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Thursday, June 22, 2006
The Haditha Doctor and The Media
Dissemblers
by Sarah Meyer
Index Research
This item originally published June 19th 2006
This article updated 27/12/2006
Try weaning Bush supporters from
the obvious lies that
are the basis of this
administration, and they will
call you every name in the book.
Paul Craig Roberts
The
Haditha Doctor - Walid al-Obeidi
On 2 June 2006, PipeLineNews.org published an
unsigned, scurrilous article entitled Questions Arise
About Haditha Doctor - Wahid al-Obeidi - Central
Figure In "Massacre" Case.
This article questioned the account "Dr. Wahid
al-Obeidi" had given about being arrested and beaten
in Haditha in October 2005. The article then said,
“Wahid is associated with the pro-terrorist Brussels
Tribunal, a European-based anti-American group which
counts among its members Saddam's favorite film maker
Scott Ritter and Saddam's defense attorney Ramsey
Clark."
Pipeline News has confused and then misused their
facts. The name of the Director of the Haditha
Hospital is Dr. Walid al-Obeidi. Dr. Walid al-Obeidi
is not a member of the BRussells Tribunal. It is Dr.
Abdul Wahab Al Obeidi, member of “Freedom Voice
Society for Human Rights”, who is on the advisory
committee of the BRussells Tribunal.
Why is the (misnamed) Dr. Walid al-Obeidi being
slandered? He saw the bullets in the bodies from the
Haditha massacre, thus opening up the case against
American troops.
Ridley Scott is indeed a film maker. Is PipeLineNews
by any chance confusing him with Scott Ritter, who is
a former UN weapons inspector and a critic of the US
foreign policy in the Middle East? Ramsey Clark has
recently written a statement saying that "the case for
impeachment is clear beyond question.” Neither Scott
Ritter nor Ramsey Clark are members of the BRussells
Tribunal.
PipeLineNews has a further story, which it calls “The
Haditha Misinformation Dump,” at The Contra Costa
Times Watch, which they call their “side project.”
This site has links to not only PipeLineNews but also
the Middle East Forum, Daniel Pipes and Militant Islam
Monitor.
A recent New York Times article gave details of the
most recent understanding of the Haditha murders. It
was reported by John M. Broder, David S. Cloud, John
Kifner, Carolyn Marshall, Eric Schmitt and Thom
Shanker. It was written by Mr. Broder. See:
Contradictions Cloud Inquiry Into 24 Iraqi Deaths
The Chiarelli report on Haditha is complete. We await
the findings.
A recent US poll shows that “ nearly one in three of
the respondents (32%) said they believe such an
incident (Haditha) was a "common one" in that war.
Some 57% called it an "isolated incident" and 11% said
they are "not sure." This poll shows what a good job
the US corporate media blackout and Media Dissemblers
are doing in America – and also shows that,
unfortunately, not enough people are reading educated,
informative stories on the web.
And the BRussells Tribunal?
The BRussells Tribunal
The BRussells Tribunal initiated The World Tribunal on
Iraq. The final meeting of the World Tribunal, Iraq,
was in Turkey in 2005. “The first task of the tribunal
is to investigate the crimes committed by the US
government in launching the Iraq war.”1 The papers
given in Istanbul (2005) maintained a very high
quality. These papers, and the final declaration of
the Jury of Conscience in Istanbul (2005), read by
Arundhati Roy, Spokesperson of the Jury of Conscience,
can be read here.
Who were / are some of the members of the BRussells
Tribunal? In addition to many esteemed Iraqis: two
former UN Assistant Secretary Generals; two Nobel
Prize winners; seven internationally known writers;
human rights and humanitarian lawyers, professors,
scientists, journalists and others. Have a look at the
full list of members.
What is the BRussells Tribunal now focusing upon? 225
health officials have been murdered in Iraq. There is
a “Solidarity call with the plight of Iraqi health
workers.” 190 academics have been murdered. There is a
call for action to “Save Iraq’s Academics.” You can
read more detail about the plight of the Iraqi
academics in The Jalilli Report.
