US BACKED TERRORIST CAPTURED

                                                         
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 Iran grounds plane with Rigi holding US-issued passport 

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The photo shows Rigi's fake Pakistani ID card, issued under the name of Saeed Ahmad.

Iran's security officers grounded the plane carrying the ringleader of Jundallah terrorist group Abdolmalek Rigi in one of Iran's southern ports, informed sources say.

As initial reports indicated that Iran's most wanted man was captured on a flight en-route to Kyrgyzstan from Dubai, a source talking to Press TV on condition of anonymity confirmed that Rigi and one of his deputies were captured after their plane was brought down by security forces in an airport in the Iranian Persian Gulf city of Bandar Abbas.

Iran's Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi said Tuesday that the leader of Jundallah terrorist group was at a US base in Afghanistan 24 hours before his capture, in possession of a US-issued, forged Afghan passport.

According to Moslehi, the country's intelligence apparatus had been tracking Rigi for five months prior to his Tuesday arrest.

The intelligence minister added that Rigi also met with NATO military chief in Afghanistan in April 2008 and also had links with some EU member states, as well as visiting such countries.

He noted that Iran received no assistance from regional intelligence services in the capture of Rigi.

Jundallah, which has operated in Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan and Pakistan's Baluchestan provinces, has carried out a number of attacks against high profile Iranian targets, especially the government and security officials.

Jundallah is responsible for several terrorist attacks inside Iran. In October, the group claimed responsibility for a bombing that left over 40 people dead in Iran's southeast.

Jundallah was also behind a blast at a mosque in the southeastern City of Zahedan that killed over 20 people in May 2009.

Rigi's brother Abdolhamid is also in Iran's custody. He has admitted that Jundallah receives orders from the US to carry out attacks in Iran.

An ABC News report in 2007 reported that the Jundullah terrorist group 'has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials' to destabilize the government in Iran.

In another report in July, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed that US Congressional leaders secretly agreed to George W. Bush's $400-million funding request last year for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran.

Observers say that it is through such covert funding that the US arms and finances anti-Iran terrorist groups such as the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) and Jundallah.

Other US intelligence agencies, such as the CIA, have their own secret and separate budgets to fund terrorist and insurgency operations against Iran and other nations that do not submit to America's will.

Abdolmalek Rigi has described his terrorist cell as a 'nationalist movement' and denied any links to Washington. However, many Sunni Baluchis were among the victims of the most recent terrorist attack by Rigi's followers.


Xe 'admits' presence in Pakistan
May, 5 2010
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Director of notorious American security firm Xe Services LLC, formerly known as Blackwater, has reportedly admitted that his firm is operating in Pakistan.

An investigative journalist working for the Democracy Now Foundation, Jeremy Scahill, says he has obtained an audio recording of a private speech delivered by Blackwater chief Erik Prince.

Prince can be heard talking about his firm's operations on Pakistani territory, according to the report by Scahill. On the tape, he also insults Afghans, Iraqis and Pakistanis who oppose the United States.

On the tape, the Blackwater chief goes on to describe them as barbarians who crawl out of the sewer, the report added. The speech also includes other details about Blackwater's previously undisclosed activities.

Democracy Now says Prince has attempted to keep the audio recording from the public.

Meanwhile, officials in Islamabad say the security contractor has no presence in Pakistan.

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Comment:

In the EXHIBIT - A picture you can see a barefoot blindfolded man being taken hostage by the United States.



In the EXHIBIT - B picture you can see the same barefoot and blindfolded hostage from Exhibit - A - being interrogated by an American. Look at the hostage being interrogated in Exhibit - B -, see the sleeve of his right arm with blood stains on it? Now look at Exhibit - A - again, do you see any blood stains on the sleeve of the hostage?

The United States government says the American interrigator "Jack Idema" in Exhibit - B - does not work for or represent the United States of America. Then who in the hell do the United States Soldiers in Exhibit - A - taking the man hostage work for? Bull Crap after Bull Crap from the United States Government.

