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'''''''''''''''''Fallujah had already become the symbol of the Iraqi resistance after Marines killed 15 civilians in May 2003 - when the city even had a pro-American mayor. Last April, up to 1,000 Iraqis were killed, blown up, burnt or shot by the Americans - two thirds of them civilians, mostly women and children. Now, one of the first targets of Phantom Fury was a Fallujah hospital, qualified by the Pentagon as "a center of propaganda". The fact is, in April hospital doctors were carefully detailing to the world media the hundreds of innocent civilians killed by the American assault. Now, under a strategy of what could almost be called collective punishment, the hospital has become a military target. '''''''''''''''''''
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Remembering Hiroshima - August 6, 1945
This boy had thermal burns on more than one-third of his body, and his chest and the left side of his belly were seriously injured. He managed to leave the hospital after 3 years and 7 months. This person, who miraculously recovered, is now a father of two children, and recollects what happened then; "At that time I was riding a red bibycle on the streets of Sumiyoshi township (about 2 kilometers from the hypocenter). I was 16 years old, and it was my second year as a telegram messenger. The moment of face, I was blinded by the flash and thrown 3 meters away by the blast that came from my rear left, and my bicycle was twisted and bent. It was strange that I was not bleeding and did not feel any pain until I reached an underground shelter 300 meters away. The moment I reached the shelter, I felt severe pain in my back, which ran through my whole body. From then on, for three days and three nights, I kept on groaning in the shelter, and on the fourth day I was finally rescued and sent to a first-aid station."
"In the early stages, the only treatment I received for my burns was the application of a mixture of ash and oil as a substitute for medicine. I do not know how many times I yelled "kill me!" because of the severe pain and desperate feeling."
"Thereafter, as a result of the several operations I underwent, I escaped death and returned to work. Since I have once given up my life, I wish to dedicatemy new life to the struggle against atomic bombs."
He is continuing to devote his efforts to the prohibiton of atomic and hydrogen bombs.
America is fighting a "War on Terrorism"...right!
The fact is that no other single act of terrorism against a civilian population in history using a SINGLE device and in one SINGLE shot killed more people in ONE INSTANCE than the horrific American attack on the two cities in Japan, the first of which happened today, 57 years ago. Total City destructions were a hobby of both the Allies and the Germans during World War II. But no other attack on a civilian population was so TOTAL, so INSTANTANEOUS, and having ENDURING CONSEQUENCES as the attacks on Japan. And the weapons used to destroy cities in Germany by the allies were not weapons of mass destruction anyway. Rather, they were "conventional" weapons used in massive amounts. The nuclear weapons are, on the other hand, the obvious "king" of all weapons of mass destruction.
This boy, who was burned to death with his hands placed on his chest, leaving an impression of agony, is believed to have been a mobilized student exposed to the A-bomb in Iwakana township, which is about 700 meters from the hypocenter.
Besides being horrifying, totally and enduringly destructive, these attacks were even militarily totally UNNECESSARY. Japan was reportedly ready to surrender even before the first attack. Or maybe Truman was trying to impress the Soviets as is speculated. Still even if we ignore our humanity and decide America had the right to warn the Soviets that it had the bomb, the attacks on these cities will still remain exceptionally horrifying. Harry S. Truman could have decided to throw the bomb on an uninhabited island somewhere in the world, and let the Soviets watch the island's destruction. That would have served the need of warning the Soviets just the same. But the real warning Truman was giving Moscow -- in my opinion -- wasn't just that "we have the bomb", or "it works" or even "look at what it can do" but rather he wanted to warn them that "we have enough cold-bloodedness to use it on any CIVILIAN population without a single hesitation or remorse -- and twice". That is what makes that particular attack so frightening: Truman's cold-bloodedness. That's what makes its also the greatest terrorist attack in history. Ever!
Citizens who were able to escape from hell on earth that day evacuated to the suburban areas of Hiroshima City and took refuge at first-aid stations set up in public buildings. However, this provided only momentary relief. They started to die one after another at the first-aid stations, and cremation could not catch up with the rate of death, so many of them had to be buried togeter.
