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various anti-nuclear petitions that align with your=20
principles.
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were ever so slow; only my mind was running at top speed.=20
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f=20
the Communications Bureau's big concrete building, and beyond it the=20
hospital. My spirits rose because I knew that now someone would find m=
e;=20
and if I should die, at least my body would be found. I paused to rest=
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ms=20
of people, some of whom looked like walking ghosts. Others moved as th=
ough=20
in pain, like scarecrows, their arms held out from their bodies with=20
forearms and hands dangling. These people puzzled me until I suddenly=20
realized that they had been burned and were holding their arms out to=20
prevent the painful friction of raw surfaces rubbing together. A naked=
=20
woman carrying a naked baby came into view. I averted my gaze. Perhaps=
=20
they had been in the bath. But then I saw a naked man, and it occurred=
to=20
me that, like myself, some strange thing had deprived them of their=20
clothes. An old woman lay near me with an expression of suffering on h=
er=20
face; but she made no sound. Indeed, one thing was common to everyone=20=
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Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:48:33 +0000
Subject: [GPUS-PAX] Come to a discussion with the nuns who spent several years in prison for pouring their own blood on nuclear silos
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Subject: [GPUS-PAX] Come to a discussion with the nuns who spent several ye=
ars in prison for pouring their own blood on nuclear silos
DISARMAMENT NOW
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A documentary about three Dominican nuns convicted and sentenced to F=
ederal Prison for their non-violent protest at a Minuteman III missil=
e site in Northern Colorado. Directed/Produced by=20
Brenda Truelson Fox.=20
Approximate running time: 43 minutes.=20
=E2=80=9CEvery inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this=
planet may no longer be habitable.=E2=80=9D
President John F. Kennedy =E2=80=93 Address to the United Nations, Septembe=
r, 1961
Speakers:=C2=A0 Sister Carol and Sister Ardeth,=20
imprisoned for protesting nuclear weapons and residents of Jonah House,=20
a community dedicated to nonviolent resistance in Baltimore, Maryland
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The time is... 5 minutes to Midnight.
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What we can do about Nuclear Proliferation=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=
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In 2004, the World Council of Churches stated that complete ter=
mination of nuclear weapons is the best chance at global peace.=
World governments can abide by this proclamation by taking str=
onger actions against nuclear proliferation.=20=20=20=20=20=20=
=20
Hosted by Bay Ridge Interfaith Peace Coalition=20
For further information:=C2=A0 (718) 680-2981=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=
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Some measures Include... =
Instituting an advanced system of tracking devices=
on nuclear arms and equipment. This could reduce the u=
nderground nuclear trade. Push =
for more transparency in the nuclear programs in =
governments. Coordinate t=
reaties that reduce the nuclear stockpiles. =
Focus international pressure on countries that=
refuse to follow global guidelines. =
Raise the level of security in nuclear areas.=20=20=
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Individuals can take the initiative by: =
Voting for and s=
upporting politicians that want to change the current n=
uclear situation. Refuse to financi=
ally invest in countries with major discrepancies in th=
eir nuclear programs. Boycott or se=
ek alternatives products from specific countries. =
Sign various anti-nuclear petitions that=
align with your principles. Volunt=
eer your time to an anti-nuclear group.=20=20=20=20=20=
=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=
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Dr. Michihiko Hachiya lived through that day and kept a diary of his =
experience. He served as Director of the Hiroshima Communications Hos=
pital and lived near the hospital approximately a mile from the explo=
sion's epicenter. His diary was published in English in 1955=20=20=20=
=20=20=20=20
Could I go on?=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=
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Bombing victim: her skin is
burned in a pattern
corresponding to the light
& dark portions of her kimono.=20=20=20=20=20=20
I tried. It was all a nightmare - my wounds, the darkness, the road a=
head. My movements were ever so slow; only my mind was running at top=
speed.=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20
In time I came to an open space where the houses had been removed to =
make a fire lane. Through the dim light I could make out ahead of me =
the hazy outlines of the Communications Bureau's big concrete buildin=
g, and beyond it the hospital. My spirits rose because I knew that no=
w someone would find me; and if I should die, at least my body would =
be found. I paused to rest. Gradually things around me came into focu=
s. There were the shadowy forms of people, some of whom looked like w=
alking ghosts. Others moved as though in pain, like scarecrows, their=
arms held out from their bodies with forearms and hands dangling. Th=
