleerd, iets dat de Noord-Koreanen terecht al vele decennia zwaar frustreert……

Je zou zelfs kunnen constateren, de de agressie van de VS het bewind in Noord-Korea stevig in het zadel houdt………

Lees dit uitstekende artikel van Shahtahmasebi: 

Everyone
Is Wrong About North Korea

August
16, 2017 at 10:13 am

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed)  Imagine
a world where one country – country X – is bombing
 at
least seven countries 
at
any one time and is seeking to
 bomb
an eighth
,
all the while threatening an adversarial ninth state – country Y –
that they will bomb that country
 into
oblivion, as well
.
Imagine that in this world, country X already bombed country Y back
into the Stone Age several decades ago, which directly led to
the current adversarial nature of the relationship between the two
countries.

Now
imagine that country Y, which is currently bombing no one and is
concerned mostly with well-founded threats against its own security,
threatens to 
retaliate
in the face of this mounting aggression
 if
country X attacks them first. On top of all this, imagine that only
country Y is portrayed in the media as a problem and that country X
is constantly given a free pass to do whatever it pleases.

Now
replace country X with the United States of America and country Y
with North Korea to realize there is no need to imagine such a world.
It is the world we already live in.

As
true as all of this is, the problem is constantly framed as one
caused by North Korea alone, not the United States. “How to Deal
With North Korea,” the 
Atlantic explains.
“What Can Trump Do About North Korea?” the 
New
York Times
 asks.
“What Can Possibly Be Done About North Korea,” the 
Huffington
Post 
queriesTime provides 6
experts discussing “How We Can Solve the Problem” (of North
Korea). “North Korea – what can the outside world
do?”
 asks the BBC.

That
being said, some reports have framed the issue in completely
different terms. In an article entitled “The Game is Over and North
Korea Has Won,” 
Foreign
Policy’s 
Jeffrey
Lewis
 explains that
the United States should accept North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and
pursue other courses of action:

The
big question is where to go from here. Some of my colleagues still
think the United States might persuade North Korea to abandon, or at
least freeze, its nuclear and missile programs. I am not so sure. 
I
suspect we might have to settle for trying to reduce tensions so that
we live long enough to figure this problem out.
 But
there is only one way to figure out who is right: 
Talk
to the North Koreans.”
 [emphasis
added]

Lewis explains
further:

The
other options are basically terrible
. There is no
credible military option.
 North
Korea has some unknown number of nuclear-armed missiles, maybe 60,
including ones that can reach the United States; do you really think
U.S. strikes could get all of them? That not a single one would
survive to land on Seoul, Tokyo, or New York? Or that U.S. missile
defenses would work better than designed, intercepting not most of
the missiles aimed at the United States, but every last one of them?
Are you willing to bet your life on that?” 
[emphasis
added]

It’s
also worth mentioning that Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, General Paul Selva, 
already
testified
 to
the Senate Armed Services Committee that experts tell him North Korea
does not have “
the
capacity to strike the U.S. with any degree of accuracy or reasonable
confidence of success.”

Compare
these observations to every single
 keyboard
warrior
 on
Facebook and Twitter who thinks the United States has a duty to
defend itself from – and destroy – this rogue state, which is
currently attacking no one else nor has any underlying reason to
(especially 
considering
that South Korea
 is
open to talking with the North rather than relying solely on a
military confrontation).

The
problem with the mind-numbingly militarized approach to this
conundrum is that it completely ignores the historical factors that
led the United States to this crossroads in the first place.

In
the early 1950s, the U.S. bombed North Korea into complete
oblivion, 
destroying over
8,700 factories, 5,000 schools, 1,000 hospitals, 600,000 homes,
and 
eventually
killing
 off
perhaps 
20
percent of the country’s population
.
As noted by the 
Asia
Pacific Journal
,
the U.S. dropped so many bombs that they eventually ran out of
targets to hit:

By
the fall of 1952, there were 
no effective
targets left for US planes to hit
.
Every significant town, city and industrial area in North Korea had
already been bombed. In the spring of 1953, the Air Force targeted
irrigation dams on the Yalu River, both to destroy the North Korean
rice crop and to pressure the Chinese, who would have to supply more
food aid to the North. Five reservoirs were hit, flooding thousands
of acres of farmland, inundating whole towns and laying waste to the
essential food source for millions of North Koreans.” 
[emphasis
added]

In
its isolated state, the North Korean leadership that held office
after the end of the Korean war 
requested
nuclear weapons technology
 from
both China and the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet
empire, 
spearheaded by
the U.S., North Korea began to deteriorate even further, as it had
relied heavily on Soviet aid. Following a famine in the nineties that
reportedly killed as many as 500,000 civilians, North Korea was left
to its own devices as it watched its southern neighbors prosper. It
began to rapidly accelerate its nuclear weapons program.

Under
the Clinton administration, a deal was
 struck
with North Korea
 that
aimed to ensure the communist nation would eventually freeze and
gradually dismantle its nuclear weapons development program.

George
W. Bush
 intentionally
derailed
 this
deal in a
 manner similar
to what President Trump is currently doing in his attempts to derail
the nuclear deal arranged with Iran in 2015. Then, to make matters
worse, the Bush administration accused Iraq of having weapons of mass
destruction and invaded the country in 2003, plunging the country
into a state of chaos even though Iraq 
clearly
possessed no nuclear weapons
.

This
decision – coupled with Barack Obama and his NATO cohorts’ 
decision
to invade Libya in 2011
 —
taught
 North
Korea a very valuable lesson
 about
what can happen to an adversarial state if they give up their nuclear
weapons program. This isn’t conjecture. It has come straight from
the
 horse’s
mouth
.

The
Libyan crisis is teaching the international community a grave
lesson,”
 which
was that Libya’s decision to abandon its weapons programs in 2003,
applauded by George W. Bush, had been “an
invasion tactic to disarm the country”
 –
according to North Korea’s Foreign Ministry.

The
invasion of Iraq was quite clearly tied to
 natural
resources
 and money,
as was the decision to 
invade
and topple Libya
.
Lo and behold, North Korea is
 reportedly sitting
on a stockpile of minerals worth trillions of dollars. It also
happens to have only
 one
real major ally
:
America’s economic thorn in the backside, China, a country the U.S.
has had a
 specific
containment policy towards
.

It
is quite clear that threats of provocation to what is becoming a
rapidly growing nuclear-armed state, which is
 allied
to another
 nuclear-armed
state, have nothing to do with concerns about global security or
human rights. China has 
already
warned that their leadership
 will
only pick sides in the conflict 
if
the United States strikes first
.
A simple solution, therefore, would be for the U.S. not to strike at
all.

It
is for these reasons that Donald Trump
 stated in
1999 that the U.S. should negotiate with North Korea as a first
resort. Now that he is in the nuclear-code hot seat with a
 decaying
presidency on the verge of failure
,
he has changed his approach.

People
sitting behind their computer screens claiming the U.S. should have
blown up North Korea a long time ago fail to realize that the U.S.
already did just that, as well as the fact that the U.S. has
specifically cultivated the conditions under which a state like North
Korea would want to acquire nuclear weapons in the first place. These
people also fail to realize that the U.S. and South Korea 
simulate
an invasion
 of
North Korea 
every
year
 and
have also planned to
 simulate
nuclear strikes
,
as well. In its regular joint exercises, the U.S. has 
even
flown bombers low to the ground
 on
the North-South border
,
dropping 2,000-pound (900 kilograms) bombs.

Who
is provoking whom?

If
you find yourself fearing North Korea, try to imagine how North
Koreans feel about your current and former governments.

No
one is pretending Kim Jong-un is a saint, but he is currently bombing
no one, and any attempt on his part at bombing America’s allies or
bases would see his inevitable assassination and the destruction of
his entire regime. This war would also
 create
a refugee crisis
 that
makes the current crisis pale in comparison.

North
Korea’s nuclear strategy is a deterrent strategy only. The country
has learned many lessons from its own past, as well as lessons from
the U.S.-led invasions of Iraq, Libya, and other weaker nations —
and in response, it has made it a pointed policy to never succumb the
fate of these aforementioned countries.

Anyone
who is able to absorb and digest all of this information and still
demand war between these two countries needs to pack their bags and
sign up for the military with the specific intention of being on the
front lines of this battle. If you believe in this war that
genuinely, you need to be prepared to fight it.

Anything
else is pure cowardice, glorified by sheer ignorance of this
conflict’s historical background, its geopolitical concerns, and
the humanitarian crisis it would create.

Op-ed
Creative
Commons
 / Anti-Media / Report
a typo

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*  Zie o.a.: ‘Raketwetenschappers over Noord-Korea’s kernraketten bluf en angstzaaierij in de VS……

** Zie: ‘VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….

Zie ook: ‘North Korea: Killer Sanctions Imposed By The UN Security Council

        en: ‘North Korea Does Not Trust America for a Pretty Good Reason

        en: ‘Only Morons Believe What The US Government Says About North Korea

        en: ‘Noord-Korea een gevaar voor de VS? Daar is N-K niet voor nodig: de VS besmet haar eigen burgers met radioactieve straling!

        en: ‘VS dreigt Noord-Korea met wat je niet anders dan een nucleaire aanval kan noemen……..

        en: ‘Noord-Korea: VS negeert de waarschuwing van China niet door te gaan, met voorgenomen militaire oefening tegen N-K…….

        en: ‘NBC presentator geeft toe dat het de taak van NBC is de mensen doodsbang te maken voor Noord-Korea……. Ofwel: ‘fake news’ op en top!! 

       en: ‘Noord-Koreaanse raketten zijn waardeloos, aldus VS generaal Selva…….

       en: ‘Noord-Korea en de VS: de planning van de VS om Rusland en China aan te vallen met kernraketten……..

       en: ‘Noord-Koreaanse raket zorgt voor belachelijke massahysterie…….

       en: ‘Noord-Korea een agressor? Hier de feiten!

 Toegevoegd op 18 januari 2018: wat betreft het dreigen met kernwapens en de ontwikkeling van nieuwe kernwapens zie:      

              ‘VS sluit een nucleaire aanval niet uit als een mogelijke reactie op een ‘cyberaanval…….’

        en: ‘VS op weg naar daadwerkelijk gebruik van het kernwapen…………..

        en: ‘Trumps atoomknop is groter dan die van Kim Yung-un, bovendien werkt de VS knop wel……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

        en: ‘Trumps uitlating over de atoomknop en de onverschilligheid bij zijn achterban, een dictatuur waardig………

       en: ‘VN chef Guterrez geeft alarmcode rood af voor de wereld in 2018 en niet alleen vanwege het milieu of klimaat……‘ (deze link was wel eerder opgenomen in dit artikel)

       en: ‘NAVO oefent op een nucleaire aanval tegen ‘een denkbeeldige vijand’, ofwel Rusland……….

VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….

Veel woorden zijn niet nodig bij het volgende bericht, zeker als je de VS ziet als de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde. William Blum maakte een lijst met alle staatsgrepen of pogingen daartoe, die de VS ondernam sinds 1945…….

Bovendien heeft de VS Na WOII meer dan 20 miljoen mensen vermoord in oorlogen, staatsgrepen en ‘geheime’ militaire acties……..#

Overthrowing
Other People’s Governments: The Master List

By
William Blum

September
09, 2014 “
ICH
– Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to
overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. 
(*
indicates successful ouster of a government)

  • China
    1949 to early 1960s

  • Albania
    1949-53

  • East
    Germany 1950s

  • Iran
    1953 *

  • Guatemala
    1954 *

  • Costa
    Rica mid-1950s

  • Syria
    1956-7

  • Egypt
    1957

  • Indonesia
    1957-8

  • British
    Guiana 1953-64 *

  • Iraq
    1963 *

  • North
    Vietnam 1945-73

  • Cambodia
    1955-70 *

  • Laos
    1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *

  • Ecuador
    1960-63 *

  • Congo
    1960 *

  • France
    1965

  • Brazil
    1962-64 *

  • Dominican
    Republic 1963 *

  • Cuba
    1959 to present

  • Bolivia
    1964 *

  • Indonesia
    1965 *

  • Ghana
    1966 *

  • Chile
    1964-73 *

  • Greece
    1967 *

  • Costa
    Rica 1970-71

  • Bolivia
    1971 *

  • Australia
    1973-75 *

  • Angola
    1975, 1980s

  • Zaire
    1975

  • Portugal
    1974-76 *

  • Jamaica
    1976-80 *

  • Seychelles
    1979-81

  • Chad
    1981-82 *

  • Grenada
    1983 *

  • South
    Yemen 1982-84

  • Suriname
    1982-84

  • Fiji
    1987 *

  • Libya
    1980s

  • Nicaragua
    1981-90 *

  • Panama
    1989 *

  • Bulgaria
    1990 *

  • Albania
    1991 *

  • Iraq
    1991

  • Afghanistan
    1980s *

  • Somalia
    1993

  • Yugoslavia
    1999-2000 *

  • Ecuador
    2000 *

  • Afghanistan
    2001 *

  • Venezuela
    2002 *

  • Iraq
    2003 *

  • Haiti
    2004 *

  • Somalia
    2007 to present

  • Libya
    2011*

  • Syria
    2012

Q: Why
will there never be a coup d’état in Washington?

A: Because
there’s no American embassy there.

http://williamblum.org/  

# Over lijsten gesproken (een volgende lijst waarin u de hierboven genoemde landen terug zal zien):

US
Has Killed More Than 20 Million In 37 Nations Since WWII (!!!)

After
the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a
feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the
American psyche. A few people at that time attempted to promote a
balanced perspective by pointing out that the United States had also
been responsible for causing those same feelings in people in other
nations, but they produced hardly a ripple. Although 

Americans
understand in the abstract the wisdom of people around the world
empathizing with the suffering of one another, such a reminder of
wrongs committed by our nation got little hearing and was soon
overshadowed by an accelerated “war on terrorism.”

But
we must continue our efforts to develop understanding and compassion
in the world. Hopefully, this article will assist in doing that by
addressing the question “How many September 11ths has the United
States caused in other nations since WWII?” This theme is developed
in this report which contains an estimated numbers of such deaths in
37 nations as well as brief explanations of why the U.S. is
considered culpable.

The
causes of wars are complex. In some instances nations other than the
U.S. may have been responsible for more deaths, but if the
involvement of our nation appeared to have been a necessary cause of
a war or conflict it was considered responsible for the deaths in it.
In other words they probably would not have taken place if the U.S.
had not used the heavy hand of its power. The military and economic
power of the United States was crucial.

This
study reveals that U.S. military forces were directly responsible for
about 10 to 15 million deaths during the Korean and Vietnam Wars and
the two Iraq Wars. The Korean War also includes Chinese deaths while
the Vietnam War also includes fatalities in Cambodia and Laos.

The
American public probably is not aware of these numbers and knows even
less about the proxy wars for which the United States is also
responsible. In the latter wars there were between nine and 14
million deaths in Afghanistan, Angola, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, East Timor, Guatemala, Indonesia, Pakistan and Sudan.

But
the victims are not just from big nations or one part of the world.
The remaining deaths were in smaller ones which constitute over half
the total number of nations. Virtually all parts of the world have
been the target of U.S. intervention.

The
overall conclusion reached is that the United States most likely has
been responsible since WWII for the deaths of between 20 and 30
million people in wars and conflicts scattered over the world.

