Free the Wiki-Leaker

A letter to newspaper editors

Mike Gogulski on July 16th, 2010

Florida attorney and Bradley Manning supporter James Cerveny wrote the letter below and sent it to the editors of a number of newspapers in Florida.

Let’s hope it gets published. Letters such as these do not change public opinion or government policy overnight, but sustained campaigns have long used them as one tool in the kit that’s both cheap and potentially powerful.

Why not send a letter to the editors of papers in your area? You can find a substantial directory of their email addresses here: http://www.mapinc.org/perl/directory.pr

Bradley Manning, currently held in a military gulag by the US government, is an American hero. His “crime” was to release to WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website, a suppressed videotape of a blatant war crime in which US soldiers chortle with glee as they gun down unarmed civilians, including children.  Manning has also allegedly released numerous diplomatic cables exposing massive corruption involving US officials as well as those of the puppet government we have installed in Iraq.

The government, and Manning’s detractors, claim that the release of the video jeopardizes “national security.”  This rings false, as the video is over three years old.  Rather, the government is charging him under draconian laws, including a statute typically used in espionage cases, to make an example of him for embarrassing our ruling class and for breaking through the tight censorship that has been increasingly successful in shielding the American people from exposure to the harsh realities of our illegal wars of aggression.

In case it hasn’t sunk in, the man was charged with espionage for revealing information to the American people that they should be entitled to have.  This is what our “republic” has come to.

Two “journalists” from Wired magazine (both convicted felons), using grossly unethical methods of selection and omission in writing their article, conspired with each other as well as the government to silence Manning and to smear him as a “traitor.”  Not surprisingly, the substance of this Orwellian hit piece has been parroted unquestioningly by our sycophantic mainstream media. Readers desiring a balanced approach to the Manning story should read the excellent article by Glen Greenwald in Salon.com.

The actions of the US government in prosecuting Manning, instead of the moral cretins in the helicopter and their superiors, are those of a tyrannical state.  The actions of our media in their “reporting” of the story are like those of their counterparts in North Korea.

God help this nation.

James Cerveny
Gainesville FL

Afghanistan Asks, Why the Silence?

Afghanistan questions U.S. silence over Pakistan’s role

By Sayed Salahuddin

KABUL | Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:24am EDT

(Reuters) – The United States has pursued a contradictory policy with regard to the Afghan war by ignoring Pakistan’s role in the insurgency, the Afghan government said on Tuesday, following the leak of U.S. military documents.

The classified documents released by the organization, WikiLeaks, show current and former members of Pakistan’s spy agency were actively collaborating with the Taliban in plotting attacks in Afghanistan.

On Tuesday, in its first reaction to the leak, Afghanistan’s National Security Council said the United States had failed to attack the patrons and supporters of the Taliban hiding in Pakistan throughout the nine-year conflict.

“With regret … our allies did not show necessary attention about the external support for the international terrorists … for the regional stability and global security,” the council said in a statement.

Afghanistan has long blamed Pakistan for meddling in its affairs, accusing the neighbor of plotting attacks to destabilize it. Islamabad, which has had longstanding ties to the Taliban, denies involvement in the insurgency and says it is a victim of militancy itself.

The National Security Council did not name Pakistan, but said use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy was a dangerous gamble and had to be stopped.

“Having a contradictory and vague policy against the forces who use terrorism as a tool for interference and sabotage against others, have had devastating results,” it said.

At a news conference later on Tuesday, council head Rangeen Dadfar Spanta was more specific, questioning the billions of dollars in cash aid and military assistance Washington has given to Pakistan over the years.

“It is really not justifiable for the Afghan people that how come you give to one country $11 billion or more as help for reconstruction or strengthen its security or defensive forces, but from other side the very forces train terrorism,” he said.

He warned that the war would not succeed unless there was a review of Afghan policy by Washington that focuses on Taliban sanctuaries and bases in Pakistan and their supporters.

Those supporting militants should be punished rather than be treated as an ally, said Spanta, who served for years as foreign minister in President Hamid Karzai’s government until last year.

The White House has condemned the WikiLeaks disclosures, saying it could threaten national security. Pakistan said leaking unprocessed reports from the battlefield was irresponsible.

The documents numbering tens of thousands also said that coalition troops had killed hundreds of Afghan civilians in unreported incidents and often sought to cover up the mistakes that have shaken up confidence in the war effort among many in Afghanistan.

On Monday, the Afghan government said it had spoken in private and in public meetings with its Western allies about the need to stop civilian deaths.

“In the past nine years (since Taliban’s fall) thousands of citizens of Afghanistan and from our ally countries have become victimised,” it said.

(Editing by Sugita Katyal)

Turkey to follow UN sanctions on Iran, not tougher EU or US bans

ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News

Turkey will not follow US or EU sanctions on Iran but will apply the ones imposed by the United Nations. We will fully implement U.N. resolutions, but when it comes to individual countries’ demands for extra sanctions, we do not have to [follow suit], says Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek

‘The facilitation of trade that is not prohibited under the UN resolution should and will continue,’ says Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek.

Turkey has said it will abide by U.N. sanctions against Iran, but not the more sweeping restrictions imposed on Tehran by the United States and the European Union.

“We will fully implement U.N. resolutions, but when it comes to individual countries’ demands for extra sanctions, we do not have to [follow suit],” Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek said in an interview published Sunday in the daily Financial Times.

“The facilitation of trade that is not prohibited under the U.N. resolution should and will continue,” he was quoted as saying. “If a trade deal needs to be financed, we will have to find a way to pay for it.”

Şimşek’s comments came as the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that a state-owned Turkish refiner, Tüpraş, had stepped in to supply Iran after several international companies stopped selling the country refined petroleum.

Turkey’s foreign economic relations board has meanwhile said the country’s ports, notably Mersin and Trabzon, would try to handle some of the trade with Iran that has been going through Dubai, the daily reported. The Gulf emirate is steadily restricting its economic ties with Tehran.