ese people puzzled me until I suddenly realized that they had been bu=
rned and were holding their arms out to prevent the painful friction =
of raw surfaces rubbing together. A naked woman carrying a naked baby=
came into view. I averted my gaze. Perhaps they had been in the bath=
. But then I saw a naked man, and it occurred to me that, like myself=
, some strange thing had deprived them of their clothes. An old woman=
lay near me with an expression of suffering on her face; but she mad=
e no sound. Indeed, one thing was common to everyone I saw - complete=
silence.=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20
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- Push=20
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- Coordinate=20
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- Focus=20
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of=20
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me;=20
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From: peace@lists.gp-us.org (Makers of Peace)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:18:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [GPUS-PAX] Compassion: Not part of the Debates! 1/2 Million Iraqi Orphans&100, 000's Widows w/ Chidren!!!&$Billions&"Financial Crisis"
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Not part of the Debates! ~1/2 Million Iraqi Orphans & 100,000's Widows w/ C=
hildren!!! & $Billions &"Financial Crisis & HOUSING Crisis" (in Iraq & Afgh=
anistan)
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3D2946323n
PLEASE SEE THE FOLLOWING PHOTOS:
http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2007/06/18/iraq/photoessay2942940.shtml=A0
=A0
May 19, 2004 ~ Before ABU GHRAIB "hit the National Media" (& then just a sm=
all "part=A0of truth)"
THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ: ABU GHRAIB; Officer Says Army Tried to Curb Red Cros=
s Visits to Prison in Iraq=20
By DOUGLAS JEHL AND ERIC SCHMITT; REPORTING FOR THIS ARTICLE WAS CONTRIBUTE=
D BY DAVID E. SANGER, DAVID JOHNSTON, CARL HULSE AND NEIL A. LEWIS.=20
Army officials in Iraq responded late last year to a Red Cross report of ab=
uses at Abu Ghraib prison by trying to curtail the international agency's s=
pot inspections of the prison, a senior Army officer who served in Iraq sai=
d Tuesday.=20
After the International Committee of the Red Cross observed abuses in one c=
ellblock on two unannounced inspections in October and complained in writin=
g on Nov. 6, the military responded that inspectors should make appointment=
s before visiting the cellblock. That area was the site of the worst abuses=
.=20
The Red Cross report in November was the earliest formal evidence known to =
have been presented to the military's headquarters in Baghdad before Januar=
y, when photographs of the abuses came to the attention of criminal investi=
gators and prompted a broad investigation. But the senior Army officer said=
the military did not start any criminal investigation before it replied to=
the Red Cross on Dec. 24.=20
The Red Cross report was made after its inspectors witnessed or heard about=
such practices as holding Iraqi prisoners naked in dark concrete cells for=
several days at a time and forcing them to wear women's underwear on their=
heads while being paraded and photographed.=20
Iraqi Orphanage Nightmare
BAGHDAD, June 18, 2007=20
(CBS)=A0It was a scene that shocked battle-hardened soldiers, captured in p=
hotographs obtained exclusively by CBS News.=20
On a daytime patrol in central Baghdad just over than a week ago, a U.S. mi=
litary advisory team and Iraqi soldiers happened to look over a wall and fo=
und something horrific.=20
"They saw multiple bodies laying on the floor of the facility," Staff Sgt. =
Mitchell Gibson of the 82nd Airborne Division told CBS News chief foreign c=
orrespondent Lara Logan. "They thought they were all dead, so they threw a =
basketball (to) try and get some attention, and actually one of the kids li=
fted up their head, tilted it over and just looked and then went back down.=
And they said, 'oh, they're alive' and so they went into the building."=20
Inside the building, a government-run orphanage for special needs children,=
the soldiers found more emaciated little bodies tied to the cribs. They ha=
d been kept this way for more than a month, according to the soldiers calle=
d in to rescue the 24 boys.=20
"I saw children that you could see literally every bone in their body that =
were so skinny, they had no energy to move whatsoever, no expression on the=
ir face," Staff Sgt. Michael Beale said.=20
"The kids were tied up, naked, covered in their own waste =97 feces =97 and=
there were three people that were cooking themselves food, but nothing for=
the kids," Lt. Stephen Duperre said.=20
Logan asked: So there were three people cooking their own food?=20
"They were in the kitchen, yes ma'am," Duperre said.=20
With all these kids starving around them?=20
"Yes ma'am," Duperre said.=20
It didn't stop there. The soldiers found kitchen shelves packed with food a=
nd in the stockroom, rows of brand-new clothing still in their plastic wrap=
ping.=20
Instead of giving it to the boys, the soldiers believe it was being sold to=
local markets.=20
The man in charge, the orphanage caretaker, had a well-kept office =97 a st=
ark contrast to the terrible conditions just outside that room.=20
"I got extremely angry with the caretaker when I got there," Capt. Benjamin=
Morales said. "It took every muscle in my body to restrain myself from not=
going after that guy."=20
Find out how to help the orphans.=20
See the photos given to CBS News.
