http://www.jungewelt.de/2009/07-14/059.php
Massenmord an 2000 Taliban-Gefangenen
Afghanistan: Fast acht Jahre lang vertuschte Washington mutmaßliches Kriegsverbrechen von US-Verbündeten
Präsident Barack Obama ordnete inzwischen eine Prüfung an. Es gebe Hinweise, daß der Fall »nicht korrekt« untersucht worden sei, sagte er dem TV-Sender CNN am Sonntag. Die New York Times hatte zuvor berichtet, hohe Regierungsbeamte hätten versucht, Ermittlungen mehrerer US-Behörden gegen den afghanischen Milizenführer Abdul Raschid Dostum zu blockieren. Dostum soll im November 2001 den Massenmord an den Taliban befohlen haben. Die Gefangenen wurden vermutlich in Container gesperrt, wo sie erstickten oder von Dostums Kämpfern erschossen wurden. Zu dieser Zeit wurde der afghanische Kriegsherr vom US-Geheimdienst CIA unterstützt.
Ebenfalls am Sonntag berichtete das Wall Street Journal, die CIA habe auf Grundlage einer Anweisung von Obama-Vorgäner George W. Bush an einem geheimen Programm gearbeitet, das nicht nur die Gefangennahme, sondern auch die »gezielte Tötung« von Al-Qaida-Mitgliedern in Betracht gezogen habe. Das Vorhaben sei aber nicht vollständig umgesetzt worden, schrieb die Zeitung unter Berufung auf anonyme Exgeheimdienstmitarbeiter. Der neue CIA-Chef Leon Panetta habe das Programm beendet, nachdem er am 23. Juni davon erfahren habe. Demnach enthielt der ehemalige US-Vizepräsident Richard Cheney während seiner Amtszeit dem US-Kongreß acht Jahre lang Informationen über das Geheimprogramm vor und verstieß damit gegen das Gesetz.
(AFP/AP/jW)
http://kriegspostille.blogspot.com/2009/07/wir-haben-es-so-satt.html
Montag, 13. Juli 2009
Wir haben es so satt...,
Das Erstaunliche ist, dass immer mehr Menschen auf dieser Welt - unabhängig voneinander - in den verschiedensten Ländern, immer mehr erkennen, wie wenig die Politik noch für die Menschen ist. Sie erleben, wie das, was als Mittel gegen Unterdrückung, für die Förderung von Demokratie gepriesen wird, das Gegenteil erreicht - und sogar zum Misserfolg führt. Die Menschen sehen auch, wie das, was als gute Gesetze und Regeln festgeschrieben wurde, immer mehr umgangen und missbraucht wird - gerade auch von jenen Regierungen und staaten, die damit bei den anderen hausieren gehen.
Immer mehr stellt sich die Frage nach der Wahrheit in der Wirklichkeit - in jener, die gelebt wird, und nicht nach einer die nur abstrakt in irgendwelchen Programmen und Verlautbarungen angepriesen, aber nicht eingehalten wird.
Zunehmend wird die Politik hinterfragt, und - so, wie sie ist - für überflüssig und teuer befunden: Zu teuer für die geopferten und vergeudeten Leben, als überflüssig teure Fron für die Völker, als nutzlos und verlogen für die Menschen dieser Welt.
Das mag zu pauschal sein, trifft aber im Kern mehr und mehr zu. Und so stellen die Menschen die Frage, warum sie untereinander Tag für Tag zusammenarbeiten können, die Staatenlenker aber nicht?
http://cgi.wn.com/?action=display&article=88191974&template=worldnews/paidnews.txt&index=recent
If Citizens can Work Together, Why can't Governments?
