The US, Israel and Britain are NOT that busy with the "war on terrorism" in Iraq or anywhere else, while "sharing intelligence", supporting militants, exterminating people over whole continents with drones and Turkey builds military bases and Israel turns homes and families to military bases.

Kirkuk and Hilla

A police source in Kirkuk said that a soldier was injured in an armed attack on a polling station downtown Kirkuk. The source told Nina News that an armed group, driving in a speedy car, opened fire at soldiers guarding one of the polling stations in the Granada neighborhood of central Kirkuk, wounding a soldier seriously and fled to an unknown destination.

The attack is the second in the last 24 hours targeting polling stations within the city of Kirkuk. In another incident, combined force of police and intelligence killed two gunmen in a car bomb tried to enter the province of Babylon, through (Mowylha ) area of the Alexandria / 60 / km north of Hilla, writes Nina News.

ANF - Lice 27.04.2014. Clashes between local people protesting at the construction of a large military base in the Lice district of Amed province and troops were reignited this morning after soldiers fired live ammunition near protestors' tents. Protestors blocked the road 200 metres from the site in the village of Abali yesterday. When soldiers intervened clashes broke out during which two NCOs were detained by the protestors.

When soldiers opened fire near the protestors' tents, the people demanded they stop. When firing continued the people confronted the soldiers, leading to arguments. Those trying to reach the area have been prevented from doing so because the main Bingöl-Diyarbakir road has been closed by a checkpoint near the village which is turning vehicles back.

BDP Diyarbakir Provincial Co-Chair Zübeyde Zümrüt went to Lice yesterday. She said she had held talks with the authorities to resolve the tense situation, but had not been able to achieve a resolution. She called on people to go to Lice. Zümrüt said she had informed the military authorities of the people's demand that construction of the base be ended in return for the release of the two NCOs, and that the authorities had replied that in the event of the two not being released they would resort to different methods.

Zümrüt said she had told the military officials that she had informed BDP Co-President Selahattin Demirtas of the situation and that he was involved in efforts to resolve the situation in Ankara, and had asked the officials to await the outcome of those efforts.

Attacks Launched Across Iraq: 84 Killed
Sunday Iraq Attacks Leave 41 Killed, 63 Hurt
Mortar Attacks Kill 21 in Syria's Aleppo
Egypt Sentences Brotherhood Chief, 682 Others to Death

http://en.firatajans.com
Turkish conscripts 'living in fear'
DÖKH in Van protests rape and sexual abuse against children
BDP-HDP delegation on its way to Imrali
Öcalan: There is both an opportunity of solution and possibility of clashes
ISTANBUL GOVERNOR ADMITS MISHANDLING GEZI PARK PROTESTS

Kurds as Victims of the Iran-Iraq War - Still going on and took a new drive in connection to the Bilderberg conference in Istanbul 2007, in Iran, Turkey, all over the region, just as the attacks in Iraq

More Victims of the Iran-Iraq War

Now actively promoting condemnation of Iraq for its use of chemical weapons, Iran has well earned its characterization as "no slouch in the atrocity game." Though Iran's internal Kurdish problem captured headlines in the New York Times back in 1981, the warfare that continues even today between its forces and Kurdish guerrillas led by Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou has long been a dead issue in the press.

In this chronic war, more than 25,000 indigenous Kurds have been driven from their villages, their homes burned and pillaged and Pasdaran (Iranian military) stationed to keep them from returning.

Thousands of Kurds, including civilians, have been detained, tortured and executed. A particularly grievous Iranian action was brought to our attention back in September 1983 through a report of the Federation of the Rights of Man in Paris. Failing to gain the consent of the Khomeini government to investigate allegations that some 59 Kurdish civilians had been executed at Urmiah, the organization mandated an observer to make a clandestine visit. When the observer arrived, 15 persons had just been executed in Mahabad prison. Between August 22 and 25 of that year another 48 civilians were killed; 19 were young girls.