To me no man is more cold-blooded or horrifying than Harry S. Truman, not even Hitler! And so long as the American political establishment takes no step to apologize for these attacks, the guilt will endure through the successive generations of US administrations, Republican or Democrat!
Let me provide you my friends with the essay I wrote on 9/11. Please read it carefully and please think a little bit for yourselves were the truth is. Without emotions or bias. PLEASE.
Are Civilians a Legitimate Target of War?
In light of many recent and past events; wars in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and an attack on the US cities of New York and Washington, DC, one has to ask this important question: are civilians a legitimate target of war? Is killing a civilian to promote a cause always to be deemed as terrorism? Or can there be justification by which the killer can claim that there was no other way to get his rights?
The question may seem rude and inhuman to many New Yorkers who lost loved-ones in the attacks on the World Trade Center. But, just as equally, the question would seem completely as rude and inhuman to the thousands of individuals that were and still are affected by the US nuclear bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki near the end of World War II. In that case, America did find justification for the instant loss of thousands of civilian lives. America claimed it was bringing Japan to a quick surrender. In reality this may have been an attempt to catch the attention of the would-be cold war rival: the former Soviet Union. In attacking the World Trade Center, Osama bin Laden [if it was really him who did it] has committed a grievous crime against US civilians; but he too has his own “justifications.” He sees the US army presence in the Persian Gulf ten years after the end of the Second Gulf War as unjustified. He calls it an occupation of Muslim land and a control over its oil resources.
[ let me note that I have always had my doubts about the official US story of who done it in 9/11. In writing this essay, I put my doubts aside and went along with the official story. Since then, mounting evidence suggests a possible covert link between the US government and the perpetrators of 9/11, and a lot of questions have risen about the truth behind the incrimination of bin Laden, including the authenticity of that confession tape allegedly found in Afghanisitan. I see no reason that I must accept the official Bush clan story anymore]
In retaliation for the murder of US civilians in New York and Washington, America has launched a fierce attack on Afghanistan, killing many Afghani civilians “as collateral damage” in revenge. For ten years the US-lead sanctions against Iraq has caused a slow genocide of Iraqi citizens (especially its children); justified by the fact that the US is fighting the Saddam regime it once helped create. Is the price of slowly murdering an entire civilian population worth it? Former US secretary of state Malden Albright certainly thought so.
In Palestine, desperate Palestinians fighting for their lives and an end to occupation blow themselves up in civilian areas where Israeli “civilians” live. They are fighting daily humiliation and death by Apache Helicopters and American-made F-16 fighter jets. But Hey…..why should an occupied and desperate people oppressed by a brutal apartheid army deserve their own version of “justification”? If the Palestinians were a global power like the US, they could find eloquent words for what they are doing and a media to back them up. But they are not.
Killing New York and Washington civilians is terrorism, but the collective punishment of the Afghani populous is not? Killing Israelis in desperation to remove oppression is terrorism, but killing thousands of civilians slowly in Iraq or suddenly in two Japanese cities is not? I wonder if the current US administration is willing to apologize to the Japanese people for the murderous actions of Harry S. Truman. I am sure they will find justification as to why they should not!
In all these cases, as I see it, killing a single civilian is wrong. Islam taught me that killing one innocent man is like killing “all of humanity”. At war we are instructed “never to cut a tree, kill a child, a woman, an old person, or a man in his temple (i.e., not fighting)”. But things must be put in perspective. For, while America as a world power will always have other options when at war, the Palestinians have none. They have been abandoned by everyone; their Arab bothers (who do nothing but talk), and the biased US government. What’s more, Palestinians are fighting an occupation to gain back only 22% of their historical land, not in fact asking for all that they deserve. What more can they negotiate away, when in fact 53 years Jaffa and Haifa were just as Palestinian as Tolkurm and Ram Allah are today?
Where are 5 million Palestinian refugees to go other that to their homes that have become “Israeli” cities and villages? Or are they to be given only limited “reservations” as was finally done to Native Americans?