The U.S. Congress passed legislation last month shutting any banks with ties to Iran – or any companies selling petroleum products to the country – out of the American market. These measures were followed Monday by unilateral EU sanctions, new measures that restrict trade related to Iran’s nuclear program.

The sanctions limit financial assistance and funding and allow EU members to inspect all cargo going to or from Iran.

Eager to promote trade with its neighbors, Turkey has been following a more assertive and independent foreign policy when it comes to Iran, to the frustration of Washington. Ankara was one of only two U.N. Security Council members, along with Brazil, to oppose Resolution 1929, which tightened sanctions on the Islamic republic.

Sources close to the Turkish government suggest that Ankara will watch the behavior of Russia and China to gauge the extent to which it can afford to ignore unilateral U.S. sanctions, the Financial Times wrote.

Chinese companies have also been supplying Iran with petroleum.

Greece, Bulgaria to await environment report on pipeline plan

[If the environmental impact report kills the Bulgaria-Greece pipeline, then Turkey plans to obtain legislation to make tanker traffic the Bosphorus Strait too expensive for tanker traffic, leaving only the pipeline routes through Turkey.  Russia and Turkey may part ways over this one.]

SOFIA, Bulgaria – Bloomberg

Greece and Bulgaria agreed to wait for the results of an environmental impact report on a planned oil pipeline that bypasses Turkey’s crowded Bosphorus Strait before deciding whether to scrap the plan.

Turkey is using the environment damage caused by BP’s Gulf of Mexico spill to press its case that oil traffic through the straits is unsafe and potentially dangerous. Turkey said on July 1 it has broad support from 20 oil companies for steps that would make use of the Bosphorus straits for oil traffic more expensive than pipelines.

Bulgaria has threatened to back out of the project to construct the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline on concern an oil spill would harm the Balkan country’s Black Sea resorts. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and his Bulgarian counterpart, Boiko Borissov, met on Tuesday in Sofia to discuss the disagreement.

Russia, Bulgaria and Greece agreed in 2007 to build the 285-kilometer oil pipeline from the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas to the Greek port of Alexandroupolis on the Aegean Sea. The 1 billion-euro ($1.25 billion) pipe, with a capacity of 35 million metric tons of oil a year, would bypass the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits, saving shipping costs.

“Greece understands Bulgaria’s environmental concerns, and we still think the pipeline project is important for the region,” said Papandreou after the meeting. “But we will accept the environmental assessment.”

EU conservation

A referendum held in the Burgas region in 2008 opposed the pipeline on grounds there was a high risk of an oil spill from tankers filling the pipe, which could damage Bulgaria’s biggest Black Sea resorts.

The projected pipeline route violates a European Union directive for conservation of wildlife, known as Natura 2000, because it passes through protected areas. This alone would allow Bulgaria to pull out of the project without paying penalties, according to Borissov.

He said at the Sofia briefing that the contract was signed without a proper assessment by his predecessor. “It is important for Bulgaria have the pipeline, but the environment safety is more important,” Borissov said. “We will take a final decision after the environmental impact assessment is done.”

The project competes with a similar $2.5 billion pipeline agreed between Russia, Italy and Turkey last year to carry oil from the Turkish Black Sea port of Samsun to the Mediterranean port at Ceyhan.

Latest video of Colonel Imam

[Like a dam holding back a flood of putrid water, the deadly Pakistan/American secrets have allowed the stinking game to go on and on and on.  The Wikileaks revelations are making the secret players act, which explains the timing of this video, coming after the leaks.  Pakistan creates the Taliban to fight the Americans in the great psy-op, while the Americans create the anti-Taliban, the TTP, to fight the Pak Army, thus justifying the war of Pakistan on Pakistanis, and the American war upon everybody else.

The whole thing is a great "cluster fuck," as the American military such things.]

Breaking News: Latest video of Colonel Imam Sultan Amir Tarar kidnapped by the Sipah-e-Sahaba terrorists

Flashpoint Exclusive: Captive Pakistani Intel Officer Threatens to Reveal “Secret Game” Behind Afghan Conflict in His Video Recorded on 24 July 2010
By Evan Kohlmann

Here is an evidence of how extremist Deobandis (terrorists of the Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba) are now attacking the very institution, i.e., the ISI, which once groomed and nurtured them. Yet, Generals Kayani and Pasha are unable to liberate themselves from the God forsaken good Taliban and strategic depth theories. In the following video, Colonel Imam, an envoy of Pakistan’s ISI and General Hamid Gul to the Taliban threatens the ISI to spill the beans unless certain demands of his captors (terrorists of the Sipah-e-Sahaba) were met by the Pakistan government. Obviously, the ISI chicken are coming home to roost.

Latest video of Colonel Imam , posted with vodpod

In the wake of the latest embarrassing disclosures about Pakistan’s unhelpful role in the Afghan conflict, Flashpoint Global Partners has obtained an unpublished video of retired Pakistani military and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officer Colonel Imam Sultan Amir Tarar, who has been held hostage by militants in Pakistan’s tribal region since March 2010, when he arrived in the area alongside another former ISI officer Khalid Khwaja.

Tarar, a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan war and a reputed expert on guerilla warfare, has acknowledged a long relationship with the Afghan Taliban and its leader Mullah Mohammed Omar—but has been far more critical of the Pakistani Taliban movement. During a recent New York Times interview, Tarar admonished the TTP and its leadership as “troublemakers” who should be “neutralized.”

In his latest video-recorded message, Colonel Imam Tarar claims that he has been kidnapped by “Lashkar Jhangvi al-Alami, Abdullah Mansour” faction and insists that the Pakistani government has done nothing to facilitate his release. If the government continues to refuse negotiations for his freedom, Tarar further threatens to disclose highly sensitive information about “the weaknesses of our nation” and the secret “game being played with Afghanistan, India, Russia, and America.”

