This article appeared on Saturday 28 May 2011
As you will read former Garda Dean Foley was convicted
after he administered a brutal beating to one Stephen Gerard
Murphy. Garda Foley was off-duty when he knocked Mr. Murphry
unconscious, and caused 'bleeding to the brain.'
Mr. Murphy also suffered 'broken teeth and broken bones to his
face, and "got an unmerciful beating".'
Garda Foley was convicted of the brutal assault and sentenced to
18 months in prison. So what does it mean when a Garda can almost
kill someone or leave them with permanent damage and only spend
one day in jail because he's so stressed out that the judge agrees
that 'prison time would be harder for a garda, as he would have to
be "isolated" from the general prison population.'
Tough sh*t. there is a principle that perhaps Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin
has never heard in all of his law training. That principle is that 'No
person is above the law.'
Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin by this decision means that Garda are above the law,
and in the Judges eyes no brutality should force a Garda into jail...why GEEZ
it's just too hard on the fella.
Too bad. This is another in a long line of despicable decisions by the Irish
judiciary. Some members of the judiciary give light sentences to rapists,
and paedophile priests. This decision belongs next to it. The article is
below in full.
http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/jail-too-hard-for-garda-judge-156095.html
http://bit.ly/iNAKNc
Jail too hard for garda: judge
By Liam Heylin and Jennifer Hough
Saturday, May 28, 2011
JAIL is harder for a garda than an ordinary prisoner, a judge accepted yesterday after allowing a member of the force to walk free after serving just one day of his sentence.
The release of Dean Foley, who was on Thursday given an 18-month sentence, with 12 months suspended, for seriously assaulting a man, has been branded shocking and outrageous by Sinn Féin’s justice spokesman, Jonathan O’Brien.
Foley, a garda from Blarney, Co Cork, had his sentence fully suspended yesterday after Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin accepted a defence argument that prison time would be harder for a garda, as he would have to be "isolated" from the general prison population.
Mr O’Brien, a TD for Cork North Central, said the decision was unjust and unfair and amounted to immunity for gardaí who break the law. He said the decision reflected the mindset of sectors of society that believe that those in a position of power have more rights than ordinary people.
Foley, whose resignation from the force was accepted last night, was initially jailed for assaulting Stephen Murphy in Cork city centre in September 2009. The court heard Mr Murphy was knocked unconscious, suffered bleeding to the brain, broken teeth and broken bones to his face, and "got an unmerciful beating".
Yesterday, however, Judge Ó Donnabháin suspended all of Foley’s sentence when it was re-entered at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.
"We are in a completely different place today than we were yesterday," he said, after hearing from Donal O’Sullivan, defence barrister, on a point in mitigation that he had omitted from his submission on Thursday.
Mr O’Sullivan submitted yesterday "it is a much more difficult thing" for a garda or prison officer to serve a sentence.
"He will have to be isolated. He inevitably will spend a greater amount of time in his cell. He will have to be kept out of the general prison population. It will be a much more difficult sentence for him.
"Going by what I am told by prison officers, he will be taken to the Midlands Prison where there is a special section to hold him. He will have to be kept separate from other prisoners. Opportunity to mingle will not be there," Mr O’Sullivan told the court.
"I will affirm the 18 months, and suspend the balance of it as from today," the judge said.
Foley then walked free from court amid emotional family scenes.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
1 of favourite political cartoons-came out after brave Iraqi man tossed shoe at George Bush
This is one of my favourite political cartoon.
It came out just after a brave Iraqi man tossed a shoe
at George Bush. It was done by David Horsey of the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer. he's brilliant
he can be found on twitter at davidhorsey
Friday, May 20, 2011
Obama is coming to Ireland--Citizens Arrest alert
President Obama is coming to Ireland. It's said that he's
coming to Dublin, but i've heard from security sources that
he may come to Cork.
When he steps off the plane the Gardai should arrest him for war crimes:
torture and waging illegal wars of aggression.
The Nobel Peace Prize was given to him as cover for the new wars.
If the Gardai don't arrest him, nor the Army, or Defence Forces,
then it is up to us the people.
I was arrested in June 1976 for involvement in a takeover of the
Statue of Liberty with Vietnam Veterans Against the War VVAW.
I highly recommend this method; it cuts down on tourists...and
is a wonderful way to see the Statue...with just a handful of friends.
No long lines, and if you go out on the deck why you may even have your
own helicopter crew filming you. And check out the refrigerator for some snacks.
We found steaks. But do as we did. We replace them all in full.
So to all let's not go after Obama in a group...nor make it
easy for those guarding the war criminal, break it up and come in
waves
Well, that's about it..can't wait to use these new handcuffs:-
coming to Dublin, but i've heard from security sources that
he may come to Cork.
