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Waihopai Ploughshares Court of Appeal hearing,

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May 082013

http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/plappeal.htm

Waihopai Ploughshares Court of Appeal hearing

On 30 April 2008, a Christian Ploughshares team – Adrian Leason, Father Peter Murnane and Sam Land – entered the grounds of the NZ Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) / US National Security Agency spy base at Waihopai and punctured the dome covering one of the two antenna to disable and draw attention to the role of the base – part of the US governments global spy network – in the ‘war on terrorism’. They then built a shrine and prayed for the victims of the war with no end while waiting to be arrested.

In March 2010, after an eight day trial, the Waihopai Ploughshares were acquitted by the jury. In response, in October 2010, the Attorney-General lodged a civil claim for $1.2 million, on behalf of the GCSB. In August 2011, following a hearing in the High Court in Wellington, Associate Judge David Gendall issued a summary judgement awarding $1.2 million damages in the government’s favour, as well as court costs. A more detailed chronology of these events is included below.

Last year, the Waihopai Ploughshares lodged an appeal against the High Court decision, and the appeal will be heard by the Court of Appeal in Wellington on Wednesday, 8 and Thursday, 9 May 2013.

The outcome of the appeal has wide implications for justice here: if the High Court decision stands, it makes it more likely that if the Crown is dissatisfied with the outcome of a trial, it will initiate costly civil proceedings against defendants who have been found not guilty – this would have particularly negative implications for anyone acting on their conscience who engages in a citizen’s disarmament action.

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Inside Americas Gulag

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May 072013

Pictures and Video
The following photos were released May 2, 2013 by the (Propaganda section) US 138th Public Affairs Detachment. The photos depict Joint Task Force Guantanamo’s “Behavioral Health Unit” and Joint Medical Group facilities where detainees are force-fed due to an ongoing hunger strike among more than two-thirds of the detainees. The photos released by the military show soldiers trying to provide food to the detainees in Camp 5 and 6, then throwing the food away after it is refused by the detainees. The photos also show “internal nourishment preparation” and a “feeding chair” used when force-feeding detainees.

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Report: U.S. Government and NATO Worked with Bin Laden and His Top Lieutenant 3 Months AFTER 9/11

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May 032013

Posted on May 2, 2013 by WashingtonsBlog

FBI Translator Alleges that Bin Laden and His Number 2 Worked as Part of Operation Gladio

Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds has been deemed credible by the Department of Justice’s Inspector General, several senators (free subscription required), and a coalition of prominent conservative and liberal groups.

The ACLU described Edmonds as:

The most gagged person in the history of the United States of America.

And famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says that Edmonds possesses information “far more explosive than the Pentagon Papers”.

Edmonds translated terror-related communications for the FBI right after 9/11. In that capacity, she read communications between terrorists and other radicals.

Edmonds said last week that Bin Laden – and his number 2 Al Qaeda lieutenant – Ayman al-Zawahiri – worked with the U.S. government for 3 months after 9/11 to coordinate destablization in the Caucus region:

Click here to read entire article including interview with Sibel discussing the Boston Bombing, the CIA, and the US Empire.

Did Muslims Attack America on 9/11?

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May 012013

Did Muslims Attack America on 9/11?
By Ibn e Abdul Haq

April 309, 2013 “Information Clearing House” -”PTV” – Almost 12 years and many a million deaths later, the US and its NATO allies have made public their plan to start withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014. The war in Afghanistan has been an abject failure, orphaned both on the military and the public relations fronts, with the loss of life, property, and infrastructure being colossal.

More importantly, contrary to initial claims, the global war on terror has not made the world a safer place. Instances of terrorism have continuously been on a rise, engulfing one after another the countries neighboring Afghanistan. Lest we forget, almost all subsequent wars waged by US and NATO have had their genesis in the war that was thrust onto Afghanistan after 9/11.

Much of America’s foreign policy since 9/11 has been based on the assumption that it was attacked by Muslims on that day. This assumption was used, most prominently, to justify the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In fact every war fought by US and its allies during the first decade of the third millennium has been founded in the post-9/11 doctrine of preemption.

It is now widely agreed that the use of 9/11 as a basis for attacking Iraq was illegitimate: none of the hijackers were Iraqis, there was no working relation between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, and Iraq was not behind the anthrax attacks. But it is still widely believed that the US attack on Afghanistan was justified. For more than a decade now, the corporate media around the world has consistently been forcing this fantastic narrative as an undisputable fact. It seems likely that the indoctrination will increase to new levels as spin-doctors try to justify the Afghanistan withdrawal plan and prove that the ‘war on terror’ has been a success unmatched in human history.

The stage has been set for a massive ploy of psychological and media war to be unleashed on the unsuspecting minds of the masses. For example, as recently as in 2011, the New York Times while referring to the US attack on Iraq as a “war of choice,” called the battle in Afghanistan a “war of necessity.” Time magazine dubbed it “the right war.” And in 2009, Barack Obama was reported to have said ‘one reason to wind down our involvement in Iraq is to have the troops and resources to “go after the people in Afghanistan who actually attacked us on 9/11.”

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Ex-Bush Official Willing to Testify Bush, Cheney Knew Gitmo Prisoners Innocent

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Apr 232013

Ex-Bush Official Willing to Testify Bush, Cheney Knew Gitmo Prisoners Innocent
By Jason Leopold, Truthout | Report

Now, in a sworn declaration obtained exclusively by Truthout, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell during George W. Bush’s first term in office, said Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld knew the “vast majority” of prisoners captured in the so-called War on Terror were innocent and the administration refused to set them free once those facts were established because of the political repercussions that would have ensued.