Still images and an English transcript of the video of Colonel Sultan Amir Tarar are now available via the website of Flashpoint Global Partners – http://www.flashpoint-intel.com.

In his latest video, Colonel Imam claims that he has been kidnapped by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi-Al Almi Abdullah Mansour (Sipah-e-Sahaba International) and insists that the Pakistani government has done nothing to facilitate his release. If the government continues to refuse negotiations for his freedom, Tarar further threatens to disclose highly sensitive information about “the weaknesses of our nation” and the secret “game being played with Afghanistan, India, Russia, and America.” In prior statements and videos about the kidnapping, Tarar’s captors had identified themselves simply as “the Asian Tigers.”

Complete English transcript

“Today is July 24, and tomorrow, it will be July 25. I am Sultan Amir, son of Ghulaam Amir, and people know me as Colonel Imam. I am in the custody of Lashkar Jhangvi Al Alami, Abdullah Mansoor. I sent my statements and CD messages to the government several times, but no
attention has been given until now.”

“You know what mentality these people have and what are they up to. Khalid Khwaja has already been killed and we might receive an even harsher treatment, which will be damaging for Pakistan.”

“They cannot be pressured by anyone. They are well organized.

According to them, my previous statements have not been released to the media either. I appeal, Mr. President, Mr. Prime Minister, DG ISI (General Pasha), General Hamid Gul (ex-DG ISI) and General Aslam Beg (ex army chief), to accept the demands of Lashkar Jhangvi Al Alami as soon as possible.”

“You people know about the services I rendered for my country. If the Pakistan government does not care about me, then I don’t have any reason to care about the nation either, and [I] will reveal all the weaknesses of our nation.”

“Whatever game is being played with Afghanistan, India, Russia, and America, I know about all of it. It is now for the Pakistani government to decide. Four months have now passed but you don’t care about me. I am fed up of spending my whole life all the time in a basement.

“It should be conveyed to my family to pray for me and to take care of the children. I also want it to make it clear to my son Nauman Umar to resign from his government post. At the moment, they don’t seem to care about me, so why would they make a fuss over him in the future either.”

“Wasalam, your well wisher, Sultan Amir.”

Songs of the Saints, With Love, From Pakistan

[Here is the joyfulness of Islam.  Take note of the happy women joining in the celebration of life.  These merrily spinning women provide a stark contrast to the usual image of dour fearful women dominated by the dark fundamentalists.  The image of Muslim women burned into the minds of Western audiences is normally that of two beautiful, though terrified, eyes peering from beneath the sanitizing blackness of the burka.]

Songs of the Saints, With Love, From Pakistan

The Soung Fakirs at the New York Sufi Music Festival on Tuesday in Union Square.

By JON PARELES, July 21, 2010

Hands waved overhead. Voices shouted lyrics and whooped with delight. Children were hoisted onto parents’ shoulders. In the tightly packed crowd a few dancers made room to jump. T-shirts were tossed to fans from the stage.

Yet in the songs that Abida Parveen was singing, saints were praised. They were Islamic saints, the poets and philosophers revered by Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam. It was the first New York Sufi Music Festival, a free three-hour concert on Tuesday in Union Square, and it had music from the four provinces of Pakistan, including traditional faqirs who perform outside temples, Sufi rock and a kind of rapping from Baluchistan.

The concert was presented by a new organization called Pakistani Peace Builders, which was formed after the attempted bombing in Times Square by a Pakistani-American. The group seeks to counteract negative images of Pakistan by presenting a longtime Pakistani Islamic tradition that preaches love, peace and tolerance.

Music fans at the festival.

Sufism itself has been a target of Islamic fundamentalists; on July 1 suicide bombers attacked Pakistan’s most important Sufi shrine. Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations, Abdullah Hussain Haroon, spoke between sets on Tuesday. “What we’re here to do today,” he said, is “to be at peace with all of America.”

The music’s message was one of joyful devotion and improvisatory freedom. Ms. Parveen, one of Pakistan’s most celebrated musicians, was singing in a Sufi style called kafi. Like the qawwali music popularized worldwide by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, kafi sets classical poems — about the love and intoxication of the divine, about seeking the spirit within — to visceral, handclapping rhythms and vocal lines that swoop and twist with passionate volatility.

Ms. Parveen carried songs from serene, hovering introductions to virtuosic euphoria. Long, sustained notes suddenly broke into phrases that zigzagged up and down an octave or more; repeated refrains took on an insistent rasp and became springboards for elaborate leaps and arabesques; quick syllables turned into percussive exchanges with the band. Each song was a continual revelation, making the old poems fully alive.

Abida Parveen at the New York Sufi Music Festival.

While the crowd was there for Ms. Parveen’s first New York City performance in a decade, the rest of the program was strong. The Soung Fakirs, from Sachal Sarmast Shrine in Sindh, danced in bright orange robes to devotional songs with vigorous, incantatory choruses. Akhtar Chanal Zehri, though he was introduced as a rapper, was backed by traditional instruments and seemed more of a folk singer, heartily intoning his rhythmic lyrics on a repeating note or two and, eventually, twirling like a Sufi dervish.

Rafaqat Ali Khan, the heir to his family’s school of classical singing (khayal), was backed only by percussion, pushing his long-breathed phrasing into ever more flamboyant swirls and quavers. The tabla player Tari Khan, who also accompanied Rafaqat Ali Khan, played a kinetic solo set that carried a 4/4 rhythm through variants from the Middle East, Europe, New York City and (joined by two more drummers) Africa. There was also instrumental music from the bansuri (wooden flute) player Ghaus Box Brohi.

On the modernizing side, Zeb and Haniya, two Pakistani women who started their duo as college students at Mount Holyoke and Smith, performed gentler songs in the Dari tradition, a Pakistani style with Central Asian roots, with Haniya adding syncopated electric guitar behind Zeb’s smoky voice. Under wooden flute and classical-style vocals the Mekaal Hasan Band plugged in with reggae, folk-rock and a tricky jazz-rock riff. But the lyrics quoted devotional poetry that was 900 years old, distant from the turmoil of the present.

