Again, it comes to us courtesy of the terrorist-lovers at Uruknet:
CALL FOR HELP TO STOP CRIMES AND GENOCIDES
Abdul Wahab Al Obeidi, BRussells Tribunal
December 11, 2005
A group of people representing the people of Hadeetha are calling all humanitarian NGOs to put an end to genocides and crimes practiced against them by the occupation forces and government-backed forces.Joining forces with the good people of Iraq, we, Freedom Voice, call on all NGOs and Human Rights committees - had there been such a thing as HUMAN RIGHTS in this volatile world – to see for themselves the military offensives which have been waged by the US forces in collaboration with Al-Ja’fari government against the Iraqi town of Hadeetha. Claiming that civilian houses were used to shelter foreign fighters, arbitrary bombardments were underway. Let alone the fact that they forcibly have taken families out of their own homes, which are located in the main streets, and executed more than three families including children, elderly men, and women, alleging that landmines were planted next door.
The situation in Hadeetha is highly critical, and people are overwhelmed with anger, to them it feels like the occupation has just started. The so-called "NATIONAL GUARDS" called on people through loudspeakers announcing "once a landmine is detonated near or 500 meters away from anyone’s house, his house will be demolished with the families inside, and they will be executing people in public.
Details of Hadeetha massacre:
1. After a landmine went off near a US patrol Before sunrise, the US forces perpetrated a horrible massacre before sunrise on Saturday, November 19, 2005; they raided the houses near the place where they came under attack and executed 16 people of two related families including a disabled elderly man and an infant.
2. Also, the US forces, stopped a car full of university students on their way to college in Ramadi. Despite the fact that they searched the passengers and made sure that they were unarmed students, a marine lost his temper and brutally executed them all including the driver.
3. They executed four brothers who went out of their nearby house to watch the disastrous accident.
4. The latter incident was witnessed by thousands of the population of Hadeetha, who took part in the burial and funeral ceremonies. The victims were very good men, one of whom was Waleed Hameed Alhasan, the Muezzin of the main mosque of Hadeetha "Haj Abdirraheem Mosque".
5. Updating on the issue of the town of Heet, we received a letter from someone living in that area on December 1, 2005 in which he said, "Heet has been besieged since yesterday night, even pedestrians or bikers were not allowed to go out (until further notice, as they put it). The next day, they bombed the other side of the river and forced families to leave to the opposite riverbank. They arrested all youngsters (15 years of age upwards), and arrested 500 people until this very moment, detentions are underway".
A conspiracy has been plotted against this peaceful town. With this offensive, Hadeetha shares the same problem of criminal acts and massacres against humanity with other Iraqi towns such as Mosul and its outskirts, Diyala and nearby towns, Anbar and all its towns, and Baghdad particularly At-Tajee and Tarmiyya.It is worth noting that such military offensives have become more brutal than before. Iraqi towns, particularly those populated by Sunni Arabs have been besieged, no one is allowed in or out of these towns. Electricity and drinking water were deliberately cut, let alone provisions of food and medical care.
Abdul Wahab Al Obeidi
(Member of the BRussells Tribunal Committee)
And this gentleman is one of the main lynchpins of the charges against the Marines, at least so far.
US Occupation of Iraq: Where is the limit?
The BRussells Tribunal Committee
BTC, March 13, 2006
The United States-led occupation continues to demolish humanitarian law with impunity in Iraq
Occupying powers have bred a culture of insecurity that destroys the lives of ordinary Iraqis
International institutions, monitoring bodies and parliaments must act or risk irrelevance
Three years have passed since the United States launched an illegal war of aggression on the sovereign Republic of Iraq. Neither were weapons of mass destruction found nor democracy or human rights advanced. Within one month, Iraqis will enter their fourth year as a people under occupation, ruled by a puppet regime that sanctions death squads and torture.
The time has long passed for this to end.
