Saddam Hussein no witness in Dutch genocide trial

The US, Genocide and Saddam Hussein's memory: "The United States edited out more than 8000 crucial pages of Iraq's 11,800-page dossier on weapons, before passing on a sanitised version to the 10 non-permanent members of the United Nations security council."

DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF THE COURT OF JUSTICE IN THE HAGUE

Henk Ruyssenaars - Foreign correspondent.

FPF - Amsterdam October 9th 2006 - Dutch 'Ali Chemicali' Frans van Anraat last December got a jail sentence of 15 years, accused and found guilty of war crimes, the selling of chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein. Now van Anraat wants the also jailed Iraqi president as a witness in his court of appeal case, his lawyer Peter van Schaik confirmed on Monday.

It is understood however by insiders, that Hussein never will be allowed to show up nor witness in The Hague in a court case like this. Dutchman van Anraat was the errand boy for some intelligence services, via the Dutch AIVD 'security service' for the CIA/Mossad as well, and salesman in Iraq of the banned weapons for the big multinationals, which later on decided to make him the 'fall guy'. He's quite silent now...

The compliant Dutch judges overlook the fact that for instance the gassing of the people in the village of Halabja was done with gas made in the US, sold to Saddam via van Anraat, their Dutch sales agent. So who is to blame for the genocides - the genocide of 180.000 Kurds too - apart from van Anraat? He got 15 years in jail to make him shut up, but van Anraat was not found guilty of genocide...

DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF THE COURT OF JUSTICE

The US junta will never allow the Dutch to let Saddam Hussein explain whom the US and other international firms were, delivering the forbidden weapons, and his own 'show trial' restarts today in Baghdad. In The Hague the ''Halabja centre against genocide and Anfal of the Kurdish people'' (CHAK) on Monday organised a demonstration in front of the building of the Court of Justice.

According to the independent Kurdish newspaper Hawlati, Umer Mihemed, the spokesman of CHAK in Kurdistan: "We call every organisation, patriotic Kurds and human rights activists to attend the demonstration in The Hague so that Kurdish genocide can be recognised and justice can be done by the court against Van Anraat."
http://www.cemab.be/news/2006/04/1155.php

Because it was American gas that killed in Halabja as I wrote last April: it were chemicals and gas from the United States - sold by their Dutch 'Ali Chemicali' - which in March 1988 also killed the people in Halabja. It's all very well documented in the court's papers.

But as usual and via all disinformation channels, the US war machine's propaganda press keeps indoctrinating the world that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is the greatest Beast ever. He's not only the 'Butcher of Baghdad' but also the 'Horrible Holocauster of Halabja'. And, of course: Saddam Hussein was a bad ruler in many ways, but all the time - and like many other killing despots - he was one of the best allies the US military industrial complex had. And the US, together with the NSA/CIA, supported Saddam in every way in his atrocious war against Iran. Trained, fed and paid him for his misdeeds, and that included gassing people.

SADDAM WAS A GOOD DICTATOR AND FRIEND OF AMERICA

And while Saddam used US supplied gas etc.: "In 1988 Saddam Hussein with chemical and biological weapons was an ally of the West, lauded even by former vice-presidential candidate U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, as a good dictator and friend of America. As long as Saddam showered Iranian troops with mustard and nerve gas, and developed germs to infect Iran, that, by Washington's utilitarian morality, was A-OK." - (Eric Margolis, Foreign Correspondent, March 29, 2002 - Url.: http://www.bigeye.com/032902.htm)

"According to a 1990 report, "The Poison Gas Connection," issued by the L.A.-based Simon Wiesenthal Center (See sidebar), more than 207 companies from 21 western countries, including at least 18 from the United States, contributed to the buildup of Saddam Hussein's arsenal. Subsequent investigations turned up more than 100 more companies participating in the Iraqi weapons buildup." (Dennis Bernstein, Puritan News weekly, February 25, 1998 http://www.puritans.net/news/wmd030703.htm). - And the Wiesenthal Center and other PNAC researchers really recognize who foments a Holocaust when they see one...*

THE STENCH OF HYPOCRISY

Of course, and as usual, the whole matter stinks, as already Robert Fisk wrote: "The other smell I recall this week is the stink of hypocrisy when - in 1990 - the world's statesmen began to whip their people into line for war against the man they had supported in his conflict against Iran.