Following is the story of an incestuous group and the
foundations which collude with them.
The Middle East Forum Family
Noble words, like “democracy”, "liberation",
“freedom”, “reform” have been emptied of their true
meaning and refilled by the enemies of these concepts.
Their counterfeits dominate the news. John Pilger,
'War by Media.'
The Middle East Forum is registered under the name
Daniel Pipes, 1500 Walnut St. 1050, Philadelphia, PA.,
19102, who is its Director. Sourcewatch has an
extensive directory on Pipes. It identifies Pipes as
“a neoconservative, orientalist, extreme right-wing
Zionist (who) often expresses islamophobic
statements.” He holds many key positions. Sourcewatch
says that Pipes’ “columns have appeared in the
Atlantic Monthly, Commentary, Foreign Affairs,
Harper's, National Review, New Republic, Policy
Review, FrontPage, Jerusalem Post and The Weekly
Standard.”2 One (of many) controversial articles which
he wrote, Why the Japanese internment still matters,
was challenged by historian Juan Cole, presently still
a professor at the University of Michigan (see below).
The Middle East Forum 'Mission Statement' says: “The
Middle East Forum, a think tank, works to define and
promote American interests in the Middle East through
research, publications, and educational outreach. The
Forum's policy recommendations include fighting
radical Islam (rather than terrorism), convincing the
Palestinians that Israel is permanent, reducing funds
going to the Middle East for energy purchases, slowing
down the democratization process, and more robustly
asserting U.S. interests vis-à-vis Saudi Arabia. In
addition, the Forum works to improve Middle East
studies in North America.”
In case the above rhetoric is not clear, here is a
clear gvnews-quoted statement by Mr. Pipes which I
found in the MediaChannel archives:
"West European societies are unprepared for the
massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking
strange foods and not exactly maintaining Germanic
standards of hygiene."
The Middle East Forum / Daniel Pipes publishes The
Middle East Intelligence Bulletin. The MEIB Editor is,
according to its website, Gary C. Gambill, who also
writes for the Jamestown Foundation. This Foundation
is “increasingly linked to neocon-driven institutions
and leading figures, including the Center for Security
Policy and Freedom House.” Two other Jamestown
Foundation writers are also editors of MEIB: Thomas
Patrick Carroll, and Robert G. Rabil. Rabil is an
adjunct scholar (as is Daniel Pipes) at The Washington
Institute for Near East Policy and assistant professor
of Middle East studies in Florida Atlantic
University’s Department of Political Science. Michael
Rubin is also an editorial board member, whom Karen
Kwiatkowski called a “minor-league neoconservative …
indeed a rookie.”
The Middle East Forum also publishes The Middle East
Quarterly. The editor of Middle East Quarterly since
2004 is (again) Michael Rubin. Rubin was a member of
the Coalition Provisional Authority (2003-4) in Iraq
and a resident scholar at the PNAC-heavy American
Enterprise Institute. He denies allegations that he
was a member of the Lincoln Group’s Pentagon-sponsored
propaganda inside Iraq. Rubin was recently an active
opponent to Juan Cole’s appointment at Yale
University. Further information on Mr. Rubin can be
found on Right Web.
Mr. Rubin is ALSO the editor of Campus Watch. (Daniel
Pipes is also the Director and co-founder of Campus
Watch.) The box at the top of the Campus Watch website
says (in bold type):
"Campus Watch is the Trojan horse whose warriors are
already changing the rules of the game not only in
Middle East Studies but also in the US University as a
whole. They threaten to undermine the very foundations
of American education." Miriam Cooke, of Duke
University.
The Mission Statement of Campus Watch says, “Campus
Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum, reviews and
critiques Middle East studies in North America, with
an aim to improving them. The project mainly addresses
five problems: analytical failures, the mixing of
politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative
views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over
students. Campus Watch fully respects the freedom of
speech of those it debates while insisting on its own
freedom to comment on their words and deeds.” There is
a survey of 44 ‘institutions’ (colleges /
universities) and their scholars. Campus Watch is
supported by unspecified ‘donations.’
