Hare
kwaadaardigheid Nikki Haley, VS ambassadeur bij de VN, die keer op
keer het gore lef heeft om wie dan ook de les te lezen, moet
eindelijk eens kijken waarvoor haar eigen land, de grootste
terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS, verantwoordelijk is….. Neem de
zogenaamd door de wettige regering van Syrië gepleegde
gifgasaanvallen die Haley keer op keer noemt als feit, terwijl de
enige bewezen gifgasaanvallen* allen zijn toe te
schrijven aan de door de VS beschermde ‘gematigde rebellen’ (lees: terreurgroepen die zich schuldig maken aan moord, verkrachting, marteling en het gebruik van chemische wapens..)…… Daarmee maakt de VS zich ook nog eens schuldig aan vreselijke oorlogsmisdaden…….
De
schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, Brian Kalman heeft een
aantal oorlogsmisdaden van de VS op een rij gezet, o.a. waar de VS gebruik heeft gemaakt van
gifgas, en waaruit ten overvloede nog eens de enorme
hypocrisie van helleveeg Haley blijkt…..
Voorts wijst de schrijver nog eens op het chemische wapenprogramma van de VS, een programma waar nog steeds aan wordt gewerkt en waar nog steeds onderzoek wordt gedaan naar nieuwe chemische wapens, ondanks dat de VS of beter gezegd de Vereniging van Terreurstaten het verdrag tegen de verspreiding van chemische wapens, ofwel Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) heeft getekend……
Het gestolen land VS ‘heeft zich voorts onderworpen’ aan de Organisatie voor het Verbod op Chemische Wapens (OVCW), die landen bij de les moet houden, een organisatie waar de VS lid van is……. De organisatie die e.e.a. controleert is het VN orgaan OPCW en is gezeteld in Den Haag, blijkbaar heeft die organisatie geen toegang tot de massamoord laboratoria van de VS…. (zie de PS notitie onderaan in dit bericht) Kortom de OPCW is een uiterst lamme organisatie (zoals de hele VN), maar dat past dan weer prefect bij het hypocriete Nederland, de hielenlikker van de VS…….
Nieuw voor mij is het feit dat de VS in meerdere buitenlanden laboratoria heeft voor ‘onderzoek’ naar chemische wapens
US
History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes
Before
pointing the finger at Russia and Syria, the U.S. should answer for
its own record
Written
by Brian
Kalman exclusively
for SouthFront;
Brian Kalman is a management professional in the marine
transportation industry. He was an officer in the US Navy for eleven
years.
The
world is once again witnessing the height of U.S. hypocrisy as
members of the U.S. State Department ratchet up anti-Russian and
anti-Syrian rhetoric surrounding the use of chemical weapons in Syria
and the UK. Ambassador Nikki Haley has warned Syria, Iran and Russia
that they will be held accountable for their pre-determined use of
chemical weapons in Idlib on innocent civilians. No evidence was
provided to support her threats. The United States carried out cruise
missile strikes on two previous occasions, and each time provided no
evidence to prove their assertion that the Syrian government used
chemical weapons in attacking civilians, nor was any rational reason
given for such an obviously irrational decision on the part of the
Syrian state. No evidence has ever been provided to justify the clear
international crime of aggression committed by the United States on
these two earlier occasions. Now, the UK and the U.S. are both
attempting to accuse the Russian government of using chemical weapons
in an alleged attempted assassination of a Russian national on UK
soil. Once again, no real evidence has been presented, only
assertions and hearsay.
On Thursday September 13th, Assistant Secretary of State Manisha Singh declared before the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee that the United States would level the most severe of sanctions against Russia, including breaking all diplomatic ties, if Russia refused to admit its guilt in perpetrating the Skripal assassination fiasco and refused to submit to International inspections by the OPCW of its alleged chemical weapons and biological weapons programs. She stated that Russia would have to meet this requirement by an arbitrary November 4th deadline, set by the United States in accordance with a U.S. law, not an international law. H.R. 1724 – Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 specifies in part:
Title III: Control and Elimination of Chemical and Biological Weapons – Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 – Declares it is U.S. policy to: (1) seek multilaterally coordinated efforts with other countries to control the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons; and (2) strengthen efforts to control chemical agents, precursors, and equipment.
Requires the President to use the U.S. export control laws to control the export of defense articles, defense services, goods, and technologies that he determines would assist a country in acquiring the capability to produce or use such weapons.
Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to require the Secretary of Commerce to establish a list of goods and technology that would assist a foreign government or group in acquiring chemical or biological weapons. Requires a validated export license for the export of such items to certain countries of concern.
Requires
the President to impose certain sanctions against foreign persons if
he determines that they knowingly contributed to the efforts of a
country to acquire, use, or stockpile chemical or biological weapons.
Declares such sanctions to include: (1) denial of U.S. procurement
contracts for goods or services from such foreign persons; and (2)
prohibition against importation of products from such persons.
Authorizes the President to waive imposition of such sanctions if he
determines that is in the national security interests of the United
States.
Amends
the Arms Export Control Act to set forth similar provisions.
Requires
the President to make a determination with respect to whether a
country has used chemical or biological weapons in violation of
international law or has used lethal chemical or biological weapons
against its own nationals. Authorizes specified congressional
committees to request the President to make such determination with
respect to the use of such weapons.
Requires
the President to impose the following sanctions against foreign
countries that have been found to have used such weapons: (1)
termination of assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
(except humanitarian assistance and agricultural commodities); (2)
termination of arms sales and arms sales financing; (3) denial of
U.S. credit; and (4) prohibition of the export of certain goods and
technology. Directs the President to impose at least three of the
following additional sanctions unless such countries cease the use of
such weapons and provide assurances that they will not use, and will
allow inspections with respect to, such weapons: (1) opposition to
the extension of multilateral development bank assistance; (2)
prohibition of U.S. bank loans (except loans for food or agricultural
commodities); (3) further export prohibitions; (4) import
restrictions; (5) suspension of diplomatic relations; and (6)
termination of air carrier landing rights. Provides for the removal
and waiver of such sanctions.
Requires
the President to submit to the Congress annual reports on the efforts
of countries to acquire chemical or biological weapons.
Repeals
certain duplicative provisions of the Foreign Relations Authorization
Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993.
It
is important to note that nowhere in this law is there a legal
commitment made by the United States itself, to eliminate its own
chemical and biological weapons capabilities. This is not an
oversight, yet speaks to the imperial hypocrisy of the United States
and an acknowledgement that it alone has been the largest perpetrator
of chemical weapons use and proliferation for more than 50 years. It
currently maintains the largest stockpile of both chemical and
biological warfare agents of any nation on the planet, and continues
to expand its biological weapons research and development on a scale
far larger than any other country.
While
the U.S. Department of Defense maintains that its massive biological
research programs are meant to counter and defend against new
biological weapons being developed, they are in fact developing
bio-weapons in the process.
International
Obligations and the OPCW
Russia is one of 192 signatories (state and non-state parties) of the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, along with the United States. On September 27th, 2017 it was announced by Russia and the OPCW, that Russia had verified the total destruction of its large chemical weapons stockpile dating from the years of the Soviet Union, estimated at 39,967 metric tons of chemical agents. Russia was obligated to do this by 2020, yet was able to accomplish the task three years ahead of schedule. Under the original agreement, both the U.S. and Russia were obligated to accomplish this by 2007, but both nations required an extension of the deadline.
Although
admitting to a total stockpile of 28,000 metric tons of chemical
agents, the U.S. admits to destroying 90% of its chemical arsenal.
The U.S. requested and was granted an extension out to 2023 to
achieve verified elimination of 100% of its chemical weapons. The
only other signatory of the law other than the United States not to
have already met the requirements is Iraq. It must be stated that
much of the chemical weapons in the Iraqi arsenal are based on the
chemical warfare agents supplied to the Saddam Hussein regime during
the height of the Iran-Iraq war by the United States and other
western nations. Saddam used some of these U.S. supplied weapons to
murder thousands of Iraqi Kurds in the town of Halabja in 1988.
Estimates range between 3,000 – 7,000 deaths and over 10,000
injured.
Saddam
Hussein was a valued asset of the United States and its Western
allies for decades. Hussein pictured above with former French
President Jacque Chirac and U.S Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Not
only did the United States, and France for that matter, provide
chemical weapons to the Saddam regime, but the U.S. intelligence
agencies provided the Iraqi military with vital battlefield
intelligence, including satellite imagery in aiding them in the war.