Prior to the executions their bodies had been drained of blood. The federation's observer came upon the following directive issued on 3 October 1982 by the Chief of the Revolutionary Procurers: "We have given a secret order that medical equipment be used to draw blood secretly from individuals condemned to death and whose punishment is to be carried out expeditiously. Blood will be put into containers to be sent to a dispensary as soon as possible for a bloodbank to benefit the wounded. This act is not in violation of Islamic principles because the Imam Khomeini has ordered it."

The federation raised the question: "Were 450 Kurdish civilians executed since the beginning of 1983 simply to make use of their blood?" 

In a space of 10 months between December 1982 and September 1983, the federation estimated the number of Kurdish fighters executed at 1,339 and the number of civilians at 1,500.

The report quoted one Kurdish mother who lost two sons to execution: "Khomeini thinks all Kurds are fighters. Can anyone then not fear to become his victim?" Christian Rostoker, the federation's director, drew this conclusion: "There is no doubt that for a majority of the people executed, they are killed for one crime: being Kurdish in the Islamic Republic of Iran." That was five years ago; nothing has changed since then for the nearly 5 million Kurds in Iran.

SaeedpourVera Beaudin- Victims Iran-Iraq war

Rojhelat.info
A Kurdish youth hung himself in Meriwan in order to not join the Iranian army.
MILITARY DILEMMA FOR KURDISH YOUTH IN ROJHELAT AND IRAN

The world’s largest open-air prison of the Islamic republic regime
Iran, SAVAK, and the CIA: Financial Support, training and prisons big as cities 
Iran Contra & the CIA Cocaine Conspiracy - Brainwash Update 
The Iranian Regime Snares for Youth
Iran drug addiction rate highest in world

2007, Torture and abuse in Iranian prisons

Iraq timeline. Or "the Iraqi threat to its neighbours"..Like in the 90s..
...that would be after the wars in the 80s....

London, 1980 - Iranian activists stage siege on Iranian embassy. "All the terrorists were killed."
2014, Imminent execution of two Ahwazi Arab political prisoners
3 July 2009 - Demonstration in Front of Iran's Embassy in London

Kurdish political prisoner executed in Iran
East Kurdistan student faces hanging
Sine prison: Hebibulla Letifi on death row
Political prisoners on hunger strike in Iran’s detentions
Death sentences and executions in 2013
Young Kolber Was Shot Dead by Iranian Guards
Iran- the starving people policy using food aid plan

Kurdish Sheik Maksoud neighborhood bombarded
KNK: Release all critically ill prisoners in Turkey

ECHR finds Turkey guilty of 1993 disappearances

Kissinger and "Our Disappeared" - Argentina



Henry Kissinger Istanbul, Turkey May 31, 2007

Baroness Nicholson: “good friend” of some top officials in the Iranian government and against Iranian opposition - designated as terrorist by the US department as suspects of chain murders in Iran and on the UN-Geneva convention of protected persons - at the same time

The Baroness has for more than twelve years cooperated with Iranian authorities and received direct and indirect funding and support from the Iranian government for her efforts to supposedly provide humanitarian aide to refugees from Iraq who fled to Iran during the Iran-Iraq war.

However, it seems that the refugees mostly formed Iranian funded groups such as Hakim’s force, who took refuge in Iran and were trained and funded by Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Iranian regime’s extra-territorial Qods Force, believed responsible for coordinating parts of the insurgency in Iraq.

As an MEP she actively lobbied for Iranian interests with European governments and political parties. The Baroness played an instrumental role in brokering the inclusion of the PMOI in the EU terror list as part of a bargain with Tehran.

Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne  took her seat as a member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom Parliament in 1997, Baroness Nicholson is a famed apologist of the Iranian regime, and a “good friend” of some top officials in the Iranian government.

In a debate in the House of Lords on 22 June 1999 she defended Iran’s leaders against charges of violating the human rights of women, a fact attested to by 51 UN condemnations of Iran’s human rights violations. She stated that: "The Iranian women who worry me most strongly both inside and outside Iran are members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation, the anti-government terrorist group. It consists of 10,000 women who train in camps inside Iraq.”

The Baroness did never criticised the Iranian government for its many abuses of human rights; nor for its support of terrorism throughout the Middle East and beyond; nor for its suppression of the Iranian people.