There have been critics of Campus Watch, and these are
answered in “Replies to our Critics,” specifically on
the charge of ‘McCarthyism.’
Campus Watch publishes articles that have appeared in
PipeLineNews. The unsigned attack on "Dr. Wahid" and
the BRussels Tribunal appeared in PipeLineNews.
PipeLineNews is registered as
pipebombnews.com. The
registrant of this site is named as William Mayer,
2395 Lake Meadow Circle, Martinez, CA 94553, whilst
the administrative address given is PIpeLineMedia,
Inc.; William Mayer, CEO, 3217 Whipple Road, Union
City, CA 94587. If one then looks up PipeLineMedia, a
new address appears – 123 K Street, Washington, D.C.,
alongside the same administrative office address as
pipebombnews.
Mr. Mayer published an article, McCarthyism — The
Right's Badge of Honor (05.03), in Tysknews.3 Tysknews
talks about the owner, or “His Majesty,” as being
responsible for the site. “We guarantee no accuracy
for our allegations and assume no responsibility.” We
are not told who the owner, or ‘His Majesty,’ is.
There are three links to R. Reagan sites and one to
The Federalist.
Mr. Mayer has also published Some Final Thoughts on
the Dubai Ports Deal in the Militant Islam Monitor.
“BR,” or Beila Rabinowitz is the registrant name for
Militant Islam Monitor. The address given is a P.O.
Box number in Peoria, Illinois 60612.4
Daniel Pipes describes what the site is about:
"Militant Islam is a Utopian ideology … that attracts
only a portion of Muslims, … (and) seeks to gain
control of governments, and is nakedly aggressive
toward all those who stand in it' (sic) way…”
Beila Rabinowitz collaborated with Mr. Mayer in two
PipeLine articles which were republished in
Campus-Watch.5
Beila Rabinowitz also collaborated with Mr. Mayer in a
PipeLineNews story, "Moderate" American Islamism And
Terror, Zero Degrees Of Separation (12.12.05. This
story was republished on free republic.com. This
“Hoo-Yah” site, which describes itself as the “Premier
Conservative news Forum”, is privately owned and run
by Jim Robinson from Fresno, California. The
administrative, technical and billing contact is
Robinson-DeFehr Consulting, also in Fresno. Their
‘Mission’ is: “pro-God, pro-life, pro-family,
pro-Constitution, pro-Bill of Rights, pro-gun,
pro-limited government, pro-private property rights,
pro-limited taxes, pro-capitalism, pro-national
defense, pro-freedom, and pro-America.” Subscribers
are called ‘Freepers.’ A lively essay on Mr.
Robinson’s site can be read at Flakmag.
Beila Rabinowitz’s University Of Central Florida
Funding Islamist Da'wa Event (08.03.06) was also
published in PipeLine News. Rabinowitz’s articles also
appear on Discover the Networks (see below).
Rabinowitz’s article entitled False Front, co-authored
with Joe Kaufman, appeared in FrontPage.org.
“Essentially,” they said of Islamic radicals, “they
needed to disguise their reality” (my italics). Mr.
Kaufman is Chairman of Americans Against Hate.
‘Americans Against Hate’ is “a civil rights
organization and terrorism watchdog group.” Their goal
is “to be an active voice against those that spread
bigotry and violence.” Many articles by Mr. Kaufman
can be seen at this site. Mr. Kaufman also contributes
to FrontPage Magazine, the Middle East Quarterly, the
Des Moines Register, and The Miami Herald. He appears
on Fox News.
The FrontPageMagazine is published by David Horowitz.
He is the founder of The Center for the Study of
Popular Culture. The mission of this organization,
according to media transparency, is to "change the
leftist, anti-American, elitist culture that is
dominant in the entertainment industry [and to expose]
the idiocies and the viciousness of the radical
leftism in universities, the media, mainstream
churches, and everywhere else this modern plague is
found."
Horowitz and Peter Collier (see below) "also created a
project of the CSPC called the Committee on Media
Integrity (COMINT), designed specifically to attack
Public Television.”
