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> UK Inquest: "Rogue" US Troops Attacked Brit Convoy
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> Via NY Transfer News Collective All the News that Doesn't Fit
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> sent by David Grace (activ-l) - Feb 1, 2007
>
> The Guardian - jan 31, 2007
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2002479,00.html
>
> Inquest told of 'rogue' US attack on British convoy
>
> by Matthew Taylor
>
> A group of British soldiers yesterday described their frantic attempts to
> stop an attack on their convoy by "rogue" US warplanes that left one dead
> and four injured.
>
> Oxfordshire coroner's court heard that two US A10 planes opened fire on a
> patrol in southern Iraq in March 2003, killing Lance Corporal of Horse
> Mattie Hull three days before his 26th birthday.
>
> Yesterday his colleagues told the court that the "friendly fire" incident
> had happened on a clear day as they patrolled an area about 30 miles
> north-west of Basra.
>
> Staff Corporal Ashley Bell said there had been a flash as the first attack
> started. He had immediately radioed forward air control with the "Stop,
> stop, stop" instruction but had been told the planes were being flown by
> "rogue US pilots".
>
> "[The controller] could not contact the US pilots because they had switched
> frequencies and were talking to each other."
>
> Soldiers in the five-vehicle convoy released smoke canisters to identify
> them to friendly pilots. The smoke was visible as one of the planes returned
> at low level and attacked a second time.
>
> L/Cpl Steven Gerrard said: "Something exploded, there was just a massive
> flash ... I just shouted to everyone to get out."
>
> L/Cpl Chris Finney, 19, who was awarded the George Cross, went back to the
> burning wreckage twice in an attempt to rescue his colleagues. He said: "At
> first there were sparks everywhere and the vehicles stopped, they obviously
> had been stopped by something. I couldn't actually see what had hit us or
> where from." He realised there were still people inside as he took cover. He
> said: "I looked back at my vehicle to see my gunner trying to get out."
>
> The Oxfordshire assistant deputy coroner, Andrew Walker, said the gunner was
> suffering from a large leg wound. L/Cpl Finney, then a trooper with just one
> year's experience, pulled him out of the burning vehicle and gave him
> medical treatment.
>
> As he did so, he was aware that a type of smoke used by coalition forces to
> indicate a friendly fire incident had been released. "I was still with my
> gunner on the floor at this point, and the plane came back into view to
> start its second run."
>
> The inquest heard that although he had been injured he went back to L/Cpl
> Hull's tank to try to save whoever was inside, but flames forced him back.
>
> Despite requests by the coroner and the British government, the pilots of
> the US planes that shot Corporal Hull have never been publicly named and
> will not attend the inquest.
>
> The inquest continues.
>
>
>
> Prison Planet - Jan 31, 2007
> http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/310107roguetroops.htm
>
> Rogue U.S. Troops Knowingly Bombed British in Iraq
>
> British soldiers desperately released friendly fire smoke canisters,
> before A10 bombers swooped in for a second attack
>
> by Paul Joseph Watson
>
> A fascinating report today lends more weight to those who suspect that
> certain bellwether bombings in Iraq are being carried out by the U.S. in
> order to deliberately foster chaos throughout the region.
>
> During a routine patrol by British troops in an area 30 miles north-west of
> Basra in southern Iraq, and on a perfectly clear day, two US A10 planes
> opened fire, killing Lance Corporal of Horse Mattie Hull and injuring three
> other British soldiers in his convoy.
>
> Soldiers desperately tried to radio for help in an effort to stop the attack
> but were told that the bombers were being flown by "rogue US pilots" who had
> switched frequencies and could not be contacted.
>
> Soldiers in the five-vehicle convoy set off smoke canisters to identify them
> as British troops, a signal understood between all coalition forces to mean
> that a friendly fire incident had taken place, before one of the planes
> again cruised in at a low level to attack the soldiers for a second time.
>
> Why the "rogue" U.S. pilots seemed to be deliberately engaged in targeting
> British troops is the subject of an inquest into the incident which occurred
> in March 2003.
>
> "Despite requests by the coroner and the British government, the pilots of
> the US planes that shot Corporal Hull have never been publicly named,"
> reports the London Guardian.