Watch extended video of Logan=92s interviews with the soldiers who rescued=
the orphans.
Read Lara Logan's reporter's notebook on this story.=20
He has since disappeared and is believed to be on the run. But two security=
guards are in custody, arrested on the orders of Iraqi Prime Minister Nour=
i al-Maliki. Two women also working there, who posed for pictures in front =
of the naked boys as if there was nothing wrong, have also disappeared.=20
"My first thought when I walked in there was shock, and then I got a little=
angry that they were treating kids like that, then that's when everybody j=
ust started getting upset," Capt. Jim Cook said. "There were people crying.=
It was definitely a bad emotional scene."=20
There was nothing more emotional than finding one boy who Army medics did n=
ot expect to survive. For Gibson, that was the hardest part:=20
Seeing a boy who was at the orphanage, where Logan reported from, "with tho=
usands of flies covering his body, unable to move any part of his body, you=
know we had to actually hold his head up and tilt his head to make sure th=
at he was OK, and the only thing basically that was moving was his eyeballs=
," Gibson explained. "Flies in the mouth, in the eyes, in the nose, ears, e=
ating all the open wounds from sleeping on the concrete."=20
All that, and the boy was laying in the boiling sun =97 temperatures of 120=
degrees or so, according to Gibson.=20
Looking at the boy today, as he sits up in his crib without help, it is har=
d to believe he is the same boy, one week later =97 now clean and being car=
ed for along with all the other boys in a different orphanage located only =
a few minutes away from where they suffered their ordeal.=20
Another little boy right shown in the photos was carried out of the orphana=
ge by Beale. He was very emaciated.=20
"I picked him up and then immediately the kid started smiling, and as I got=
a little bit closer to the ambulance he just started laughing. It was almo=
st like he completely understood what was going on," Beale said.=20
When CBS News visited the orphanage with the soldiers, it was clear the boy=
s had been starved of human contact as much as anything else, Logan said. S=
ome still had marks on their ankles from where they were tied. Since only o=
ne boy can talk, it's impossible to know what terrible memories they might =
have locked away.=20
The memory of what he saw when he helped rescue the boys that night haunts =
Ali Soheil, the local council head, who wept during the interview.=20
Later at the hospital, Lt. Jason Smith brushed teeth and helped clean up th=
e boys. He and his wife are both special education teachers, and he was pro=
ud to tell her what the soldiers had done.=20
"She said that one day was worth my entire deployment," Smith said. "It mak=
es the whole thing worthwhile."=20
This is a tough test for the Iraqi government: How a nation cares for its m=
ost vulnerable is one of the most important benchmarks for the health of an=
y society.