When he steps off the plane the Gardai should arrest him for war crimes:
torture and waging illegal wars of aggression.
The Nobel Peace Prize was given to him as cover for the new wars.
If the Gardai don't arrest him, nor the Army, or Defence Forces,
then it is up to us the people.
I was arrested in June 1976 for involvement in a takeover of the
Statue of Liberty with Vietnam Veterans Against the War VVAW.
I highly recommend this method; it cuts down on tourists...and
is a wonderful way to see the Statue...with just a handful of friends.
No long lines, and if you go out on the deck why you may even have your
own helicopter crew filming you. And check out the refrigerator for some snacks.
We found steaks. But do as we did. We replace them all in full.
So to all let's not go after Obama in a group...nor make it
easy for those guarding the war criminal, break it up and come in
waves
Well, that's about it..can't wait to use these new handcuffs:-
Some thoughts on the illegality of the war against Libya and UN resolution 1973
The illegality of the war against Libya and UN resolution 1973
In April 1994 a civil war began between the Hutu majority (88%),
and the Tutsis (11%) minority groups in Rwanda in roughly four
months 800,000 Tutsis were massacred. This was not an ordinary civil
war, but mass murder and genocide.
During this time the United States, France, Britain, Germany and Belgium
were silent and watched the horror spread without trying to stop it.
Now, we are to believe that the United States, Britain, France, and
Italy are waging a war against Libya for the purest of humanitarian
motives. That is, they are only trying to protect the Libyan people from
a crazed dictator.
President Obama, stated that the purpose of “military action is in support
of an international mandate from the Security Council that specifically
focuses on the humanitarian threat posed by Colonel Gadhafi to his people,”
Obama said that Gadhafi was murdering civilians, and had threatened to
"show no mercy." Well, we gotta do something about world leaders who kill
innocent civilians...no don't we?
First, there was no 'international mandate from the Security Council.'
Like many UN resolutions of late an 'international mandate' has come to
mean us as in US (the United States) and some friends. Brazil, China, Germany,
India, and the Russian Federation abstained from voting.
It might have been better if Obama said about 50% of the people of the
world aren't in on this one.
Obama also said that (well let's call it what it is NATO-not the world)
‘We have to stop any potential atrocities inside Libya.’ Of course this
does not apply to all places. Fallujah, Iraq where there were horrific
atrocities, and murder and biological or chemical warfare committed by
US troops, on the civilian population in 2004.
Nor, does it apply to Haditha, Iraq where Marines went on a killing
rampage to avenge the death of a comrade. They kicked down doors...and
one young Iraqi girl reported that they shot and killed her father as
he was praying. They sprayed the insides of houses with bullets.
Five Iraqi men were forced out of a taxi, and then shot down in cold blood.
A fourteen years old girl was raped, murdered and burned.
When it was over 24 Iraqi civilians, 11 of them women and children lay dead.
They were killed by members of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. I'm ashamed to say that and I was with K Co.,during my
second tour of Vietnam.
Atrocities, Mr. Obama? This also took place in Jenin, Palestine in April
of 2002 when Israeli occupation forces massacred Palestinian civilians.
The Israeli's called it a defensive operation.
Obama also claimed that “The core principle that has to be uphold here is
that when the entire international community almost unanimously (almost?)
says that there is a potential humanitarian crisis about to take place'
...and a leader..."decides to turn his military on his own people, that
we can’t simply stand by with empty words,” he said. “We have to take some
sort of action.”
This happens everday in Gaza, the West Bank...in fact in all of Palestine.
Each and every day the Palestinian people who have lived under an Apartheid
regime are treated in the most inhumane ways by a people and army that despises
them just because of their nationality.
To this Vietnam veteran, war did one thing for me. It showed my the hypocricy
of spewing lofty sentiments and ideals by leaders who are morally bankrupt.
And, that is what western leaders are hypocrites who are morally and
spiritually bankrupt.
The US has been, like the Nazis before them waging multiple wars of aggression.
When Obama says “Gadhafi needs to go.” He is in no position to judge Gadhafi.
What about Netanyahu? What about the man with the Nobel Prize for making
promises that he knew were bullshit, and who promised to close down America's
gulags, and stiop the war in Afghanistan...and who is continuing the war
policies that benefit the Banksters. They are really 'Gangster.' Ditto for
the war industries.
The truth and the context of the assault on Libya, the Gadhafi family and people
of Libya who now are being liberated with Depleted Uranium...the context is that the United States is waging a global war to re-assert its waning dominance.
So one the one hand the US, nor its gangster allies are seeking a UN resolution
to operated a No-Fly Zone over Bahrain, or Yemen, even though the leaders of
those countries sit atop a regime that tortures and murders people people who
speak out. As Admiral Mike Mullen said the US has to treat Bahrain differently.
