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

Onder andere Mozhgan
Savabieasfahani (
milieutoxicoloog, gespecialiseerd in milieuvervuiling door oorlogsvoering; zie ook het interview met haar, onder het hieronder opgenomen artikel), is één van de auteurs in een komend artikel in
Environmental
Pollution’, waarin zij aantoont
 dat de kinderen die geboren werden of worden in de buurt van VS bases of
voormalig strijdgebieden in Irak, in veel gevallen misvormd

ter wereld zijn gekomen of nog komen….. Het gaat hier om kinderen van ouders die
altijd in die gebieden hebben gewoond, 
gebieden
waar de VS met hulp van NAVO-lidstaten begin 90er jaren en later
vanaf 2003 illegaal oorlog voerde.

Ik
spreek over gebieden, terwijl dit onderzoek op één plek is gedaan,
echter er bestaat geen twijfel dat e.e.a. op vergelijkbare plekken
hetzelfde is…..

De
oorzaak is het gebruik van met verarmd uranium gefabriceerde munitie en de putten waar
militairen van alles verbranden (ook zeer giftige stoffen), dus de bases van de VS in Irak, waar
deze terreurentiteit er in Irak maar liefst 500 had…..

Verarmd
uranium is giftig en radioactief en wordt gebruikt voor de fabricatie van munitie, daar de kogels die zo gefabriceerd zijn, veel harder zijn dan gewone kogels, men kan er zelfs pantsers mee doorboren….

Lees en
huiver en je zal begrijpen dat de VS in toom moet worden gehouden en
zich terug zou moeten trekken op eigen gebied. De VS is een terreur-imperium, zoals het Eerste, Tweede en Derde Rijk, de VS is de volgende in rij: het Vierde Rijk…… Ondanks dat de VS de gevolgen
van het gebruik van deze munitie kent, behoudt het Pentagon zich het
recht voor dit te blijven gebruiken, ook al hebben zelfs VS militairen
last van het gebruik van deze munitie en zijn er zelfs in de VS
gebieden besmet door deze munitie….. Hoeveel bewijs heb je nog nodig om in te zien dat de VS de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde is????

Beste bezoeker, je krijgt
vreselijke foto’s te zien, maar geeft het door, de VS moet gestopt worden, en haar oorlogshond NAVO moet ontmanteld worden (vergeet niet dat de NAVO altijd onder militair opperbevel van de VS staat en daarmee het instrument is van de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, dezelfde VS):

New
Study Documents Depleted Uranium Impacts on Children in Iraq

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor New Study Documents Depleted Uranium Impacts on Children in Iraq

September
25, 2019 at 10:48 am

Written
by 
American
Herald Tribune

(AHT) — In
the years following 2003, the U.S. military dotted Iraq with over 500
military bases, many of them close to Iraqi cities. These cities
suffered the impacts of bombs, bullets, chemical and other weapons,
but also the environmental damage of open burn pits on U.S. bases,
abandoned tanks and trucks, and the storage of weapons on U.S. bases,
including depleted uranium weapons. Here’s a map of some of the
U.S. bases:

This
map and the other illustrations below have been provided by Mozhgan
Savabieasfahani, one of the authors of a forthcoming article in the
journal 
Environmental
Pollution
.
The article documents the results of a study undertaken in Nasiriyah
near Tallil Air Base. Nasiriyah was bombed by the U.S. military in
2003 and in the early 1990s. Open-air 
burn
pits
 were
used at Tallil Air Base beginning in 2003. See a second map:

Now
take a look (do not turn away) at these images of infants who were
born between August and September of 2016 to parents who had
continuously lived in Nasiriyah. The visible birth defects include:
anencephaly (A1 and A2 , B), lower limb anomalies (C), hydrocephalus
(D), spina bifida (E), and multiple anomalies (F, G, H). Imagine if
these tragic birth defects had been caused by a natural disaster or
the misdeeds of the next government targeted by the United States for
“regime change” — would not the outrage be widespread and
thunderous? But these horrors have a different cause.

Top
image is another illustration, of hand and foot abnormalities in
children in Nasiriyah, and in the ancient city of Ur, near the U.S.
base.

The
study now being published found an inverse relationship between the
distance one lived from Tallil Air Base and the risk of birth defects
as well as of levels of thorium and uranium in one’s hair. It found
a positive relationship between the presence of thorium and uranium
and the presence of birth defect(s). Thorium is a decay-product of
depleted uranium, and a radioactive compound.

