Noventa e três crianças – uma de apenas 8 dias de vida – morreram nos ataques americanos em Cabul, diz Reuters ( em inglês )

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List of 140 Afghan Killed In US Attack Includes 93 Children

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KABUL (Reuters) – Ninety-three children and 25 adult women are among a list of 140 names of Afghans who villagers say were killed in a battle and U.S. air strikes last week, causing a crisis between Washington and its Afghan allies.

The list, obtained by Reuters, bears the endorsement of seven senior provincial and central government officials, including an Afghan two-star general who headed a task force dispatched by the government to investigate the incident.

Titled “list of the martyrs of the bombardment of Bala Boluk district of Farah Province”, it includes the name, age and father’s name of each alleged victim.

The youngest was listed as 8-day-old baby Sayed Musa, son of Sayed Adam. Fifty-three victims were girls under the age of 18, and 40 were boys. Only 22 were men 18 or older.

The U.S. military continues to dispute the toll and a military spokesman said some of the names could be fake.

The dispute over the number of dead has worsened tension between Washington and Kabul, despite apologies President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made during a visit to Washington by President Hamid Karzai last week.

The Afghan government has endorsed the list, and Karzai went on U.S. television to call for an end to all U.S. air strikes, only to be rebuffed by Washington. Afghan officials say the issue helps insurgents by turning the public against foreign forces.

Since last year, U.S. officials adopted new procedures for investigations of civilian casualties designed to ensure their statements agree with those of the Afghan government.Nevertheless, Washington has continued to dispute the death toll. U.S. military spokesman Colonel Greg Julian said villagers had an incentive to invent names of dead relatives in the hope of collecting compensation.

U.S. SAYS NO PROOF

“Well I could give you 140 names too. The problem is there is no evidence of that number of graves … Are those real people? Did they ever actually exist? I can give you a list of 53 girls names with their ages,” he said “There are no birth certificates and there are no death certificates.”

“Conditions exist that encourage exaggeration,” Julian added.”If you say that the Taliban killed your family you’d get nothing. If you say the Americans killed your family, you might get assistance, whether they existed or not.”

Julian said investigators had been shown 26 individual graves at the site and one mass grave, which he said was not large enough to contain so many bodies. He estimated the overall toll could not exceed 80.Because of cultural sensitivity, there were no plans to dig up the graves to determine how many were buried inside, he said.

The U.S. military blames the Taliban for causing the deaths deliberately by herding civilians into houses it knew would be targeted by U.S. troops sent to rescue Afghan police and soldiers from an ambush. It also says the Taliban may have killed some of the villagers with grenades.

“Don’t forget about who is responsible for this whole thing. This was a deliberate plan to create human sacrifices and then blame us,” Julian said.

Karzai told CNN last week that Washington needs to rely on other tactics besides air strikes when it is facing Taliban fighters in villages where civilians might be present.”The air strikes are not acceptable,” Karzai said.

“Terrorism is not in Afghan villages, not in Afghan homes. And you cannot defeat terrorists by air strikes.”

But White House National Security Advisor James Jones said on Sunday that U.S. forces need air power to protect themselves: “We can’t fight with one hand tied behind our back.”

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"Osama bin Laden era ‘operador’ de Bush pai em 1989, para ‘desestabilizar’ Benazir Bhutto", diz presidente do Paquistão ( em inglês )

Osama bin Laden was US operator: President Asif Ali Zardari

By Arun Kumar

May 11, 2009 “New Karala” — Washington, May 11 : Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has alleged that elusive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was a US operator who had tried to destabilise his late wife Benazir Bhutto’s government back in 1989.

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In fact, as premier Bhutto had “warned America about Osama bin Laden in 1989 with a call to then US president George H. Bush”, Zardari said on NBC’s Meet the Press programme Sunday.

“She rang senior Bush and asked of him: ‘Are you destabilizing my government?’ because he (apparently referring to bin Laden) paid the then opposition $10 million to overthrow the first woman elected (prime minister) in an Islamic country,” Zardari added.

“So, we knew that he was your operator,” said Zardari responding to a question about bin Laden’s whereabouts.

“You’ll have been there (in Afghanistan) for eight years. (So) you tell me. You lost him in Tora Bora, I didn’t, I was in prison,” he countered when asked where bin Laden was before hurling the allegation at Washington.

Asked if Pakistan was actively looking for bin Laden, Zardari replied: “The world is looking for him and we are part of the world look-out brigade.”