Why?
Why is killing and torture okay in one, or some countries, but not in others?
It is not, but the US and its allies look the other way when its a good
friend. The Headquarters of the US Naval Fifth Fleet which patrols the
Persian Gulf to maintain the oil routes belong in the hands of the US is
located in Bahrain.
Quadhafi has not posed a threat to international peace and security.
The Libyan armed forces and government did not pose a threat to either
Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, nor Egypt, and definitely not the US or it's
allies.
Article 2(4) of the UN Charter state: 'All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.
Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter Article 51 allows for individual and
collective self-defence 'if an armed attack occurs against a member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.
Again, Libya was at peace with it's neighbours and the international community.
Libya was at peace with the aggressor states waging war against it.
There is no cause to wage war on Libya under the UN Charter or Customary international law.
There is no other country on the face of the planet that is a greater threat to
international peace and security than the United States of America.
The US has a world-wide system of 'Black sites' for torturing people. It is in
no position to be pointing the finger at others.
UN Security Council Resolution 1973 is illegal as it is not based on the
reasons prescribed under the UN Charter for taking action.
The Libyan regime did not pose a threat to anyone. It is not the right
of the US, nor NATO to intervene in their internal affairs. The Libyan regime
is facing an armed group trained and financed by the CIA.
Justice lies with the Libyan government in this matter regardless of
what people may think of Gadhafi.
There is far, far more cause to intervene in Palestine to stop the daily
slaughter and dismantle Apartheid.
In April 1994 a civil war began between the Hutu majority (88%),
and the Tutsis (11%) minority groups in Rwanda in roughly four
months 800,000 Tutsis were massacred. This was not an ordinary civil
war, but mass murder and genocide.
During this time the United States, France, Britain, Germany and Belgium
were silent and watched the horror spread without trying to stop it.
Now, we are to believe that the United States, Britain, France, and
Italy are waging a war against Libya for the purest of humanitarian
motives. That is, they are only trying to protect the Libyan people from
a crazed dictator.
President Obama, stated that the purpose of “military action is in support
of an international mandate from the Security Council that specifically
focuses on the humanitarian threat posed by Colonel Gadhafi to his people,”
Obama said that Gadhafi was murdering civilians, and had threatened to
"show no mercy." Well, we gotta do something about world leaders who kill
innocent civilians...no don't we?
First, there was no 'international mandate from the Security Council.'
Like many UN resolutions of late an 'international mandate' has come to
mean us as in US (the United States) and some friends. Brazil, China, Germany,
India, and the Russian Federation abstained from voting.
It might have been better if Obama said about 50% of the people of the
world aren't in on this one.
Obama also said that (well let's call it what it is NATO-not the world)
‘We have to stop any potential atrocities inside Libya.’ Of course this
does not apply to all places. Fallujah, Iraq where there were horrific
atrocities, and murder and biological or chemical warfare committed by
US troops, on the civilian population in 2004.
Nor, does it apply to Haditha, Iraq where Marines went on a killing
rampage to avenge the death of a comrade. They kicked down doors...and
one young Iraqi girl reported that they shot and killed her father as
he was praying. They sprayed the insides of houses with bullets.
Five Iraqi men were forced out of a taxi, and then shot down in cold blood.
A fourteen years old girl was raped, murdered and burned.
When it was over 24 Iraqi civilians, 11 of them women and children lay dead.
They were killed by members of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. I'm ashamed to say that and I was with K Co.,during my
second tour of Vietnam.
Atrocities, Mr. Obama? This also took place in Jenin, Palestine in April
of 2002 when Israeli occupation forces massacred Palestinian civilians.
The Israeli's called it a defensive operation.
Obama also claimed that “The core principle that has to be uphold here is
that when the entire international community almost unanimously (almost?)
says that there is a potential humanitarian crisis about to take place'
...and a leader..."decides to turn his military on his own people, that
we can’t simply stand by with empty words,” he said. “We have to take some
sort of action.”
This happens everday in Gaza, the West Bank...in fact in all of Palestine.
Each and every day the Palestinian people who have lived under an Apartheid
regime are treated in the most inhumane ways by a people and army that despises
them just because of their nationality.
To this Vietnam veteran, war did one thing for me. It showed my the hypocricy
of spewing lofty sentiments and ideals by leaders who are morally bankrupt.
And, that is what western leaders are hypocrites who are morally and
spiritually bankrupt.
The US has been, like the Nazis before them waging multiple wars of aggression.
When Obama says “Gadhafi needs to go.” He is in no position to judge Gadhafi.