These
results were found near this particular base rather than dozens of
others, not because it is necessarily unique; no similar studies have
yet been conducted near each of the other bases. The results found by
this study are likely to be identical to results that could be found
by a similar study next year, or next decade, or next century, or
next millennium, at least in the absence of major efforts to mitigate
the damage.

Depleted
uranium (DU) weapons were not just stored in Iraq, but also fired in
Iraq. Between 1,000 and 2,000 metric tons of 
DU was
fired in Iraq according to a 2007 report by the U.N. Environment
Program. While not at the same level, the U.S. military has also
poisoned the 
Washington,
D.C., area
,
among other parts of the United States and the globe with DU. The
Pentagon to this day 
claims
the right
 to
use DU. Depleted uranium is permanently hazardous waste from the
production of nuclear energy, a source of energy marketed by its
lobbyists as environmentally beneficial. Here’s a description of DU
from 
Iraq
Veterans Against the War (IVAW)
,
a group (later renamed “About Face: Veterans Against the War!”)
many of whose members are familiar with the damage that DU does to
people directly, not just to their offspring:

Depleted
Uranium (DU) is a toxic, radioactive heavy metal that is the waste
byproduct of the uranium enrichment process when producing nuclear
weapons and uranium for nuclear reactors. Because this radioactive
waste is plentiful and 1.7 times more dense than lead, the United
States government uses DU in munitions/ammunition which are extremely
effective at piercing armored vehicles. However, every round of DU
ammunition leaves a residue of DU dust on everything it hits,
contaminating the surrounding area with toxic waste that has a
half-life of 4.5 billion years, the age of our solar system, and
turns every battlefield and firing range into a toxic waste site that
poisons everyone in such areas. DU dust can be inhaled, ingested, or
absorbed through scratches in the skin. DU is linked to DNA damage,
cancer, birth defects, and multiple other health problems. The United
Nations classifies Depleted Uranium ammunitions as illegal Weapons of
Mass Destruction because of their long-term impact on the land over
which they are used and the long-term health problems they cause when
people are exposed to them.”

Not
only did bringing DU weapons to Iraq amount to putting “Weapons of
Mass Destruction” in Iraq in the name of eliminating “Weapons of
Mass Destruction,” but using and storing DU in Iraq arguably
violated the 
Convention
on the Prohibition of the Military or Any Other Hostile Use of
Environmental Modification Techniques
.
The use of DU was also one part of an illegal war, which in its
entirety violated both the 
UN
Charter
 and
the 
Kellogg-Briand
Pact
.
Each element of such a war is illegal. In addition, the use of such
weapons violates the 
Geneva
Conventions’
 ban
on collective punishment, as well as the 
Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
.

The
use of these weapons was a small part of 
the
damage done to Iraq
,
its people, its society, and its natural environment by the war. We
ought not to require any legal case before offering aid and making
reparations. Basic human decency ought to suffice.

By David
Swanson
 / Creative
Commons
 / AHTribune.com / Report
a typo

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

Zie ook: Face to Face -Full interview with Mozhgan Savabieasfahani (Environmental toxicologist ):

En zie verder:

Irak gevangen door VS agressie richting Iran en daarnaast een opstand in eigen land

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, links anders dan de hier getoonde 3)

9/11 en de voorkennis van de aanslagen in de VS

9/11: de teller voor het aantal door VS/NAVO gedode mensen staat intussen op meer dan 2,5 miljoen

‘Iraq: A State of Mind’, of hoe de BBC Britse handen probeert schoon te wassen in een meer van bloed

Mosul, 18 maanden na ‘de bevrijding’

The massacre of Mosul: 40,000 feared dead in battle to take back city from Isis as scale of civilian casualties revealed

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

CIA valt nogmaals door de mand als wapenleverancier van IS…….‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht over VS wapenleveranties en training van terreurgroepen >> je gelooft je ogen niet…)

Kinderen in Irak vermoord middels VS terreur…….

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

Mosul, stad van lijken: vele honderden doden onder het puin

Mosul verwoest door VS………

Mosul, het verschil in berichtgeving vergeleken met de bevrijding van Oost-Aleppo………..

Raqqa, een strijd als om West-Mosul, echter met geheel andere media aandacht……….

Bombarderen was een probleem in Mosul, maar niet bij het nieuwe Iraakse/VS offensief…….

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

VS vermoordde met bombardementen in augustus 433 burgers in Raqqa………. Westerse media alweer stil…….

