Posted on 06/05/2006 12:20:16 PM PDT by Sam Hill
Will Pakistan be jilted by America again? You bet
BY APARISIM GHOSH
Wednesday, November 14, 2001
http://tinyurl.com/nn52p
In a way, it's good
Sheehan wrote this because now
everyone will link
the Haditha crap
with nuts like Sheehan no one
believes anyway.
You are amazing.
"We launched an investigation of our own with the help of a human rights group," said Aparisim Ghosh, a writer for Time."
By this Ghosh means "budding Iraqi journalist and human-rights activist. Taher Thabet, 43" who is the founder and sole member of the "Hammurabi Organization for Human Rights and Democracy Monitoring" group.
And the guy who claims to have made the video.
But Time does everything it can to make it sound like there are more people involved.
Why?
Great get.
He looks like he sounds.
One other article that KCVL quoted on the other thread had some similarities to this case--the infamous "wedding party" which ultimately did turn out to be what we said it was.
Lotta stuff going around....
A Time For Mutiny...
http://www.network54.com/Forum/135069/message/1149538120/A+TIME+FOR+MUTINY-
The day after the massacre, Iraqi journalism student Taher Thabet videotaped the bodies at the local morgue and the homes where the shootings occurred. “You could tell [the soldiers] were enraged,” Thabet recently told Time. “They not only killed people, they smashed furniture, tore down wall hangings, and when they took prisoners, they treated them very roughly.”
http://tinyurl.com/qnllj
Hammurabi Human Rights Group, which cooperates with Human Rights Watch
A stranger would not know anything special had happened there,” says Taher Thabet, a local journalism student and human-rights worker
When Thabet gave him a business card, which says he works for Hamurabi Human Rights, which produced the incriminating videotape, the Marine grew apologetic. “He told me that the men who killed my neighbors were not typical Marines,” Thabet recalls. “Even among the Marines, they are known as the 'Dirty Force.' Then he said, 'For myself, I don't think killing 15 Iraqis is a fair response for the death of one Marine.'”
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Time magazine acquired the tape through the Hammurabi Human Rights Group, which cooperates with Human Rights Watch. The magazine reported that the tape shows victims still in their pajamas and bullet-pocked walls spattered with blood.
http://tinyurl.com/nwzcp
Talal al-Zuhairi, who heads the Baghdad Center for Human Rights, said his organization feared that even if the military’s investigation implicated the Marines, they would not be punished severely enough, according to a March 22 report by the Associated Press.
According to the report, “this incident shows that the forces are committing, every now and then, operations that harm civilians,” al-Zuhairi said.
Video shot by a Haditha journalism student corroborates residents’ accounts. The footage was turned over to the Hammurabi Human Rights Group, which in turn provided it to Reuters.
"On the new tape shot by an Iraqi journalism student and given to ABC News by the Hammurabi Human Rights Group in Iraq, Younis, soft-spoken, with rounded cheeks and a headscarf, begins by calmly telling the interviewer, "My name is Safa Younis. I'm 12 years old."
The interviewer asks, "What did the American soldiers do when they broke into the house?"
http://tinyurl.com/m9utk
Also, the original video's now supposed to have come from the Hammurabi Human Rights Association ... not the "student" journalist from Haditha ... ?http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2006/s1598457.htm (about halfway down the article)
They are one and the same. They are both that guy Taher Thabet, a 43 year old student.
Thabet IS the Hammurabi Human Rights Association.
Also note:
"BOBBY GHOSH, TIME CORRESPONDENT: This was a rare example where we were able to nail down some of the facts by speaking to the witnesses, the survivors, by speaking to the local authorities."
By "speaking" he means emailing.
And by "local authorities" he means the "insurgent"-loving doctor, mayor and lawyer.
It's a new era.
You're now innocent until proven guilty by leftist journalists.
Unfortunately, too many nuts following Cindy Sheehadi's musings.
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