What about Netanyahu? What about the man with the Nobel Prize for making
promises that he knew were bullshit, and who promised to close down America's
gulags, and stiop the war in Afghanistan...and who is continuing the war
policies that benefit the Banksters. They are really 'Gangster.' Ditto for
the war industries.
The truth and the context of the assault on Libya, the Gadhafi family and people
of Libya who now are being liberated with Depleted Uranium...the context is that the United States is waging a global war to re-assert its waning dominance.
So one the one hand the US, nor its gangster allies are seeking a UN resolution
to operated a No-Fly Zone over Bahrain, or Yemen, even though the leaders of
those countries sit atop a regime that tortures and murders people people who
speak out. As Admiral Mike Mullen said the US has to treat Bahrain differently.
Why?
Why is killing and torture okay in one, or some countries, but not in others?
It is not, but the US and its allies look the other way when its a good
friend. The Headquarters of the US Naval Fifth Fleet which patrols the
Persian Gulf to maintain the oil routes belong in the hands of the US is
located in Bahrain.
Quadhafi has not posed a threat to international peace and security.
The Libyan armed forces and government did not pose a threat to either
Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, nor Egypt, and definitely not the US or it's
allies.
Article 2(4) of the UN Charter state: 'All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.
Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter Article 51 allows for individual and
collective self-defence 'if an armed attack occurs against a member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.
Again, Libya was at peace with it's neighbours and the international community.
Libya was at peace with the aggressor states waging war against it.
There is no cause to wage war on Libya under the UN Charter or Customary international law.
There is no other country on the face of the planet that is a greater threat to
international peace and security than the United States of America.
The US has a world-wide system of 'Black sites' for torturing people. It is in
no position to be pointing the finger at others.
UN Security Council Resolution 1973 is illegal as it is not based on the
reasons prescribed under the UN Charter for taking action.
The Libyan regime did not pose a threat to anyone. It is not the right
of the US, nor NATO to intervene in their internal affairs. The Libyan regime
is facing an armed group trained and financed by the CIA.
Justice lies with the Libyan government in this matter regardless of
what people may think of Gadhafi.
There is far, far more cause to intervene in Palestine to stop the daily
slaughter and dismantle Apartheid.
DailyMail:'Radical imam invited to speak about 'moderate Islam' at the Pentagon after 9/11 may have known about attacks in advance ' 20th May 2011
I saw this today..for my part I simply refuse to believe
that my government, or the CIA (Cociane Importers of America, or
Criminals In Action) would ever do anything wrong..no never:-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389133/Radical-Imam-Anwar-al-Awlakis-Lunch-Pentagon-After-September-11.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://bit.ly/mOFh3j
Radical imam invited to speak about 'moderate Islam' at the Pentagon after 9/11 may have known about attacks in advance
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:28 PM on 20th May 2011
Pentagon unaware of Anwar al-Awlaki's link to hijackers
Proposed Pentagon menu included pork
Agency did not discuss imam's alleged soliciting of prostitutes
Shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, radical American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was invited to the Pentagon to speak about 'moderate Islam', after a flawed vetting process.
Al-Awlaki is currently thought to be hiding in Yemen, where he has dual citizenship with the U.S.
He is the highest ranking American on the CIA’s kill or capture list, and was the target of a failed missile attack earlier this month that killed two militants.
Al-Awlaki was on the short list to succeed Osama bin Laden as Al Qaeda leader.
Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric linked to al-Qaeda in Yemen
Dined at the Pentagon: Radical iman and accused terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki was invited to speak as a 'moderate Muslim', despite having been questioned on suspicion of connection to 9-11 hijackers
Al-Awlaki is accused of being connected to the shooting spree that killed 13 at Fort Hood in 2009, plots to put bombs on airliners and an attempt last year by a radical young women to murder British politician Stephen Creswell Timms by stabbing him in the stomach.
Recent analysis by Fox News of al-Awlaki's talk at the Pentagon on February 5, 2002 has turned up new details, including that an internal Department of Defense email listed a proposed menu that included pork, which is prohibited for Muslims.
According to Fox, the email stated, 'the chef will create something special for vegetarians'.
The documents list more than 70 people copied on the invitation, which seems to have come from the Defense Department’s Office of the General Counsel, the agency's lawyer.
Roshonara Choudhry, 21, was convicted of trying to murder Labour MP Stephen Timms in revenge for him voting for the Iraq war, during a constituency surgery in east London in May last year
Labour MP Stephen Timms was stabbed by a student inspired by a radical al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki
Inspired: Roshonara Choudhry, 21, was convicted of trying to murder Labour MP Stephen Timms. She is said to have been brainwashed by Anwar al-Awlaki
New Mexico-born al-Awlaki was billed as the featured speaker on 'Islam and Middle Eastern Politics and Culture'.
