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United Nations to begin investigating U.S. drone strike targeted kills


RT
Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00 UTC
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The White House defends the deaths of civilians they've caused with drone strikes overseas, but as the number of casualties created by the remote-control murder machines perpetually soar, the United Nations says they will soon start an investigation.

Ben Emmerson, the UN special rapporteur on counter-terror operations, told an audience at Harvard law school this week that a sub-section of the international organization will begin focusing next year on the Obama administration's extrajudicial killings of suspected insurgents and the innocent civilians all too often executed in the process.

Speaking before a room of students Thursday afternoon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Emmerson told the crowd that he will be launching "an investigation unit within the special procedures of the [UN] Human Rights Council to inquire into individual drone attacks."

According to Emmerson, the probe will be spearheaded by himself and Christof Heyns, the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
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At least 41 dead in Afghan "suicide attack" during Eid prayers


RT
Fri, 26 Oct 2012 04:32 UTC
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© Agence France-PresseThe last suicide attack in Maymana city of Faryab province, north of Kabul occurred on April 4, 2012.
At least 41 people were killed and 50 more injured after a suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Afghanistan's northern city of Maymana, local officials reported. Worshipers had gathered at the mosque to celebrate the Eid al-Adha Islamic holiday.

"Our latest death toll shows 41 deaths, and that might rise," Deputy provincial governor Abdul Satar Barez told AFP, adding that five children were among the dead.

The bomber was reportedly wearing a police uniform when he detonated his explosives in front of the Mosque.

Local authorities said that there were several police officers amoung the dead. The provincial governor and police chief were in attendance at the prayer service, and were reportedly nearly killed.

"There was blood and dead bodies everywhere,'' Khaled, a doctor in the mosque at the time of the attack told AFP. "It was a massacre."
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Propaganda Alert! Benghazi consulate attack suspect killed in Egypt, security source says


The Guardian, UK
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00 UTC
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© Str/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesA vehicle in flames inside the US consulate compound in Benghazi, Libya after the attack of 11 September.
Source says Karim Ahmed Essam el-Azizi was killed by bomb which he attempted to use against security forces in raid.

A Libyan militant suspected by Egypt of involvement in last month's attack on the US consulate in Libya has been killed in a raid by Egyptian security forces in Cairo, according to security officials. The Libyan was killed on Wednesday in a raid that targeted him and other militants with suspected links to al-Qaida in Cairo's eastern district of Nasr City, the official said. Four Egyptian militants were detained in the operation, he added.

The Libyan, identified as Karim Ahmed Essam el-Azizi, was killed by a bomb he had tried to use against the security forces during the raid, the security official said. It was not immediately clear what role Azizi had played in the assault on the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on 11 September, in which the ambassador, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans were killed.

Comment: Benghazi Attacks, Political Theatre and Wild Speculations

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'Hypocrisy' of police violence in Nobel-winning EU

Niall Couper
Public Service Europe
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00 UTC
A study into the way austerity protests have been policed reveals a bleak picture of human rights in the EU that jars with the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, says Amnesty
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Over the last couple of weeks, European Union leaders have been basking in the glow of their recent Nobel Peace Prize. There is some credence to the award - since its formation after the Second World War the EU has made notable progress on human rights across the continent and promoted peace and democracy, as the Nobel committee noted.

Yet just two weeks on, Amnesty International has revealed a staggering hypocrisy that perhaps the award-givers should have taken into consideration. A new hard-hitting briefing on the policing of austerity protests in the EU paints a very bleak picture of human rights in the continent.

Concentrating on Greece, Romania and Spain, it shows how protesters have been beaten and kicked, sprayed with tear gas, and shot at and wounded with rubber bullets by police officers. The abuses have gone un-investigated and unpunished - hardly the behaviour of an organisation worthy of winning the Nobel. If the EU truly wants to justify its award then it needs to get to grips with its police services.