In a meeting in Brussels on 19 March 2002, held on the initiative of the regime and attended by then Tehran’s deputy foreign minister, Emma Nicholson said that she would ask the EU to declare the PMOI as a terrorist group.

Baroness Nicholson issued a press release on 3 February 2003, on the eve of the Gulf  War and claimed to have passed evidence to Hans Blix that Iraqi WMD were being hidden in “MKO bases.”

Baroness Emma Nicholson was quoted in Tehran on 13 February 2003, on one of her numerous trips to Iran, as saying: “Here, our debates on Iraq have been attended by known members of the MKO recently… The MKO have thousands of members inside Iraq and thousands outside… These people are a threat to world security. This is Saddam's private, international terrorist army, working against us all… For the sake of our citizens' and for global safety I urge far greater security attention is paid to the MKO. War or no war, the criminals who make up the MKO kill and destroy the innocent.”

Baroness Nicholson in an interview with Radio Farda on 18 April 2003, openly and hatefully engaged in incitement for the wholesale killing of Mojahedin members and dissidents in Iraq on the eve of the Gulf War: “I welcome bombing the bases of MKO by coalition forces and I warn the world that this group should be destroyed, otherwise they’ll start their activities from another place in the world.”

Claims of WMD in Iraq later proved to be totally false, but Baroness Nicholson was adamant at the time that her “impeccable sources” had provided clear information on the find, part of a string of allegations, that set the stage for the bombing of neutral Iranian resistance bases in the course of the war, and led to the death of scores of innocent Iranian dissidents.

The U.S.-led occupation authority disarmed Badr Brigades following the overthrow of the Hussein regime.

Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told a 27 January press conference in Baghdad (http://www.cpa-iraq.org) that intelligence indicates that between 3,000 and 5,000 anticoalition militants are currently operating in Iraq. Kimmitt added that 5 percent-10 percent of the militants are foreign fighters. "The vast majority of them we still believe are homegrown anticoalition elements, possibly former regime elements, possibly disenfranchised youth," he said. (Kathleen Ridolfo)

According to the report, a senior commander of the unit told a "Sunday Times" reporter that the unit employed members of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq's (SCIRI) armed wing, the Badr Brigades. He also said that armed Badr members had assisted the unit in "dangerous" missions. A number of prisoners were seen during a visit to the police intelligence headquarters in Al-Basrah, many of whom had reportedly been left handcuffed and blindfolded for four or five days.

An unnamed spokesman for Britain's 20th Armored Brigade told the newspaper that the force is officially known to the coalition as the "special operations department." "We know there are certain ways of the past that have to be unlearnt. If [the Police Intelligence unit] or anyone are keeping people blindfolded and handcuffed for an extended period then that is not acceptable," he said. He added that the British would not support the integration of any militias into the police force. (Kathleen Ridolfo)

Britain's Lord Brian Hutton released the findings of his investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of U.K. weapons expert Dr. David Kelly on 28 January, international media reported. Kelly committed suicide in July after he was named as the source for a BBC report claiming that the British government had "sexed up" an intelligence dossier on the threat from Iraq.

An article that appeared in the 25 January edition of Baghdad daily "Al-Mada" claims to have documentary evidence from Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) that the regime of deposed President Saddam Hussein paid off Western and Arab countries through illicit oil sales and bribes in exchange for their support for the regime, or to help the regime obtain weapons and even extravagant materials unavailable to it under UN sanctions.

The article purports that several well-known officials, organizations, political parties, and companies benefited from the regime, including the Russian Orthodox Church and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation; Khalid Abd al-Nasir, son of the late Egyptian president; and U.K. Labour Party member George Galloway. It also includes the names of individuals and companies in Algeria, Austria, Bahrain, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chad, China, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Philippines, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Syria, Sudan, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Vietnam, Yemen, and the former Yugoslavia.

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Rferl.org - A CASE OF GENOCIDE: THE DECIMATION OF THE MARSH ARABS. By Baroness Emma Nicholson

Interview with Baroness Emma Nicholson

Basra, 25 juin 2003 (IRIN) - The British NGO Assisting Marsh Arabs and Refugees (AMAR) was founded by former British MP and current MEP Baroness Emma Nicholson in 1991 to assist Iraqi Marsh Arabs following their forced evacuation from the marshes and the destruction of their habitat in southern Iraq by Saddam Hussein.