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U.S. Engaged in Torture After 9/11, Review Concludes

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Apr 222013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/world/us-practiced-torture-after-9-11-nonpartisan-review-concludes.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2&

U.S. Engaged in Torture After 9/11, Review Concludes
By SCOTT SHANE

Published: April 16, 2013

WASHINGTON — A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that “it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture” and that the nation’s highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it.

The sweeping, 577-page report says that while brutality has occurred in every American war, there never before had been “the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after 9/11 directly involving a president and his top advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain and torment on some detainees in our custody.” The study, by an 11-member panel convened by the Constitution Project, a legal research and advocacy group, is to be released on Tuesday morning.

Debate over the coercive interrogation methods used by the administration of President George W. Bush has often broken down on largely partisan lines. The Constitution Project’s task force on detainee treatment, led by two former members of Congress with experience in the executive branch — a Republican, Asa Hutchinson, and a Democrat, James R. Jones — seeks to produce a stronger national consensus on the torture question.

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Sibel Edmonds - USA: The Creator & Sustainer of Chechen Terrorism

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Apr 202013

Friday, 19. April 2013
Sibel Edmonds
Boston Terror: Don’t Let the Media Fool You … Again Climb Up the Chain and Meet the Real Masterminds of Global Terror.

Here we go again- Déjà vu. Out of the blue we have a ‘terror event,’ a couple of pop-terrorists, and a new buzz-word nation-Chechnya. There they go again: USA Media tales made-in-government: Muslims, terrorists, fanatics, freedom-haters … this time from another exotic-sounding land-Chechnya.

They are going to tell you about the new frontiers in the so-called Islamic Terror Cells: The Caucasus and Central Asia. They’ve been planning this for a long time. In fact, the plans were in motion as early as the mid-1990s. Since 2002, despite the gag orders and attacks, I have been talking about: Central Asia & the Caucasus. I have been talking about our operations-grooming our very own terrorists in that region. I have been talking about Chechnya. In fact, just recently, I talked and talked and talked about it on record:

Sibel Edmonds on Operation Gladio Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V.

The government and its media will give you the tales. They will give you the roller-coaster-like spins. They will not give you what you need to know. Two years ago, we, at Boiling Frogs Post, provided you with the following article-analysis. Please read it: with the recent home-made terror incident and the new media buzz-word ‘Chechnya’, you need to arm yourself with facts.

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Sept. 11 Hearings Delayed Until June After Computer Crash

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Apr 202013

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-17/sept-11-hearings-delayed-until-june-after-computer-crash.html

By David Glovin – Apr 18, 2013 7:08 AM GMT+1200.

Five days of hearings scheduled for next week in the case of the accused plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were postponed after defense lawyers said internal documents went missing on government computers.

The judge, Army Colonel James Pohl, postponed the hearings until mid-June in a two-page order posted today.

Lawyers for the accused plotters requested the delay last week after complaining that their confidential work was inexplicably missing from the U.S. Defense Department computers on which they store documents.

Army Lt. Colonel Todd Breasseale, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement that the Office of Military Commissions, which is prosecuting the case, “suffered from a nearly catastrophic server ‘crash’” that led to “losses of indiscriminate data.” Of almost 400 gigabytes of data initially lost, “seven gigabytes have yet to be accounted for,” he said.

Hearings in the case, which began last year, have been plagued by delay. In August, the threat of a hurricane canceled a week of arguments while hearings this year were slowed as the judge probed defense claims that the government was eavesdropping on them.

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Guantanamo hunger strike will lead to multiple deaths: US military's Muslim adviser

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Apr 192013

http://presstv.com/usdetail/299171.html

Fri Apr 19, 2013 5:39PM

Military officials found a detainee “almost dying because of hunger and thirst” after a raid to regain control of a communal prison camp early Saturday, a Muslim military liaison told reporters on Thursday.

Zak, a longtime Muslim adviser at Guantanamo who goes only by his first name for security reasons, said detainees in the U.S. military prison have “perfected their methods” for suicide. He predicted the ongoing detainee hunger strike would lead to deaths.

“There will be more than one death,” Zak said. “I’m saying it right now, so next time we meet, you can say, ‘Okay, Zak, you told us.’” The detainees, he said, “wanted to die out of hunger and thirst behind covered cameras.”

The military counts 59 detainees as engaged in hunger strikes. Zak predicted that number will rise to perhaps 100 as medical officials examine detainees transferred this week from communal living areas into single cells. Authorities raided a communal area over the weekend, injuring two soldiers and five inmates, and forced detainees into individual cells to prevent them from covering cameras. The military said 147 of 160 cameras used by guards to check on the inmates had been covered.

Fifteen detainees are being force-fed and four of those are hospitalized. Reporters listening in on morning prayers in Camp Five early Thursday were quickly escorted outside because a detainee in another block felt faint.

President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the prison camps at Guantanamo shortly after he took office, but has since abandoned the effort.

The sense of hopelessness for Guantanamo prisoners is what led to the hunger strike, Zak said. That claim contradicts Guantanamo commanders and lawyers for the detainees, who have said the protest was motivated by searches of prisoners’ Qur’ans. The military had claimed prisoners were hiding weapons inside the holy books.

“They were excited, okay, new president, new change, new hope,” Zak said. Even allowing one prisoner to be transferred out of the facility would help defuse the hunger strike, he said. The uncertainty is the cause of the crisis. “Guantanamo will be quiet again once they know what’s going to happen,” Zak said.