Now this time there couldn't have been a mistake. There could be no misunderstanding on this one. Our government couldn't have done something wrong on this one. For reference, this is the second part from yesterdays entry entry called Uncovering the Truth.
Please read Uncovering the Truth, Part One first before you read this one.
This is a story of one of the most sought after terrorists on the planet. John Ashcroft had once placed this person to the level of "the deadly seven". Meaning one of the seven most wanted people in the world.
Then on a Thursday evening on July 17, 2008 in a Bazizi Mosque in Ghazni, just south of Kabul, the men were coming out of their evening prayers. They paused when they saw someone cowering on the ground. They formed a circle around the person, who was holding two small bags at their side. Fearing that this person could be carrying a bomb, one man called the police.
Not long after this scene, a telephone rang at the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) in Washington more than 11,000 kilometers away. After the call someone crossed one of "the deadly seven" names off of the suspect list and wrote the word "arrested".
It took two weeks after some interrogation at the US Air Force Base in Bagram, Afghanistan before the prisoner was taken to New York. Now in a tracksuit, the now frail 90lb, 5'4" prisoner was escorted, on August 11, 2008, into US Federal Court in Manhattan in a wheel chair. The accused had two bullet wounds in the abdomen. In October the prisoner was taken to Carswell Psychiatric Center in Fort Worth, TX for psychological review.
Considered a genius and hunted by the CIA and the FBI, the prisoner is believed to be a key player in raising money for al-Qaida by collecting donations and smuggling diamonds. A feather in the cap for the Bush Administration? The prisoner was considered the most important catch in five years, according to John Kiriakou, a CIA terrorist hunter.
This is where things can get a bit odd, though. The prisoner has not been charged with collaborating or as an accomplice in terrorist attackes. The charge was attempted murder of U.S. soldiers and FBI agents, to whom were attacked with a weapon in Afghanistan. If convicted the prisoner could face up to 20 years in prison.
The chief planner of the 9-11 attackes, Khlid Sheikh Mohammed, was arrested on March 1, 2003, in Rawaplindi, Pakistan. He was the biggest catch at that time in the battle against al-Qaida. The CIA interrogated him at an secret location where, it is reported he revealed aspect of the inner world of internal terrorism.
It is also widely known that someone being interrogated will say nearly anything in order for these interrogations to stop. It is also noted that our government used waterboarding.
This interrogation prompted a series of arrests not long after. The CIA felt that any name that Mohammed mentioned was immediately and automatically an important al-Quida terrorist. This one of "the deadly seven" was one of those.
Elaine Whitfield Sharp is an attorney for the prestigious law firm of Sharp and Sharp. On their website it states, "We are trial attorneys who represent people. Our practice is dedicated to securing justice for people in state and federal courts. We do not represent big business, the government, or insurance companies."
She has represented the prisoner of this story since 2003. She is convinced that this person, who was a high-level classification prisoner and who spent five years in what is referred to as a "black site" in Bagram, the most notorious in the legal system, is being detained for political reasons and not for murder of soldiers or agents.
A number of other prisoners held at Bagram Air Base, the site of the most important US detainee camp in Afghanistan, say they heard a woman screaming. The woman was nicknamed the "gray lady of Bagram."
She reports that the allegations brought against the prisoner thus far are “proven wrong and unsubstantiated”. The FBI and the CIA have made no comment as to these claims.
Sharp claimed that “every time that US authorities accused Aafia of something, we showed it was false”.
Sharp states, “They accuse of brokering a diamond ring for giving the proceeds to al-Quida. They said the prisoner was in Liberia when this took place. We showed the prisoner was in Boston, running a play group with a sister of the prisoner. They talked of involved in the production of neuro-chemical to be used by terrorists in the US. We showed that the accused was not."
The U.S. authorities accused the prisoner of other crimes to which when Sharp asked for evidence, they never gave any.
There is also a media report, to which Sharp has rejected, of papers seized in Guantanamo Bay prison that state Aafia Siddiqui is married to Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, who is an alleged al-Quida facilitator who intended to blow up gas stations or poison water reservoirs in the United States. Sharp disputes any report that she is married to this man. There has been no evidence brought forward by the government agencies to substantiate this claim.