The French had sold Saddam Mirage jets. The Germans had provided him with the gas that had me almost wretching on the train from Ahwaz. The Americans had sold him helicopters for spraying crops with pesticide (the "crops", of course, being human beings). The British gave Saddam bailey bridges. And I later met the Cologne arms dealer who flew from the Pentagon to Baghdad with U.S. satellite photos of the Iranian front lines - to help Saddam kill more Iranians. " (Robert Fisk, Independent, February 16, 1998 - Url.: http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/pol/indep212.html).

AND HOW DID THE PNAC'S PROPAGANDA PRESS HELP TO HIDE THE FACTS?

The solution for the PNAC pack and their propaganda press was easy:

The United States tore out 8000 pages out of the Iraq dossier for the UN!

So for all collaborators worldwide 'the need to report disappeared'. But, that was not the case with the 'very underreported' story in the Sunday Herald on 22 December 2002, written by James Cusick and Felicity Arbuthnot: "The United States edited out more than 8000 crucial pages of Iraq's 11,800-page dossier on weapons, before passing on a sanitised version to the 10 non-permanent members of the United Nations security council.

OMISSIONS' IN THE DOCUMENT CONSTITUTED A 'MATERIAL BREACH

The full extent of Washington's complete control over who sees what in the crucial Iraqi dossier called into question the allegations made by US Secretary of State Colin Powell, that 'omissions' in the document constituted a 'material breach' of the latest UN resolution on Iraq. - [http://tinyurl.com/5afvh]

But the whole propaganda press treated Powell's lies is if it were the truth, even if this Uncle Tom and his ilk behind the UN scene had been ripping out the evidence concerning also the US's crimes against humanity, by selling weapons of mass destruction to Saddam. The proof that a Maryland firm was one of them who for decades had been selling the chemicals for mustard gas and other BC-weapons, turned up again last December in the court case against the American's Dutch agent van Anraat who sold the deadly US products, but disappeared in the 'Memory Hole'.

The worst chutzpah again came from the UN's PNAC side: ''The UN suspects he made 36 separate shipments of chemicals via the Belgian port of Antwerp through Aqaba in Jordan to Iraq'', the prosecution parroted the US spin. He forgot to mention - like the Dutch propaganda press - that also Belgium, The Netherlands and Jordan are full grown PNAC colonies, already enslaved for ages. And like with the ripped out proof of US complicity and guilt in the Halabja gassing: the rest was silence, or silenced...

LOS ANGELES TIMES: "AMERICAN-BUILT HELICOPTERS'' WERE USED TO GAS KURDISH CIVILIANS

To give just one last example: "In 1984, the State Department arranged for the sale of 45 Bell 214ST helicopters to Iraq. Four years later The Los Angeles Times reported that "American-built helicopters'' were used to gas Kurdish civilians. In March 1988 up to 6,800 Kurds were gassed to death in Halabja by Hussein's troops. In response the U.S. State Department attempted, according to a recent report in The International Herald Tribune, to place blame for the gassing also on the Iranians despite no evidence of Iranian involvement. When the UN Security Council passed a resolution to censure the Halabja attack it called on "both sides to refrain from the future use of chemical weapons." [end quote] - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/anxcn

If you read the last sentence again, you smell how it all stinks. Confirming who the real war criminals are. So there are many reasons why Saddam Hussein will never be seen as a witness in a Dutch courtroom.

Looking at Milosevic, who was 'suicided' in The Hague: maybe it's better for Saddam's health...


HR


RELATED:

* THE UNITED STATES TORE OUT 8000 PAGES OUT OF THE IRAQ DOSSIER FOR THE UN - Url.: http://www.sundayherald.com/30195

* US: 'BABY HOLOCAUST' DEFENDED: Former U.S. PNAC-Secr. of State Madeleine Albright-Korbel, 10 years ago in her comment on the at least HALF A MILLION dead children in Iraq, which now is estimated at ONE MILLION MORE BY UNICEF: "WE THINK THE PRICE IS WORTH IT" - On CBS '60 Minutes' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2vmc8

* PRESENT AND PAST - UNICEF reports on another PNAC HOLOCAUST: the under-5 infant mortality for 2003 was 110,000 in occupied Iraq, 292,000 in occupied Afghanistan. Gideon Polya: 'Non-reportage of US-linked infant mass mortality' - December 23, 2004 - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/rb3rx

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North Korea says it conducted a nuclear test: Promises war on US soil

US hostility, threats and sanctions are the very engines that have propelled the development of nuclear weapons. It's quite obvious and apparently Washington's 'long war' message: if you as a state or people want to survive, you better get nuclear bombs.

