The Disappeared

Frankly I think the Red Cross has no business meddling in Foreign Affairs unless it involves a U.S. Citizen. The Red Cross is an American organization for the benefit of AMERICAN CITIZENS. They should have no input regarding foreign detainees of any origin. Maybe that's why Red Cross is financially strapped. GET OUT OF GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS RED CROSS..THAT'S STATE DEPARTMENT BUSINESS

Peace and Love Tofu and Hugs. Poor little terrorist being picked on. Where was the indignation when Americans and their allies were captured. It was noticalby missing. One sided human rights by the Red Cross.

It sure looks as if those in the Bush Gang committed Adolph Hitler types of crimes. So when are they going to be prosecuted? This issue is not going to simply fade away. Did the Bush Clowns think we the people were so stupid we would not recognize Nazi techniques when they were applied to us? Americans don't like to admit that we are no better than a bunch of foaming at the mouth Nazi crooks, especially when it is true. All of this brought to us by the Republican party. What a stench! The voter backlash against the Republican fools will hopefully continue throughout eternity.

For another Newsweek report:
"According to the 9/11 commission, in December 1998, four months after Al Qaeda attacked two U.S. embassies in Africa, President Clinton signed a "memorandum of notification" that first authorized the CIA to use Afghan tribesmen to kill Osama bin Laden, if it became necessary"
So dont get all pumped up here this has been going on for years the only reason the politico create a stink is they were not informed. well Duh tell a politician anything in confidence and it'll be all over Washington in a hearbeat.

the suspects should of been given away a long time ago and the two authors should charged with giving aid and comfort to the enemy. in case no one has figured it out the terrorists have no uniforms and do not represent any country so they are not entitled to red cross protection. another reason i do not donate to the red cross. also another reason not to renew my subscription to newsweek.

Yes our enemies commit atrocities against us without second thought - justifying it even in the name of religion (like our own right wing fundamentalists by the way). That makes it right for us to do? How would we be any different, any better, how would we be America if we did the same? Isn't that the point? That we're not terrorists, that we're fighting terrorism, that we're fighting for something, in whatever name, that's better? I for one want to be proud of America and hold ourselves to the standards we've always believed in, though we may have failed in the aftermath of 9/11. Thank goodness we're righting ourselves now, maybe the world will start to believe in us again. Maybe we can start leading again - instead of following the terrorists down the barbarian way.

Once we hand off these detainees to their countries of origin why does anyone suppose that, somehow, we remain responsible for those detainees? They're no longer in our custody. I for one have grown quite tired of these bleeding-heart lefties who feign concern for those who intend our destruction. What our countrymen on the left simply do not (and apparently, cannot) grasp is that all of their heady high-mindedness and smug self-righteousness only makes them FEEL safer and FEEL better. It does not MAKE them safer. What makes them safer is the extraction of actionable intelligence from detainees--intelligence that helps foil plans, plots, and attacks. That's what makes us all safer, and I dare say, keeps some of these lefties alive. But they're too busy having a lovefest with our enemies to see that. Frankly, what they're doing borders on treason.

Bush was the most powerful terrorist in the world. He had even quoted the same sentences as Adolph Hitler while he was addressing the American People. The Iraq war has a purpose, and that is to maintain the agenda for the "elite" few whom control this country. War is a huge money making machine, and it will keep on rolling. We will never... ever... beat the "terrorists". You can be sure; the "war on terrorism" will never end. The word "terrorism" and "terrorists" are words used by our government to instill fear in its people. It is how the "elite" who rule this country can maintain their agenda, by giving it purpose. They maintain control over the American people by using fear. Our Government and its political lobbyist???s have one objective: to control oil in Iraq and set up permanent military bases. We need Iraq; you can bet U.S. forces will eventually invade Iran also. It's just a matter of time, and the war machine will roll full force once again. Thus, it leads me to ask a few questions... Who are actually the Terrorists? Who invades other countries, as to control and maintain the "elite" powers? Who wants to be the "rulers" of the global world? Who pillages other countries for their resources? Who declares war, creating chaos, poverty and destruction? Who allows bankers and other people of great power to steal from its own people with no reprimand? The answer... The United States of America!


