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2004-05-09 02:08 | User Profile

"John Israel" – Shame Avatar for Zion? (very important blog)

The thread on which Faust posted the Sianews/Friends of Liberty article “Military intelligence and the CIA ordered abuses at Abu Gharib prison” (sic) by Paul Walker, credited to Agence France Presse May 2, 2004 appears to have been removed from the OD board.  Too bad.  It was a case study in conspiratorial confabulation.  Like the stuff Aleister Crowley wrote in the ‘30’s to help the Nazi’s – so blatantly absurd no one but fools could believe it, literally, but everyone could tell where it was coming from and no one could go against that.

Ex. “..this latest round of abuse was all staged and meticulously documented, and now heavily hyped in the media, as part of the overall plan to make America the Bad Cop Evil Empire which will have to brought down to heel by the global system Good Cops” – transl. the prison abuse was designed by Bush and the CIA to weaken America’s reputation so the UN could rule America. Weird. “They (“Hegelian Bonesmen”) create the Hegelian crisis to divide and conquer populations and then offer their pre-conceived “solutions.”” … “Deeper down the rabbit hole, you will find a Masonic occult agenda behind all of it to create the worldwide satanic system of mind-control, for the globalists to set themselves up as living gods, ruling over the slave drones serving the New World Order in a global Big Brother high-tech “Hive Mind” police-state system which we see rapidly unfolding in the Trialateralist regions of Europe, Asia and in the Americas.” Alas, there’s no way out. “Unless…we wake up to these Hegelian machinations –- which I do not see happening anytime soon.”

Amazing performance. Punches just about every button on conservatives’ chest -- except that one about Israel and the Jews, notable by its absence.

Another link to Crowley is anal sex fantasies, the acting out of which he called “sex magik”.  It softened up resistance to spiritual development, I guess.

A second article posted in the removed thread “Who is Behind the Abuse at Abu Ghraib?” by Christopher Bollyn – Rumor Mill News May 6, 2004), helpfully reviewed the Taguba report calling for immediate removal of 4 Military Intelligence (MI) – Military Police (MP) for detainee abuse, among them one “John Israel.” Bollyn also cites the NY Times interview with a victim of the staged abuse, named Abd, claiming he had been picked up for street fighting, had never been interrogated, but was posed for a camera and made to simulate masturbation. His account is consistent with the untrained naïve MP guards as ‘patsies’, with camera deployment and action directed by the translator. Supplied by Titan corporations of Fairfax Va.; the suggestion is that it was Israel. This is how the photos with the indelible images used by the media to break the story originated.

This second account agrees with Seymor Hersh’s New Yorker article. and with “US Atrocities: Zionist-Inspired Ops?” (posted here at:. [url]http://forums.originaldissent.com/showthread.php?t=13573[/url]. )

FILLING THE BILL - Israel's motives

Collapse of the neocon-Israeli strategic initiative in the Middle East has landed the U.S. in a situation where a large-scale atrocity was needed to cover its pull-out.   Like: Sharon killing Yassin and Rantisi before pulling out of Gaza, so as not to look weak.

       But unless the deed were unequivocal, irrevocable, permanent, with the U.S. control gone Iraq would no sooner gain autonomy than Israel would lose security. Chalabi’s nephew has already turned down the oil pipe-line to Haifa deal set up with the INC -- and they’re not even the ones in charge!  The UN’s Brahami is running around trying to put something together Colin Powell can deal with through Negroponte, but that places the future of Sharon’s messiaship in the hands of YassirArafat and Kofi Annan.   There are also big problems with Egypt and Gaza;  Iran, Syria, and Jordan; if pan-Arab/Muslim solidarity begins gaining ground.  A lot sure depended on winning those hearts and minds of The Iraqi People by the U.S. military.  Not one clue as to how that is done, short of reliance on pure force, do they have, or have they ever had, on how this is done.  That is the Jew -- assuming he will never be accepted for what he is on an even playing field, therefore dedicated to the principle that one permanently slanted in his direction is normal, and inevitable.