Sharp states emphatically that there has been no substantiated evidence and all of this has been concocted to paint her guilty by association.
For your reference, today's story and yesterday's story are of the same person. I specifically wrote them this way so to show how your mind can go to places by simple racial, religious or terrorist phrases. When those phrase are not included, as in yesterday, there might be more of a shadow of doubt due to how things might be worded.
Either way, will her truth ever be uncovered?
This, the 210th entry in bloggoland! Thanks for reading and coming back. I always enjoy the comments, emails and the banter!!
(c)Copyright 2008 Doug Boggs
Showing posts with label CIA. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
Uncovering the Truth, Part I
Is it possible that there has been a mistake? Is there a possibility that there has been some misunderstanding? Is there a possibility that our government has done something wrong?
This is the story of a fair skinned woman, a mother of three children, born on March 2, 1972. She comes from an upper middle-class family and spent more than 10 years studying at elite universities in the United States. Her father was a surgeon, the mother is a housewife. At one time the family lived abroad in the British city of Manchester, and in Zambia. Her brother is an architect and lives in Houston. Her sister is a neurologist and has worked at one of the best hospitals in Boston. She studied biology on a scholarship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a PhD in neuroscience at Brandeis University, where she was considered an outstanding scientist.
In 1992, as a sophomore at MIT, she received a Carroll L. Wilson Award for her research proposal "Islamization in Pakistan and its Effects on Women". As a junior, she received a $1,200 fellowship through MIT's LINKS program to help clean up Cambridge elementary school playgrounds. During her undergraduate career, she lived in McCormick Hall and worked at the MIT libraries. She graduated from MIT in 1995. In 1996, she wrote an article for the MIT Information Systems newsletter about the File Transfer Protocol and the then-emerging World Wide Web.
In 1999, while living in Boston, she and and her husband founded the nonprofit Institute of Research and Teaching. She went on to graduate study in Neuroscience at Brandeis University, receiving a Ph.D. degree in 2001 for her dissertation, entitled "Separating the Components of Imitation".
She was active with charities and a refugee center to which she raised money for Bosnian orphans.
On March 1, 2003, she sent an an email to her professor, Robert Sekuler, at Brandeis University outside Boston. She was looking for a job. "I would prefer to work in the United States," she wrote, noting that she was having difficulty finding work despite her educational background. A few days later, she disappeared. Early in the morning on the day of her disappearance, she left her parents' house, together with her three children. She took a taxi to the airport to catch a morning flight. She was planning to visit her uncle. Two of her children are reported missing.
The last thing she remembers, she says, was receiving an injection in her arm. She says that when she regained consciousness she was in a prison cell, which she believes was on a military base in Afghanistan, because she heard aircraft taking off and landing. She claims that she was held in solitary confinement for more than five years, and that it was always the same Americans who interrogated her, without masks or uniforms. For days, she says, they would play tape recordings of her children's terrified screams, and she claims that she was forced to write hundreds of pages about the construction of dirty bombs and attacks using viruses.
Her baby was taken away immediately, she says. They showed her a photograph of her seven-year-old, lying in a pool of blood. The only one of her children they occasionally showed her, she says, was Mariam, shown as a vague outline behind a pane of frosted glass.
On April 21, 2003, the NBC ran a story about her arrest on the evening news.
According to Human Rights Commissions, there are at least 52 secret prisons, just in the country of Pakistan, in which thousands of people are believed to have disappeared since the beginning of the war on terrorism.
The CIA denies that its agents had anything to do with her disappearance. Michael Scheuer, a member of a unit that pursued al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden (to which is still at large) from 1996 to 1999, says curtly: "We never arrested or imprisoned a woman. She is a liar."
There were never any weapons on mass destruction. That was a lie. The Bush Administration has stated that they never tortured or wrongfully imprisoned people, to which we have found numerous untruths to this as well.
But if it is true that a woman was tortured and disappeared into a secret dungeon, it would be a first in the post-September 11 world -- and yet another example of the decay of standards in America.
Will the truth ever be uncovered?
