arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

YOU MEAN SADDAM DIDN'T GAS HIS OWN PEOPLE?

MARCH 11. Very little attention has been paid to Stephen Pelletiere's op ed piece in the New York Times (Jan. 31, "A War Crime or an Act of War").

Pelletiere was the CIA's senior political analyst on Iraq during the 1980s war between Iraq and Iran, and later served as a professor at the US Army War College (1988-2000).

His op ed piece attacks the theory that Saddam gassed the Kurds. You know, "Saddam gassed his own people." That oft-repeated charge that makes up a significant part of the administration's argument for war now.

Pelletiere had access to a lot of the classified data that was generated around the Kurd matter. He was in charge of the 1991 Army probe that investigated the question: How would Saddam fight a war against the US?

The major gassing incident occurred in March 1988 at a town called Halabja. "But the truth is," Pelletiere writes, "all we know for certain is that Kurds were bombarded with poison gas that day." This occurred near the end of the Iraq-Iran war.

Pelletiere writes, "…immediately after the battle [at Halabja] the United States Defense Information Agency investigated and produced a classified report, which it circulated within the intelligence community on a need-to-know basis. That study asserted that it was Iranian gas that killed the Kurds, not Iraqi gas."

Obviously, this report has been intentionally ignored by several presidents and their major mouthpieces.

Pelletiere goes on to write that both the Iraqis and the Iranian troops used gas at Halabja. "The condition of the dead Kurds' bodies, however, indicated that they had been killed with a blood agent---that is, a cyanide-based gas---which Iran was known to have. The Iraqis, who are thought to have used mustard gas in the battle, are not known to have possessed blood agents at the time."

If Bush were simply saying that Saddam deserves to die because he used mustard gas, then Bush might want to mention, as well, that the US employed tons and tons of Agent Orange (a chemical, the last time I looked) in Vietnam.

Then Pelletiere raises and answers a very interesting question. Why was the battle of Halabja fought? "…Iraq has the most extensive river system in the Middle East…Iraq had built an impressive system of dams and river control projects, the largest being the Darbandikhan dam in the Kurdish area. And it was this dam the Iranians were seeking to take control of when they seized Halbja."

Pelletiere points out that a water pipeline through Iraq "could bring the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates south to the parched Gulf states, and by extension, Israel."

To date that pipeline has not been built. But after Gulf War 2? Would Israel become one of the prime beneficiaries in the aftermath?

Remember, the charge that has been leveled at Saddam is, he gassed his own civilians. Pelletiere is offering evidence collected by US intelligence and military analysts that refutes that charge.

Bush, Powell, Blair, and the rest of the crew are brushing all this off without a glance.

« Une vérité est un mensonge répété mille fois »

http://www.reseauvoltaire.net/article9234.html

Dit stond al ook al op deze pagina's. Een Belgische vredesapostel verweet me toen aan desinformatie te doen, hij excuseerde zich achteraf via mail, niet op deze pagina's.

>>>Wie vergaste de Koerden in Halabja? by Guido
http://archive.indymedia.be/front.php3?article_id=47372

>>>Halabja: correcte informatie, ook als sommigen het niet graag horen By Ludo De Brabander
http://archive.indymedia.be/front.php3?article_id=47613

Zie ook>>>THE HALABJA GASSING AND OTHER LIES ABOUT IRAQ
Wed Apr 9 01:10:06 2003
208.152.73.65

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=39332

Eventjes verder zoeken geeft de volledige tekst van Pelletieri waaruit geciteerd wordt, naast andere documenten die in dezelfde zin gaan. Ook wordt nagegaan in welke mate de US hun eigen volk blootstelde aan gifgassen bij de aanmaak en uittesten ervan met een aantal documenten die daarvan melding maakten.

Ga even kijken bij:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/wotiraq/saddamwarcriminal.htm

Er schoot me vanmiddag wel iets te binnen. Eén van de landen die de VS waarschijnlijk ook zullen aanvallen in hun "hervorming van het Midden-Oosten" is Iran.

Dan is het voor de VS wel interessant om die te beschuldigen van de doden in Halabja.

Men is bezig met een subtiele campagne tegen Iran voor te bereiden.

>>>"Between April of 2003 and November 2004, the US, UK and Israel will accelerate instability operations in Iran and engage in global disinformation campaigns to belittle the political and military leadership there. They will take to the airwaves to portray to Americans a country beset by internal strife and dissension. Corporate media will revisit the Iranian Hostage Crisis and display for war-hungry Americans footage from the 1978–80 timeframe. That will include images of Khomeni's henchmen hanging and executing the Shah's secret police. Movies such as Sally Field's Not Without My Child portraying many Iranians as "evil doers" will be broadcast by all the networks. Reza Pahlavi, son of the former Shah of Iran, will be featured with greater frequency on CNN, Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS.

Images from the 1983 bombing of the US Marine Barracks in Lebanon allegedly by Iranian backed Hezbollah will be aired and printed. Coincidently, in Washington, DC, on March 17, 2003, relatives of US Marines killed in Lebanon were allowed to proceed with a lawsuit to collect $2 billion in damages from the Iranian government. According to the sometimes reliable Washington Post, "U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth has ruled that survivors and family members can sue Iran under the provisions of a 1996 law that allows U.S. citizens to take legal action against nations that sponsor terrorism. 'The U.S. military force . . . embodies everything that is resented by the enemies of this country,' Lamberth wrote. 'Failure to permit military service member [lawsuits] would create a perverse incentive for state sponsors of terrorism to target noncombatant U.S. military personnel.' Hundreds of family members turned out for the first day of what is expected to be two days of testimony and evidence designed to document Iran's role in the bombing. Iran did not send a representative to the trial." Once Iraq is successfully occupied, the media will turn its attention to Iran and that lawsuit."

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/032403Stanton/032403stanton.html

Bovenstaande link werkt niet meer maar je kan het volledige verhaal lezen op :

http://istanbul.indymedia.org/news/2003/03/902.php

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/STA303B.html

Het artikel is van 23/3/03

"Between April of 2003 and November 2004, the US, UK and Israel will accelerate instability operations in Iran and engage in global disinformation campaigns to belittle the political and military leadership there."