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liberals never again mean just that NEVER AGAIN

The al-Anfal Campaign was the anti-Kurdish campaign lead by the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, spanned between February and September 1988. The campaign takes its name from surat Al-Anfal in the Qur'an, which was used as a code name by the former Iraqi Baathist regime for a genocidal campaign against the Kurdish community of southern Kurdistan.

The entire campaign, which began in 1986 and lasted until 1989, and is said to have cost the lives of 182,000 civilian Kurds by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. The campaign was headed by Ali Hasan al-Majid, a cousin of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Anfal's use of firing squads, mass deportation (Arabization), and chemical weapons earned al-Majid the nickname "Chemical Ali". The campaign included the Halabja poison gas attack, which is thought to have killed about 5,000 civilians. Arabization was a tactic used by Saddam's regime to drive Kurdish families out of their homes in cities like Kirkuk, which are high in oil. The al-Anfal campaign also involved kidnapping of young Kurdish girls by Iraqi soldiers and killing and torturing of Kurdish families.

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Officer commits suicide after Kurd made President
April 11, 2005

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A man who was an intelligence officer in the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein committed suicide after news that Jalal Talabani was sworn in as President of Iraq.

Captain Hatem Ahmad al-Shallal shot himself in the village of Daqouq, 60 kilometres south of Kirkuk, the source quoted al-Shallal's relatives as saying.

The officer had been "in an abnormal hysterical state" since Mr Talabani was sworn in as President last Thursday.

"He could not accept the idea of a non-Arab as President of an Iraqi state," the source quoted the relatives as saying.

Mr Talabani, a Kurd, is an old foe of Saddam.

After the 1991 Gulf war, he helped lead a full-scale uprising against Saddam, resulting in a US-backed autonomous Kurdish enclave in the north.

they say it was an inccident, to me it was genocide

27 February 2005
The Observer - By Nouritza Matossiann
When its finest novelist attacked Turkey’s bloody past, he became a hero for Armenians and Turks alike, says Nouritza Matossiann

There is a Turkish saying: ’A sword won’t cut without inspiration from the pen.’

Orhan Pamuk, wielder of Turkey’s finest pen, has spoken and cut a swath through his country’s conscience. His most recent novel Snow was set in Kars and peppered with references to the Armenian culture of that formerly Armenian city. Brilliant novelist, translated in 20 languages, winner of international prizes, he has become a hate figure.

His crime was one sentence in an interview with the Swiss newspaper Tagesanzeiger this month. ’Thirty thousand Kurds and a million Armenians were killed in Turkey. Almost no one dares speak but me, and the nationalists hate me for that.’ All hell broke loose. The press attacked him for dishonouring the Turkish state and incitement to racial violence. He has been called a liar, ’a miserable creature’ and a ’black writer’ in the daily Hurriyet. Professor Hikmet Ozdemir, head of the Armenian studies department at the Turkish Union of Historians, rejected his statement as a ’great lie’.

A lone voice, Halil Berktay, professor at Sabanci University, supported Pamuk: ’In 1915-16 about 800,000 or one million Armenians were killed for sure.’

Mehmet ـçok, an attorney, filed charges at the Kayseri public prosecutor’s office. Another charge was filed by Kayseri Bar Association attorney Orhan Pekmezci: ’Pamuk has made groundless claims against the Turkish identity, the Turkish military and Turkey as a whole. He should be punished for violating Articles 159 and 312 of the Turkish penal code. He made a statement provoking the people to hatred and animosity through the media, which is defined as a crime in Article 312.’

I find this ironic. My mother’s family was deported from the historic Armenian city of Kayseri, leaving their murdered menfolk behind.

I was recently in Istanbul lecturing on my biography of Armenian-American artist Arshile Gorky, the basis for the controversial genocide movie Ararat. Official permission for my talk required me not to utter the word ’genocide’ to refer to the Ottoman empire’s systematic deportations, tortures and killings of two million Armenians which Gorky witnessed. I might refer to those ’incidents’. The crime has never been acknowledged by successive Turkish governments, Britain or the United States.