To
the families and friends of these victims it makes little difference
whether the causes were U.S. military action, proxy military forces,
the provision of U.S. military supplies or advisors, or other ways,
such as economic pressures applied by our nation. They had to make
decisions about other things such as finding lost loved ones, whether
to become refugees, and how to survive.

And
the pain and anger is spread even further. Some authorities estimate
that there are as many as 10 wounded for each person who dies in
wars. Their visible, continued suffering is a continuing reminder to
their fellow countrymen.

It
is essential that Americans learn more about this topic so that they
can begin to understand the pain that others feel. Someone once
observed that the Germans during WWII “chose not to know.” We
cannot allow history to say this about our country. The question
posed above was “How many September 11ths has the United States
caused in other nations since WWII?” The answer is: possibly
10,000.

Comments
on Gathering These Numbers


Generally
speaking, the much smaller number of Americans who have died is not
included in this study, not because they are not important, but
because this report focuses on the impact of U.S. actions on its
adversaries.

An
accurate count of the number of deaths is not easy to achieve, and
this collection of data was undertaken with full realization of this
fact. These estimates will probably be revised later either upward or
downward by the reader and the author. But undoubtedly the total will
remain in the millions.

The
difficulty of gathering reliable information is shown by two
estimates in this context. For several years I heard statements on
radio that three million Cambodians had been killed under the rule of
the Khmer Rouge. However, in recent years the figure I heard was one
million. Another example is that the number of persons estimated to
have died in Iraq due to sanctions after the first U.S. Iraq War was
over 1 million, but in more recent years, based on a more recent
study, a lower estimate of around a half a million has emerged.

Often
information about wars is revealed only much later when someone
decides to speak out, when more secret information is revealed due to
persistent efforts of a few, or after special congressional
committees make reports

Both
victorious and defeated nations may have their own reasons for
underreporting the number of deaths. Further, in recent wars
involving the United States it was not uncommon to hear statements
like “we do not do body counts” and references to “collateral
damage” as a euphemism for dead and wounded. Life is cheap for
some, especially those who manipulate people on the battlefield as if
it were a chessboard.

To
say that it is difficult to get exact figures is not to say that we
should not try. Effort was needed to arrive at the figures of 6six
million Jews killed during WWI, but knowledge of that number now is
widespread and it has fueled the determination to prevent future
holocausts. That struggle continues.

The
author can be contacted at 
jlucas511@woh.rr.com

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VICTIM NATIONS

Afghanistan

The
U.S. is responsible for between 1 and 1.8 million deaths during the
war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, by luring the Soviet
Union into invading that nation. (1,2,3,4)

The
Soviet Union had friendly relations its neighbor, Afghanistan, which
had a secular government. The Soviets feared that if that government
became fundamentalist this change could spill over into the Soviet
Union.

In
1998, in an interview with the Parisian publication Le Novel
Observateur, Zbigniew Brzezinski, adviser to President Carter,
admitted that he had been responsible for instigating aid to the
Mujahadeen in Afghanistan which caused the Soviets to invade. In his
own words:

According
to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began
during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded
Afghanistan on 24 December 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded
until now, is completely otherwise. Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that
President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the
opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I
wrote a note to the President in which I explained to him that in my
opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.”
(5,1,6)

Brzezinski
justified laying this trap, since he said it gave the Soviet Union
its Vietnam and caused the breakup of the Soviet Union. “Regret
what?” he said. “That secret operation was an excellent idea. It
had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you
want me to regret it?” (7)

The
CIA spent 5 to 6 billion dollars on its operation in Afghanistan in
order to bleed the Soviet Union. (1,2,3) When that 10-year war ended
over a million people were dead and Afghan heroin had captured 60% of
the U.S. market. (4)

The
U.S. has been responsible directly for about 12,000 deaths in
Afghanistan many of which resulted from bombing in retaliation for
the attacks on U.S. property on September 11, 2001. Subsequently U.S.
troops invaded that country. (4)

Angola

An
indigenous armed struggle against Portuguese rule in Angola began in
1961. In 1977 an Angolan government was recognized by the U.N.,
although the U.S. was one of the few nations that opposed this
action. In 1986 Uncle Sam approved material assistance to UNITA, a
group that was trying to overthrow the government. Even today this
struggle, which has involved many nations at times, continues.

U.S.
intervention was justified to the U.S. public as a reaction to the
intervention of 50,000 Cuban troops in Angola. However, according to
Piero Gleijeses, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University the
reverse was true. The Cuban intervention came as a result of a CIA –
financed covert invasion via neighboring Zaire and a drive on the
Angolan capital by the U.S. ally, South Africa1,2,3). (Three
estimates of deaths range from 300,000 to 750,000 (4,5,6)

Argentina:
See South America: Operation Condor

Bangladesh:
See Pakistan

Bolivia

Hugo
Banzer was the leader of a repressive regime in Bolivia in the 1970s.
The U.S. had been disturbed when a previous leader nationalized the
tin mines and distributed land to Indian peasants. Later that action
to benefit the poor was reversed.

Banzer,
who was trained at the U.S.-operated School of the Americas in Panama
and later at Fort Hood, Texas, came back from exile frequently to
confer with U.S. Air Force Major Robert Lundin. In 1971 he staged a
successful coup with the help of the U.S. Air Force radio system. In
the first years of his dictatorship he received twice as military
assistance from the U.S. as in the previous dozen years together.

A
few years later the Catholic Church denounced an army massacre of
striking tin workers in 1975, Banzer, assisted by information
provided by the CIA, was able to target and locate leftist priests
and nuns. His anti-clergy strategy, known as the Banzer Plan, was
adopted by nine other Latin American dictatorships in 1977. (2) He
has been accused of being responsible for 400 deaths during his
tenure. (1)

Also
see: See South America: Operation Condor

Brazil:
See South America: Operation Condor

Cambodia

U.S.
bombing of Cambodia had already been underway for several years in
secret under the Johnson and Nixon administrations, but when
President Nixon openly began bombing in preparation for a land
assault on Cambodia it caused major protests in the U.S. against the
Vietnam War.

There
is little awareness today of the scope of these bombings and the
human suffering involved.

Immense
damage was done to the villages and cities of Cambodia, causing
refugees and internal displacement of the population. This unstable
situation enabled the Khmer Rouge, a small political party led by Pol
Pot, to assume power. Over the years we have repeatedly heard about
the Khmer Rouge’s role in the deaths of millions in Cambodia
without any acknowledgement being made this mass killing was made
possible by the the U.S. bombing of that nation which destabilized it
by death , injuries, hunger and dislocation of its people.

So
the U.S. bears responsibility not only for the deaths from the
bombings but also for those resulting from the activities of the
Khmer Rouge – a total of about 2.5 million people. Even when
Vietnam latrer invaded Cambodia in 1979 the CIA was still supporting
the Khmer Rouge. (1,2,3)

Also
see Vietnam

Chad

An
estimated 40,000 people in Chad were killed and as many as 200,000
tortured by a government, headed by Hissen Habre who was brought to
power in June, 1982 with the help of CIA money and arms. He remained
in power for eight years. (1,2)

Human
Rights Watch claimed that Habre was responsible for thousands of
killings. In 2001, while living in Senegal, he was almost tried for
crimes committed by him in Chad. However, a court there blocked these
proceedings. Then human rights people decided to pursue the case in
Belgium, because some of 

Habre’s
torture victims lived there. The U.S., in June 2003, told Belgium
that it risked losing its status as host to NATO’s headquarters if
it allowed such a legal proceeding to happen. So the result was that
the law that allowed victims to file complaints in Belgium for
atrocities committed abroad was repealed. 

However,
two months later a new law was passed which made special provision
for the continuation of the case against Habre.

Chile

The
CIA intervened in Chile’s 1958 and 1964 elections. In 1970 a
socialist candidate, Salvador Allende, was elected president. The CIA
wanted to incite a military coup to prevent his inauguration, but the
Chilean army’s chief of staff, General Rene Schneider, opposed this
action. The CIA then planned, along with some people in the Chilean
military, to assassinate Schneider. This plot failed and Allende took
office. President Nixon was not to be dissuaded and he ordered the
CIA to create a coup climate: “Make the economy scream,” he said.

What
followed were guerilla warfare, arson, bombing, sabotage and terror.
ITT and other U.S. corporations with Chilean holdings sponsored
demonstrations and strikes. Finally, on September 11, 1973 Allende
died either by suicide or by assassination. At that time Henry
Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State, said the following regarding
Chile: “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country
go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people.”
(1)

During
17 years of terror under Allende’s successor, General Augusto
Pinochet, an estimated 3,000 Chileans were killed and many others
were tortured or “disappeared.” (2,3,4,5)

Also
see South America: Operation Condor

China
An estimated 900,000 Chinese died during the Korean War. For more
information, See: Korea.

Colombia

One
estimate is that 67,000 deaths have occurred from the 1960s to recent
years due to support by the U.S. of Colombian state terrorism. (1)

According
to a 1994 Amnesty International report, more than 20,000 people were
killed for political reasons in Colombia since 1986, mainly by the
military and its paramilitary allies. Amnesty alleged that “U.S.-
supplied military equipment, ostensibly delivered for use against
narcotics traffickers, was being used by the Colombian military to
commit abuses in the name of “counter-insurgency.” (2) In 2002
another estimate was made that 3,500 people die each year in a U.S.
funded civilian war in Colombia. (3)

In
1996 Human Rights Watch issued a report “Assassination Squads in
Colombia” which revealed that 

CIA
agents went to Colombia in 1991 to help the military to train
undercover agents in anti-subversive activity. (4,5)

In
recent years the U.S. government has provided assistance under Plan
Colombia. The Colombian government has been charged with using most
of the funds for destruction of crops and support of the paramilitary
group.

Cuba

In
the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba on April 18, 1961 which ended after
3 days, 114 of the invading force were killed, 1,189 were taken
prisoners and a few escaped to waiting U.S. ships. (1) The captured
exiles were quickly tried, a few executed and the rest sentenced to
thirty years in prison for treason. These exiles were released after
20 months in exchange for $53 million in food and medicine.

Some
people estimate that the number of Cuban forces killed range from
2,000, to 4,000. Another estimate is that 1,800 Cuban forces were
killed on an open highway by napalm. This appears to have been a
precursor of the Highway of Death in Iraq in 1991 when U.S. forces
mercilessly annihilated large numbers of Iraqis on a highway. (2)

Democratic
Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire)

The
beginning of massive violence was instigated in this country in 1879
by its colonizer King Leopold of Belgium. The Congo’s population
was reduced by 10 million people over a period of 20 years which some
have referred to as “Leopold’s Genocide.” (1) The U.S. has been
responsible for about a third of t

hat
many deaths in that nation in the more recent past. (2)

In
1960 the Congo became an independent state with Patrice Lumumba being
its first prime minister. He was assassinated with the CIA being
implicated, although some say that his murder was actually the
responsibility of Belgium. (3) But nevertheless, the CIA was planning
to kill him. (4) Before his assassination the CIA sent one of its
scientists, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, to the Congo carrying “lethal
biological material” intended for use in Lumumba’s assassination.
This virus would have been able to produce a fatal disease indigenous
to the Congo area of Africa and was transported in a diplomatic
pouch.

Much
of the time in recent years there has been a civil war within the
Democratic Republic of Congo, fomented often by the U.S. and other
nations, including neighboring nations. (5)

In
April 1977, Newsday reported that the CIA was secretly supporting
efforts to recruit several hundred mercenaries in the U.S. and Great
Britain to serve alongside Zaire’s army. In that same year the U.S.
provided $15 million of military supplies to the Zairian President
Mobutu to fend off an invasion by a rival group operating in Angola.
(6)

In
May 1979, the U.S. sent several million dollars of aid to Mobutu who
had been condemned 3 months earlier by the U.S. State Department for
human rights violations. (7) During the Cold War the U.S. funneled
over 300 million dollars in weapons into Zaire (8,9) $100 million in
military training was provided to him. (2) In 2001 it was reported to
a U.S. congressional committee that American companies, including one
linked to former President George Bush Sr., were stoking the Congo
for monetary gains. There is an international battle over resources
in that country with over 125 companies and individuals being
implicated. One of these substances is coltan, which is used in the
manufacture of cell phones. (2)


Dominican
Republic

In
1962, Juan Bosch became president of the Dominican Republic. He
advocated such programs as land reform and public works programs.
This did not bode well for his future relationship with the U.S., and
after only 7 months in office, he was deposed by a CIA coup. In 1965
when a group was trying to reinstall him to his office President
Johnson said, “This Bosch is no good.” Assistant Secretary of
State Thomas Mann replied “He’s no good at all. If we don’t get
a decent government in there, Mr. President, we get another Bosch.
It’s just going to be another sinkhole.” Two days later a U.S.
invasion started and 22,000 soldiers and marines entered the
Dominican Republic and about 3,000 Dominicans died during the
fighting. The cover excuse for doing this was that this was done to
protect foreigners there. (1,2,3,4)

East
Timor

In
December 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor. This incursion was
launched the day after U.S. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger had left Indonesia where they had given
President Suharto permission to use American arms, which under U.S.
law, could not be used for aggression. Daniel Moynihan, U.S.
ambassador to the UN. said that the U.S. wanted “things to turn out
as they did.” (1,2) The result was an estimated 200,000 dead out of
a population of 700,000. (1,2)

Sixteen
years later, on November 12, 1991, two hundred and seventeen East
Timorese protesters in Dili, many of them children, marching from a
memorial service, were gunned down by Indonesian Kopassus shock
troops who were headed by U.S.- trained commanders Prabowo Subianto
(son in law of General Suharto) and Kiki Syahnakri. Trucks were seen
dumping bodies into the sea. (5)

El
Salvador

The
civil war from 1981 to1992 in El Salvador was financed by $6 billion
in U.S. aid given to support the government in its efforts to crush a
movement to bring social justice to the people in that nation of
about 8 million people. (1)

During
that time U.S. military advisers demonstrated methods of torture on
teenage prisoners, according to an interview with a deserter from the
Salvadoran army published in the New York Times. This former member
of the Salvadoran National Guard testified that he was a member of a
squad of twelve who found people who they were told were guerillas
and tortured them. Part of the training he received was in torture at
a U.S. location somewhere in Panama. (2)

About
900 villagers were massacred in the village of El Mozote in 1981. Ten
of the twelve El Salvadoran government soldiers cited as
participating in this act were graduates of the School of the
Americas operated by the U.S. (2) They were only a small part of
about 75,000 people killed during that civil war. (1)

According
to a 1993 United Nations’ Truth Commission report, over 96 % of the
human rights violations carried out during the war were committed by
the Salvadoran army or the paramilitary deaths squads associated with
the Salvadoran army. (3)

That
commission linked graduates of the School of the Americas to many
notorious killings. The New York Times and the Washington Post
followed with scathing articles. In 1996, the White House Oversight
Board issued a report that supported many of the charges against that
school made by Rev. Roy Bourgeois, head of the School of the Americas
Watch. That same year the Pentagon released formerly classified
reports indicating that graduates were trained in killing, extortion,
and physical abuse for interrogations, false imprisonment and other
methods of control. (4)

Grenada

The
CIA began to destabilize Grenada in 1979 after Maurice Bishop became
president, partially because he refused to join the quarantine of
Cuba. The campaign against him resulted in his overthrow and the
invasion by the U.S. of Grenada on October 25, 1983, with about 277
people dying. (1,2) It was fallaciously charged that an airport was
being built in Grenada that could be used to attack the U.S. and it
was also erroneously claimed that the lives of American medical
students on that island were in danger.

