Award winning journalist John Pilger speaks on Australian radio about the absurdities put forward by members of the american government.
John Pilger has a new documentary coming out on Dec. 12th called "The War You Don't See" which features an interview with Julian Assange.
Showing posts with label documents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label documents. Show all posts
4 Dec 2010
The War You Don't See
23 Oct 2010
WikiLeaks Documents Detail Rape, Abuse, Murder
The New York Times, The Guardian newspaper of London, German magazine Der Spiegel and French newspaper Le Monde reported Friday that secret U.S. military documents about the war in Iraq detail torture, summary executions and war crimes.
These are the same documents - part of the largest publication of secret material in history - that Pentagon officials have been urging the website WikiLeaks and the media not to publish. They first appeared on the Arab network Al Jazeera.
Among the details from the approximately 400,000, collected from field reports sent in by American units in the field between 2004 and 2009, and leaked to the news outlets are that:
- U.S. authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, torture, rape and even murder by Iraqi police and soldiers whose conduct appears to be systematic and normally unpunished.
- Americans often turned a blind eye to Iraqis being tortured and abused by other Iraqis in secret prisons.
- Iran's military - to a further extent than previously known - intervened aggressively in support of Shiite combatants, offering weapons, training and sanctuary.
- A U.S. helicopter gunship involved in a notorious Baghdad incident had previously killed Iraqi insurgents after they tried to surrender.
- According to one tabulation, there have been 100,000 civilian causalities - greater than the numbers previously made public, many of them killed by American troops but most of them were killed by other Iraqis.
5 Aug 2010
US congressman urges whistleblower's execution
A US congressman says the US army private who is suspected of leaking military documents to a whistleblower website should be sentenced to death if found guilty in court.
Speaking to the Michigan-based radio WHMI on Monday, Republican Rep. Mike Rogers said that Private Bradley Manning, who is held at the Quantico Marine Corps Base in northern Virginia, deserves the capital punishment.
"We know for a fact that people will likely be killed because of this information being disclosed," Rogers told the local radio, Fox News reported on Tuesday. "That's pretty serious. If they don't charge him with treason, they ought to charge him with murder." Member of the House Intelligence Committee argued that the leaked documents could result in the death of US soldiers. "I argue the death penalty clearly should be considered here," he said. "He clearly aided the enemy to what may result in the death of US soldiers . . . If that is not a capital offense, I don't know what is."
From Press TV - See Execution by firing Squad on Just Sick
Go to the Bradley Manning Support Network for news about this war hero
See WikiLeaks for the Afghan War Diary and Collateral Murder Video (below)
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