>
> Several credible commentators have presented intriguing evidence that
> clearly suggests some of the major bombings being carried out in Iraq are
> the handiwork of those who wish to keep the country mired in a state of
> anarchy and chaos.
>
> Preceding comments made by former U.S. envoy to the United Nations John
> Bolton on the weekend, that the U.S. "has no strategic interest" in a united
> Iraq, an agenda to maintain division and ethnic tension in Iraq can be seen
> as long term plan and the only way to finally capture and enslave a country
> that has historically thrown out its occupiers on every occasion.
>
> In 1982, Oded Yinon, an official from the Israeli Foreign Affairs office,
> wrote, "To dissolve Iraq is even more important for us than dissolving
> Syria. In the short term, it's Iraqi power that constitutes the greatest
> threat to Israel. The Iran-Iraq war tore Iraq apart and provoked its
> downfall. All manner of inter-Arab conflict help us and accelerate our goal
> of breaking up Iraq into small, diverse pieces."
>
> Ethnic cleansing, maimed children and thousands of dead American soldiers
> are a small price to pay because for the Globalists the end always justifies
> the means and untold bloodshed and misery and bloodshed won't stand in their
> way.
>
> That agenda was again underscored last year when Daniel Pipes, a highly
> influential Straussian Neo-Con media darling, told the New York Sun that a
> civil war would aid the US and Israel because it would entangle Iran and
> Syria and enable those countries to be picked off by the new world empire
> without the need to sell a direct invasion to the public.
>
> This is precisely the line of propaganda the Bush administration has now
> chosen to adopt following a U.S. raid on an Iranian consulate in Iraq and
> today's allegations that Iranians were directly involved in an attack on a
> US compound in Karbala, Iraq, that killed five US soldiers.
>
> Stephen Zunes, professor of Politics and chair of the Peace & Justice
> Studies Program at the University of San Francisco, wrote that the plan to
> keep Iraq broken up and in permanent strife befitted the Neo-Con's
> overarching goal to prevent the emergence of pan-Arab nationalism.
>
> "Top analysts in the CIA and State Department, as well as large numbers of
> Middle East experts, warned that a U.S. invasion of Iraq could result in a
> violent ethnic and sectarian conflict. Even some of the war's intellectual
> architects acknowledged as much: In a 1997 paper, prior to becoming major
> figures in the Bush foreign policy team, David Wurmser, Richard Perle, and
> Douglas Feith predicted that a post-Saddam Iraq would likely be "ripped
> apart" by sectarianism and other cleavages but called on the United States
> to "expedite" such a collapse anyway."
>
> "One of the long-standing goals of such neoconservative intellectuals has
> been to see the Middle East broken up into smaller ethnic or sectarian
> mini-states, which would include not only large stateless nationalities like
> the Kurds, but Maronite Christians, Druze, Arab Shi'ites, and others. Such a
> policy comes not out of respect for the right of self-determination indeed,
> the neocons have been steadfast opponents of the Palestinians' desire for
> statehood, even alongside a secure Israel but out of an imperial quest for
> divide-and-rule. The division of the Middle East has long been seen as a
> means of countering the threat of pan-Arab nationalism and, more recently,
> pan-Islamist movements," wrote Zunes.
>
> The catalyzing event that above all others fundamentally accelerated Iraq's
> descent into civil war was the bombing of the Golden Dome mosque in Samarra
> in February last year.
>
> According to eyewitnesses, Iraqi National Guard troops, accompanied by U.S.
> soldiers, blindfolded two mosque guards, before planting explosives and
> patrolling the area overnight until the bombs were detonated at 6:30 the
> next morning. Residents were told to stay in their homes and not leave until
> morning.
>
> According to an AFP report, the bombing was the work of specialists and the
> placing of explosives must have taken at least 12 hours. Iraqi Construction
> Minister Mohammed Jaafar said, Holes were dug into the mausoleums four main
> pillars and packed with explosives. Then charges were connected together and
> linked to another charge placed just under the dome. The wires were then
> linked to another charge placed just under the dome. The wires were then
> linked to a detonator which was triggered at a distance.