FPF: Secret US nuclear weapons also in your backyard?*

SPEAK WITH SMALL WORDS BUT CARRY A NUCLEAR STICK?

"North Korea says conducted nuclear test"

By Jack Kim - Reuters - Seoul (S-Korea)

Monday, October 9th, 2006 - North Korea said on Monday it had safely and successfully carried out an underground nuclear test in a gesture of defiance as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in South Korea. "The nuclear test was conducted with indigenous wisdom and technology 100 percent," North Korea's Korean Central News Agency said. "It marks a historic event as it greatly encouraged and pleased the KPA (Korean People's Army) and people that have wished to have powerful self-reliant defense capability."

The report said there was no leak or danger from the test - (Since all governments lie: can we check that ourselves, please? - HR)

The U.N. Security Council last Friday urged North Korea not to carry out a test, warning Pyongyang of unspecified consequences if it did. The dollar rose to a seven-month high against the yen after the reports but analysts did not expect long-term fallout unless the situation deteriorated further. "The economy of North Korea is virtually closed from the rest of the world and its regional impact won't be very significant unless there was a major military confrontation," said Wang Qing, an economist at Bank of America in Hong Kong.

South Korea's presidential Blue House said a tremor of magnitude 3.58 to 3.7 had been detected in North Korea at 0135 GMT on Monday. - However, the U.S. Geological Survey said it had detected no seismic activity such as might be expected from a nuclear test on the Korean peninsula within the past 48 hours. Abe, speaking in Seoul after arriving from an ice-breaking visit to Beijing, also said Japan had no confirmation of a test by North Korea.

A U.S. official said North Korea gave China a 20-minute warning of its test and China immediately told the United States, Japan and South Korea.

Officials in China had no immediate comment.

SECURITY MEETING IN SEOUL

In South Korea, President Roh Moo-hyun was holding an emergency meeting of top security officials at the Blue House following the announcement. Tokyo backs a hard line toward Pyongyang, while Seoul and Beijing -- leery of instability on the peninsula -- have previously cautioned against backing the North into a corner. However, all three agree that Pyongyang should end its nearly year-long boycott of six-country talks on ending its nuclear weapons program.

North Korea announced last week it would test a nuclear device saying its hand was forced by what it called U.S. threats of nuclear war and economic sanctions. But it said it would not be the first to use a nuclear weapon. Analysts say North Korea probably has enough fissile material to make six to eight nuclear bombs but probably does not have the technology to devise one small enough to mount on a missile."

[andend] - Reuters - Url.: tinyurl.com/jxzvr

Knowing the FPF readers are well wired to connect the dots, here's the other side of the North Korean medal:

KIM'S MESSAGE: WAR IS COMING TO US SOIL

By Kim Myong Chol - ("Unofficial" spokesman of Kim Jong-il and North Korea.)

"It is sheer illusion to think that sanctions and isolation will stop North Korea from the planned nuclear test. US hostility, threats and sanctions are the very engines that have propelled the development of nuclear weapons. Absent US hostility, nuclear blackmailing, sanctions, threats of isolation and regime change, the Kim administration would never have thought at all of acquiring nuclear deterrence."

[end quote] - Pls read the rest here at Url.: www.informationclearinghouse.info/index.html

"INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE" (link above) IS ONE OF THE BEST INFO SOURCES AT PRESENT THROUGH AN ARRAY OF ARTICLES, VIDEOS ETC. AFTER A CRASHED HARD DISK IT'S JUST GONE BACK ONLINE TODAY. (THANKs TOM!)

But, thinking early in the morning: if the North Koreans in their fear of being treated by the US/Israeli war machine would pack and explode say ten thousand kilos of TNT and say it was a nuclear bomb test, the US and other seismologists immediately would say it's a 'normal' explosion of a lot of TNT or similar.

Another possibility however- and knowing which wave of god forsaken propaganda the US war machine pours out over the world every day - is that the PNAC 'crazies' in Washington, even knowing it were 'conventional' explosives, hypocritically would shout: aren't they horrible those 'gooks' and commies? With their nuclear armament ''endangering world peace''? [Time poll: US is the biggest threat - Url.: www.time.com/time/europe/gdml/peace2003.html]

But look at the US war machine and it's mercenaries, the only ones ever to use nuclear bombs on human beings, in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. And as foreign policy secretly thereafter spreading nukes all over the world, contrary to by the US also signed non-proliferation agreements. The rogues managing Israel with all it's nukes and BC-weapons have never even been asked to sign the Non Proliferation Treaty, NPT, which Iran has done years ago. The European Union nor the IAEA dares to.