There is no doubt that this is a testing time. As austerity measures begin to hit hard over the forthcoming months, we will see more protests. The EU needs to step up to the mark and ensure the way these demonstrations are policed does not lead to a new wave of violence. Yes, the police are responsible for public safety and law and order. However, they must also ensure that everyone within their territories can enjoy the right to peaceful assembly.

Comment: The hypocrisy of the EU receiving the Nobel Peace Prize goes far beyond police brutality during austerity protests in Europe.

War Is Peace: European Union Wins 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

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Flashback Israel "Wiped off The Map": The rumor of the century, fabricated by the U.S. media to justify an all out war on Iran

Arash Norouzi
Global Research
Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00 UTC
Global Research Editor's Note

The following text by Arash Norouzi first published by the Mossadegh Project and Global Research in January 2007 confirms that the alleged "Wiped Off the Map" statement by Iran's president was never made.

The rumor was fabricated by the American media with a view to discrediting Iran's head of state and providing a justification for waging an all out war on Iran. the article provides of media manipulation and "propaganda in action".

Iran is blamed for refusing to abide by the "reasonable demands" of "the international community".

Realities are twisted and turned upside down. Iran is being accused of wanting to start a war. Inherent in US military doctrine, the victims of war are heralded as the aggressor.

The threat to global security comes from the US-NATO-Israel military alliance, which is now threatening Iran with a pre-emptive attack with nuclear warheads.

If Iran is attacked, we are potentially in a World War III scenario.

It is essential to dispel the fabrications of the Western media.

Iran does not constitute a threat to to Global Security.

Iran does not possess a nuclear weapons program. Iran does not constitute a threat to Israel.

Michel Chossudovsky, 25 September 2010
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Wiped Off The Map: The Rumor of the Century

by Arash Norouzi
Global Research, January 20, 2007
The Mossadegh Project

Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Iran's President has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, "Israel must be wiped off the map". Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made, as the following article will prove.

Background:

On Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 at the Ministry of Interior conference hall in Tehran, newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a speech at a program, reportedly attended by thousands, titled "The World Without Zionism". Large posters surrounding him displayed this title prominently in English, obviously for the benefit of the international press. Below the poster's title was a slick graphic depicting an hour glass containing planet Earth at its top. Two small round orbs representing the United States and Israel are shown falling through the hour glass' narrow neck and crashing to the bottom.

Before we get to the infamous remark, it's important to note that the "quote" in question was itself a quote - they are the words of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the father of the Islamic Revolution. Although he quoted Khomeini to affirm his own position on Zionism, the actual words belong to Khomeini and not Ahmadinejad. Thus, Ahmadinejad has essentially been credited (or blamed) for a quote that is not only unoriginal, but represents a viewpoint already in place well before he ever took office.
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Good Old Southern Democracy: Texas threatens to arrest international monitors sent to watch U.S. election


RT
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:25 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Brendan SmialowskiTexas Attorney General Greg Abbott.
A handful of international election monitors have touched down in the US to swing by polling places next month when voters cast ballots for the president, but officials in the state of Texas have issued them a warning: you're not welcome.

State Attorney General Greg Abbott has sent a scathing letter to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, threatening to arrest any of the election auditors that have been dispatched to America to ensure that voters won't be disenfranchised, discriminated against or intimidated when they take to the polls on November 6.
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Pentagon prisons revealed: WikiLeaks publishes terror detainee manuals


RT
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:21 UTC
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© AFP Photo / John MooreA "non-compliant" detainee is escorted inside the US military prison for "enemy combatants" in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks is releasing over 100 classified documents detailing US Department of Defense procedures for running Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca and other infamous prisons where terror suspects are detained.

The directives and manuals, which for more than a decade directed the US military's policy for treatment of its detainees, will be released chronologically over the next month, WikiLeaks said in a statement.

The first batch of the documents released is the 2002 Camp Delta - Guantanamo Bay prison - Standing Operating Procedure manuals.

