USA To Build $125+ Million Terror Court Complex In Cuba

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Imperial USA wants to spend a fortune building a huge courthouse/secret tribunal military trial complex in communist Cuba. With loans secured from communist China. Israeli Gauleiter, Chertoff, snootily complains about foreign courts preventing our empire from torturing and imprisoning Muslims. Meanwhile, the British courts hear case of soldiers accused of torturing prisoners. The soldiers claim they were ordered to torture.

It looks a lot like 2006 is really 1984.

BY CAROL ROSENBERG
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The Pentagon plans to build a military commissions compound at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, costing up to $125 million, a major undertaking meant to accommodate up to 1,200 people for the first U.S. war crimes trials since World War II, The Miami Herald learned Thursday.

If funded by Congress, the compound would be the largest single construction expenditure at Guantánamo since the Bush administration set up the offshore detention center in January 2002.

So, how is the rebuilding of Irag going? It isn't? And New Orleans? Eh? Wot. Heh. Well, Cuba is very amused that while the USA runs riot around the world whining about Castro's prisons, we ape him. The neoconmen and the Democratic party that run our empire all seem to forgotten the existence of mirrors. We just cannot see ourselves anymore. This is why both parties pretend to be surprised and horrified when 96% of the planet's populace demanded we stop stealing from Palestinians and stop torturing them to death.

Our war on terror is based on building and extending an eternal police state that is run by Christians and Jews and is designed to imprison and punish Muslims and anyone from any country that has oil we want and can't buy or American citizens our dictators want to squirrel away outside of the 'justice' system in America that has been increasingly filled with ideologues who are religious fanatics who want the Apocalypse.

Bill Sutey, military advisor on the staff of Florida Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said: ``As a matter of law, it would require an appropriation. It's not even authorized yet.''

'To anybody it would beg questions: . . . `What are we doing here? Why are we doing it this way? What is the requirement? Why is it going to cost that much?' These are routine oversight questions and we will do this,'' Sutey said.

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court shut down the administration's first effort to stage the commissions, declaring the formula unconstitutional.

Now, armed with a new Military Commissions Act approved by Congress, administration officials are rewriting rules for the trials. They could resume in early 2007 with suspected terrorists being charged, according to the chief prosecutor, Air Force Col. Morris Davis.

What in the hell are we doing? Well, unless the Democrats move swiftly to undo this pointless fascist law, we are aping the Soviet Union. Passing an unconstitutional law to fix an unconstitutional situation is unconstitutional and Congress critters who passed this law should be impeached. Obviously, Congress is filled with people who swore to uphold the Constitution and then didn't. Ditto Bush and Cheney.

Aw, just arrest them all and hand them over to Cuba.

I saw a zillion pictures of Iraqi citizens hooded and tied up, one famous one showed a father hooded and bound with his baby son crouched in his lap, crying.

The high command of the British Army officially sanctioned the hooding and mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners in direct contravention of the Geneva Convention, a court martial in Britain has been told.

The Times newspaper said Friday the claims were made by a witness in the court martial of seven soldiers charged in relation to the abuse and ill-treatment of nine Iraqis in Basra in 2003.

One of the prisoners, hotel receptionist Baha Musa, died after 36 hours of being hooded, handcuffed, beaten and deprived of sleep after being detained in the southern Iraqi port, where British troops have their headquarters.

Major Antony Royce, called as a witness by the judge in the case, told the court at Bulford Camp, in Wiltshire, south-west Britain, that he was instructed by those higher up the chain of command to use "conditioning techniques", including putting prisoners in stress positions and hooding them, to prepare detainees for tactical questioning.

Did Blair and Bush denounce this the first week we saw the pictures? Eh? No?

Welcome to the Axis of Evil. Over and over again, the torturers and craven paper pushers who are engineering this fascist takeover of the Middle East, pretend they didn't know nothin'. Their profound ignorance is coupled with their intense rage every time soldiers spill the beans by photographing the many crimes of the criminal justice system being set up by the American/Anglo/Israeli Axis of fascist states.