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“If a man like Muhamed (pbuh) were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness.”
- George Bernard Shaw

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
- George Orwell

“Do not worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are watching you”
- Robert Fulghum

“The accomplice to the crime of corruption is often our own indifference”
- Bess Myerson

“Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.”
- Will Durant

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
- Will Durant

“Democracy is a form of government that substitutes ‘election by the incompetent-many’ for ‘appointment by the corrupt-few’.”
- George Bernard Shaw

“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”
- George Bernard Shaw

“May you live every day of your life.”
- Jonathan Swift

“Pity the nation… that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting, farewells him with hooting, only to welcome another with trumpeting again.”
- Khalil Jibran

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”.
- Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.”
- Angela Monet

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
- Voltaire

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.”
- Samuel P. Huntington (author The Clash Of Civilisations)

US announces special projects for Balochistan

[It is very revealing that the American side sent a Special Forces general to the ceremony in Balochistan, especially an intelligence officer who is a specialist in direct action operations intended to force a reaction from militants.  Former CIA chief Michael Hayden called the process "tickling."  (See: CIA HAS BEEN TICKLING PEOPLE TO DEATH FOR YEARS) Expect such US "tickling" operations to add to the misery of the Baloch people in the near future, or perhaps this has been going on for a while.]

The Baloch Hal News

QUETTA, July 26:- US Consul General Karachi William J. Martin has reiterated to open American consulate in Quetta for working more closely with provincial government and NGOs in designing and implementing assistance projects for the people of Balochistan and said that his government was working with Balochistan government for building water stoage dams besides helping QESCO to improve services to public.

US diplomat made these remarks in a recention on 234 anniversary of Independence of United States of America which first time in the history to celetrate in the provincial capital of Quetta. The US Ambassador Patterson could not attend the function due to some her engagement in Islamabad.

The U.S. Army General Michael Nagata and other diplomatic staff including head of Public Affairs Dr. Carton were also present. The US Independence day celeration was also attended by Speaker Balochistan Assembly Mohammad Aslam Bhootani, the provincial ministers, the representatives of political parties, bureaucrats and staff colleage foriegn and local student-officers.

US Consul General said that in addition to a national high efficiency irrigation project that also included Balochistan, US government were working with Balochistan Government on providing a system of water storage dams. The project, he said, would support plans by the provincial government and would enhance existing programs for irrigation and distribution while also promoting watershed enhancement and integrated crop management.

He said that energy was also a matter of concern in Balochistan and his government already had a program with the Quetta Electricity Supply Company to help it improve service to the public, reduce losses, and increase efficiency. He said that the U.S. Geological Survey would also provide assistance in identifying natural gas resources and their development in Balochistan. He assured that there would be more projects for Balochistan announced by the U.S. Government in the coming months.

Mr. Martin said USA would also provide assistance to help Pakistan improve it regulatory and fiscal regimes in order to attract more investment to develop this critical resources and that would most certainly create more opportunities in Balochistan.

He said that he was pleased to note that US would soon open an American consulate in Quetta in the near future which would allow US government to work more closely with our Balochistan government and NGO colleagues in designing and implementing assistance projects that meet the needs of the people of Balochistan. He said that the proposal for a new consulate clearly demonstrated Americans long terms commitment to the people of Pakistan and, specially to the people of Balochistan. He said that by working together, both Pakistan and United Sattes of America could learn from each other and strengthen the relationship, strengthen the partnership and build a brighter future for our nations.

He said that in Quetta, his government proud to work alongside our Pakistani colleagues in their efforts to improve health, education, and energy. Last week,he said , Secretary of State Hilary Clinton visited Pakistan, and announced several new assistance programs costing many millions of dollars and many of these projects would directly benefit the people of Balochistan. He informed that during meetings with U.S officials, the government and people of Balochistan told them the most important need in the province which was water.

US diplomat said that he was very pleased to note the presence of U.S. Army General Michael Nagata in the function of celerations in Quetta and a decorated general’s presence reflectd the close working relationship of our two great military forces, as did the recent visit of our top soldier, Admiral Mullan to Islamabad and the delivery of advanced F-16 fighter planes. He said that there should no doubt that United States deeply appreciated the struggles and sacrifices of Paksitan’s security forces in their efforts to make the country safe and secure for all and it applauded Pakistan’s elected officials, civil servants, and community activists who spoke out against extremism, and worked for a better future for all Pakistanis.

“Our two countries share many of the same goals and ideals. We embrace not only freedom and democracy, but also family, religion, education and hard work. By working together, we can learn from each other and strengthen the relationship, strengthen the partnerships, and build a brighter future for our nations”, he said.

Mr. Martin said that with great appreciation for the challenges facing both countries, with deep gratitude for the men and women who served in US armed forces, and with ehartflet respect for the friendship between the United States and Pakistan, he was honoured to celebrate American’s 234th Independence Day with all of them.

He said that on July 4th, 1776, in Philadelphia, American’s founding fathers adopted the declaration of indpenedence which enunciated clearly the basis for new nation, saying “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” He said that these words had inspired many generations, and continued to be the guiding principles for United States in the present tiem. He said “We believe that these principles are universal and there is no doubt that the Pakistani people hold these values to be paramount as well.