Zardari also reiterated his belief that bin Laden is dead. “I have a strong feeling and I have reason to believe that because I’ve asked my counterparts in the American intelligence agencies and they have not heard of him since seven years.”— IANS

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"Osama bin Laden era ‘operador’ de Bush pai em 1989, para ‘desestabilizar’ Benazir Bhutto", diz presidente do Paquistão ( em inglês )

Osama bin Laden was US operator: President Asif Ali Zardari

By Arun Kumar

May 11, 2009 “New Karala” — Washington, May 11 : Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has alleged that elusive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was a US operator who had tried to destabilise his late wife Benazir Bhutto’s government back in 1989.

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In fact, as premier Bhutto had “warned America about Osama bin Laden in 1989 with a call to then US president George H. Bush”, Zardari said on NBC’s Meet the Press programme Sunday.

“She rang senior Bush and asked of him: ‘Are you destabilizing my government?’ because he (apparently referring to bin Laden) paid the then opposition $10 million to overthrow the first woman elected (prime minister) in an Islamic country,” Zardari added.

“So, we knew that he was your operator,” said Zardari responding to a question about bin Laden’s whereabouts.

“You’ll have been there (in Afghanistan) for eight years. (So) you tell me. You lost him in Tora Bora, I didn’t, I was in prison,” he countered when asked where bin Laden was before hurling the allegation at Washington.

Asked if Pakistan was actively looking for bin Laden, Zardari replied: “The world is looking for him and we are part of the world look-out brigade.”

Zardari also reiterated his belief that bin Laden is dead. “I have a strong feeling and I have reason to believe that because I’ve asked my counterparts in the American intelligence agencies and they have not heard of him since seven years.”— IANS

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"Osama bin Laden era ‘operador’ de Bush pai em 1989, para ‘desestabilizar’ Benazir Bhutto", diz presidente do Paquistão ( em inglês )

Osama bin Laden was US operator: President Asif Ali Zardari

By Arun Kumar

May 11, 2009 “New Karala” — Washington, May 11 : Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has alleged that elusive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was a US operator who had tried to destabilise his late wife Benazir Bhutto’s government back in 1989.

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In fact, as premier Bhutto had “warned America about Osama bin Laden in 1989 with a call to then US president George H. Bush”, Zardari said on NBC’s Meet the Press programme Sunday.

“She rang senior Bush and asked of him: ‘Are you destabilizing my government?’ because he (apparently referring to bin Laden) paid the then opposition $10 million to overthrow the first woman elected (prime minister) in an Islamic country,” Zardari added.

“So, we knew that he was your operator,” said Zardari responding to a question about bin Laden’s whereabouts.

“You’ll have been there (in Afghanistan) for eight years. (So) you tell me. You lost him in Tora Bora, I didn’t, I was in prison,” he countered when asked where bin Laden was before hurling the allegation at Washington.

Asked if Pakistan was actively looking for bin Laden, Zardari replied: “The world is looking for him and we are part of the world look-out brigade.”

Zardari also reiterated his belief that bin Laden is dead. “I have a strong feeling and I have reason to believe that because I’ve asked my counterparts in the American intelligence agencies and they have not heard of him since seven years.”— IANS

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You Tube: Parlamentar japonês expõe na tribuna sua incredulidade com relação à versão oficial sobre o 11/09. Legendas em inglês.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eOpZMBcYdw

Ganhadora do Oscar 2008 sofre ataques por ter opinado que a versão FOX-bushiana do 11/09 é conto de fadas difícil de engolir!!