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Until now, the Army had described its response on Dec. 24 as evidence that =
the military was prompt in addressing Red Cross complaints, but it has decl=
ined to release the contents of the Army document, citing the tradition of =
confidentiality in dealing with the international agency.=20
An Army spokesman declined Tuesday to characterize the letter or to discuss=
what it said about the Red Cross's access to the cellblock.=20
In an interview, however, Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, commander of the 800t=
h Military Police Brigade, whose soldiers guarded the prisoners, said that =
despite the serious allegations in the Red Cross report, senior officers in=
Baghdad had treated it in ''a light-hearted manner.''=20
She said that she signed the Army's response on Dec. 24, but that it had be=
en drafted primarily by Army lawyers who reported to Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sa=
nchez, the top American commander in Iraq.=20
General Karpinski said she did not see the Red Cross complaint until late N=
ovember, and questioned how the staff judge advocate for General Sanchez, a=
nd his team of lawyers, had dealt with the matter. ''It was an unusual rout=
ing because they had possession of it before I knew the letter existed,'' s=
he said of the Red Cross complaint.=20
''If I had been informed, and I had been drawn into this in any way, I woul=
d have said, 'Hold on a second, because not in my facility you don't,' '' G=
eneral Karpinski said of the abuses detailed in the report by the Internati=
onal Committee of the Red Cross, which she said she did not see until at le=
ast two weeks after it was submitted. ''We followed the rules, and we gave =
unrestricted access to the I.C.R.C., and it validated our operations, actua=
lly.''=20
General Karpinski, who has been disciplined for her performance as commande=
r at the prison, would not say whether she had objected to any part of the =
Dec. 24 letter at the time. It was unclear whether she had felt compelled t=
o sign a letter drafted by aides to her superiors.=20
For several months in Iraq, Red Cross inspectors had exercised the right to=
drop in on Army-run prisons without notifying prison officials in advance.=
=20
The senior Army officer questioned the rationale for the Army's assertion i=
n November that Red Cross visits should be scheduled.=20
''I know what they were communicating in that letter: They wanted the I.C.R=
.C. to schedule visits for those particular cellblocks, because it could in=
terrupt any of the military intelligence,'' said the officer. ''The positio=
n that they were taking was that the I.C.R.C. could not have unrestricted a=
ccess to those particular cellblocks.''=20
Other top Army officers in Washington have said the behavior described by t=
he Red Cross in October had warranted a criminal investigation.=20
''I do not know if she in fact started an investigation into those, because=
they are serious,'' Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of Army intelligenc=
e, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on May 11. ''As soon as we hear=
about one of those allegations, an investigation should begin right away a=
nd we shouldn't wait for it.''=20
General Alexander told senators that the abuses Red Cross inspectors witnes=
sed ''sounded the same as some of the abuses that we're seeing'' in photogr=
aphs taken by military guards that are now circulating worldwide.=20
In an interview on Tuesday, the White House general counsel, Alberto R. Gon=
zales, said he had not been aware that the issue of whether the Red Cross s=
hould be allowed to conduct such inspections was a point of dispute. He add=
ed, however, that he might have had ''concerns'' about allowing such inspec=
tions.=20
''Part of the concerns is whether or not there were interrogations that mig=
ht be interrupted under a spot check,'' Mr. Gonzales said. ''Obviously, we =
would work with the I.C.R.C. to arrange visits'' under appropriate circumst=
ances, he said.=20
While he said he could not speak for everyone at the White House, he added =
that ''I don't recall being made aware'' of the issue.=20
The Red Cross report and General Karpinski's comments seem at odds with the=
accounts of other senior military officials.=20
Earlier this month, Lt. Gen. Lance Smith, the deputy commander of American =
forces in the Middle East, told senators that the military had no inkling o=
f the magnitude of the prisoner abuses until a soldier turned over copies o=
f incriminating pictures to investigators on Jan. 13.=20
''There were reports that there was trouble in those places, but not of the=
character we're talking about here,'' General Smith said. He said that aft=
er General Karpinski's Dec. 24 letter, improvements were made at the prison=
.=20
''The I.C.R.C. came back and visited 4 through 8 January and they -- the in=
dication from there was that there were improvements,'' he said.=20
The disclosures about the Army's response to the Red Cross complaints came =
as new details emerged about the death of an Iraqi prisoner in C.I.A. custo=
dy last fall.=20
Central Intelligence Agency officers who brought a hooded man to Abu Ghraib=
ordered military guards at the prison not to remove the empty sandbag that=
covered his head, according to the sworn testimony of a military guard. On=
ly after the prisoner slumped over dead during questioning was the hood rem=
oved, revealing that the man had severe facial injuries.=20
The incident was described in testimony at a closed hearing early last mont=
h in the case of Sgt. Javal S. Davis, one of the accused prison guards. The=
statements were made by two members of Sergeant Davis's unit, Specialists =
Bruce Brown and Jason A. Kenner. Their testimony appears to provide fresh c=