“I, the Operator,”Gen. Michael K. Nagata–Special Forces Operator In Pakistan

The following info on Gen. Michael K. Nagata comes from the

2004 Dwight D. Eisenhower Nat. Security Conference

Three bullet riddled bodies recovered from Quetta

The Baloch Hal News

QUETTA – Two people, including a Levies official were shot dead in Awaran area of Balochistan on Monday while police recovered three bullet-riddled bodies from different parts of Quetta.
According to reports, Levies official Karim Dad Sajjidi alongwith his companion, Zahoor Ahmed was on his way in Awaran area when unidentified armed assailants sprayed them with bullets. Resultantly, both sustained critical wounds and rushed to the hospital where doctors pronounced them dead. Assassins managed to flee from the scene after committing the crime.
‘Apparently it seems to be a case of target killing, however, investigations are underway to unearth the real motive behind the murder’, an official of Levies told The Baloch Hal.
Levies handed over the bodies to heirs after completing legal formalities and started investigation into the killings.
On the other hand, police recovered three bullet riddled bodies from two separate parts of Sariab area of Quetta who were killed by unidentified people.
Police sources said that two bodies were recovered from Qambar Road within the limits of Sariab Police Station.
The bodies were shifted to hospital where they were identified as Farooq Mengal and Ishfaq Mullazai, residents of Jail Road Hudda. Both victims were abducted from different areas of Quetta during the month of May while FIR and a writ petition were also filed in concerned police stations and Balochistan High Court.
Sources said that victims had bullet wounds on their bodies who were tortured before being killed.
Fahim Baloch, a relative of victims said that both Farooq Mengal and Ishfaq Mullazai were allegedly picked by law-enforcement agencies during the month of May.
Separately, police said that a body of unknown person who was killed by unidentified people, recovered from Qasim Line, bypass area within the jurisdiction of New Sariab Police Station.
Police moved the body to hospital for autopsy and identification and later shifted it to hospital morgue.

The War Against Baloch National Leadership Continues–July 27

[If Rehman Malik really names the state terrorists behind the assassination campaign, it is certain that the Pakistani Army will NOT be among them.]

NP leader’s son gunned down in Khuzdar

The Baloch Hal News

KHUZDAR: Unknown people shot dead the son of National Party (NP) central leader Tufail Sabir here i Khuzdar on Monday, police said.

According to sources, unidentified gunmen opened fire on Habibullah on Sultan Ahmed Road, killing him on the spot. The police shifted his body to a nearby hospital. Motive behind the killing is yet to ascertained.

Police has reigstered a case and started further investigaiton.

The Biggest Secret That Wikileaks Doesn’t Reveal–America Needs Pakistan To Support The Taliban

[The whole war is a big show, has been since the fall of Tora Bora.  This war and the one in Iraq were both won on the battlefield after a few months of fighting.  The decision was made to carry-on with this American Kabuki theater, where remnants of the Iraqi Army, as well as the Taliban, became mercenaries for America, Britain and Israel, staging war simulations to mislead Western audiences.]

WikiLeaks: Shaking the foundations of U.S. policy towards Pakistan

A Pakistani security official stands near a burning vehicle after it was attacked in Chaman in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, along the Afghan border on May 19, 2010.

On the face of it, you could ask what’s new about the latest disclosures of Pakistani involvement in the Taliban insurgency while accepting massive U.S. aid to fight Islamic militancy of all hues. Hasn’t this been known all along – something that a succession of top U.S. officials and military leaders have often said, sometimes  couched in diplomatese and sometimes rather  clearly? It was only last week that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said there must be somebody in the Pakistani government who knew Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts. Coming from America’s top diplomat, it couldn’t be more blunt.

Then why is the trove of over 90,000 classified military documents released by WikiLeaks on the war in Afghanistan causing so much  consternation ? Leslie H.Gelb president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, says  it is now much more difficult to deny or dodge the truths that everyone has been aware of.

“The government can deflect news stories simply by crossing their fingers and waiting for the story to sink in a haze of oil spills and Lindsay Lohan extravaganzas. Now, however, “proof” is there in the black-and-white of secret U.S. documents, compliments of anti-war WikiLeaks. Even if one does not believe that the information contained in every one of these reports is accurate (some do sound rather bizarre), and even if little in the reports can be corroborated independently, the very volume of the “secret” material is overwhelming and plausible—and yes, seductively “secret.”

The White House condemned the leak, saying it could threaten national security and endanger the lives of Americans. Islamabad said leaking unprocessed reports from the battlefield was irresponsible adding Pakistan  itself had paid in blood fighting militants.

But Gelb says the documents reveal  the fundamental disconnect in the U.S. administration’s policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan and “no amount of rhetorical tap dancing will allow the White House to escape these contradictions”.

According to the documents, representatives from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence met directly with the Taliban in secret strategy sessions to organize militant networks fighting U.S. soldiers.  One report dated August 2008, identifies a colonel in the ISI plotting with a Taliban official to assassinate President Hamid Karzai. The report says there was no information about how or when this would be carried out.

Another shows that Polish intelligence warned of a complex attack against the Indian Embassy in Kabul a week before it was  bombed in July 2008, although the attackers and their methods differed. While the ISI was not named in the report warning of the attack, C.I.A.’s deputy director Stephen R. Kappes later confronted Pakistani officials with evidence that the ISI helped plan the deadly bombing.

By showering billions of dollars in aid and military assistance on  Pakistan, the United States has in effect, ended up providing elements in the ISI the resources to fight off the Americans on the Afghan battlefield, Gelb argues.  ” The United States is giving “moderate” Pakistanis and the Pakistani military billions of dollars yearly in military and economic aid, which allows  Pakistani military intelligence to “secretly” help the Taliban kill Americans in Afghanistan, which will drive America out of Afghanistan and undermine U.S. help for Pakistan,”  he says.

Tunku Vardarajan, writing in The Beast notes, that much of the latest involvement in the Afghan insurgency by the ISI happened on army chief  General Ashfaq  Kayani’s watch, when he was the head of the ISI.  Kayani, he notes, has just been given a three-year extension, to ensure continuity in the Pakistani military as it fights militancy.

“We are now at a crossroads with Pakistan, a point at which we need to pull out old words from the Bush playbook. It is time to state to them—to state, in particular, to Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the Pakistan army’s chief of staff—that Pakistan is either with us, or against us. There can be no caveats, no exit clauses, no fine print, no weasely handwringing about Pakistan’s need to retain “strategic balance” in Afghanistan,” he writes.