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This is another example of a secret prison and a Interrogation room being operated by The United States Armed Forces. EXHIBIT - (C) and EXHIBIT - (D) Pictures are very disturbing because it is obvious that that the thick blood stains on the wall are human brains. Look at the corner wall, do you see how there is thick blood stains and thick human tissues in the corner of the wall? The hostages were probably hanged in that corner, while the CIA and Zionist Mossad mercenaries were torturing and murdering the hostages. I can only assume that the CIA and Mossad mercenaries paint the walls often and they have the floors covered.

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The pictures above is Nicholas Berg sitting on a white plastic chair for interrogation just before his execution in Iraq. Look at the color of the wall in the background.



The picture above are U.S. soldiers torturing hostages in Iraq (Abu Ghraib Prison). Look at the color of the walls, and look at the the top of the picture off center to the right, there is a white plastic chair.



The pictures above was taken at Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq. Look at the color of the walls.



The pictures above are U.S. soldiers sitting on white plastic chairs in Iraq (Abu Ghraib Prison). You do the math.



The picture above is Nicholas Berg being executed. Common sense says he was murdered at Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq.

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From a Yahoo message board...

Word is spreading around Kodak Park here in Rochester NY. And will break on national News tonite that Kodak film experts have analyzed the Nick Berg video and some of the Abu Grhaib Prison videos comparing them for certain encrypted recording signatures.

Each video camera leaves a certain signature mark, much like a fingerprint or striation markings on bullets in gun barrels. Same goes for CD-ROM Burners, they leave a trace or type of Cookies on the finished product.

These are tested by computer and not visible by the naked eye. Experts here after lunch have concluded that one of the 2 video cameras used in the Nick Berg "beheading" was also used to film US troop abuses of Iraqi detainees.

THIS is BAD news for BushCorp., Military, and CIA.

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Report: Kodak Experts Say Beheading And Torture Video Taken With Same Camera!

The Hal Turner Show | 25 May 2004 | Hal Turner

REPORT: KODAK EXPERTS SAY BEHEADING AND TORTURE VIDEO TAKEN WITH SAME CAMERA!
Posted on Tuesday, May 25 @ 14:04:52 EDT by Hal_Turner

THE HAL TURNER SHOW HAS RECEIVED A REPORT WHICH SAYS THE NICHOLAS BERG BEHEADING VIDEO WAS TAKEN WITH THE SAME DIGITAL CAMERA AS THE ABU GHRAIB PRISON TORTURE VIDEOS!

Apparently, digital camera manufacturers install a "digital watermark" on each digital imaging device, which is as unique as a fingerprint. Experts have reportedly analyzed the videos and compared the digital watermarks and determined that the same imging device took the Nicholas Berg beheading video and the Prison torture videos!

The exact text of the report is as follows:

Today new pictures were released of prison torture at Abu Ghraib prison.

But not just still pictures. Today video was released showing prisoners being tortured by Americans.

Aparently Kodak film experts at Kodak Park in Rochester New York have compared the digital watermarks of the torture video and the beheading video and have determined that one of the cameras used in the Nick Berg beheading is THE SAME CAMERA that took the prison torture video.


US veteran: dehumanizing, part of US basic training

 

GI ordered to leave children behind

A US soldier who tried to help injured Iraqi civilians after a US apache strike says his superior ordered him not to tend to the injured children on the scene.





Iran raps West's dual stance on terrorism
Iran holds certain states' double standard policies toward terrorist groups accountable for thwarting international efforts to eradicate terrorism.


'US govt. harnessing information flow'
April 28, 2010
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Renowned UN correspondent in New York Stewart Stogel

The following is a rush transcript of Press TV's interview with renowned UN correspondent in New York Stewart Stogel about leaked footage, showing an American chopper shooting down journalists working for Reuters in Iraq.

Press TV: Why are we just hearing about numerous unresolved murders of journalists in Iraq?

Stogel: Well, it is kind of funny, because the video tape that you just alluded to was actually given to me a month ago. But, I was not sure about its authenticity, so I never did anything about it. I am paying the price for ignoring that videotape. Why is it happening right now... we really don't know whether the American government has been trying to suppress some of the information, it is speculation...

Things are still not very good in Iraq. To a degree, a lot of pandemonium is still going on. I am not really sure whether there was a cover-up. I think this organization and the Maliki government that was more pre-concerned with being re-elected than knowing about the American journalists being wacked by mistake by American military forces.