Recently, according to Media Matters, David Horowitz
called Ann Coulter "a national treasure" and stated
that the "point" of Coulter's controversial remarks on
the widows of the victims of the 9-11 terrorist
attacks was "right on the mark." Coulter worked at the
Scaife-funded Centre for Individual Rights. Scaife is
also a funder for the Center for the Study of Popular
Culture (see below).
The senior editor of Front Page is Jacob Laksin, who
is also a writer for the Centre for the Study of
Popular Culture.
Max Blumenthal wrote in The Demons of David Horowitz
that “Since David Horowitz switched his political
allegiance from the radical left to the authoritarian
right, he has engaged in one embarrassingly paranoid
crusade after another. Each one is designed to stifle
a liberal conspiracy which exists only in the hollow
canyons of his own mind.”
Horowitz also writes for NewsMax, is associated with
Campus Watch, and appears on Fox News as an ‘analyst.’
Discover the Networks, which has similar witch-hunts
to Campus Watch, was co-founded in 2004 by David
Horowitz and Peter Collier. Collier was the founding
publisher of Encounter Books. He and
Horowitz co-authored, amongst other books, The
Anti-Chomsky Reader. Collier, according to Media
Transparency, “now (2005) runs the Bradley-funded
Encounter for Culture and Education, which publishes
right wing books by people such as William Kristol.”
A ferris wheel of the ‘Networks’ topics is shown,
highlighting
1) Issues:
anti-americanism, anti-semitism, globalization,
Guantanamo, immigration, Iraq war, Islam and Socialist
Left, Patriot Act, treason, etc. This section is
essential reading in order to understand the skewed
mind-set of Mr. Horowitz and his colleagues.
2) Individuals6:
photographs of, amongst others, show: Ramsey Clark,
Ted Kennedy, Fidel Castro, N. Chomsky, George Soros,
Jesse Jackson, Dan Rather, Jimmy Carter, Erica Jong,
etc.7 Have a look.
3) Academia:
anti-semitism and left-wing bias in academia, etc.
4) Media: “Conservatives believe the mass media,
predominantly television news programs, slant reports
in favor of the liberal position on issues. Most
Americans agree.”8 David Limbaugh wrote an article
entitled: MSM Never Tires of Antiwar Propaganda.
Glazov penned The Media's Lies About Israel.
5) Funders: “examines the immensely wealthy charitable
foundations that provide financial backing for leftist
groups and causes.”
Horowitz is the author of Unholy Alliance: Radical
Islam and the American Left, and also of The
Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in
America. “His critics have said the book is akin to a
McCarthy-like smear campaign” wrote M.B. Marklein.
The above is an abbreviated summary of the large
Middle East Forum network. See the full extent of the
Daniel Pipes network here.
FUNDING THE DISSEMBLERS
Who is funding these people who talk about “freedom of
speech,” the “abuse of power over students” and the
“intolerance of alternative views” whilst
simultaneously slandering and falsely accusing
reputable individuals and organizations? The hierarchy
resembles the Sicilian Mafia, who ‘protect their own.’
According to Media Transparency, the following have
received money. Details are given below.
The American Enterprise Institute, between 1985 - 2004
received 320 grants totaling $41,547,101. Funders
included the following foundations: Lynde and Harry
Bradley; Carthage; Castle Rock; Richard and Helen
deVos; William Donner; Earhart; F.M. Kirby; Charles G.
Koch Charitable; Phillip M. McKenna; John M. Olin;
Ruth and Lovett Peters; Randolph; Smith Richardson;
Sarah Scaife; William E. Simon and The Walton Family
Foundation.
Middle East Forum received seven grants totaling
$190,000 between 1996 – 2003 from The Lynde and Harry
Bradley Foundation and The William H. Donner
Foundation.
The Centre for Study of Popular Culture received 140
foundation grants, totaling $14,534,000 from the
following foundations between 1989 and 2004: W.H.
Brady; Lynde and Harry Bradley, Inc.; Gordon and Mary
Cain; Castle Rock; William H. Donner; Hickory
Foundation; Jacqueline Hume Foundation; John M. Olin,
Inc; Randolph, Sarah Scaife (& Allegheny and
Carthage); Shelby Collom Foundation.