On a trip to the region shortly after the defeat of the Iraqi army in Kuwait Baroness Nicholson was moved to launch the NGO after witnessing at first hand the acute suffering of the Marsh Arabs and the southern Iraqi Shiites in general following their abortive uprising against Saddam.

irinnews.org - Interview with Baroness Emma Nicholson

British NGO Assisting Iraqi refugees in Iran

Baroness Nicholson whose charity, Assisting Marsh Arabs and Refugees, looks after Iraqi refugees in Iran, said the cuts would make it far harder for the refugees to return home.

The Marsh Arab money was earmarked for the purchase of heavy earth-moving equipment to help to reshape the marshlands in southern Iraq, which were drained on the orders of Saddam Hussein, after the failed 1991 uprising against him.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3249947.stm

Baroness Nicholson Assisting Marsh Arabs and Iraqi Refugees in 1991

The early months of 1991 were a horribly dark time for millions of Iraqis, including families in the vast deserts and wetlands of the south. The southern region was already in turmoil as Iraqi forces retreated from their invasion of Kuwait. And in April, the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein—who was facing the humiliation of defeat in "The Mother of all Battles"—was confronted with another problem: a Shi'ite rebellion.

Saddam's response against his own people was predictably brutal. In the provinces of Basrah, Maysan and Dhi-Qar, he ordered ground forces and helicopter gunships to crush the revolt; unspeakable violence was used against terrified men, women and children. Mass executions were commonplace; homes were torched; livestock slaughtered. In the spring of 1991 southern Iraq—a region which has seen so much conflict across the millennia—had once again become a hellish cauldron of blood and brutality.

Saddam's genocidal campaign meant thousands of refugees were on the move—heading east where the vast Iraqi marshes lay between them and the Iranian border. Family after family crowded into overloaded boats with just the clothes on their backs and a few possessions; thousands disappearing into a watery world of islands, lagoons and near-impenetrable reed-beds whose towering shoots were taller than any man.

The Islamic Republic has a long history of opening its borders to refugees, and by the blistering summer of 1991, around one hundred thousand desperate refugees were living in makeshift encampments in Iran's Khuzestan province and elsewhere along the porous border with Iraq. Many refugees were malnourished, sick from disease and injured from attacks by Saddam's forces.

"Aid agencies sounded the alarm over a growing human crisis, and when word reached me at the House of Commons in London, where I was then an MP, I travelled to Iran to investigate."

"When I got to the town of Dezful in Khuzestan province, I was shocked beyond belief. The Iranians had opened up a camp which was originally built during the Iran/Iraq war. It was full of thousands of Iraqi refugees who had been pouring over the border to find safety. They had had limbs blown off and were suffering from the effects of chemical weapons on their skins which had caused massive blistering."

In the beginning, AMAR operated out of a local office in Ahvaz, the capital of Iran's Khuzestan province—a city which had prospered from the wealth from nearby oil fields, but which had suffered badly during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.

"It soon became clear our operation would also need an office in the Iranian capital Tehran. Soon our Tehran office was busy hiring physicians and other health care professionals as well as teachers and other staff. This office also took care of storage and distribution of supplies."

http://www.amarfoundation.org/heritage/genesis.php

Baroness Nicholson was elected a Conservative Member of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon, in 1987, and was vice-chairman between 1983 and 1987. She defected to the Liberal Democrats in 1995. She was made a life peer as Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, of Winterbourne, in the Royal County of Berkshire in 1997.

Lady Nicholson became a member of the European Parliament in 1999 joining the Committee on Foreign Affairs which she was Vice President of from 2004 to 2007. She was President of the Delegation for Relations with Iraq and President of the Committee on Women's Rights of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.

Lady Nicholson was also a member of the subcommittee on Human Rights, the Delegation for relations with Iran and the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq Countries. She was Rapporteur for Kashmir, and in 2007 her controversial report on Kashmir was passed by the European Parliament .