Four big needs for Israel rise from this situation:

Finalize the permanent split.  If America is to pull out, it must do so after having been inflicted with permanent blood-feud curse – the atrocities insure that “Judeo-Christian”, “Western Values”, “U.S. – Israel” will be violently, perpetually, increasingly opposed by those carrying revenge- driven hatred in Arab/Muslims people

Spread the hate.   The torture, rape, kill scene staged and film equalizes the hatred felt toward Jews, already, and Americans, so that they aren’t left alone in the region amidst a sea of towelheads.

Forestall blame for future attacks inside the U.S., by getting Americans to accept that they have it coming, so they won’t turn on Jews.

To bring all that opposes them under just this kind of shame.  The thing is – and I do not say this to smear – many will accept it, and if they are Arab, and had known no other way, could not do otherwise.  Abu Ghraid inflicted a deep wound in the side of humanity itself.

Self-incriminating sign-uses – threading non-being (added philosophical note)

In spoken conversation, we often communicate in a way that makes context into content.  “Be Here Now” was one three word formula from the 60’s that captured this.  Spoken properly, these words themselves do the trick  Person (consciousness), space, time.  Located and united.  But, empty, of course (which was the point of having such an expression).

But the two words “I do”, spoken before the preacher at the right time do  the same job.  The performance of use becomes part of what the use communicates.

Skipping through aeons of sign-use travel, one comes across “I think, therefore I am,” (Descartes), “The ‘I think’ must accompany every representation,” (Kant), “Transparent foreign policy,” (Rice).  “John Israel was the translator” (rumormill.

Shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand.  Pyromaniacs often return to the scene of the crime, Freud discerned, in order to call attention to themselves and hide behind the non-recognition to help put out the fire they have started.  Calling attention to themselves in order to divert attention from themselves.  That is how I see the obvious avatar name “John Israel” turning up.  An Israeli hiding in the open.  And one of the patsies was named “England”.  England helped abuse Iraq.

Just like Muhammed and Malvo were supposed to be.  Kathaksung brilliantly exposes how the shooting of FBI agent Linda Franklin could be seen as an inside job calling attention away from itself by calling attention to itself (as an agent connected to counterintelligence, she could have come across something)  “Not 300 taels of silver buried here<’ the old Chinese proverb said the man put up over where it was buried.  No one would think to look there.

Then one saw Linda Tripp step in front of national TV cameras, saying “The truth matters.”  Lying up her wazoo (assuming she has a wazoo to lie up).   Prattling about “the way it makes you feel to be standing in front of someone who is lying to you, while they are doing it, and you both know it.”

And one recalls that Flight 007 really was a spy plane.

The formula turns up over and over.  I  will not enter into deep analysis here except to note: such uses get their considerable power to control the dynamics from splitting the content along the lines of text (cognitive) and token (connative, contextual), “looping” processing of the token through the unconscious (as a non-localized system of brain function), then re-presenting altered tokens re-conjoined under old textual word forms.  As in:  “Jews for Jesus”.  One doesn’t know what to make of the re-conjunction, until realizing it as a ‘put-on’, a kind of sight-gag.  Where such formula are actually used in predicating matters of life or death, as in the case of “suicide bomber are deterred by murder”, we have a psychos

Sojourner

2004-05-10 17:26 | User Profile

[url]http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen05102004.html[/url]

May 10, 2004

[CENTER][COLOR=Purple][SIZE=4][B]The Israeli Torture Template Rape, Feces and Urine-Dipped Cloth Sacks[/B][/SIZE][/COLOR] By WAYNE MADSEN[/CENTER]

With mounting evidence that a shadowy group of former Israeli Defense Force and General Security Service (Shin Bet) Arabic-speaking interrogators were hired by the Pentagon under a classified "carve out" sub-contract to brutally interrogate Iraqi prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, one only needs to examine the record of abuse of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners in Israel to understand what Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld meant, when referring to new, yet to be released photos and videos, he said, "if these images are released to the public, obviously its going to make matters worse."

According to a political appointee within the Bush administration and U.S. intelligence sources, the interrogators at Abu Ghraib included a number of Arabic-speaking Israelis who also helped U.S. interrogators develop the "R2I" (Resistance to Interrogation) techniques. Many of the torture methods were developed by the Israelis over many years of interrogating Arab prisoners on the occupied West Bank and in Israel itself.

