Rinaldo Francesca ( here the first part )
( here the second part )
( Hence the third part )
Fact # 2: still reigns here in the UK, the most complete mystery on a study conducted back in May 2010 by Army Lieutenant General Chris Brown, who condemned in no uncertain terms the actions of the British armed forces before and during the invasion of Iraq. [1]
reason of this mystery seems to lie in the fact that, according to some bigwigs in the Ministry of Defence (Sir Jock Stirrup in the first place), the facts contained in the report would be "too embarrassing for the military" if leak, so that they have led senior officers and the like to not lose a minute's time to stop its publication, it anche solo per circolazione interna al Ministero della Difesa. Wow!
Sì sì, d'accordo, giuste obiezioni le vostre: con tutto quello che è successo nella Galassia Wikileaks nel frattempo, sembra questo il momento di andare off-topic ?
Vero, vero: questa soap opera di Julian Assange, in effetti, non sembra voler smettere di regalarci sorprese e colpi di scena ogni settimana, tanto da far pensare che le vicende legate al sito delle Soffiate e Indiscrezioni par excellence ci terrà occupati (o dovremmo forse dire distratti?) per tutto il 2011 e oltre.
Vediamo un po': c'è stata la forzata chiusura del conto “bancario” di Wikileaks a ottobre da parte a certain Moneybookers - an online payment company based in Britain - due to the inclusion of Wikileaks in the list of "dangerous organization" according to U.S. authorities: this has led to accusations, we would say quite justified, for "financial warfare". [2]
Subsequently, the Icelandic Parliament and collaborator Wikileaks Birgitta Jónsdóttir received a subpoena - subpoena or, if you will - by the U.S. Department of Justice, [3] Meanwhile Julian Assange was arrested in December to (hear-hear) rape - an accusation denied Assange and defines politically motivated - and finds himself in bail in England: a fate far more rosy for the moment - let's face it - than it has fallen to one who has been accused of being his confidant, Bradley Manning, who for months in solitary confinement in a military prison and whose physical and mental health shows signs of deterioration . [4]
And what about the assumptions that were made here and there about the revelations Wikileaks - a panting Franco Frattini has wasted no time to call "September 11 of diplomacy?
Here are some: these disclosures do not reveal anything new , indeed, thanks to them "the world is informed that the "enemy" in Afghanistan is increasing, Pakistan and Iran are to blame and the brave American soldiers are used in the "reconstruction"! "[5], and they are all revelations that favor Israel [6]; or not, did I say, are revelations that damage also Israel, confirming the suspicions that the U.S. has refused to help the United Arab Emirates in Dubai in the survey sull'asassinio [7], that Israel is preparing for deliver another, possibly bloody attack in the Middle East [8], and confirming the acceptance by Israeli diplomats in 2008 that the blockade of Gaza has never had anything to do with "security", but that its sole purpose has always been to the starvation of its inhabitants . [9] And sorry
(another constant refrain), can not you ever wonder who really funds Wikileaks? This is actually a question that keeps awake at night and even the puppet master Zbigniew Brzezinski professional - or at least, that's what we want to think. [10]
However, some people no doubt about it: it is George Soros , [11] no, not at all, it is some PR agency in Washington . [12] Julian Assange
And how come he is still alive? How do you explain that? And who is still 'I'm Julian Assange? He is a former hacker group Chaos Computer, founded in Hamburg in the eighties, and that was recruited by the KGB at the time [13], no, it's a Mossad agent, no, is a puppet of the Rothschild family . [14]
Actually, Àp0ti began a bit 'to bother to go weeks without seeing this famous family that was named in connection with the affair Wikileaks. Now, with a sigh of relief, finally able to imagine the inevitable surrender to a member of the Rothschilds (any) giggle in the shadows, even in this mysterious plot .
And to continue with the speculation: what good is the so-called "revelations", if not to create the casus belli that will lead to un'orwelliana regulation of the Internet? [15]
And anyway, who would it be this woman who Assange accusation of rape? A feminist operated, no doubt, "Anna Ardin, [that] has worked with groups of anti-Fidel Castro openly associated with the CIA and supported by Luis Posada Carriles, a CIA agent involved in the massacre of a plane Cuban line in 1976, which cost the lives of 73 people. " [16] See
? This is not an end.