The UN's so called 'nuclear watchdog' IAEA, which actually is a US/UN nuclear power 'sales office' guarding the nuclear power industry's own interests, with US satellites overhead and it's IAEA inspectors (with CIA and Mossad involved) on the ground, has been controlling Iran 24/7 for years, and still the 'crazies' in Washington want to attack?

NO ILLEGAL US ATTACK ON NORTH KOREA?

The spokeswomen and -men of Kim Jong-il and North Korea are not to be trusted, we've daily been told since the '50's Korean war - most via the series MASH - filled the TV screens.*

BUT WHY THE HELL WOULD ANYBODY BELIEVE THE SPOKESMEN- AND WOMEN FOR THE US EMPIRE AND IT'S WAR MACHINE? WHICH HAVE BEEN LYING FOR AS LONG AS MOST OF US CAN REMEMBER?

One thing is very clear, and that's Washington's 'long war' message: if you as a state or people want to survive, you better get nuclear bombs.

North Korea is thus the latest to announce that 'it has the Bomb'. Whether this is true or not; it is a clear indication that threatening with nuclear bombs is the only way to keep the American war machine out of one's backyard. That's why the - right wing - phrase: "Rather an A-bomb in my garden, than a Russian in my kitchen'', is remodeled based on a similar expression forty years ago, with the 'Russian in the garden' having been replaced by 'any mercenary of the US/Israeli war machine and it's war criminals in the US/NATO's 'Coalition of the Killing'.

'SECRET' US NUCLEAR WEAPONS: TARGETS ON BASES IN EUROPE*

Like I wrote earlier: in the Netherlands documents* revealed a specific number of nuclear warheads which, under US and NATO war plans, will be 'proliferated' - meaning transferred to US non nuclear allies to be delivered to targets by their warplanes. 

If war were to break out in Europe, as many as 180 nuclear bombs would be earmarked for delivery by the air forces of Belgium, the Netherlands, Turkey, Germany and Italy, the report said. The weapons are part of a 480 warhead nuclear arsenal the United States kept in Europe in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The arsenal, according to the study, is being kept (sometimes secret) at eight air force bases* in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and Britain. 

The arrangement, the council insists, “skirts international law” - meaning: it's a criminal act and punishable in normal times - because the 'Nonproliferation Treaty' prohibits a nuclear state from transferring nuclear weapons to a non-weapon state, and prohibits a non-nuclear state from receiving such weapons.''

The nuclear weapons make all and everybody a target, with the radioactive fall-out killing us all. Most slowly. And now again an inhuman Pentagon regime with it's warmongers, forces others to speak with small voices, so they start carrying big but nuclear sticks.

The US is bombing itself back to the Stone Age, their Götterdämmerung: let's hope they are not taking along too many.

HR

Some Footnotes/links:

* 'Secret' US nuclear weapons: targets on bases in Europe - Url.: tinyurl.com/bsm3x

* Study by the Natural Resources Defense Council - Url.: tinyurl.com/4djkl

* FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY: MEMORANDUM FOR COMMANDER, 752nd MUNITIONS SUPPORT SQUADRON (752 MUNSS) - Volkel AB, The Netherlands - Url.: tinyurl.com/4etty

* Bombs not only in the Dutch Backyard: Bases and Facilities with Significant Current or Historical U.S. Nuclear Weapons or Naval Nuclear Propulsion Missions: Url.: tinyurl.com/4aqfm

* NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST for you too - Depleted Uranium for Dummies - Url.: www.notinkansas.us

* The B61 nuclear weapons - Url.: www.avhub.net/b61.htm

* U.S. B61 bombs in Europe, 2004 - Url.: tinyurl.com/3qjhc

* Dutch War Criminals in Court - Url.: tinyurl.com/6dfkv

* MASH FILLED THE TV SCREENS - Url.: tinyurl.com/rk9kw

* Google search: ''How to make a nuclear bomb'' - take your pick - Url.: tinyurl.com/5zy6f

* Götterdämmerung- referring to a disastrous conclusion of events - Url.: tinyurl.com/pwfda

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