kcchiefs6465
09-05-2013, 02:24 AM
Clusterbombs
Admitted figure: 5% of the bomblets do not explode
http://i.imgur.com/i0DEkLo.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/AdTvHzy.jpg?1
All the way up to 30% of the bomblets fail to explode as intended.
An entire bomb with virtual landmines protruding:
http://i.imgur.com/ffRYblU.jpg?1
Of the 225,000 bomblets in Laos alone, a conservative 11,250 did not explode. These aren't simply anti-personnel 'mines'. These pack steel shrapnel and enough explosive to kill many people. They aren't designed to maim.
Reportedly 11,000 have been killed in Laos by unexploded bomblets. Many children. A Human Rights Watch report estimated some Two million of them are unexploded from the 1991 attack on Iraq.
http://i.imgur.com/I9uSNBV.jpg?1
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Lord knows I picked a picture not so horridly indescribable that people couldn't look. This is as good as the injuries get.
http://i.imgur.com/KxmXlhY.jpg?1
They call that diplomacy.
I will update this thread close to weekly with a new atrocity.
I apologize in advance.
twomp
09-05-2013, 02:26 AM
http://i.imgur.com/J9tOdvH.jpg
alucard13mm
09-05-2013, 02:41 AM
If we are no longer #1 in the world, do we still have to be the world's policeman?
kcchiefs6465
09-05-2013, 04:30 AM
An hour of work deleted when a typical post takes me a minute.
Words can't describe how annoying that is.
Restore last works? It brings back three words. (literally... not even related)
Very fucking annoying but I will have it retyped by tomorrow with more sources, pictures, quotations and facts.
Torture.
kcchiefs6465
09-05-2013, 06:01 AM
Torture
They hate us for our freedoms.
Sabrina Harman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Harman)posing over the body of Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi prisoner who was tortured to death in United States custody during interrogation at Abu Ghraib prison in November 2003
http://i.imgur.com/U61QKy8.jpg?1
Charles Graner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Graner), posing over the body of Manadel al-Jamadi in November 2003
http://i.imgur.com/CQzAEFU.jpg?1
On 28 May 2005, Navy SEAL Lieutenant Andrew Ledford, the commanding officer of the platoon of SEALs that were accused of inflicting the fatal beating, was acquitted of all responsibility for al-Jamadi's death. Ledford had been charged with assault, dereliction of duty, conduct unbecoming an officer and making false statements.[12]
Eight members of Ledford's platoon received administrative punishment for abuse of al-Jamadi and other prisoners.[12] Another unnamed lieutenant received a career-killing punitive letter of reprimand for dereliction of duty and conduct unbecoming an officer.[13]
Wrapping a prisoner in an Israeli flag...kept naked and hooded and kicked to keep them awake for days on end...use of umuzzled, growling dogs to frighten, in at least one instance actually biting and severely injuring a detainee...”burn marks on ther backs”...detainee left at an Iraqi hospital, comatose, with massive head trauma, burns on the bottoms of his feet caused by electrocution, bruises on his arms...at least 37 detainees have died during interrogation.
Excerpted from- Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum
http://i.imgur.com/wWfVXnk.png?1
http://i.imgur.com/QdaaFzp.jpg?1
Lynndie England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynndie_England) holding a leash attached to a prisoner, known to the guards as "Gus", who is lying on the floor
http://i.imgur.com/EXjaha7.jpg?1 (http://imgur.com/EXjaha7)
Convicted Abu Ghraib Abuse ‘Ringleader’ Released From Prison (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2011/08/06/convicted-abu-ghraib-abuse-ringleader-released-from-prison/)
http://i.imgur.com/l3RxowH.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/dm1M1AN.jpg?1
Sister Dianna Ortiz
http://i.imgur.com/aMF14cX.jpg?1
Dianna Ortiz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianna_Ortiz) (born 1961) is an American Roman Catholic nun of the Ursuline order. While serving as a missionary in Guatemala in 1989, she was abducted on November 2 by members of the Guatemalan military, detained and tortured for 24 hours before being released. After her release, Sister Dianna reported that an American was among her captors. This has not been confirmed.