???An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and every child of this great Nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland???.
-George W. Bush-

???An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and every child of this great Nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland???.
Adolph Hitler

(When Announcing The Gestapo To The People)

Bush was the most powerful terrorist in the world. He had even quoted the same sentences as Adolph Hitler while he was addressing the American People. The Iraq war has a purpose, and that is to maintain the agenda for the "elite" few whom control this country. War is a huge money making machine, and it will keep on rolling. We will never... ever... beat the "terrorists". You can be sure; the "war on terrorism" will never end. The word "terrorism" and "terrorists" are words used by our government to instill fear in its people. It is how the "elite" who rule this country can maintain their agenda, by giving it purpose. They maintain control over the American people by using fear. Our Government and its political lobbyist???s have one objective: to control oil in Iraq and set up permanent military bases. We need Iraq; you can bet U.S. forces will eventually invade Iran also. It's just a matter of time, and the war machine will roll full force once again. Thus, it leads me to ask a few questions... Who are actually the Terrorists? Who invades other countries, as to control and maintain the "elite" powers? Who wants to be the "rulers" of the global world? Who pillages other countries for their resources? Who declares war, creating chaos, poverty and destruction? Who allows bankers and other people of great power to steal from its own people with no reprimand? The answer... The United States of America!


???An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and every child of this great Nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland???.
-George W. Bush-

???An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and every child of this great Nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland???.
Adolph Hitler
(When Announcing The Gestapo To The People)

Guantanamo Rights

The decision by the US Supreme Court was long over-due, and even now, it must be applied to all. AS we know, the US Regime has "rendited" prisoners to their colonial courts (Afghanistan etc) to make them "disppear". They too have a right to be either heard, or publicly apologized to - not forgotten in some far away dungeons.

This decision, as it came now, is absolutely necessary to save even the image of a judiciary based on human rights and dignity. That Mr. Scalia disagrees with it again and believes it will cost more American lives (why only American lives - are they special?) is sad and worrying enough, as Guantanamo itself has already caused more deaths than even the 9/11 attack.

What has been overlooked so far, however, is that this ruling must also apply to all those prisoners who were removed from Guantanamo - whether they were extradicted to prisons in their home countries (like Australian Hicks, under coerced "confession") or to security sets which released them - OR, and that is presumably the largest group, as they comprise, at least 140 Afghanis, who were sent to kangaroo courts in their countries and made disappear from sight after mini-pseudo-trials based on "evidence" not even the Guantanamo tribunals could admit nor accept.

These "renditions" which only served as cover up and fig-leaf to long-term and continued unjustified incarceration must be reversed and the Bush administration - sorry: Regime- be forced to either show charges AND PROVE THEM! Or offer substantial compensation for wrongful and illegal detention.

Such righting of legal and moral wrongs presupposes, of course, that ???estos desparicidos??? are still alive. We know, after all, that this was not the case with almost all of those who disappeared in the hands of government forces trained in interrogation and torture by the CIA in the, now defunct, infamous ???Academy of the Americas??? in Panama, which was so disgusting that US Congressmen who demanded to see it were arrested and deported when they turned up on the doorstep. And President Reagan???s friend in Santiago de Chile (viz 9/11 in 1973!) had his ways of ???rendition??? by dropping netloads of disappearing people from helicopters out at sea. Have Bush & Co learnt from such allied techniques? As long as we do not know the opposite ??? with evidence provided ??? we must presume the worst.

The question of personal legal responsibility before an International Court (say: The Hague) should be considered after the persons involved in the setting up of Guantanamo and other prisons camps of doubtful repute (Abu Ghraib, Bagran) left their offices and the immunity they enjoyed therein. That is: Neither Messrs. Bush nor Cheney, nor Ms. Rice, and many others should be able to travel to any of those countries which ratified their cooperation with the International Court, without fearing arrest and trial for Crimes against Humanity.

Dr. J. Bo

You know I'm not some flag waving "hang 'em high" type. I think the U.S. is above torture. But if these guys DID plan/execute the 9/11 attacks, I don't care how many times they were waterboarded. You want to talk about human rights? How about the rights of the 3,000 of my countrymen and women that were taken that day? If I do have an aggressive and violent side; Al Qaeda are pros at bringing it out.

Ive never been to NY nor do I know anyone who died so inocently on 9/11. So John Sifton where was the human rights to the civilians so tradgically killed on that darkened day? These criminals caught were waiting in line to come over here to kill you and me next. So lets have it your way and give them a chance to do it. The bleeding hearts make me sick to my stomache to want to defend these ignorant criminals and not speak out for the innocent Americans who died on that day. I would rather die on a batttlefield with a gun in my hand instead of in an office with a ball poit pen.