Guatemala

In
1951 Jacobo Arbenz was elected president of Guatemala. He
appropriated some unused land operated by the United Fruit Company
and compensated the company. (1,2) That company then started a
campaign to paint Arbenz as a tool of an international conspiracy and
hired about 300 mercenaries who sabotaged oil supplies and trains.
(3) In 1954 a CIA-orchestrated coup put him out of office and he left
the country. During the next 40 years various regimes killed
thousands of people.

In
1999 the Washington Post reported that an Historical Clarification
Commission concluded that over 200,000 people had been killed during
the civil war and that there had been 42,000 individual human rights
violations, 29,000 of them fatal, 92% of which were committed by the
army. The commission further reported that the U.S. government and
the CIA had pressured the Guatemalan government into suppressing the
guerilla movement by ruthless means. (4,5)

According
to the Commission between 1981 and 1983 the military government of
Guatemala – financed and supported by the U.S. government –
destroyed some four hundred Mayan villages in a campaign of genocide.
(4)

One
of the documents made available to the commission was a 1966 memo
from a U.S. State Department official, which described how a “safe
house” was set up in the palace for use by Guatemalan security
agents and their U.S. contacts. This was the headquarters for the
Guatemalan “dirty war” against leftist insurgents and suspected
allies. (2)

Haiti

From
1957 to 1986 Haiti was ruled by Papa Doc Duvalier and later by his
son. During that time their private terrorist force killed between
30,000 and 100,000 people. (1) Millions of dollars in CIA subsidies
flowed into Haiti during that time, mainly to suppress popular
movements, (2) although most American military aid to the country,
according to William Blum, was covertly channeled through Israel.

Reportedly,
governments after the second Duvalier reign were responsible for an
even larger number of fatalities, and the influence on Haiti by the
U.S., particularly through the CIA, has continued. The U.S. later
forced out of the presidential office a black Catholic priest, Jean
Bertrand Aristide, even though he was elected with 67% of the vote in
the early 1990s. The wealthy white class in Haiti opposed him in this
predominantly black nation, because of his social programs designed
to help the poor and end corruption. (3) Later he returned to office,
but that did not last long. He was forced by the U.S. to leave office
and now lives in South Africa.


Honduras

In
the 1980s the CIA supported Battalion 316 in Honduras, which
kidnapped, tortured and killed hundreds of its citizens. Torture
equipment and manuals were provided by CIA Argentinean personnel who
worked with U.S. agents in the training of the Hondurans.
Approximately 400 people lost their lives. (1,2) This is another
instance of torture in the world sponsored by the U.S. (3)

Battalion
316 used shock and suffocation devices in interrogations in the
1980s. Prisoners often were kept naked and, when no longer useful,
killed and buried in unmarked graves. Declassified documents and
other sources show that the CIA and the U.S. Embassy knew of numerous
crimes, including murder and torture, yet continued to support
Battalion 316 and collaborate with its leaders.” (4)

Honduras
was a staging ground in the early 1980s for the Contras who were
trying to overthrow the socialist Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
John D. Negroponte, currently Deputy Secretary of State, was our
embassador when our military aid to Honduras rose from $4 million to
$77.4 million per year. Negroponte denies having had any knowledge of
these atrocities during his tenure. However, his predecessor in that
position, Jack R. Binns, had reported in 1981 that he was deeply
concerned at increasing evidence of officially sponsored/sanctioned
assassinations. (5)

Hungary

In
1956 Hungary, a Soviet satellite nation, revolted against the Soviet
Union. During the uprising broadcasts by the U.S. Radio Free Europe
into Hungary sometimes took on an aggressive tone, encouraging the
rebels to believe that Western support was imminent, and even giving
tactical advice on how to fight the Soviets. Their hopes were raised
then dashed by these broadcasts which cast an even darker shadow over
the Hungarian tragedy.“ (1) The Hungarian and Soviet death toll was
about 3,000 and the revolution was crushed. (2)

Indonesia

In
1965, in Indonesia, a coup replaced General Sukarno with General
Suharto as leader. The U.S. played a role in that change of
government. Robert Martens,a former officer in the U.S. embassy in
Indonesia, described how U.S. diplomats and CIA officers provided up
to 5,000 names to Indonesian Army death squads in 1965 and checked
them off as they were killed or captured. Martens admitted that “I
probably have a lot of blood on my hands, but that’s not all bad.
There’s a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment.”
(1,2,3) Estimates of the number of deaths range from 500,000 to 3
million. (4,5,6)

From
1993 to 1997 the U.S. provided Jakarta with almost $400 million in
economic aid and sold tens of million of dollars of weaponry to that
nation. U.S. Green Berets provided training for the Indonesia’s
elite force which was responsible for many of atrocities in East
Timor. (3)

Iran

Iran
lost about 262,000 people in the war against Iraq from 1980 to 1988.
(1) See Iraq for more information about that war.

On
July 3, 1988 the U.S. Navy ship, the Vincennes, was operating withing
Iranian waters providing military support for Iraq during the
Iran-Iraq war. During a battle against Iranian gunboats it fired two
missiles at an Iranian Airbus, which was on a routine civilian
flight. All 290 civilian on board were killed. (2,3)

Iraq

A.
The Iraq-Iran War lasted from 1980 to 1988 and during that time there
were about 105,000 Iraqi deaths according to the Washington Post.
(1,2)

According
to Howard Teicher, a former National Security Council official, the
U.S. provided the Iraqis with billions of dollars in credits and
helped Iraq in other ways such as making sure that Iraq had military
equipment including biological agents This surge of help for Iraq
came as Iran seemed to be winning the war and was close to Basra. (1)
The U.S. was not adverse to both countries weakening themselves as a
result of the war, but it did not appear to want either side to win.

B:
The U.S.-Iraq War and the Sanctions Against Iraq extended from 1990
to 2003.

Iraq
invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990 and the U.S. responded by demanding
that Iraq withdraw, and four days later the U.N. levied international
sanctions.

Iraq
had reason to believe that the U.S. would not object to its invasion
of Kuwait, since U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, had told
Saddam Hussein that the U.S. had no position on the dispute that his
country had with Kuwait. So the green light was given, but it seemed
to be more of a trap.

As
a part of the public relations strategy to energize the American
public into supporting an attack against Iraq the daughter of the
Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S. falsely testified before Congress that
Iraqi troops were pulling the plugs on incubators in Iraqi hospitals.
(1) This contributed to a war frenzy in the U.S.

The
U.S. air assault started on January 17, 1991 and it lasted for 42
days. On February 23 President H.W. Bush ordered the U.S. ground
assault to begin. The invasion took place with much needless killing
of Iraqi military personnel. Only about 150 American military
personnel died compared to about 200,000 Iraqis. Some of the Iraqis
were mercilessly killed on the Highway of Death and about 400 tons of
depleted uranium were left in that nation by the U.S. (2,3)

Other
deaths later were from delayed deaths due to wounds, civilians
killed, those killed by effects of damage of the Iraqi water
treatment facilities and other aspects of its damaged infrastructure
and by the sanctions.

In
1995 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. reported that
U.N sanctions against on Iraq had been responsible for the deaths of
more than 560,000 children since 1990. (5)

Leslie
Stahl on the TV Program 60 Minutes in 1996 mentioned to Madeleine
Albright, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. “We have heard that a half
million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died
in Hiroshima. And – and you know, is the price worth it?”
Albright replied “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price
– we think is worth it.” (4)

In
1999 UNICEF reported that 5,000 children died each month as a result
of the sanction and the War with the U.S. (6)

Richard
Garfield later estimated that the more likely number of excess deaths
among children under five years of age from 1990 through March 1998
to be 227,000 – double those of the previous decade. Garfield
estimated that the numbers to be 350,000 through 2000 (based in part
on result of another study). (7)

However,
there are limitations to his study. His figures were not updated for
the remaining three years of the sanctions. Also, two other somewhat
vulnerable age groups were not studied: young children above the age
of five and the elderly.

All
of these reports were considerable indicators of massive numbers of
deaths which the U.S. was aware of and which was a part of its
strategy to cause enough pain and terror among Iraqis to cause them
to revolt against their government.

C:
Iraq-U.S. War started in 2003 and has not been concluded


Just
as the end of the Cold War emboldened the U.S. to attack Iraq in 1991
so the attacks of September 11, 2001 laid the groundwork for the U.S.
to launch the current war against Iraq. While in some other wars we
learned much later about the lies that were used to deceive us, some
of the deceptions that were used to get us into this war became known
almost as soon as they were uttered. There were no weapons of mass
destruction, we were not trying to promote democracy, we were not
trying to save the Iraqi people from a dictator.

The
total number of Iraqi deaths that are a result of our current Iraq
against Iraq War is 654,000, of which 600,000 are attributed to acts
of violence, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. (1,2)

Since
these deaths are a result of the U.S. invasion, our leaders must
accept responsibility for them.

Israeli-Palestinian
War

About
100,000 to 200,000 Israelis and Palestinians, but mostly the latter,
have been killed in the struggle between those two groups. The U.S.
has been a strong supporter of Israel, providing billions of dollars
in aid and supporting its possession of nuclear weapons. (1,2)


Korea,
North and South


The
Korean War started in 1950 when, according to the Truman
administration, North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25th.
However, since then another explanation has emerged which maintains
that the attack by North Korea came during a time of many border
incursions by both sides. South Korea initiated most of the border
clashes with North Korea beginning in 1948. The North Korea
government claimed that by 1949 the South Korean army committed 2,617
armed incursions. It was a myth that the Soviet Union ordered North
Korea to attack South Korea. (1,2)


The
U.S. started its attack before a U.N. resolution was passed
supporting our nation’s intervention, and our military forces added
to the mayhem in the war by introducing the use of napalm. (1)

During
the war the bulk of the deaths were South Koreans, North Koreans and
Chinese. Four sources give deaths counts ranging from 1.8 to 4.5
million. (3,4,5,6) Another source gives a total of 4 million but does
not identify to which nation they belonged. (7)


John
H. Kim, a U.S. Army veteran and the Chair of the Korea Committee of
Veterans for Peace, stated in an article that during the Korean War
“the U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy were directly involved in the
killing of about three million civilians – both South and North
Koreans – at many locations throughout Korea…It is reported that
the U.S. dropped some 650,000 tons of bombs, including 43,000 tons of
napalm bombs, during the Korean War.” It is presumed that this
total does not include Chinese casualties.

Another
source states a total of about 500,000 who were Koreans and
presumably only military. (8,9)


Laos


From
1965 to 1973 during the Vietnam War the U.S. dropped over two million
tons of bombs on Laos – more than was dropped in WWII by both
sides. Over a quarter of the population became refugees. This was
later called a “secret war,” since it occurred at the same time
as the Vietnam War, but got little press. Hundreds of thousands were
killed. Branfman make the only estimate that I am aware of , stating
that hundreds of thousands died. This can be interpeted to mean that
at least 200,000 died. (1,2,3)


U.S.
military intervention in Laos actually began much earlier. A civil
war started in the 1950s when the U.S. recruited a force of 40,000
Laotians to oppose the Pathet Lao, a leftist political party that
ultimately took power in 1975.

Also
See Vietnam

Nepal


Between
8,000 and 12,000 Nepalese have died since a civil war broke out in
1996. The death rate, according to Foreign Policy in Focus, sharply
increased with the arrival of almost 8,400 American M-16 submachine
guns (950 rpm) and U.S. advisers. Nepal is 85 percent rural and badly
in need of land reform. Not surprisingly 42 % of its people live
below the poverty level. (1,2)

In
2002, after another civil war erupted, President George W. Bush
pushed a bill through Congress authorizing $20 million in military
aid to the Nepalese government. (3)


Nicaragua


In
1981 the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza government in Nicaragua,
(1) and until 1990 about 25,000 Nicaraguans were killed in an armed
struggle between the Sandinista government and Contra rebels who were
formed from the remnants of Somoza’s national government. The use
of assassination manuals by the Contras surfaced in 1984. (2,3)


The
U.S. supported the victorious government regime by providing covert
military aid to the Contras (anti-communist guerillas) starting in
November, 1981. But when Congress discovered that the CIA had
supervised acts of sabotage in Nicaragua without notifying Congress,
it passed the Boland Amendment in 1983 which prohibited the CIA,
Defense Department and any other government agency from providing any
further covert military assistance. (4)


But
ways were found to get around this prohibition. The National Security
Council, which was not explicitly covered by the law, raised private
and foreign funds for the Contras. In addition, arms were sold to
Iran and the proceeds were diverted from those sales to the Contras
engaged in the insurgency against the Sandinista government. (5)
Finally, the Sandinistas were voted out of office in 1990 by voters
who thought that a change in leadership would placate the U.S., which
was causing misery to Nicaragua’s citizenry by it support of the
Contras.


Pakistan


In
1971 West Pakistan, an authoritarian state supported by the U.S.,
brutally invaded East Pakistan. The war ended after India, whose
economy was staggering after admitting about 10 million refugees,
invaded East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and defeated the West
Pakistani forces. (1)

Millions
of people died during that brutal struggle, referred to by some as
genocide committed by West Pakistan. That country had long been an
ally of the U.S., starting with $411 million provided to establish
its armed forces which spent 80% of its budget on its military. $15
million in arms flowed into W. Pakistan during the war. (2,3,4)

Three
sources estimate that 3 million people died and (5,2,6) one source
estimates 1.5 million. (3)


Panama


In
December, 1989 U.S. troops invaded Panama, ostensibly to arrest
Manuel Noriega, that nation’s president. This was an example of the
U.S. view that it is the master of the world and can arrest anyone it
wants to. For a number of years before that he had worked for the
CIA, but fell out of favor partially because he was not an opponent
of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. (1) It has been estimated that
between 500 and 4,000 people died. (2,3,4)


Paraguay:
See South America: Operation Condor


Philippines


The
Philippines were under the control of the U.S. for over a hundred
years. In about the last 50 to 60 years the U.S. has funded and
otherwise helped various Philippine governments which sought to
suppress the activities of groups working for the welfare of its
people. In 1969 the Symington Committee in the U.S. Congress revealed
how war material was sent there for a counter-insurgency campaign.
U.S. Special Forces and Marines were active in some combat
operations. The estimated number of persons that were executed and
disappeared under President Fernando Marcos was over 100,000. (1,2)


South
America: Operation Condor


This
was a joint operation of 6 despotic South American governments
(Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) to share
information about their political opponents. An estimated 13,000
people were killed under this plan. (1)


It
was established on November 25, 1975 in Chile by an act of the
Interamerican Reunion on Military Intelligence. According to U.S.
embassy political officer, John Tipton, the CIA and the Chilean
Secret Police were working together, although the CIA did not set up
the operation to make this collaboration work. Reportedly, it ended
in 1983. (2)


On
March 6, 2001 the New York Times reported the existence of a recently
declassified State Department document revealing that the United
States facilitated communications for Operation Condor. (3)


Sudan


Since
1955, when it gained its independence, Sudan has been involved most
of the time in a civil war. Until about 2003 approximately 2 million
people had been killed. It not known if the death toll in Darfur is
part of that total.