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……

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

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

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

Voor nog veel meer berichten over Irak, klik op dat label, direct onder dit bericht (let op: in een fiks aantal berichten wordt alleen verwezen naar de oorlog in Irak, meestal zegt de kop voldoende)

Jens Stoltenberg (NAVO zetbaas): de NAVO bombardeerde Servië om het volk te kunnen redden, of Servië nu maar even NAVO lid wil worden……..

Het
is oplichter Stoltenberg nu geheel en al in de psychopathische bol geslagen,
bij een bezoek aan Servië durfde deze oorlogsmisdadiger en
NAVO-zetbaas voor de VS, tegen zijn gehoor te zeggen, dat de NAVO/VS
bombardementen op Servië in 1999 voor het bestwil van het Servische volk waren……..

Jens
S. zou gezegd hebben dat de NAVO daarmee burgers beschermde, om zo het bewind van destijds president Milosevic te
stoppen……. Gegarandeerd dat Jens S. nog steeds van mening is
dat Milosevic terecht werd veroordeeld door het Joegoslavië
tribunaal in Den Haag, terwijl na zijn dood is vast komen te staan,
dat Milosevic ten onrechte werd veroordeeld door dit lamme
tribunaal, hetzelfde tribunaal dat al de oorlogsmisdaden begaan door de NAVO/VS niet eens
heeft onderzocht, laat staan dat het de verantwoordelijken heeft aangeklaagd…….

Fijntjes
liet Jens S., de NAVO-zetbaas weten dat Servië geen lid behoeft te worden van
de NAVO, maar dat de NAVO dit wel heel graag zou willen, zeker nu de
NAVO de staatjes naast Servië allemaal binnenhengelt en daarmee de al wankele stabiliteit op de Balkan nog verder op het spel zet…… Dit alles is het gevolg
van eerdere smerige Duitse buitenlandpolitiek (Genscher*) en het latere
ingrijpen van de NAVO onder aanvoering van de VS, waarmee het Joegoslavische
deel van de Balkan in vuur en vlam werd gezet……… Ik kan deze uitlating van Stoltenberg dan ook niet anders zien dan een dreigement aan het adres van de Servische regering: meedoen of………

Overigens
hebben de NAVO en de VS** een ongelofelijke berg met verarmd uranium behandelde munitie gebruikt o.a. bij bombardementen van burgerdoelen (een oorlogsmisdaad)…….. De totale hoeveelheid van deze munitie zou tussen de 10 en 15 ton liggen, waardoor 33.000
mensen zwaar ziek werden en er nog steeds mensen ziek worden (veelal kanker),………

Kortom
Jens S. is niet alleen een oorlogsmisdadiger en oorlogshitser,
maar ook een smerige leugenaar die niet terugdeinst voor chantage! 

Ook Stoltenberg zou vervolgd moeten
worden door het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) in Den Haag, er zijn meer dan voldoende bewijzen tegen hem, om hem voor de rest van z’n
leugenachtige leven op te sluiten in een Scheveningse cel……..

Jezus
wat een ploert die Stoltenberg, waar haalt hij het gore lef vandaan???

We
bombed you to save you’ – NATO head Stoltenberg speaks about 1999
bombings on visit to Serbia

Published
time: 7 Oct, 2018 21:58Edited time: 8 Oct, 2018 12:28

‘We bombed you to save you’ – NATO head Stoltenberg speaks about 1999 bombings on visit to Serbia

FILE
PHOTO: The south-west part of Pristina late March 24 after NATO
forces launched a missile attack against Yugoslavia © Reuters
**

Although
many people in Serbia hold “painful” memories of NATO’s 1999
bombing of their country, it was, in fact, done precisely to protect
them from their own government, NATO Secretary General Jens
Stoltenberg said in Belgrade.

He
was answering questions about the bombing and about the NATO campaign
against the government of the former Serbian President Slobodan
Milosevic, during a meeting with the students of Belgrade University.

I
stressed that we did this to protect civilians and to stop the
Milosevic regime,”
 Stoltenberg said,
as quoted by the local media, claiming locals have painful
memories of the events.

So
NATO wants the alliance and Belgrade to 
“look
into the future.”
 Stoltenberg
also boasted of an 
“excellent
relationship”
 between
NATO and Serbia, adding that the military bloc 
“respects” Belgrade’s
decision not to join the alliance. Still, he maintained that NATO
wants to be Serbia’s 
“partner.”