Abduction and torture
She said a man named Alejandro was among her torturers, and that she heard him speak English with a North American accent. She wrote in her memoir that her torture stopped
"when a man with an American accent entered the room and said in English, “Shit.” Then he said, in Spanish, to the torturers, “You idiots! Leave her alone. She’s a North American, and it’s all over the news.” To Ortiz he says, “You have to forgive those guys … they made a mistake.”[4]
He was taking her to a friend (to be taken to the American embassy) when she escaped. She said he told her she had been mistaken for a guerrilla with a similar name, Veronica Ortiz Hernandez. Ortiz knows this woman, an indigenous, and says she does not resemble her. When she questioned him about that, she said that Alejandro "insinuated that I was to blame for my torture because I had not heeded the threats that were sent to me."[7] She returned to the US from Guatemala within 48 hours of her escape.
After being released, Ortiz later said:
"The nightmare I lived was nothing out of the ordinary. In 1989, under Guatemala’s first civilian president in years, nearly two hundred people were abducted. Unlike me, they were "disappeared, gone forever". The only uncommon element of my ordeal was that I survived, probably because I was a U.S. citizen, and phone calls poured into Congress when I was reported missing. As a U.S. citizen, I had another advantage: I could, in relative safety, reveal afterwards the details of what happened to me in those twenty-four hours. One of those details: an American was in charge of my torturers."
Mohammad Reza Shah
http://i.imgur.com/hROt2mZ.jpg?1
SAVAK
Operations
During the height of its power, SAVAK had virtually unlimited powers. It operated its own detention centers, like Evin Prison (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evin_Prison). In addition to domestic security the service's tasks extended to the surveillance of Iranians abroad, notably in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, and especially students on government stipends. The agency also closely collaborated with the American CIA by sending their agents to an air force base in New York to share and discuss interrogation tactics.[21]
Teymur Bakhtiar was assassinated by SAVAK agents in 1970, and Mansur Rafizadeh, SAVAK's United States director during the 1970s, reported that General Nassiri's phone was tapped. Mansur Rafizadeh later published his life as a SAVAK man and detailed the human rights violations of the Shah in his book Witness: From the Shah to the Secret Arms Deal: An Insider's Account of U.S. Involvement in Iran. Mansur Rafizadeh was suspected to have been a double agent also working for the CIA. According to Polish author Ryszard Kapuściński, SAVAK was responsible for Censorship of press, books and films.[22] Interrogation and often torture of prisoners Surveillance of political opponents.
Victims
Sources disagree over how many victims SAVAK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK) had and how inhumane its techniques were. Writing at the time of the Shah's overthrow, TIME magazine described SAVAK as having "long been Iran's most hated and feared institution" which had "tortured and murdered thousands of the Shah's opponents."[23] The Federation of American Scientists also found it guilty of "the torture and execution of thousands of political prisoners" and symbolizing "the Shah's rule from 1963-79." The FAS list of SAVAK torture methods included "electric shock, whipping, beating, inserting broken glass and pouring boiling water into the rectum, tying weights to the testicles, and the extraction of teeth and nails." [24]
Battalion 316
http://i.imgur.com/jq8v62u.jpg?1
Honduras
During the 1980s, the CIA gave indispensable support to the infamous Battalion 316, which kidnapped, tortured and killed hundreds of citizens, using shock and suffocation devices for interrogation, amongst other techniques. The CIA supplied torture equipment, torture manuals, and in both Honduras and the US, taught battalion members methods of psychological and physical torture. On at least one occasion, a CIA officer took part in interrogating a torture victim. The Agency also funded Argentine counter-insurgency experts to provide further training for the Hondurans. At the time, Argentina was famous for its "Dirty War", an appalling record of torture, baby kidnappings and disappearances. Argentine and CIA instructors worked side by side training Battalion 316. US support for the battalion continued even after its director, Gen. Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, told the US ambassador that he intended to use the Argentine methods of eliminating subversives. In 1983, the Reagan administration awarded Alvarez the Legion of Merit "for encouraging the success of democratic processes in Honduras". At the same time, the administration was misleading Congress and the American public by denying or minimizing the battalion's atrocities.
Excerpted from- Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum
And many more. The G-2 in Guatemala. The PDF in Panama. KYP in Greece.
The NYPD.
tod evans
09-05-2013, 06:33 AM
Great thread KC, unfortunately I'm repless...:(
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