Human
rights groups have complained that U.S. policies have helped to
prolong the Sudanese civil war by supporting efforts to overthrow the
central government in Khartoum. In 1999 U.S. Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright met with the leader of the Sudan People’s
Liberation Army (SPLA) who said that she offered him food supplies if
he would reject a peace plan sponsored by Egypt and Libya.

In
1978 the vastness of Sudan’s oil reservers was discovered and
within two years it became the sixth largest recipient of U.S,
military aid. It’s reasonable to assume that if the U.S. aid a
government to come to power it will feel obligated to give the U.S.
part of the oil pie.


A
British group, Christian Aid, has accused foreign oil companies of
complicity in the depopulation of villages. These companies – not
American – receive government protection and in turn allow the
government use of its airstrips and roads.


In
August 1998 the U.S. bombed Khartoum, Sudan with 75 cruise míssiles.
Our government said that the target was a chemical weapons factory
owned by Osama bin Laden. Actually, bin Laden was no longer the
owner, and the plant had been the sole supplier of pharmaceutical
supplies for that poor nation. As a result of the bombing tens of
thousands may have died because of the lack of medicines to treat
malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases. The U.S. settled a lawsuit
filed by the factory’s owner. (1,2)


Uruguay:
See South America: Operation Condor

Vietnam

In
Vietnam, under an agreement several decades ago, there was supposed
to be an election for a unified North and South Vietnam. The U.S.
opposed this and supported the Diem government in South Vietnam. In
August, 1964 the CIA and others helped fabricate a phony Vietnamese
attack on a U.S. ship in the Gulf of Tonkin and this was used as a
pretext for greater U.S. involvement in Vietnam. (1)


During
that war an American assassination operation,called Operation
Phoenix, terrorized the South 

Vietnamese
people, and during the war American troops were responsible in 1968
for the mass slaughter of the people in the village of My Lai.


According
to a Vietnamese government statement in 1995 the number of deaths of
civilians and military personnel during the Vietnam War was 5.1
million. (2)


Since
deaths in Cambodia and Laos were about 2.7 million (See Cambodia and
Laos) the estimated total for the Vietnam War is 7.8 million.


The
Virtual Truth Commission provides a total for the war of 5 million,
(3) and Robert McNamara, former Secretary Defense, according to the
New York Times Magazine says that the number of Vietnamese dead is
3.4 million. (4,5)


Yugoslavia


Yugoslavia
was a socialist federation of several republics. Since it refused to
be closely tied to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, it gained
some suport from the U.S. But when the Soviet Union dissolved,
Yugoslavia’s usefulness to the U.S. ended, and the U.S and Germany
worked to convert its socialist economy to a capitalist one by a
process primarily of dividing and conquering. There were ethnic and
religious differences between various parts of Yugoslavia which were
manipulated by the U.S. to cause several wars which resulted in the
dissolution of that country.


From
the early 1990s until now Yugoslavia split into several independent
nations whose lowered income, along with CIA connivance, has made it
a pawn in the hands of capitalist countries. (1) The dissolution of
Yugoslavia was caused primarily by the U.S. (2)


Here
are estimates of some, if not all, of the internal wars in
Yugoslavia. All wars: 107,000; (3,4)

Bosnia
and Krajina: 250,000; (5) Bosnia: 20,000 to 30,000; (5) Croatia:
15,000; (6) and

Kosovo:
500 to 5,000. (7)


NOTES


Afghanistan

1.Mark
Zepezauer, Boomerang (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2003),
p.135.

2.Chronology
of American State
Terrorism
http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_
terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html

3.Soviet
War in
Afghanistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan

4.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.76

5.U.S
Involvement in Afghanistan,
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in
Afghanistan)

6.The
CIA’s Intervention in Afghanistan, Interview with Zbigniew
Brzezinski, Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January 1998, Posted
at globalresearch.ca 15 October
2001, 
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html

7.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.5

8.Unknown
News, 
http://www.unknownnews.net/casualtiesw.html

Angola

1.Howard
W. French “From Old Files, a New Story of the U.S. Role in the
Angolan War” New York Times 3/31/02

2.Angolan
Update, American Friends Service Committee FS, 11/1/99 flyer.

3.Norman
Solomon, War Made Easy, (John Wiley & Sons, 2005) p. 82-83.

4.Lance
Selfa, U.S. Imperialism, A Century of Slaughter, International
Socialist Review Issue 7, Spring 1999 (as appears in Third world
Traveler www.
thirdworldtraveler.com/American_Empire/Century_Imperialism.html)

5.
Jeffress Ramsay, Africa , (Dushkin/McGraw Hill Guilford Connecticut),
1997, p. 144-145.

6.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.54.

Argentina
: See South America: Operation Condor

Bolivia

1.
Phil Gunson, Guardian, 5/6/02,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/archive
/article/0,4273,41-07884,00.html

2.Jerry
Meldon, Return of Bolilvia’s Drug – Stained Dictator,
Consortium,
www.consortiumnews.com/archives/story40.html.

Brazil
See South America: Operation Condor

Cambodia

1.Virtual
Truth Commissiion 
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/ .

2.David
Model, President Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and the Bombing of
Cambodia excerpted from the book Lying for Empire How to Commit War
Crimes With A Straight Face, Common Courage Press, 2005,
paper
http://thirdworldtraveler.com/American_Empire/Nixon_Cambodia_LFE.html.

3.Noam
Chomsky, Chomsky on Cambodia under Pol Pot,
etc.,
http//zmag.org/forums/chomcambodforum.htm.

Chad

1.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.
151-152 .

2.Richard
Keeble, Crimes Against Humanity in Chad, Znet/Activism
12/4/06
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=11560&sectionID=1).

Chile

1.Parenti,
Michael, The Sword and the Dollar (New York, St. Martin’s Press,
1989) p. 56.

2.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.
142-143.

3.Moreorless:
Heroes and Killers of the 20th Century, Augusto Pinochet Ugarte,

http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/pinochet.html

4.Associated
Press,Pincohet on 91st Birthday, Takes Responsibility for Regimes’s
Abuses, Dayton Daily News 11/26/06

5.Chalmers
Johnson, Blowback, The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (New
York: Henry Holt and Company, 2000), p. 18.

China:
See Korea

Colombia

1.Chronology
of American State Terrorism, p.2

http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html).

2.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.
163.

3.Millions
Killed by Imperialism Washington Post May 6,
2002)
http://www.etext.org./Politics/MIM/rail/impkills.html

4.Gabriella
Gamini, CIA Set Up Death Squads in Colombia Times Newspapers Limited,
Dec. 5,
1996,
www.edu/CommunicationsStudies/ben/news/cia/961205.death.html).

5.Virtual
Truth Commission, 1991

Human
Rights Watch Report: Colombia’s Killer Networks–The
Military-Paramilitary Partnership).

Cuba

1.St.
James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture – on Bay of Pigs
Invasion
http://bookrags.com/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion.

2.Wikipedia http://bookrags.com/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion#Casualties.

Democratic
Republic of Congo (Formerly Zaire)

1.F.
Jeffress Ramsey, Africa (Guilford Connecticut, 1997), p. 85

2.
Anup Shaw The Democratic Republic of Congo,
10/31/2003)
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Africa/DRC.asp)

3.Kevin
Whitelaw, A Killing in Congo, U. S. News and World
Report
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/doubleissue/mysteries/patrice.htm

4.William
Blum, Killing Hope (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995), p
158-159.

5.Ibid.,p.
260

6.Ibid.,p.
259

7.Ibid.,p.262

8.David
Pickering, “World War in Africa,
6/26/02,
www.9-11peace.org/bulletin.php3

9.William
D. Hartung and Bridget Moix, Deadly Legacy; U.S. Arms to Africa and
the Congo War, Arms Trade Resource Center, January ,
2000
www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/congo.htm


Dominican
Republic

1.Norman
Solomon, (untitled) Baltimore Sun April 26,
2005
http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/history/2005/0426spincycle.htm
Intervention
Spin Cycle

2.Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Power_Pack

3.William
Blum, Killing Hope (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995), p.
175.

4.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.26-27.


East
Timor

1.Virtual
Truth Commission,
 http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/date4.htm

2.Matthew
Jardine, Unraveling Indonesia, Nonviolent Activist, 1997)

3.Chronology
of American State
Terrorism
http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html

4.William
Blum, Killing Hope (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995), p.
197.

5.US
trained butchers of Timor, The Guardian, London. Cited by The Drudge
Report, September 19,
1999. 
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/indon.htm


El
Salvador

1.Robert
T. Buckman, Latin America 2003, (Stryker-Post Publications Baltimore
2003) p. 152-153.

2.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.
54-55.

3.El
Salvador,
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador#The_20th_century_and_beyond)

4.Virtual
Truth Commissiion 
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/.


Grenada

1.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p. 66-67.

2.Stephen
Zunes, The U.S. Invasion of
Grenada,
http://wwwfpif.org/papers/grenada2003.html .


Guatemala

1.Virtual
Truth Commissiion 
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/

2.Ibid.

3.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.2-13.

4.Robert
T. Buckman, Latin America 2003 (Stryker-Post Publications Baltimore
2003) p. 162.

5.Douglas
Farah, Papers Show U.S. Role in Guatemalan Abuses, Washington Post
Foreign Service, March 11, 1999, A 26


Haiti

1.Francois
Duvalier,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duvalier#Reign_of_terror).

2.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p 87.

3.William
Blum, Haiti 1986-1994: Who Will Rid Me of This Turbulent
Priest,
http://www.doublestandards.org/blum8.html


Honduras

1.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p. 55.

2.Reports
by Country: Honduras, Virtual Truth
Commission
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/honduras.htm

3.James
A. Lucas, Torture Gets The Silence Treatment, Countercurrents, July
26, 2004.

4.Gary
Cohn and Ginger Thompson, Unearthed: Fatal Secrets, Baltimore Sun,
reprint of a series that appeared June 11-18, 1995 in Jack
Nelson-Pallmeyer, School of Assassins, p. 46 Orbis Books 2001.

5.Michael
Dobbs, Negroponte’s Time in Honduras at Issue, Washington Post,
March 21, 2005


Hungary

1.Edited
by Malcolm Byrne, The 1956 Hungarian Revoluiton: A history in
Documents November 4,
2002
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB76/index2.htm

2.Wikipedia
The Free
Encyclopedia,
http://www.answers.com/topic/hungarian-revolution-of-1956


Indonesia

1.Virtual
Truth Commission 
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/.

2.Editorial,
Indonesia’s Killers, The Nation, March 30, 1998.

3.Matthew
Jardine, Indonesia Unraveling, Non Violent Activist Sept–Oct, 1997
(Amnesty) 2/7/07.

4.Sison,
Jose Maria, Reflections on the 1965 Massacre in Indonesia, p.
5.
http://qc.indymedia.org/mail.php?id=5602;

5.Annie
Pohlman, Women and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-1966: Gender
Variables and Possible Direction for Research,
p.4,
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/biennial-conference/2004/Pohlman-A-ASAA.pdf

6.Peter
Dale Scott, The United States and the Overthrow of Sukarno,
1965-1967, Pacific Affairs, 58, Summer 1985, pages
239-264.
http://www.namebase.org/scott.

7.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.30.


Iran

1.Geoff
Simons, Iraq from Sumer to Saddam, 1996, St. Martins Press, NY p.
317.

2.Chronology
of American State
Terrorism
http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html.

3.BBC
1988: US Warship Shoots Down Iranian
Airliner
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/default.stm )


Iraq

Iran-Iraq
War

1.Michael
Dobbs, U.S. Had Key role in Iraq Buildup, Washington Post December
30, 2002, p
A01 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52241-2002Dec29?language=printer

2.Global
Security.Org , Iran Iraq War
(1980-1980)
globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/iran-iraq.htm.


U.S.
Iraq War and Sanctions

1.Ramsey
Clark, The Fire This Time (New York, Thunder’s Mouth), 1994,
p.31-32

2.Ibid.,
p. 52-54

3.Ibid.,
p. 43

4.Anthony
Arnove, Iraq Under Siege, (South End Press Cambridge MA 2000). p.
175.

5.Food
and Agricultural Organizaiton, The Children are Dying, 1995 World
View Forum, Internationa Action Center, International Relief
Association, p. 78

6.Anthony
Arnove, Iraq Under Siege, South End Press Cambridge MA 2000. p. 61.

7.David
Cortright, A Hard Look at Iraq Sanctions December 3, 2001, The
Nation.


U.S-Iraq
War 2003-?

1.Jonathan
Bor 654,000 Deaths Tied to Iraq War Baltimore Sun , October 11,2006

2.News http://www.unknownnews.net/casualties.html


Israeli-Palestinian
War

1.Post-1967
Palestinian & Israeli Deaths from Occupation & Violence May
16,
2006 
http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/2006/05/post-1967-palestinian-israeli-deaths.html)

2.Chronology
of American State Terrorism

http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html


Korea

1.James
I. Matray Revisiting Korea: Exposing Myths of the Forgotten War,
Korean War Teachers Conference: The Korean War, February 9,
2001
http://www.truman/library.org/Korea/matray1.htm

2.William
Blum, Killing Hope (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995), p. 46

3.Kanako
Tokuno, Chinese Winter Offensive in Korean War – the Debacle of
American Strategy, ICE Case Studies Number 186, May,
2006
http://www.american.edu/ted/ice/chosin.htm.

4.John
G. Stroessinger, Why Nations go to War, (New York; St. Martin’s
Press), p. 99)

5.Britannica
Concise Encyclopedia, as reported in
Answers.com
http://www.answers.com/topic/Korean-war

6.Exploring
the Environment: Korean
Enigma
www.cet.edu/ete/modules/korea/kwar.html)

7.S.
Brian Wilson, Who are the Real Terrorists? Virtual Truth
Commisson
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/

8.Korean
War Casualty Statistics www.century
china.com/history/krwarcost.html
)

9.S.
Brian Wilson, Documenting U.S. War Crimes in North Korea (Veterans
for Peace Newsletter) Spring, 2002) 
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/


Laos

1.William
Blum Rogue State (Maine, Common Cause Press) p. 136

2.Chronology
of American State
Terrorism
http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html

3.Fred
Branfman, War Crimes in Indochina and our Troubled National Soul

www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2004/08/00_branfman_us-warcrimes-indochina.htm).


Nepal

1.Conn
Hallinan, Nepal & the Bush Administration: Into Thin Air,
February 3, 2004

fpif.org/commentary/2004/0402nepal.html.

2.Human
Rights Watch, Nepal’s Civil War: the Conflict Resumes, March 2006 )

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/03/28/nepal13078.htm.

3.Wayne
Madsen, Possible CIA Hand in the Murder of the Nepal Royal Family,
India Independent Media Center, September 25,
2001
http://india.indymedia.org/en/2002/09/2190.shtml.


Nicaragua

1.Virtual
Truth Commission
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/.

2.Timeline
Nicaragua
www.stanford.edu/group/arts/nicaragua/discovery_eng/timeline/).

3.Chronology
of American State
Terrorism,
http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html.

4.William
Blum, Nicaragua 1981-1990 Destabilization in Slow Motion

www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Nicaragua_KH.html.

5.Wikipedia,
the Free
Encyclopedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair.


Pakistan

1.John
G. Stoessinger, Why Nations Go to War, (New York: St. Martin’s
Press), 1974 pp 157-172.