>
> Jaafar strangely disappeared shortly after making those comments.
>
> The Samarra bombing is a cornerstone of the U.S. government's justification
> for the continued occupation in Iraq and it is still continually referenced
> by Bush in his speeches. As journalist Mike Whitney noted, "In the first 30
> hours after the blast, more than 1,500 articles appeared on Google News
> providing the government version of events without deviation and without any
> corroborating evidence; just fluff that reiterated the Pentagons account
> verbatim and without challenge."
>
> The Pentagon refused to conduct any kind of cursory investigation into the
> bombing and the official version of events, that "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" carried
> out the bombing, is parroted by a compliant media to this day, without any
> questions being asked as to how "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" managed to obtain Iraqi
> and U.S. military fatigues, weapons and explosives.
>
> "The main question is Qui Bono? Who benefits from this kind of thing? You
> don't have to be very conspiratorial or even paranoid to suggest that there
> are a whole bunch of likely suspects out there and not only the Sunnis,"
> said former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, "you know, the British officers were
> arrested, dressed up in Arab garb, riding around in a car, so this stuff
> goes on."
>
> McGovern references another highly suspicious even occurred in September
> 2005, when British SAS were caught attempting to stage a terror attack by
> disguising themselves as Arabs and attacking Iraqi police. The soldiers were
> arrested and taken to a nearby jail where they were confronted and
> interrogated by an Iraqi judge.
>
> The initial demand from the puppet authorities that the soldiers be released
> was rejected by the Basra government. At that point tanks were sent in to
> "rescue" the SAS men, provoking Iraqis to riot, firebomb and pelt stones at
> the vehicles, injuring British troops in the process.
>
> The only mainstream media outlet to ask any serious questions about the
> incident was Australian TV news which according to one viewer gave,
> "credibility to the 'conspiracy theorists' who have long claimed many
> terrorist acts in Iraq are, in fact, being initiated and carried out by US,
> British and Israeli forces."
>
> Copyright ) Prisonplanet.com.
Shocking story.
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> UK Inquest: "Rogue" US Troops Attacked Brit Convoy
>
> Via NY Transfer News Collective All the News that Doesn't Fit
>
> sent by David Grace (activ-l) - Feb 1, 2007
>
> The Guardian - jan 31, 2007
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2002479,00.html
>
> Inquest told of 'rogue' US attack on British convoy
>
> by Matthew Taylor
>
> A group of British soldiers yesterday described their frantic attempts to
> stop an attack on their convoy by "rogue" US warplanes that left one dead
> and four injured.
>
> Oxfordshire coroner's court heard that two US A10 planes opened fire on a
> patrol in southern Iraq in March 2003, killing Lance Corporal of Horse
> Mattie Hull three days before his 26th birthday.
>
> Yesterday his colleagues told the court that the "friendly fire" incident
> had happened on a clear day as they patrolled an area about 30 miles
> north-west of Basra.
>
> Staff Corporal Ashley Bell said there had been a flash as the first attack
> started. He had immediately radioed forward air control with the "Stop,
> stop, stop" instruction but had been told the planes were being flown by
> "rogue US pilots".
>
> "[The controller] could not contact the US pilots because they had switched
> frequencies and were talking to each other."
>
> Soldiers in the five-vehicle convoy released smoke canisters to identify
> them to friendly pilots. The smoke was visible as one of the planes returned
> at low level and attacked a second time.
>
> L/Cpl Steven Gerrard said: "Something exploded, there was just a massive
> flash ... I just shouted to everyone to get out."
>
> L/Cpl Chris Finney, 19, who was awarded the George Cross, went back to the
> burning wreckage twice in an attempt to rescue his colleagues. He said: "At
> first there were sparks everywhere and the vehicles stopped, they obviously
> had been stopped by something. I couldn't actually see what had hit us or
> where from." He realised there were still people inside as he took cover. He
> said: "I looked back at my vehicle to see my gunner trying to get out."
>
> The Oxfordshire assistant deputy coroner, Andrew Walker, said the gunner was
> suffering from a large leg wound. L/Cpl Finney, then a trooper with just one
> year's experience, pulled him out of the burning vehicle and gave him
> medical treatment.