According to Fox, the Defense Department lawyer who vetted al-Awlaki wrote that she 'had the privilege of hearing one of Mr. Awlaki's presentations in November and was impressed by both the extent of his knowledge and by how he communicated that information and handled a hostile element in the audience'.
The department was said to be interested in booking a 'moderate Muslim' to speak to the defense community in the aftermath of September 11.
However, it seems that the Department of Defense was unaware that Al-Awlaki had been interviewed at least four times by the FBI a few days after September 11, because of alleged ties to the hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Hani Hanjour.
Those men are accused of being among the five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which was flown into the Pentagon.
Al-Awlaki is said to have inspired attacks by Muslims inside the U.S - including the Fort Hood, Texas, shootings in 2009, which left 13 dead
Al-Awlaki is said to have inspired attacks by Muslims inside the U.S - including the Fort Hood, Texas, shootings in 2009, which left 13 dead
It is believed he may have been aware of the terrorist plot before September 11, 2001.
According to Fox, the Pentagon also seemed unaware of al-Awlaki's alleged soliciting of prostitutes.
A former high-ranking FBI agent told Fox News that there was tremendous 'arrogance' about the vetting process at the Pentagon.
'They vetted people politically and showed indifference toward security and intelligence advice of others', the former agent said.
U.S. born radical al-Awlaki is widely believed to be the mastermind behind a number of terror atrocities and the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
Rajib Karim, 31, a Bangladeshi Islamic militant working for British Airways, was found guilty of plotting to blow up a plane
This SITE Intelligence Group handout photo obtained November 10, 2009 shows Anwar al-Awlaki
Linked: al-Awlaki is said to have conspired with convicted terrorist Rajib Karim (left), a British airline worker who hatched a plot to blow up an airliner
AQAP is estimated to number about 300 militants with strongholds in a number of remote mountain regions.
It's also thought the group has twice smuggled explosives aboard aircraft headed to the United States.
al-Awlaki is said to have brainwashed Roshonara Choudhry, the 21-year-old student who went on to stab MP Stephen Timms in his constituency in May last year.
Earlier this year he was also linked to British Airways worker Rajib Karim, 31, who was jailed for 30 years in March for his part in a plot to blow up an airliner.
Karim wanted to use his position at the airline to plant a bomb on a plane as part of a conspiracy with al-Awlaki.
that my government, or the CIA (Cociane Importers of America, or
Criminals In Action) would ever do anything wrong..no never:-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389133/Radical-Imam-Anwar-al-Awlakis-Lunch-Pentagon-After-September-11.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://bit.ly/mOFh3j
Radical imam invited to speak about 'moderate Islam' at the Pentagon after 9/11 may have known about attacks in advance
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:28 PM on 20th May 2011
Pentagon unaware of Anwar al-Awlaki's link to hijackers
Proposed Pentagon menu included pork
Agency did not discuss imam's alleged soliciting of prostitutes
Shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, radical American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was invited to the Pentagon to speak about 'moderate Islam', after a flawed vetting process.
Al-Awlaki is currently thought to be hiding in Yemen, where he has dual citizenship with the U.S.
He is the highest ranking American on the CIA’s kill or capture list, and was the target of a failed missile attack earlier this month that killed two militants.
Al-Awlaki was on the short list to succeed Osama bin Laden as Al Qaeda leader.
Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric linked to al-Qaeda in Yemen
Dined at the Pentagon: Radical iman and accused terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki was invited to speak as a 'moderate Muslim', despite having been questioned on suspicion of connection to 9-11 hijackers
Al-Awlaki is accused of being connected to the shooting spree that killed 13 at Fort Hood in 2009, plots to put bombs on airliners and an attempt last year by a radical young women to murder British politician Stephen Creswell Timms by stabbing him in the stomach.
Recent analysis by Fox News of al-Awlaki's talk at the Pentagon on February 5, 2002 has turned up new details, including that an internal Department of Defense email listed a proposed menu that included pork, which is prohibited for Muslims.
According to Fox, the email stated, 'the chef will create something special for vegetarians'.
The documents list more than 70 people copied on the invitation, which seems to have come from the Defense Department’s Office of the General Counsel, the agency's lawyer.
Roshonara Choudhry, 21, was convicted of trying to murder Labour MP Stephen Timms in revenge for him voting for the Iraq war, during a constituency surgery in east London in May last year
Labour MP Stephen Timms was stabbed by a student inspired by a radical al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki
Inspired: Roshonara Choudhry, 21, was convicted of trying to murder Labour MP Stephen Timms. She is said to have been brainwashed by Anwar al-Awlaki
New Mexico-born al-Awlaki was billed as the featured speaker on 'Islam and Middle Eastern Politics and Culture'.