Senators want more severity against terrorism

[What if Mr. Adeel got his wish and all the foreigners were expelled from Karachi?  What if then, Pakistan decided to repatriate all the foreigners who lived as refugees in Pakistan?  What if other nations then followed Pakistan's lead and repatriated all of their unwanted foreigners who were taking refuge from wars or oppression in their own countries?]

By Raja Asghar

Heated debate on law and order situation saw government allies questioning the seriousness of authorities.—File photo

ISLAMABAD: Senators across party lines on Monday called for a more serious and severer policy to fight terrorism in the country at the start of a new session of the upper house.

Two resolutions moved to mourn the recent assassination of former senator Habib Jalib Baloch and the natural death of former senator Qazi Abdul Latif triggered a heated debate on law and order that saw even some government allies questioning the seriousness of authorities, particularly in the insurgency-hit province of Balochistan.

Although Interior Minister Rehman Malik is due to respond to the debate on Tuesday, the main speech of the day came from the ruling Pakistan People’s Party’s Raza Rabbani, chairman of an all-party parliamentary committee on national security, who called for finding “out-of-the-box solutions”, revamping the administrative set-up with more local participation and more stringent laws that should not violate human rights.

Several senators noted that Mr Jalib, general secretary of Balochistan National Party-M who was shot dead by unknown gunmen on July 15, as well as another assassinated party activist, Maula Bakhsh Dashti, were progressive nationalists believing in a democratic struggle for the rights of Balochistan contrary to what Mr Rabbani called “ultra-nationalist forces” using a prevailing trust deficit with the centre to advance their own agenda.

Dr Abdul Malik, whose Balochistan-based National Party supports the PPP-led coalition government there, complained of ministerial corruption and asked the PPP to “change its attitudes in Balochistan and make them pro-people, otherwise our attitude will change”.

He said his party had struggled for democracy and good governance, and not for some people to get ministries and “we picking up dead bodies every day”.

Raja Zafarul Haq of the Pakistan Muslim League-N said the government had “completely failed to provide protection to people”, but pointed to what he called a “plan to destabilise the whole country” to counter which, he said, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani must consult all political forces.

Referring to what have been described by the government as target killings in Karachi, he asked: “Who is organising these things?” He urged the government to fulfil its responsibility to protect people’s lives.

Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party’s Abdul Rahim Mandokhel said the interior minister must tell the house how many people had been arrested for the killings of Mr Jalil, Mr Dashti or for Saturday’s murder of the only son of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain.

Awami National Party’s Haji Mohammad Adeel said his party, which heads the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa coalition government with the PPP, was determined to fight terrorism whether others did or not and called for a de-weaponisation of Karachi and expulsion of illegal immigrants living there.

Jamhoori Watan Party’s Shahid Hassan Bugti called for political moves to solve what he called the political problem in Balochistan and asked the government to disclose the so-called “hidden hands” it had been blaming for the insurgency in the province.

Unnamed Forces Helping Baloch Self-Destruction

Senators condemn terrorism, concerned by law and order

* Baloch senators say govt must change its attitude towards Balochistan

* PML-N says current policy towards terrorism not producing desired results

By Tahir Niaz

ISLAMABAD: Senators on Monday condemned terrorism and expressed concern over the deteriorating law and order in the country, particularly in Balochistan, besides urging the government to take appropriate steps for curbing violence across the country.

At the onset of the 63rd session of the Upper House, Leader of the Opposition Senator Wasim Sajjad and Senator Raza Rabbani moved two separate resolutions to condole the deaths of former senators Qazi Abdul Latif and Habib Jalib Baloch.

Attitude: Speaking on the resolutions, Dr Abdul Maalik expressed concern over the deteriorating situation in Balochistan and urged the government to change its attitude on the Balochistan issue.

He said the provincial government was limited to corrupt practices, adding that the Balochistan cabinet members were to be blamed for incidents of abductions for ransom.

Maalik said the rising incidents of kidnapping for ransom spoke of the failure of the government.

He said they supported the government in every way, but the government must change its policies on Balochistan.

Raja Zafarul Haq of the PML-N pointed out that those who protested against violence in Balochistan had been gunned down one by one, and it was time to unmask internal and external elements working to destabilise the country.

Haq said it was not enough to condemn these incidents and order inquiries, which had so far produced no positive results.

Policy: The PML-N leader said the current policy towards terrorism was not producing desired results and were rendering the country instable.

He said the government should find out who was funding terrorists and urged the prime minister to invite all stakeholders, give them a briefing on the issue and get inputs from them with a view to improve the situation.

Lamenting the surge in incidents of target killing in Karachi, Senator Abdul Rahim Mandokhel said that so far, no arrests had been made in this connection. He also demanded the government arrest the murderers of Habib Jalib.

Senator Muhammad Adeel vowed to fight terrorists until their elimination from the country.

He blamed the “produce of dictators” for pampering terrorists, adding that the nation was now paying the price.

Adeel said terrorists were hitting various targets, but the people were fully resolved to eliminate the menace of terrorism.

Participating in the debate, Shahid Bugti termed the situation in Balochistan exactly the same as that of Bangladesh in 1971.

He pointed out that the government had been talking about “foreign hands”, but the question was why these elements had not been exposed.

Bugti said those who were hiding the identity of terrorists were actually protecting them, adding that those who killed Nawab Akbar Bugti believed that they would be able to contain the movement there, but instead the movement had gone from strength to strength.

Kalsoom Parveen said various packages had been announced to resolve Balochistan’s problems, but none of them had been implemented fully.

She also demanded the dispatch of medicines for those affected by the recent rains in Balochistan.

Tahir Hussain Mashhadi regretted the rise in target killings in Karachi, saying no action had been taken to arrest the culprits.

He asked the political forces to put an end to the blame game and take stern action against the perpetrators of violence.