He
also said that NATO supports 
“dialogue” between
Serbia and its breakaway region-turned-self-proclaimed state Kosovo,
not only diplomatically but also 
“in
the form of KFOR”
 –
the NATO-led international peacekeeping force deployed to Kosovo.

His
words came about a week after a brief escalation of tensions between
Belgrade and Pristina sparked by the visit of Kosovo’s leader to a
northern part of the breakaway region, which is populated by Serbs
who refuse to recognize Pristina’s authority. The KFOR stayed
conspicuously inactive during the incident, according to some reports
while others suggested that the NATO-led force had even accompanied
the Kosovo representative on that trip.

In
March 1999, NATO launched airstrikes in what was then Yugoslavia,
without the backing of the UN Security Council, after it accused
Belgrade of 
“excessive
and disproportionate use of force”
 in
a conflict with insurgent Muslim ethnic Albanians in the region of
Kosovo, which unilaterally declared independence nine years later, in
2008.

During
the bombings, NATO dropped 
“between
10 and 15 tons of depleted uranium, which caused a major
environmental disaster”
and
prompted Serbians to sue NATO over its actions, linking them to a
rise in cancer-related illnesses across the region.

“In
Serbia, 33,000 people fall sick because of this every year. That is
one child every day,”
 a
member of the international legal team that was preparing the lawsuit
told RT in 2017. Back in 2015, Stoltenberg himself
expressed 
“regret” for
the civilian casualties of NATO’s 1999 bombing.

Trends:NATO
news 
Jens
Stoltenberg news
Serbia
news

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

*    Genscher, de Duitse minister van buitenlandse zaken, die eind 80er, begin 90er jaren Kroatië en andere Joegoslavische staten opstookte onafhankelijkheid van Belgrado (Servië) te eisen, dit overgoten met een dikke saus aan Duitse marken…… Genscher was NB een minister van Duitsland, hetzelfde land dat tijdens WOII zo de beest heeft uitgehangen in wat later Joegoslavië zou gaan heten…… Ondanks dat werd Genscher door het westen, inclusief de reguliere (massa-) media, de hemel ingeprezen na zijn dood….

**   Ik blijf de VS apart noemen, daar deze grootste terreurentiteit op
aarde de NAVO in feite volledig in handen heeft en o.a. daarvoor betalen
wij belasting, sterker nog: daarvoor moeten wij in de nabije toekomst nog veel meer belastinggeld betalen (t.b.v. illegale oorlogsvoering)………

*** Het jaar wordt niet genoemd bij de foto, dit moet 1999 zijn.

Zie
ook: 

Pandora’s
box’ opened by Kosovo recognition, not by attempt to mend ties –
Serbia’s president to RT

‘We bombed you to save you’ – NATO head Stoltenberg speaks about 1999 bombings on visit to Serbia

One step from bloodshed: Moscow slams Kosovo invasion of Serb-majority area

FILE PHOTO: A man rides on a scooter along a street past parked Kosovo police armored vehicles in Kosovo, on March 27, 2018. © Laura Hasani

VS geschiedenis van chemisch wapengebruik vergeleken met uitspraken van VS ambassadeur bij de VN Haley

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

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor U.S. 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.

U.S. History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes

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.  

U.S. History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes

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.

U.S. History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes

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.

U.S. History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes

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.

U.S. History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes

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?

U.S. History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes

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.

U.S. History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes

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

Oorlog: ook nog eens zwaar milieuvervuilend met als kers op de taart het gebruik van verarmd uranium………

Oorlog gaat niet alleen ten koste van ongelofelijk veel mensenlevens en grote ellende voor de overlevenden, maar is daarbovenop ook nog eens zwaar milieuvervuilend…….

Gerelateerde afbeelding

Om over het gebruik van verarmd uranium in munitie nog maar te zwijgen…….

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor verarmd uranium

Het volgende artikel kwam ik tegen op het blog van Stan van Houcke, die het op zijn beurt van GlobalResearch haalde:

DEPLETED
URANIUM AND RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION IN IRAQ: AN OVERVIEW

By Prof
Souad N. Al-Azzawi

Global
Research, August 22, 2017

The
amount of devastation caused by the Depleted Uranium (DU) weaponry
used against Iraq during the consecutive US led wars is historically
unprecedented in modern warfare. The devastating magnitude of the
complications and damage caused as a result of the use of such
radioactive and toxic weapons on the environment and the human
population was intensified as a result of the intentional
concealment, denial and misleading information released by the
Pentagon about the quantities, characteristics, and Iraqi area’s
within which these weapons were used.

