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I Had Ray Davis's Job in Laos 30 Years Ago
By ROBERT ANDERSON February 28, 2011 Counterpunch |
The story of Raymond Allen Davis is one familiar to me and I wish our government would quit doing these things — they cost us credibility.
Davis is the American being held as a spy working under diplomatic cover out of our embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan.
You can understand why foreign countries no longer trust us and people are rising up across the Middle East against the Great Satan.
Laos as Pakistan
In the Vietnam War the country of Laos held a geo-strategic position, as does Pakistan does to Afghanistan today.
As in Pakistan, in Laos our country conducted covert military operations against a sovereign people, using the CIA.
I was a demolitions technician with the Air Force who was reassigned to work with the CIA’s Air America operation in Laos.
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We turned in our military IDs cards and uniforms and were issued a State Department ID card and dressed in blue jeans.
We were told if captured we were to ask for diplomatic immunity, if alive.
We carried out military missions on a daily basis all across the countries of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam.
We also knew that if killed or captured that we would probably not be searched for and our families back home in the U.S. would be told we had been killed in an auto accident of some kind back in Thailand and our bodies not recovered.
Just take photos of the dead — leave the ears
Our team knew when the UN inspectors and international media were scheduled to arrive — we controlled the airfields.
We would disappear to our safe houses so we could not be asked questions.
It was all a very well planned operation, 60 years ago, involving the military and diplomats out of the US Embassy.
It had been going on a long time when I was there during the 1968 Tet Offensive.
This continued for a long time, until we were routed and had to abandon the whole war as a failure.
In Laos the program I was attached to carried out a systematic assassination of people who were identified as not loyal to U.S. goals.
It was called the Phoenix program and eliminated an estimated 60,000 people across Indochina.
We did an amazing amount of damage to the civilian infrastructure of the country, and still lost the war.
I saw one team of mercenaries I was training show us a bag of ears of dead civilians they had killed.
This was how they verified their kills for us.
The Green Berets that day were telling them to just take photos of the dead, leave the ears.
Air America — illegal drug operation CIA ran
Mel Gibson made a movie about all this, called Air America.
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It included in the background the illegal drug operation the CIA ran to pay for their operations.
Congress had not authorized funds for what we were doing.
I saw the drug operation first hand too.
This was all detailed in The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia by Alfred McCoy.
I did not connect all this until the Iran-Contra hearings when Oliver North was testifying about it.
Oliver North was a leader of the Laos operation I was assigned to work with.
Our country has a long history of these type programs going back to World War Two.
We copied this from of warfare from the Nazis in WWII it seems.
[Brought the Nazi's back to the US, paid them to run operations — Kewe]
We justified it as necessary for the Cold War.
One of the first operations was T.P. Ajax run by Kermit Roosevelt to overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953to take over their oil fields.
In that coup the CIA and the State Department under the Dulles Brothers first perfected these covert, illegal and immoral actions.
Historians have suggested that Operation T.P. Ajax was the single event that set in motion the political force of Islamic fundamentalism we are still dealing with today.
Chalmers Johnson also a former CIA employee wrote a series of books too on these blowbacks that happen when the truth is held from the American public.
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If we had taken a different approach to our problems in those days an approach that did not rely on lying to our own and the people of other countries and killing them indiscriminately our country would not be in the disaster it is abroad today..
I was young and foolish in those days of the Vietnam War, coveting my Top Secret security clearance, a big thing for an uneducated hillbilly from Appalachia.
When will this 'official' hypocrisy stop
We saw ourselves much like James Bond characters, but now I am much wiser.
These kinds of actions have immense and long reaching consequences and should be shut down.
But I see from the Ray Davis fiasco in Pakistan that our government is still up to its old way of denying to the people of the world what everyone knows is true.
When will this official hypocrisy end, when will our political class speak out about this and quit going along with the lies and tricks?
How many more of our people and others will die in these foolish programs?
Davis is in a bad situation now because most of the people of the world, as we see across the Middle East, are now aware of the lies and not going to turn their head anymore.
I say “most” everyone knows, because our own public, the ones suppose to be in control of the military and CIA, is constantly lied to.
It is so sad to see President Obama repeating the big lie.
Robert Anderson lives in Albuquerque, N.M.
He can be reached at citizen [at] comcast.net |
Kewe |
Hail all those who seek to open Illuminati treasured secrecy
What great courage this man, this young man, has!
A great hero of his generation!
What great tribute we pay to those who break with Illuminati authority!
How foul those who imprison this young man!
How I pray they will be brought to account for their traitorous action!