In 2006 Lady Nicholson was Chief Observer of the European Union Election Observation Mission to Yemen. She was a member of European Union Election Observation Missions to Palestine (2005), Azerbaijan (2005), Lebanon (2005), Afghanistan (2005), Armenia (2007) and Pakistan (2008). In January and December 2005 she was a member of the United Nations Election Observation Missions to Iraq.

In 2009 Lady Nicholson returned to London and resumed her political work at the House of Lords. In February 2010 she founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Business Development in Iraq and the Regions and currently serves as its Chair. She is also a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Human Trafficking and speaks regularly on health care and education in the Middle East and Eastern Europe and business development in Iraq and its wider neighbourhood.

Iran provided shelter to Iraqi Shi'ites oppressed by Saddam. 

The Iraqi premier lived in Iran for 10 years after Saddam banned all Shi'ite parties, including the Da'wa Party.

Iran gave safe haven to thousands of Iraqis during Saddam's bloody purges in southern and northern Iraq. Many Iraqis still live in Iran. The cultural and religious affinities between the two nations are very significant and can never be underestimated," the English-language Tehran Times, close to the Foreign Affairs Ministry, commented.

Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Kamal Kharazi visited Baghdad, without achieving concrete results on most pending issues, such as the exchange of prisoners of war and the signing of a formal peace treaty replacing the present ceasefire decided by the United Nations Security Council in 1989.

Iran claimed that Iraq holds some 3,000 Iranian soldiers, while Baghdad says it holds none but a handful who were involved in a regional uprising against Saddam Hussein.

Tehran has repeatedly denied Baghdad's charges that it still holds 29,000 Iraqi prisoners. Iraq says another 60,000 are missing. Iran, meanwhile, claims that Iraq still holds some 3,000 Iranian soldiers, while Baghdad says it holds none but a handful who were involved in a regional uprising against Saddam Hussein.

"Iran has in the past years unilaterally released Iraqi POWs to show its goodwill and now it is Iraq's turn to do the same," Najafi was quoted by the Islamic Republic News Agency as saying

August 14th, 2000. "We demonstrated our goodwill through the unilateral release of all Iraqi prisoners. Now it is Iraq's turn to do the same," he said, claiming that Iraq still held 3,000 Iranians.

August 13, 2000, Iran Says It Holds No More Iraqi POWs
Iran has freed all Iraqi pows
Official: No Iraqi Explanation Yet on Fate of 3,000 Iranian PoWs
IRAQ/IRAN - Tehran and Baghdad on verge of closing POWs' file
Iraqi POWs say they too are victims of Hussein - WAR IN THE GULF
The Dark and Secret Dungeons of Iraq. Horror Stories of Female Prisoners
Up to 3,000 Iraqis believed to be gagged, bound, hooded and beaten at US camps
Red Cross registers more than 3,000 Iraqi POWs
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GG19Ak01.html

The world’s largest open-air prison of the Islamic republic regime
Iran, SAVAK, and the CIA: Financial Support, training and prisons big as cities 
A Big Prison: Iran, Part 1
Iran Prison Survivors Part 1-5
http://www.kanoon-zendanian.org
Crimes in prisons of Iran
#Gaza




Investing in Kurdistan, case studies Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, Executive Chairman
Baroness Nicholson's Speech to Investment Forum - Kurdistan, Kuwait, Norwegian Institute of International Affair

Defense Secretary Nominee Robert Gates Tied to Iran-Contra Scandal and the Secret Arming of Saddam Hussein

Robert Gates at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Democracynow.org,  President Bush nominated former CIA director Robert Gates to replace Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense. Gates briefly appeared with President Bush and Rumsfeld at the White House and spoke with reporters.

 JUAN GONZALEZ: President Bush spoke highly of Robert Gates.

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH:

Bob is one of our nation’s most accomplished public servants. He joined the CIA in 1966 and has nearly 27 years of National Security experience, serving six presidents of both political parties. He spent nearly nine years serving on the National Security Council staff. And at the CIA, he rose from an entry-level employee to become the director of the Central Intelligence. And his experience has prepared him well for this new assignment.