According to Fox, the Defense Department lawyer who vetted al-Awlaki wrote that she 'had the privilege of hearing one of Mr. Awlaki's presentations in November and was impressed by both the extent of his knowledge and by how he communicated that information and handled a hostile element in the audience'.
The department was said to be interested in booking a 'moderate Muslim' to speak to the defense community in the aftermath of September 11.
However, it seems that the Department of Defense was unaware that Al-Awlaki had been interviewed at least four times by the FBI a few days after September 11, because of alleged ties to the hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Hani Hanjour.
Those men are accused of being among the five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which was flown into the Pentagon.
Al-Awlaki is said to have inspired attacks by Muslims inside the U.S - including the Fort Hood, Texas, shootings in 2009, which left 13 dead
Al-Awlaki is said to have inspired attacks by Muslims inside the U.S - including the Fort Hood, Texas, shootings in 2009, which left 13 dead
It is believed he may have been aware of the terrorist plot before September 11, 2001.
According to Fox, the Pentagon also seemed unaware of al-Awlaki's alleged soliciting of prostitutes.
A former high-ranking FBI agent told Fox News that there was tremendous 'arrogance' about the vetting process at the Pentagon.
'They vetted people politically and showed indifference toward security and intelligence advice of others', the former agent said.
U.S. born radical al-Awlaki is widely believed to be the mastermind behind a number of terror atrocities and the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
Rajib Karim, 31, a Bangladeshi Islamic militant working for British Airways, was found guilty of plotting to blow up a plane
This SITE Intelligence Group handout photo obtained November 10, 2009 shows Anwar al-Awlaki
Linked: al-Awlaki is said to have conspired with convicted terrorist Rajib Karim (left), a British airline worker who hatched a plot to blow up an airliner
AQAP is estimated to number about 300 militants with strongholds in a number of remote mountain regions.
It's also thought the group has twice smuggled explosives aboard aircraft headed to the United States.
al-Awlaki is said to have brainwashed Roshonara Choudhry, the 21-year-old student who went on to stab MP Stephen Timms in his constituency in May last year.
Earlier this year he was also linked to British Airways worker Rajib Karim, 31, who was jailed for 30 years in March for his part in a plot to blow up an airliner.
Karim wanted to use his position at the airline to plant a bomb on a plane as part of a conspiracy with al-Awlaki.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
The Nakba
THE NAKBA
Today 15 May 2001 is the anniversary of the “Nakba.” On this day in
1948 a band of terrorists declared the land formerly for centuries upon
centuries known as Palestine was now the State of Israel.
I say terrorists because the leaders of the Irgun and Lehi (the Stern
Gang) were terrorists. They were considered so by commanders of British troops
on the ground in Palestine, and they committed terrorists acts.
Yitzhak Shamir gave himself the nickname ‘Michael’ as in Michael
Collins. But he was just one link in a chain of cooperation between the
Zionist and the Nazis. Shamir worked with Nazis contacts in Beirut and offered
to have the Stern Gang attack the British who occupied Palestine at the time.
In 1944 the British Secretary of State, Lord Moyne, was assassinated in
Cairo By the Stern Gang. Shamir was later detained by the British and later
became a Prime Minister of Israel between 1983-84 and 1986-1992.
The leader of the Stern Gang, Avraham Stern stated to Gang members:
"The NMO(National Military Orgnization-mine), which is well-acquainted with
the goodwill of the German Reich government and its authorities towards Zionist activity inside Germany and towards Zionist emigration plans, is of the opinion
that:
1. Common interests could exist between the establishment of a new order in Europe in conformity with the German concept, and the true national aspirations
of the Jewish people as they are embodied by the NMO.
2. Cooperation between the new Germany and a renewed folkish-national
Hebraium would be possible and,
3. The establishment of the historic Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis,
bound by a treaty with the German Reich, would be in the interest of a
maintained and strengthened future German position of power in the Near East.
Proceeding from these considerations, the NMO in Palestine, under the
condition the above-mentioned national aspirations of the Israeli freedom
movement are recognized on the side of the German Reich, offers to actively
take part in the war on Germany's side."
(See: 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis by LENNI BRENNER, CounterPunch December 23, 2002)
Mr. Brenner, notes ‘They hanged people all over Europe after WW II for
notes to the Nazis like these.’
"There is a country which happens to be called Palestine...a country
without people" Chaim Weismann 1st Israeli President. This comes from ‘Israeli
Confessions (YouTube http://bit.ly/cHtO0 )
This statement makes it appear that Palestine was completely empty. If so,
then Why were British troops stationed there?