The senator also demanded action against land mafia in Karachi.

Muhammad Khan Sheerani said the government, the opposition and politicians would have to fulfil their responsibilities to improve the situation and stop the bloodshed of innocent people.

Mian Raza Rabbani was of the view that two types of terrorism existed in the country, one pursued by non-state actors, and the other being economic terrorism.

“There is a nexus between both types of terrorism,” Rabbani said.

Target shooting saga continues

Another ten people lost their lives in Karachi over the last 24 hours in what appeared to be an unending cycle of target shootings.

KARACHI: Another ten people lost their lives in Karachi over the last 24 hours in what appeared to be an unending cycle of target shootings.

The killings happened with a concomitant rise in rioting in parts of the city as the government dithered on whether or not to launch a crackdown.

This time around, the visit of Interior Minister Rehman Malik appears to have not borne any fruit. He went into a huddle with top Sindh government functionaries to consider ways to stem the tide of violence. Then he also visited Nine-Zero and Mardan House.

But all this effort scarcely translated into a silencing of guns. Unlike his previous trips following spates of target killings – when he would meet coalition partners in the Sindh government and the killings would come to a stop – his dash to the metropolis this time failed to do the trick. The situation, in fact, is going from bad to worse.

On previous occasions, the provincial administration gave full powers to Rangers against criminals, and that seemed to have had the desired effect. However, this time the Rangers enjoyed these powers already but the killing spree is going on regardless.

Five among those killed on Sunday were “well-wishers” of the ANP and one MQM activist.

Orangi Town locality remained the city’s tinderbox because of its ethnic mix. In one incident, target-killers attacked a dump-truck at Islam Chowk and killed both its driver and conductor. Then, within a distance of one kilometre from this spot, the killers struck again, spraying truck driver Nisar Khan and cleaner Abdul Wahid with bullets. Both were pronounced dead on arrival at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Their bodies were later dispatched to Dir.

In one more incident, ANP member Sahib Ali was gunned down in Khadda Market right in front of his house. ANP spokesperson Abdul Malik, however, said the killers entered his house and shot him dead.  In the same locality, Javaid Noor was also gunned down. Police said he was also an ANP activist.

In another incident, a man was shot dead by unidentified armed men at Lyari Town in the jurisdiction of Chakiwara police station. The deceased was identified as Fateh Sher. Police said he was a member of a Lyari gang allied to Rehman Dakait’s commander Mullah Sultan.

Police found the bullet-riddled body of a young man, apparently a Bengali, from the bushes in Sector 51-D, Korangi in Zaman Town police precincts.

Taj Rehman was killed when unidentified assailants opened fire on a passenger bus, killing Rehman and injuring three other passengers at Qalandaria Chowk within the limits of Sharah-e-Noor Jahan police station.

Separately, culprits opened indiscriminate fire at the Quetta Sardar Hotel, killing Bashir Khan and injuring Jalal Khan in the jurisdiction of Samanabad police station. Bashir Khan was an activist of the Awami National Party and the party’s media wing condemned his assassination.

One MQM worker Abdul Malik, son of Afzal, was gunned down in Baldia No 9 in the precincts of Mochko police station. Police have arrested an ANP worker Zahid from the Quaidabad locality in this connection.

Noor Hussain was shot dead in a firing incident within the limits of Mobina Town police station.

In the aftermath of the killing, unidentified persons torched a passenger wagon in Gulshan-e-Iqbal police precincts.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 26^th, 2010.

Cameron ‘anger’ at slow pace of Turkish EU negotiations

Mr Cameron told his Turkish counterpart he wanted a “modern partnership”

David Cameron has promised to “fight” for Turkey’s membership of the European Union, saying he is “angry” at the slow pace of negotiations.

On his first visit as prime minister, he said the country could become a “great European power”, helping build links with the Middle East.

He compared hostility to the membership bid in some parts of the EU with the way the UK’s entry was once regarded.

After his visit to Turkey, Mr Cameron will travel on to India.

He will be joined by a host of British business leaders as he seeks to boost trade links with one of the world’s fastest growing economies.

Mr Cameron is expected to agree a new strategic partnership with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan during his visit.

‘Frustrating progress’

In a speech at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Mr Cameron said he wanted to “pave the road” for Turkey to join the EU, saying the country was “vital for our economy, vital for our security and vital for our diplomacy”.

A European Union without Turkey at its heart was “not stronger but weaker… not more secure but less… not richer but poorer”.

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Mr Cameron added: “I’m here to make the case for Turkey’s membership of the EU. And to fight for it.”

Referring to former French President General Charles de Gaulle’s efforts to block British membership of the EU in the 1960s, he said: “We know what it’s like to be shut out of the club. But we also know that these things can change.

“When I think about what Turkey has done to defend Europe as a Nato ally, and what Turkey is doing today in Afghanistan, alongside our European allies, it makes me angry that your progress towards EU membership can be frustrated in the way it has been.

“My view is clear. I believe it is just wrong to say that Turkey can guard the camp but not be allowed to sit in the tent.

“So I will remain your strongest possible advocate for EU membership and greater influence at the top table of European diplomacy.”

Turkey opened accession negotiations with the EU in 2005 but is considered very unlikely to join in the next 10 years, partly because of opposition from countries such as France.

Its refusal to recognise EU member Cyprus, growing support for pro-Islamic parties on the mainland and the treatment of the Kurdish minority in the country all remain potential stumbling blocks.

Since 2005, only 11 out of 35 “negotiating chapters” relating to accession talks have been opened for discussion and only one has been “provisionally closed”.

Regional role

Mr Cameron said those who opposed EU membership were driven by protectionism, narrow nationalism or prejudice.

“Those who wilfully misunderstand Islam, they see no difference between real Islam and the distorted version of the extremists. They think the problem is Islam itself. And they think the values of Islam can just never be compatible with the values of other religions, societies or cultures.”