The U.S. was well aware that the Saddam regime had used chemical
weapons in at least four offensives during the war. Of course they
knew, they had facilitated the transfer of these weapons to help the
Iraqis prosecute a war of aggression against Iran. Declassified CIA
documents clearly show that the United States was well aware that the
Iraqis had used chemical weapons at least four times between 1983 and
1988. Iran had accused Iraq of using chemical weapons, and tried to
build a case to bring before the United Nations. The United States
withheld its knowledge of course, and continued to aid its ally in
perpetrating these crimes against humanity.
Perhaps
the most powerful photo taken of the Halabja chemical attack
perpetrated against Iraqi Kurds. This woman died running with her
child in an attempt to save her, yet could not escape the deadly
effects of the chemical agents used. Their embrace will forever
symbolize both human love and sacrifice, and unfathomable human
cruelty.
U.S.
Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley has lied through her teeth
repeatedly in her statements before the U.N. Security Council and the
General Assembly. She has stated repeatedly that Assad has used
chemical weapons against his own people in Ghouta in 2013, Khan
Shaykhun in 2017 and Douma in 2018, yet has not supplied one shred of
evidence beyond dubious social media posts of unknown provenance. She
has also stated that the United States is certain that it could only
be the Syrian government, as no other party in the conflict zone
could possibly possess chemical weapons. Here’s the problem with
her statement. Firstly, the United States and the OPCW verified that
Syria destroyed or surrendered all of its chemical weapons agents. On
its official website, the OPCW states:
“Veolia,
the US firm contracted by the OPCW to dispose of part of the Syrian
chemical weapons stockpile, has completed disposal of 75 cylinders of
hydrogen fluoride at its facility in Texas.
This
completes destruction of all chemical weapons declared by the Syrian
Arab Republic. The need to devise a technical solution for
treating a number of cylinders in a deteriorated and hazardous
condition had delayed the disposal process.
Commenting
on this development, the Director-General of the OPCW, Ambassador
Ahmet Üzümcü, said: “This process closes an important chapter in
the elimination of Syria’s chemical weapon programme as we continue
efforts to clarify Syria’s declaration and address ongoing use of
toxic chemicals as weapons in that country.”
Secondly,
the OPCW and the UN have both verified that opposition forces within
Syria have used chemical agents as weapons on numerous occasions
during the conflict. Not only has Carla Del Ponte, UN human rights
investigator, former UN Chief Prosecutor and ICC attorney stated that
opposition forces had used chemical weapons, but also the former OPCW
head field investigator in Syria Jerry Smith stated to the BBC that
he found it very unlikely that the government perpetrated these
chemical attacks.. As recently as October of last year the U.S. State
Department itself seemed to acknowledge the same truth in its warning
to U.S. citizens traveling to Syria. The travel warning stated:
“Tactics
of ISIS, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, and other violent extremist groups
include the use of suicide bombers, kidnapping, small and heavy arms,
improvised explosive devices, and
chemical weapons.
They
have targeted major city centers, road checkpoints, border crossings,
government buildings, shopping areas, and open spaces,
in Damascus, Aleppo, Hamah, Dara, Homs, Idlib, and Dayr al-Zawr
provinces.”
U.S. History of Using Chemical Weapons and Supporting Those that Do
The
last country in the world that should lecture anyone on the
possession and use of WMDs is the United States. Not only is the
United States the only country in history to ever target civilians
with multiple atomic bombs, it has used chemical weapons against the
populations of Southeast Asia and Iraq in the past. Now, they were
smart enough not to use mustard gas and anthrax, but the accumulative
effects of Agent Orange and depleted uranium in these populations has
been devastating, and will not only cause great harm and pain for
these populations, but will leave the land poisoned for generations.
The
United States sprayed copious quantities of TCDD (dioxin
tetrachlordibenzo-para-dioxin), a class 1 carcinogen all over regions
of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in an attempt to defoliate the jungle
environment, and thus rob their enemy of an environment they excelled
at fighting in and hiding in as part of Operation Ranch Hand. Known
as Agent Orange, the chemical was banned in the U.S. in 1970.
Although extremely hard to quantify, the devastating effects of
dioxin exposure in the Vietnamese population are easily identifiable,
as the same effects were observed in U.S. veterans that returned home
after exposure to the toxin. Abnormally high levels of various
cancers and debilitating birth defects are present in Southeast Asian
populations in areas of greatest use of Agent Orange. Dioxins remain
in the soil and water table, as they do not degrade naturally. Dioxin
also bio-accumulates in the fatty tissues of animals and thus remains
in the food supply.