2.Asad
Ismi, A U.S. – Financed Military Dictatorship, The CCPA Monitor,
June 2002, Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives 
http://www.policyaltematives.ca)www.ckln.fm/~asadismi/pakistan.html

3.Mark
Zepezauer, Boomerang (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2003),
p.123, 124.

4.Arjum
Niaz ,When America Look the Other Way by,

www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=2821&sectionID=1

5.Leo
Kuper, Genocide (Yale University Press, 1981), p. 79.

6.Bangladesh
Liberation War , Wikipedia, the Free
Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War#USA_and_USSR)


Panama

1.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’s Greatest Hits, (Odonian Press 1998) p. 83.

2.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.154.

3.U.S.
Military Charged with Mass Murder, The Winds
9/96,
www.apfn.org/thewinds/archive/war/a102896b.html

4.Mark
Zepezauer, CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.83.

Paraguay
See South America: Operation Condor


Philippines

1.Romeo
T. Capulong, A Century of Crimes Against the Filipino People,
Presentation, Public Interest Law Center, World Tribunal for Iraq
Trial in New York City on August
25,2004.
http://www.peoplejudgebush.org/files/RomeoCapulong.pdf).

2.Roland
B. Simbulan The CIA in Manila – Covert Operations and the CIA’s
Hidden Hisotry in the Philippines Equipo Nizkor Information –
Derechos, derechos.org/nizkor/filipinas/doc/cia.


South
America: Operation Condor

1.John
Dinges, Pulling Back the Veil on Condor, The Nation, July 24, 2000.

2.Virtual
Truth Commission, Telling the Truth for a Better
America
www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/condor.htm)

3.Operation
Condor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#US_involvement).


Sudan

1.Mark
Zepezauer, Boomerang, (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2003), p.
30, 32,34,36.

2.The
Black Commentator, Africa Action The Tale of Two Genocides: The
Failed US Response to Rwanda and Darfur, 11 August
2006
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091706X.shtml.


Uruguay
See South America: Operation Condor


Vietnam

1.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine:Common Courage
Press,1994), p 24

2.Casualties
– US vs NVA/VC,
http://www.rjsmith.com/kia_tbl.html.

3.Brian
Wilson, Virtual Truth
Commission
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/

4.Fred
Branfman, U.S. War Crimes in Indochiona and our Duty to Truth August
26, 2004

www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=6105&sectionID=1

5.David
K Shipler, Robert McNamara and the Ghosts of
Vietnam
nytimes.com/library/world/asia/081097vietnam-mcnamara.html


Yugoslavia

1.Sara
Flounders, Bosnia Tragedy:The Unknown Role of the Pentagon in NATO in
the Balkans (New York: International Action Center) p. 47-75

2.James
A. Lucas, Media Disinformation on the War in Yugoslavia: The Dayton
Peace Accords Revisited, Global Research, September 7, 2005
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=
viewArticle&code=LUC20050907&articleId=899

3.Yugoslav
Wars in 1990s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_wars.

4.George
Kenney, The Bosnia Calculation: How Many Have Died? Not nearly as
many as some would have you think., NY Times Magazine, April 23, 1995

http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/politics/
war_crimes/srebrenica/bosnia_numbers.html
)

5.Chronology
of American State Terrorism

http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/
ChronologyofTerror.html.

6.Croatian
War of Independence,
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_War_of_Independence

7.Human
Rights Watch, New Figures on Civilian Deaths in Kosovo War, (February
7, 2000) 
http://www.hrw.org/press/2000/02/nato207.htm.

Related
Posts:

https://www.popularresistance.org/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-in-37-nations-since-wwii/

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Zie ook:

Noord-Korea verkeerd begrepen: het land wordt bedreigd door de VS, dat alleen deze eeuw al minstens 4 illegale oorlogen begon……..

List of wars involving the United States

VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII……..

CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi’s beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz………

CIA en 70 jaar desinformatie in Europese opiniebladen…………

VN chef Guterres geeft alarmcode rood af voor de wereld in 2018 en niet alleen vanwege het milieu of klimaat……

Terreuraanslag in Iran moet acties uitlokken die de VS tot een oorlog met Iran ‘dwingen’

Neonazi terreuraanslag in VS, westerse media spreken ‘op hun best’ over ‘een daad van agressie……’

Mensen wat een ongelofelijk staaltje hypocrisie: gistermorgen op Radio1, BBC World Service en WDR5 (plus gegarandeerd de rest van de reguliere westerse media) in de berichtgeving over de gebeurtenissen tijdens een demonstratie van neonazi’s* in Charlottesville, Virginia (VS) en een tegendemonstratie van antifascisten, plus andere mensen, die het rechtse geweld (zowel fysiek als geestelijk), in eigen land meer dan zat zijn, werd gesteld dat ‘een vrouw was omgekomen‘ toen een rechtse demonstrant met zijn auto inreed op vreedzame demonstranten…….

Drie punten die bij voornoemde radiozenders niet te horen waren: die mevrouw werd vermoord middels een terreuraanslag door wat niet anders genoemd kan worden dan een (smerige) neonazi!!

Hier de tekst van de NOS webpagina:

De betoging trok ook veel tegendemonstranten. Zij werden zaterdag aangevallen. Een man reed met zijn auto in op de groep mensen. Een persoon overleed en 19 mensen raakten gewond‘.

Het woord ‘terreuraanslag’ ontbreekt, de woorden ‘vreedzame demonstranten’ ontbreken en het woord ‘neonazi’ (‘ een man….’) ontbreekt in deze alinea…….. Is het gvd niet treurig? Berichtgeving van de onafhankelijke zendgemachtigde NOS, betaald met ons belastinggeld…… En dan wel commentaar durven leveren op de uitlatingen van Trump, die de neonazi’s niet noemde in zijn reactie……..

Als er op hetzelfde tijdstip in Charlottesville of waar dan ook in de ‘westerse wereld’ een radiale moslim was ingereden op mensen, had men op zeker, de reguliere programmering deels onderbroken, om de luisteraars op de hoogte te houden van deze islamitische terreuraanslag……… En oh wat was men dan blij geweest, opgepompte sensatie door de reguliere media met harde veroordelingen en hypocriete steunbetuigingen………..

Dit alles ‘natuurlijk’ zonder enige aandacht voor de reden waarom geradicaliseerde moslims geweld gebruiken: de enorme westerse terreur in het Midden-Oosten…. Dit inclusief het bombarderen van Libië, waardoor dit land van het rijkste land van Afrika, werd teruggebombardeerd tot bijna het armste, een land dat nu in een enorm agressieve chaos is gedompeld, met dank aan illegale oorlogsvoering van het westen, o.l.v. de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS……

Over steunbetuigingen gesproken: waar waren PvdA hufter Koenders, VVD kloothommel Rutte en het nationale waterhoofd W.A. met hun veroordeling van deze neonazi terreuraanslag op vreedzame demonstranten?? Demonstranten die de haatzaaierij en terreur van de fascisten in hun land spuugzat zijn………….

Nog even over de NOS: gisteravond rond 19.00 u. was het bericht over Charlottesville op de webpagina van de NOS al ver naar de achtergrond verdrongen, hetzelfde bericht waarvan u hierboven een citaat kon lezen……. Er waren ‘veel belangrijker zaken’ die eerder werden genoemd, zoals: ‘Sprookje komt uit: fotomodel uit Lisse wordt morgen Maleisische prins‘, ‘Merkel nu ook op campagne. Worden Duitse verkiezingen nog spannend?‘, ‘Slowaakse sneltrein verliest tijdens de rit zijn locomotief‘, ‘Kluivert en Davids op de foto met dictator Mugabe‘ (ach ja, eens een verkrachter en auto-terrorist…..), ‘Oranje-ster Lieke Martens gehuldigd in geboorteplaats Nieuw Bergen‘, ‘Noord-Korea is een intrigerend land, ook voor Chinese dagjesmensen‘  en ‘Elon Musk haalt meer dan verwacht op voor Tesla Model 3……’  U snapt uiteraard waar het nieuws uit Charlottesville had gestaan, als het een terreuraanslag van een radicale moslim betrof, juist: bovenaan!!

Is het niet om schijtziek van te worden? Gadver!!

* Eufemistisch ‘white supremacists’, ‘rechtse demonstranten/groepen’ of gewoon ‘mannen’ genoemd, zoals de NOS……

Zie ook:

Charlottesville: Trump haalt antifascisten toch onderuit………

Charlottesville: twee schuldigen? Of is het de taak van eenieder te vechten tegen fascisme?

Charlottesville: wat er fout ging voor de verzamelde gewelddadige en bewapende fascisten……….

Before
Trump, Clinton Democrats Invoked the Term ‘Alt-Left’ to Demonize
Critics

Among
the Racists

(met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)


De evolutie van politiestaat VS o.a. te zien in het buitenspel zetten van burgerrechten in steden als Boston en Charlottesville

Syrië, de catastrofale en illegale interventie van de VS……

Darius Shahtahmasebi is een mensenrechten activist, jurist en schrijver met het Midden-Oosten als specialisme.

In het volgende artikel, dat ik overnam van Anti-Media, buigt Shahtahmasebi zich over de illegale bemoeienis van de VS met Syrië en de vele leugens waarmee figuren als ex-VS-minister van BuZa John Kerry de aanwezigheid van de VS in dat land probeerde te legitimeren (en dat ging behoorlijk ver, zoals u in het artikel kan lezen.

Kerry is zo’n ongelofelijk hufter, dat hij de zaak volkomen omdraaide (en nog steeds omdraait). Als je hem moet geloven, is Rusland niet legaal op Syrische bodem daar Assad in de ogen van de VS niet de legitieme president van Syrië is….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Als het over verkiezingen gaat, kunnen de VS overheid, inclusief Kerry, beter de eerste 100 jaar de vuilbek dichthouden, wat in dat gestolen land gebeurd (middels de op 1 na grootste genocide ooit), heeft al lang niets meer met democratie te maken!!

Voorlopig werd Assad met een fikse meerderheid in 2014 tot president verkozen, in door internationale waarnemers als eerlijk beoordeelde verkiezingen!! Zo wil oud-VS-president Carter wil al jaren niet meer als waarnemer werken voor verkiezingen in de VS, daar deze verkiezingen in zijn ogen niet eerlijk en democratisch verlopen, terwijl hij dit wel in diverse andere landen heeft gedaan…….

Bovendien zou Rusland zich in Syrië niet bezig houden met het bestrijden van IS, iets dat de VS wel zou doen. Toen Rusland eind september 2015 de Syrische regering te hulp schoot in de strijd tegen IS en andere terreurgroepen (‘gematigde rebellen’ aangestuurd door Al Qaida en Saoedi-Arabië), was IS sterker dan ooit, ondanks dat de VS al meer dan een jaar deze terreurgroep ‘bestreed’, o.a. middels een enorm aantal bombardementen……. (waarover VS veteranen en andere getuigen vertelden, dat niet zelden delen van de woestijn werden gebombardeerd, waar geen mens te vinden was…..)

Zelfs de export van ‘IS olie’ naar Turkije werd niet aangepakt door de VS…… Na 2 maanden van Russische hulp aan het Syrische leger werd er (veel) meer bereikt tegen IS, dan de VS en haar coalitiegenoten in meer dan 1 jaar voor elkaar kregen en lag de IS oliehandel zo goed als op de reet…….

Ach wat zou ik nog toevoegen, lees de volgende uitstekende analyse van Shahtahmasebi:

America’s
Catastrophic — and Illegal — Intervention in Syria Must Be
Stopped

August
3, 2017 at 11:36 am

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed)  Toward
the end of last year, 
leaked
audio
 of
then-Secretary of State John Kerry went viral across the independent
media because it appeared to confirm that the U.S. was watching ISIS
and allowing the group to grow in order to exert pressure on the
Syrian government, a
 long-time
adversary
 of
the Obama administration.

However,
more stunning than this apparent admission was the fact that Kerry
confirmed what 
Anti-Media has
been
 warning
about for some time now
 regarding
the legality of America’s Syrian operation. In the leaked audio,
speaking to Syrian opposition members at a meeting that took place at
the Dutch mission to the United Nations, Kerry stated:

The
problem is that the Russians don’t care about international law,
but we do. And we don’t have the basis – 
our
lawyers tell us
 –
unless we have the
U.N. Security Council Resolution, which the Russians can veto, and
the Chinese, or unless we are under attack from the folks there, or
unless we are invited in. 
Russia is invited in
by the legitimate regime
 –
well it’s
illegitimate in our mind – but by the regime. And so they were
invited in and we are not invited in. We’re flying in airspace
there where they can turn on the air defenses and we would have a
very different scene. The only reason they are letting us fly is
because we are going after ISIL. If we were going after Assad, those
air defenses, we would have to take out all the air defenses, 
and
we don’t have the legal justification, frankly, unless we stretch
it way beyond the law
.” [emphasis
added]

As
a lawyer who is extremely concerned with human rights and
international law, I could have told John Kerry this for free. Though
this devastating truth is evident to anyone who has a basic
understanding of international legal principles, the fact that the
U.S. is still 
pressing
ahead
 with
this strategy despite being informed of the illegality of the
operation by their lawyers is quite telling on its own.

It
is laughable that before stating this damning fact, Kerry alleged
that the Russians don’t care about international
law, but “we do” — before he went on to explain that Russia was
acting within the bounds of international law while the U.S. wasn’t.

In
all likelihood, the real reason Russia and Syria allow American
aircraft to fly in Syria’s airspace is not that they are targeting
ISIS, as Kerry pondered, but because there is very little that Russia
and Syria can do without risking an all-out war with the world’s
largest military superpower.

It
is almost like saying that Iraq ‘welcomed’ the U.S. invasion in
2003 because there was little that Saddam Hussein’s military could
do to stop it. Make no mistake, a country’s inability to drive the
U.S. out of its country 
does
not
 equate
to tacit acceptance of its military presence. The schoolyard bully is
not welcomed by the silent kids he or she wails upon. In fact,
Syria’s president
 has
made it
 quite
clear that the U.S. has invaded its territory, and this alone should
be all the knowledge we need to oppose yet another American-led war
in the Middle East. Just because the U.S. is targeting ISIL and not
Assad, does not legitimize America’s operations at all, especially
in light of Kerry’s own assessment of the operation as referred to
above.

How
many countries does the U.S. have to invade illegally before its
people decide it’s time to do something about it?

The
2003 invasion of Iraq had no U.N. Security Council Resolution, and
the country has been 
plagued
with rampant violence
 ever
since. If the Russians had not been 
duped out
of vetoing the misused 
U.N.
Security Council Resolution 1973
 with
regard to the Libyan conflict in 2011, then Libya would not be
the 
failed
state
 it
is today. The Libyan resolution did not authorize regime change and
was specifically worded so as to be concerned with protecting
civilians on the ground. NATO used the authorization to transform
itself into the air force of 
al-Qaeda-linked
rebels
 and
pounded Libya until Muammar Gaddafi had been 
assassinated.

Under
President Trump, the U.S.’ bombing campaign in Syria makes
even 
Obama
pale in comparison
.
The U.N.
 estimated that
in just the first week of America’s ramped up illegal bombing
campaign in Raqqa, airstrikes killed 300 civilians.