Information
revealed about a severe illness known as the ‘Gulf War Syndrome’
which spread amongst US Army veterans who were exposed to DU while
using theseweaponry, helped Iraqi researchers and Medical Doctors to
understand the nature of the effect of these weapons, and the means
required to investigate further into this issue.

DU
is a chemically toxic and radioactive heavy metal produced as waste
by the nuclear power industry. It is used in weapons because it is an
extremely hard material capable of piercing armor.

The
synergistic impact on health due to the 1991post-Gulf War1 economic
sanctions, and DU related radioactive and toxic contamination, raised
the number of casualties in contaminated areas such as in Southern
Iraq.

During
2003, the invading forces used additional rounds of DU in heavily
populated areas such as Baghdad, Samawa, Fallujah, Diyala, Najaf,
Salahuddin, Basra and Nasiriya (again), and other cities
.

The
continual use of DU after-Gulf War I in 1991, then during and after
the US led military operations in 2003 invasion of Iraq increased the
total contamination area with DU in Iraq. Consequently, civilians in
previously contaminated areas received an extra dose of radioactivity
after 2003. An action that can only be interpreted as committing
unseen genocide against the unarmed civilian population in these
areas.

Accordingly,
hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have received higher doses of
radioactivity than those received from standard natural sources of
radiation. As a result, a multifold increase of diseases related to
Low Level Radiation (LLR) exposure have been registered amongst
Iraqis since 1995, including an increase of children’s leukemia,
congenital malformations, breast cancer etc…

The
leukemia incidence rates for instance, shifted towards younger
children during these recent years, and its association with
geographically distributed contaminated areas, offers strong evidence
of the correlation between LLR exposure, and the resulting health
damages.

Through
this paper, an overview of major scientific DU conclusions will be
presented, drawn from investigations and research conducted since the
year 1991 by Iraqi researchers and MDs. This research was never
published outside Iraq because of the comprehensive sanctions imposed
on Iraq from (1991-2003). They were published only in Iraqi
University peer reviewed journals and two related conferences. 
Schemes of the research papers can be classified into three
categories:

  1. DU
    contamination detection and exploration programs.

  2. DU
    effects on human body cells.

  3. DU
    related epidemiological studies.

Voor het vervolg, klik op deze link.

Zie
ook: ‘
Raqqa,
een strijd als om West-Mosul, echter met geheel andere media
aandacht……….
‘ 
en: ‘Bombarderen
was een probleem in Mosul, maar niet bij het nieuwe Iraakse/VS
offensief…….

VS maakt (met NAVO) taak in Kosovo af, de rest van de oorspronkelijke bewoners het leven onmogelijk maken…….. 500 extra VS militairen naar Kosovo!

Het
volgende bericht komt van ANTIWAR. De VS vindt dat er nog steeds te veel van de oorspronkelijke bevolking, de Serviërs, in Kosovo zijn en dat deze mensen verjaagd
moeten worden…… Vandaar dat de VS nog eens 500 militairen extra naar deze oorspronkelijke provincie van Servië stuurt……..

De
VS doet dit i.h.k.v. een gezamenlijke NAVO operatie (waar de VS
uiteindelijk de baas is…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!). Deze troepen helpen
terreurgroepen als het 
UÇK in hun geweld tegen de Servische bevolking……….. Het leven wordt deze Serviërs in feite
onmogelijk gemaakt, niet voor niets hebben velen van hen geprobeerd
met de vluchtelingenstromen de EU binnen te komen……..

We
moeten ons doodschamen voor wat deze mensen is aangedaan, de NAVO
heeft zich aan meerdere grootschalige oorlogsmisdaden schuldig
gemaakt, sinds het partij koos voor de terroristen van het
UÇK…… Zo stond ook Nederland achter het bombarderen van Servische burgerdoelen (een oorlogsmisdaad) door NAVO
troepen en als ik me niet vergis heeft Nederland daar actief aan
deelgenomen…… Volgens ‘officiële’ westerse cijfers zouden er in Servië en Kosovo rond de 550 burgerdoden zijn gevallen bij de NAVO bombardementen, daar kunt u dus minimaal 100 doden bij optellen….. Om over het aantal op andere manieren vermoordde ‘Servische Kosovaren’ maar te zwijgen…….

We zouden de Servische bevolking van Kosovo met liefde op moeten nemen in de EU, immers wij zijn schuld aan hun enorme ellende……..