Encounter for Culture and Education received 85
foundation grants totalling $5,640,000 from 1991 –
2003. Most of these grants were from the Lynde and
Harry Bradley Foundation. The Philip M. McKenna
Foundation, Inc., the JM Foundation and the Shelby
Cullom Davis Foundation gave $18,000 for Encounter
Books. The W.H. Brady Foundation gave $2000 for
“Project support.” The John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
gave $10,000 for “a research project on the Congress
for Cultural Freedom” in 1995 and $50,000 to “support
a Berlin conference on the Cold War” in 1992.
The Jamestown Foundation received grants totalling
$4,431,613 between 1985 – 2004. These were from The
Carthage Foundation; The Smith-Richardson Foundation;
The F.M. Kirby Foundation; the Shelby Cullom Davis
Foundation; The Earhart Foundation; The Armstrong
Foundation; The Sarah Scaife Foundation; The William
Donner Foundation.
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy received
8 grants totalling $574,509 between 1991 –2000 from
the Sarah Smith Foundation and the Lynde and Harry
Bradley Foundation.
= A total of $66,917.223.
Foundations
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. Lynde and
Harry Bradley founded the Allen-Bradley Company, which
manufactured radio and electronic components. They are
the USA’s largest ‘right-wing’ donors with an
extensive network. Allen-Bradley sold the company for
$1.651billion to Rockwell Int., a defence and
aerospace industry, and named the new company Lynne
and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc, which was run by
the John M. Olin Foundation (see below). The new
president worked for the Institute for Education
Affairs9, which was started by PNAC and Philanthropy
Roundtable member Irving Kristol and William Simon.
Simon now heads the Olin Foundation.
Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation. Established 1988,
Houston, Texas. “Cain served as a director of Texas
Petrochemicals Corporation … chairman of the board of
Sterling Chemicals, Inc., Vista Chemical Company, Cain
Chemical, Inc., and The Sterling Group; … director for
the Cato Institute.”
Not much info.
The Castle Rock Foundation. Created in 1993 from funds
originating from the Coors Brewery Company. The Coors
family backed ‘the Moral Majority,’ which became The
Heritage Foundation.10
Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation. Started in 1970 by
family who founded Amway (cleaning products). H. deVos
said, "our biggest priority is to give back to
Christian causes.” Bush friend.
The Earhart Foundation. Fortune from White Star Oil
Company. Michigan.
Jaquelin Hume Foundation. Fortune from onions and
garlic business started in 1933. Founded Citizens for
America. “He helped create the highly-developed
conservative infrastructure of think tanks, policy
institutes, and foundations which perpetuate the
right-wing revolution of the 1990s. Member of Reagan’s
‘Kitchen Cabinet.’ Today Hume’s son, William, carries
on the family’s political legacy.”
F.M. Kirby Foundation. Fortune made from F.W.
Woolworth, Allegheny Corporation, Investors
Diversified Services & the Pittston Company.
Family
still involved.
Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation.11 Founded Koch
industries (oil & gas); Charles Koch founded the Cato
Institute. David Koch co-founded Citizens for a Sound
Economy (CSE).
Philip M. McKenna Foundation
No known website. Founded by Pennsylvania steel
industry; made fortune in WW II.
Olin Foundation.
Financed by chemical and munitions fortune. Also
funded Heritage Foundation, Manhattan Institute for
Public Policy Research and other ‘conservative
advocacy’ groups. Now closed.
Randolph Foundation New York. Complicated trust
manoevering. President: Heather Richardson Higgins.
She is also a member of the board of overseers of the
Hoover Institution and the Independent Women’s Forum.
Next to zero information.
Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation
Lovett Peters founded the Pioneer Institute for Public
Policy Research (Boston) in 1988. Daniel Peters is
Chairman of The Philanthropy Roundtable and was
formerly an executive with Proctor and Gamble. Unclear
where fortune was made. Little info.
Sarah Scaife Foundation includes the Allegheny &
Carthage Foundations. Financed from the Mellon oil,
banking and industrial fortune.
Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation, New York. Established
1962. He was chairman of the oldest and largest
investment firm specializing in insurance securities.
1969 – 1975 US Ambassador to Switzerland. Was on board
of Heritage Foundation. No known website.
Smith Richardson Foundation. Fortune from Vicks Vapour
Rub. Westport, Connecticut.
William E. Simon, Nixon’s Treasury Secretary; was
President of Olin Foundation (1992); founded, with
Irving Kristol, the Institute for Educational Affairs.
Director Kissinger Associates; Director Xerox. Not
much info on where the original money actually came
from. D. 2000. Son is now co-chairman with investments
in oil and offshore drilling.
Walton Family Foundation. Fortune from Walmart,
founded by Sam Walton. His wife, Helen, and daughter
Alice are reportedly the two richest women in the
world.
William H. Donner Foundation. First established in
1932. Donner “invested in real estate, founded the
National Tin Plate Company, co-founded (with Mellon)
Union Steel, and established the International Cancer
Research Foundation.” The Donner family is still
active.
According to Wikipedia, the New Citizen Project was
also funded by the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the John
Olin Foundation and the Bradley Foundation. The NCP
"initiated the neo-conservative Project for the New
American Century, one of the key behind-the-scenes'
architects for the Bush administrations foreign
policy."
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Footnotes
[1] There have been many articles on the illegality of
the US/UK’s war on terror in Iraq. Here is a recent
one: Haditha, Bush and Nuremburg’s law.
[2] The Weekly Standard is edited by the Chairman of
PNAC, William Kristol.
[3] No information on owner of Tysknews. The
administrative, technical and registrant contact is
David Holtzinger, 913 S. Dogwood Rd.,Walnutport, PA
18088: webmaster@tysknews.com
[4] registry data; also: Arin and Ripe IP
216.92.146.244,
Pennsylvania – Pittsburg.”
[5] See: The Catholic Theological Union And The Limits
Of Understanding; (28.06.04) and University of Central
Florida Slated To Become Cultural Jihad Hub
(10.03.06).
[6] Hilary Clinton is included in this group, which is
commensurate with calling Prime Minister Blair a
Labour Party spokesperson. Mr. Blair’s politics are to
the‘right’ of the UK conservative party.
[7] See the American Library Association: Authors
whose works have been challenged or even banned in the
USA include the authors J.D. Salinger, Mark Twain,
John Steinbeck, Toni Morrison. Maya Angelou, Roald
Dahl, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Maurice Sendak,
“People continue to attempt—to suppress anything that
conflicts with or anyone who disagrees with their own
beliefs." See the 1st Amendment of the American
Constitution. See also: But Which Books Are
Suspicious?
[8] See Propaganda and Haditha by Dahr Jamail.
[9] 31 grants from 1985 – 2002 totalling $1,677,293.
[10] The Heritage Foundation has received $555,000
from ExxonMobil since 1998.
[11] “In writing … papers and making … appearances,
individuals associated with these organizations often
conveniently decline to acknowledge the substantial
funding they receive from Koch and other corporations
... By withholding such information, they are able to
front as unbiased the public-minded associations
promoting rigorous scientific research and economic
autonomy, when, in fact, the individuals are mere
mouthpieces for industries like that of the Koch
brothers.” From Axis of Ideology, NCRP, 2004
There you have it. One brave, beleaguered Iraqi doctor
in an illegally occupied war-torn country vs. the
‘perception management’ of media dissemblers, or
‘worker bees,’ who are backed by the $66+million taken
from the corporate empire profits of banking, oil,
gas, steel, beer, onions and garlic, electronics,
chemicals, munitions, real estate, insurance, Walmart,
and a drizzle of 21st century “Christianity.” The
Directors and Chairpeople of these Foundations,
Corporations and Institutes could well benefit from an
‘ethics training’ course alongside the soldiers and
mercenaries who murder civilians.
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Updates
16.12.04. TomDispatch.com Michael Massing on Iraq
coverage and the election.
22.06.06. Yahoo news. ACLU seeks disclosure of
Pentagon files on Haditha.