No no, please not there, but despite the title of this piece, do not feel to continue su questa strada di piste e ipotesi (delle quali abbiamo solo citato le più note), che potrebbe tenerci occupati per mesi... permettete dunque che questo sia non tanto un pezzo dedicato a ciò che è stato pubblicato su Wikileaks, quanto piuttosto a ciò che vorremmo vedervi pubblicato.
Torniamo dunque al rapporto del Tenente Generale Chris Brown e alle sue rivelazioni, ritenute troppo imbarazzanti per le forze armate britanniche.
Ora, lungi da noi sia il volerVi istruire su dove andare a guardare per leggere tra le righe ma, se ce lo permettete, vorremmo attirare la Vs attenzione su quella parolina: “imbarazzante”. D'altronde, la stiamo menando già da sei lunghi mesi con questa definizione, riteniamo the time has come to the theater of what we call the denouement.
However, Sir Jock Stirrup & Co. think, in their infinite wisdom, that the 'Brown Report' is ... too embarrassing for the military, if to become public domain? We got it right? That's the problem?
Well, but then, sorry, maybe we missed an episode or two of this saga, because the last time we checked, whether the facts were already known strategic, published several times in the newspapers, were not exactly edifying for the Armed Forces of Her Majesty. So you want to say, the officers, the report contains information more embarrassing than to what was already known, and we are going to publish?
(following a partial anthology of some of the most glorious episodes of British forces in Mesopotamia)
1 - It was already known, for example, as the British armed forces, far from having the slightest semblance of strategy, were awkwardly skipped 'equal in this wonderful adventure "without agenda or program that you could define these, but rather a program that was to put relations with the Americans on top of their list of priorities," explains Professor. Charles Tripp: [17] In other words, if you need a translation, was known as the attitude of the armed forces British against their American counterparts had been something like: "We will go where you send us, we will do what ever you say and do not dissociate ourselves from your actions. Everything, as long as you continue to consider ourselves as your servants favorites.
2 - was also known that, as far as plans for the reconstruction of Iraq after "mission accomplished", even a shred of an idea seemed to exist - was also scrawled on a paper placemat in a fast-food - so as to arouse in the former British ambassador to Washington Christopher Meyer's famous definition: "A point that became a dark black hole", and remarks of the British general Tim Cross: "The long-term plan was: 'we do not need a plan'." [18]
3 - Also, just to refresh our memories, were already well known atrocities committed by "kids" of His Majesty. Ripercorriamone some together if you like:
- In 2003 the men of the company commanded by Colonel Mendonca, part of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, tortured and killed the receptionist Baha Mousa with 93 injured (one of the men Mendonca, Corporal Donald Payne, was condemned, but Mendonca was acquitted in February 2007 and was later given the Distinguished Service Order medal from the Queen), was known only in September 2009 that the only fault of the receptionist Baha Mousa was one of denounce acts of looting committed by British soldiers hotel where she worked. [19]
- In Basra in 2003, four soldiers of the Irish Guards threw in a channel the fifteen asthmatic Ahmad Jabbar Kareem, who drowned ( all four were acquitted by court martial in Colchester in June 2006 ). [20] It appears that the four soldiers had Kareem suspected of acts of looting, a crime on which, as we know, the brave officers of His Majesty are not very willing to turn a blind eye, unless, of course, are not to commit themselves.