Even
if the U.S. does have some legal justification to bomb Syria,
shouldn’t we 
still oppose
military intervention? The U.S. has waged war in a number of
countries since the attacks of September 11, and 
millions
of people
 have
died as a result of these American-led conflicts. 
Terror
attacks
 still
run rampant; part and parcel of the vicious cycle of 
violence
responding to violence
 across
the globe.

In
areas that have been liberated by the Syrian government, 
hundreds
of thousands
 of
displaced Syrians are returning home. In Aleppo, in a
Christian-inclined district that was besieged by fanatic rebels who
abhor religious diversity, a Cathedral just
 reopened with
a Mozart-inspired concert – something that would have been
 almost
impossible
 under
rebel-held rule.

It
is also worth pondering why it is that the U.S., a majority Christian
nation, is siding with
 Islamist
rebels
 against a
government that
 protects the
rights of Christians. It makes no sense outside of a 
geopolitical
lens
,
and Trump supporters who openly profess to be “good American
Christians” should take note of this damning fact.

Forget
the legality of the war for a minute, forget the
 mounting
death toll
 that
is only able to accrue courtesy of your taxpayer dollars, and take a
moment to figure out where we are
 headed
as a species
.

The
U.S. has not only placed itself in a worldwide conflict with no
foreseeable end that will 
continue
to line
 the
pockets of the arms-dealing class for centuries to come, but it is
also bombing the same territory as another nuclear power
with 
complete
polar opposite interests
.
It is a powder keg that has been waiting a few years to ignite, and
the two nuclear powers are becoming ever closer to bombing the
 exact
same location
 with
different ambitions as to which party to the conflict should emerge
as the victor.

The
potential for this conflict to dramatically escalate should be high
enough to warrant a mobilization of effective resistance. If you
don’t want your sons, daughters, partners, parents, and friends to
go and die in Syria propping up a failing empire concerned only with
money and resources, now is the time to act. You can’t afford to
wait until body bags of loved ones come parading home before you
decide that enough is enough — by
 then
it may be too late
.

Before
anyone accuses me of sounding the alarm prematurely — and though
the corporate media has attempted to accuse Trump of conceding to
Putin inside Syria — can anyone name another conflict in which two
nuclear-armed powers were bombing the same country with completely
different intentions that was also concluded and de-escalated in a
timely, safe, secure, and low-risk manner?

Didn’t
think so.

The
battle against ISIS is still ongoing and involves multiple state
actors attempting to hoard as much Syrian territory as physically
possible. It is clear that the U.S. has no legal or moral right to be
inside Syria in the first place, so does it seem fair to endanger
countless more lives in order for the U.S. to gift its proxies a
chunk of Syrian territory after ISIS’ downfall?

Opinion
Creative
Commons
 / Anti-Media / Report
a typo

Iraakse strijdmacht gaf grif toe dat tot hun orders voor West-Mosul ook het vermoorden van vrouwen en kinderen behoorde……..

Nog steeds niet te geloven, het verschil in verslaggeving door de reguliere westerse media over de bevrijding van Oost-Aleppo en West-Mosul, al kan je wat de laatste betreft niet spreken over een bevrijding, daarover zo meer….

Gisteren bracht ANTIWAR het volgende bericht: militairen van de Iraakse strijdkrachten gaven maar al te graag toe, dat ze uitdrukkelijke orders kregen om tijdens ‘de bevrijding van West-Mosul’ op alles te schieten wat bewoog, dus ook op vrouwen en kinderen……….

Het aantal slachtoffers dat is gevallen is niet meer te schatten, daar het Iraakse leger grote delen van de stad bulldozert, ook als er slachtoffers onder het puin liggen……. De laatste 9 maanden zijn er volgens schattingen van deskundigen minstens 40.000 burgers omgekomen bij de strijd om West Mosul* (vooral door VS bombardementen, die in t.t.t. de bevrijding van Aleppo tot het eind toe werden volgehouden……)….

Ook na de bevrijding begaat het Iraakse leger oorlogsmisdaden, zo vertelde een majoor uit dit leger, dat mensen worden vermoord die vanwege de dorst water proberen te halen uit de rivier de Tigris…….. Journalisten die hier opnamen van maakten werden onder handen genomen en hun geheugenkaarten werden gewist……..

Kortom terwijl er meer dan voldoende bewijs is, van enorme oorlogsmisdaden door het Iraakse leger**, verschijnen daar amper of geen berichten over in de reguliere media………. Dezelfde reguliere media die volkomen hysterisch tekeergingen tegen het Syrische leger en de Russen bij de bevrijding van Oost-Aleppo….. Hysterisch n.a.v. berichten verspreidt door de ‘gematigde rebellen’, ofwel psychopathische moordenaars en verkrachters van aan Al Qaida gelieerde terreurgroepen…… Berichten die o.a. werden opgetekend uit berichtgeving van het Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), een éénmansorganisatie van een gewezen Syrische misdadiger, die zijn nepnieuws (fake news) haalde bij dezelfde terreurgroepen……..

Na de bevrijding van Oost-Aleppo bleef de afhankelijke westerse pers berichten brengen over gruwelijkheden tegen de bevolking van dat stadsdeel, gruwelijkheden die men tot op de dag van vandaag niet heeft kunnen bewijzen…………

Dezelfde westerse pers had ook al geen aandacht voor het feit, dat de VS West-Mosul tot het laatst toe bleef bombarderen (een stad met burgers bombarderen is een ernstige oorlogsmisdaad volgens het Verdrag van Genève…..)……. Bombardementen op een oud stadsdeel met dicht op elkaar staande huizen, een plek waar de schade plus het aantal burgerslachtoffers zo mogelijk nog veel groter is dan bij een bombardement op een gewone, niet al te oude stad…… Zo stopten de Syrische luchtmacht en de Russen al twee maanden voor de bevrijding van Oost-Aleppo met bombarderen, dit om zoveel mogelijk burgerslachtoffers te voorkomen…..

Ach ja de VS, de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, vindt dat het onder en boven de internationale wetgeving staat……..

Iraqi
Forces Eagerly Admit Their Orders Were to Kill Women and Children in
Mosul

July
27, 2017 at 6:05 am

Written
by 
Jason
Ditz

(ANTIWAR.COM) — The
extremely ugly final weeks of the Iraqi “liberation” of Mosul is
leading to an aftermath where untold hundreds of corpses remain
buried under the rubble of the Old City. The corpses include some
ISIS fighters, of course, but also a massive number of civilians.

That’s
reflective of what Iraqi soldiers say were their orders in the final
days of the battle, kill anything that moves. Iraqi forces eagerly
did so, with one noting that they “
killed
them all, men, women, and children. We killed everyone.

There
is little chance that the dead will even be counted, with Iraqi
forces sending in armored bulldozers to cover over all the rubble,
crushing the uncovered bodies along with the former homes they lived
in.

One
Iraqi major insisted reports that the change came as the result of
Iraqi prisons being full was false, saying that Iraq has plenty of
prisons, but makes “very few arrests” in Mosul, noting that Iraqi
troops summarily execute peo
ple for more or less anything.

Civilians
caught going down to the Tigris River for water, because they’re
dying of thirst, are routinely killed, he noted. The reporters in the
city who would normally witness this sort of action are bullied,
their cameras’ memory confiscated, and convinced to quietly leave
town.

As
Iraqi officials were celebrating “victory” in Mosul in recent
weeks, attack helicopters were overhead just blocks away, targeting
everyone that was still moving in the shrinking ISIS districts. The
memory of what happened burned into the minds of the locals, Iraq now
has an uphill battle trying to govern Mosul as anything but an
occupied city, taken in the most brutal of fashions.

By Jason
Ditz
 /
Republished with permission / 
ANTIWAR.COM / Report
a typo

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*  Zie: ‘Mosul: minstens 40.000 gedode burgers in 9 maanden tijd, ofwel VS terreur op grote schaal…..

** De getuigenissen over de oorlogsmisdaden door het Iraakse leger en ongeregelde troepen die hen steunen, dateren al van ver voor het einde van de strijd om Mosul, overigens ook al bij de strijd om andere steden in Irak……………

Zie ook:

Misvormde kinderen in Irak door gebruik van verarmd uranium in VS munitie

9/11 voorkennis verzwegen in officiële rapporten‘ (deze link daar de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen Afghanistan, in feite de voorloper is van die tegen Irak; zie ook de andere links in dat bericht naar 9/11)

Mosul, 18 maanden na ‘de bevrijding’

Mosul, het verschil in berichtgeving vergeleken met de bevrijding van Oost-Aleppo………..‘ Een bericht van 1 maart dit jaar, dus nog voor de uiteindelijke ‘bevrijding’ van West-Mosul. Zie ook de berichten onder het grote aantal links in dat bericht!

Kinderen in Irak vermoord middels VS terreur…….

Mosul ‘zal met precisie ontdaan worden van de terroristen, inclusief een minimum aan burgerslachtoffers…….’‘ (een ongelofelijk en ongeloofwaardige belofte….)

Hennis-Plasschaert hoopte nog zo, dat IS de bevolking van Mosul niet als schild zou gebruiken……..

Honderden burgerslachtoffers in Mosul door VS bombardementen, ofwel grootschalige terreur……

Mosul >> VS vermoordde daar met bombardementen meer dan 40.000 burgers, Irak deed het na de ‘bevrijding’ dunnetjes over met 10.000 moorden…….

Mass Media Siege: Comparing Coverage Of Mosul and Aleppo‘ (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

After Mosul’s “Liberation,” Horror of US Siege Continues to Unfold‘ (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

Mosul ‘bevrijd’ en BBC anti-Assad propaganda……….

      

Mosul (bijna) bevrijd: ‘een positief verslag’ van de BBC

Mosul is ‘bevrijd’ zo stelt de VS, daar zijn echter wel wat aanmerkingen op te maken………

Syrië, de vuile oorlog en alles wat u niet zou moeten weten. Een boek van Tim Anderson

Syrië, de leugens die u op de mouw worden gespeld….. Ofwel: Syrië, de vuile oorlog en…….. deel 2

Iraanse minister stelt de wereld voor Saoedisch ‘terreur-feiten’, helaas toch met een kleine ‘vergissing………’

De Iraanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, Mohammad Javad Zarif heeft eindelijk de ‘terreurkoe’ Saoedi-Arabië de bel aangebonden. Na alle smerige leugens van S-A, de VS en hun hielenlikkers over Iran, maakte Zarif duidelijk, dat niet Iran, maar S-A een terreurstaat is, die de stabiliteit in het Midden-Oosten ernstige schade toebrengt (voor zover je nog van enige stabiliteit kan spreken…)…..

Echter Zarif maakte hier een enorme vergissing, niet S-A is grootste terreurstaat op aarde, maar de VS, daarbij vergeleken is S-A ‘s smerige terreur nog maar kinderspel!!!

Je begrijpt natuurlijk dat Zarif niet zo zeer over het uitoefenen van terreur sprak, maar over de Saoedische steun voor terreurgroepen als Al Qaida en ISIS. Echter zonder de grootschalige terreur van de VS in het Midden-Oosten, vanaf de Golfoorlog die Bush senior in 1990 tegen Irak begon, zou het maar zeer de vraag zijn of IS en Al Qaida ooit zo groot waren geworden. Sterker nog: meer en meer feiten komen naar buiten waaruit blijkt dat de VS deze terreurgroepen van wapens, munitie en militaire training voorzag……..

Hoe dan ook, Zarif toont op een redelijk simpele manier aan, dat niet Iran, maar S-A verantwoordelijk is voor 94% van de terreuraanslagen op onze kleine aarde (waarbij hij overigens terecht niet stelt, dat Iran verantwoordelijk is voor de resterende 6%)……. Waarbij je de uitgeoefende terreur van de VS en S-A buiten beschouwing moet laten, terreur zoals de door de Saoediërs gevoerde genocide op sjiieten in buurland Jemen, of de illegale oorlogen (beiden grootschalige terreur en enorme oorlogsmisdaden) die de VS in het Midden-Oosten is begonnen…….

Iran’s
Foreign Minister: Saudis Involved in 94% of Terrorist Attacks in the
World

July
22, 2017 at 12:19 pm

Written
by 
American
Herald Tribune

He
added there are certain countries in the Middle East who have been
“consistently” supporting terrorism.

(AHT) — “We
don’t see the situation in our region as a winning or losing
battle. It’s a situation where the initial U.S. invasion of Iraq
has led everybody to lose. Because we believe that the situation in
today’s world is so interconnected that we cannot have winners and
losers; we either win together or lose together,” Zarif 
told The
National Interest
.

Zarif
also said that Shias, Sunnis and Kurds are all
important segments of Iraqi society with whom Iran needs to
have relations.

Iran
has rushed to the aid of the Iraqis, not just the Shias, but
everybody. For us, the Shias, the Sunnis, the Kurds—all of them are
an important segment of Iraqi society with whom we need to have
relations.” 

Citing
an example of Iran’s help to Iraqis when Daesh (IS of ISIS, Ap) invaded Iraq in
2014, the foreign minister said, “We went to the support of the
Kurds: when they had been invaded by ISIS, we were the first to go to
 
Erbil
to secure it and to rescue it, basically, from a Daesh occupation.”

He
added there are certain countries in the Middle East who have been
“consistently” supporting terrorism.

You
have countries in the region who have consistently supported
extremists… Some countries consistently supported the wrong
groups—these are the same countries from whose nationals, almost 94
percent of those engaged in acts of terror, came—so we are talking
about a consistent record on their side and a consistent record on
the Iranian side.” 

He
added that Iran does not seek to exclude Saudi Arabia from
the security calculus of the Middle East region.

We
believe that Saudi Arabia is an important part of that security, as
we believe that other countries in the region should be an important
part of that security understanding.”

By
AHT Staff / 
Creative
Commons
 / American
Herald Tribune
 / Report
a typo


Zie ook: ‘Iran Rejects Trump’s Warning, Demands the Release of Detained Iranians in the US


      en: ‘Trump’s Appointees Worse Than Obama’s‘, een artikel van Stephen Lendman, o.a gepubliceerd op Stan van Houcke. Daarin o.a. aandacht voor de leugens van CIA top-oplichter en oorlogshitser Pompeo over o.a. Iran.


      en: ‘Assange: ‘CIA Not Only Armed Syrian Terrorists -It Paid Their Salaries’‘ Een artikel op Information Clearing House waaronder u kan klikken voor een vertaling.


      en: ‘CIA-backed Fighters Killed Or Wounded 100,000 Syrian Soldiers‘ Een artikel op Information Clearing House waaronder u kan klikken voor een vertaling.

Excuus voor de belabberde vormgeving, krijg het niet op orde.

Al Qaida de bondgenoot van de VS in de strijd tegen…… terrorisme! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Met het schaamrood op de kaken moet is vaststellen een belangrijk artikel aangaande de bewapening van terreurgroepen door de VS te hebben laten liggen.

In dit artikel van Whitney Webb o.a. aandacht voor het enorme aantal wapens, inclusief chemische wapens (als Sarin gas), dat de VS in Syrië leverde aan de door haar gesteunde terreurgroepen (in het westen aangeduid als ‘gematigde rebellen)…… Daarnaast stopte de VS honderden miljoenen dollars in deze terreurgroepen…….. Militaire training was eveneens een manier van hulpverlening aan psychopathische moordenaars en verkrachters…………….

