As the World, especially those at the receiving end of the carnage, still wait for some Accountability, the Bristish Iraq War Inquiry will soon be released.
We Americans moved quickly away from as the bushco were leaving to their comfortable lives. Especially those who like using terms like 'Obamabots', quickly brought into the language with the carrying of them tea buckets, as they ignore their responsibility. Why they even helped bring the Congressional House back into control of the bushco war and more rubber stampers, adding even more extremists, and to make things even better turned a number of states over to control of same.
The seemingly last hurdle holding up the final Iraq Inquiry public release has been cleared, the private conversations between the bush and the blair
If you're taking book a sure bet is that they will be heavily redacted and probably being done right now.
Here's a reminder of, oh so many, issues of the bushco regime and it's congresses, while we wait:
Assad’s prisons were CIA’s dumping ground
2014-01-25 - As Secretary of State John Kerry delivered his opening remarks at the Syria peace talks in Switzerland on Wednesday, he expressed outrage at new revelations of the brutal tactics perpetrated by President Bashar Assad’s regime.
Evidence of the execution of thousands of Syrians in Assad’s prisons, Kerry said, represented “an appalling assault, not only on human lives, but on human dignity and on every standard by which the international community tries to organise itself.”
Kerry was referring to a report released this week based on the testimony of a defector within the Syrian military police, which seems to provide evidence of the systematic torture of thousands of detainees in Assad’s prisons.
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Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian telecommunications engineer, has not been able to look at these images, or the other pictures and videos streaming out of his native country over the past three years.
They brought with them flashbacks from his own experience: in 2002 and 2003, he was Prisoner No. 2 in an underground cell at Syrian military intelligence’s Palestine Branch in Damascus, where he was beaten and whipped with two-inch thick electrical cables until he gave into his interrogators’ demands and falsely confessed to having been trained at a terrorist camp in Afghanistan.
The only mystery for Arar is why Americans are shocked at reports of torture in Syrian prisons. “What surprises me is the reaction of some people in the West, as if it’s news to them,” he told Foreign Policy. “As far back as the early 1990s ... the State Department reports on Syria have been very blunt — the fact is, Syria tortures people.”
It’s history that the US government knows all too well — because, at times, it has exploited the Assad regime’s brutality for its own ends. Arar was sent to Assad’s prisons by the US: in Sept 2002, the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) detained him during a layover at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. US officials believed, partially on the basis of inaccurate information provided by Canada, that Arar was a member of Al Qaeda. read more>>>
Canadian Maher Arar sees hypocrisy in U.S. outrage
And as the American public, the Government, continues ignoring any and all accountability as well as the fact they left everything on the table used by that previous administration, thus their equal guilt in, the British continue, on many fronts, trying to cleanse their souls, with their politics being played in obstruction of that cleansing.
British HC pooh-poohs international inquiry
26 January 2014 - When substantial evidence surfaced on systematic torture against detainees of war in Iraq, British High Commissioner in Colombo yesterday flatly ruled out the possibility of any International Criminal Court (ICC) Investigation.
“Allegations relating to Iraq that have been brought to our attention are subjected to thorough examination – including through the Iraq Historic Allegations Team, independent Public Inquiries, and in the UK and European courts. If approached by the ICC, we will take the opportunity to explain the very extensive work underway to deal with historic allegations of abuse,” a spokesperson from the British High Commission told ‘The Nation’.
A devastating 250-page dossier, detailing allegations of beatings, electrocution, mock executions and sexual assault, has been presented to the International Criminal Court, and could result in some of Britain’s leading defence figures facing prosecution for “systematic” war crimes, Britain’s The Independent reported. read more>>>
What did the British troops do in Iraq?
Al Sweady Inquiry is trying to determine if civilians were tortured read more>>>
The World still waits as those policies caused the spread and growth of the al Qaeda style criminal terrorism the innocent are living with!
But a tad of good news, as seems we only get from the Administration because of the total obstruction being played in Congress on many fronts but they are still accomplishing as they try and find ways around that total obstruction, this:
Guantanamo review boards to become partly public
25 January 2014 - A prisoner's case will be heard this week under a new program aimed at helping empty the prison read more>>>