Press TV: Now Mr. Stogel, the release of the WikiLeaks video has prompted this group to request further investigation. So why hadn't the Pentagon engaged in investigations earlier. Well, you alluded to the possibility that there might be some cover-up involved in the incident. Does that point to the fact that earlier investigations had not been carried out?

Stogel: Well, again I am not sure that the communication between the American forces in the field in Iraq and the Pentagon is what it should be.

Unfortunately, we have got a very wide discrepancy amongst the professionalism of the American troops despite what the Pentagon says. So, it is really unclear as to why those reports didn't surface earlier. But, now that they have surfaced and are getting a lot of attention, I assume that the Pentagon will do a fairly credible review as to what exactly happened, why those journalists were killed and the circumstances surrounding it.

Press TV: You are saying that you think that there would be a thorough report. US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates seemed to react by saying that it was very difficult for him to see this on WikilLeaks; and that the problem was the WikiLeaks rather than the controversial situation. How do you see the comments that Robert Gates made after the WikiLeaks video surfaced.

Stogel: I think his comments were very measured, very carefully measured because I believe at some point there probably will be some legal action taken against those American troops in the American courts. So, therefore with the prospect of a lawsuit looming over their heads, the Pentagon has been very careful, very measured about what it says.

Press TV: So, you don't see that there is any possible cover-up in this case. This is a case that took place in 2007 and had it not been leaked via the Internet, do you think we would have the information about it right now?

Stogel: I don't know, but in the American law there is no statute of limitations on murder. So even though it took place almost three years ago, the time difference doesn't make any difference to the American courts, because they can still prosecute. Again, because again entering the legal sphere, I assume that you are going to see that the events move rather slowly and the Pentagon simply offering up whatever the courts ask for. I don't think the Pentagon will all of a sudden tell the court that we made a mistake and we are going to compensate for it. So, I think at this point to protect the rights of the American troops that were involved, the Pentagon will let the court decide how to proceed from this point.

Press TV: Mr. Stogel, don't you think it shows kind of an old boy's tight club in the military, covering up for each other? Because individual soldiers could have come forth with this information... How do you see the overall mentality if that is what exists in the military today?

Stogel: Well, there could be. As you said there could be a gang kind of mentality to surround a small group to protect that group. I've also noticed that as a journalist -- even here in the United Nations in New York -- I've seen in my view a kind of combative attitude between governments in general and the press. So if you are overseas and you are in a warzone, you are an American journalist or you are a European journalist, you have got to be very careful about the way you go and the way you express your views these days. It is not a good time to be a journalist around the world.

Press TV: What do you mean by that you have seen a combative attitude towards journalists? Could you explain?

Stogel: For sure, even in the United Nations itself, I have seen threats being made against journalists. Press TV had been given a hard time on many occasions because they are a fairly new entity at the United Nations. I had my accreditation threatened on numerous occasions because I wrote stories that the UN didn't like. They tried to throw me out of the UN because of the stories that I wrote they didn't like. Right now, the UN Security Council has move to new facilities and they are restricting the movements of the press that cover the UN Security Council ambassadors. Press TV -- when it covers the UN -- it can only go within a certain restricted area and if it moves outside that area it will risk losing its office space and accreditation. A lot of people have complained about this, but so far, the UN has ignored the complaints.

Press TV: And what do you say is the root cause of this? Because isn't there an air or atmosphere that is existing in the United States. Of course, I know in the United Nations things are different. What are the root causes of this right now?

Stogel: In my personal view, I think government entities now see the press in a way... perhaps combative or perhaps adversarial. And they are doing what they can do to try and control the flow of information. Whether it is here or overseas, I see a trend around the world by governments and even corporations, like Toyota Motor Corporation here in the United States, they are trying to control the press.

Anti-US Militia Group Free on Bond

CIA Seeks To Influence Opinion On Wars I - CIA Red Cell Document Proves The Rule

April 2, 2010
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The CIA recommendations for influencing the European public into continuing their support for the mission in Afghanistan is receiving a lot of attention both in The Netherlands and beyond. But in a military conflict, war is only one stage of the struggle. The biggest struggle is for the hearts and minds of the public at large. What's special about the case of the document is not so much its content, but the fact that it is now available for all to see.