Clues about worse photos and videos of abuse may be found in Israeli files about similar abuse of Palestinian and other Arab prisoners. In March 2000, a lawyer for a Lebanese prisoner kidnapped in 1994 by the Israelis in Lebanon claimed that his client had been subjected to torture, including rape. The type of compensation offered by Rumsfeld in his testimony has its roots in cases of Israeli torture of Arabs. In the case of the Lebanese man, said to have been raped by his Israeli captors, his lawyer demanded compensation of $1.47 million. The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel documented the types of torture meted out on Arab prisoners. Many of the tactics coincide with those contained in the Taguba report: beatings and prolonged periods handcuffed to furniture. In an article in the December 1998 issue of The Progressive, Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb reported on the treatment given to a 23-year old Palestinian held on "administrative detention." The prisoner was "cuffed behind a chair 17 hours a day for 120 days . . . [he] had his head covered with a sack, which was often dipped in urine or feces. Guards played loud music right next to his ears and frequently taunted him with threats of physical and sexual violence." If additional photos and videos document such practices, the Bush administration and the American people have, indeed, "seen nothing yet."

Although it is still largely undocumented if any of the contractor named in the report of General Antonio Taguba were associated with the Israeli military or intelligence services, it is noteworthy that one, John Israel, who was identified in the report as being employed by both CACI International of Arlington, Virginia, and Titan, Inc., of San Diego, may not have even been a U.S. citizen. The Taguba report states that Israel did not have a security clearance, a requirement for employment as an interrogator for CACI. According to CACI's web site, "a Top Secret Clearance (TS) that is current and US citizenship" are required for CACI interrogators working in Iraq. In addition, CACI requires that its interrogators "have at least two years experience as a military policeman or similar type of law enforcement/intelligence agency whereby the individual utilized interviewing techniques."

Speculation that [B]"John Israel"[/B] may be an intelligence cover name has fueled speculation whether this individual could have been one of a number of Israeli interrogators hired under a classified contract. Because U.S. citizenship and documentation thereof are requirements for a U.S. security clearance, Israeli citizens would not be permitted to hold a Top Secret clearance. However, dual U.S.-Israeli citizens could have satisfied Pentagon requirements that interrogators hold U.S. citizenship and a Top Secret clearance. Although the Taguba report refers twice to Israel as an employee of Titan, the company claims he is one of their sub-contractors. CACI stated that one of the men listed in the report "is not and never has been a CACI employee" without providing more detail. A U.S. intelligence source revealed that in the world of intelligence "carve out" subcontracts such confusion is often the case with "plausible deniability" being a foremost concern.

In fact, the Taguba report does reference the presence of non-U.S. and non-Iraqi interrogators at Abu Ghraib. The report states, "In general, US civilian contract personnel (Titan Corporation, CACI, etc), third country nationals, and local contractors do not appear to be properly supervised within the detention facility at Abu Ghraib."

The Pentagon is clearly concerned about the outing of the Taguba report and its references to CACI, Titan, and third country nationals, which could permanently damage U.S. relations with Arab and Islamic nations. The Pentagon's angst may explain why the Taguba report is classified Secret No Foreign Dissemination.

The leak of the Taguba report was so radioactive, Daniel R. Dunn, the Information Assurance Officer for Douglas Feith's Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Policy (Policy Automation Services Security Team), sent a May 6, 2004, For Official Use Only Urgent E-mail to Pentagon staffers stating, "THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT IS CLASSIFIED; DO NOT GO TO FOX NEWS TO READ OR OBTAIN A COPY." Considering Feith's close ties to the Israelis, such a reaction by his top computer security officer, a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), is understandable, although considering the fact that CISSPs are to act on behalf of the public good, it is also regrettable..

The reference to "third country nationals" in a report that restricts its dissemination to U.S. coalition partners (Great Britain, Poland, Italy, etc.) is another indication of the possible involvement of Israelis in the interrogation of Iraqi prisoners. Knowledge that the U.S. may have been using Israeli interrogators could have severely fractured the Bush administration's tenuous "coalition of the willing' in Iraq. General Taguba's findings were transmitted to the Coalition Forces Land Component Command on March 9, 2004, just six days before the Spanish general election, one that the opposition anti-Iraq war Socialists won. The Spanish ultimately withdrew their forces from Iraq.