Recent discussions of Turkey’s possible entry into the EU were dominated by France and other countries demanding that Turkey first admit the Armenian genocide. What if Britain had a law forbidding criticism of its history, identity, or the armed forces? Turkey has far to go to reach the legal standards of EU members, with their humane and non-discriminatory laws aiming at standards of truth and reason. So much hatred. So much anger. What does Turkey have to hide?

’Pamuk has always defended freedom of speech and thought, the rights of minorities,’ writes Hrant Dink, owner of the Armenian Turkish-language weekly Agos. ’For 90 years we Armenians have been abused, insulted and discriminated against. We cannot enter certain professions, we Turkified our names. We have learnt to survive and endure without protest. Maybe it is time that the Turkish people also learnt tolerance and endurance from us.’

In London, a thinly veiled propaganda exercise at the Royal Academy trumpets Turkish empires, making far-reaching claims about the origins of the ’Turkic peoples’. Echoes of master-race ideology. Pamuk himself writes in the Academy journal: ’Turks gripped by romantic myths of nationalism are keen to establish that we come from Mongolia or central Asia... scholars have come no closer to offering definitive or convincing evidence to link us with a particular time and place.’

In the show the contributions of other nationals in the Ottoman empire - Armenians, Greeks and Jews - are not credited. Yet their handiwork is everywhere, in architecture, pottery, carpets, manuscripts.

Britain colludes in this travesty for the sake of oil interests in Azerbaijan, Turkey’s closest ally.

Akin Birdal, vice-president of the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues, emphasises: ’No matter we have come to the 90th year of "incidents" Orhan Pamuk talked about, these will of course be discussed on domestic and international platforms. The aggressions carried out against Pamuk are those which have been carried out against thought. Pamuk is not alone.’ Pamuk has cut the Gordian knot. He has become the hero of every right-thinking person in Turkey and every Armenian worldwide.

Nouritza Matossian is author of ’Black Angel, A Life of Arshile Gorky’.

The Observer


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The silence of the liberals on Saddam crimes offends me to no end. NEVER FORGET HALABJA 88

Good news from the middleast

If anyone had told you there would be a Kurdish President of Iraq 10 years ago they would have told you "you need your head examined" It ranks up there with the changes in Eastern Europe.

My hope is for the long oppressed Kurdish People to have a free and peaceful life. How they choose to do this is up to them.

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this link is banned in canada

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Ahenakew says he still believes Jews started Second World War

Tue Apr 5,10:09 PM ET

TIM COOK

SASKATOON (CP) - David Ahenakew told his hate trial Tuesday that he still believes Jews were the cause of the Second World War and he doesn't think there is anything wrong with his opinion.



The former head of the Assembly of First Nations and member of the Order of Canada is charged under the Criminal Code with wilfully promoting hatred against an identifiable group after he made public his opinions in a speech to a Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations' conference more than two years ago.


"I didn't think I said anything wrong during my speech," Ahenakew testified under cross-examination by Crown prosecutor Brent Klause.


Klause pointed to the interview Ahenakew had with a reporter right after the speech where he called the Jews a "disease" and said Hitler was justified when he "fried six million of those guys."


"So you stand by your comments?" Klause asked.


"Yeah," Ahenakew replied.


Ahenakew, 71, testified it was the Germans who told him about the Jews when he served overseas in the military. He joined the military in 1951.


His testimony was the culmination of a day filled with tension. Agitated members of the public gallery at points yelled "racist" as Klause asked questions of Ahenakew in front of Judge Marty Irwin, who is hearing the case without a jury.


Ahenakew's defence lawyer, Doug Christie, in turn attacked the media for its reporting on the case.


The jeers against Klause came when he suggested to Ahenakew: "You are not an unsophisticated individual from some remote northern band."


Irwin asked Klause to re-phrase the question, which he did, but at the morning break he was approached by at least one individual who swore at him and told him he was offended by the remark.