13.07.06. New York Review of Books. Letter by Daniel
Pipes; reply by Michael Massing. Campus Watch.
07.07.06. CBS. An investigation into the cover-up of
the alleged murder of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town
of Haditha last November concludes Marine officers at
every level up to and including the colonel who
commanded the regiment failed to investigate
inaccurate and conflicting reports of how the
civilians were killed. Haditha Probe Reveals 'Red
Flags.'
08.07.06. Schmitt / Cloud, NY Times. General Faults
Marine Response to Iraq Killings.
10.07.06. Media transparency. Center for the Study of
Popular Culture becomes David Horowitz Freedom Center
25.07.06. J. Cook, Dissident Voice. "This week I had
the pleasure to appear on American radio, on the Laura
Ingraham show, pitted against David Horowitz, a
“Semite supremacist” who most recently made his name
under the banner of Campus Watch, leading McCarthyite
witch hunts against American professors who have the
impertinence to suggest that maybe, just maybe, Arabs
have minds and feelings like the rest of us." Five
Myths that Sanction Israel’s War Crimes.
02.08.06.AP. Source: Haditha evidence implicates
marines.
Inquiry Suggests Marines Excised Files on Killings.
18.08.06. D.Cloud, NY Times / uruknet.
"Fascism" Frame Set Up by Right-Wing Press
09.01.06. IPS / ICH. “The aggressive new campaign by
the administration of President George W. Bush to
depict U.S. foes in the Middle East as "fascists" and
its domestic critics as "appeasers" owes a great deal
to steadily intensifying efforts by the right-wing
press over the past several months to draw the same
comparison.”
Rules of engagement: What were they at Haditha?
10.10.06. R. Whittle, CS Monitor. If marines are
charged with killing as many as 24 Iraqi civilians,
defense lawyers will argue the soldiers followed the
rules.
How the Israeli lobby uses intimidation to prevent
academic freedom in the U.S.
11.11.06. Video. At Columbia, the professors in the
Middle East department believe there's a civil war
under way for the hearts and minds of Americans.
Discussion on the watchdog, Campus Watch.
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Haditha 'massacre' - one year on
19.11.06. D. Loyn, BBC. Women and children died in the
attack in Haditha. The anniversary of the killings in
Haditha - the worst single massacre of Iraqis
attributed to US troops - could not have come at a
worse time for the US forces, with other cases now
reaching conclusions in the courts, including one that
ended in a life sentence.
Marines likely to face charges in Haditha killings,
congressman says
06.12.06. Financial Times. A congressman said
Wednesday that about six Marines would be charged in
the killing of 24 civilians, many of them women and
children, last year in the Iraqi town of Haditha.
U.S., Iraqi troops seal off Haditha - residents
08.12.06. Reuters. ‘The U.S. military said troops were
manning checkpoints and building a sand berm to crack
down on insurgents in Haditha and in neighbouring
Barwana. It said U.S. troops were protecting "the
population and good citizens of Haditha".
But residents in Haditha, which is at the centre of a
U.S. military investigation into the deaths of two
dozen civilians in November 2005 by U.S. Marines, said
electricity has been cut off and that no food is being
allowed into the city, they said.’
Marine To Be Charged in Haditha Case
18.12.06. AP / Yahoo news.
U.S. military to announce Haditha charges Thursday
18.12.06. Reuters. The U.S. military plans to charge
Marines in the killing of 24 civilians in Haditha,
Iraq, on Thursday, according to sources familiar with
the case. The November 2005 killings, which enraged
Iraqis, are one of a series of cases in which U.S.
service members have been accused, and some convicted,
of being involved in killing Iraqi civilians. The
charges in the Haditha case could include murder and
are expected against at least five Marines, defense
officials said.
Iraqi Girl tells of US Attack in Haditha.