Thanks to:
Spiegle International
NY Times
NBC
This, the 209th entry in bloggoland! Thanks for reading and coming back. I always enjoy the comments, emails and the banter!!
(c)Copyright 2008 Doug Boggs
This is the story of a fair skinned woman, a mother of three children, born on March 2, 1972. She comes from an upper middle-class family and spent more than 10 years studying at elite universities in the United States. Her father was a surgeon, the mother is a housewife. At one time the family lived abroad in the British city of Manchester, and in Zambia. Her brother is an architect and lives in Houston. Her sister is a neurologist and has worked at one of the best hospitals in Boston. She studied biology on a scholarship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a PhD in neuroscience at Brandeis University, where she was considered an outstanding scientist.
In 1992, as a sophomore at MIT, she received a Carroll L. Wilson Award for her research proposal "Islamization in Pakistan and its Effects on Women". As a junior, she received a $1,200 fellowship through MIT's LINKS program to help clean up Cambridge elementary school playgrounds. During her undergraduate career, she lived in McCormick Hall and worked at the MIT libraries. She graduated from MIT in 1995. In 1996, she wrote an article for the MIT Information Systems newsletter about the File Transfer Protocol and the then-emerging World Wide Web.
In 1999, while living in Boston, she and and her husband founded the nonprofit Institute of Research and Teaching. She went on to graduate study in Neuroscience at Brandeis University, receiving a Ph.D. degree in 2001 for her dissertation, entitled "Separating the Components of Imitation".
She was active with charities and a refugee center to which she raised money for Bosnian orphans.
On March 1, 2003, she sent an an email to her professor, Robert Sekuler, at Brandeis University outside Boston. She was looking for a job. "I would prefer to work in the United States," she wrote, noting that she was having difficulty finding work despite her educational background. A few days later, she disappeared. Early in the morning on the day of her disappearance, she left her parents' house, together with her three children. She took a taxi to the airport to catch a morning flight. She was planning to visit her uncle. Two of her children are reported missing.
The last thing she remembers, she says, was receiving an injection in her arm. She says that when she regained consciousness she was in a prison cell, which she believes was on a military base in Afghanistan, because she heard aircraft taking off and landing. She claims that she was held in solitary confinement for more than five years, and that it was always the same Americans who interrogated her, without masks or uniforms. For days, she says, they would play tape recordings of her children's terrified screams, and she claims that she was forced to write hundreds of pages about the construction of dirty bombs and attacks using viruses.
Her baby was taken away immediately, she says. They showed her a photograph of her seven-year-old, lying in a pool of blood. The only one of her children they occasionally showed her, she says, was Mariam, shown as a vague outline behind a pane of frosted glass.
On April 21, 2003, the NBC ran a story about her arrest on the evening news.
According to Human Rights Commissions, there are at least 52 secret prisons, just in the country of Pakistan, in which thousands of people are believed to have disappeared since the beginning of the war on terrorism.
The CIA denies that its agents had anything to do with her disappearance. Michael Scheuer, a member of a unit that pursued al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden (to which is still at large) from 1996 to 1999, says curtly: "We never arrested or imprisoned a woman. She is a liar."
There were never any weapons on mass destruction. That was a lie. The Bush Administration has stated that they never tortured or wrongfully imprisoned people, to which we have found numerous untruths to this as well.
But if it is true that a woman was tortured and disappeared into a secret dungeon, it would be a first in the post-September 11 world -- and yet another example of the decay of standards in America.
Will the truth ever be uncovered?
Thanks to:
Spiegle International
NY Times
NBC
This, the 209th entry in bloggoland! Thanks for reading and coming back. I always enjoy the comments, emails and the banter!!
(c)Copyright 2008 Doug Boggs
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Lies, deceipt, ...just another day in politics!
I got an email from a friend, who I am hoping sent it by mistake, but it discussed the "disgrace" that Obama spent money refurbishing a plane, and it seems "took the flag off" the tail of the plane. Perhaps this action was done in order to PAINT the plane, and is all out of context. The email goes on about patriotism and such...