Who has the bigger burden to stop the violence anyway, the occupier or the occupied? Isn’t occupation in itself terrorism? Why doesn’t Israel just get out of land that isn’t its own?
So do you still think that killing civilians is always unjustified?
Again, I think that ALL killing of civilians is wrong. Unjustified.
And, I ask you --if you agree with me-- to protest all symbols of such terrorism. Equally. Ask for the removal of the Enola Gay --the airplane that dropped the nuclear bomb in World War II-- from the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, now and today! Demand that America start its war on terrorism properly: by putting to trial all those responsible for civilian deaths in Hiroshima and Nagasaki--- in person or in name. Tell the US politicians to stop supplying Israel with F-16s and Apache helicopters which it uses to attack Palestinian cities and civilians. Ask for an end to the inhuman slow genocide of the PEOPLE of Iraq. Demand that medications not be blocked from being sent to Iraq under the pretext that they may be used to make chemical weapons. Remind US politicians that many of the world leaders America now befriends for its own needs are no less oppressors or dictators than its former ALLEY Saddam Hussein is. And please insist that attacking Iraq now will only add to its civilian misery and suffering!
America wants to put an end to Iraq’s attempts to threaten its neighbors (a.k.a. Israel) with weapons of mass destruction. The US is acting as the champion of good against evil. But America forgets that the reality is that no other nation used weapons of mass destruction against CIVILIAN populations as the US did to Japan. Is this not terrorism? America politicians should set an example by attempting to repent for America’s past wrongs.
They should attempt to deter weapons proliferation EVERYWHERE in the Middle East. The US should also ask Israel to rid itself of its 100 or so estimated stock of nuclear warheads. Already one of the right wing politicians who recently resigned from the Sharon government suggested using them against the High Dam in Aswan, Egypt. That would kill many in the CIVILIAN population of Egypt. Terrorism, do you think?
American politicians need to rethink their foreign policy, and act in a more just and fair way. They need to see causes and results as they really are, not as they wish the rest of the world to see them. For then, and only then, will America have any right to define terrorism as it wishes, or fight it as the world’s policeman, judge and jury, as it is attempting to do now…. unchecked and unabated!
Mohamed Ismail
Physician- General Practitioner
Egypt
A soldier about to die. This serviceman survived the war, but fell a victim to the A-bomb inside a wooden house (about 1km from the hypocenter). Bleeding from the skin, red specks, stomatitis and hair epilation were observed. The soldier died two hours after this photograph was taken. (Photo by Gonichi Kimura)
Kimono pattern. Burned areas on the back and on the dorsal portion of the upper arm show that thermal rays penetrated the black or the darkcolored parts of kimono she wore. (Photo by Gonichi Kimura)
Trace of a hat. The exposed part of the face was badly burned by thermal rays. The hat protected the head from a burn.
Severe burns to body.
The right photograph shows an eyeball of an A-bomb victim who got an atomic bomb cataract. There is opacity near the center of the eyeball. It has been known for some time, through that radiation causes cataracts in animals. But cataracts developed in human beings after the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
According to a clinical report of 128 cataract cases in Hiroshima during the four years from 1957, 38.3% had atomic bomb cataracts or suspected atomic bomb cataracts. It is reported that 70% of those were within 1 kilometer from the hypocenter, and 30% were within 2 kilometers.
A-bomb survivors, as well as a great number of people from domestic and abroad, attend the ceremony performed with the utmost solemnity on August 6 every year. They, each and all, pray for the repose of the A-bomb fallen victims and call out to the entire world for peace. The Mayor reads the "Peace Declaration" embodying this appeal.
DEMAND PEACE NOW!
UNIVERSAL KINSHIP SOCIETY HOME
Collected by : M.S.A. Shobuz
Terrorism is antithetical to human rights. Since targeting civilians for violent attack is repugnant to human rights values, those who believe in human rights have a direct interest in the success of the anti-terrorism effort. Yet, the Bush administration’s tendency to ignore human rights in fighting terrorism is not only disturbing on its own terms; it is dangerously counter-productive. The smoldering resentment it breeds risks generating terrorist recruits, puts off potential anti-terrorism allies, and weakens efforts to curb terrorist atrocities.