In the words of John Pace — until recently head of the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq — “the ordinary Iraqi has absolutely no protection whatsoever from the state or from the authorities.” Pace adds that, “the prevalence torture is quite clearly established,” that “the degree of violence has increased exponentially since the invasion,” and that “the country has been blown apart in terms of its social structures and social fiber.”
In the absence of a sovereign Iraqi government — which cannot exist, by definition, under occupation — the US-led Multi-National Forces in Iraq (MNF-I) are legally responsible, and imputable, for the failure to protect even the most basic of all human rights principles: the right to life. The current situation is intolerable. Workers in the morgue of Baghdad alone report that on average 1600 corpses are brought in every month. Following the criminal destruction of Al-Askari mosque in Samarra, these same workers report that 1300 dead were brought in over a period of seven days.
The US-led occupation has consciously led Iraq to the verge of disintegration. The country is being plundered. Torture and assassinations are endemic. Women and children have borne an equal share of the violence. The occupation is running out of space for prisoners. Cities have been targeted and destroyed in a programme of urbicide — Fallujah, Tel Afar, Al-Qaim, Haditha. US coordinated air strikes and related military interventions are the biggest killer in Iraq. Repeated polls in Iraq have shown that Iraqis believe they would be safer if foreign troops left.
A culture of intended destruction
As the year 2006 opens, we have no other conclusion to draw except that the United States has intended destruction upon the people of Iraq. The use of depleted uranium weaponry will leave a scar on Iraq for billions of years. All public services have collapsed — health, water, electricity, communications, justice and security. The occupation has done nothing to protect Iraqis. Refusing to safeguard civilians is as much a violation of international law as the criminal use of chemical agents — such as white phosphorus on Fallujah and Tel Afar. Criminal inaction, especially following the Samarra atrocity — the US military standing by as death squads roam the streets of Iraq — has highlighted with precision the underlying rationality of the US presence in Iraq: impoverish the country, break it up, foment sectarian hatred, stand back and watch the killing fields swallow the population.
Silence is complicity
The international community has failed Iraq, and the Iraqi people. A decade of silence over murderous sanctions has been compounded with timidity as the United States overturned a century of legal regulation and waged an illegal preemptive war on a state that was already on its knees.
The BRussells Tribunal, in solidarity with the Iraqi people and its struggle to recover sovereignty, calls on all international organizations and institutions that work towards upholding international law, as well as national parliaments and regional organizations, to act now and with purpose.
International institutions, monitoring bodies and parliaments must recognize the gravity of the situation and act to protect the life and person of all Iraq civilians, condemn US policies in Iraq, demand the unconditional and immediate withdrawal of all foreign forces, demand the US and all other occupying powers pay reparations to Iraq and compensation to Iraqis for the human and material destruction wrought, restore in full Iraqi sovereignty, recognize as null and void any treaty, law or contract passed under occupation, and bring again a semblance of credibility to the legal underpinnings of international society.
When the powerful claim a state of exception to law the rights and obligations of all are undermined. The situation in Iraq is disgrace to us all. It is time for all actors in positions of authority and influence to rediscover their conscience, as well as their mandate and legal obligations, and speak up and ensure the end of this atrocity now.
This doctor is a part of the propaganda front for the insurgents.
When thinking about the GWOT think about it just like the cold war.
These insurgents are very much like the worst kind of left-wing terrorist organization, and the agitprop here is not much different at all.
The skunk I smell wants to try our troops in the World Court. Now ain't that just globally socialist of them?
It also reeks of typical Vietnam era agitprop.
I do not know if these men are guilty or not, but damnit, I want them to have a fair trial.
Good find, this guy is obviously a propagandist for the Islamo-fascists, so NOTHING he says now or on the death certificates can possibly be relied upon. Is there any way to make certain the relevant JAG and defense lawyers know about this before the 'case' goes any further? I don't see how any criminal proceedings should be based upon any 'evidence' from this scumbag, though of course there may be other materials. This case stinks to high heaven........
Great idea! Let all the lefty 'humanitarian' NGOs go into Haditha and take it over. We'll see how long they last.