I get so tired of people stating that McCant is more patriotic than Obama, simply due to his service and a war prisoner. This does not a President or patriot make. The people that wave the flag issue around like this are usually the same people that have no other thoughts regarding issues and must resort to meaningless issues such as this. I use the word meaningless to make a point. That being, patriotism is when people force themselves to think about what is NOT right about this country, and force themselves to continuously ask questions and question authority and make things better because of it. This is true freedom and patriotism! These flag concerned citizens need to open their eyes as to what is happening to our country, and how it has gone down the toilet and deeply into debt due to total mismanagement and excess spending that this current administration has done. Through lies, deceit, and manipulation we have watched our country go to shit!
If being President and running things in this manner, or wanting to have the same again, is Patriotic, something is seriously wrong with our moral structure in America today.
The following article comes from Salon.com. Whether than question its authenticity and find its proof, the faithful Repugnicants will simply disavow it as false and state that our government wouldn't do something like this...Like finding a fall guy and drug addict lying therapist to bring the Anthrax scare to be falsely linked to Al Qaida.
This Al guy seems to be guilty of everything in the world, based on this administration. Perhaps this is due to the fact that they want to find accountability, as long as it is not them.
War Room
By Alex Koppelman
Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008 10:34 EDT
White House ordered forgery
I'll of course leave it to Glenn Greenwald, since this story falls right in his wheelhouse, to put this news into greater historical context, but I am honestly not sure whether to scream or yawn anymore when informed of new evidence of how mendaciously the Bush administration behaved in the run-up to the Iraq war.
The latest development is the alleged attempt by the administration to get the CIA to forge and backdate a memo concocting some bogus link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida, as reported in Ron Suskind's new book, "The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism." The White House, of course, denies the allegation. "The allegation that the White House directed anyone to forge a document from [former Iraqi intelligence director Tahir Jalil] Habbush to Saddam is just absurd," said White House spokesman Tony Fratto.
Yes, Mr. Fratto, how absurd -- because, like, there's just no historical precedent with this administration for lying, misleading or manipulating intelligence. We should all be ashamed of ourselves for such absurdities.
― Thomas Schaller
I get so tired of people stating that McCant is more patriotic than Obama, simply due to his service and a war prisoner. This does not a President or patriot make. The people that wave the flag issue around like this are usually the same people that have no other thoughts regarding issues and must resort to meaningless issues such as this. I use the word meaningless to make a point. That being, patriotism is when people force themselves to think about what is NOT right about this country, and force themselves to continuously ask questions and question authority and make things better because of it. This is true freedom and patriotism! These flag concerned citizens need to open their eyes as to what is happening to our country, and how it has gone down the toilet and deeply into debt due to total mismanagement and excess spending that this current administration has done. Through lies, deceit, and manipulation we have watched our country go to shit!
If being President and running things in this manner, or wanting to have the same again, is Patriotic, something is seriously wrong with our moral structure in America today.
The following article comes from Salon.com. Whether than question its authenticity and find its proof, the faithful Repugnicants will simply disavow it as false and state that our government wouldn't do something like this...Like finding a fall guy and drug addict lying therapist to bring the Anthrax scare to be falsely linked to Al Qaida.
This Al guy seems to be guilty of everything in the world, based on this administration. Perhaps this is due to the fact that they want to find accountability, as long as it is not them.
War Room
By Alex Koppelman
Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008 10:34 EDT
White House ordered forgery
I'll of course leave it to Glenn Greenwald, since this story falls right in his wheelhouse, to put this news into greater historical context, but I am honestly not sure whether to scream or yawn anymore when informed of new evidence of how mendaciously the Bush administration behaved in the run-up to the Iraq war.
The latest development is the alleged attempt by the administration to get the CIA to forge and backdate a memo concocting some bogus link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida, as reported in Ron Suskind's new book, "The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism." The White House, of course, denies the allegation. "The allegation that the White House directed anyone to forge a document from [former Iraqi intelligence director Tahir Jalil] Habbush to Saddam is just absurd," said White House spokesman Tony Fratto.
Yes, Mr. Fratto, how absurd -- because, like, there's just no historical precedent with this administration for lying, misleading or manipulating intelligence. We should all be ashamed of ourselves for such absurdities.
― Thomas Schaller
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