- Then there is the story, which was shelved until October 2007, 31 civilians arrested by British troops in Majar al-Kabir on 05/14/2004, of which 20 did not survive were those who probably - according to the medical report of Dr. Salida Adel Majid - torture and mutilation [21]
- Then there are episodes of detainee abuse at Camp Breadbasket : in particular that of a boy who was then 14 years - identified only as Hassan - who was forced to perform oral sex on another prisoner, including whistles, shouting and clapping of the heroic soldiers of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, or that of another prisoner who was tied up in a fishing net and kept hanging on to the forks of a forklift for refusing to obey order to cut off the finger to another prisoner. [22]
5 - were then also notes the various shortcuts taken here and there by the Ministry of Defence to save some money on equipment supplied to military shortcuts that are also cost the lives of soldiers like Captain Daniel Wright [23], or ten people on board quell'Hercules in 2005 - a tragedy whose possibility had been anticipated years ago but totally ignored. [24]
6 - Note was also the abandonment and degradation to which they had left the British military deployment in Iraq that had devastated the life they knew for example in cases of soldiers returning home with mental illness and that they had wait 18 months before receiving care [25], or those of other soldiers who, despite having sustained injuries in Iraq forever precluded them the opportunity to live without constantly having someone next to take care of them, had received inadequate compensation by the Ministry of Defence, enough to compel the family to squander their savings and sell the home . [26]
7 - Last but not least, were already well known the predictable results of years of deployment in Iraq, and the impact they had at home, once the soldiers had returned to Britain, with stress and alcoholism [27] as early as August of 2008, something like the the 9% of prisoners in the jails of His Majesty was composed of ex-soldiers misfits - most of quai imprisoned for violent crimes. [28]
Well, at this point - at the risk of sounding repetitive - Àp0ti can not keep from asking again: Do you want to say that something is censured in the report worse than all this?? While
ponder this question, all groan in unison to see this latest document added to the list of many that the British have, apparently, the right to know - the face of the Freedom of Information Act Like, for example, that the minutes of cabinet meeting in which they were dicusse the real reasons for going to war, whose publication was blocked in 2009 by the then Secretary of Justice Jack Straw [29], and that continues to elude the general public , [30] or the famous Al Jazeera Bombing Memo , in which George W. Bush had with Tony Blair insisted on the need to kill the journalists of Al Jazeera on the eve of the attack on Fallujah. [31]
Well, waiting for some official at the Ministry of Defence mend his ways and decides to contact the team Juliange Assange - but we believe the which is rather unlikely - we notice that someone already distant from May 2010, is trying to force the MdD Brown to publish the report using the Freedom of Information Act
fact, there is a lengthy correspondence between a certain Michael Bimmler (to whom we express our sympathy ) and several bureaucrats in the Defense Ministry that goes on for months now. When you feel like a laugh to see how these individuals manage to beat around the bush just to avoid responding to questions from Mr. Bimmler, hoping to make him desist, even fun to read this surreal exchange of emails , which is public domain:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/study_on_iraq_invasion_by_lt_gen
Questo è tutto per il momento; vi lasciamo intanto con il sito di solidarietà per Bradley Manning, http://www.bradleymanning.org .
Per quanto ci riguarda, la nostra prossima missione è cercare di dare man forte a Michael Bimmler. A presto!
Pace,
Rinaldo Francesca
[1] Richard Norton-Taylor: Defence chiefs gag damning Iraq invasion findings , The Guardian, 28 maggio 2010, vedere:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/27/defence-chiefs-gag-iraq-report
[2] David Leigh e Rob Evans: WikiLeaks says funding has been blocked after government blacklisting , The Guardian, October 14, 2010, published here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/14/wikileaks-says-funding-is-blocked
[3] Sonia Verma : It Takes More Than a subpoena to scare Birgitta Jonsdottir , The Globe and Mail, January 14, 2011, available at:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/it-takes-more- than-a-subpoena-to-scare-birgitta-jonsdottir/article1870790 /
[4] Heather Brooke: Bradley Manning's health deteriorating in jail, supporters say , The Guardian, December 16, 2010, available here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/16/bradley-manning-health-deteriorating
[5] Joe Quinn: Wikileaks Serves Israeli Agenda of Demonizing Iran , 30 novembre 2010, pubblicato su:
http://www.wariscrime.com/2010/12/01/news/wikileaks-serves-israeli-agenda-of-demonizing-iran/
[6] Jeff Gates: WikiLeaks and espionage - Israeli style , 6 dicembre 2010, disponibile qui:
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6661.shtml
[7] US rejected request to help probe of assassination in Dubai , Middle East Online, 4 gennaio 2011, reperibile su:
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=43431
[8] Israel is preparing for major war with Iran , Aftenposten, January 3, 2011, published here:
http://brokenflask.com/2011/01/03/wikileaks-aftenposten-2011-israel -is-Preparing-for-major-war-iran-w-Inglese-translation
[9] WikiLeaks: Aimed Israel to keep Gaza economy on brink of collapse , Haaretz, January 5, 2011, available at:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/wikileaks-israel-aimed-to-keep-gaza-economy-on-brink-of-collapse-1.335354
[10] Zbigniew Brzezinski: Who is Really Leaking to Wikileaks? , Economic Policy Journal, November 30 2010, reperibile qui:
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/11/zbigniew-brzezinski-who-is-really.html
[11] Pietro Cambi: Wikileaks, Mr. Crash ed il Picco del denaro , 1 dicembre 2010, pubblicato su:
http://crisis.blogosfere.it/2010/12/wikileaks-mr-crash-ovvero-il-picco-del-denaro.html
[12] Wikileaks dice stesse cose di Washington: Iran avrebbe addestrato talebani per colpire italiani in Afghanistan , Iran Italian Radio, 16 gennio 2011, disponibile qui:
http://italian.irib.ir/notizie/politica/item/88189-wikileaks-dice-stesse-cose-di-washington-iran-avrebbe-addestrato-talebani-per-colpire-italiani-in-afghanistan
[13] Daniel Estulin: Wikileaks y Assange , December 7, 2010, available at:
http://www.danielestulin.com/2010/12/07/wikileaks-y-assange/
[ 14] Jane Burgermeister: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has close links to the Economist, controlled by the Rothschild banking family , December 1, 2010, published here:
http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2010/12/ 01/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-has-close-links-to-the-economist-controlled-by-the-rothschild-banking-family /
[15] Roberto Festa: Assange attacked by former friend "Wikileaks intelligence-driven" , The Fact Daily, December 11, 2010, available at:
http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2010/12/11/wikileaks-lex-amico-di-assangeun-guadagno-per-la-cybersecurity/ 81449 /
[16] The accused Assange? A radical feminist , Saigon 2K, December 6, 2010, available here:
http://saigon2k.altervista.org/?p=2486
[17] These statements were made by Charles Tripp in an interview that appears in the documentary No Plan, No Peace (8 '37''), available here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7063520010914106000 #
[18] Nick Owens: We tried to rebuild Iraq based on info in the 1994 Lonely Planet guide book , The Sunday Mirror, 28 ottobre 2007, pubblicato su:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sunday-mirror/2007/10/28/we-tried-to-rebuild-iraq-based-on-info-in-the-1994-lonely-planet-guide-book-ex-u-s-ambassador-barbara-bodine-98487-20020455/
[19] Esther Addley: Baha Mousa's death was revenge, father tells inquiry , The Guardin, 23 settembre 2009, reperibile qui:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/23/baha-mousa-iraq-father-inquiry
[20] Troops cleared over Iraq drowning , BBC News, June 6, 2006, available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5053006.stm
[21] Richard Norton-Taylor: British Soldiers Accused of executing Civilians , The Guardian. February 23, 2008, published here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/23/military.iraq
[22] Richard Norton-Taylor and Audrey Gillan: MoD faces legal action after teenage Iraqi claims sexual humiliation by soldiers , The Guardian, July 14, 2008, available at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/14/military.defence
[23] Robert Booth: Mother blames parachute death on MoD penny-pinching , The Guardian, 15 March 2008, available here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/mar/15/military.defence
[24] Richard Norton-Taylor: RAF pilot Warned of vulnerability of Hercules aircraft, inquest Told, The Guardian, 10 April 2008, published at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/apr/10/military.iraq
[25] Hugh Muir: Storm over injured troops' care fails to save military hospital , The Guardian, 12 March 2007, available here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/mar/12/hospitals .
health [26] Esther Addley: We will lose savings and home, says soldier's mother , The Guardian, 1 settembre 2007, disponibile su:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/sep/01/military.estheraddley
[27] Polly Curtis: Iraq veterans suffer stress and alcoholism , The Guardian, 3 agosto 2007, pubblicato qui:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/aug/03/health.military
[28] Number of ex-servicemen in jail nearly doubles in four years , The Daily Mail, 31 agosto 2008, reperibile su:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1051029/Number-ex-servicemen-jail-nearly-doubles-years.html
[29] Jack Straw bans release of Iraq invasion minutes , The Daily Telegraph, 24 February 2009, available here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/4799701/Jack-Straw-bans-release-of-Iraq-invasion-minutes.html
[30] Backdoor Attempt to Obtain Iraq war cabinet minutes fails, December 2, 2010, published at:
http://www.panopticonblog.com/2010/12/02/backdoor-attempt-to-obtain- iraq-war-cabinet-minutes-fails /
[31] Chris Summers: When Should not be a secret a secret? BBC News, May 10, 2007, available here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6639947.stm
Sì sì, d'accordo, giuste obiezioni le vostre: con tutto quello che è successo nella Galassia Wikileaks nel frattempo, sembra questo il momento di andare off-topic ?