At the top of the CIA-document it states: 'Why counting on apathy might not be enough'. The document continues: 'The fall of the Dutch Government over its troop commitment to Afghanistan demonstrates the fragility of European support for the NATO-led ISAF mission'. The drafters of the CIA Red Cell report fear that the public's apathy could turn into hostility if the fighting this summer - which according to forecasts could be bloody - results in a lot of casualties. This could lead to the problem of politicians listening to the voice of the electorate, such as what happened in The Netherlands. Because of this the authors of the report feel that it is important to influence public opinion.

The document is shocking, but the reality is that its contents prove the rule, not the exception.

In my book The Next War - The Attack on Iran - A preview I've listed a number of facts that point to this type of attempt to influence the public. From page 156: 'In early 2008 author Nick Davies, known for his book Flat Earth News, described how it had become the strategy of intelligence services to actively manipulate public perception. In England there is the Directorate of Targeting and Information Operations under the Ministry of Defence. For their 'InfoOps' - information operations - they work side-by-side with specialists from fifteen psychological operations of the Defence Intelligence and Security Centre in Chicksands, Bedforshire, and with the American PR firm The Rendon Group.

Information Operations

On America Davies writes: 'The Pentagon has now designated "information operations" as its fifth "core competency", alongside land, sea, air and special forces. Since October 2006, every brigade, division and corps in the US military has had its own "psyop" element producing output for local media.' For the domestic media and thereby often the global media, the Pentagon deploys a 'media Trojan Horse', as The New York Times put it in 2008. After issuing a Freedom of Information request, the paper discovered in 2008 that the Pentagon was the unseen hand behind many of the military analysts in the media that continuously informed the American public over the war in Iraq.

Page 19: 'In May of 2007 it became known that President Bush had signed a document making it possible for the CIA to carry out 'black' propaganda and disinformation campaigns in order to destabilize the regime in Tehran, and America deployed the terrorist groups Jundullah and Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK), among others, for military action and acts of sabotage.'

Flags

In chapter 4, The lead-up to the war with Iraq, it states: 'The final document [with the British 45-minute claim about Saddam's WMD's] was put together by two people in the Downing Street press office and two people from the Coalition Information Center. This information center was established in October 2001 under assignment from the White House and Downing Street by Karen P. Hughes and John Rendon, of the Rendon Group. This is the same organization that had a hand in Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress from the beginning, and also scored gains during the run-up to the Persian Gulf War. John Rendon: 'Did you ever stop to wonder how the people of Kuwait City, after being held hostage for seven long and painful months, were able to get hand-held American flags and, for that matter, the flags of other coalition countries? Well, now you know the answer. That was one of my jobs."
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US Backed Terrorist Leader Canceled Trip To Washington
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Comment:


  Serial numbers and markings on explosives used in Iraq provide "pretty good" evidence that Iran is providing either weapons or technology for militants there, United States Defense Secretary Robert Gates asserted in Febuary of 2007.

  Febuary of 2007 United States Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, "I think there's some serial numbers, there may be some markings on some of the projectile fragments that we found," that point to Iran.

  During a news conference April 11, 2007 in Iraq, United States Major General William Caldwell said "We have in fact found some cases recently where Iranian intelligence sources have provided to Sunni insurgent groups some support" - "Iranian intelligence services are active here in Iraq in terms of both providing funding and weapons and ammunition"

  USHOSTAGE.com says from the beginning of the invasion of Iraq by the United States Government, CIA and Israel Mossad Zionist Terrorist backed Mojahedin-e-Khalq Terrorists have been involved in setting up fake check points in Iraq with Iranian Traitors in Iranian Military Uniforms to give the image to Iraqi citizens that Iran is trying to invade Iraq. This was also done by the United States Government during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.

  As for allegations of Iran made weapons with serial numbers and markings on the weapons, what the CIA and the Israel Mossad Zionist Terrorists have been doing is providing US backed wahabi terrorists like the Jundallah or the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MKO) with weapons that have no serial numbers on them, not because they have scrubed away the serial numbers, but because thats how the manufactures have made them for the Zionists to use in their terrorist operations. They the manufacturers also have been making weapons that look like they were made in Iran with serial numbers and markings as proof.