Lees hoe de VS willens en wetens enorme terreur tegen het Syrische volk heeft gesteund, zelf heeft uitgeoefend en uitoefent op dit volk, zogenaamd in het belang van de strijd tegen terreur…….

Ook vind je hier een uitleg over de terreurgroepen in Syrië en hoe die in feite allen gelieerd zijn aan Al Qaida Syrië of ook wel al-Nusra genaamd……. Jammer dat Webb geen kritiek levert op het Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR), een propagandaorgaan van de zogenaamde gematigde rebellen, dat ook door de reguliere afhankelijke (massa-) media wordt geciteerd……

How
Al-Qaeda Became an American Ally in the ‘War on Terror’

July
3, 2017 at 9:30 am

Written
by 
Whitney
Webb

Nearly
16 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States is
inexplicably finding itself in bed with al-Qaeda, its alleged sworn
enemy. The group’s efforts to terrorize the population of Syria
have been rewarded with U.S. arms, training and other military aid.

(MPN) — Despite
ostensibly being the United States’ “Public Enemy No. 1”
following the 9/11 attacks, the international terror group al-Qaeda
has instead been a beneficiary of U.S. military aid in the post-9/11
world, particularly in Syria. With the Syrian conflict well into its
sixth year, al-Qaeda’s active branch in that war, widely known as
Jabhat al-Nusra or the al-Nusra Front, has continually received arms
and military protection from the United States, an outcome that is
clearly counterproductive to the U.S.’ global “War on Terror.”

Yet,
while the arming and propping up of al-Qaeda in Syria may not serve
the U.S.’ fundamental goal of eradicating terrorism, it certainly
has helped the U.S. political establishment pursue a decades-old goal
of regime change in regionally strategic Syria.

Gareth
Porter, an award-winning independent investigative journalist, and
historian told MintPress News that such tactics are part of the U.S.
government’s long-standing “bureaucratic habit of mind that
really privileges short-term advantages against state adversaries
over the long term, fundamental interests of the American people.”

In
this case, U.S. counter-terrorism efforts have been usurped by the
government’s broader geopolitical interests in reshaping the Middle
East. While Washington politicians and bureaucrats may be content
with having helped extend Syria’s “civil war” to their benefit
and the benefit of their allies, this reality has had the ugly
consequence of the U.S. willfully
 sponsoring
terrorists who torture civilians to death
,
regularly conduct mass executions, kidnap children and mutilate the
bodies of their victims.

U.S.
funneled Libyan arms, chemical weapons to “rebels”

The
U.S.’ arming of al-Nusra began when the conflict in Syria was in
its infancy. In September 2011, the Obama administration began
providing logistical assistance to anti-Assad forces – namely the
Free Syrian Army, Syrian Revolutionaries Front, the Democratic Forces
of Syria and related groups – who were then supported by U.S.
allies Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. These groups received 
an
estimated $1 billion
 from
the CIA every year from 2012 until the program was scaled back in
2015. In addition, the U.S. government 
gave
another $500 million
 to
the “rebels” in 2014 which was intended to train thousands of
opposition fighters – an operation that turned out to be 
remarkably
ineffective
.

A
year later, the CIA initiated weapon shipments to these
foreign-funded “rebels”
 by
funneling weapons
 that
once belonged to the fallen Gaddafi regime in Libya to
anti-government militias in Syria.

As
Gareth Porter details in his recent piece “
How
America Armed Terrorists in Syria
,”
the CIA continued to connect U.S. regional allies directly arming the
opposition with weapons from Libya and former Soviet bloc countries,
resulting in an estimated 8,000 tons of weapons being poured into
Syria in less than four months, from December 2012 to mid-March 2013.
The quantity of weapons that flooded into Syria from 2011 until that
time undoubtedly dwarfs this figure.

In
addition, the U.S. secured more than just conventional arms being
shipped to Syria. For instance, Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist
 Seymour
Hersh exposed
 how
the Gaddafi regime’s chemical weapon stores were also sent to
foreign-backed opposition forces in Syria, including sarin gas. Hersh
has suggested that former Secretary of State 
Hillary
Clinton approved the chemical weapon transfers
.

While
the U.S. was not directly arming al-Nusra specifically at this time,
the terror group’s effectiveness at combating the Syrian
government, along with their ruthlessness, quickly made them the
darlings of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, who were funding the “rebels”
with their own money and with U.S. assistance.

By
late 2012, the U.S. was well-aware that most of the arms it was
sending into the country were going to Syria’s al-Qaeda offshoot.
As
 the New
York Times
 reported
 in
October 2012, U.S. officials acknowledged off the record that “most”
of the arms shipped to Syrian “rebels” with U.S. support had
ended up in the hands of “hardline Islamic jihadists.”

However,
internal government communications reveal that the government knew
that such “jihadists” were al-Nusra. A
 now-declassified
U.S. government internal report
 from
2012 stated that the “the Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood and AQI
[al-Qaeda in Iraq] are the major forces driving the insurgency in
Syria.” However, no efforts were taken to halt the U.S.-supported
flow of arms to such groups, which continued years after this
surprisingly frank admission.

Other
evidence from that same year has suggested that this “oversight”
was intentional. For instance, 
a
2012 email
 written
by Jacob Sullivan and sent to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
stated that “AQ [al-Qaeda] is on our side in Syria,” implying a
tacit alliance of sorts between the U.S. government and known
terrorist elements that dominated the Syrian armed opposition.

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Despite
the true nature of the foreign-funded opposition being well-known to
U.S. officials, the arming of these so-called “rebel” groups only
became more rampant in the years that followed, with the
U.S.
 supplying
them
 with
heavy weaponry, such as
 anti-tank
missiles
 and anti-aircraft
weapons
,
while also providing them
with
training
.

The
advantage of such substantial support from the U.S. and its regional
allies has only led to the rapid growth and strengthening of
al-Nusra, enabling them to out-compete and eventually absorb nearly
all groups belonging to the U.S.-backed “moderate rebels” active
within Syria.

As
al-Nusra’s influence grew, many “moderate” groups who shared
similar ideas began to work alongside the terror group and eventually
became part of it or directly allied with it. Among the first to do
so were U.S.-supported groups such as Ahrar al-Sham and Jaysh
al-Islam, whose cooperation and close relationship with al-Nusra
 has
been documented
 by
the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

But
the U.S. had no complaints when Jaysh al-Islam
 led
the Syrian opposition
 at
peace talks in Geneva in 2016. In addition, the U.S.
 has
consistently refused
 to
add al-Nusra collaborators to the UN terrorist list, prompting
 some
journalists to call
 such
a refusal an “unwitting U.S. admission” regarding who really
leads the “rebellion” in Syria.

According
to
 the
Russian Defense Ministry
,
the vast majority of Syrian opposition groups supported by the U.S.
form “an integral part” of al-Nusra front. Even the mainstream
press in the United States has admitted that most “rebel” groups
have been overtaken by al-Nusra. For instance, in
February,
 the Washington
Post
quoted
 an
official with the U.S.-backed Fastaqim rebel group as saying
“Al-Qaeda is eating us” and that al-Qaeda’s influence and power
led his group chose to join the al-Nusra affiliated group Ahrar
al-Sham.

As
University of Oklahoma Center for Middle East Studies Director Joshua
Landis 
told
Sputnik last year
:

The
United States has placed itself in a very difficult situation because
many of the rebel groups that it wants to become principal holders of
state power in Syria work hand and glove with Al-Qaeda.”

Supporting
al-Qaeda from the shadows

While
the arming of Syrian “rebels” that are either members of or
affiliated with al-Nusra should be controversial enough, the U.S.
government has also managed to aid the terror group in other ways,
offering them protection and covert tools to bolster their ranks.

The
U.S. State Department and the U.S. military 
have
long justified
 the
presence of U.S. military personnel and assets within Syria as being
directly aimed at fighting terrorists within that nation, namely
Daesh (ISIS). However, on repeated occasions, the U.S. has worked to
protect al-Nusra 
by
asking the Russian military
 and
Syrian government to avoid targeting the terror group.

Such
requests have led Russia to call the U.S.’ commitment to fighting
al-Nusra into question, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov
 stating
in October
 last
year that the Russian government “doesn’t see any facts that the
U.S. is seriously battling al-Nusra.”

However,
the words of al-Nusra members themselves paint an even more
disturbing picture of direct U.S. involvement in aiding the group.
 In
an interview
 with
German newspaper 
Koelner
Stadt-Anzeiger
,
an al-Nusra unit commander named Abu Al Ezz stated that when al-Nusra
was under siege from the Syrian and Russian governments that “we
had officers from Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Israel and America
here…Experts in the use of satellites, rockets, reconnaissance, and
thermal security cameras.”

When
asked to confirm the presence of U.S. instructors within its ranks,
Al Ezz replied “the Americans are on our side,” echoing a 2012
email exchange between Hillary Clinton and her advisor Jacob Sullivan
regarding al-Qaeda in Syria.

Perhaps
this explains why the “Stop Arming Terrorists Act” introduced by
Hawaiian Democratic Senator Tulsi Gabbard, which would bar federal
agencies from using taxpayer-backed funds to provide weapons,
training or any other type of support to terrorist cells such as
al-Qaeda, Daesh or any other group associated with them,
was
only supported by 2 percent
 of
U.S. congressmen.

U.S.’
history of flirting with terrorist groups for geopolitical gain

While
the strategy of arming al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists and extremists
in Syria may seem bizarre, it is actually part of a long-standing
U.S. government practice that led to the terror group’s founding in
the first place. Indeed, al-Qaeda is the textbook example of the U.S.
creating and arming a terror group for political purposes.

Under
the presidency of Ronald Reagan, the U.S. government
 sent
billions of dollars in military aid
 to
the mujahideen in Afghanistan as part of a U.S.-supported “jihad”
against the Soviet Union. These extremist fighters, led by Osama bin
Laden, would soon become known as al-Qaeda. Gareth Porter told
MintPress that the creation of al-Qaeda under the Reagan
administration “set the precedent for the U.S. to support jihadi
forces where and when it is deemed to serve broader U.S. political
and diplomatic aims.”

Years
later, al-Qaeda’s relationship with the U.S. is best described as a
love-hate affair. As
 Garikai
Chengu wrote
 in Counterpunch in
2014: “Depending on whether a particular al-Qaeda terrorist group
in a given region furthers American interests or not, the U.S. State
Department either funds or aggressively targets that terrorist group.
Even as American foreign policy makers claim to oppose Muslim
extremism, they knowingly foment it as a weapon of foreign policy.”

However,
al-Qaeda is just one example of the U.S.’ aiding and abetting of
terror groups in order to realize broader geopolitical aims targeting
“enemies” of the U.S. political establishment. Latin America, for
instance, is rife with examples of how the U.S. trained and funded
terror groups to destabilize or topple leftist governments,
particularly in
 Nicaragua and El
Salvador
 in
the 1970s and 1980s.

Colombia
is another example that bares an uncanny resemblance to the U.S.’
policy in the Syrian conflict. Colombia, the U.S.’ closest ally in
South America,
 has
received over $4 billion
 in
U.S. military assistance since 2000. Much of that assistance has gone
to elements of the military – including right-wing paramilitary
groups – that the U.S. State Department had “vetted” and
“determined had complied with human rights requirements.”

While
that vetting was taking place, Colombia reported a surge in the
Colombian military murdering civilians in cold blood, resulting in
329 civilians killed in 2007.
 The Los
Angeles Times
 reported
 that
47 percent of those murders had been conducted by the very army units
previously “vetted” by the State Department.

Iraq
is another example where, for civilians, the line between “rebel”
terrorist and “army” terrorist is becoming increasingly thin.
There, the U.S. recently doubled down, promising to continue sending
aid to elements of the Iraqi Security Forces that have documented
carrying out human rights violations and war crimes. Many of the more
notorious units within the Iraqi Security Forces 
were
trained by
 former
U.S. special forces operative James Steele, who first made a name for
himself training U.S.-backed paramilitary forces that terrorized El
Salvador in the 1980s.

The
U.S.’ well-documented history of supporting and using terror groups
to fulfill geopolitical goals is so convincing that even Lt. General
William Odom, director of the National Security Agency under Ronald
Reagan,
 has
noted that
 “By
any measure, the U.S. has long used terrorism. In ‘78-79 the Senate
was trying to pass a law against international terrorism – in every
version they produced, the lawyers said the U.S. would be in
violation.”

Today,
little has changed, especially given the true nature of U.S.
involvement with the “moderate” opposition in Syria. Now, the
Trump administration has taken to inventing chemical attacks to blame
on the Syrian government 
before
they even happen
,
again hoping to justify Western intervention in Syria.

The
timing couldn’t be better, as only 
Western
intervention
 is
guaranteed to save Syria’s struggling al-Qaeda “rebels” and
create the next failed state in the Middle East.

By Whitney
Webb
 /
Republished with permission / 
MintPress
News
 / Report
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Toevoeging op 16 december 2017: intussen heeft de VS ‘Al Qaida Syrië’ van de zwarte lijst met terreurorganisaties gehaald!! 

Plus de volgende links:

Zie ook: ‘CIA erkent dat Israël samen met Saoedi-Arabië ‘vecht tegen terreur’, die ze NB zelf hebben georganiseerd……..

VS centraal commando werkt in Syrië samen met IS en verklaarde Rusland de oorlog………

CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi’s beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz………

 

Van Baalen (VVD EU topgraaier) het is moeilijk te zien wie je moet steunen: Al Qaida, Al Qaida of Al Qaida……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

 

CIA valt nogmaals door de mand als wapenleverancier van IS…….

Mosul is ‘bevrijd’ zo stelt de VS, daar zijn echter wel wat aanmerkingen op te maken………

In een artikel van Shahtahmasebi op Anti-Media (11 juli jl.) stelt de schrijver dat er een behoorlijke stank hangt rond de ‘bevrijding’ van Mosul, niet alleen de letterlijke stank van lijken die nog onder het puin liggen (lijken van meer dan 4.000 mensen die werden vermoord middels bombardementen), maar ook een figuurlijke stank……

Volgens Shahtahmasebi had de VS in 2014 kunnen voorkomen, dat IS de grens van Syrië naar Irak overstak. De VS liet dit moordend tuig hun gang gaan, zodat het leger van de VS kon deelnemen aan het verdrijven van IS uit Irak. Daarmee legitimeerde de VS voor zichzelf en haar hielenlikkende partners, het besluit om in de achtervolging van IS vanuit Irak de grens met Syrië over te steken en zo het reguliere Syrische leger te kunnen aanvallen, zoals intussen meermaals is gebeurd………. De VS stak dan ook geen poot uit, toen bleek dat IS grote aantallen VS wapens, Humvee’s tanks en helikopters buit maakte in Irak, terwijl het makkelijk IS aan had kunnen vallen, dit nog naast minstens 2 VS leveringen van wapens en munitie direct aan IS……….

De VS heeft haar tactiek pas veranderd, nadat Rusland het reguliere Syrische leger te hulp schoot en IS werkelijk en effectief werd bestreden……….

