Israeli Apartheid

Picture: (AFP/Pool/Jerry Lampen)- Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is pictured in the courtroom of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Karadzic says the United States wanted him dead and accused it of reneging on a deal to shield him from trial by the UN war crimes court.

Radovan Karadzic’s lawyer says he was seeking the return from Serbian authorities of a seized laptop containing files needed for his defense before the UN war crimes tribunal.

The lawyer, Svetozar Vujacic, told AFP "We have a big problem … as long as those who arrested him don’t return the laptop and the 50 CDs containing the entire defence of Radovan Karadzic had prepared for 10 years".

The Belgrade-based lawyer ruled out traveling to the UN court in The Hague in the near future and says"the total strategy" of Karadzic’s defense had already been "agreed" with his client.

Radovan Karadzic does not know if he will be able to appear on August 29", his next scheduled hearing, because of the missing laptop.

The lawyer revived an accusation that Karadzic had been "kidnapped" by an unknown group on July 18, when his laptop was taken, and not three days later as stated by Serbian authorities.

Karadzic himself made the claim in his first appearance before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday, when he refused to enter a plea.

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By Peter  Eyre

(source:  Palestine Telegraph)

Whenever I try to break away from talking about the deeply disturbing use of American and Israeli WMD’s both during the Lebanon conflict in 2006 and in Gaza during Cast Lead in 2008/9 I find myself being haunted by more gut-wrenching stories coming out of the strip.

Christmas for the people in the West is a very special time for family and friends to gather round in a cosy, warm, healthy and secure environment to share the joy of this special time of year. We share the love of family and the joy of distant relatives coming to stay with us. We share the opening of presents and see the faces of the children as they unwrap these colourful parcels. We eat and drink until one can hardly move and feel so bloated.

Unfortunately I also want to experience this same joy but the anniversary of the attack on Gaza is casting a very dark grey cloud over my home and it is when I research more and more into this terrible act against humankind that I know in my heart the people of Gaza will not share the luxuries that we enjoy.

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By Timothy Reeder

(source: Countercurrents.org)

General Stanley McChrystal wasn’t fired for the name calling and sarcasm in the recent Rolling Stone article, or for a lack of military decorum and good discipline. He was fired for telling the truth about the mission in Afghanistan in a statement he made in March.

"We’ve shot an amazing number of people and killed a number and, to my knowledge, none has proven to have been a real threat to the force." This statement is the most embarrassing and potentially crippling to Obama’s AFPAK effort, for it brings attention to how badly the war is going with a focus on the killing of innocent people.

McChrystal’s statement is candid admission of the futility and failure of the so called counter-insurgency campaign. Troops are supposed to be protecting more civilians by defending them and their villages, but with the price of that security coming in part from paying off warlords, and an Afghan military with shifting allegiances, the resulting chaos ensures lots of innocents who happen to look like the ”insurgents” are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. And with simultaneous JSOC missions and drone attacks and bombardments, the human debris of collateral damage is piling up.

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