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Por Juan Gelman
Pobre Marion Cotillard. Ganhou o Oscar 2008 como melhor atriz por sua personificação de Edith Piaf no filme La vie en rose, mas a revista Marianne começou a fazer circular declarações que a atriz francesa formulou há um ano: então, ela colocou em dúvida a versão oficial da Casa Branca sobre os atentados de 11/9. A velha notícia foi retomada pela mídia britânica e estadounidense, e já se especula que isso lhe custará a carreira em Hollywood e talvez na própria França, dado que a questão explode nos momentos em que o presidente Nicolas Sarkozy procura uma aproximação íntima com a Casa Branca. Os Oscar costumam estar envolvidos em escândalos que a imprensa norte-americana enfeita e seus leitores desfrutam, só que é a primeira vez que cobram de uma estrela a fatura com retroatividade. Cabe reparar em alguns detalhes. Uns 25 por cento das ações da promotora da campanha anti-Cotillard pertence ao Carlyle Group, um mega-consórcio presidido pelo ex-chefe do Pentágono, Frank Carlucci, e especializado no controle de meios de informação e de sociedades dedicadas à compra e vendas de armamento. É curioso: o Carlyle Group foi, durante anos, uma entidade para onde convergiam investimentos de Bush pai e da família bin Laden, além de George Soros, do ex-primeiro-ministro britânico John Major, do multimilionário russo convicto de fraude Mijail Jodorkovsky, e de outros personagens da mesma índole. Os ataques contra Cotillard não são gratuitos. Um cineasta que deita com sua filha adotiva é uma bolha que se dissipa no ar e não mais. Um diretor que questiona o pensamento único que Washington pretende impor ao mundo é imperdoável. Bem o sabe Jean-Luc Godard. A descrença sobre os verdadeiros autores do atentado contra as Torres Gêmeas não é nova. Demonstrou-se que houve insólitos e muitos lucrativos movimentos na Bolsa norte-americana uma semana antes, como se alguns soubessem. As fotos do anunciado choque de um avião contra o edifício do Pentágono gera não poucas dúvidas sobre se realmente existiu. Como exemplo, o senador japonês Yukihisa Fujita que, na sessão parlamentar de 11 de janeiro deste ano, criticou o primeiro-ministro Yasuo Fukuda e os ministros de Defesa, de Finanças e de Relações Exteriores do Japão, que ainda não haviam confirmado, seis anos depois do fato, que o 11/9 foi orquestrado por Osama bin Laden.

O jornalista e escritor Thierry Meyssan (www.voltaire.org) cedo advertiu de que se tratava de una ação terrorista fabricada pelos serviços secretos dos EUA e Israel. Serviu como uma luva a W. Bush para executar o plano que os “falcões-galinha” haviam preparado anos atrás a fim de controlar o petróleo do Oriente Médio, recurso indispensável para impor seu domínio no mundo inteiro. O ceticismo em relação à versão de Washington converteu-se em desmentido em vários círculos políticos europeus. O ex-presidente da Itália, Francesco Cossiga, um homem cuja honestidade até os adversários reconhecem, foi terminante: “Fizeram-nos acreditar que bin Laden haveria confessado ser o autor do ataque de 11 de setembro de 2001 contra as Torres Gêmeas de Nova York, enquanto que, na realidade, os serviços estadounidenses e europeus sabiam perfeitamente que esse atentado desastroso foi planificado e executado pela CIA e o Mossad, com o objetivo de acusar os países árabes de terrorismo, e justificar assim os ataques contra Iraque e Afeganistão” ( Corriere della Sera, 30-11-07 ). É notório que Cossiga é católico e nada terrorista. Giuletto Chiesa, jornalista e deputado do Parlamento Europeu, que considerou uma “fantasia ridícula e insustentável” a versão da Casa Branca sobre o 11/9, não vacilou em qualificar W. Bush e Dick Cheney de “mentirosos manifestos” (www.zerofilm.info, 10-07-07) nem em sublinhar que aqueles que formulavam objeções à versão oficial, inclusive as mais tímidas, “eram tratados por loucos, dementes ou de aliados perigosos desses terroristas islâmicos”. Pouco falta para isso ocorrer com Marion Cotillard. É público que os 16 serviços de espionagem dos EUA aprovaram por consenso a mais recente Estimativa Nacional de Inteligência, que deixa claro que o Irã suspendeu em 2003 seu programa nuclear com fins militares. Isto não é obstáculo para que W. Bush e seus acólitos insistam no perigo nuclear iraniano, nem impede o Pentágono de aperfeiçoar os planos de um ataque nuclear contra o governo de Teerã. O Centro pela Integridade Pública, de Washington, registrou em estudo recente que W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell e outros altos funcionários da Casa Branca haviam mentido sobre o Iraque ao menos 935 vezes nos dois anos que seguintes ao 11/9 (www.publicintegrity.org). O Número Um na matéria foi W. Bush: 232 afirmações falsas sobre as armas de destruição massiva em poder de Saddam Hussein e 28 sobre os presumíveis laços Bagdá-al Qaida. Sendo assim, uma mentira mais que diferença faria ao tigre?

Fonte: La Bitácora de Gelman/Artículos de Prensa

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Tradução do espanhol para o português de Omar L. de Barros Filho, editor de ViaPolítica e membro de Tlaxcala, a rede de tradutores pela diversidade lingüística. Esta tradução pode ser livremente reproduzida, na condição de que sua integridade seja respeitada, bem como citados o autor, o tradutor e as fontes.