One
of the many young Vietnamese born long after the war with
debilitating, neurodevelopmental diseases and birth defects due to
Agent Orange exposure of their parents.
The
United States learned little from the crime it perpetrated in
Southeast Asia, nor did it seem to care as it repeated a similar
offense in two successive invasions of Iraq. Having failed to achieve
its aim of defeating Iran through its brutal Iraqi proxy, even after
helping the Saddam Hussein regime in chemical warfare attacks against
Iranian soldiers and Iraqi Kurdish civilians, the United States
largely ignored the numerous atrocities carried out by one of its
favorite dictators. The U.S. would turn on its erstwhile henchman in
1990, after Saddam decided to attack one of its favorite corrupt
emirates in the region. The resulting 1991 invasion of Iraq saw the
heavy use of depleted uranium armored piercing rounds. Depleted
uranium is extremely dense, and thus good for piercing hardened steel
or composite armor. The follow-on invasion of 2003 brought more death
and destruction, and more depleted uranium.
Locations
of depleted uranium munitions used by U.S. Airforce A-10 ground
attack aircraft in Iraq during the 2003 invasion. Depleted Uranium is
also used in anti-armor munitions utilized by all U.S. tanks and
armored fighting vehicles as well, so the true breadth of
distribution and employment of depleted uranium in the above map are
understated.
The
U.S. has not funded the reclamation and disposal of depleted uranium
contaminated scrap in Iraq. The new Iraqi government has started
cleaning up the approximately 350 sites identified as having depleted
uranium contamination in the country, mostly around Basra and
Baghdad, yet also scattered over the entire country. It is estimated
that between 1,000 and 2,000 metric tons of depleted uranium used in
various munitions fired during the invasion of 2003 alone. It is hard
to narrow down the exact amount as the U.S. military has failed to
provide any definitive numbers. Iraqi doctors have recorded and
reported higher cases of cancers in adult patients and increased
birth defects in children being born in Iraq since the invasion took
place. The U.S. government seems determined to undermine any attempts
to draw direct correlations between this recorded phenomenon and its
use of depleted uranium in two successive wars in Iraq. It has also
fought all attempts by U.S. war veterans suffering from various
cancers and neurological diseases from their similar exposure in both
wars.
Continued Support of War Criminals
Nikki
Haley fails to acknowledge the historic role of the United States
government’s support of some of the world’s most horrible regimes
in the past. From the Khmer Rouge and Saddam Hussein then, to Saudi
Arabia and Tahrir al-Sham now, the United States has supported many
of the world’s most deplorable violators of human rights. Yet Nikki
Haley has the arrogance and delusional belief that she has the moral
high ground in chastising Syria and Russia before the U.N.?
Just
this week U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo clarified that the
Saudi and UAE have acted in good faith in taking steps to reduce
civilian casualties in their military operations in Yemen and that
the U.S. military would keep providing both material and direct
support to both nations in prosecuting their illegal war. U.S.
manufactured and supplied bombs are being used to kill civilians in
Yemen regularly, amounting to an estimated 15,000 killed or injured
civilians over a period of three years. This does not take into
account the deaths and suffering associated with the humanitarian
crisis that has resulted from the Saudi-led coalition destroying
virtually all infrastructure in the Houthi controlled part of the
country. I am sure that it is also just another “unintended
consequence” that al-Qaeda has expanded and strengthened its
position in Yemen as a direct result of the conflict. When will any
member state in the U.N. finally tell Nikki Haley that the Security
Council must acknowledge that al-Qaeda has always been a proxy of
Saudi Arabia and the United States?
Children
injured when a Saudi airstrike targeted a school bus in Saada, Yemen.
A total of 51 civilians, 40 of them children below the age of 15 were
killed in the strike. The United States supplies the aircraft, bombs,
aerial refueling and intelligence gathering resources to support the
bombing campaign.
Nikki
Haley continues to claim that Russia is directly facilitating an
impending humanitarian disaster and war crime in the impending Syrian
military operations to retake Idlib province, destroy a host of ISIS
and al-Qaeda linked terrorist groups and liberate hundreds of
thousands of civilians. She said the same thing during the battle to
liberate Aleppo. Her lies were revealed when the SAA and Russia
finally liberated the city and Syrian civilians who were kept as
prisoners there by the Islamic terrorists were finally free of the
horror of their captivity. Is it no wonder that tens of thousands of
Syrian refugees displaced by the conflict are now returning to their
home country?