"This document is of significant historical importance. Guantanamo Bay has become the symbol for systematized human rights abuse in the West with good reason," WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said.

Several of the documents slated for publishing "can only be described as 'policies of unaccountability,'" WikiLeaks said in its press release.
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Best of the Web: Permanent War: Plan for hunting terrorists signals U.S. intends to keep adding names to kill lists

Greg Miller
The Washington Post
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:54 UTC
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America's drone culture, a relentless killing machine
Over the past few years, the Obama administration has institutionalized the use of armed drones and developed a counterterrorism infrastructure capable of sustaining a seemingly permanent war.

Over the past two years, the Obama administration has been secretly developing a new blueprint for pursuing terrorists, a next-generation targeting list called the "disposition matrix."

The matrix contains the names of terrorism suspects arrayed against an accounting of the resources being marshaled to track them down, including sealed indictments and clandestine operations. U.S. officials said the database is designed to go beyond existing kill lists, mapping plans for the "disposition" of suspects beyond the reach of American drones.

Although the matrix is a work in progress, the effort to create it reflects a reality setting in among the nation's counterterrorism ranks: The United States' conventional wars are winding down, but the government expects to continue adding names to kill or capture lists for years.

Among senior Obama administration officials, there is a broad consensus that such operations are likely to be extended at least another decade. Given the way al-Qaeda continues to metastasize, some officials said no clear end is in sight.
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Best of the Web: Just what is the 'Disposition Matrix'? Obama makes the War on Terror permanent

Glen Greenwald
The Guardian
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:18 UTC
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© FBI The National Counterterrorism Center, the site of a new bureaucracy to institutionalize the 'kill list'.
Complete with a newly coined, creepy Orwellian euphemism - 'disposition matrix' - the administration institutionalizes the most extremist powers a government can claim

A primary reason for opposing the acquisition of abusive powers and civil liberties erosions is that they virtually always become permanent, vested not only in current leaders one may love and trust but also future officials who seem more menacing and less benign.

The Washington Post has a crucial and disturbing story this morning by Greg Miller about the concerted efforts by the Obama administration to fully institutionalize - to make officially permanent - the most extremist powers it has exercised in the name of the war on terror.

Based on interviews with "current and former officials from the White House and the Pentagon, as well as intelligence and counterterrorism agencies", Miller reports that as "the United States' conventional wars are winding down", the Obama administration "expects to continue adding names to kill or capture lists for years" (the "capture" part of that list is little more than symbolic, as the US focus is overwhelmingly on the "kill" part). Specifically, "among senior Obama administration officials, there is broad consensus that such operations are likely to be extended at least another decade." As Miller puts it: "That timeline suggests that the United States has reached only the midpoint of what was once known as the global war on terrorism."
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UK police swamped as over 300 child rape victims come forward in BBC pedophile network scandal


The Guardian
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:42 UTC
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James Savile was a monster, but the question now that he's dead is, will he turn into Britain's Dutroux, a scapegoat for a wide-reaching pedophile network that reaches into the highest halls of power in the land?
Met police commander says inquiry will be 'watershed' moment in investigation of child abuse

Police investigating the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal are dealing with around 300 alleged victims, Scotland Yard has revealed.

Commander Peter Spindler said officers were following more than 400 lines of inquiry linked to the victims, of whom all except two were women.

He said investigators had so far spoken to 130 people who had come forward, and 114 allegations of crime had emerged.

Officers were using a "triage" approach, first making contact with victims by phone to get initial details of their allegations.

He told reporters that most of the allegations were linked to Savile, but some involved others who might have acted with him.

Comment: Watch these to see what will probably happen next:

Dutroux Cover-up Protected Pedophile Networks

Belgium's X Files: Dutroux Affair Uncovered Pedophile Networks

The police investigation will be derailed, the BBC investigation of itself will clear its own name and the pedophiles in power will continue to enjoy the state's protection.

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