Het gebruik van terreurgroepen is overigens een tactiek die de VS ook in Syrië gebruikte: de VS liet IS en andere terreurgroepen (‘gematigde rebellen’) haar gang gaan in Syrië, waarmee dit moordend en verkrachtend tuig werd en wordt gebruikt als een extra legermacht tegen het reguliere Syrische leger….. Voorts heeft de VS de ‘gematigde rebellen’ in Syrië van wapens, munitie en training voorzien, al deze ‘gematigde rebellen’ zijn gelieerd aan Al Qaida, zo bleek onlangs (waar Saoedi-Arabië de financiën voor deze terreurgroepen regelt, naast ook levering van wapens en munitie)…… Niet voor niets ook. dat de VS onlangs het besluit nam Al Qaida Syrië van de terreurlijst te halen…….

Jammer dat Shahtahmasebi in zijn artikel stelt dat Iraanse troepen zich te buiten zijn gegaan aan oorlogsmisdaden, daar is geen nanometer bewijs voor. Waarschijnlijk maakt hij de fout, om sjiitische terreurgroepen, die meevechten met de Iraakse coalitie (die in feite door de VS wordt aangestuurd), als Iraans militairen aan te duiden. Iraanse militairen die zouden worden gepakt voor oorlogsmisdaden begaan in Irak of Syrië, zullen zwaar worden gestraft door Iraanse militaire rechtbanken……

Het aantal doden dat Shahtahmasebi noemt is intussen zwaar achterhaald, onlangs werd bekend gemaakt, dat er de laatste 9 maanden in Mosul meer dan 40.000 inwoners zijn vermoord (vooral middels VS bombardementen….)….*

Verder een goed leesbaar artikel, met ontluisterende feiten:

The
Media Says the US Just Liberated Mosul: Here’s What Really Happened

July
11, 2017 at 2:21 pm

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA)  The
mainstream media
 appears to
be celebrating ISIS’ recent defeat in Mosul, albeit with
some
 reservations.
The media is largely using the word “liberation,” which indicates
the people of Mosul have been freed from a monstrous force by a
friendly, benevolent one.

In
reality, the “liberation” of Mosul paints a dark, horrifying
picture of America’s foreign policy when one realizes how ISIS took
hold of Mosul in the first place. As 
Anti-Media in summarized in
September of last year, the U.S. allowed ISIS to gain control of
Mosul quite deliberately:

In
June 2014, ISIS crossed the Syrian border into Iraq, effortlessly
taking the strategic oil-rich cities of 
Mosul and Baiji and
almost making it as far as Baghdad. Amid the terror group’s
frightening victory, they 
uploaded images
and footage of drive-by-shootings, large-scale death marches, and
mass graves (following the 
mass
executions of Iraqi soldiers
).

ISIS
militants claimed massive quantities of 
American
military equipment,
 including
entire truckloads of humvees, helicopters, tanks, and artillery as
their own. This was no secret to Washington, or even the world, as
the militants photographed and recorded themselves and publicly
flaunted their activity on social media.”

Was
there a good reason the American military sat on its hands despite
knowing full well that this was going on? As 
Anti-Media explained
further:

What
did the U.S. do in response? Nothing. In spite of all the 
American
bases in Iraq
 and
the government’s ability to perform all manner of illicit activity
— including assassinating Muammar Gaddafi in Libya using a drone
that was flown out of Sicily by a pilot who operated the vehicle from
a naval base in 
Nevada
the
U.S. couldn’t do anything to stop ISIS rapid advancements. Was
there a problem preventing the U.S. military from conducting air
strikes? Clearly not, as the U.S. had been launching drone strikes in
Pakistan at 
around
the same time
 ISIS
advanced.”

The
U.S. allowed ISIS to gain this significant portion of territory
before moving into Iraq with an air war that was 
designed to
pave the way for a segued operation into Syrian territory. The U.S.
couldn’t justify an intervention into Syria without going into Iraq
first, and this was
 quite
clearly the underlying intention
 of
this operation the whole time, as evidenced by the
U.S.’ 
obsession with
the Syrian conflict throughout both
the 
Obama and Trump administrations.

Since
the U.S. moved back into Iraq in 2014, the U.S. has
 dropped 84,000
bombs in Iraq and Syria up until the end of May 2017.
As 
Counterpunch explains,
this is nearly three times the number of bombs and missiles dropped
on Iraq during  George W. Bush’s “Shock and Awe” campaign
in 2003.

Monitoring
group Airwars’ currently estimates that the minimum number of
civilians killed by the U.S.-led coalition’s campaign in Iraq and
Syria has reached 
roughly 4,354
since the operation began in 2014. The number is likely higher, but
we will never know the exact total because up until a month ago, the
U.S. only 
had
two personnel
 investigating
casualties in Iraq and Syria full time.

Under
President Trump, the number of bombs being dropped increased rapidly
after Trump gave 
complete
control
 to
the military generals on the ground to call in airstrikes with little
oversight. One such air raid in Mosul
 saw
close
 to
300 civilians die, and the fact that the strike had been called in by
Iraqi forces on the ground demonstrates the immense amount of scope
that Trump has delegated to call in airstrikes with little regard to
international law and the principle of proportionality.

The
battle for Mosul also
 drew in
Iran-backed Shia militias, who have been known to
 terrorize Iraq’s
Sunni population (including
 torturing
civilians
).
No one doubts that ISIS is a brutal and abhorrent group, but the
people who are supposedly “liberating” the local population —
whether it’s the U.S. military, the Iraqi armed forces, or the
various militia on the ground — appear to be no better.

Now
that these Iran-backed militias have firmly planted themselves in
Iraq, the U.S. is left with an ultimate dilemma of how to
 kick
them out
 and
counter Iran’s expanding influence. In all seriousness, the battle
for Mosul is only paving the way for further occupation and laying
the groundwork for America to pursue its regional ambitions in its
never-ending quest to confront Iran.

According to
the U.N., more than 742,000 Iraqis have fled the battle in Mosul,
with approximately 10,000 new civilians fleeing every day. For a
country that
 hates
refugees
,
the U.S. certainly plays a significant role in creating an endless
supply of them.

And
for those civilians still trapped in the city, their lives will never
be the same. As 
Airwars explains:

According
to city officials, 
as
much as 80 per cent of West Mosul has been completely destroyed
.
Civilians still emerging from the battlefield are often bloodied and
starving – traumatised by Iraqi and Coalition bombardments; and by
atrocities commited [sic] by ISIS.

According
to reporters accompanying Iraqi forces, the stench of death is
everywhere in the Old City – with civil defence officials reporting
that as many as 
4,000
bodies still remain unrecovered
 in
the rubble. It is likely to be many months before the full death toll
is known.”

That
is quite the liberation. Even if Mosul really has been “liberated”
by the U.S.-backed coalition, no one seems to be talking about the
fact that ISIS was only able to conquer strategic areas like Mosul
under the safety of the Obama administration’s policies. 
Leaked
audio
 of
former Secretary of State John Kerry when he was a senator confirmed
the U.S. was watching ISIS grow, and in turn, the hoped this would
bring Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the negotiating table (you
can listen to the full audio 
here).

You
can’t target a group as an enemy in one location and view it as a
useful proxy army in another. Indeed, ISIS was always a useful proxy
force for the anti-Assad coalition, as Kerry admitted.

Essentially,
the U.S. allowed ISIS to gain control of large swaths of Iraq and
Syria so they could justify interventions in these war-ravaged
nations.

As
far as the people of Iraq are concerned, there is only 
one
winner here
:
the military-industrial complex, which secured 
massive
years-long contracts
 to
make, supply, and drop over 84,000 bombs on a territory that never
should have been in the hands of ISIS in the first place.

Creative
Commons
 / Anti-Media / Report
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* Zie: ‘Mosul: minstens 40.000 gedode burgers in 9 maanden tijd, ofwel VS terreur op grote schaal…..

Zie
ook: ‘
Kinderen
in Irak vermoord middels VS terreur…….

       en: ‘Mosul verwoest door VS………

       en: ‘Mosul
‘zal met precisie ontdaan worden van de terroristen, inclusief een
minimum aan burgerslachtoffers…….’

(een ongelofelijk en ongeloofwaardige belofte….)

       en: ‘Hennis-Plasschaert
hoopte nog zo, dat IS de bevolking van Mosul niet als schild zou
gebruiken……..

       en: ‘Honderden
burgerslachtoffers in Mosul door VS bombardementen, ofwel
grootschalige terreur……

 
   
en:
Mass
Media Siege: Comparing Coverage Of Mosul and Aleppo

(met mogelijkheid tot vertaling) 

     en:
After
Mosul’s “Liberation,” Horror of US Siege Continues to Unfold

(met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

     en:  Mosul
‘bevrijd’ en BBC anti-Assad propaganda……….

     en:
Mosul
(bijna) bevrijd: ‘een positief verslag’ van de BBC

Mosul: minstens 40.000 gedode burgers in 9 maanden tijd, ofwel VS terreur op grote schaal…..

Afgelopen woensdag meldde Anti-Media dat volgens The Independent, dat speciale rapporten mocht inzien, er in 9 maanden tijd meer dan 40.000 burgers in Mosul zijn omgekomen (lees: vermoord….)….

‘Vreemd genoeg’ haalde dit bericht niet de reguliere Nederlandse media (althans ik kan dit bericht niet terugvinden, buiten het feit, dat dit niet werd gemeld op Radio1 en BNR)……. ‘Vreemd’ daar in het geval van de bevrijding van Oost-Aleppo, de bevrijding van de vreselijke terreur die de ‘gematigde’ terreurgroepen op de bevolking uitoefende, er bij elke dode hysterische werd gereageerd in deze media, dit terwijl die doden werden gemeld door terreurgroepen….* Ach ja, er zijn geen onafhankelijke ‘massamedia organen’ over in ons land…..

Het reguliere Syrische leger en de Russen besloten 2 maanden voor de uiteindelijke inname van Oost-Aleppo, te stoppen met bombardementen, daar die teveel burgerslachtoffers zouden maken. De situatie in West-Mosul was nog veel gevaarlijker, daar de oude huizen die al veel te dicht op elkaar stonden, veel sneller zouden instorten. Ondanks dat bleef de VS gewoon doorgaan met de bombardementen……..

Volgens The Independent zijn er meerdere daders verantwoordelijk voor al die burgerslachtoffers: het Irakese leger (en politie), bombardementen en IS. Vreemd dat er bij die bombardementen niet werd gesteld, dat deze hoofdzakelijk door de VS werden uitgevoerd en het zal u niet verbazen, dat verreweg het grootste aantal slachtoffers is gevallen door die bombardementen……

De schrijver van het volgende artikel, Shahtahmasebi stelt zich aan het eind van zijn schrijven af, of je niet moet spreken van terreur als er zoveel mensen in zo’n korte tijd om het leven komen (vermoord, Ap)…… Het is niet gepast hierom te lachen, maar de vraag stellen is wat mij betreft hetzelfde als deze beantwoorden. Zoals al vaker op deze plek gesteld: de VS is de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde!!

Onder het volgende artikel nog 6 links naar andere berichten, waarvan de laatste 2 naar Information Clearing House artikelen, onder die artikelen kan u klikken voor een vertaling.

Intel
Reports Reveal at Least 40,000 Civilians Killed in Mosul in Just 9
Months

July
20, 2017 at 9:48 am

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed)  According
to intelligence reports
 revealed
exclusively
 to
the 
Independent,
a prominent U.K.-based news outlet, more than 40,000 civilians may
have been killed in the nine-month long battle of Mosul.

The Independent claims
these documents show that residents of Mosul were killed by Iraqi
ground forces, as well as by air strikes and ISIS fighters.

According
to Hoshyar Zebari, who until recently was a senior minister in
Baghdad, many bodies “are still buried under the rubble.

Kurdish
intelligence believes that over 40,000 civilians have been killed as
a result of massive firepower used against them, especially by the
federal police, air strikes and Isis itself,”
 Mr.
Zebari added.

The
monitoring group 
Airwars recently estimated that
at least 4,000 civilians were still buried under the rubble in Mosul,
but we will likely never know the exact number. Up until a month
ago, the U.S. only 
had
two personnel
 investigating
casualties in Iraq and Syria full time.

Zebari
also emphasized that the “
unrelenting
artillery bombardment by units of the Iraqi federal police, in
practice a heavily armed military unit, had caused immense
destruction and loss of life in west Mosul,” 
according
to the 
Independent.

Whether
we like to admit it or not, the Trump administration bears a huge
responsibility for these reported civilian deaths. It was
Trump’s
 decision to
give extraordinary scope to his military generals to call in
airstrikes with very little oversight that has led to an increase in
bombs and widespread civilian suffering. Giving the Iraqi army the
ability to call in airstrikes is also somewhat controversial
considering they have a
 history
of committing human rights abuses
.
One of the airstrikes called in by Iraqi forces 
killed
almost
 300
civilians in a single bombardment.

According
to the 
Independent,
even though Zebari’s figure of 40,000 civilians is higher than any
other previous reports, the intelligence service of the Kurdistan
Regional government “
has
a reputation for being extremely accurate and well-informed.”
 Zebari
also complained about the levels of corruption that have plagued the
Iraqi government and its military. It is for this reason that some
soldiers
 would
rather throw ISIS militants off rooftops
 than
hand them over to authorities, where they would allegedly be able to
bribe their way out of custody.

Further,
as 
Amnesty
International
 argued
in a recent
 report entitled
“At Any Cost: The Civilian Catastrophe in West Mosul, Iraq,” a
lot of the damage to Mosul was done by artillery shells and rockets.
The evidence compiled by 
Amnesty appears
to show a greater and more indiscriminate use of firepower by
pro-government forces over the past six months, which wreaked havoc
across the densely populated areas.

Given
the U.S. was leading this Mosul campaign, the responsibility is on
them to do their utmost to protect civilian lives.

If
Zebari’s figures are accurate, one has to question if the price of
“liberating” Mosul from a terrorist group that
 could
barely kill three U.S. soldiers last year
 –
let alone 40,000 civilians in a nine-month period – is worth it.

If
a military and its associated forces kill over 40,000 civilians in
such a short period of time, perhaps they are the real terrorists.
They are more than
 likely
war criminals
,
too.

Op-ed/ Creative
Commons
 / Anti-Media / Report
a typo

===================================

* Berichten meestal via hun woordvoerder, een gevluchte Syrische misdadiger in Engeland, tevens de enige medewerker van het Syrian Observatory for Human Rights >> SOHR.

Zie ook: ‘Kinderen
in Irak vermoord middels VS terreur…….

        en: ‘Mosul
‘zal met precisie ontdaan worden van de terroristen, inclusief een
minimum aan burgerslachtoffers…….’
‘ (een ongelofelijk en ongeloofwaardige belofte….)        en: ‘Hennis-Plasschaert
hoopte nog zo, dat IS de bevolking van Mosul niet als schild zou
gebruiken……..


         enHonderden
burgerslachtoffers in Mosul door VS bombardementen, ofwel
grootschalige terreur……

        en: ‘Mass Media Siege: Comparing Coverage Of Mosul and Aleppo‘ (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

       en: ‘After Mosul’s “Liberation,” Horror of US Siege Continues to Unfold‘ (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

      en:  Mosul
‘bevrijd’ en BBC anti-Assad propaganda……….

      en:
Mosul
(bijna) bevrijd: ‘een positief verslag’ van de BBC

      en: ‘Mosul is ‘bevrijd’ zo stelt de VS, daar zijn echter wel wat aanmerkingen op te maken………

      en: ‘Iraakse strijdmacht gaf grif toe dat tot hun orders voor West-Mosul ook het vermoorden van vrouwen en kinderen behoorde……..