lues to the mysterious death of a man identified by the American authoritie=
s only by his last name, Jamadi.=20
Mr. Jamadi is believed to be the man whose body was packed in ice and photo=
graphed at Abu Ghraib. The picture, among a group that depicted degrading t=
reatment of detainees, has circulated widely on computer networks as one of=
most graphic images in the prisoner abuse scandal.=20
Neither Specialist Brown nor Specialist Kenner identified Mr. Jamadi by nam=
e, but Mr. Jamadi appears to be the man they described because C.I.A. offic=
ials have said he is the only person who died during an interrogation carri=
ed out by an agency employee. Both men said that the detainee had been brou=
ght to Abu Ghraib by an ''O.G.A.,'' or other government agency, which usual=
ly referred to the C.I.A. or another intelligence agency.=20
The two witnesses' statements are significant because the C.I.A.'s inspecto=
r general is investigating the death of Mr. Jamadi, along with two other de=
aths in which C.I.A. or contract workers for the agency were involved. One =
was in western Iraq in November 2003, the other in Afghanistan in June 2003=
. The Justice Department is also examining the three deaths to decide wheth=
er to open a criminal investigation into the matter.=20
A senior intelligence official said that Mr. Jamadi was hooded when he was =
picked up at the Baghdad airport after being captured earlier in the day by=
Navy Seals and that he had never been touched by C.I.A. interrogators or t=
ranslators. A spokesman for the Seals has said the detainee had not been mi=
streated by its personnel. The witness accounts were first reported Tuesday=
by The Los Angeles Times.=20
On Tuesday, the Pentagon formally adopted regulations for dealing with the =
hardest-core detainees at the prison at Guant=E1namo Bay, Cuba, who might b=
e held for years, because they are judged to remain a threat to United Stat=
es forces. The regulations provide for a quasi-parole board of three milita=
ry officers who would conduct an annual review to determine if the detainee=
s have ceased to be a threat and may be released.=20
The prisoners could have their home governments and family members take par=
t in the review. Officials said, however, that the proceedings would be clo=
sed to the public because they would involve discussion of classified issue=
s.=20
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld met for about three hours behind cl=
osed doors with House Republicans on Tuesday to discuss a range of Iraq iss=
ues, but Representative Duncan Hunter, Republican of California and chairma=
n of the House Armed Services Committee, said lawmakers had agreed to say n=
othing after the session, and Mr. Rumsfeld did not speak publicly.=20
On Wednesday, the first court-martial of a soldier accused of abusing Iraqi=
detainees, Specialist Jeremy C. Sivits of the Army, opens in Baghdad. On T=
uesday, New York-based Human Rights Watch said the American occupation auth=
orities had denied Iraqi and international human rights groups requests per=
mission to attend the trial.=20
Tell Me a Secret=20
As We Say... Your Secret Is In a Deep Well
Friday, January 25, 2008
4.5 millions Orphans in Iraq, a tragic situation=20
Baghdad,Voices of Iraq =96 (VOI). New reports of Iraqi Ministry of Labor an=
d Social Affairs released in 16 January, 2008 with new disaster numbers of =
children situation in Iraq. This report was declare that in Iraq now 4.5 mi=
llions Iraqi orphans with 500 000 living in streets without any home or fam=
ily care about thier, as well as there are only 459 orphans in governmental=
houses of orphans.
The dramatic facts in this report also, there are 800 Iraqi orphans in Amer=
ican Iraqi prisons until January 2008 (700 orphans in Iraqi prisons and 100=
another orphans in American prisons.
In a Baghdadi popular market, Mustafa Fadhil, a ten year old child, sits wa=
iting to carry the items purchased by individuals who are out doing their s=
hopping, for some trivial income that he needs to help his family following=
his father=92s death who was a victim of the violence in Iraq.=20
>From time to time, Mustafa imagines himself back again in classroom; a drea=
m that disappears when a customer, looking for a carrier, calls him =93I le=
ft school and started working when my father was killed in a mortar attack =
that targeted our house around two years ago, and I have been responsible f=
or my family since then,=94 Mustafa said to Aswat al-Iraq =96 Voices of Ira=
q =96 (VOI).=20
In an attempt to depend on himself in order for himself and his family to s=
urvive under such severe circumstances, Mustafa limits his plans to the req=
uirements of daily life. =93I stopped thinking about my future, and what I =
would be when I get older.=94=20
There are many children like Mustafa, orphans and street-kids that live a c=
urrent tragic reality in Iraq, with an unknown future awaiting them, especi=
ally when considering that there are no pre-existing legislations or decree=
s that protect them and their rights.=20
The statistics of the Iraqi Ministry of Planning and Development Coordinati=
on show that there are 4.5 million orphans in Iraq, 500 thousand of them li=
ving in the streets.=20
At one of the intersections of Al-Karada, a Shiite neighborhood in downtown=
Baghdad =96 the capital of Iraq, Nassir Saadon, a 14 years old teenager, s=
ells candy. =93I live in a tragic situation and poverty, because my parents=
were divorced around two years ago,=94 adding, =93I chose to sell candy be=
cause it is a job that doesn=92t require a large amount of money, but the i=
ncome is hardly enough to feed me. I feel that my future is unknown; if I e=
ven have a future.=94=20
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