Terrorism cannot be defeated from afar. Curbing terrorism requires the support of people in the countries where terrorists reside. They are the people who must cooperate with police inquiries rather than shield terrorist activity. They are the people who must take the lead in dissuading would-be terrorists. But if they see Washington embracing the governments that repress them, they will hardly feel inclined to help. Their reluctance only increases if their entire community is viewed as suspect, as many young male Middle Easterners and North Africans feel since Sept. 11.
Clearly the United States needs to take extra security measures. But the U.S. government must also pay attention to the pathology of terrorism — the set of beliefs that leads some people to join in attacking civilians, to believe that the ends justify the means. A strong human rights culture is an antidote to this pathology, yet in too many places the Bush administration saw human rights mainly as an obstacle to its goals. Human rights and security are mutually reinforcing, yet too often the administration treated them as a zero-sum game.
Even someone as unsympathetic to human rights as President Ronald Reagan at the height of the Cold War understood the need for a positive vision. He understood that the United States could not only be against communism. It had to stand for democracy, even if at times his support was no more than rhetorical. Similarly, it will not work for the Bush administration today to be only against terrorism. It will have to stand for the values that explain what’s wrong with attacking civilians — the values of human rights.
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M.S.A. Shobuz
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George W. Bush - Terrorist in the White House
WAR FOR ISRAEL
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THE WAR FOR ISRAEL - (and you thought the oil was for the U.S.).
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You are looking at the reason for the war against Iraq. This war is being fought for Ariel Sharon and for Israel's strategic benefit!
Thats what Israel does. It has its intelligence organization, Mossad, carry out false flag operations and deceives others into attacking their enemies. In short they get others to fight their wars for them.
Israel is in the midst of its plan to use the United States military, which it controls, to conquer Iraq and divert Iraqi oil to the Haifa refinery via the Mosul to Haifa pipeline. The U.S. has built airbases at H2 and H3 (which stand for Haifa 2 and Haifa 3) to protect this strategic pipeline. The pipeline is intact, fully operational, and is being used to covertly send oil to Israel. Paid for with the blood of American soldiers that die in Iraq.
Iraq is being turned into another Palestine state for Israel.
This war was fought in order to secure Israel's future. Israel, being a parasite nation, needed to create an income stream that would continue if funding from the United States should dry up. They have been working on the plan to steal Iraqi oil for years. Read Israel's Blitzkrieg on Middle East Oil by Joe Vialls for more on this.
To quote Mr. Vialls article, "... they are already planning to steal 1,825 million barrels of Iraqi oil per annum. Taking a nominal price of US $25.00 per barrel ... the Israeli-Jewish terrorists stand to make a cool US $45,625,000,000.00 each year .... " [Thats over 45 1/2 Billion dollars a year or $125 million each day!!!]
Mr. Vialls claims that the 45 billion a year jackpot is more than just a lot of money, it's a matter of survival for Israel.
The reshaping of the Middle East by America's military will allow Israel to:
(1) Control the strategic oil reserves in this region which will ensure low cost oil to Israel and ensure their economic survival.
(2) Ensure Israel is the dominant military force and the sole nuclear equipped military power in the region for many years to come .
(3) Neutralize Israel's enemies in the region.
(4) Expand borders per "Greater Israel". The Nile forming the border on the West through Egypt, and the Euphrates on the East through Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
(5) Allow even further expansion of borders to encompass surrounding countries.
Israel has become the 3rd largest exporter of weapons in the world, selling everything from Uzis to PHALCON airborne early warning systems. Defense Ministry figures show Israeli weapons export contracts were worth $4.1 billion in 2002. Only the United States with $13.2 billion and Russia with $4.4 billion sold more weapons that year.
Israel's possesses the fourth largest army in the world.