JUAN GONZALEZ:

But questions are already being raised about Gates’s role at the CIA in connection to the Iran-Contra scandal and the secret arming of Saddam Hussein. In 1987, President Reagan nominated Gates to become CIA director, but the nomination had to be withdrawn because of stiff opposition in the Senate. Four years later, President George Herbert Walker Bush re-nominated Gates to be CIA chief, and this time he was confirmed.

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Robert Gates Tied to Iran-Contra Scandal and the Arming of Saddam Hussein

"The Return of Robert Gates"..as he visits Baghdad.. and his legacy

UN Protected persons and on the US terrorist list at the same time.. 

Crimes against Humanity: Massacre in Camp Ashraf 
Massacre in Camp Ashraf - Iraq on April 8, 2011 
Breaking international law in Iraq massacre 
Attack On Ashraf Camp Resident in Iraq 
Sept 1 Ashraf Massacre 
Filme Jadid Az Vahshigarie Dar Ashraf 
09.02.2013. Missile Attack at Iranian dissident Camp Liberty in Iraq

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyqxbDnVgWg 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2AiAT-G038

To "prevent smuggling" 10 years later..or 1.5 million Iraqis and a lot more than hundreds of thousands Syrians, Palestinians..Kurds..later.. Or for cables, powerstations, pipelines, highways along the "green belt"..

605-kilometre ditch along the Iraq-Syria border, only 15 kilometres remains to be completed. The ditch is in general 2 metres wide and 3 metres deep.

Thousands gather at border to protest Hewler government
Rojava citizen shot dead by peshmerga at border crossing
Turkey also digging ditches on border
Vigil at Rojava border
Turkish Soldiers Attack Rojava Residents Along Border
"We want to celebrate the May Day in our lands"

Turkish army activity in Kurdistan
Mass grave discovered during road works

Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi urges Iran to stop executing Kurds
Kurds in Selmas threatened by Iranian regime
The Iranian Regime Snares for Youth
East Kurdistan student faces hanging

The 14 April is the date when Kurds remember how Saddam began his Anfal campaign of genocide against the Kurds

sterktv.net-More about the crimes and genocide against the Kurds

http://www.sterktv.net/video/dosya-taybet-6272

As Sanctions Hit Iran’s Most Vulnerable, the Man Who Dared to Feed Sanction-Starved Iraq Remains in Prison

In 1999, I traveled to Iraq with Denis Halliday, who had resigned as assistant secretary-general of the United Nations rather than enforce a punitive UN embargo on Iraq. Devised and policed by the United States and Britain, the extreme suffering caused by these “sanctions” included, according to Unicef, the deaths of half a million Iraqi children under the age of five.

Ten years later, in New York, I met the senior British official responsible for the imposition of sanctions. He is Carne Ross, once known in the UN as “Mr.Iraq.”

I read to him a statement he made to a parliamentary select committee in 2007: “The weight of evidence clearly indicates that sanctions caused massive human suffering among ordinary Iraqis, particularly children. We, the US and UK governments, were the primary engineers and offenders of sanctions and were well aware of this evidence at the time but we largely ignored it or blamed it on the Saddam government. [We] effectively denied the entire population a means to live.”

I said, “That’s a shocking admission.”

“Yes, I agree,” he replied. “I feel very ashamed about it.”

“Before I went to New York,” he said, “I went to the Foreign Office expecting a briefing on the vast piles of weapons that we still thought Iraq possessed, and the desk officer sort of looked at me slightly sheepishly and said, ‘Well actually, we don’t think there is anything in Iraq.’”

That was 1997, more than five years before George W. Bush and Tony Blair invaded Iraq for reasons they knew were fabricated. The bloodshed they caused, according to recent studies, is greater than that of the Rwanda genocide.

On February 26, 2003, one month before the invasion, Dr. Rafil Dhafir, a prominent cancer specialist in Syracuse, New York, was arrested by federal agents and interrogated about the charity he had founded, Help the Needy. Dr. Dhafir was one of many Americans, Muslims and non-Muslims, who for 13 years had raised money for food and medicines for sick and starving Iraqis who were the victims of sanctions.

He had asked US officials if this humanitarian aid was legal and was assured it was – until the early morning he was hauled out of his car by federal agents as he left for work. His front door was smashed down and his wife had guns pointed at her head. Today, he is serving 22 years in prison.