>
> As he did so, he was aware that a type of smoke used by coalition forces to
> indicate a friendly fire incident had been released. "I was still with my
> gunner on the floor at this point, and the plane came back into view to
> start its second run."
>
> The inquest heard that although he had been injured he went back to L/Cpl
> Hull's tank to try to save whoever was inside, but flames forced him back.
>
> Despite requests by the coroner and the British government, the pilots of
> the US planes that shot Corporal Hull have never been publicly named and
> will not attend the inquest.
>
> The inquest continues.
>
>
>
> Prison Planet - Jan 31, 2007
> http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/310107roguetroops.htm
>
> Rogue U.S. Troops Knowingly Bombed British in Iraq
>
> British soldiers desperately released friendly fire smoke canisters,
> before A10 bombers swooped in for a second attack
>
> by Paul Joseph Watson
>
> A fascinating report today lends more weight to those who suspect that
> certain bellwether bombings in Iraq are being carried out by the U.S. in
> order to deliberately foster chaos throughout the region.
>
> During a routine patrol by British troops in an area 30 miles north-west of
> Basra in southern Iraq, and on a perfectly clear day, two US A10 planes
> opened fire, killing Lance Corporal of Horse Mattie Hull and injuring three
> other British soldiers in his convoy.
>
> Soldiers desperately tried to radio for help in an effort to stop the attack
> but were told that the bombers were being flown by "rogue US pilots" who had
> switched frequencies and could not be contacted.
>
> Soldiers in the five-vehicle convoy set off smoke canisters to identify them
> as British troops, a signal understood between all coalition forces to mean
> that a friendly fire incident had taken place, before one of the planes
> again cruised in at a low level to attack the soldiers for a second time.
>
> Why the "rogue" U.S. pilots seemed to be deliberately engaged in targeting
> British troops is the subject of an inquest into the incident which occurred
> in March 2003.
>
> "Despite requests by the coroner and the British government, the pilots of
> the US planes that shot Corporal Hull have never been publicly named,"
> reports the London Guardian.
>
> Several credible commentators have presented intriguing evidence that
> clearly suggests some of the major bombings being carried out in Iraq are
> the handiwork of those who wish to keep the country mired in a state of
> anarchy and chaos.
>
> Preceding comments made by former U.S. envoy to the United Nations John
> Bolton on the weekend, that the U.S. "has no strategic interest" in a united
> Iraq, an agenda to maintain division and ethnic tension in Iraq can be seen
> as long term plan and the only way to finally capture and enslave a country
> that has historically thrown out its occupiers on every occasion.
>
> In 1982, Oded Yinon, an official from the Israeli Foreign Affairs office,
> wrote, "To dissolve Iraq is even more important for us than dissolving
> Syria. In the short term, it's Iraqi power that constitutes the greatest
> threat to Israel. The Iran-Iraq war tore Iraq apart and provoked its
> downfall. All manner of inter-Arab conflict help us and accelerate our goal
> of breaking up Iraq into small, diverse pieces."
>
> Ethnic cleansing, maimed children and thousands of dead American soldiers
> are a small price to pay because for the Globalists the end always justifies
> the means and untold bloodshed and misery and bloodshed won't stand in their
> way.
>
> That agenda was again underscored last year when Daniel Pipes, a highly
> influential Straussian Neo-Con media darling, told the New York Sun that a
> civil war would aid the US and Israel because it would entangle Iran and
> Syria and enable those countries to be picked off by the new world empire
> without the need to sell a direct invasion to the public.
>
> This is precisely the line of propaganda the Bush administration has now
> chosen to adopt following a U.S. raid on an Iranian consulate in Iraq and
> today's allegations that Iranians were directly involved in an attack on a
> US compound in Karbala, Iraq, that killed five US soldiers.
>
> Stephen Zunes, professor of Politics and chair of the Peace & Justice
> Studies Program at the University of San Francisco, wrote that the plan to
> keep Iraq broken up and in permanent strife befitted the Neo-Con's
> overarching goal to prevent the emergence of pan-Arab nationalism.