Israel is the only nuclear enabled country in the Middle East. Israel has overtaken England to become the worlds 5th largest nuclear power, roughly equivalent to France and China in the size and sophistication of its nuclear arsenal. Recent reports indicate that Israel has deployed five different nuclear weapons designs. It is estimated to have 2000-5000 conventional nuclear warheads and many micro nuclear devices like the bomb that destroyed the Sari Club in Bali. (These new nuclear devices only emit alpha radiation that is invisible to a standard geiger counter). In addition they have the neutron bombs, (that can kill people and leave the buildings intact) and hydrogen bombs. Hydrogen bombs are currently the most fearsome and intimidating weapon on earth, capable of causing over 60000 times the damage of a nuclear bomb like the one used on Nagasaki. The Hydrogen bomb is so intimidating that most nations vow never to produce it, though it is really not much harder than producing regular nukes. When we are talking WMD, this is the big Kahuna.
Israel has the capability to take out every major city in Europe. Israel refuses to sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) or to allow inspections of its nuclear facilities by International inspectors.
Israel stands in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council Resolutions. A further 33 resolutions against Israel has not seen the light of day thanks to the United States vetoing power on the Security Council.
Nuclear disarmament must begin with Israel. Until that time, Arab states in the region have an inalienable "right" and "obligation" to develop similar weapons (of mass destruction) to counter this overwhelming threat to their nations and peoples.
Since Israel possess such a large nuclear arsenal, they are able to blackmail the United States into supplying them conventional weapons. They have been known to sell those weapons and technologies to other countries, once they are given to them. The Patriot missile, the Phoenix air-to-air missile, the Lavi fighter, based on the F-16, have all been sold to Beijing. Only direct U.S. intervention prevented Israel from selling Beijing AWACS technology.
Zionist forces are in control of the United States. When Ariel Sharon said:
"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."
Ariel Sharon to Shimon Peres, October 3rd, 2001, as reported on Kol Yisrael
-- it was no idle chatter. He was telling the truth. They have gained control through the Federal Reserve System [Updated Link] controlling the banks. They are also firmly in control in England. Hence the 2 allies will unite to fight a good fight for the greater good of Israel.
Just follow the trail of the money!
The United States has given Israel over 90 billion dollars in foreign aid. They continue this aid at a time when U.S. schools no longer can afford textbooks. Yet the standard 3 billion dollars of yearly aid goes on. Then there's the 12 billion in loan guarantees. And now Israel is asking for (and received) a 400% increase in aid. Miftah.org estimates the foreign aid to Israel to be closer to 8 billion yearly. I estimate that Israel receives 9.5 billion a year in aid. Here is the break down:
Foreign Aid: $3 billion, Loan Guarantees (normally): $2 billion (Note: the U.S. Congress has forgiven ALL loans to Israel in the past), private tax deductible donations: $1 billion, Israeli bonds: $500 million, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which guarantees all Israel's oil needs in the event of a crisis: $3 billion (The Oil funding is camouflaged in the Defense budget) = Total $9.5 billion.
This $9.5 billion of aid is the standard rate. However, 2003 was an exceptionally good year for Israel. AFTER the Israeli army killed Rachel Corrie with a bulldozer, (which by the way was most likely paid for with your U.S. tax dollars), the U.S. rewarded Israel by giving them an additional $9B in loan guarantees, $1B in military aid - [Would Israel have received $20 billion if they had killed 2 American college students?]
So last year Israel hit the lottery to the tune of a cool $19.5 billion. Or, put in another way, in 2003, Israel received $53.4 Million dollars a day from the traitors in Congress. Thats a very solid return on the AIPAC contributions that Israel pays out to U.S. Congressmen.
This is part of a broader package of up to $75 billion as emergency aid, directly connected to the war on Iraq. This amounts to 2500% increase in aid to support Israel in a war that they have claimed they are not involved in. Who is benefiting from the war on Iraq? Follow the trail of the money!
Each year Congress forgives loans made to Israel which costs U.S. Taxpayers more than all the foreign aid handed out.
Some sources indicate with all the hidden costs including the Strategic Petroleum Reserve factored in, the figure is more like $3 Trillion dollars !!!) Thomas R. Stauffer does. The summary of Stauffer's research was published in the June 2003 issue of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. See this article for more: The Real Cost Of US Support For Israel.
