Min. Farrakhan Implicates Israel in Iraq War--Photos Prove It
By Alan Muhammad
The Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan's May 3rd warning to the government of the United States and to its citizens presaged by mere minutes a torrent of controversy around America's latest war crimes in Iraq. For just as our beloved minister delivered his "GUIDANCE IN A TIME OF TROUBLE TO AMERICA AND THE WORLD," the first of over a thousand photographs documenting American torture of Iraqi citizens began exploding onto the news. These photographs were so horrendous that President George W. Bush--who presided for years over the legendary Texas state murder machine--had to concede, "I share a deep disgust that those prisoners were treated the way they were treated."
But as the politicians line up to proclaim their "outrage" and even "apologies" for the Satanic acts of the American military, several troubling realities are being craftily avoided by the U.S. officials and mainstream media. When dragged before Congress to account for "extremely graphic photographic evidence" of abuse in "pictures and videos," Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made a startling admission that exposed the unknown inner operations of the U.S. military. The wily and evasive Rumsfeld admitted under oath that the interrogation of Iraqis had been farmed out to private "civilian contractors" and was not being performed by American Army personnel.
The next question, of course, should have been, "Who were these contractors and who hired them?" But, to the great surprise of even the mildly interested, nobody--neither the politicians nor the press--even asked! This was suspicious in itself, mostly because the naming of the corporate culprits would have afforded Rumsfeld and the Bush administration an easy and convenient scapegoat. But even Bush's embattled warmonger in the center of the crucible resisted this irresistible alibi, and the military is apparently poised to accept full blame.
Who was Rumsfeld, Bush, the Army, and the media hiding and why wasn't Congress the least bit interested in probing this obvious opening? For anyone who viewed the Hon. Min. Louis Farrakhan's press conference, the answer was at hand:
If America is to survive, she must not use the might of America to fight the battles of Israel and allow herself to be used to destroy the real or perceived enemies of Israel.Forty-four years ago, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to me, "Brother Farrakhan, you cannot fathom the depth of Satan."
In more than one way, Israel was at the center of this sordid mystery. But one must sort through the available evidence to make the connections that the powerful officials in government and the press are frightened to acknowledge.
Over the last several weeks, many references have been made in the media to a damning report issued by Major Gen. Antonio M. Taguba on the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. Taguba directly fingered two civilian contractors named Steven Stephanowicz and John Israel, who, he wrote, were "either directly or indirectly responsible for the abuses." These two plainly Jewish names place the heretofore "absent" Jews at the center of the Iraq war.
But who were they working for and why were they apparently ordering U.S. forces to participate in these spine-chilling war crimes? Two American-based companies--CACI of Chantilly, Virginia, which was awarded a $10,118,040 contract for 24 "specialists" to work in Baghdad, and Titan Corp., a high-tech military company based in San Diego--are named in the Taguba report as being directly connected to these two men. CACI has strong links to Israel. Its CEO, J.P. "Jack" London, was awarded the Albert Einstein Technology Award by the Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah, which was presented by Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz last January. The director of Titan with the largest stake in the company is Edward H. Bersoff, who received the Distinguished Leadership Award by the Washington Chapter of the American Jewish Committee in 1999. Bersoff has been an honored speaker at the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, along with the likes of former Israeli prime minister Binjamin Netanyahu.
From here, the satanic torture plot only thickens. Jewish investigative journalist Seymour Hersh stated in New Yorker magazine of December 15, 2003, that
Israeli commandos and intelligence units have been working closely with their American counterpartsto help them prepare for operations in Iraq. Israeli commandos are expected to serve as ad-hoc advisers--again, in secret--when full-field operations begin.
It also appears that these two Israel-linked firms and their Jewish employees may have been contracted to apply the same Israeli interrogation/torture methods on the Iraqi prisoners as had been used on the Palestinians for many years. There is a reason why apparently sane Palestinians strap bombs to their bodies and detonate themselves next to as many Euro-Israelis as they can find. Israel has routinely and for decades used physical and psychological torture to extract confessions from Arab and Palestinian prisoners. Organizations such as Amnesty International, the International Red Cross, the Swiss Human Rights League, the American National Lawyers Guild and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers are among those human rights groups that have reached this conclusion. Torture is clearly prohibited under customary law as codified in numerous international documents, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, and the Geneva Conventions. In 1951, even the Israeli Knesset declared that the laws now in force in the occupied territories "are incompatible with the principals of a democratic state."
For years the torture of the kind now being witnessed at Abu Ghraib has been dispensed at at least six detention facilities and administered by all of Israel's security services. The purpose of this policy is primarily to persuade the Arabs to behave passively and accept the conditions imposed on them by the white Israelis. The photographs were likely an integral part of the process of shaming the Arabs into permanent psychological ruin.
Israel's torture centers are in Nablus, Ramallah, and Hebron on the West Bank, at Gaza in the south and at a prison camp known as the "Russian Compound" in Jerusalem. Other evidence suggests that another center is located at a military supply base, probably at Sarafand near Lod Airport on the JerusalemTel Aviv road. All of Israel's security forces have been implicated, including M15 and Special Branch or Shin Beth, which are under the authority of the Prime Minister, Military Intelligence, the Border Police and Latam, the Special Missions force.
Numerous witnesses have testified that the tortures by Israel are widespread and brutal--just as the Taguba report alleges. Supporting these contentions are detailed medical evidence and testimony from doctors that have treated the victims. Israel's foremost civil rights attorney, Felicia Langer, has said former prime minister the late Itzhak Rabin had given the order to break bones.