Vero, vero: questa soap opera di Julian Assange, in effetti, non sembra voler smettere di regalarci sorprese e colpi di scena ogni settimana, tanto da far pensare che le vicende legate al sito delle Soffiate e Indiscrezioni par excellence ci terrà occupati (o dovremmo forse dire distratti?) per tutto il 2011 e oltre.
Vediamo un po': c'è stata la forzata chiusura del conto “bancario” di Wikileaks a ottobre da parte a certain Moneybookers - an online payment company based in Britain - due to the inclusion of Wikileaks in the list of "dangerous organization" according to U.S. authorities: this has led to accusations, we would say quite justified, for "financial warfare". [2]
Subsequently, the Icelandic Parliament and collaborator Wikileaks Birgitta Jónsdóttir received a subpoena - subpoena or, if you will - by the U.S. Department of Justice, [3] Meanwhile Julian Assange was arrested in December to (hear-hear) rape - an accusation denied Assange and defines politically motivated - and finds himself in bail in England: a fate far more rosy for the moment - let's face it - than it has fallen to one who has been accused of being his confidant, Bradley Manning, who for months in solitary confinement in a military prison and whose physical and mental health shows signs of deterioration . [4]
And what about the assumptions that were made here and there about the revelations Wikileaks - a panting Franco Frattini has wasted no time to call "September 11 of diplomacy?
Here are some: these disclosures do not reveal anything new , indeed, thanks to them "the world is informed that the "enemy" in Afghanistan is increasing, Pakistan and Iran are to blame and the brave American soldiers are used in the "reconstruction"! "[5], and they are all revelations that favor Israel [6]; or not, did I say, are revelations that damage also Israel, confirming the suspicions that the U.S. has refused to help the United Arab Emirates in Dubai in the survey sull'asassinio [7], that Israel is preparing for deliver another, possibly bloody attack in the Middle East [8], and confirming the acceptance by Israeli diplomats in 2008 that the blockade of Gaza has never had anything to do with "security", but that its sole purpose has always been to the starvation of its inhabitants . [9] And sorry
(another constant refrain), can not you ever wonder who really funds Wikileaks? This is actually a question that keeps awake at night and even the puppet master Zbigniew Brzezinski professional - or at least, that's what we want to think. [10]
However, some people no doubt about it: it is George Soros , [11] no, not at all, it is some PR agency in Washington . [12] Julian Assange
And how come he is still alive? How do you explain that? And who is still 'I'm Julian Assange? He is a former hacker group Chaos Computer, founded in Hamburg in the eighties, and that was recruited by the KGB at the time [13], no, it's a Mossad agent, no, is a puppet of the Rothschild family . [14]
Actually, Àp0ti began a bit 'to bother to go weeks without seeing this famous family that was named in connection with the affair Wikileaks. Now, with a sigh of relief, finally able to imagine the inevitable surrender to a member of the Rothschilds (any) giggle in the shadows, even in this mysterious plot .
And to continue with the speculation: what good is the so-called "revelations", if not to create the casus belli that will lead to un'orwelliana regulation of the Internet? [15]
And anyway, who would it be this woman who Assange accusation of rape? A feminist operated, no doubt, "Anna Ardin, [that] has worked with groups of anti-Fidel Castro openly associated with the CIA and supported by Luis Posada Carriles, a CIA agent involved in the massacre of a plane Cuban line in 1976, which cost the lives of 73 people. " [16] See
? This is not an end.
No no, please not there, but despite the title of this piece, do not feel to continue su questa strada di piste e ipotesi (delle quali abbiamo solo citato le più note), che potrebbe tenerci occupati per mesi... permettete dunque che questo sia non tanto un pezzo dedicato a ciò che è stato pubblicato su Wikileaks, quanto piuttosto a ciò che vorremmo vedervi pubblicato.