30.05.06. ITV/ICH.
Iraqis: Marines in Haditha case should be tried in
Iraq
21.12.06. USA Today.
Haditha Residents on Charged Marines: Let Us Have Them
22.12.06. NY Times. Dr. Waleed Al-Obeidi, 41, the
director-general of Haditha hospital said: “If they
plan to implement justice, then we welcome this step
to refer the eight marines to the court, but we have
our doubts in American justice. The verdict will be
life sentences for four of them and the other four
will be released, according to what we heard in the
media. They blamed one soldier in the killing of a
whole family, while it was carnage. The Iraqi
government should have summoned those soldiers and
executed them.” (cont …)
Human Rights Advocates Not Satisfied with Haditha
Charges
22.12.06. A. Glantz. “"Not one of the victims'
families is represented," he added. "No lawyer from
the victims' families is represented. So you can see
the basic idea of justice and fairness is actually not
available."
Dr. Salam Ismael says many Iraqis would like to see
the American soldiers brought to trial in Iraqi
courts--a position shared by the country's elected
prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, who has demanded an
end to the immunity U.S. soldiers currently enjoy
under Iraqi law.
"Why are you afraid of being ruled by the law of the
country that you're supposedly trying to liberate?" he
asked rhetorically. "That's the question--it's a
simple question I would like to ask the American
people."
International human rights groups have a different
concern. They note that since the September 11th
attacks five years ago, no officer above the rank of
major has been charged in connection with torture or
the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody.”
Four US marines charged with Iraq murders
22.12.06. S. Goldenerg, Guardian. · Eight face life
sentence over Haditha killings · Court hearing follows
admission of cover-up.
Haditha Investigation Finds Military Press Reports
Inaccurate
22.12.06. KPBS. ‘A nine month military investigation
into what actually happened in Haditha in November
2005 concludes the original military press reports on
the event were not true. ‘
When the Press Dropped the Ball on Haditha
22.12.06. G. Mitchell, Editor and Publisher.
RAPID RESPONSE MEDIA ALERT: THE LIBERATED AND THE DEAD
22.12.06. Media Lens. The BBC On The Haditha Massacre
Musafir's Musings
22.12.06. More good links from gentle, wise Musafir.
Haditha charges raise questions
23.12.06. Boston Herald editorial. “The lodging of
criminal charges against eight Marines in connection
with the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians 13 months ago
is a sad and absolutely necessary duty for the Marine
Corps.
The charging of four officers with dereliction of duty
for failure to report what they knew or failure to
investigate - in effect, a coverup of what happened in
three Haditha homes - is particularly important. It
represents a re-affirmation of the important principle
of an officer’s responsibility for what troops under
his command do, something the armed forces have not
always pursued with rigor in recent years.”
Viewpoint: Breaking Haditha
23.12.06. T. McGirk, Time. "During the months after
the Haditha story broke, I became the target of
bloggers, self-proclaimed patriots, for supposedly
dragging the fine reputation of the Marines through
the mud. Nothing about this story made me feel good
save for one thing: until TIME's investigation, one of
the Marines — the squad leader, Staff Sgt. Frank
Wuterich — was in line to receive a medal for heroism
for what he did that terrible day. According to press
reports, the recommenda tion says that Wuterich, 26,
displayed "calm and confident decisiveness that day
and doubtlessly prevented further injury or death to
fellow Marines and innocent civilians." Today,
Wuterich faces 13 counts of unpremeditated murder.
None of his victims were armed; most were the elderly,
women and children."
Haditha: The Mai Lai of Iraq
In spite of all the evidence in The Haditha Doctor and
the Media Dissemblersabout media who accept vast sums
of money from foundations to perpetrate their cover-up
P.R., the “right wing” media is still trying to twist
the Haditha facts.
PIPELINE NEWS SHOULD APOLOGISE TO THE BRUSSELS
TRIBUNAL, THE DOCTOR IN HADITHA AND TO THEIR READERS
FOR THEIR MISLEADING PROPAGANDA.
This article was originally published by the BRussells
Tribunal. The url is:
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/HadithaDoctor.htm
The url of The Haditha Doctor and The Media
Dissemblers is
http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/haditha-doctor-and-media-dissemblers.html
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Sarah Meyer is a researcher living in Sussex, UK.
http://www.alexconstantine.blogspot.com/
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