>
> "Top analysts in the CIA and State Department, as well as large numbers of
> Middle East experts, warned that a U.S. invasion of Iraq could result in a
> violent ethnic and sectarian conflict. Even some of the war's intellectual
> architects acknowledged as much: In a 1997 paper, prior to becoming major
> figures in the Bush foreign policy team, David Wurmser, Richard Perle, and
> Douglas Feith predicted that a post-Saddam Iraq would likely be "ripped
> apart" by sectarianism and other cleavages but called on the United States
> to "expedite" such a collapse anyway."
>
> "One of the long-standing goals of such neoconservative intellectuals has
> been to see the Middle East broken up into smaller ethnic or sectarian
> mini-states, which would include not only large stateless nationalities like
> the Kurds, but Maronite Christians, Druze, Arab Shi'ites, and others. Such a
> policy comes not out of respect for the right of self-determination indeed,
> the neocons have been steadfast opponents of the Palestinians' desire for
> statehood, even alongside a secure Israel but out of an imperial quest for
> divide-and-rule. The division of the Middle East has long been seen as a
> means of countering the threat of pan-Arab nationalism and, more recently,
> pan-Islamist movements," wrote Zunes.
>
> The catalyzing event that above all others fundamentally accelerated Iraq's
> descent into civil war was the bombing of the Golden Dome mosque in Samarra
> in February last year.
>
> According to eyewitnesses, Iraqi National Guard troops, accompanied by U.S.
> soldiers, blindfolded two mosque guards, before planting explosives and
> patrolling the area overnight until the bombs were detonated at 6:30 the
> next morning. Residents were told to stay in their homes and not leave until
> morning.
>
> According to an AFP report, the bombing was the work of specialists and the
> placing of explosives must have taken at least 12 hours. Iraqi Construction
> Minister Mohammed Jaafar said, Holes were dug into the mausoleums four main
> pillars and packed with explosives. Then charges were connected together and
> linked to another charge placed just under the dome. The wires were then
> linked to another charge placed just under the dome. The wires were then
> linked to a detonator which was triggered at a distance.
>
> Jaafar strangely disappeared shortly after making those comments.
>
> The Samarra bombing is a cornerstone of the U.S. government's justification
> for the continued occupation in Iraq and it is still continually referenced
> by Bush in his speeches. As journalist Mike Whitney noted, "In the first 30
> hours after the blast, more than 1,500 articles appeared on Google News
> providing the government version of events without deviation and without any
> corroborating evidence; just fluff that reiterated the Pentagons account
> verbatim and without challenge."
>
> The Pentagon refused to conduct any kind of cursory investigation into the
> bombing and the official version of events, that "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" carried
> out the bombing, is parroted by a compliant media to this day, without any
> questions being asked as to how "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" managed to obtain Iraqi
> and U.S. military fatigues, weapons and explosives.
>
> "The main question is Qui Bono? Who benefits from this kind of thing? You
> don't have to be very conspiratorial or even paranoid to suggest that there
> are a whole bunch of likely suspects out there and not only the Sunnis,"
> said former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, "you know, the British officers were
> arrested, dressed up in Arab garb, riding around in a car, so this stuff
> goes on."
>
> McGovern references another highly suspicious even occurred in September
> 2005, when British SAS were caught attempting to stage a terror attack by
> disguising themselves as Arabs and attacking Iraqi police. The soldiers were
> arrested and taken to a nearby jail where they were confronted and
> interrogated by an Iraqi judge.
>
> The initial demand from the puppet authorities that the soldiers be released
> was rejected by the Basra government. At that point tanks were sent in to
> "rescue" the SAS men, provoking Iraqis to riot, firebomb and pelt stones at
> the vehicles, injuring British troops in the process.
>
> The only mainstream media outlet to ask any serious questions about the
> incident was Australian TV news which according to one viewer gave,
> "credibility to the 'conspiracy theorists' who have long claimed many
> terrorist acts in Iraq are, in fact, being initiated and carried out by US,
> British and Israeli forces."
>
> Copyright ) Prisonplanet.com.
Shocking story.
--
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==
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Make Voting Mandatory
No out of state funding for candidates
Reform the Media
Zero Tolerance for Political Corruption
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