During his testimony before the Senate Armed Service Committee, Rumsfeld was pressed upon by Senator John McCain about the role of the private contractors in the interrogations and abuse. McCain asked Rumsfeld four pertinent questions, ". . . who was in charge? What agency or private contractor was in charge of the interrogations? Did they have authority over the guards? And what were the instructions that they gave to the guards?"

When Rumsfeld had problems answering McCain's question, Lt. Gen. Lance Smith, the Deputy Commander of the U.S. Central Command, said there were 37 contract interrogators used in Abu Ghraib. The two named contractors, CACI and Titan, have close ties to the Israeli military and technology communities. Last January 14, after Provost Marshal General of the Army, Major General Donald Ryder, had already uncovered abuse at Abu Ghraib, CACI's President and CEO, Dr. J.P. (Jack) London was receiving the Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah's Albert Einstein Technology award at the Jerusalem City Hall, with right-wing Likud politician Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski in attendance. Oddly, CACI waited until February 2 to publicly announce the award in a press release. CACI has also received grants from U.S.-Israeli bi-national foundations.

Titan also has had close connections to Israeli interests. After his stint as CIA Director, James Woolsey served as a Titan director. Woolsey is an architect of America's Iraq policy and the chief proponent of and lobbyist for Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress. An adviser to the neo-conservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs, Project for the New American Century, Center for Security Policy, Freedom House, and Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Woolsey is close to Stephen Cambone, the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, a key person in the chain of command who would have not only known about the torture tactics used by U.S. and Israeli interrogators in Iraq but who would have also approved them. Cambone was associated with the Project for the New American Century and is viewed as a member of Rumsfeld's neo-conservative "cabal" within the Pentagon.

Another person considered by Pentagon insiders to have been knowledgeable about the treatment of Iraqi prisoners is U.S. Army Col. Steven Bucci, a Green Beret and Rumsfeld's military assistant and chief traffic cop for the information flow to the Defense Secretary. According to Pentagon insiders, Bucci was involved in the direction of a special covert operations unit composed of former U.S. special operations personnel who answered to the Pentagon rather than the CIA's Special Activities Division, the agency's own paramilitary group. The Pentagon group included Arabic linguists and former members of the Green Berets and Delta Force who operated covertly in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan. Titan also uses linguists trained in the languages (Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Pashto, Urdu, and Tajik) of those same countries. It is not known if a link exists between Rumsfeld's covert operations unit and Titan's covert operations linguists.

Another Titan employee named in the Taguba report is Adel L. Nakhla. Nakhla is a name common among Egypt's Coptic Christian community, however, it is not known if Adel Nakhla is either an Egyptian-American or a national of Egypt. A CACI employee identified in the report, Steven Stephanowicz, is referred to as "Stefanowicz" in a number of articles on the prison abuse. Stefanowicz is the spelling used by Joe Ryan, another CACI employee assigned with Stefanowicz to Abu Ghraib. Ryan is a radio personality on KSTP, a conservative radio station in Minneapolis, who maintained a daily log of his activities in Iraq on the radio's web site before it was taken down. Ryan indicated that Stefanowicz (or Stephanowicz) continued to hold his interrogation job in Iraq even though General Taguba recommended he lose his security clearance and be terminated for the abuses at Abu Ghraib.

In an even more bizarre twist, the Philadelphia Daily News identified a former expatriate public relations specialist for the government of South Australia in Adelaide named Steve Stefanowicz as possibly being the same person identified in the Taguba report. In 2000, Stefanowicz, who grew up in the Philadelphia and Allentown areas, left for Australia. On September 16, 2001, he was quoted by the Sunday Mail of Adelaide on the 911 attacks. He said of the attacks, "It was one of the most incredible and most devastating things I have ever seen. I have been in constant contact with my family and friends in the US and the mood was very solemn and quiet. But this is progressing into anger." Stefanowicz returned to the United States and volunteered for the Navy in a reserve status. His mother told the Allentown Morning Call in April 2002 that Stefanowicz was stationed somewhere in the Middle East but did not know where because of what Stefanowicz said was "security concerns." His mother told the Philadelphia Daily News that her son was in Iraq but she knew nothing about his current status.