On the day of the arrest, Bush’s attorney-general, John Ashcroft, announced that “funders of terrorism” had been caught. The so-called “terrorist” was a man who had devoted himself to caring for others, including cancer sufferers in his own New York community. More than $2 million was raised for his bail and several people pledged their homes, yet he was refused bail six times.

Charged under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, Dr. Dhafir’s crime was to send food and medicine to the stricken country of his birth. He was “offered” the prospect of a lesser sentence if he pleaded guilty, and he refused on principle.

Plea bargaining is the iniquity of the US judicial system, giving prosecutors the powers of judge, jury and executioner. For refusing, he was punished with added charges, including defrauding the Medicare system, a “crime” based on not having filled out claim forms correctly, and money laundering and tax evasion, inflated technicalities related to the charitable status of Help the Needy.

Then-governor of New York George Pataki, called this “money laundering to help terrorist organizations” to “conduct horrible acts.” Pataki painted Dr. Dhafir and Help the Needy’s supporters as “terrorists living here in New York among us,” adding that they were “supporting and aiding and abetting those who would destroy our way of life and kill our friends and neighbors.” For jurors, the message was powerfully manipulative. This was America in the hysterical wake of 9/11.

The trial in 2004 and 2005 was out of Kafka. It began with the prosecution successfully petitioning the judge to prohibit the word “terrorism” from being mentioned. “This ruling turned into a brick wall for the defense,” says Katherine Hughes, who was an observer in court. “Prosecutors could hint at more serious charges, but the defense was never allowed to follow that line of questioning and demolish it. Consequently, the trial was not, in fact, what it was really about.”

It was a political show trial of Stalinist dimensions, an anti-Muslim sideshow to the war on terror. The jury was told darkly that Dr. Dhafir was a Salafi Muslim, as if this was sinister. Osama bin Laden was mentioned, with no relevance. That Help the Needy had openly advertised its humanitarian aim and that there were invoices and receipts for the purchase of emergency food aid was of no interest. Last February, at a hearing following a decision by a federal appeals court asking judge Norman Mordue to consider an alternative way of calculating Dr. Dhafir’s sentence, Mordue, re-sentenced Dr. Dhafir to 22 years – a cruelty worthy of the gulag.

With their terrorist case won, the prosecutors held a celebration dinner, “partying,” wrote a Dhafir supporter to the local newspaper, “as if they had won the Super Bowl.” The prosecution had “perpetuated a monstrous lie” against Dhafir, said the letter, against a man “who had helped thousands in Iraq suffering unjustly…. The trial was a perversion of American justice.”

No executive of the oil companies that did billions of dollars of illegal business with Saddam Hussein during the embargo has been prosecuted. “I am stunned by the conviction of this humanitarian,” said Halliday, “especially as the US State Department breached its own sanctions to the tune of $10 billion.”

During this year’s US presidential campaign, both candidates agreed on sanctions against Iran, which they claimed posed a nuclear threat to the Middle East. Repeated over and over again, this assertion evoked the lies told about Iraq and the extreme suffering of that country. Sanctions are already devastating Iran’s sick and disabled. As imported drugs become impossibly expensive, sufferers of leukemia and other cancers are the first victims. The Pentagon calls this “full-spectrum dominance.”

By John Pilger, November 10. 2012

As Sanctions Hit Iran’s Most Vulnerable, the Man Who Dared to Feed Sanction-Starved Iraq Remains in Prison The truth about the criminal bloodbath in Iraq cannot be “countered” indefinitely. Neither can the truth about our support for the medievalists in Saudi Arabia, the nuclear-armed predators in Israel, the new military fascists in Egypt and the jihadist “liberators” of Syria, whose propaganda is now BBC news. There will be a reckoning – not just for the Blairs, Straws and Campbells, but for those paid to keep the record straight.

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The Truth About the Criminal Bloodbath in Iraq Can’t Be ‘Countered’ Indefinitely
http://johnpilger.com
http://www.globalissues.org/article/105/effects-of-sanctions

Conclutions?

