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Category: Crimes Against Humanity

The news items published under this category are as follows.

Crimes Against Humanity: Israel's Deadly Attack on Peace Activists Provokes International Outrage, Diplomatic Crisis
Posted by: IT
When Israeli commandos dropped from the sky, swarmed the vessels and massacred international activists, Israel lost a massive battle in its global public relations war. By Joshua Holland \| Alternet June 2010 Days of tension between Israel’s hawkish government and the organizers of the Freedom Flotilla carrying 700 peace activists and 10,000 tons of desperately needed supplies to Gaza culminated in grisly carnage after a deadly pre-dawn attack by Israeli commandos.
>>> Read full article: 'Israel's Deadly Attack on Peace Activists Provokes International Outrage, Diplomatic Crisis' (13747 bytes more)	105 Reads

Crimes Against Humanity: “Arrest Me, I am a Terrorist” (VIDEO)
Posted by: IT
	Nine aid workers were murdered by Israeli commandos, and more than fifty were wounded. By codepink \| ALternet Jun 11, 2010 Americans who supported, organized, or were on the flotilla headed to Gaza with humanitarian aid stormed the office of U.S. Congressmen Brad Sherman and turned themselves in for their “crimes.” The stunt was in response to Sherman’s call for Americans on the flotilla be arrested for helping “terrorists.”
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Crimes Against Humanity: Rumsfeld's Pentagon Published Bible Verses on Top-Secret Intel Reports
Posted by: IT
The cover sheets featured inspirational Bible verses printed over military images. By Ali Frick \| Think Progress May 18, 2009 In a lengthy article on Donald Rumsfeld’s rocky tenureas Defense Secretary, GQ published never-before-seen cover sheets from top-secret intelligence briefings produced by Rumsfeld’s Pentagon.
>>> Read full article: 'Rumsfeld's Pentagon Published Bible Verses on Top-Secret Intel Reports' (1698 bytes more)	160 Reads

Crimes Against Humanity: We tortured to justify war
Posted by: IT
	Dick Cheney keeps saying "enhanced interrogation" was used to stop imminent attacks, but evidence is mounting that the real reason was to invent evidence linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida. By Joe Conason \| Salon May, 14 2009 The single most pertinent question that Dick Cheney is never asked -- at least not by the admiring interviewers he has encountered so far -- is whether he, Donald Rumsfeld and George W. Bush used torture to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq.
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Crimes Against Humanity: We Cannot Allow Obama to Be the Torturer-Elect
Posted by: IT
Far from seeking to prosecute the criminals who authorized torture, Barack Obama has instead asked several to work for him. By Steve Hendricks \| AlterNet January 14, 2009 Two months ago we denied the presidency to a man who, for a few votes, forsook a long opposition to torture and pledged his America would continue the barbarity. This month we evict from the White House its resident torturer. These are victories worth celebrating, but they are tempered by having elevated to the White House, as we learn weekly that we have, another torturer.
>>> Read full article: 'We Cannot Allow Obama to Be the Torturer-Elect' (10084 bytes more)	191 Reads

Crimes Against Humanity: Gitmo Alert: Bin Laden's Driver Acquitted of Serious Charge, Found Guilty of Another
Posted by: IT
	Hamdan was acquitted on the more serious charge of conspiracy, which is a blow to the Bush Administration. By Christy Hardin Smith \| Firedoglake August 6, 2008 News has hit that Hamdan was just found guilty of the lesser charge of material support for terrorism by the military tribunal in Gitmo. Hamdan was acquitted on the more serious charge of conspiracy by the same jury, which is a blow to the Bush Administration's hopes for a full vindication of its methods.
378 Reads	>>> Read full article: 'Gitmo Alert: Bin Laden's Driver Acquitted of Serious Charge, Found Guilty of Another' (5586 bytes more)

Crimes Against Humanity: Vermont Town Votes to Arrest and Indict Bush, Cheney
Posted by: IT
Their next job can be making sure that Bush and Cheney get something they've denied so many other people: a fair trial By David Swanson \| After Downing Street March 5, 2008 Brattleboro, Vt., voted today in support of a measure calling on the town's police force to arrest and indict Bush and Cheney. The vote was 2012-1795
>>> Read full article: 'Vermont Town Votes to Arrest and Indict Bush, Cheney' (14384 bytes more)	354 Reads

Crimes Against Humanity: Destruction of CIA Tapes Can't Hide Barbaric U.S. Torture Method
Posted by: IT
	The Bush administration reeks of war crimes. It's time to stop brutal forms of torture dating back to the Spanish Inquisition. By Ray McGovern \| Consortium News December 13, 2007 A boyish, inquisitive face with an innocent look peered out from the Washington Post's lead story Tuesday on torture. It was well-groomed, pink-shirted John Kiriakou, a CIA interrogator who could just as easily pass for the local youth minister.
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Crimes Against Humanity: Rumsfeld On the Run From French Torture Charges
Posted by: IT
While Rumsfeld has gotten out of France before an arrest, the case can still be prosecuted since he was in the country when it was filed. By Siun \| FireDogLake October 29, 2007 On Friday Donald Rumsfeld arrived in France to give a speech - but he had to leave via a back door that went directly into the US Embassy and then quickly scampered out of the country. Why?
>>> Read full article: 'Rumsfeld On the Run From French Torture Charges' (5872 bytes more)	294 Reads

Crimes Against Humanity: September 2007 - More than 1,000,000 Iraqis murdered
Posted by: IT
	In the week in which General Patraeus reports back to US Congress on the impact the recent ‘surge’ is having in Iraq, a new poll reveals that more than 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have been murdered since the invasion took place in 2003. ORB \| September 2007 Previous estimates, most noticeably the one published in the Lancet in October 2006, suggested almost half this number (654,965 deaths).
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