Torniamo dunque al rapporto del Tenente Generale Chris Brown e alle sue rivelazioni, ritenute troppo imbarazzanti per le forze armate britanniche.
Ora, lungi da noi sia il volerVi istruire su dove andare a guardare per leggere tra le righe ma, se ce lo permettete, vorremmo attirare la Vs attenzione su quella parolina: “imbarazzante”. D'altronde, la stiamo menando già da sei lunghi mesi con questa definizione, riteniamo the time has come to the theater of what we call the denouement.
However, Sir Jock Stirrup & Co. think, in their infinite wisdom, that the 'Brown Report' is ... too embarrassing for the military, if to become public domain? We got it right? That's the problem?
Well, but then, sorry, maybe we missed an episode or two of this saga, because the last time we checked, whether the facts were already known strategic, published several times in the newspapers, were not exactly edifying for the Armed Forces of Her Majesty. So you want to say, the officers, the report contains information more embarrassing than to what was already known, and we are going to publish?
(following a partial anthology of some of the most glorious episodes of British forces in Mesopotamia)
1 - It was already known, for example, as the British armed forces, far from having the slightest semblance of strategy, were awkwardly skipped 'equal in this wonderful adventure "without agenda or program that you could define these, but rather a program that was to put relations with the Americans on top of their list of priorities," explains Professor. Charles Tripp: [17] In other words, if you need a translation, was known as the attitude of the armed forces British against their American counterparts had been something like: "We will go where you send us, we will do what ever you say and do not dissociate ourselves from your actions. Everything, as long as you continue to consider ourselves as your servants favorites.
2 - was also known that, as far as plans for the reconstruction of Iraq after "mission accomplished", even a shred of an idea seemed to exist - was also scrawled on a paper placemat in a fast-food - so as to arouse in the former British ambassador to Washington Christopher Meyer's famous definition: "A point that became a dark black hole", and remarks of the British general Tim Cross: "The long-term plan was: 'we do not need a plan'." [18]
3 - Also, just to refresh our memories, were already well known atrocities committed by "kids" of His Majesty. Ripercorriamone some together if you like:
- In 2003 the men of the company commanded by Colonel Mendonca, part of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, tortured and killed the receptionist Baha Mousa with 93 injured (one of the men Mendonca, Corporal Donald Payne, was condemned, but Mendonca was acquitted in February 2007 and was later given the Distinguished Service Order medal from the Queen), was known only in September 2009 that the only fault of the receptionist Baha Mousa was one of denounce acts of looting committed by British soldiers hotel where she worked. [19]
- In Basra in 2003, four soldiers of the Irish Guards threw in a channel the fifteen asthmatic Ahmad Jabbar Kareem, who drowned ( all four were acquitted by court martial in Colchester in June 2006 ). [20] It appears that the four soldiers had Kareem suspected of acts of looting, a crime on which, as we know, the brave officers of His Majesty are not very willing to turn a blind eye, unless, of course, are not to commit themselves.