16.03.2008

Vídeo mostra supostas detonações… dentro do WTC!!! ( em inglês )

The Planned and obvious Demolition of the World Trade Center by explosives on 911….
Phil_Jayhan / 10/13/2007

This short video will help people to see the truth of 911, and is made for dummies, it is so simple. Just watch and see the truth of 911. All that is used and shown is the medias own footage from 911 to show the pre-planned and obvious intentional blowing of the World Trade Centers by explosives and demolition charges. Make sure you pass along this url and website to as many people as possible! America is in distress!

O 11 de Setembro de Greg Palast ( em inglês, proletas iletrados )

Infelizmente, vai em inglês mesmo, que meu conhecimento do idioma é “on the table level”, quer dizer, eu entendo para mim. Aliás, caso alguém leia isso aqui: no site de Greg Palast eles pedem donativos para continuar com seu trabalho. Não que aqui entre nós não exista quem precise. Mas não seria uma boa se algum veículo da imprensa, digamos, progressista daqui da terrinha comprasse os direitos do jornalista americano, seja jornal, revista ou até mesmo site ou portal de notícias e publicasse em português?

September 11: What You “Ought Not to Know”

by Greg Palast

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September 10, 2007- On November 9, 2001, when you could still choke on the dust in the air near Ground Zero, BBC Television received a call in London from a top-level US intelligence agent. He was not happy. Shortly after George W. Bush took office, he told us reluctantly, the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the FBI, “were told to back off the Saudis.”
We knew that. In the newsroom, we had a document already in hand, marked, “SECRET” across the top and “” – meaning this was a national security matter.
The secret memo released agents to hunt down two members of the bin Laden family operating a “suspected terrorist organization” in the USA. It was dated September 13, 2001 — two days too late for too many. What the memo indicates, corroborated by other sources, was that the agents had long wanted to question these characters … but could not until after the attack. By that time, these bin Laden birds had flown their American nest.
Back to the high-level agent. I pressed him to tell me exactly which investigations were spiked. None of this interview dance was easy, requiring switching to untraceable phones. Ultimately, the insider said, “Khan Labs.” At the time, our intelligence agencies were on the trail of Pakistan’s Dr. Strangelove, A.Q. Khan, who built Pakistan’s bomb and was selling its secrets to the Libyans. But once Bush and Condoleeza Rice’s team took over, the source told us, agents were forced to let a hot trail go cold. Specifically, there were limits on tracing the Saudi money behind this “Islamic bomb.”
Then we made another call, this time to an arms dealer in the Mideast. He confirmed that his partner attended a meeting in 1995 at the 5-star Hotel Royale Monceau in Paris where, allegedly, Saudi billionaires agreed to fund Al Qaeda fanatics. We understood it to be protection money, not really a sign of support for their attacks. Nevertheless, rule number one of investigation is “follow the money” — but the sheiks’ piggy banks were effectively off-limits to the US agents during the Bush years. One of the men in the posh hotel’s meeting of vipers happens to have been a Bush family business associate.
Before you jump to the wrong conclusion, let me tell you that we found no evidence — none, zero, no kidding — that George Bush knew about Al Qaeda’s plan to attack on September 11. Indeed, the grim joke at BBC is that anyone accusing George Bush of knowing anything at all must have solid evidence. This is not a story of what George Bush knew but rather of his very-unfunny ignorance. And it was not stupidity, but policy: no asking Saudis uncomfortable questions about their paying off roving packs of killers, especially when those Saudis are so generous to Bush family businesses.
Yes, Bill Clinton was also a bit too tender toward the oil men of Arabia. But this you should know: In his last year in office, Clinton sent two delegations to the Gulf to suggest that the Royal family crack down on “charitable donations” from their kingdom to the guys who blew up our embassies.
But when a failed Texas oil man took over the White House in January 2001, demands on the Saudis to cut off terror funding simply stopped.
And what about the bin Laden “suspected terrorist organization”? Called the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, the group sponsors soccer teams and summer camps in Florida. BBC obtained a video of one camp activity, a speech exhorting kids on the heroism of suicide bombings and hostage takings. While WAMY draws membership with wholesome activities, it has also acted as a cover or front, say the Dutch, Indian and Bosnian governments, for the recruitment of jihadi killers. Certainly, it was worth asking the bin Laden boys a few questions. But the FBI agents couldn’t, until it was too late.In November 2001, when BBC ran the report on the spike of investigations of Saudi funding of terror, the Bush defenders whom we’d invited to respond on air dismissed the concerns of lower level FBI agents who’d passed over the WAMY documents. No action was taken on the group headed by the bin Ladens.
Then, in May this year, fifty FBI agents surrounded, invaded and sealed off WAMY’s Virginia office. It was like a bad scene out of the ‘Untouchables.’ The raid took place three years after our report and long after the bin Ladens had waved bye-bye. It is not surprising that the feds seized mostly empty files and a lot of soccer balls.
Why now this belated move on the bin Laden’s former operation? Why not right after the September 11 attack? This year’s FBI raid occurred just days after an Islamist terror assault in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Apparently, messin’ with the oil sheiks gets this Administration’s attention. Falling towers in New York are only for Republican convention photo ops.
The 199-I memo was passed to BBC television by the gumshoes at the National Security News Service in Washington. We authenticated it, added in our own sleuthing, then gave the FBI its say, expecting the usual, “It’s baloney, a fake.” But we didn’t get the usual response. Rather, FBI headquarters said, “There are lots of things the intelligence community knows and other people ought not to know.”
Ought not to know?
What else ought we not to know, Mr. President? And when are we supposed to forget it?