             "By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War"

King Abdullah & Co

January 11, 2010
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By: Kian Mokhtari

Whatever next?

The biggest security breach in Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) protocol in two decades, deaths of top Middle East CIA operatives and an Arab Kingdom allied to the West help make up the drama that is fast proving to have been not only a most complex web of operational foul ups but an “unmitigated” disaster for the dodgy US operations; well,well,well!

Following a bomb attack by the Jordanian Al-Qaeda militant Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi that wiped out the CIA's brightest and the best at Camp Chapman in Afghanistan, the plot is beginning to thicken faster than chicken stock.

Initial reports said Balawi, had been recruited by the CIA to infiltrate al-Qaeda and its affiliate networks and offered millions of dollars to accomplish his mission. Instead, he chose al-Qaeda and dressed as an Afghan officer blew up the operational nerve centre of the US anti al-Qaeda leaders' activities.

Then the news arrived that one of His Majesty, King Abdullah II of Jordan's cousins had actually been the man that had courted and even forced Balawi to work on CIA's behalf.

But it gets worse, much worse.

Jordanian army captain Ali bin Zaid was hobnobbing with the CIA top dogs at Camp Chapman in the Khost province when the bomber struck and Zaid was also killed. The Hashemite monarch, his wife, and other Jordanian Royal family members attended bin Zaid's funeral; a most unusual gesture of grief by the Jordanian King for a mere “distant cousin.”

No sooner had his Majesty King Abdullah II along with his entourage left the funeral on Friday that reports leaked out that Balawi had even been thrown into jail by the late Captain Ali bin Zaid, to force him into tracking down the al-Qaida's leaders.

It is no secret that Jordan is the most pro-western country in the Arab world. The late King Hussein was even “reported to be on the CIA payroll, while his intimate relations with successive British governments have continued under his son.”

The Jordanian capital, Amman, has served as a base for the Western spy operations for many years. It even assisted Tel Aviv against the Palestinian resistance most notably during the 22-day Israeli onslaught against the Gaza Strip in 2008/2009.

Jordan's General Intelligence Department (GID) - universally known as the Mukhabarat - has a reputation for ruthlessness highlighted -on numerous occasions- by human rights groups. It plays a key role in monitoring Jordan's domestic politics and has no qualms about making his Majesty King Abdullah's most ardent opponents disappear. But since the Jordanian Royal family's very existence hinges on support from Britain and the US, hardly anyone gets to hear about the Mukhabarat -ahem- activities.

This is where the failure of the US intelligence begins. Triple agents dragged to jail by Mukhabarat, beaten up, held without charge and given instructions to infiltrate al-Qaeda….dah!!

I have already mentioned that whenever the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen has an argument with “the wife” he tends to deliver a fiery speech against Iran. But lately another top figure in the US military has taken up the habit.

Whenever the head of US Central Command General David Petraeus fouls things up in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and Somalia -blimey so many wars mate- he gets on his high horse in all.

Some “credible” Western mouthpiece agency has reported: “In the strongest hint of war in months, General David Petraeus warns of a series of 'contingency plans' in dealing with Iran's refusal to accept Western demands.”

It is CNN I believe, who quoted the disgruntled General Petraeus on Sunday as saying that "It would be almost literally irresponsible if CENTCOM were not to have been thinking about the various 'what ifs' and to make plans for a whole variety of different contingencies..."

Now listen General, some everyday folk -like me self- would consider fouling up in Lebanon, the occupied Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen as just about enough for any man.

Contingency plans on Iran? Good Lord; have you not had enough?

The US Office of Naval Intelligence confirmed in a September assessment that if any country was to act militarily against Tehran, Iran's naval and maritime capabilities could easily shut down the Strait of Hormuz, through which nearly 40 percent of the world's oil supplies pass.

You still here General?

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 US says no to indigenous rights

The US, the self-proclaimed protector of human rights, has failed to vote in favor of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Story link: Drug plane used for US renditions

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German foreign minister strongly denies German involvement in flights arranged by the CIA to transport terrorist suspects across Europe.

US accused of using prison ships
The US is making use of prison ships to keep in custody those arrested in its so-called war on terror, a human rights group says.

 

 

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