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by Ray McGovern

The Iranian government is celebrating the capture of Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of a violent group called Jundullah (Arabic for Soldiers of God), which Tehran says is a terrorist organization supported by the United States, Great Britain and Israel.

Jundullah is one of several groups that have been conducting bombings and other violent attacks against Iran’s Islamic regime with the aim of knocking it off balance.

In a July 7, 2008, article for The New Yorker magazine, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh quoted Robert Baer, a former CIA clandestine officer who worked in South Asia and the Middle East for nearly two decades, as saying that Jundullah was one of the militant groups in Iran benefiting from U.S. support. Read the full story

Fuente: LibreRed

12 de febrero, 2010

El anuncio de la contratación de una empresa israelí para conformar el anillo de seguridad del Presidente Ricardo Martinelli y darle entrenamiento a personal del Servicio de Protección Institucional (SPI), revela el nexo existente entre los personeros del Gobierno con grupos mercenarios asociados al sionismo, organismos tenebrosos como la Mossad y la CIA, y los círculos más recalcitrantes de la derecha norteamericana vinculados a la mafia de Miami y el Gobierno Narcoparamilitar de Alvaro Uribe. Read the full story

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Se pregunta un informe de Naciones Unidas sobre las detenciones secretas

Fuente: t r u t h o u t
Traducción: Sinfo Fernández, Rebelión

por Andy Worthington
28 de enero, 2010

Un nuevo e importante informe sobre las políticas de detenciones secretas en todo el mundo, realizado por cuatro expertos en derechos humanos independientes de Naciones Unidas, concluye que: “A escala global, las detenciones secretas en relación con las políticas de contraterrorismo siguen siendo un grave problema”, y “si se recurre a ellas de forma sistemática y extendida, las detenciones secretas pueden alcanzar el umbral del crimen contra la humanidad”. Read the full story

Fuente: ANNCOL

3 de enero, 2010

Esta constatación, nos trae dos mensajes claros que deben ser objeto de debate, el primero es la dificultad de diferenciar un objetivo militar, por ejemplo la diferencia entre un civil y un militar se hace más difusa, por la dinámica misma de la guerra actual (Afganistán, Irak, Colombia, etc.). El segundo, tiene que ver, con la pérdida del Estado, en el sentido Weberiano del término, del monopolio de la violencia, o del monopolio sobre las armas y ejercer justicia. En muchos países, se imponen más la justicia privada, la guerra privada, y la suplantación del Estado, muchas veces promovido por el Estado mismo, como ocurre en Colombia, en los EEUU y en Afganistán, sólo para citar algunos ejemplos. Read the full story

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A shorter version of this article originally appeared at Consortium News

by Ray McGovern

Nothing highlights President Obama’s abject surrender to Gen. David Petraeus on the “way forward” in Afghanistan than two cables U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry sent to Washington on Nov. 6 and 9, 2009, the texts of which were released Tuesday by the New York Times.

No longer is it possible to suggest that Obama was totally deprived of wise counsel on Afghanistan; Eikenberry got it largely right.  Sadly, the inevitable conclusion is that, although Obama is not as dumb as his predecessor, he is no less willing to sacrifice thousands of lives for political gain. Read the full story

Fuente: Rebelión

por Rodrigo Moreno Planisolis
17 de enero, 2010

Los Estados Unidos (EEUU) desde su existencia son defensores de los derechos humanos:

1. Después de la larga imposición de los derechos humanos desparecen del territorio de los Estados Unidos los diferentes pueblos indígenas.

2. EEUU ha exportado los derechos humanos 66 veces a países del centro y sur de América con sus ejércitos y su CIA. Unos pocos ejemplos seran suficientes.

3. En 1848, EEUU lleva a México los derechos humanos con sus ejércitos y le arrebatan California, Texas y Arizona. Read the full story

A Yemeni anti-terrorist soldier. (AP)

Source: Salon.com

by Glenn Greenwald
January 27, 2010

The Washington Post’s Dana Priest today reports that “U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people.”  That’s no surprise, of course, as Yemen is now another predominantly Muslim country (along with Somalia and Pakistan) in which our military is secretly involved to some unknown degree in combat operations without any declaration of war, without any public debate, and arguably (though not clearly) without any Congressional authorization.  The exact role played by the U.S. in the late-December missile attacks in Yemen, which killed numerous civilians, is still unknown. Read the full story

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Source: t r u t h o u t

by Barry Eisler
January 26, 2010

I’m just about finished with Tim Weiner’s phenomenal “Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.” Two themes are at the heart of the book.

First, the Agency has been incompetent from its inception. The roster of incompetence includes subversion operations that cost the lives of hundreds of agents and accomplished nothing; CIA-managed coups that backfired, the Bay of Pigs and many others. Even operations that “succeeded” were pyrrhic. Installing the Shah via a CIA-sponsored coup in Iran in 1953, for example, created enmity that resulted in the Khomeini revolution and hostage crisis of 1979 and continues to this day. Read the full story

Fuente: IPS

por William Fisher

NUEVA YORK, 22 ene (IPS) – El gobierno estadounidense de Barack Obama oculta pruebas de que tres muertes de prisioneros en la base militar de su país en Guantánamo, Cuba, declaradas como suicidios pero que no fueron tales, según abogados, activistas de los derechos humanos y expertos en seguridad nacional.

La inquietud recrudeció al publicarse en la última edición de la revista estadounidense Harper’s el testimonio de un informante según el cual los tres prisioneros, Salah Ahmed Al-Salami, Mani Shaman Al-Utaybi y Yasser Talal Al-Zahrani, murieron por efecto de la tortura. Read the full story

Source: Harper’s Magazine

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by Scott Horton
January 18, 2010

1. “Asymmetrical Warfare”

When President Barack Obama took office last year, he promised to “restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great.” Toward that end, the president issued an executive order declaring that the extra-constitutional prison camp at Guantánamo Naval Base “shall be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than one year from the date of this order.” Obama has failed to fulfill his promise. Some prisoners there are being charged with crimes, others released, but the date for closing the camp seems to recede steadily into the future. Furthermore, new evidence now emerging may entangle Obama’s young administration with crimes that occurred during the George W. Bush presidency, evidence that suggests the current administration failed to investigate seriously—and may even have continued—a cover-up of the possible homicides of three prisoners at Guantánamo in 2006. Read the full story