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Amnesty International USA: Thank you for
taking action against torture. With the use of
waterboarding by the CIA being publicly
confirmed, and the refusal of the Attorney
General to state that simulated drowning is
torture, a favorable Senate vote for this
amendment is critical to stopping the use of
torture by any US agent, anywhere in the
world. (Note of appreciation in the in-box.)
The Center for Constitutional Rights challenges the validity of military commissions and use of torture evidence in new death penalty cases [at Guantanamo].
'...secret evidence, hearsay evidence, and evidence obtained through torture...unlawful, unconstitutional, and a perversion of justice...'
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Why they did it: Section 5.2, para. 4, of the official
9/11 Report: 'U.S. support for Israel, the
Philippines, and repressive governments in the
Arab world. '
U.S. Dept. of State Official Blog
2008 Human Rights Report:
Israel and the occupied territories
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices;
Feb. 25, '09;
Questions & Answers on Gaza; Stephen Shalom;
ZNet; Jan. 16, '09
Aspects Of The Post-Oil Community; Peter
Goodchild; Countercurrents: Feb. 25, '09;
Palestinian Children Behind Bars; ('07)
Former Speaker of the Israeli Parliament Avraham
Burg: “The Holocaust Is Over: We Must Rise from
its Ashes” - Democracy Now!
The Gaza Bombshell; David Rose; Vanity Fair;
Apr. '08 (Bush/Rice/Abrams backed an armed
force to overthrow Hamas.)
Alternet: Israel's Leaders are frantically trying to
prevent war crimes proceedings
What if the entire tale of the Jewish Diaspora is
historically wrong? ;
by Joshua Holland; Alternet; Jan. 28, 09
Israel 'Hides Settlement Data'; BBC Jan. 30
Erase my grandfather's name from Yad Vashem;
transl. to En. by Aimee Kligman; (orig. in Le Monde)
Israel denies Gaza access to clean water;
Press TV; Jan. 30
Israeli troops told to fire at anything that moved;
Press TV; Jan. 31
Dear Conservatives, Will You Help Save the
Republic From Military Takeover? by Naomi Wolf,
Oct. 18, '08; AlterNet
Film: Torturing Democracy (plus documents, time-
line)
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Iraq veterans against the war: Winter Soldier
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Timeline of the Great Depression ;
1927 - 1933 Chart of the Pompous
Prognosticators ;
Federal Ethics Committee ECNH - Dignity of living
beings ;
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'There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice'
- Joseph Addison (1713)

Petition: Tell Attorney General Holder: Karl Rove must testify.
support Hampshire College first in U.S. to boycott Israel
Censored: Direct TV censors Gaza ad.
Hamas denies stealing UNRWA's aid.
Gazans: IDF used us as 'human shields' during offensive; by
Amira Hass; Haaretz; Feb. 20, '09;
2006 but still, wow! Example of Israeli far-right:
Baruch Marzel: IDF must assassinate left-wing activist Uri
Avnery;
by Nadav Shragai, Haaretz; 21/03/06
Targeting Israel with Boycotts, Divestment, Sanctions, and
Prosecutions'; by Stephen Lendman; Global Research.ca,
Feb. 25, '09;
If Israel has nothing to hide-let us in; B'Tselem; Feb. 23, '09
Hamas, Fatah planning to resume talks; Press TV; Sat, 14
Feb. 09
Egypt seizes aid supplies for Gaza; Press TV; Fri, 13 Feb 2009
United Nations press conference on the humanitarian
situation in Gaza, Feb. 05, 09
Article: UK government suppressed evidence on Binyam
Mohamed torture because MI6 helped his interrogators;
Telegraph.co.uk; Feb. 07, '09;


Flashback - Amira Hass of Haaretz,
'Don't shoot until you can see they're over the
age of 12'; Nov. 20, 2000. Hass is interviewing
an IDF sharpshooter.
Excerpt:
(Hass is the speaker without quotes).
But nonetheless there are children who were hit,
wounded or killed after they were hit in the head.
Unless these were mistakes.
"If they were children, they were mistakes."
Do they talk about this?
"They talk to us about this a lot. They forbid us to
shoot at children."
How do they say this?
"You don't shoot a child who is 12 or younger."
That is, a child of 12 or older is allowed?
"Twelve and up is allowed. He's not a child any
more, he's already after his bar mitzvah.
Something like that."
Thirteen is bar mitzvah age.
"Twelve and up, you're allowed to shoot. That's
what they tell us."
Again: Twelve and up you're allowed to shoot
children.
"Because this already doesn't look to me like a
child by definition, even though in the United
States a child can be 23."
Under international law, a child is defined as
someone up to the age of 18.
"Up until 18 is a child?"
So, according to the IDF, it is 12?
"According to what the IDF says to its soldiers. I
don't know if this is what the IDF says to the
media."
And children are from 12 down. Is there no order
that between 12 and 18 you shoot at the legs and
not the head?
"Of course we try to see to it that he really is over
20."
In the 10 seconds that you have.
"In the 10 seconds that I have, I have to estimate
how old he is."
And in what direction the wind is blowing, and the
deviation here and there, and which way he'll jump
the next moment.
"Yes, but there are hardly any mistakes by
sharpshooters. The mistakes are made by people
who aren't sharpshooters."
And it turns out that they happen to hit the
children's heads, and all this is just by chance?
"If you say you have seen children that have been
hit in the head a lot, then it is sharpshooters."
So what you're saying is that our definition of
children is different.
"Your definition is different."
Because for you it's someone who is 12.
"Yes."

Mr Fish, Harpers Magazine, 15 April 2005.
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- March 5, '09
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