Israel has installed one of, if not the most, sophisticated missile defense systems in the world. They were the first country in the world to use laser's to intercept missiles, at America's expense of course. In 2000 Israel introduced the Tactical High Energy Laser/Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator (THEL/ACTD), the world's first high-energy laser weapon system designed for operational use, to shoot down a rocket carrying a live warhead. In contrast, in December 2002 Resident Bush ordered the U.S. military to begin deployment of their own national missile defense system to protect the United States.
Israel has launched its own spy satellite in 2002. A professor at the Israeli Technion-Israel Institute of Technology argued that the recent launch of an Israeli satellite means Israel "has established [its] capability to launch, by means of a missile, a payload to any location on the face of the earth."
Israel has acquired three Dolphin class diesel submarines in 2002 that it is arming with newly designed cruise missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. According to Pentagon and Israeli officials, Israel now has a triad of land-, sea- and air-based nuclear weapons for the first time. Now, Germany has agreed to sell Israel another two Dolphin-class submarines.
Israel has its own radar warning system and has created a vast Home Front Command to prepare citizens and medical services for potential attacks.
U.S. military has plugged Israel into real-time war monitoring in the war on Iraq. Israel and the United States have set up a joint command post next to the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv at which Israeli army officers will be able to view real-time pictures of the movements of American war planes over Iraq in the event of a war.
In addition, an American early warning system that is hooked directly into U.S. intelligence satellites over Iraq was transferred to Israel a few weeks ago, [February, 2003] giving Israel direct access to information on any Iraqi missile launches at its territory, with no delays and no filtering.
This War Is Also About Water - Israel needs new water sources to allow Israeli expansion plans. Iraq is the major source of water in the Middle East. Just as the war in Afghanistan was fought for the Unocal oil pipeline this war is being fought for oil and water pipelines to Israel.
Israel is now conducting assassinations of American citizens on American soil under the guise of "fighting terrorism" with the blessings of the US Government.
If a member of Congress were to merely question anything about Zionist political influence in Washington they would be committing career suicide. Many feel that Israel blackmails politicians involved in pedophile rings and uses photographs to control their votes. Very high level politicians have been implicated as well as Bushes.
In conclusion the evidence that Israel is behind the invasion on Iraq is more than circumstantial. You just need to look at who stands to gain from all this. Those that can't understand why Dubya is so determined to attack Iraq, probably haven't considered that Israel is running the show. If you just look at who stands to gain from Iraqi oil you see the picture but it doesn't seem to be the whole thing. But when you add the dancing Israelis and Senator Graham's statements about foreign governments involvement in 911 and Sharon’s orders on who Bush is to attack next, the whole picture begins to get in focus.
For those who feel 'so what if thousands of Iraqis die, as long as America ends up with the oil'. Those people will be disappointed also. Sure, Bush's buddies, the large corporations will get contracts to rebuild Iraq and make huge profits, but the BIG profits will be from Iraqi oil flowing to Israel. The Bush regime has already indicated it will not support lifting UN sanctions on Iraq unless Saddam's successors agree to supply Israel with oil. US efforts to get Iraqi oil to Israel are not surprising. Under a 1975 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) engineered by Henry Kissinger, the US guaranteed all Israel's oil needs in the event of a crisis. The MoU, which has been quietly renewed every five years, also committed the USA to construct and stock a supplementary strategic reserve for Israel, equivalent to some US$3bn in 2002. Special legislation was enacted to exempt Israel from restrictions on oil exports from the USA.
To ensure the security of the Mosul to Haifa pipeline, the U.S. needs to neutralize Syria. Syria is too much of a risk. Israel wants the Mosul to Haifa pipeline to be secure for many years to come. Two US-made ‘democratic’ regimes in the region, one in Baghdad and the other in Damascus, would secure the flow of Iraqi oil to Israel and free the country from its dependence on pricey Russian oil. The entire Middle East will be reshaped in line with these concerns.
More Details :
http://www.nogw.com/warforisrael.html
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