ISRAELI TORTURE and U.S. COMPLICITY THEN AND NOW*

TORTUREGATE
TORTURE INTERCONNECTIONS - The U.S. and Israel

ISRAELI TORTURE and U.S. COMPLICITY THEN AND NOW

Mid-East Realities - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - 6 May 2004:

The U.S. and Israel have been torture interconnected in the Middle East for
quite a long time. Those now infamous hoods -- finally infamous because of the
dramatic pictures from a U.S.-run prison in Iraq -- have long been used by the
Israelis in prisons where Palestinians are treated far worse but the world has
looked the other way for decades now. Indeed Israeli 'training' of Americans to
'deal with the Arabs' may well be the secret so-far untold aspect of today's
'torture scandal' now dominating today's headlines. TortureGate now dominates
Washington and has the potential to threaten the Bush Presidency as the Monica
scandal affected Clinton's.The top Pentagon civilian officials -- Paul
Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith -- both Jewish and both known for their extremely
close relationships with top officials in Israel and the Zionist movement, are
believed to have personally authorized clandestine Mossad officials to be in
Iraq working closely with U.S. military intelligence. Something similar is
believed to have been secretly authorized by the head of the CIA, George Tenet.
Many in Washington find it hard to believe that Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfled did not know and approve; even if the information was not provided to
the President who many believe at the time would not have cared or understood
the implications anyway.As of today TortureGate is at the least further
erupting into a profound earthquake-like public relations catastrophy for the
U.S. American credibility has been shredded to pieces. The President himself is
unusually personally involved in attempting damage-control. Talk of Donald
Rumseld being forced to take the fall this time is beginning to be heard above
whispers. As for the U.S. and Israeli torture connection it has grown
considerable in recent years and certainly needs to be investigated -- but just
as certainly not by the American Congress which is itself quite complicitous
despite all the loud protestations otherwise. Even as far back as a decade
before the first Palestinian Intifada began in 1987, the U.S. government was
already very much aware and complicitous in, the 'systematic torture' of
Palestinians by Israel. In 1979 U.S. Foreign Service officers serving in the
Jerusalem Consulate -- an unofficial Embassy responsible for dealing with the
Palestinians in the 'Occupied Territories' -- did their job and provided the
political leaders in Washington detailed and conclusive information about the
ongoing torture of Palestinians. When top officials in Washington did nothing
and in fact ordered everything covered up classified State Department cables
were leaked from persons inside the State Department and published by Mark
Bruzonsky who at the time was Forum Editor of The Middle East Magazine in
London. Bruzonsky is now the Publisher of Mid-East Realities (MiddleEast.Org).
In a major censorship story never publicly told the classified torture
documents were first made available by Bruzonsky for exclusive publication in a
New York newspaper. But severe pressure from the U.S. government and persons
associated with the Israeli-Jewish lobby forced the story to be spiked at the
last minute even after the front-page banner-headline had been set in type and
personally approved by the editor and publisher. This is the story of the once
secret "Torture Cables" as published in the April 1979 issue of The Middle East
Magazine.*http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/05/287679.shtml

MOSSAD AGENTS INVOLVED IN IRAQ PRISON ABUSE
author: Mauricio Dolce

Mossad agents are behind the Iraq prison scandale

General Taguba's report about the Iraq prison abuse, strongly implicate John
Israel, Steven Stephanowicz and Adel L. Nakhla; describes them as interrogators
contract employees for Titan and CACI corporation. Both Corporation has
indicated that these individuals work for a sub contractor that they refused to
name, the truth is that John Israel, Steven Stephanowicz and Adel L. Nakhla
works for the Mossad, Arabic speakers and has been sent to train CIA, DIA and
MI in interrogation techniques already used in Palestinians. What has not been
reported yet is that women and minors has been sodomized, pictures and video
tapes has been withheld by the media to avoid further embarrasing the Army.*
TORTUREGATE
*www.nogw.com/warforisrael.html
www.nowarforisrael.com
MER - Mid East Realties
http://www.middleeast.org/mernew.htm**
ISRAELI TORTURE and U.S. COMPLICITY THEN AND NOW*