Torture-induced signed confessions are most often used to convict prisoners. The confessions, however, are commonly written in Hebrew by the interrogator and not in the Arabs' native tongue. All "confessions" are signed long before the victim has any access to an attorney. The Palestinian has no judicial or political recourse within Israeli society. According to documents, Israel--the Synagogue of Satan--has regularly and routinely administered the following tortures to its Arab subjects, many of which we are seeing in photographs from Abu Ghraib:
·Beatings to the soles of feet
·Hanging by the wrists for extended periods of time
·Lying face down while one man stands on legs while another pulls the arms back
·Wooden stick twisted through handcuffs cutting the supply of blood to the hands
·Forced to wear black canvas hood or blindfolded for extended periods, up to seven days; hood soaked in human excrement
·Attached electrodes to body with plaster to administer continuous electric shocks
·Forced to sleep on urine-drenched floors
·Kicks directly to the face; constant facial beatings
·Forced to lick blood from boots of torturer
·Hair pulled out of the head by swinging victim; then forced to eat it
·Forced to drink salty water
·Forced bottles into rectum
·Head banged against wall
·Victim jammed into barrel of freezing water
·Beating, squeezing, pulling and twisting of genitals with metal tools
·Chemical gasses applied in enclosed cell
·Glass inserted into nostrils
·Forced to hold heavy objects such as chairs outstretched in arms for hours at a time
·Attacked by dogs while blindfolded
·Confined in small cells with spiked floor
·Forced to crawl on sharp stones while being beaten
·Starvation
·Female family members are stripped and beaten in front of male prisoner. Wooden sticks are forced into the vagina and rectum drawing blood while the father, brother or husband is forced to watch.
·Ballpoint pen refill inserted into penis
·Cigarette applied to various parts of the body
Israel, of course, denies that any of this occurs, even in the face of overwhelming evidence. The official term currently used by Israel is "moderate physical persuasion." They have ignored all requests for inquiries into these allegations and America has never pressed for answers. And now it appears that the U. S. government has hired Israel's satanic services. Any charges that are brought against the Israeli security forces are done so in secret "for security reasons" and the results are rarely made public. Such complaints are routinely dismissed without the presentation of pertinent evidence or witnesses. It has been estimated that up to 90% of Arab detainees are beaten or tortured. Israeli security forces trained and supplied the white South African Apartheid police force, and it is now reported that they will be employed in Boston for the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
This is what Bush and Congress are hiding. Despite General Taguba's report, completed in late February 2004 and implicating them directly, CACI and Titan-two of the apparent fronts for Israeli involvement in the Iraq war--have not been formally charged with any crime.
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Additional Sources:
Israeli interrogators 'in Iraq'
"Israel's Violation of Human Rights in Arab Territories Occupied in June, 1967," pamphlet by Abdee Jabara, Attorney at Law, Association of Arab American University Graduates, Inc., Information Papers, No.19, Sept.
"Israeli Torture and U.S. Complicity," http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1790
Christopher Bollyn Who is Behind the Abuse at Abu Ghraib? Rumor Mill News May 6, 2004, http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1784
Hirsh Goodman, "Pretoria Connection: Israel's Uneasy Connection with South Africa," New Republic, vol. 196, April 20, 1987
Jane Hunter, "Israel, South Africa and the Bomb," Middle East Report, vol. 143; Nov.-Dec. 1986, p.13
Israel Shahak, Israel's Global Role: Weapons for Repression (AAUG, Inc. 1982, Belmont, MA)James Adams, The Unnatural Alliance (Quartet Books, 1985)
Jane Hunter, Israeli Foreign Policy: South Africa and Central America (Southend Press, Boston, MA)
Dr. Edward H. Bersoff, http://www.virginiaeconomicbridge.org/Organization/Corporate%20Information/Profiles/Board%20Of%20Directors/Board%20members%20pages/Ed_Bersoff.htm
"CACI Chairman, President, and CEO Dr. J.P. (Jack) London Receives Albert Einstein Technology Award
," http://www.caci.com/about/news/news2004/02_02_04_NR.html
Israeli interrogators 'in Iraq' [BBC-July 3, 2004]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3863235.stm
Members of Karpinski's (l) brigade have been accused of abuse
The US officer at the heart of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal says she has evidence that Israelis helped to interrogate Iraqis at another facility.
Brig Gen Janis Karpinski told the BBC she met an Israeli working as an interrogator at a secret intelligence centre in Baghdad. A BBC reporter says it is the first time a senior US officer has suggested Israelis worked with the coalition. The Israeli foreign ministry said the reports were completely untrue.
Intelligence access
Gen Karpinski was in charge of the military police unit that ran Abu Ghraib and other prisons when the abuses were committed. She has been suspended but not charged. She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she met a man claiming to be Israeli during a visit to an intelligence centre with a senior coalition general. "I saw an individual there that I hadn't had the opportunity to meet before, and I asked him what did he do there, was he an interpreter - he was clearly from the Middle East," she said in the interview. "He said, 'Well, I do some of the interrogation here. I speak Arabic but I'm not an Arab; I'm from Israel.'"
Images of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison sparked global outrage
Until a 1999 ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court, Israeli secret service interrogators were allowed to use "moderate force". The US journalist who broke the Abu Ghraib scandal told the programme his sources confirm the presence of Israeli intelligence agents in Iraq. Seymour Hersh said that one of the Israeli aims was to gain access to detained members of the Iraqi secret intelligence unit, who reportedly specialise in Israeli affairs.
'Convenient scapegoat'
The BBC reporter, Matthew Grant, says that whatever the truth, these allegations could cause anger in the Arab world. Photographs of naked Iraqi detainees being humiliated and maltreated first started to surface in April, sparking shock and anger across the world. One soldier has been sentenced and six others are awaiting courts martial for abuses committed at Abu Ghraib jail. Gen Karpinski has said she was being made a "convenient scapegoat" for abuse ordered by others.
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