Kewe |
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Purple Heart For Moral Convictions
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Camouflaged in fear afraid to speak
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In Bradley Manning's courageous light no longer concealed |
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Bradley Manning Support Networkclick here |
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Once soldiers become civilians and get away from the 'Green Machine' they begin to have insights that go beyond their intelligence.
As a Vietnam veteran who was brain washed every day before I ever went into the military, my return to civilian life was more like a trip from outer space.
I was blind, but now I see.
The greatest revelation that came out of my year in Vietnam was the realization that the entire Vietnam War was a lie.
Every single fiber of my being was duped by a government that I thought was on my side.
In short, I was incested by the U.S. Government.
Not only was I fucked for profit, but I was left for dead.
Forty years post Vietnam and that profound truth has catapulted me into a new dimension.
The only way you can recover from rape is to do whatever it takes to bear witness about the criminality of your own country.
It was an inside job G.I.
When you finally realize you fought on the wrong side your IQ tripples.
The first time I ever said 'Fuck The Military' is the first time I ever experienced critical thinking.
Mike Hastie |
Destruction of the US by its own military and government agencies |
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Destruction of the US by its own military and government agencies |
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Clearly, the Americans have panicked because they know that the Pakistani side knows much more than it is prepared to admit in public.
There are clear indications that Mr. “Davis” has broken down after sustained interrogation in police custody, and has spilled his guts — making the Pakistanis aware of explosive stuff.
It's not that this stuff has surprised the Pakistanis.
When you have 3000 of these guys running around the country — something gives.
The ISI is one of the world’s most powerful spy organizations in the world.
It has deep roots in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Nothing that crawls or walks in Pakistan is hidden from the ISI and other agencies.
On top of this there is a million man Pakistani army.
180 million Pakistanis are also watching the Americans and reporting on them. |
Americans stick out like sore thumbs in Pakistan
When they go running around in their black SUVs laced with Satellite equipment they are tracked, traced and followed
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Blackwater Xe Hyperion killers cannot run amok in Pakistan
After a deluge of Wikileaks and Obama’s rhetoric in Pakistan, there is a genuine feeling in Islamabad that many of the 'consultants' are actually saboteurs who go around blowing up things in Pakistan.
There is almost universals consensus that these mercenaries have to be stopped from doing their dirty chores in Pakistan and that Washington has to understand that Blackwater/Xe/Hyperion killers cannot run amok in Pakistan. |
Afghanistan — Western Terror States: Canada, US, UK, France, Germany, Italy Photos of Afghanistan people being killed and injured by NATO |
7/7 Inquest: Is someone afaid!
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"They come to people’s houses in the middle of the night, when everyone is asleep, blow in the door.
They point their weapons in people’s faces ... they search women in front of their families, they smash everything in the house.”
A lot of U.S. soldiers are on medication
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Saturday, 2 July, 2005
Iraq envoy accuses US of killing |
Iraq's ambassador to the UN has demanded an inquiry into what he said was the "cold-blooded murder" of his young unarmed relative by US marines.
Samir Sumaidaie said his 21-year-old cousin was shot as he helped marines who were carrying out searches at his village in the restive Anbar province.
Mr Sumaidaie said the ramifications of such a "serious crime" were enormous for both the US and Iraq.
US officials said the allegations would be thoroughly investigated.
Meanwhile, a suicide bomber has killed at leat 20 people outside a special police recruiting centre in the capital Baghdad.
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It is the latest in a spate of attacks targeting the country's security forces.
English exercise
In a letter to colleagues, Mr Sumaidaie explained in detail what happened to his cousin Mohammed al-Sumaidaie on 25 June in the village of al-Sheikh Hadid.
He said Mohammed, an engineering student, was visiting his family home when some 10 marines with an Egyptian interpreter knocked on the door at 1000 local time.
He opened the door to them and was "happy to exercise some of his English", said the ambassador.
When asked if there were any weapons in the house, Mohammed took the marines to a room where there was a rifle with no
live ammunition.
It was the last the family saw him alive. Shortly after, another brother was dragged out and beaten and the family was ordered to wait outside.
As the marines left "smiling at each other" an hour later, the interpreter told the mother they had killed Mohammed, said Mr Sumaidaie.
"In the bedroom, Mohammed was found dead and laying in a clotted pool of his blood. A single bullet had penetrated his neck."
The US military said the allegations "roughly correspond to an incident involving coalition forces on that day and in that
general location".
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Maj Gen Stephen T Johnson said the allegations were being taken seriously and would be thoroughly investigated.