PACISTAN CANNOT BE TRUSTED AND THIS IS WHY WE ARE GETTING NOWHERE AGAINST AL QUEDA. THERE ARE MANY ENTITIES WITHIN THE PACISTAN REGIME THAT SUPPORT AL QUEDA AND BIN LADEN THEY HATE THE U.S AND ARE PLAYING US. THEY ARE USING THE MONEY WE GIVE THEM TO COMBAT TERRORISM AND FUND AND PROTECT BIN LADEN. WE HAVE LOST OUR MORAL STANDING IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD. IT IS CLEAR THAT WESTERN CULTURE HAS BEEN REJECTED IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD. YOU CANNOT BRING DEMOCRACY TO AFGANISTAN it is still TRIBAL it is still in medieval ages. DEMOCRACY WILL BE THE TOOL AL QUEDA WILL USE TO TAKE CONTROL OF Afganistan again. WE either take control of the AFGHAN PACISTAN BORDER on BOTH SIDES OR WE GET OUT. WE DO NOT HAVE CONTROL OF THE AFGHAN PACISTAN BORDER ON THE PACISTANI SIDE AND THIS IS WHY WE ARE LOSING the fight against AL QUEDA in AFGANISTAN AND PACISTAN. THE PACISTANI INTELLIGENT FORCE ARE PROVIDING A SHIELD FOR AL QUEA. WHY DO YOU THINK THEY KILLED BHUTTO SHE WAS GOING TO MOVE IN ON AL QUEDA AND ROOT THEM OUT. SHE WAS GOING TO MAKE CHANGES IN THE INTELLIGENT AND MILITARY THAT WOULD HAVE ALLOWED THE MISSION TO MOVER FORWARD. SHE KNEW EXACTLY WHO TO GET RID OF. OBAMA CANNOT CHANGE ANTI-U>S SENTIMENT IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD. PACISTAN IS SNEAKY AND VIEW OBAMA AS A BANK FULL OF MONEY. TELL HIM WHAT HE WANT TO HEAR CATCH A COUPLE OF TERROISTS AND IN RETURN GET BILLIONS. IT IS NOT IN PACISTAN INTEREST TO END THIS WAR THEY ARE GETTING RICH SO THEY CAN STALK UP THEIR OWN NULEAR WEAPONS TO COMBAT INDIA. THIS IS WHERE CHINA AND RUSSIA COME IN. CHINA AND RUSSIA VIEW INDIA AS A DIRECT THREAT. INDIA IS ON THE VERGE OF BECOMING THE SOLE ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER IN THAT REGION.
THIS SOUNDS CRAZY BUT IF WE WANT TO WIN THE WAR ON TERROR WE HAVE TO WIN IT NOW. THE MORE TIME THAT GOES BY THE BIGGER THE MONSTERS HEAD GROWS. THE STRONGER AL QUEDA GETS. WE HAVE TO TAKE COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE AFGHAN/PACISTAN BORDER; SURROUND AND EXTERMINATE AL QUEDA. ONCE THAT HAPPENS AFGANISTAN WILL FALL INTO LINE AND PACISTAND WILL ABANDON AL QUEDA REALIZING THEY ARE NOT THE FUTURE. WE HAVE TO INVADE WITH PACISTAN UNDER THE PACISTANI ARMY. THIS BORDER OCCUPATION WILL LAST ONE YEAR. HOW WILL WE CONVINCE THE PAICSTANI'S WE WILL PAY THEM. RIGHT NOW AL QUEDA IS SO POWERFUL IN PACISTAN THAT THE GOVERMENT IS SCARED OF ATTACKING THEM BECAUSE THEY COULD LOSE CONTROL OF THE COUNTRY AND THEIR OWN MILITARY. IT IS THE PACISTANI INTELLIGENCE FORCES THAT ARE PREVENTING US FROM DEFEATING AL QUEDA

CYBERSECURITY CHINA AND RUSSIA. THESE IS THREE REASONS WHY GATES IS NOT A GENIUS BUT RATHER AN INTELLIGENT MAN FOLLOWING A MISGUIDED AGENDA. IF WE DO NOT WAKE UP FAST WE ARE GOING TO GET BURNED AND NEVER RECOVER FROM THE SCARS. THE FACT that I have a computer forensics background allows me to understand all sides of the this spectrum. WE NEED TO SET UP A CYBERSECURITY ARMY THAT WILL SECURE OUR INSTITUTIONS AND KEEP "BORDER WATCH". CYBERSECURITY BREACHES CAN SHUT DOWN OUR DEFENSES AND LEAVE US VERY VUNERABLE. THE HEAD OF THIS ARMY must assign a division dedicated to penetrating our own defenses it is the only way we will get better.