***Greg Palast’s reports for BBC Television Newsnight and The Guardian paper of Britain (with David Pallister) on White House interference in the investigation of terrorism won a 2002 California State University Journalism School ‘Project Censored’ Award.

FBI divulga documento sobre fuga da família de Bin Laden

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Dados revelam que sauditas fugiram após 11/9 dos EUA; ONG critica investigação

SÃO PAULO – A organização de interesse público americana Judicial Watch divulgou nesta quinta-feira, 21, novos documentos do FBI sobre a atuação de Osama Bin Laden para o repatriação de cidadãos sauditas, incluindo seus familiares, após os atentados de 11 de setembro de 2001.
Segundo um dos textos – que até então recebiam o status de confidencial -, o líder da organização terrorista Al-Qaeda teria fretado pessoalmente um dos vôos.
“No dia 19 de setembro de 2001, um avião 727 deixou o aeroporto de Los Angeles em direção a Orlando (…). O avião fora fretado ou pela família real saudita ou por Osama Bin Laden. O FBI fez buscas nas bagagens, mas nada de suspeito foi encontrado”, diz um trecho do documento. Após pousar em Orlando, o vôo fez outras quatro paradas em território americano, para em seguida receber a autorização dos Estados Unidos para seguir em direção a Paris, onde todos os passageiros desembarcaram.
O episódio veio a público pela primeira vez no documentário Fahrenheit 9/11, do americano Michael Moore. Com os arquivos do FBI divulgados nesta quinta-feira, a informação parece agora receber confirmação oficial.
Ao todo, os novos documentos incluem detalhes sobre seis vôos realizados entre os dias 14 e 24 de setembro de 2001, e que teriam transportado membros da família real saudita e parentes de Bin Laden. Segundo o FBI, nenhum dos passageiros possuíam informações relevantes para as investigações sobre os ataques – o que possivelmente serviria de justificativa para a liberação dos vôos pelo governo americano.
Em texto publicado em seu site, entretanto, o Judicial Watch chama a atenção para o fato de haver vários erros e inconsistências nos documentos. Segundo o organismo, os problemas põem em dúvida a credibilidade da investigação conduzida pelo FBI.
Em um dos documentos, por exemplo, o FBI afirma ter interrogado 20 dos 23 passageiros de um vôo da Ryan International Airlines (comumente chamado de o “vôo da Família Bin Laden”). Em outro, o departamento americano informa ter falado com apenas 15 dos 22 passageiros do mesmo vôo.
“Oito dias após o pior ataque terrorista na história dos Estados Unidos, Osama bin Laden freta um vôo para tirar sua família do país e isso não vale mais do que uma busca nas bagagens e algumas poucas entrevistas?”, questiona o presidente da Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton. “Esse documentos provam claramente que o FBI conduziu a investigação sobre esses vôos sauditas de forma negligente.”
O juiz distrital Richard W. Roberts, por sua vez, ordenou a “abertura apropriada” dos documentos à Corte e ao Judicial Watch. Roberts já havia criticado a adequação dos textos, apontando outros erros nos arquivos do FBI. Anteriormente, o departamento americano havia editado o nome de Bin Laden para “proteger interesses privados”.

Link para Judicial Watch ( em inglês, óbvio )

Link para os documentos ( PDF, em inglês, óbvio )

Link para artigo de Olavo de Carvalho na Primeira Leitura em 2004 ( em português, óbvio )