So Rumsfeldt cooks up this scheme to fool the world that he wasnt torturing people in AG, then he decides to allow cameras inside such a sensitive area? Makes sense…uh yeah…makes sense. Achoo!

I doubt that those pictures were “official” pictures. They were pictures that the soldiers took with their personal cameras as “souvenirs”. I don’t think that they “allowed” the cameras to be there. But, I bet after the scandal broke, the military started searching the soldiers working at AG before they went on duty.

So, back to the drawing board for you. Perhaps you can come up with a more intelligent argument to defend the indefensible.

http://www.recyclesources.com

Soldier in Iraq Resists the Occupation
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2007-06-20

Nonviolent Resistance

On June 19, 26 year old SPC Eli Israel put himself at great personal risk by making the courageous decision to refuse further participation in the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Eli told his commanding officer and sergeants that he will no longer be a combatant in this illegal, unjustified war. Eli believes that the U.S. government used the attacks of September 11, 2001 as a pretense to invade Iraq and that “we are now violating the people of this country (Iraq) in ways that we would never accept on our own soil.” Eli is stationed at Camp Victory in Baghdad with JVB Bravo Company, 1-149 Infantry of the Kentucky Army National Guard. This soldier’s decision to refuse orders puts him at great risk, especially because he is in Iraq, isolated from legal assistance and other support. The following is a message that Eli sent yesterday to a friend back home:

“I have told them that I will no longer play a ‘combat role’ in this conflict or ‘protect corporate representatives,’ and they have taken this as ‘violating a direct order.’ I may be in jail or worse in the next 24 hours.

Please rally whoever you can, call whoever you can, bring as much attention to this as you can. I have no doubt that the military will bury me and hide the whole situation if they can. I’m in big trouble. I’m in the middle of Iraq, surrounded by people who are not on my side. Please help me. Please contact whoever you can, and tell them who I am, so I don’t ‘disappear.’”

Eli is taking an incredible risk by refusing orders in Iraq and will most likely be court martialed. Please help him by contacting his Senator and requesting that he take any steps necessary to support and protect this soldier and ensure that the Army respects his rights and does not illegally retaliate against him.

http://senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?

State=KY

Bunning, Jim- (R – KY)

(202) 224-4343
Web Form: bunning.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Email
McConnell, Mitch- (R – KY)

(202) 224-2541
Web Form: mcconnell.senate.gov/contact_form.cfm

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×1149346

Osama bin Laden may have chartered a plane that carried his family members and Saudi nationals out of the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks, said FBI documents released Wednesday.

The papers, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, were made public by Judicial Watch, a Washington-based group that investigates government corruption.

One FBI document referred to a Ryan Air 727 airplane that departed Los Angeles International Airport on September 19, 2001, and was said to have carried Saudi nationals out of the United States.

“The plane was chartered either by the Saudi Arabian royal family or Osama bin Laden,” according to the document, which was among 224 pages posted online.

The flight made stops in Orlando, Florida; Washington, DC; and Boston, Massachusetts and eventually left its passengers in Paris the following day.

In all, the documents detail six flights between September 14 and September 24 that evacuated Saudi nationals and bin Laden family members, Judicial Watch said in a statement.

“Incredibly, not a single Saudi national nor any of the bin Laden family members possessed any information of investigative value,” Judicial Watch said.

“These documents contain numerous errors and inconsistencies which call to question the thoroughness of the FBI’s investigation of the Saudi flights.

“For example, on one document, the FBI claims to have interviewed 20 of 23 passengers on the Ryan International Airlines flight … on another document the FBI claims to have interviewed 15 to 22 passengers on the same flight.”

Asked about the documents’ assertion that either bin Laden or the Saudi royals ordered the flight, an FBI spokesman said the information was inaccurate.

“There is no new information here. Osama bin Laden did not charter a flight out of the US,” FBI special agent Richard Kolko said.

“This is just an inflammatory headline by Judicial Watch to catch people’s attention. This was thoroughly investigated by the FBI.”

Kolko pointed to the 9-11 Commission Report, which was the book-length result of an official probe into the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people.

“No political intervention was found. And most important, the FBI conducted a satisfactory screening of Saudi nationals that left on chartered flights. This is all available in the report,” Kolko said.

On the issue of flights of Saudi nationals leaving the United States, the 9-11 report said: “We found no evidence of political intervention” to facilitate the departure of Saudi nationals.

The commission also said: “Our own independent review of the Saudi nationals involved confirms that no one with known links to terrorism departed on these flights.”

Meredith Diliberto, an attorney with Judicial Watch, said that her group had seen a first version of the documents in 2005, although the FBI had heavily redacted the texts to black out names, including all references to bin Laden.

Nevertheless, unedited footnotes in the texts allowed lawyers to determine that bin Laden’s name had been redacted. They pressed the issue in court and in November 2006, the FBI was ordered to re-release the documents.

Diliberto said mention that “either” bin Laden or Saudi royals had chartered the flight “really threw us for a loop.”

“When you combine that with some of the family members not being interviewed, we found it very disturbing.”

SHOULD have read a “Similar Statement”

My apologies

Didn’t a certain prosecutor make such statements against a Lacrosse team?

Comment by Zooey — June 21, 2007 @ 1:15 am

Frickin weenies.

Goodnight all!

http://www.thememoryhole.com/war/iraqis_tortured/

Let these pictures burn into your soul if you have one. Don’t ever forget!

Comment by BARTLEBEE

It amazes me how often that happens. They show up calling us “libtards” and “cut & runners,” but get all pouty when we throw it back at them. Frickin’ weenies.

Nah, don’t bother. It’s drivel.

I made it home in 6.5 hours — a record! I don’t miss TV, but I miss the highspeed internet. Oy….

Hi shane!

Comment by Zooey

You put one on that long thread? Now I have to go read another 200 comments to find it – yeesh.

Glad you made it home safe. Do you miss television yet?

Comment by Juan C

Goodnight, Juan. You’re a sweetie. :)

Chau, everyone. Be well.

Zooey was write. They must have been scraping the bottom of the barrel to find this one.

He comes in, calling everyone names, and then, when he gets it back, he runs away crying that he got called names.

What wimps.

I put one on there, just cuz. :)

Hi shane!