Klause returned after the break and apologized to the court. But the decorum in the gallery didn't improve and in the afternoon, Klause had to ask the judge to put a stop to remarks being made.


"This is not a circus," Klause said, prompting Irwin to ask everyone for quiet.


Ahenakew was on the stand Tuesday in support of his lawyer's application to have tapes of both the reporter's interview and his speech thrown out as evidence.


Christie had argued both were private conversations and can't be used in the prosecution of a hate crime.


But Irwin disagreed, saying Ahenakew knew or should have known that his speech to about 300 people and his remarks to a reporter could end up being published.


"Reporters report," Irwin said. "It's not for the court to pass judgment on the journalistic ethics of the media."





Outside the courtroom, Christie told reporters that the ruling makes the media a tool of a police state.

"This is a setback for anybody who doesn't want to see the media get a licence to promote hatred if they can find someone in a moment of passion to quote," Christie said.

"You are now capable of being used to, not only promote hatred with impunity, but to gather evidence against people in private conversations to be used against them indiscriminately. I wouldn't want to be in your position."

Irwin listened to the both the tape of Ahenakew's speech, made by the FSIN, and the tape of his comments to the reporter, James Parker of the Saskatoon StarPhoenix, in deciding the merits of Christie's application.

"How do you get rid of a disease like that, that's going to take over, that's going to dominate?" Ahenakew told Parker. "The Jews damn near owned all of Germany prior to the war. That's how Hitler came in. He was going to make damn sure that the Jews didn't take over Germany or Europe.

"That's why he fried six million of those guys, you know. Jews would have owned the God damned world. And look what they're doing. They're killing people in Arab countries."

Ahenakew testified that he believes he was goaded into making his remarks by Parker and called their conversation a confrontation rather than an interview.

Parker has already testified that he heard Ahenakew mention the Jews in his speech and was seeking clarification when he approached him.

Ahenakew called Parker's subsequent story a "blatant distortion" but offered little explanation as to why he thinks that.

"What it says to me is they (the media) are out to destroy," Ahenakew said.

Testimony will continue on Wednesday.

Both sides have agreed that the evidence given for the purposes of Christie's application will stand as evidence to be used in determining guilt or innocence.

But both sides have indicated that they might need to recall any or all of the witnesses, including Ahenakew.

what took them so long?

Passports are being made more secure to enter the U.S.A. WHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG!!!

no sharia in canada

The International Campaign against Sharia Court in Canada expects the Canadian Government to break all its diplomatic relation with the Iranian Regime for its heinous state crime!

An Iranian-Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi was brutally murdered. Her “crime” was preparing a report of the political prisoners’ families who were protesting outside of a prison in Tehran. According to Dr. Azam, who was present at the emergency hospital, Zahra Kazemi was savagely beaten, had bruises all over her body, had her fingernails pulled out, fingers broken, was raped and her skull was fractured. She was deeply unconscious.

free speech in Canada?

NEVER IF IT EXPOSES THE LIBERAL PARTY CORUPTION AND BRIBES.

berger-gate

Sandy Berger, the top Clinton national- security official and erstwhile close adviser to Sen. John Kerry, has finally confessed what he spent nearly a year heatedly denying: that he intentionally smuggled classified documents from the National Archives — and deliberately destroyed them.

In pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count Friday — for which he'll get a slap-on-the-wrist $10,000 fine and lose his security clearance for three years (but probably not his law license) — Berger admits to secreting the documents in his suit jacket.

Then, once he got them home, he cut them to pieces with a pair of scissors.

So much for the "honest mistake" Berger last year maintained he'd committed.

Of particular interest to Berger were drafts of an after-action review by anti-terrorism adviser Richard Clarke of al Qaeda's thwarted attempt to attack America during the turn of the millennium in 1999. The memo reportedly identified national-security weaknesses so "glaring" that only sheer "luck" prevented a 9/11-style attack back then.

Berger had told the 9/11 Commission that the review prompted a strong White House response by the Clinton team. But President Bush's first attorney general, John Ashcroft, testified that he'd read the memo, and it indicated that no action was taken by the Clintonites.