Acting US ambassador to the UN, Anne Patterson, had "expressed her heartfelt condolences" to Mr Sumaidaie, said a spokesman.
She has urged the Pentagon and state department to look into the matter immediately.
"All indications point to a killing of an unarmed innocent civilian — a cold blooded murder," said Mr Sumaidaie in his letter.
"I believe this killing must be investigated in a credible and convincingly fair way to ensure that justice is done, and
the sense of grievance is mitigated, and to deter similar actions in the future."
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IslamOnline.org
Samir Sumaidaie is a Western-educated Sunni Arab who was a member of the Governing Council installed by the US-led occupation authority following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in March2003 .
And in April 2004 he held the post of interior minister for two months before Iyad Allawi's government was handed power by the Americans.
A study published by the respected British medical weekly Lancet has said that over100,000 civilians — half of them women and children — have lost their lives in air strikes and deadly US operations since the start of US-led invasion-turned-occupation of Iraq.
On Tuesday, June28, 100 Iraqi and 1,000 US troops launched a fresh offensive against resistance fighters in the western province of Al-Anbar, focusing along the Euphrates River between the cities of Haditha and Hit.
The operation “Saif (sword)” is the fourth battalion-sized operation the Marines have launched in towns in the Western desert during the past two months.
Earlier this month they staged Operation Spear against resistance fighters in the border town of Karabila, where they destroyed much of the town with air strikes, according to eyewitnesses.
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Posted 6/30/2005
What Iraq needs is a Walter Cronkite President Bush went on the air this week to pretend again that things are OK in Iraq. Shades of President Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam nearly 40 years ago. The most important similarity between Iraq and Vietnam is that both Democratic and Republican presidents lied to us in wartime. To refresh your memory, here's how we got out of the Vietnam quagmire: • Walter Cronkite, CBS-TV news anchor known as "the most trusted man in America," after a combat tour of Vietnam in 1968 declared, "There is no way this war can be justified any longer." • Johnson lamented to aides, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America." He announced he would not run for re-election. The crucial difference between Vietnam and Iraq is that there is no Cronkite to call Bush's bluff. Without a strong, trusted, non-political voice, too many of us remain Bush-blinded. Bush tried keeping the wool over our eyes again Tuesday on national TV by repeatedly tying Iraq to 9/11. That charge is as phony as his discredited prewar claim that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Most of us who have had personal war experiences strongly believe this great country is worth fighting for at risk of lives. My World War II Bronze Star and Combat Infantryman's Badge on the wall behind my desk remind me of that daily. They also remind me that war is hell, that we must fully support our servicemen and women and put their lives at risk only for honest and just and noble causes. That's why I'm convinced the best way to support our troops in Iraq is to bring them home. Sooner rather than later. © Copyright 2005 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. |
Reuters by Mark Felsenthal
Samir Sumaidaie said insurgents who were not from the area fired mortar rounds at the U.S. base. Then "Americans come and rough up the youths in the village demanding information which they simply do not have." |
U.S. Marines Accused of Killing Iraq Man
Iraq's U.N. ambassador accused U.S. Marines of killing his unarmed young cousin in what appeared to be 'cold blood' and demanded an investigation and punishment for the perpetrators.
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Write Saturday July 2, 2005 UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In an e-mail to friends obtained Friday by The Associated Press, Ambassador Samir Sumaidaie said the killing took place in his ancestral village in western Anbar province, where U.S.-led forces have been conducting a counterinsurgency sweep aimed at disrupting the flow of foreign militants into Iraq. His cousin Mohammed Al-Sumaidaie, 21, a university student, was killed June 25 when he took Marines doing house-to-house searches to a bedroom to show them where a rifle which had no live ammuntion was kept, the ambassador said. When the Marines left, he was found in the bedroom with a bullet in his neck. Richard Grenell, spokesman for the U.S. Mission, said acting U.S. ambassador Anne Patterson received a call from the Iraqi ambassador "and expressed her heartfelt condolences on this terrible situation, and contacted senior State Department and Pentagon officials to look into the matter immediately." Sumaidaie said the killing represents "a betrayal" of the values and aspirations of Iraqis and Americans to defeat the terrorists and build a country based on freedom, democracy, and respect for human rights and the rule of law. "It is a betrayal of the American people who are making huge sacrifices to bring this about, and a betrayal of Iraq and all Iraqi patriots who have put their trust in the United States," he said. In the letter, Sumaidaie gave a detailed account of the tragedy. Happy to exercise some of his English Mohammed, an engineering student at the University of Techology in Baghdad, was visiting his family in the village of Al-Shaikh Hadid when the Marines knocked on the door, the ambassador said. The young man rushed to open the door and greeted the group of about 10 Marines and an interpreter who appeared to be