De NAVO maakte destijds gebruik van clusterbommen en raketten met verarmd uranium, deze munitie eist nog steeds slachtoffers, in feite een standrechtelijke executie op termijn, niet alleen vanwege de nog ontploffende clustermunitie, maar ook vanwege een grote kans op kanker door het gebruikte verarmd uranium…… Ja mensen, dat is de NAVO (lees: legermacht onder VS commando) waarvoor wij keer op keer diep in de buidel moeten tasten, dit vanwege peperdure illegale acties en oorlogen in het buitenland, plus de grootschalige ‘uitdaag-oefeningen’ langs de Russische grens…. 

Jason Ditz stelt dat deze langste terreurmissie van de NAVO niet tot een eind komt met het zenden van meer troepen en dat men dit blijft doen, tot het moment waarop men hoopt te kunnen zeggen dat de zege is behaald. Echter dat moment komt met het vluchten van meer en meer Serviërs steeds dichterbij.

Hier het bericht van ANTIWAR:

US
to Send Ground Troops to Kosovo to Join NATO Operation

NATO’s
Longest Operation Continues With no End in Sight

Jason
Ditz
July 13, 2017

The
Pentagon has announced today that a unit of about 500 US ground
troops, National Guardsmen, are to be deployed to the Kosovo region
to join a NATO “peacekeeping” operation (KFOR) that 
has
proven the longest in the alliance’s history
.


The
operation is the remnant of the 1999 NATO attack on Serbia, which
ended with NATO announcing that Kosovo, which had been part of Serbia
since the Middle Ages, would secede from Serbia. The ethnic Albanian
population approved of this. The Serbian population in North
Kosovo continues to oppose it.

That’s
because the Kosovar Albanians, who are the overwhelming majority of
the south, dominate the NATO-backed government,and they’ve gone out
of their way to limit the northerners’ ability to trade across the
Serbian border. Stopping this trade has often proved the job of NATO
forces when the locals resist.

18
years in, Kosovo still lacks recognition from a number of states,
particularly Serbia, and the intense ethnic division between
Albanians and Serbs remains as big a problem as ever. NATO’s effort
has been to just keep throwing more troops at the situation, and hope
that somewhere along the line the situation will resolve itself and
victory can be claimed.


Zie ook: ‘Milošević zat onschuldig in Nederlandse cel….. ‘Fijn’ dat u dit niet hoort in de reguliere media……..

VS bombardeerde het Artsen zonder Grenzen ziekenhuis in Kunduz niet per ongeluk………. Ofwel: VS terreur op grote schaal, over een lange periode!!

Het is al weer even terug, dat de VS een ziekenhuis van Artsen zonder Grenzen bombardeerde en dat Peter van Buren hier een artikel over schreef op ICH. Volgens hem was dit bombardement bepaald geen vergissing, ook vertelt van Buren over het enorme aantal onschuldige slachtoffers, die met de standrechtelijke executies worden gemaakt door de VS met drone aanvallen. Ook noemt hij het gebruik van verarmd uranium in munitie door de VS en het gebruik van door de VS geleverde clustermunitie (Rusland wordt nu beschuldigd van clustermunitie gebruik) door de grote partners van de VS: Israël en Saoedi-Arabië. De laatst genoemde drie landen, weigeren een verdrag tegen clustermunitie te tekenen….. Lees en huiver (beneden kunt u voor een Nederlandse vertaling klikken, let wel: dat kost wat extra tijd):

From Iraq to Kunduz, US
Civilian Killings Are No

Accident – They’re Policy
By
Peter Van Buren

October
12, 2015 “Information
Clearing House

– “
MEE
– America and its allies make modern war in a way that assures
“mistakes” destroy hospitals, and civilian lives are
taken by drones and bombs. These horrors are all too often
strategic decisions, or the result of the profligate use of
needlessly destructive weapons. They are typically far from
accidents. The attack on a Doctors without Borders (MSF) hospital
in Kunduz
, Afghanistan, is only the latest. It is important as
a clear example of a sordid policy.

Target
Kunduz

The series of
cascading explanations the United States offered for striking
Kunduz hospital ignore the larger story of how such “accidents”
really happen.
An American AC-130, a flying gunship, conducted
the strike. A retired Air Force Special Operations officer
explained to me the AC-130 is considered a “first hit”
weapon; its ordnance hits where it is designated to hit on the
first try. The targeted hospital was marked by a US Special Forces
operator on the ground alongside the Afghans. The AC-130 fired on
the hospital for over
one hour
, in 15-minute paced barrages, even as Doctors Without
Borders representatives frantically sought to contact American
officials.
 