That Berger, in other words, lied about the Clinton administration's contempt for national security. (One of his CIA directors, John Deutsch, recall, stored 17,000 pages of top-secret documents and wrote classified memos on a home computer that was also used to surf Internet porn sites.)

Who was right? Well, it wasn't John Ashcroft who stuffed the secret documents down his pants — then claimed he had "accidentally discarded" them.

That in itself would have been a violation of law. What now emerges, by his own admission, is that Sandy Berger was engaged in a clumsy, post-9/11 cover-up of his own third-rate burglary.

Even more disturbing is the cavalier attitude of leading Democrats to this whole sordid affair.

"For all those who know and love him, it's easy to see how this would happen," one former White House colleague told The Washington Post at the time.

As for Bill Clinton himself, he couldn't stop chuckling over the whole thing.

"That's Sandy for you," he said at a Denver book signing last summer. "We were all laughing about it on the way over here."

Who's laughing now, Bill?

Not Sandy Berger.

THE OLDEST FORM OF HATE

This anti-Semitism which Chomsky displays so purely is the one which has awakened today in the West, and unlike its reactionary counterpart – which has had to travel to the Islamic world to meet its revival – the radical anti-Semitic tradition has captured the imagination of the Western Left as nothing has since the demise of the Soviet Union. We now have Jewish neo-conservatives aiding and abetting (and perhaps even engineering) the American imperial project. We now have Jewish bankers stealing Palestinian land instead of fomenting world wars. In place of the Elders of Zion, we have Israel and its eager collaborators as the all-dominating force for evil in the world, manipulating even the giant United States like, as leftist hero Ralph Nader recently put it, a “puppeteer”.

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IRANIAN CHICKENS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST

The Conservative and New Democratic parties joined forces yesterday to demand Ottawa dramatically ratchet up diplomatic pressure on Iran after revelations that Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was brutally raped and tortured while in Iranian custody in 2003.

"We want the government to do what they should have done almost two years ago, which is to drop the failed approach of soft-peddling and soft diplomacy, and make tough demands," Tory foreign affairs critic Stockwell Day said.

Both Mr. Day and his NDP counterpart, Alexa McDonough, said Canada should withdraw its ambassador to Iran if Ottawa doesn't immediately get satisfaction from Tehran on key issues, such as the return of Ms. Kazemi's remains to her family in Canada and a new criminal investigation subject to international monitors.

At a press conference in Toronto yesterday, Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew brushed aside the calls for a new approach, saying Canada is already doing all it can to seek justice for Ms. Kazemi.

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Mr. Pettigrew said the new testimony in the Kazemi case, which comes from the emergency-room physician who examined her before she died, "certainly demonstrates gruesome details that make it extremely troubling, most disturbing. But it does not change the nature of the dossier."

TIME FOR CANUKISTAN LIBERAL PARTY TO GROW BATZIUM

The Conservative and New Democratic parties joined forces yesterday to demand Ottawa dramatically ratchet up diplomatic pressure on Iran after revelations that Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was brutally raped and tortured while in Iranian custody in 2003.

"We want the government to do what they should have done almost two years ago, which is to drop the failed approach of soft-peddling and soft diplomacy, and make tough demands," Tory foreign affairs critic Stockwell Day said.

Both Mr. Day and his NDP counterpart, Alexa McDonough, said Canada should withdraw its ambassador to Iran if Ottawa doesn't immediately get satisfaction from Tehran on key issues, such as the return of Ms. Kazemi's remains to her family in Canada and a new criminal investigation subject to international monitors.

At a press conference in Toronto yesterday, Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew brushed aside the calls for a new approach, saying Canada is already doing all it can to seek justice for Ms. Kazemi.

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Mr. Pettigrew said the new testimony in the Kazemi case, which comes from the emergency-room physician who examined her before she died, "certainly demonstrates gruesome details that make it extremely troubling, most disturbing. But it does not change the nature of the dossier."