| WorldNews.com,Sun 12 Jul 2009 | |||
The very first time I heard of Pastors for Peace and the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) was when a friend invited me to attend one of their meetings at a church. Pastors for Peace (IFCO) was collecting medicines, school supplies, clothing, baby milk, and books to be delivered to Cuban churches, where the items would be distributed on an as needed basis. I tried to talk myself out of attending the meeting by using the same worn out excuses. Wasn't Cuba a Cold War enemy, siding with and backed by the Soviet Union. Isn't Cuba a Communist dictatorship. And didn't the U.S. have an economic blockade around the Caribbean island and if so, who was I to question my leaders and my government's foreign policy. Thankfully, at least for this time and for this important political issue, the excuses didn't work. I can still recall the meeting, the fellowship, and the meal consisting of rice and beans. Most important, though, was the guest speaker. He discussed how the economic blockade was causing tremendous economic suffering in Cuba, as well as hurting U.S. businesses and farmers. It also divided tens of thousands of families and prevented both nations from truly understanding each other. He shared how Cubans had socialized healthcare, were using more alternative energies and developing medicines, and had hurricane evacuation and rebuilding plans recognized by the UN. Finally, and just like Jesus preached the Reign of God and lived a life of compassion and love, Pastors for Peace were forging a different and just foreign policy, an alternative to the Reign of Caesar and the politics of revenge. Since its beginning, Pastors for Peace (IFCO) has practiced active citizenship. It has built a better world between countries through political and economic alternatives rooted in peace with justice and love. In 1988, a Nicaraguan boat filled with people and aid was brutally attacked by Contra forces recruited and armed by the U.S. government. Several civilians were killed and 29 wounded, including Reverend Lucius Walker. As a citizen of the U.S., he decided to start a new project that would deliver aid to victims of America's covert wars and to start advocacy projects to campaign for a more just and moral foreign policy. Reverend Walker became Pastors for Peace (IFCO) Executive Director. Pastors for Peace (IFCO) is now on its 20th Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba. They have aided Hurricane Katrina victims and taken supplies to many Central American nations. In 1994, I personally participated in a Cuban caravan starting in San Antonio, TX. Hundreds of people collected aid and hosted meetings for us in Houston, Baton Rouge, LA, Montgomery, AL, Macon, GA, Columbia, SC, and Washington, DC. In Washington, thousands of citizens marched and protested travel restrictions to Cuba. Others petitioned their representatives and educated them about the dire consequences of the 1961 embargo, its adverse effects, and how it had been continually condemned by the UN. This will be my 15th time hosting Pastors for Peace (IFCO). I can still recall housing a little league baseball team from California scheduled to play Cuban teams, an ambassador from Guyana, South America, and a number of school teachers, computer technicians, pastors, social workers, policemen and policewomen, firemen and firewomen, and college students. The most memorable, though, was a young Cuban couple with a new born baby. Watching the baby peacefully sleep, I wondered if he too, along with millions of Cubans, would have to endure the U.S. economic blockade. Regarding the Cuban caravan, I explicitly recall the meeting in Houston and how it was in the midst of a very poor part of the city. People still donated items to be delivered to Cuban churches. One individual even decided to travel to Cuba to build bridges of peace and understanding. Another reason it stands out in my mind is seeing a huge mural of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Beneath him and in big bold letters were the words: "Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever flowing stream." (Amos 5:24) It was also the same scripture verse that was on the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery. But justice seems to be missing. Even Republican lawmaker Richard Lugar of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said that after 47 years, the unilateral embargo on Cuba has failed to achieve its stated purpose of "bringing democracy to the Cuban people." Is the U.S. government afraid of admitting to another failed policy, like those in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan? Are private security firms and corporations apprehensive of losing $450 million per year in undermining Cuba's sovereignty? Is the U.S. fearful Cuba will suspend its naval and torture bases in Guantanamo? Is the real reason Cuba is on a terrorist list is by providing a safe haven for politically repressed groups, like the Black Liberation Army and Macheteros, it shows the U.S. has its own struggles with human rights and freedom? Is the U.S. government scared of Pastors for Peace (IFCO) succeeding in nonviolently overturning an immoral policy where food and medicines are used as weapons of war? Or are leaders threatened by citizens proclaiming the unconstitutionality of licensing, since it requires people of faith to submit their acts of conscience and friendship to them in violation of the right to freedom of religious expression, association, and political thought? I don't know about you, but I am tired of government officials telling me which countries are my friends and which countries are my enemies. I am sick of corporate-owned politicians ordering me not to travel to Cuba and befriend its citizens. I am weary of the trillion dollar wars and embargoes the Military-Industrial-Complex tells us we have to enact and fight. If hundreds of thousands of American and Cuban citizens can work together, why can't their governments? Are they afraid that someday, and in reference to Reverend King's I Have A Dream Speech, this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men around the world are created equal?" And that one day down in Houston and Havana, American citizens and Cuban citizens will be able to join hands and without mean-spirited politicians and government interference say: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last? Dallas Darling - darling@wn.com (Note: The 20h Friendshipment Caravan will traverse 14 separate routes across the country stopping in 47 US states and six Canadian provinces. Along the way the caravan will be hosted in 140 communities who support a new US Cuba policy based on respect and non-aggression. This year communities have collected aid for hurricane reconstruction after the three hurricanes that devastated Cuba in 2008. President Raul Castro has also extended his hand in friendship to President Barack Obama, and has requested direct talks.) | |||
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