The US should have known the target was a hospital.
The Afghans had controlled Kunduz alongside their American allies
for some time. It was a mature battlefield, with landmarks such as
the hospital well-known on the ground. It is a large, distinctive
building as seen from the air; take a look.
 

In
addition, NGOs employ organisations
like the International NGO Safety and Security Association (INSSA)
specifically to coordinate with armed forces, to include
providing precise
GPS 
coordinates to avoid “accidental” targeting.
Doctors Without Borders also directly provides combatants
their locations;
in Kunduz, as recently as 29
September
.
The latter details are especially important in
evaluating strikes against hospitals and other civilian targets.
Unlike in WWII when planes flew over cities hoping to hit a target
only as precisely defined as “Tokyo,” modern ordnance is
delivered using laser designation, satellite coordination and GPS
systems.
America blew up exactly what it aimed at in Kunduz.

America’s
other hospitals

Kunduz was not the
first protected facility America attacked.
In 2001 the United
States bombed the Red
Cross
in Kabul, twice. The US also bombed other targets in
Iraq; a maternity facility in Baghdad,
a hospital in Rutbah, stormed another in Nasiriya,
and shelled the Al Yarmuk
Hospital in Iraq in 2003. A hospital in Belgrade,
former Yugoslavia, was bombed in the 1990s. In Hanoi,
the United States struck the Bach Mai hospital – twice – during
the infamous 1972 “Christmas Bombing”.
America bombed
the Al Jazeera broadcast facilities in Baghdad and Kabul
and also destroyed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in
1999. Civilian infrastructure, such as water and sewer plants, were
targeted in Iraq in 1991 and again in 2003.
 

There are always
investigations following such incidents, though in the history of
modern American warfare none have ever deemed such devastation as
intentional. Yet hospitals do make attractive targets. Destroying
them results in fighters dying of their wounds, and increases the
burden on healthy soldiers, pulling them from the battlefield to
care for their own wounded. In military terms that is known as a
“soft kill”.
Accidents emerge in war, but so do
patterns.

Civilian
deaths and the drone war

The killing of
civilians as a result of American war is not limited to attacks on
hospitals. The global drone war continues to take innocent lives,
in what has come to be known without shame as collateral
damage.
The Council on Foreign Relations assesses that 500 drone
strikes outside of Iraq and Afghanistan killed 3,674
civilians
 as of 2014. The count measures kills outside of
Iraq and Afghanistan specifically because only those places were
considered active war zones by the United States when the tally was
made.
 

There is a commonality to the growing death toll: the
inevitable civilian deaths are caused by the profligate use of
horrifically destructive indiscriminate weapons.
Civilian
casualties overall in America’s 2003-2011 Iraq war were anywhere
from 140,000 dead
to upwards of 500,000,
with many killed by artillery, aerial bombs and depleted uranium
munitions, indiscriminate weapons unique to American forces.
In
Yemen, in just one specific example, American drone strikes aimed
at 17 named men actually killed 273
people
, at least seven of them children, including the American
citizen son of al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar
al-Awlaki
.
For its drone strikes, the US uses Hellfire
missiles, armed with warheads originally designed to burn through
tank armour.
Aiming them at a person inevitably will kill those nearby; the US
claimed al-Awlaki’s son was killed inside a car, seated next to the
actual target. Such deaths are closely tied to America’s policy of
signature drone
strikes
,” where a missile is aimed at a “profile:”
a suspect cell phone, a car matching some description, or a
suspicious gathering.

America’s
allies – Israel and Saudi Arabia

America’s allies,
equipped with American weapons, follow a similar pattern in making
war.
Saudi Arabia in Yemeni cities, and Israel in urban Gaza,
employ cluster
munitions
. Such munitions are known as “area denial
weapons,” causing indiscriminate destruction over swathes of
territory. Documented munitions used inside Yemen include
American-made CBU-52 cluster bombs, each loaded with 220
anti-material
bomblets. Imagine the use of such weapons in central London, or on
a Manhattan street.
Though not confined to cluster munitions
alone, the deployment of these US-made weapons by the Saudis in
Yemen has only added to the carnage.
Almost 4,000 people have been killed, with 19,000 injured.
In
Gaza in 2009, the Israelis used cluster
munitions
, white phosphorus – a flesh burning agent also used
by the US in Iraq – as well as standard artillery, all against
dense urban areas. The UN estimates over
1,400 civilians, of whom 495 were children, were killed in the
attacks. The Israelis also destroyed a hospital in
Gaza, attacked two others,
and shelled UN-run
schools 
in 2014.
Policy? The US, Israel and Saudi
Arabia are among the countries that refuse
to sign
 the Convention on Cluster Munitions banning such
weapons.