Peter Clifford: "Before and after Assad´s great plan to save the Nation."
http://www.petercliffordonline.com/syria-news-3

In short: Different groups of people are "fighting" each other and everything that moves for years in a "Syrian revolution" with 130.000 people killed while Assad bombs and kills 600 civilians in Aleppo. Yeah..it sounds like "a great plan to save the Nation."

Starving Refugees: How We Disowned Palestinians in Syria

Palestinian refugees, particularly in the Yarmouk refugee camp, are starving, although there can be no justification, nor logistical explanation for why they are dying from hunger.

Some Palestinian factions were used by other regional powers to declare political stances regarding the conflict in Syria. The refugees should have never been used as fodder for a dirty war and all attempts at sparing the refugees have failed.

Typically, the so-called international community is at the forefront of this shameful episode. "There’s deep frustration in the aid community that a world which came together to deal with Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal cannot do the same when it comes to tackling a deepening humanitarian crisis," reported Doucet, quoting an aid official: "I have never seen a humanitarian crisis on this scale which does not have a Security Council resolution."

There can be no rationale to explain why the Syrian government and the rebels insist on embroiling the Palestinians into their war which is accumulating into an assortment of many war crimes that refuse to end.

Full article:  antiwar.com/blog/starving-refugees-how-we-disowned-palestinians-in-syria
Starving to death in Syria - Al-Ahram Weekly
U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees warn of “extreme human suffering” in Yarmuk

PLO Official: "#Al-Nusra among factions preventing #Yarmouk siege relief."

"To All people, brothers and friends. Yarmouk camp is dying of hunger. There are nearly 20.000 Palestinian refugees still living in Yarmouk, there are Also nearly 30.000 people displaced from the neighborhood areas sheltered to Yarmouk because of the huge military conflict at their places, so we have 50.000 innocent civilian person stuck in Yarmouk at least."

There are thousand of children without food , without milk and without their simple right to live in DIGNITY we need all of you to raise your voice against your governments everywhere, to pressure on the Syrian regime to let the civilians depart the area.

The Syrian military forces prevent these innocents from leaving Yarmouk. we have until now 34 civilian person died because of Starvation, please also help us in sending any pictures, drawings and any supportive methods to reach international press and to the international community.

https://www.facebook.com/saveyarmouk
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https://twitter.com/SYRedCrescent
Israeli forces shoot, injure 3 Palestinians in Duheisha camp
3 injured in Israeli airstrike on southern Gaza
 #EndGazaSiege or #YarmoukTears  

"Fair plans"..as in signing natural gas agreements..And.."talks of peace"..Meanwhile, "humanitarians" are going for meeting in Kuwait..

Syrian schools to start teaching Russian as second foreign language next year
Israeli-Russian trade worth $3 billion, free trade zone agreement in 2014
Netanyahu Organizing Russian Mafia Government for Israel
The Rise of Avigdor Lieberman and his vision of a Russified Zionism
Russian mafia in Israel
The Assault on Israeli Legitimacy
Aug 2011, Palestinian refugee camp in Latakia 'under fire'
Yarmuk camp, while Israel "fights terrorism", bombs Gaza and abuse children
Man killed by Israeli shelling east of Gaza City



While "the Palestinians should rein in their terrorist children."
"U.S. Aid - 12.2% of Foreign Aid,  of $9,047,227,200, money well spent."

Some are busy in the "war on terrorism"..Over 1,700 Killed in February in the Iraq ongoing genocide, according to sources

It´s the "New Schengen - Middle East" and Assad knows it..Just like everyone else orchestrating crimes against humanity and peace, genocides and destruction.. 

Over 1,700 Killed in February Iraq Bloodshed
Iraq Attacks Continue Into March: 70 Killed, 50 Wounded
95 Killed, 388 Injured in 40 Bomb Attacks in Pakistan in February

Where is Turkey in the Kurdish Peace Process?

Military operation in Lice district of Amed province

YPG clashes with militants in Serêkaniyê

Turkey: 217 detained, 28 arrested in February

Israel: End of January, 183 Palestinian children were imprisoned

Mentally Ill' Gaza Woman Killed by Israeli Fire

Clearing the Fog on Israeli Drone Use in Gaza