Moshe Sharett, 2nd Israeli President stated "We have come to conquer a
Country from people inhabiting it". And that is the truth. This also means that
it was not a ‘War of Independence’ as Israeli history records, but in fact it
was a war of colonial conquest!
David Ben-Gurion, 1st Israeli Prime Minister "We should remove all Arabs
and take their place. I don't see anything immoral in it".
What kind of morality or ethical stance is that? To me it is no different
than what Hitler planned to the lands east of Germany; to take the land and repopulated it with Germans. That is ‘ethnic cleansing.’
And, the did so when they implemented Plan D (for Dalet). Israeli
militias, the Hagana, Irgun and Stern Gangs surrounded villages at night and
blew up houses while people slept.
After the houses were blown up the terrorist put explosives within the rubble
to stop Palestinians from returning to retrieve item of sentimental or other
value.
If I were Jewish I would not want to sleep or live in a house built on
such ground. The blood of the Palestinians cries out for justice.
In other places the Zionists separated men from women and even took away
boys as young as 15. In many places the men and boys were lined up against a
wall with their backs to their murderers (who lacked the courage to face them)
and they were shot dead.
If I were Jewish I would not want to sleep or live in a house built
on such ground. The blood of the Palestinians cries out for justice.
The Zionists militias poisoned water wells, destroyed food stocks, cut
down olive trees. Then, they drove the Palestinian people out at the point of
a rifle. Rapes took place and massacres. At Deir Yassin, on Friday April 9th,
1948 a most horrific butchery took place.
Menachem Begin led a group of Irgun terrorist (the word commandos seems too dignified). The New York Times later reported the final body count as being 254.
Begin was later the Sixth Prime Minister of the Apartheid State of Israel,
and along with Anwar Sadat, The Egyptian President was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1978.
During 1948 the General Assembly United Nations adopted the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS. There are all kinds of lofty goals and re-affirmed values stated in the Declaration. One of them re-affirms the ‘Right of Return’
as it is known. This is guaranteed in Article 13 (2). But, somehow the world
ignores this right when it comes to the Palestinian people.
"There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a
former Arab population". Moshe Dayan, (former Israeli Defence/Foreign Minister).
The present state of Israel with its Apartheid wall was built from the
ethnic cleansing, murder, rape and terror of the Palestinian peoples who lived
on the land in peace for Millennia.
“Everybody has to move, Run and grab as many hilltops as they can to
Enlarge the Settlements because everything we take now will STAY OURS'.2 Ariel Sharon, (former Israeli Prime Minister).
The present state of Israel is an Apartheid regime, and the words of
their leaders show how it was conceived and created on land stolen just as in
the America’s. The native population was ethnically cleansed, called savages by
the butchers who massacred them…just as was and continues to be done in Israel.
"No one has the right to put the State of Israel on trial". Ariel Sharon, (former Israeli Prime Minister). You are wrong Mr. Sharon, and you are also a
war criminal.
“If I were an Arab leader I would NEVER make terms with Israel...That is natural: We have taken THEIR COUNTRY". David Ben-Gurion, (father of Israel).
This is true, and it is an admission of guilt. And it is also why the fight
will never end until the truth is recognized and justice is done…that is the Palestinian peoples will return to their former homes, fields and farms and businesses.
Martin Luther King once said "I have a dream that one day on the red hills
of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will
be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”
May this be true of Jew and Palestinian in the future and may they dwell together in peace.
Today 15 May 2001 is the anniversary of the “Nakba.” On this day in
1948 a band of terrorists declared the land formerly for centuries upon
centuries known as Palestine was now the State of Israel.
I say terrorists because the leaders of the Irgun and Lehi (the Stern
Gang) were terrorists. They were considered so by commanders of British troops
on the ground in Palestine, and they committed terrorists acts.
Yitzhak Shamir gave himself the nickname ‘Michael’ as in Michael
Collins. But he was just one link in a chain of cooperation between the
Zionist and the Nazis. Shamir worked with Nazis contacts in Beirut and offered
to have the Stern Gang attack the British who occupied Palestine at the time.
In 1944 the British Secretary of State, Lord Moyne, was assassinated in
Cairo By the Stern Gang. Shamir was later detained by the British and later
became a Prime Minister of Israel between 1983-84 and 1986-1992.
The leader of the Stern Gang, Avraham Stern stated to Gang members:
"The NMO(National Military Orgnization-mine), which is well-acquainted with
the goodwill of the German Reich government and its authorities towards Zionist activity inside Germany and towards Zionist emigration plans, is of the opinion
that:
1. Common interests could exist between the establishment of a new order in Europe in conformity with the German concept, and the true national aspirations
of the Jewish people as they are embodied by the NMO.