He said: “All of these arguments are just plain wrong. And as a new government in Britain, I want us to be at the forefront of an international effort to defeat them.”

While praising Turkey’s secular and democratic traditions, Mr Cameron stressed that Turkey must continue to push forward “aggressively” with economic and political reform to maintain momentum towards EU membership.

He said the country had a “unique influence” in helping to build a stable Afghanistan through political and economic co-operation and fostering understanding between Israel and the Arab world.

He also delivered a firm message to Iran, against whom Turkey opposes further sanctions, saying there was no other “logic” to Tehran’s uranium enrichment programme than to produce a bomb.

“So we need Turkey’s help now in making it clear to Iran just how serious we are about engaging fully with the international community,” Mr Cameron said.

Israel Admits: “Our Troops Are Psychopaths!”

Yesterday’s radio guest Gordon Duff just broke a big story:

GORDON DUFF: ISRAEL CLAIMS “NO PTSD IN IDF,  JEWS IMMUNE TO MENTAL ILLNESS”: STUDY COMPARES “RESETTLING PALESTINIANS” WITH WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

Gordon is skeptical of the Zionist claim that their troops, unlike American soldiers, don’t suffer from PTSD. If this is true, Gordon says, maybe it’s because American soldiers are fighting and dying for a Zionist-orchestrated series of lies, and are treated like “broken toys” when they come home; while Israeli soldiers are committing genocide for their own national benefit, and are relatively well-treated by their US-taxpayer-funded regime.

But there is a simpler explanation: In claiming that its soldiers are immune to PTSD, Israel is implicitly confessing that its troops are psychopaths.

In On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman shows that throughout history, 5% of the soldiers — the psychopaths and borderline psychopaths — have done 95% of the killing. As Grossman explains, studies by S.L.A. Marshall and associates showed that the vast majority of World War II infantry soldiers found ways to avoid firing at the enemy; and archeological evidence suggests that the same was true of previous wars.

Normal human beings can only kill at tremendous psychological cost, and thus find ways to avoid killing on the battlefield, even if it means losing their own lives. A non-psychopath who kills in wartime will almost certainly suffer some form of PTSD upon returning to civilian life.

Marshall’s studies spurred the development of intensive Pavlovian conditioning methods that raised the shoot-to-kill ratio to 50% in the Korean war, and 90% in Vietnam. That, Grossman suggests, is why PTSD rates skyrocketed. Normal, non-psychopathic men were being effectively turned into killers for the first time in history. When they came home, they couldn’t live with themselves.

It is a tribute to the American character — to the fact that only about 5% of American men are psychopaths — that our troops suffer from so much PTSD.

The Israelis, on the other hand…how to put this politely?

Andrzej Lobaczewski, in his seminal study of political psychopathyPolitical Ponerology, writes:

“The pathocratic phenomenon [a society ruled by psychopaths and those who catch the psychopathic contagion] has appeared many times in history…[it sometimes] occurs when the religious association itself succumbs to infection…succumbs to destruction from within, its organism becomes subordinated to goals completely different from the original idea, and its theosophic and moral values fall prey to characteristic deformation, thereby serving as a disguise for domination by pathological individuals. The religious idea then becomes both a justification for using force and sadism against nonbelievers, heretics, and sorcerers, and a conscience drug for people who put such inspirations into effect.“

Clearly the “religious idea” of Zionism has undergone this kind of pathological shift. Israel is a psychopathic state par excellence. Its soldiers slaughter innocent Palestinian children by the hundreds as they play on sidewalks and schoolyards as a de facto national policy:

“Two thirds of the 621 children (two thirds under 15 years) killed at checkpoints, in the street, on the way to school, in their homes, died from small arms fire, directed in over half of cases to the head, neck and chest – the sniper’s wound…Clearly, soldiers are routinely authorised to shoot to kill children in situations of minimal or no threat.” (British Medical Journal 10/16/04)

There are countless eyewitness accounts of these child-killings. For example, Chris Hedges,  one of our nation’s most respected journalists,  wrote in Harper’s magazine (October 2001) that he had been in several war zones,  but he had never seen soldiers luring children within range of their guns, then gut-shooting them for sport, until he saw Israeli soldiers doing it in the Occupied Territories.

The Israeli soldiers who gut-shoot Palestinian children for sport apparently feel no remorse, and therefore suffer from no PTSD. Israeli society and its judicial system feel no remorse either, which is why they never prosecute the child-killers, and why polls show that more than 90% of Israeli Jews approve of the criminal destruction of Gaza by Operation Cast Lead.

A society that slaughters innocent children without remorse is a society of psychopaths.

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Camp of the Saints

[A novel about the dilemma of "useless eaters," who are destined to devour the soul of the world.]

The Camp of the Saints (Le Camp des saints) is a 1973 French novel by Jean Raspail.

The Camp of the Saints is a novel about population migration and the consequences thereof. In Bombay, India, the Dutch government announces a policy in which Indian babies will be adopted and raised in the Netherlands. The policy is soon reversed after the Dutch consulate is inundated with poverty-stricken parents eager to give up their infant children. An Indian “wise man” then rallies the masses to make a mass exodus to live in Europe. Most of the story centers on the French Riviera, where almost no one remains except for the military and a few civilians, including a retired professor who has been watching the huge fleet of run down freighters approaching the French coast. The story alternates between the French reaction to the mass immigration and the attitude of the immigrants. They have no desire to assimilate into French culture but want the plentiful food and water that are in short supply their native India. Although the novel focuses on France, it is not just the people of France that befall this fate. Near the end of the story the mayor of New York City is made to share Gracie Mansion with three families from Harlem, the Queen of England must agree to have her son marry a Pakistani woman, and only one drunken Soviet soldier stands in the way of thousands of Chinese people as they swarm into Siberia. The one holdout until the end of the novel is Switzerland, but by then international pressure isolating Switzerland as a rogue state for not opening its borders forces it to capitulate.