Like the Nazi system, it operates in 'Nacht und Nebel' principles, namely, everything is hidden from view and no one is allowed to talk about it and if soldiers reveal the truth, they are charged with 'torturing without permission' and of course, then the rulers frantically pass laws legalizing torture even while punishing soldiers who know perfectly well, they are being punished for shedding light in the dark, dank torture chambers run by this Axis.

Israel's agent running our security state complains that human rights laws are inhibiting the Axis from torturing Muslims.

By Chris Strohm, CongressDaily

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Friday decried what he described as an "activist" and "left-wing" interpretation of laws in foreign countries, saying it affects the U.S. government's ability to protect the nation.

In a far-reaching speech to the Federalist Society, a legal community of conservatives and libertarians, Chertoff said judicial activism is "flourishing" in international circles and foreign courts, and increasingly affects the U.S. government's ability to conduct domestic security affairs.

There is "broad legal activism" in other countries, he said, that goes beyond the type of judicial activism that occurred in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He charged that "vaguely defined" legal positions could trump the activities of a sovereign nation to protect itself.

Yup. The Geneva Conventions and various human rights laws prevents the Axis from doing whatever it takes to take over the Middle East. How dare they. Heh. Yeah. Why, we need to build a huge trial complex for war crimes trials!

I suggest not Cuba but build them in Nüremberg.

Law and order continues to collapse in Iraq.

Jonathan Steele in Irbil
Friday November 17, 2006
Guardian Unlimited

Iraq's government was deeply split tonight after the country's vice-president and other Sunni leaders denounced an arrest warrant issued by the Shia interior ministry against a senior Islamic cleric.
The cleric, Harith al-Dhari, heads the influential Association of Muslim Scholars, which has close contacts with the Sunni insurgency. But he has been out of Iraq for five months and it was unclear why the warrant was announced now.

Tensions were already high after Shia and Sunni ministers clashed over the kidnapping this week of education officials. The kidnappers wore police uniforms and were thought to be Shia militiamen. Shia spokesmen accused Sunnis of exaggerating the incident, in which 50-150 people were seized and some were killed.

This is so absurd. The Axis of Evil that is insisting on running Iraq can't keep even allies from killing each other and this is because we rubbed Aladdin's lamp and asked the genii to make us really, really powerful and rich. Being a demon, he granted this wish. Now we are spending all our money on being really powerful and rich and the more money we spend and the richer our rulers become, the worse things get and this is ending very badly.

Being an Evil Axis, of course, the USA. like our buddies in this Axis, the Israeli Jews, openly steals stuff from captive Iraqis who are denied a day in court to get their property back.

By Ahmed Janabi

Al-Ramadi is witnessing a revolt against the US
army and the Iraqi government

A leading Iraqi lawyer has accused the US army of throwing 211 families, including his, out of their homes.

Rabah al-Alwan, 36, head of the Union of Lawyers in al-Anbar governorate in western Iraq, said that the US army has occupied his family's house and those of with dozens of other families in al-Ramadi, the capital of al-Anbar governorate.

Al-Alwan has accused the US army of seizing the whole neighbourhood of al-Soufiya in the centre of al-Ramadi and using the houses for military purposes.

The press desk of the US army command in Iraq did not respond to repeated requests to comment on the claim made by al-Alwan.

Al-Alwan said: "Ten months ago, the US army seized my house and dozens of houses in the neighbourhood where I live. Residents were not allowed take any of their savings, jewellery, furniture or clothes."

Of course, this comes from al Jazeera so Americans are ignorant of this news and the Axis of Evil's manipulators will insure that we never see this news and they mock the Muslim news services and accuse them of lying but so far, al Jazeera has a much finer record of providing real news and if one tracks news via them, one is far more able to understand what is going on in the Middle East.

Most of America remains firmly clueless because of the rampant lies being told here. I can't watch TV news anymore since it is a total waste of time and al Jazeera has opened broadcasting here in America and guess what?

It ain't appearing on any cable service, anywhere. Except for one which requires paying extra for it! Ah, our lovely Axis of Evil: well informed means a visit to Cuba.

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