Apparently
Nikki Haley sees no issue at all in Imperial America supporting Saudi
Arabia and the UAE killing Yemeni civilians by the thousands in
Yemen. The U.S. not only supplies the bombs, but directly provides
in-flight refueling of the aircraft and the intelligence used to
conduct the “precision” strikes that target schools, hospitals,
funerals, and even school bus loads of children. Does this surprise
anyone? U.S. coalition airstrikes against ISIL in Raqqa and Mosul
killed an estimated 6,000 civilians. In Raqqa, U.S. aircraft
conducted 90% of the airstrikes, and the U.S. fired at least 30,000
artillery rounds into the city. The U.S. has yet to pay any political
or legal price for its indiscriminant destruction of these cities.
One
of thousands of airstrikes carried out on the Syrian city of Raqqa.
The U.S. led coalition was widely criticized for its blatant
disregard for civilian casualties in its targeting of the city as
part of its offensive to destroy ISIL. They have yet to be held
accountable for the estimated 800-1,000 civilians deaths caused.
The Russian Response
Russia
needs to finally accept the reality that there is nothing to be
gained by negotiating, or attempting to collaborate with the United
States in solving problems. It’s like a shepherd using a wolf to
defend his flock, or a detective enlisting the aid of a criminal to
solve a crime that the criminal is a co-conspirator in perpetrating.
It is illogical in the extreme. The Russian U.N. mission needs to
call out Nikki Haley and the U.S. on its own deplorable record and
hypocrisy and while seeking the aid of other member states,
must also realizing that most of them are bought-off by Washington.
Hasn’t Haley repeatedly threatened to stop giving money to nations
that do not support her resolutions?
The
Russians need to realize that they can never have a mutually
respectful and beneficial relationship with the political and
financial elites that control the United States. Russia will always
find a friend in the American people, but Washington? This same elite
despises the American people more than it does Putin or Assad. If it
wasn’t for working class American citizens fed up with the U.S.
establishment elite, we would likely already be in a direct war with
Russia, China and Iran. I hope that the Russian political and
military leadership understands this. Stop trying to placate
Washington and start preparing to defend your nation. The Deep State
will not stop at Ukraine or Syria. They desire the complete
subjugation of Russia and a return to the Yeltsin days, or worse.
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* Een aantal gifgasaanvallen vond niet eens plaats, zo bleek uit
onderzoek van o.a. de VN……
PS: Israël en Egypte behoren tot de weinige landen die het CWC niet hebben getekend en nog steeds chemische wapens produceren, opslaan en verkopen…….. Niet ondenkbaar dus dat de terreurgroepen in Syrië (‘gematigde rebellen) hun gifgas hebben betrokken uit Israël en/of Egypte, beiden grote vijanden van het Syrische Assad bewind…… Israël heeft al een paar keer aangegeven samen te werken met die terreurgroepen en zelfs samenwerking met IS niet uit de weg te gaan……. Dat deze terreurgroepen gifgas bezitten, waaronder sarin en chlorine deert het westen blijkbaar niet….. Overigens gebruiken veel westerse landen die het verdrag ondertekenden wel een chemisch wapen dat ze ook opgeslagen hebben, t.w. traangas……… Onlangs bleek overigens dat Nederland in het bezit is van nog veel gevaarlijker chemische wapens, die door TNO worden onderzocht……. (volgens het verdrag mag je ook geen chemische wapens in het bezit hebben…)
Zie ook:
‘BBC weer met anti-Syrische propaganda en veel aandacht voor de geweldige Turken en hun leider Erdogan‘ (met links naar ander gifgas gebruik in Syrië)
‘VS bewapening van Irak met chemische en biologische wapens valt onder leeftijdscensuur van YouTube‘
‘VS heeft al 4 keer het verboden chemische wapen witte fosfor gebruikt‘
Meer voorbeelden van grootschalige VS terreur:
‘VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….‘
‘List of wars involving the United States‘
‘VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII……..‘
‘VS: openlijke militaire oefening met terreurgroep in Syrië……‘
‘NAVO gaat VS helpen in Zuid-Amerika terreur uit te oefenen: Colombia lid van de NAVO………‘
‘VS commando’s vechten o.a. in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika, aldus het VS ministerie van oorlog………‘
‘De VS, een duivels imperium, dat achter haar psychopathisch moordende troepen staat??‘
‘De war on drugs is veel dodelijker dan over het algemeen gedacht‘