2. Cooperation between the new Germany and a renewed folkish-national
Hebraium would be possible and,
3. The establishment of the historic Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis,
bound by a treaty with the German Reich, would be in the interest of a
maintained and strengthened future German position of power in the Near East.
Proceeding from these considerations, the NMO in Palestine, under the
condition the above-mentioned national aspirations of the Israeli freedom
movement are recognized on the side of the German Reich, offers to actively
take part in the war on Germany's side."
(See: 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis by LENNI BRENNER, CounterPunch December 23, 2002)
Mr. Brenner, notes ‘They hanged people all over Europe after WW II for
notes to the Nazis like these.’
"There is a country which happens to be called Palestine...a country
without people" Chaim Weismann 1st Israeli President. This comes from ‘Israeli
Confessions (YouTube http://bit.ly/cHtO0 )
This statement makes it appear that Palestine was completely empty. If so,
then Why were British troops stationed there?
Moshe Sharett, 2nd Israeli President stated "We have come to conquer a
Country from people inhabiting it". And that is the truth. This also means that
it was not a ‘War of Independence’ as Israeli history records, but in fact it
was a war of colonial conquest!
David Ben-Gurion, 1st Israeli Prime Minister "We should remove all Arabs
and take their place. I don't see anything immoral in it".
What kind of morality or ethical stance is that? To me it is no different
than what Hitler planned to the lands east of Germany; to take the land and repopulated it with Germans. That is ‘ethnic cleansing.’
And, the did so when they implemented Plan D (for Dalet). Israeli
militias, the Hagana, Irgun and Stern Gangs surrounded villages at night and
blew up houses while people slept.
After the houses were blown up the terrorist put explosives within the rubble
to stop Palestinians from returning to retrieve item of sentimental or other
value.
If I were Jewish I would not want to sleep or live in a house built on
such ground. The blood of the Palestinians cries out for justice.
In other places the Zionists separated men from women and even took away
boys as young as 15. In many places the men and boys were lined up against a
wall with their backs to their murderers (who lacked the courage to face them)
and they were shot dead.
If I were Jewish I would not want to sleep or live in a house built
on such ground. The blood of the Palestinians cries out for justice.
The Zionists militias poisoned water wells, destroyed food stocks, cut
down olive trees. Then, they drove the Palestinian people out at the point of
a rifle. Rapes took place and massacres. At Deir Yassin, on Friday April 9th,
1948 a most horrific butchery took place.
Menachem Begin led a group of Irgun terrorist (the word commandos seems too dignified). The New York Times later reported the final body count as being 254.
Begin was later the Sixth Prime Minister of the Apartheid State of Israel,
and along with Anwar Sadat, The Egyptian President was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1978.
During 1948 the General Assembly United Nations adopted the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS. There are all kinds of lofty goals and re-affirmed values stated in the Declaration. One of them re-affirms the ‘Right of Return’
as it is known. This is guaranteed in Article 13 (2). But, somehow the world
ignores this right when it comes to the Palestinian people.
"There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a
former Arab population". Moshe Dayan, (former Israeli Defence/Foreign Minister).
The present state of Israel with its Apartheid wall was built from the
ethnic cleansing, murder, rape and terror of the Palestinian peoples who lived
on the land in peace for Millennia.
“Everybody has to move, Run and grab as many hilltops as they can to
Enlarge the Settlements because everything we take now will STAY OURS'.2 Ariel Sharon, (former Israeli Prime Minister).
The present state of Israel is an Apartheid regime, and the words of
their leaders show how it was conceived and created on land stolen just as in
the America’s. The native population was ethnically cleansed, called savages by
the butchers who massacred them…just as was and continues to be done in Israel.
"No one has the right to put the State of Israel on trial". Ariel Sharon, (former Israeli Prime Minister). You are wrong Mr. Sharon, and you are also a
war criminal.
“If I were an Arab leader I would NEVER make terms with Israel...That is natural: We have taken THEIR COUNTRY". David Ben-Gurion, (father of Israel).
This is true, and it is an admission of guilt. And it is also why the fight
will never end until the truth is recognized and justice is done…that is the Palestinian peoples will return to their former homes, fields and farms and businesses.
Martin Luther King once said "I have a dream that one day on the red hills
of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will
be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”
May this be true of Jew and Palestinian in the future and may they dwell together in peace.
On the anniversary of the Nakba:'Prominent Jewish Zionist group attempted COLLABORATION with Nazis' youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FzmvniIUmc
http://bit.ly/jVaL3Z
Prominent Jewish Zionist group attempted COLLABORATION with Nazis
http://bit.ly/jVaL3Z
Prominent Jewish Zionist group attempted COLLABORATION with Nazis
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