- Then there is the story, which was shelved until October 2007, 31 civilians arrested by British troops in Majar al-Kabir on 05/14/2004, of which 20 did not survive were those who probably - according to the medical report of Dr. Salida Adel Majid - torture and mutilation [21]
- Then there are episodes of detainee abuse at Camp Breadbasket : in particular that of a boy who was then 14 years - identified only as Hassan - who was forced to perform oral sex on another prisoner, including whistles, shouting and clapping of the heroic soldiers of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, or that of another prisoner who was tied up in a fishing net and kept hanging on to the forks of a forklift for refusing to obey order to cut off the finger to another prisoner. [22]
5 - were then also notes the various shortcuts taken here and there by the Ministry of Defence to save some money on equipment supplied to military shortcuts that are also cost the lives of soldiers like Captain Daniel Wright [23], or ten people on board quell'Hercules in 2005 - a tragedy whose possibility had been anticipated years ago but totally ignored. [24]
6 - Note was also the abandonment and degradation to which they had left the British military deployment in Iraq that had devastated the life they knew for example in cases of soldiers returning home with mental illness and that they had wait 18 months before receiving care [25], or those of other soldiers who, despite having sustained injuries in Iraq forever precluded them the opportunity to live without constantly having someone next to take care of them, had received inadequate compensation by the Ministry of Defence, enough to compel the family to squander their savings and sell the home . [26]
7 - Last but not least, were already well known the predictable results of years of deployment in Iraq, and the impact they had at home, once the soldiers had returned to Britain, with stress and alcoholism [27] as early as August of 2008, something like the the 9% of prisoners in the jails of His Majesty was composed of ex-soldiers misfits - most of quai imprisoned for violent crimes. [28]
Well, at this point - at the risk of sounding repetitive - Àp0ti can not keep from asking again: Do you want to say that something is censured in the report worse than all this?? While
ponder this question, all groan in unison to see this latest document added to the list of many that the British have, apparently, the right to know - the face of the Freedom of Information Act Like, for example, that the minutes of cabinet meeting in which they were dicusse the real reasons for going to war, whose publication was blocked in 2009 by the then Secretary of Justice Jack Straw [29], and that continues to elude the general public , [30] or the famous Al Jazeera Bombing Memo , in which George W. Bush had with Tony Blair insisted on the need to kill the journalists of Al Jazeera on the eve of the attack on Fallujah. [31]
Well, waiting for some official at the Ministry of Defence mend his ways and decides to contact the team Juliange Assange - but we believe the which is rather unlikely - we notice that someone already distant from May 2010, is trying to force the MdD Brown to publish the report using the Freedom of Information Act
fact, there is a lengthy correspondence between a certain Michael Bimmler (to whom we express our sympathy ) and several bureaucrats in the Defense Ministry that goes on for months now. When you feel like a laugh to see how these individuals manage to beat around the bush just to avoid responding to questions from Mr. Bimmler, hoping to make him desist, even fun to read this surreal exchange of emails , which is public domain:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/study_on_iraq_invasion_by_lt_gen
Questo è tutto per il momento; vi lasciamo intanto con il sito di solidarietà per Bradley Manning, http://www.bradleymanning.org .
Per quanto ci riguarda, la nostra prossima missione è cercare di dare man forte a Michael Bimmler. A presto!
Pace,
Rinaldo Francesca
[1] Richard Norton-Taylor: Defence chiefs gag damning Iraq invasion findings , The Guardian, 28 maggio 2010, vedere:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/27/defence-chiefs-gag-iraq-report
[2] David Leigh e Rob Evans: WikiLeaks says funding has been blocked after government blacklisting , The Guardian, October 14, 2010, published here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/14/wikileaks-says-funding-is-blocked
[3] Sonia Verma : It Takes More Than a subpoena to scare Birgitta Jonsdottir , The Globe and Mail, January 14, 2011, available at:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/it-takes-more- than-a-subpoena-to-scare-birgitta-jonsdottir/article1870790 /
[4] Heather Brooke: Bradley Manning's health deteriorating in jail, supporters say , The Guardian, December 16, 2010, available here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/16/bradley-manning-health-deteriorating
[5] Joe Quinn: Wikileaks Serves Israeli Agenda of Demonizing Iran , 30 novembre 2010, pubblicato su:
http://www.wariscrime.com/2010/12/01/news/wikileaks-serves-israeli-agenda-of-demonizing-iran/
[6] Jeff Gates: WikiLeaks and espionage - Israeli style , 6 dicembre 2010, disponibile qui:
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6661.shtml
[7] US rejected request to help probe of assassination in Dubai , Middle East Online, 4 gennaio 2011, reperibile su:
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=43431
[8] Israel is preparing for major war with Iran , Aftenposten, January 3, 2011, published here:
http://brokenflask.com/2011/01/03/wikileaks-aftenposten-2011-israel -is-Preparing-for-major-war-iran-w-Inglese-translation
[9] WikiLeaks: Aimed Israel to keep Gaza economy on brink of collapse , Haaretz, January 5, 2011, available at:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/wikileaks-israel-aimed-to-keep-gaza-economy-on-brink-of-collapse-1.335354
[10] Zbigniew Brzezinski: Who is Really Leaking to Wikileaks? , Economic Policy Journal, November 30 2010, reperibile qui:
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/11/zbigniew-brzezinski-who-is-really.html
[11] Pietro Cambi: Wikileaks, Mr. Crash ed il Picco del denaro , 1 dicembre 2010, pubblicato su:
http://crisis.blogosfere.it/2010/12/wikileaks-mr-crash-ovvero-il-picco-del-denaro.html
[12] Wikileaks dice stesse cose di Washington: Iran avrebbe addestrato talebani per colpire italiani in Afghanistan , Iran Italian Radio, 16 gennio 2011, disponibile qui:
http://italian.irib.ir/notizie/politica/item/88189-wikileaks-dice-stesse-cose-di-washington-iran-avrebbe-addestrato-talebani-per-colpire-italiani-in-afghanistan
[13] Daniel Estulin: Wikileaks y Assange , December 7, 2010, available at:
http://www.danielestulin.com/2010/12/07/wikileaks-y-assange/
[ 14] Jane Burgermeister: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has close links to the Economist, controlled by the Rothschild banking family , December 1, 2010, published here:
http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2010/12/ 01/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-has-close-links-to-the-economist-controlled-by-the-rothschild-banking-family /
[15] Roberto Festa: Assange attacked by former friend "Wikileaks intelligence-driven" , The Fact Daily, December 11, 2010, available at:
http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2010/12/11/wikileaks-lex-amico-di-assangeun-guadagno-per-la-cybersecurity/ 81449 /
[16] The accused Assange? A radical feminist , Saigon 2K, December 6, 2010, available here:
http://saigon2k.altervista.org/?p=2486
[17] These statements were made by Charles Tripp in an interview that appears in the documentary No Plan, No Peace (8 '37''), available here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7063520010914106000 #
[18] Nick Owens: We tried to rebuild Iraq based on info in the 1994 Lonely Planet guide book , The Sunday Mirror, 28 ottobre 2007, pubblicato su:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sunday-mirror/2007/10/28/we-tried-to-rebuild-iraq-based-on-info-in-the-1994-lonely-planet-guide-book-ex-u-s-ambassador-barbara-bodine-98487-20020455/
[19] Esther Addley: Baha Mousa's death was revenge, father tells inquiry , The Guardin, 23 settembre 2009, reperibile qui:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/23/baha-mousa-iraq-father-inquiry
[20] Troops cleared over Iraq drowning , BBC News, June 6, 2006, available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5053006.stm
[21] Richard Norton-Taylor: British Soldiers Accused of executing Civilians , The Guardian. February 23, 2008, published here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/23/military.iraq
[22] Richard Norton-Taylor and Audrey Gillan: MoD faces legal action after teenage Iraqi claims sexual humiliation by soldiers , The Guardian, July 14, 2008, available at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/14/military.defence
[23] Robert Booth: Mother blames parachute death on MoD penny-pinching , The Guardian, 15 March 2008, available here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/mar/15/military.defence
[24] Richard Norton-Taylor: RAF pilot Warned of vulnerability of Hercules aircraft, inquest Told, The Guardian, 10 April 2008, published at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/apr/10/military.iraq
[25] Hugh Muir: Storm over injured troops' care fails to save military hospital , The Guardian, 12 March 2007, available here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/mar/12/hospitals .
health [26] Esther Addley: We will lose savings and home, says soldier's mother , The Guardian, 1 settembre 2007, disponibile su:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/sep/01/military.estheraddley
[27] Polly Curtis: Iraq veterans suffer stress and alcoholism , The Guardian, 3 agosto 2007, pubblicato qui:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/aug/03/health.military
[28] Number of ex-servicemen in jail nearly doubles in four years , The Daily Mail, 31 agosto 2008, reperibile su:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1051029/Number-ex-servicemen-jail-nearly-doubles-years.html
[29] Jack Straw bans release of Iraq invasion minutes , The Daily Telegraph, 24 February 2009, available here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/4799701/Jack-Straw-bans-release-of-Iraq-invasion-minutes.html
[30] Backdoor Attempt to Obtain Iraq war cabinet minutes fails, December 2, 2010, published at:
http://www.panopticonblog.com/2010/12/02/backdoor-attempt-to-obtain- iraq-war-cabinet-minutes-fails /
[31] Chris Summers: When Should not be a secret a secret? BBC News, May 10, 2007, available here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6639947.stm
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