Egyptian pleasantly, "happy to exercise some of his English," he said. The Marines asked if there were any weapons, and Mohammed said there was a rifle, which only had blanks, the letter said. He then led some of the Marines into his father's bedroom where it was kept, Sumaidaie wrote. His father, the local headmaster, was at school. Dragged by hair and beaten A short time later, his mother, brothers and sisters who were kept in the living room heard a thud but they were generally relaxed because they had nothing to hide, and "they thought, nothing to fear," he said. But later a younger brother, Ali, was dragged by the hair into the corridor by a Marine and was beaten. The mother started sobbing. A Marine then went out and returned with a camera and went into the bedroom. After a while, the family went outside and waited on the porch as they were ordered, the ambassador said. The interpreter said, "they killed him" More than an hour later, as the soldiers were leaving, the interpreter asked the mother in Arabic if that was her son inside. When she replied "yes," the interpreter said, "'they killed him'," Sumaidaie said. Mother deafening cry of anguish but Marines smiling at each other "The mother let off a deafening cry of anguish, but the Marines were smiling at each other as they were leaving," he said. "In the bedroom, Mohammed was found dead and laying in a clotted pool of his blood. "A single bullet had penetrated his neck," the ambassador said. The ambassador wrote that he believed "a serious crime has been commited — a crime that may be repeated up and down Al-Anbar" and demanded an investigation into what he said appeared to be the "killing of an unarmed innocent civilian — a cold blood murder." Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005 |
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Published on Monday, July 4, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
by Sheldon Drobny Justice O'Connor's decision in Bush v. Gore led to the current Bush administration's execution of war crimes and atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places in the Middle East that are as egregious as those committed by the Third Reich and other evil governments in human history. The lesson is clear. Those people who may be honorable and distinguished in their chosen profession should always make decisions based upon good rather than evil no matter where their nominal allegiances may rest. Justice O'Connor was quoted to have said something to the affect that she abhorred the thought of Bush losing the 2000 election to Gore. She was known to have wanted to retire after the 2000 election for same reason she is now retiring. She wanted to spend more time with her sick husband. Unfortunately, she tarnished her distinguished career with the deciding vote in Bush v. Gore by going along with the partisan majority of the Court to interfere with a democratic election that she and the majority feared would be lost in an honest recount. She dishonored herself and the Supreme Court by succumbing to party allegiances and not The Constitution to which she swore to uphold. And the constitutional argument she and the majority used to justify their decision was the Equal Protection Clause. The Equal Protection Clause was the ultimate basis for the decision, but the majority essentially admitted (what was obvious in any event) that it was not basing its conclusion on any general view of what equal protection requires. The decision in Bush v Gore was not dictated by the law in any sense—either the law found through research, or the law as reflected in the kind of intuitive sense that comes from immersion in the legal culture. The Equal Protection clause is generally used in matters concerning civil rights.
The majority ignored their basic conservative views supporting federalism and states' rights in order to justify their decision.
History will haunt these justices down for their utter lack of justice and the hypocrisy associated with this decision.
Sheldon Drobny is Co-founder of Air America Radio.
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Bush v. Gore Appointment of U.S. President by the U.S. Supreme Court — Raw political clout exercised by US Supreme Court |
Unspeakable grief and horror
...and the circus of deception killing continues...
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Nanci Pelosi — U.S. House Democratic leader — Congresswoman California, 8th District
Speaking at the AIPAC agenda May 26, 2005
There are those who contend that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. This is absolute nonsense.
In truth, the history of the conflict is not over occupation, and never has been: it is over the fundamental right of Israel to exist.
The greatest threat to Israel's right to exist, with the prospect of devastating violence, now comes from Iran.
For too long, leaders of both political parties in the United States have not done nearly enough to confront the Russians and the Chinese, who have supplied Iran as it has plowed ahead with its nuclear and missile technology....
In the words of Isaiah, we will make ourselves to Israel 'as hiding places from the winds and shelters from the tempests; as rivers of water in dry places; as shadows of a great rock in a weary land.'
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The United States will stand with Israel now and forever.
Now and forever.
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Ahmed and Asma, story of two children dying — Lest we forget |
Atrocities committed by Israel — graphic pictures What CNN never shows you |
Israel, chemical weapons and phosphorous bombs New and unknown deadly weapons used by Israeli forces Undetectable poison-needle gun for 'clean' assassinations |
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All indications point to a killing of an unarmed innocent civilian — a cold blooded murder