The
cost of modern war

Accountability
remains in the hands of those with the weapons. America and Israel
conduct self-investigations, and stymie independent
ones, to clear their military of blame – the Saudis do not even
bother. At the UN, the United States blocks action
critical of Israel. In Yemen, the US claims it cannot control how
the Saudis choose to employ American weapons, and has stated the
Saudi actions only “border on” violations of
international law; Amnesty International labels them war
crimes
. NATO and the EU are deathly silent on the substantive
issues, even in places where their own forces are on the
ground.
 

Modern war as conducted by the United States and its
allies in the Middle East has as a known outcome massive civilian
casualties. The sites precisely targeted can be civilian, in
violation of all known standards of international law. With
indiscriminate weapons, the collateral kills are foreseeable – and
thus preventable – consequences. To label the destruction of one
hospital in isolation a war crime is to think too small. The
civilian deaths are policy.
Kunduz was no accident. It was
simply another example.
 


Peter Van Buren
 is
a retired 24-year veteran of the US Department of State, including
service in Iraq. He is the author of We Meant Well: How I
Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi
People. His latest book is Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the
99 Percent. He lives and writes from New York City.

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Zie ook: ‘VS bombardeert ziekenhuis Artsen zonder Grenzen in Kunduz, 9 medewerkers van deze organisatie kwamen om het leven……..

       en: ‘Artsen zonder Grenzen ziekenhuis: tijdens bombardement werden vluchtenden vanaf relatief korte afstand beschoten……. Vergissing??

       en: ‘VS bombardement MSF ziekenhuis in Kunduz: deze ‘vergissing’ kostte 42 mensen het leven…..

      en: ‘MSF ziekenhuis Millis (Syrië) verwoest, 13 doden…….

      en:
BBC:
VS beschieting MSF ziekenhuis in Afghanistan was een ‘menselijke
vergissing……..

Voor meer berichten over/met Artsen zonder Grenzen, Kunduz, Jemen, Irak, illegale oorlog, drones, verarmd uranium, clustermunitie, NAVO, VS, oorlogsmisdaden, burgerslachtoffers, terreur, Israël, Saoedi-Arabië, Al Qaida en/of Gazastrook, klik op het desbetreffende label, onder dit bericht.

Mali, met hulp van het westen naar de afgrond

In Libië hebben we de ‘oppositie’ fijn geholpen, een waanzinnig succes, om in de woorden van CDA leeghoofd Eurlings te spreken. Ongeregelde troepen maken de dienst uit, onlangs werden een paar medewerkers van het Internationaal Strafhof, gevangen gehouden, daar zij de staatsveiligheid in gevaar zouden hebben gebracht, ha! ha! ha! Waarom? nou, de bewuste medewerkers van het Strafhof hadden gesproken met de gevangengenomen zoon van Khadaffi…..

Dan nog de gigantische hoeveelheid verarmd uranium, die daar als gevolg van de ‘geallieerde’ bombardementen, vele volkswijken heeft vervuild, een tikkende tijdbom voor de gezondheid van de bewoners in die wijken.

De status quo in Syrië, is mede te danken aan het ingrijpen van het westen in Libië, door een VN resolutie zo te interpreteren, dat ingrijpen geoorloofd leek, lieten Rusland en China geen enkele, (verregaande) resolutie de eindstreep halen in de Veiligheidsraad van de VN

Nog een gevolg van de hulp die het westen de ‘oppositie’ van Libië bood: In het noordelijk deel van Mali namen de gevluchte veiligheidstroepen van Khadaffi, de Toearegs, de macht over, gevolgd door een stel fundamentalistische islamitische idioten, die de macht naar zich toetrokken en de sharia invoerden. In Timboektoe zijn deze religieuze gekken bezig met het heldhaftig volledig vernielen van allerlei monumenten en andere geschiedkundige schatten, waaronder 13e eeuwse teksten.

Nee, Libië echt een waanzinnige succes!

(het kost wat, maar dan heb je ook wat…)