Yvonand Beach

a few month back, bush sent his envoys showcase iranian nuclear threat to the IAEA. like powell for irak, now rice for iran ?

rice's proof is based on a "laptop". how convenient to bring it down to a laptop full of unproven evidence. i have spare laptops at home. they should call in, in case they need one when they'll out evo or hugo ... mine really looks like a used laptop...

while i do not doubt that info may be contained in a laptop, i strongly hope political entities of europe, asia and russia will require MORE proof than a few digital files to launch a nuclear war...
IAEA has not been able to confirm any information contained in the laptop. so the laptop seems to be a fake, again.

now bush meets merkel. merkel, merkel, merkel. she seems half backed only and a bit naive to things of the world.the comments about guatanamo i found good, but too weak. time will tell.
bush, master of lies, distorts "it" really and transform "it" into outright manipulation when he says " Iran armed with a nuclear weapon poses a grave threat to the security of the world" manipulating us all: iran is not armed.

pakistan is armed, israel is armed, the us is overarmed and daily abuses nuclear engagement treaties with DU in several regions outside the us, and some inside the us.

but everybody here knows iran has constantly and consequently confirmed it was not building capacities, nor did it have the capacity nor did it intend to acquire the capacity of or for creating nuclear weapons. the IAEA has confirmed this over and over again.

i find it so foul how the press and the public opinion weakens in face of useless speeches packed with rhethorical manipulations and straightout lies. the press relays the pack of lies, without investigating any deeper.

policy makes reality.
what they say is the truth, even when it is not true.

look at how biased the us media is covering irak, how they led their public opinion to believe blinded and deaf. and it goes again. it seems they do not "find" information. the information comes to them. they build a story around a speech they got invited to listen to. that is what they do all day, from speech to speech, in the us or in irak.

how many dead will it take them to impeach him ? do we think 100000 civilians dead in irak were terrorists ? this is shamefull and an outright insult to journalism.

who weights the meat, when the butcher doesn't ?

journalists that deceive by negligence should be destituted from their journalist title and hired back by the WHITEhouse.

how about looking for info, going the way out and risking your life to accomplish your duty to inform ? soldiers from all sides risk theirs daily so that you can write.

first, as expected, the egyptian fax intercepted has been proved authentic. the swiss governement has officialy given in the interception took place and that the document leaked is the summary of the original fax.

in switzerland 3 inquiries are now ongoing for that fax alone. ok, ok, those inquiries are only administrative inquiries to lock down the process leading to the leak. it is not an inquiry about the prisons themselves...

the political sphere in switzerland is heating up and feels, expresses, the us should respect basic "savoir vivre" and not disgress un human rights regulations. politicians in parliement have asked the governement to engage on an ethical dialogue with the us.

further, this little fax has leaked into europe, le monde wrote a nice article referring to the fact.

inquiries start in europe too.
the european parliement has started an inquiry that is due to be published in 4 month. they want to determine whether european prisons where used to torture or detain cia prisoners. this adds to the existing eu council probe ongoing, led by swiss investigator marty. his preliminary report is due 23rd of january. let us be attentive

the roumanian governement himself now started a parlementary inquiry. let us see how much an alibi inquiry it will be. romania plays here its membership in the eu.

i remind us all that the inquiry started by the swiss governement about the secret cia flights to and from those now proven real secret prisons is due for mid-january.

BTW, a new bomb alert in geneva center of television. the police caught the alerter a hour later. the motivations for his gesture have not yet been published.

by Scott Capper, swissinfo

The Swiss intelligence community has allegedly been aware of secret CIA prisons in eastern Europe for nearly two months, according to leaked documents.

The intelligence services are refusing to comment on the affair, revealed at the weekend by the SonntagsBlick newspaper.

Swiss parliamentarian Dick Marty, who is investigating the prison claims for the Council of Europe, played down the significance of the leaked document.

According to the SonntagsBlick, Swiss military intelligence intercepted a fax received by the Egyptian embassy in London supposedly confirming the existence of the detention centres.

The message was picked up by the secret service's Onyx satellite listening system on November 10, just three days after the Council of Europe launched its investigation into allegations that the CIA was running secret interrogation centres in Europe.

The non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch had claimed shortly beforehand that American intelligence services were interrogating suspected members of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network at these centres.

The NGO also claimed that American planes had carried prisoners from Kabul to Polish and Romanian military facilities on at least two occasions.

The Egyptian fax stated that 23 Iraqi and Afghan citizens had been transferred to a Romanian military base near the port of Constanza for interrogation purposes. It added that similar detention centres had been set up in Ukraine, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria.

The SonntagsBlick's story is based on a document leaked from military intelligence. The complete contents of the report are classified as "secret".

more on this story...


all rights reserved, swissinfo, Scott Capper

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